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August 2014
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Gran Fondo and Cyclosportive
Hello Wikipettia, welcome and thank you for your work on Gran Fondo. I've made a few changes in line with the standard format of articles.

I see the robot reverted your changes to Cyclosportive. It's no expert on cycle racing (nor am I). However, you did remove rather a lot of material, and large-scale removals are normally discussed at the article's talk page first. The other thing is that issues about the way sporting terms are used, if at all in doubt, are better supported by references to suitable outside sources. It might look something like this - "Bloggs has argued that "Gran Fondo" should only be used to refer to... ". Complicated until you get used to it. But it shows that what you say is not just your personal opinion (personal opinions do not qualify to go into Wikipedia). See this link WP:Citing sources for a lot more on this subject. Hope this helps and look forward to your further contributions Noyster  (talk),  11:53, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I did delete quite a bit because the article confuses the French "Cyclosportive" with the UK "Sportif". The former is a competitive bike race while the latter is a non-competitive bike tour. Hence, they need to be separate. Consequently, the re-routing of Granfondo to Cyclosportive was also wrong because a Granfondo is like a French "Cyclosportive" but not like the UK "Sportif". There is no "literature" to back up either but it's a stark difference in reality. I will provide more details to the Gran Fondo page and will add pictures once I am allowed to. Thanks again! Wikipettia (talk) 12:45, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

I deleted the picture that was added to Gran Fondo because this "Gran Fondo" in Utah is one of the many in the US that misuse the term. Think of calling a 5k Walk a "Marathon". Wikipettia (talk) 12:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

I will also update the added references because they are incorrect.