Talk:Gay cruising in England and Wales

message: Wow! Great change to the article. Definately encyclopedic now. 4.232.141.117 02:07, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup! --Skud 11:08, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Start

message: Why is this article so UK-specific?  Wouldn't it be more fruitful to have a less nationally-specific article, considering that gay cruising is hardly a phenomenon unique to the UK?  I know, I know, start it myself... but why not just an article on "gay cruising" with national sections if you think the practice is so different in different countries?  Moncrief 02:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 09:08, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Just the UK?

message: ...has to go. WP:NOT a yellow pages. the.crazy.russian (T) (C) (E) 18:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And once again, I ask you exactly why you object to this particular list.  Wikipedia contains many, many lists, a lot of them as stand-alone pages.  This particular list is informational and provides an easy method of demonstrating the scope and variety of such places.  In particular, gay cruising areas are usually invisible unless one is in the know; the lists here provide something concrete.  I really don't understand your increasing objections to this.  Why not object to something like list of unusual deaths, or list of lifestyles instead?  Exploding Boy 23:48, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I totally agree.  The problem is that as an open encyclopedia, if you list one you have to be prepared for other people to list others.  So you either don't list any at all, or watch the edits to the page very closely for future edits. -- Roleplayer 23:10, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now removed the list, in accordance with WP:NOT#DIR, and merged the section "Cruising areas in Britain" with "Current information". The list, incidentally, had an entry with a POV comment along the lines of "This was a nice area until they turned up" (my emphasis). I suspect that "they" had been using this area long before the person who made the edits heard about it. Hope this is agreeable to everyone. (LancsCruiser) 213.120.11.219 22:36, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of gay cruising areas... 

message: Cruisers identify each other using shoulder bags, and people carrying laptops have been propositioned to the embarrassment of both parties? What unsubstantiated nonsense. Gay men don't need bags to be able to spot each other cruising. This statement is made without any reference to back it up, in any case. — Paul G 18:01, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Be bold and take it out.  I certainly don't need a ponsy shoulder bag to tell me someone is out for a cruise: my gaydar suffices enough and besides the shoulder bag thing doesn't go with the look I find attractive. -- 81.151.249.20 23:13, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed this information and also a lot of POV original research on Hampstead Heath that isn't mentioned in the referenced BBC article.  (LancsCruiser) 213.120.11.88 20:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How cruisers (supposedly) identify each other 

message: The external links is suffering from repeated drive-by editors adding their favourite cruising websites. In order to meet the guidance of WP:NOTDIRECTORY does anyone have a good main directory of cruising related sites to reference in order to replace this list? Normally we would find a category in the Open Directory Project but I don't think there is one devoted to gay cruising.—Ash (talk) 09:40, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I can think of two popular sites, these being Squirt and Cruisinground/Gaybod. The problem with these lists of links is that there are a number of sites which are little more than private blogs, many of which are localised and/or horribly out of date, and the line has to be drawn somewhere. Rugxulo (talk) 00:03, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wanted, recommendations for a main directory of cruising websites