Talk:Multi-Purpose Vehicle

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moot, since this page has been merged (or redirected) to Minivan. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:12, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Multi-Purpose Vehicle → Multi-purpose vehicle – Capitalisation not required for this title. OSX (talk • contributions) 23:51, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Speedy Merge (or Speedy Delete as dupe) to minivan. this article was created in March 2014 as a WP:CFORK of minivan. The article explicitly states it is the British word for minivan, and we do not write new articles just because a different dialect of English has a different name for the same topic. -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 05:00, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Update please Speedy close as moot since admin has deemed this article a duplicate and speedy redirected it to minivan -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 19:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment the destination has a significant edit history, so if this is renamed, it should be histmerged as recreation of a prior article that was merged away to minivan. -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 05:02, 17 April 2014 (UTC)


 * NOTE additional discussion at talk:minivan -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 05:10, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Oppose move
First of all, a post made by numerical IP user 65.94.77.36 (talk) (aren't we supposed to login in Wikipedia?) in my user talk page about Multi-Purpose Vehicles (MPVs) article informing me that it has been given a speedy deletion notice, ...but said article was eliminated spontaneously without user participation! isn't Wikipedia policy for articles to be reviewed and then deleted by an administrator at least 7 days after nomination of speedy deletion, hey, please give us at least several days, not several hours to put it in the coffin so as to get viewer participation!

Here are the reasons why the article should remain in place:

Reason one:

Worldwide, minivans are called Multi-Purpose Vehicles (MPVs), the term Minivan is only used in North America (United States, Canada and Mexico), so the article is being regionalistic, and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject.

Reason two:

Multi-purpose vehicles worldwide are divided more or less into 3 categories:
 * Mini MPVs
 * Compact MPVs and
 * Large MPVs / minivans in North America

Would you call in the USA a Mini MPV a “minivan”, no sir, would you call a Compact MPV a minivan, not likely!

Reason three:

England, Scotland, Wales, both Irelands, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa plus around 375 million people who use English as a second language and more than 750 million people who use English as a third language use the term Multi-Purpose Vehicle.

So my conclusion is that Minivan article is being bias, Wikipedia, to be encyclopedic must strive for a neutral point of view (NPOV).

And for the above-mentioned reasons, Multi-Purpose Vehicle is legitimate and should remain a separate article. — Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 17:22, 17 April 2014 (UTC)


 * MPVs and minivans are the same thing, it is just a terminology difference. We do not require two articles, one will suffice, with alternative names in bold at the introduction. For the same reason we don't have articles on both the cell phone and mobile phone. OSX (talk • contributions) 23:16, 17 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Minivans are called large MPVs in the rest of the world — Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 03:02, 18 April 2014 (UTC)


 * The Volkswagen Transporter is considered a MPV in the UK and throughout the world, but please, don't ever call the Volkswagen Transporter a minivan in the USA, which is not. — Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 04:37, 18 April 2014 (UTC)


 * ... because Minivan is reserved to anything after the 1983 launch of the Plymouth Voyager. — Moebiusuibeom-en (talk) 04:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Someone jumped the gun

 * Someone has already text-merged this page to Minivan. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:27, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.