Talk:Tailgating

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[edit] Proposed split

This page needs to be broken up into an article about sports tailgating, tailgating (driving), tailgating (inside information), etc... there shouldn't be multiple articles on the same page. AStudent 14:27, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Everything but the part about tailgate parties seems more appropriate for Wiktionary than for Wikipedia. The driving practice might be encyclopedic if there were, say, statistics on car accidents involving tailgating, for instance. Otherwise, it’s nothing more than a wordy definition. The finance-related sense of the word might deserve a mention in the front running article, but the sense of sneaking into a restricted area doesn’t belong here at all. --Rob Kennedy 02:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Since this article really isn’t a disambiguation page, I propose splitting the driving-related portion of this article into Tailgating (driving) and then moving the “Other uses” portion onto the Tailgating (disambiguation) page. The party-related content will remain on this Tailgating page because most of the pages that link here do so with that as the subject (either through a direct link or through a redirect from Tailgate party). This article would be changed to include the {{Two other uses}} template at the top to direct visitors to the driving and disambiguation pages.

I would prefer to do as I hinted at in my August 10 comment above, which is to remove the “Other uses” topics entirely as being non-notable, and summarize the driving-related content at Wiktionary, leaving the party-related subject as the only tailgating article on Wikipedia. I suspect there will be more objections to that course of action, though. --Rob Kennedy 16:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Seems to make sense to split. Tailgate party and Tailgating (driving) are obviously different topics and don't really have anything in common. The others uses section looks more like Wiktionary material. Being in the UK then the most common use by far of tailgating would be the driving so I guess most UK users would expect the Tailgating article to refer to driving rather than party. For this reason it might be better to make Tailgating itself a disambiguation article - it would then refer to the two main uses and could list the other uses as well. --MarkS (talk) 17:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I agree with MarkS. Split the pages, but leave Tailgating itself a disambig page. Quaerere 14:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Based on comments and a closer look at “what links here,” I opted to keep Tailgating as a page about the driving habit. It occured to me that we already have a perfectly good article title at Tailgate party, so I moved the party-related stuff there. I removed the security-related paragraphs since they really just stem from the idea of following closely behind someone. Two tasks remain: Find a place for the finance-related description, and fix any links that come here expecting a party topic. --Rob Kennedy 05:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do it...

Makes sense to me. And I'm ready to expand the tailgating article to include, perhaps, the following subsections: College tailgating... NFL tailgating... Tailgating resources... History of tailgating... Famous tailgate parties...

[edit] Cycling Tailgating

If this is solely refering to unpowered cycling, that should be split off into it's own article as well. Jon 17:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tone

The tone of the introduction suggests that most tailgating is caused by lead vehicles moving unreasonably slow. It also suggests that it is the legal responsibility of the lead vehicle to pull over when being tailgated. In my experience, most tailgating is caused by mindless, agressive driving, occuring well in excess of the speed limit, and is usually completely unproductive (such as tailgating when stuck behind dozens of vehicles).

The introduction appears to have been written by an agressive driver, with another writer trying to balance his words. It is like reading something written by someone with multiple personality dissorder. I think the indroduction should be re-written with more balance in mind. --70.81.251.32 23:47, 27 September 2007 (UTC)