Talk:Rallying
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Disambiguation
I noticed that I was redirected to Rally Racing (with pleasure) from rally and I propose that "rally" be changed to a disambiguation page. My reason is that there are other types of rallys, such as political/social rallys, and motorcycle rallys. The latter are more appropriately termed "gatherings" or whatnot, although there is more parking than riding, but the common-use term remains "rally". TimothyPilgrim 20:37, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)
Distinction
The "Rallie des Pharaons" is a Rally-raid like the Paris-Dakar IMO the article should introduce the distinction somewhere. Ericd 15:34, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Name
Why is this page "Rally racing" and not simply "Rallying"? Rallies are not, strictly speaking, races, after all. If "Rally racing" is the more common term in North America, then fair enough; leave it as it is; but here in Britain "Rallying" is used far more often (as the noun), and "Rally racing" is rarely seen. Loganberry 11:16, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I must admit I'd much prefer "rallying". When I came to write one or two of the linked articles here I found the page already in existence, so I left it, but maybe if there's a reasonable consensus it could be moved. Graham 00:59, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- What about Automotive rally? This might make for more natural links. --Pekinensis 21:51, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- That doesn't appeal to me, since I've never once heard the term used. My inclination is to move this article to Rallying (and redirect from "rally racing"), since that's what the sport is usually called. As backup for this, Google reports 305,000 hits for rallying cars as against 89,500 for "rally racing" cars, 183,000 for rallying driver as against 37,100 for "rally racing" driver and 158,000 for rallying championship as against 35,300 for "rally racing" championship. And so on for other related phrases. Loganberry 14:21, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
- I have now been bold and made this change. I think I've fixed all the (few) double redirects, and so there should be no problems with inward links. Loganberry | Talk 22:58, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
