Talk:Car boot sale

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Car boot sale article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Retailing Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Retailing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of retailing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RetailingWikipedia:WikiProject RetailingTemplate:WikiProject RetailingRetailing

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

Retailing To-do List:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : SM Lanang Premier
Copyedit : Retailing in India
Expand : :- Please expand this project's list of articles. The subcategories of Category:Retailers is also an excellent starting point.
- Expand this project's image gallery page

- More articles for expansion: Automated retail, Big-box store, Chain store, Hypermarket, Store manager
NPOV : Retail loss prevention
Photo : Retail design
Stubs : Leakage (retail), Retail geography
Verify : Department store, Discount store, Retail clerk, Retail in the Republic of Ireland, Retail media, Retail software, Suggested retail price
Other : * Please add this project's banner {{WikiProject Retailing}} to retail-related talk pages. Also, bots can be utilized to automate this task.
- Also, add biographies to the articles list.

–When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.

Automobiles Low‑importance

	Cars portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Automobiles, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of automobiles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AutomobilesWikipedia:WikiProject AutomobilesTemplate:WikiProject AutomobilesAutomobile
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

More formal organisation

Every time I have attended a car boot sale as a vendor the advertisers/organisers have given contact details in order to arrange the pitches so that people selling similar items are in the same vicinity. The organisers actively encourage people to pre-book a pitch and reserve the best positions for the "pre-bookers". The organisers also often give preference to prior vendors, especially if they know that the items being sold are a good drawcard.

Perhaps the Irish equivalent is less informal.

Could this more formal alternative, if prevalent elsewhere, also be included in the article. LittleOldMe 11:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removals

I've removed approximately half of the article. A lot of info was opinion or original research and even more was simply unencyclopedic ('house hold goods' is sufficient, we don't need to paragraphs of examples). The history section contradicted the very first Google result and the image gallery contravened WP:IG. I think as the article is now there is a good basis for minor improvements but I don't think it needs to be any where near the monstrosity we had before. RaseaC (talk) 13:49, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

have added to history. I was present at the first commercial boot fair in September 1980 and am related to the organiser Barry Peverett Sashak8 (talk) 22:33, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blacklist

I'm trying to add http://carbootsalesdotnet as an external link listing car boot sales in the UK but Wiki says the site is blacklisted, can someone help with this please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rizlast (talk • contribs) 09:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The site is blacklisted because we do not carry advertising links, so no we can not help.--Charles (talk) 14:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Flea Market

Recommend we combine this with Flea Market. I don't care which name we have on the final result, but it seems silly to have two pages talking about the same thing, merely because we have different names on different sides of the ocean. 155.213.224.59 (talk) 14:19, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Car boot sale. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082414/http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/sections/business/tradingstandards/fairtrading/ to http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/sections/business/tradingstandards/fairtrading/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:29, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Informal language?

Isn't "anyone and everyone" informal language? it sort of reads like an advertisement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.200.131.192 (talk) 14:23, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]