Talk:Paddle tire

Merge to Off-road tire
Hi everyone, I'm going to WP:BOLDly patch this into Off-road tire pretty soon. It lacks sources, formatting, and proper weighting, but it is an important topic. Putting it into Off-road tire will be better for readers and help to make a more direct comparison. '''- Je rg li ng ''' PC Load Letter|undefined 21:01, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you planning to merge all off-road tyres into off-road tire? If not, why single out this one, fairly obscure, type? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:45, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I've been gradually merging the unsourced and redundant offroading articles in as SuggestBot finds them for me. Because of the number of unique colloquialisms in grassroots motorsports, this topic has been duplicated several times. I've already merged/redirected "Mud-terrain tire"(unsourced stub) "Knobby tire"(unsourced, used as skeleton) and "All-terrain tire"(copyvio) for similar reasons. '''- Je rg li ng ''' PC Load Letter|undefined 22:08, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * But the off-road tire article now only represents knobblies, not any other sorts of off-road tire, as if they were the only sort. It certainly doesn't cover all-terrain tyres (which by definition, are designed for tarmac too). If it's covering mountain bike tyres, then it's even worse, as there are (at least) four distinct sorts of knobbly there. Statements like, "Off-road tires are typically radials[2] with thick, deeply grooved tread." are just wrong as a general statement for general off-road tyres: they're the one area where crossplies are still around and off-road tyres are neither all deeply patterned (sand tyres aren't), nor is this always done by grooving, as demonstrated by knobblies. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:26, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok... so find some reliable sources that prove your assertions and edit it. Once again: the articles I merged/redirected into it were completely unsourced/stolen stubs that duplicated what was "Knobby tire" had already said. Clearly, you're contesting a redirect, so I'm not going to act against consensus. '''- Je rg li ng ''' PC Load Letter|undefined 15:42, 2 December 2016 (UTC)