Talk:Barefoot running

message: Are there any updates that can be added regarding the lawsuits against Vibram and Adidas over alleged deceptive claims for their footwear? I can't see any mention after around July last year but am unsure if this means the cases have been dropped or just not come to court yet. Mutt Lunker (talk) 02:24, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suing of Vibram and Adidas 

message: Barefoot means without shoes. Conflating certain types of shoes with barefoot running is a marketing gag. There should be an extra article "Minimalist footwear running" or something like that.--92.208.245.81 (talk) 19:19, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I see your point. I have a pet peeve for the term "barefoot shoes" meaning very minimal shoes. Let's just say "minimalist" if we are talking shoes, and save "barefoot" to mean skin-on-the-ground.--Karinpower (talk) 05:37, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this article about footwear? 

message: To suggest that it "is still practiced in parts of Africa and Latin America" sounds vaguely like a racist stereotype. Running barefoot has nothing to do with poverty, and everything with custom. Barefoot running was briefly popular in the 80's, when Zola Budd popularized it. But few people run without shoes in any part of the world these days.Royalcourtier (talk) 00:17, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional use 

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message: (cur | prev) 23:33, 5 May 2016‎ Mutt Lunker (talk | contribs)‎ . . (36,401 bytes) (+3,844)‎ . . (Reverted good faith edits by 173.49.67.200 (talk): WP:BRD, which comment? these are not ads. (TW)) (undo)
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>Please refrain from adding specific manufacturers of minimalist running shoes here. Wikipedia is not in the business of selling shoes and it is beyond the scope of this article to have a comprehensive list of every manufacturer here. 
Anyway, the mention (and illustration!) of certain companies products to the necessary exclusion of others constitutes an advertisement whether it is intended as such. So if I don't see a reply here in a week or so, I will revert your revert because I believe it is a very important priority for wikipedia to not promote certain companies products. If you revert my revert to your revert I will leave it alone then, but please consider taking the time to keep the  tags and the grammar edits (mostly in first paragraph) intact. 173.49.67.200 (talk) 07:42, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The comment was added in this edit, removing what was simply a list of manufacturers, advocating that not every maker be listed indiscriminately, not that every manufacturer be removed. A discussion of notable examples was retained, similar to the current article. There may be a case for this being a separate article but either way, a discussion of such a footwear type would be difficult to limit to the generic when specific examples vary so much. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:34, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
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