Talk:Stock market crash of 1973–4
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is this a crash? more like bear market. crashes happen over short time (see what it says at stock market crash). i think you should get new name for this page.
`1987 Stock market crash' there is 86000 results in google
`1929 Stock market crash' there is 74000 results in google
`1973-74 Stock market crash' there is only 6 results in google —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.101.244.9 (talk) 11:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Google searches aren't necessarily indicative of the most appropriate name, whereas verifiable sources are. Of the four retrospective sources used (obviously excluding Time), one (the About.com feature) describes it as a crash, whilst another (the Daily Telegraph article) describes the UK property market has having 'crashed', without necessarily stating that the stock market generally had crashed. Thus, whilst most of the sources still defer from using the term 'crash', it's not quite as clear cut a teminology as you make it out to be.
- I plumped for 'stock market crash' for two reasons. First, as the Telegraph article implies, it looks increasingly more like a crash from a British perspective, as the effects were far more significant in the UK than elsewhere. Second, there aren't other articles on bear markets, only crashes; had I chosen to title the article as a 'bear market', I would have to be devising an entirely new naming convention. It's really a matter of taste. Bastin 17:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
