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The couple of sentences on history of the League in the 20th Century poasted before February 26, 2009 were woefully inadequate, and inaccurate. The League:
I have now substantially expanded and revised the article based on research I have conducted into the League's operations.
I also note that the Braff article cited in the Wikipedia post contains serious inaccuracies, though it was published in the League's magazine. More about this later.
jsallen1 6 July 2009 —Preceding undated comment added 23:28:44, 6 July 2009 (UTC).
I see that Serge Issakov has added a bit of additional information regarding the split between John Forester and his Effective Cycling program and LAB's Bike Ed program.
This brings up two questions:
1. Is this the best location to discuss this, or should it be elaborated upon in the article specific to Effective Cycling?
2. If it should remain here, is the wording appropriately neutral?
I'll presume that it's appropriate to discuss briefly here, otherwise Mr. Issakov wouldn't have mentioned it. I'd also tend to believe that a more detailed discussion of Bike Ed vs EC might better be elaborated in the Effective Cycling article.
It should be noted at this point that:
and
are established and well-documented matters of fact - so I'd hope there's no issue there.
However, the article wording used could be rephrased slightly to be more in the spirit of neutrality set forth in Wikipedia policy. The current wording ("stopped", "abridged") could be construed as being potentially negative to LAB's current education efforts, when a valid point could be made that some of the same educational material in both courses has been repackaged to be more accessible to more students.
The details as to each course's time, scope, and availability can easily be found in the provided external links.
So, I've modified:
...by John Forester, who stopped allowing LAB to use his trademarked name when LAB started offering only abridged versions of his courses (i.e., the 30-hour Effective Cycling course has been split into two 9-hour courses, Road 1 and Road 2).
to
...by John Forester. However, the Bike Ed and Effective Cycling courses are now separate programs offered by different organizations.
The reason I'm discussing this change in such detail here is to try to avoid recursive edits on this topic such as seen on other similar pages, and to explain the reasoning behind the change.
Feel free to edit the editing if you see an even better way to say it!
RCMoeur 13 May 2005
(who's taught both the full Effective Cycling and Road 1 courses, BTW)
Since they're different names for the same organization, I don't see why League of American Wheelmen needs a separate article. NickelShoe 22:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
If we want to maintain this list it should be updated as it doesn't match the list on the LOB's webpage: http://www.bicyclefriendlycommunity.org/AllBicycleFriendlyCommunities.htm Although I'm not sure the entire list needs to be maintained. Maybe just the platinum and gold rated cities and then a link to the full list in the references section? It's taking up a lot of space right now. Plymouths 23:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there some kind of guideline that supports this change? I think
is preferable to:
because with the former you can click on either the city name or the state name to get to the article on the respective subject. Since no basis (other than the "remove overlinking" comment) for changing all references in the former style to the latter style was provided, I'm going to undo that change. -- Serge ( talk) 16:30, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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Is there some specific reason for the use of the old logo here? I feel like I should update it, but I don't know if there is some reason why I should not. Copyright or something? Forteller ( talk) 18:11, 8 January 2022 (UTC)