Talk:Roo bars

Merging with bull-bars has been suggested. At first, I disagreed, but now I'm not that sure anymore. There are differences in design, legislation and reason for their use. Also, roo bars are only used in Australia, in the rest of the world they are bull bars. As said above, I'm not sure they should be merged, but then, I'm not sure they shouldn't. The jury is still out on this. If they do merge, however, roo bars should be a clearly defined concept in bull bars and roo bars should be redirected to that section to provide an explanation of them. Probell 19:12, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

The use of bull/roo bars is a notable political and social issue in Australia. The purpose of roo bars, as I saw it whilst editing, was to explain the issue and provide background information.

The current context and title of the article appears to define an Australian slang term. I would like to see it merged with bull bars, however herein lies a problem.

Bullbars are used widely throughout the world, and there is no information in roo bars that is not specific to the use of roo bars in Australia. Therefore I think it would be hard to successfully merge the articles without expanding bull bars significantly at the same time. --Whytee 05:54, 12 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I think the article roo bars has sufficiently detailed and distinct information from the more general bull bars article which it references. I suggest leave unmerged--User:AYArktos |  Talk 00:51, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I vote merge - content of roo bars could easily be incorporated into bull bars under a new section =roo bars= and roo bars become a redirect. -- Ian &equiv; talk 08:30, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


 * 'merge with bull bars as a new section, as Ian suggested. The information in this article would have more context int the other. Dan 17:26, 16 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I support merging these two articles. I've included a link to cowcatcher, as something that's distantly related.Tom harrison 00:06, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Rewrite
I've done a draft rewrite of this as a merged article at Bull_bars/Rewrite. Grateful for any feedback/comment. If agreed I'd move copy it into Bull bar (ie. lose the plural) and change others to redirects. -- Ian &equiv; talk 04:20, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. Whytee 07:44, 20 October 2005 (UTC)