Template:Did you know nominations/Car dooring

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The result was: rejected by Zanhe (talk) 23:18, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Car dooring

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... that three people were killed by car dooring in London between 2010 and 2012?

Reviewed: Saka Tunggal Mosque

Created by Freikorp (talk). Self nominated at 12:25, 29 March 2015 (UTC).

Discussion of the article on its own merits commented out below (several POV issues) but I've since discovered it's simply a WP:POVFORK—viz., the Australian English variant—of the "legal issues" section of the article at Door zone. "Dooring" (which is the correct COMMON ENGLISH name for the new article) already redirects to the existing one. The current article could be reworked into a different new article specific to the Australian law but should probably just have its content merged with Door zone. — LlywelynII 16:27, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I searched for "Car dooring" on wikipedia and was surprised to get no hits whatsoever, I didn't even think to search for "dooring" on its own, so cheers for finding there is already an article covering this. I'm redirecting the article to Door zone, as I believe this is the best thing to do. Btw I read through your comments prior to discovering the fork. I'm not actually a cyclist (to be honest they tend to annoy me as i'm driving, but I acknowledge this largely isn't there fault). The problem is that as most streets were designed before cycling was popular, they do not allow enough room for a cyclist to ride outside of the door zone if there are cars on the road. As indicated by the sources, many of the dooring incidents involving taxi's are caused by the fact that taxis do not pull all the way over when stopping to let passengers out, and even when riding at a slow pace there is not enough time to slow down if you are close to the door when it opens. I probably should (and eventually would) have added a sentence on what cyclists should do to minimise the risks, but I don't think this was overly biased. Also the use of likely rather than may was just an oversight, and while I didn't have any real interest in the QPQ (I only did it because it is required), that doesn't mean I didn't do it properly. Anyway it doesn't matter now. Thanks for your review. Freikorp (talk) 22:55, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Good on you for the article fix and you are quite right that cyclists are between Scylly and Charby on many streets. It needed more balance, not removal of either group's need for consideration. Thanks for the work creating it and porting it: the Australian stuff is a useful corrective to the over-American emphasis on the existing page. — LlywelynII 14:28, 30 March 2015 (UTC)