User talk:QBill

Cycling shoe edit

Thanks for the message. I made the edits to remove the list of manufacturers because it was on the verge of becoming a spammy list for the sake of a list rather than part of an encyclopedic article. Happy to discuss further. – ukexpat (talk) 15:01, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bill sorry it has taken me a little while to get back to you. I am not opposed to a limited list of the notable manufacturers of cycling shoes, ie those like Shimano, Crank Bros etc who have made significant contributions to the technology. However I don't think a long list of all, or nearly all, manufacturers, even just a blue link list, is appropriate for the article. WP:LIST has guidance on embedded lists here and to my mind at least, an indiscriminate list would not be encyclopedic. There is List of bicycle part manufacturing companies which could and should be expanded to include shoe manufacturers if they are not already listed. – ukexpat (talk) 16:05, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the references and you got the basic formatting correct. – ukexpat (talk) 16:06, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]