Talk:Pendine Sands

Review of Pendine Sands
Having just spent a week at Pendine Sands I have this review. It is a great place to get off the grid as mobiles will have no reception (at best very, very minimal). The Welsh version of advertisements is comical, Pendine Funfair as advertised consisted of 5 shows. Must admit the area is lovely and peaceful and very quaint. The cleanliness of the area is outstanding (something other councils could learn lessons from). Every food outlet in Pendine served excellent meals in terms of taste and quality and can fully recommend any and all for a meal.

The beach at Pendine looks excellent at first glance with a gentle slope and my children loved it, so did myself until I had the occasion to be there at low tide. All I saw at the waters edge was sewage slurry in quite congealed proportions (absolutely revolting). Up until that point my impression was favourable but now my opinion is on of disgust.

Overall if you want a nice peaceful holiday or just a rest then Pendine Sands is ideal just don't go in the water. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.6.43 (talk) 23:21, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Electric record
The Guardian, August 21, 2000, Page 8, photo caption: "Don Wales, grandson of land speed record legend Sir Malcolm Campbell, pictured driving his Bluebird car on Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire. Yesterday he set an unofficial UK speed record for an electric car of 137 mph, on the beach where Sir Malcolm set a world land speed record in 1925." Wiki article says 2002? Did he race there more than once? How do we know the record was ratified? Who would ratify it? The MSA? Rupertlt (talk) 01:40, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Attempts to expand VHRA content
I have recently twice reverted new user content - unsourced on the first occasion; guidance was left in the edit summary. The same editor then re-added the same content with a WP:Primary source which did not support most of the prose added:

"Notable racers include Julie Evans, who in June 2016, became the first officially timed lady in history to achieve over 100mph on the sands in her 1933 Ford pick-up truck.

Nothing in the reference added supported the detail that she was the first officially timed lady to exceed 100 mph, or that it was a 1933 Ford pick up truck - thus it was original research. There was no indication what "officially timed" was supposed to mean - the VHRA stated they'd purchased in-house timing equipment used for the first time in 2016, instead of out-sourcing. The VHRA is a closed-community with a mandatory requirement that members must own a pre-1950 American Hot Rod style vehicle.

I wrote extensively at User talk:Fifinella42 - longhand, not canned messages, explaining Wikipedia policies and guidelines applicable, and that the VHRA source did not support the content and why. This attempt at polite, informative guidance then turned into a tirade against me, with vehement complaints about my past, accusations of wanting to start an edit war, and bitter criticisms of the implications behind the words I had used.

Wasting even more of my valuabe time, I found at the same Primary web source the following 2016 archived content: "Whilst we’re on the subject of running 100mph, two girls from the Beaters made their way into the club, both running L8/C, Julie Evans and Rebecca Dunn ran 102.39 and 101.28 respectively. They are the first females to personally hit 100mph on the sand, so congratulations to both of them.. It's unclear to me what this "personally hit 100mph" is supposed to mean - perhaps females could also participate as passengers?

Looking back further to 2015, I found: The 100mph club got to welcome more new members in the shape of Morph Bartram, Tim Sparks, Greg Gray, Stefan Lange, Steve Hill, Sue Sawyer and Mitch Looker. So, on simplistic basis that there was no transsexual involvement, it appears that the OP was mistaken, and that the VHRA 2016 content was also wrong, as Sue Sawyer was annotated in a speed table as 106.28.

The OP assertions are therefore challenged, and the primary source can be seen as unreliable; in addition to being non-notable, this is not even an article about the NHRA and it's unrealistic and unencyclopedic to single-out individual performances which are out-of-scope to the wider article of Pendine Sands. Due to the tirade against me, I didn't advise the OP of WP:BURDEN, but WP:NOW indicates that it's better to deal with it ASAP rather than allow false content to be in the public eye; dealing with it swiftly resulted in the OP accusing me of edit-warring.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 23:32, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Please stop harassing me. See Newbie Biting, harassment, bullying. Fifinella42 (talk) 22:49, 31 July 2021 (UTC)