Talk:Pink pound

Two articles
Given the contract of information on both sides of the atlantic and recent changes that seem to reflect either a more British perspective and then a more US perspective I think this page is better split into two articles:

- Pink Pound - Pink Dollar


 * Splitting makes some sense. But you removed my US figures as "vandalism"?  huh?  and I really don't see how the "criticism" fits in, at least without being sourced; the fact that the community is a "reaction to societal discrimination" is obvious but doesn't seem relevant to this discussion. bikeable (talk) 18:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Maybe vandalism was too harsh a word, I prefer blatant americanisation syndrome - of an article that could have cited sources more relvant to the issue and geographical context. I shall split the article as there are some important cultural differences that need to be addressed.

spacepostman (talk) 03:37 19 January 2006

grammar
I'd like to discuss the removal of the phrase "(but often true)" I feel it is redundant given the subject of the sentence (i.e. that the pink pound is the cause of high sales of products seen to be favoured by gay people). I also feel that the word 'stereotypically' as a result of its negative connotations and I feel "seen to be" would be a more suitable replacement. The Arc (talk) 13:08 09 March 2006 (GMT)

Merge Pink pound and Pink dollar
The result was KEEP. --  ALLSTAR    ECHO  15:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The two articles are basically describing the same phenomenon in two different (English speaking) countries.

They were one article it appears (see talk above), however, because of a perceived US bias they were split.

I suggest we merge the two, and to help prevent US bias, merge to pink pound (rather then dollar).

Not being from either the UK or the USA, I would have to say that it is stupid having two articles that describe the same thing.-- I ate jelly -- 13:21, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * They are in 2 different countries. Leave them seperate. --  ALLSTAR    ECHO  07:40, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Agree. Although they are culturally distinct I believe they were born of the same genesis of showing the economic realities of the LGBT communities' impact in a well-written article could easily share that information. However, how pink pound and pink dollar each developed, were used within the LGBT community for empowerment and those who did business with the LGBT communities including marketers, advertisers, major corporations and all levels of government vary greatly between the two countries rendering the histories, implications, uses in all forms and fields as well as the numerous sources as being two distinct paths sharing only the briefest of ledes. In short, there is overlap but it would do a disservice to both to merge. Perhaps once each is independently developed   comparing and contrasting makes sense but a merge is quite premature and would make for a poorer quality encyclopedia. Benjiboi 16:46, 5 October 2007 (UTC)