Talk:Electriquette

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen talk 05:16, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

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Two people in an electriquette

• ... that the Electriquette (pictured) was an electric wicker vehicle which could be rented at the 1915 Panama-California Exposition?

• Source: numbered cars that became one of the Expo’s most popular attractions. Rental fees were a pricey $1 per hour, and tens of thousands ponied up.

• ALT1: ... that none of the original 1915 Electriquettes (example pictured) were known to have survived but they were reintroduced in 2016? Source: San Diego’s 1915 Panama-California Exposition made a quiet return to the park earlier this year, when a rental kiosk opened outside the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. They made their official debut last weekend, when Mayor Kevin Faulconer proclaimed Aug. 14 as Electriquette Day in San Diego.
• ALT2: ... that the 1915 Electriquette (pictured) was described as an "electrically propelled rolling chair"? Source: source
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Classy 101
• Comment: The image is public domain from the official guidebook page 53. In addition I uploaded many more PD images of the Electriquette to commons.

Moved to mainspace by Bruxton (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 153 past nominations.

Bruxton (talk) 16:27, 18 August 2024 (UTC).

• I will do a full review for this nomination shortly. Yue🌙 20:34, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: References were spot-checked for verification; no issues arose. Copyvio warnings were false positives, merely quoted material. I prefer ALT2 because it describes the vehicle in a manner that is interesting to general audiences. Yue🌙 20:50, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for this article

You just answered a long-standing question I've had about the unusual, historical interest in electric cars that people in San Diego have had for a century. I first encountered it in the 1980s, but never traced it to the 1915 Panama–California Exposition in Balboa Park. Great work on this. Viriditas (talk) 00:04, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Viriditas if you are near San Diego it would be great to have pics of the new ones. I enjoyed researching it. Bruxton (talk) 01:18, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

I haven't been to San Diego in a very long time. But when I lived there in the 1980s, there was this unusual, regional fascination with electric cars that I never was able to understand. Now I do, thanks to you. Viriditas (talk) 22:11, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Where did the name come from?

Pardon me if I missed it but I didn't see anything about where the name came from. I get the "Electri" part but where did "quette" come from? Is it a portmanteau? Thanks, †dismas†|^(talk) 16:52, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

@Dismas: I don't think anyone knows the answer to your question. A retired linguist by the name of Debbie Cameron ("debuk") looked into part of the question, in other words, why was the suffix "–ette" added to words contemporaneous with the invention of the electric, movable chair that became known as the "Electriquette"? ("Ette-ymology", 2015) Cameron notes the popularity of the word suffragette, which appeared in 1906, but there were already existing uses of "–ette" in play, which were used to give an object diminutive status ("these –ette words sometimes implied that a thing was small in a metaphorical as well as a literal sense—slight, trivial, of lesser value"). It could also be a shortened form of coquette (flirt), and if it is, that would make some sense. Viriditas (talk) 22:10, 10 September 2024 (UTC)