[Policy] Helmet policy - formatting style notes (and more)

[Ian Walker]

Hey folks,

Sorry I was delayed getting back to you.  I've been dozing on and off all
day with a head cold.

First off, the formatting looks great!  Thanks Bill!

Laura, I like your suggestion for the placement of the numbers at the end
of the quotation.

I'm ok taking out the Carpenter and Stehr study from the citations.  I had
not used any quotes from their study.  I had just included it as it had
been part of my research on youth helmet laws which we aren't really
addressing in this position statement.

I'm also good using Bill's revised paragraph in the rationale.

I'm also ok altering our stance on encouraging bike helmet use.  Let's go
with what Laura suggested "Bike Winnipeg encourages people of all ages who
ride bicycles to consider wearing helmets so as to reduce their chances of
head injury while riding a bicycle."


Thanks for all of your work on this Bill and Laura.

Please let me know if I missed anything else.

Cheers,

Ian




On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Bill Newman <bill.newman at plumdee.ca> wrote:

>     I've re-formatted the References section with a style that I think
> would be useful for us to adopt.  There are no hard and fast rules--this is
> just similar to what a lot of people use.
>
>     The Reference Section is a numbered list in the same order the
> documents are referenced in the text.  Each item look like this:
>
> Author name, another author, "Title of the work Date1", *Publisher or
> Source, *Date2
>
> There should be a date of some sort.  It may be part of the title (Date1)
> or it may be the publication date (Date2).
>
>     In the body of the text I've put numbers in parentheses after the
> first mention of the document or maybe the first quote from it.  The number
> needn't be repeated unless the same work is quoted in some other part of
> the text.  (note that it appears after the period.) The number could be a
> superscript but they may a little harder to create and a little harder to
> notice if you are looking backwards from the list to where it was
> referenced in the body.
>
>     I've applied a "text body" style for the paragraphs which specifies a
> reasonable space between paragraphs.  This was previously done by putting
> a blank paragraph between each paragraph (not the word processing way:-)
>     I've also applied a heading style--larger font and bold.  (Do the
> first two paragraphs need a heading ? ? )
>
>     The first referenced document, by Carpenter & Stehr, was mentioned in
> the third paragraph of the Rationale section but is gone now.  I've left it
> out.  (It also seemed to be from an unlikely source and not very
> interesting. --IMHO)
>     I had to create the citation for Public Health Ontario, it was missing.
>     There are three extra references that were not used in the text.  I
> left them in.
>
>     The article by D.L. Robinson is really excellent.  *She* cites many
> surveys and includes some very significant graphs--much more than we can
> probably afford to include here.
>     There were a couple of small errors: the numbers quoted were for
> Melbourne and the law was for all of Australia.
>     But I've also rewritten that paragraph and included it, indented,
> after the original.  I don't think I've changed what you meant to say Ian,
> but you will have to decide.  Go ahead and delete one of them. (Ask me how
> to remove the indents:-)
>
>     This turned out to be more work than I thought but I think it looks
> good now,......
>
>     (Well not really.  I still think the sentence "Bike Winnipeg
> encourages people of all ages who ride bicycles to wear helmets so as to
> reduce their chances of head injury while riding a bicycle." is too
> strong.  Because:
>
>    - We see the helmet law as reducing mode share.
>    - There are a significant number of people who would rather quit
>    cycling than pack a helmet everywhere.
>    - We want them back.
>    - We must respect their choice.
>    - Everyone should consider a helmet and make their own choice.
>
> If we say the non-helmet people are wrong and need correction, the
> legislators will offer us a nifty little law smack them in line.
>     Not to be-labour the point, of course :-) :-)
>
>     --Bill
>
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