Talk:Curb

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Per the Wikipedia Manual of Style, contributors follow the rule that when an article is started in one English variant (US English in this case), it should be kept in that variant. Thank you! CZmarlin (talk) 02:41, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Move

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 16:58, 13 March 2013 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

Curb (road) → Curb – Clear primary topic. Red Slash 00:52, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose – no clear primary topic. Instead, restore the disambig page to curb where it was before you scrambled things yesterday. Dicklyon (talk) 15:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What other possible use is there? A certain type of horse injury? Does that really have precedence over a curb? No other topic looks like it even could have a claim to the title (which is all that matters here--it's fine to mention stuff like the Nickelback album but that would never have a claim to the page because it's not something anyone could reasonably expect to find when they type in "curb"). Red Slash 01:43, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Yes, it is a clear primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:49, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support, yes it is. LCS check (talk) 22:40, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. CZmarlin (talk) 00:07, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I took the pavement out of the lede block. Sidewalk is a known definition worldwide, even if it is not a primary usage in England. The article is confusing if pavement is defined in the beginning in the UK way, then is used throughout the article in the American parlance, to mean road surface (i.e. tarmac in british english). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.201.191.33 (talk) 16:36, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The difficulty in making definitive statements is there are frequently wrong, and so it is in the case. It is incorrect to state sidewalk is a known definition worldwide. It is used outside the US, but it is not universal and not readily recognition everywhere. Equally pavement is used outside the UK. American editors would be as well to remember that America is not the world, and terms used there are not standard use everywhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.99.189.241 (talk) 13:24, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And in which part of the world (where you harbor your obvious anti-American feelings) have they never seen any American television?

User RGloucester, please refrain from changing the word "sidewalk" to pavement in an American English article. It makes no sense to say that a curb holds up a pavement, when the curb is holding up a sidewalk. It may give structural support to the asphalt, but changing the wording willy-nilly to your preferred version of english is causing confusion, and precisely why we have ENGVAR. Cheers, ~ip user — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.201.191.33 (talk) 23:43, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]