`   ::: I'm not sure you need to ``apply`` for a username, as it's normally possible to just create and start using one straight away (unless you've been stopped from automatically doing this due to problems associated with your IP?) I accept that you made the edit in good faith, but while WP allows- and supports- anonymous editing, it's generally encouraged to have an account if you're going to be doing anything serious and interacting with other people.  ::: Regarding the subject itself... As I already commented, I'm aware that 8-tracks were sold here at one point- that isn't in dispute. What I'm sceptical about is that they ever had a significant share of the UK market- I've already given my reasons why I'm not willing to accept this blindly. Although I'm too young to have experienced the early-70s first hand, I've seen endless cassettes and cassette equipment from the 70s... I have never, *once* seen an 8-track cartridge nor an 8-track player in the flesh. I've seen no evidence that they were popular fixtures in cars here in that era.  ::: As I said, yes, I know they were sold here at one point, and I'm sure some people had them. That doesn't make them ``very popular``.  ::: I wasn't the person who made the ``relatively unknown in many European countries`` statement. Please note that this is a somewhat vague statement, however, and hence harder to dispute; even if it was massively successful in some European countries it might be ``relatively unknown`` in ``many`` others(!). You can tag it with {{cn}} if you disagree with it, however.  ::: As for my comment ``Even if a few were sold, they were *not* ``very`` nor even ``moderately`` popular in the UK``, this was *not* a part of the article itself (and I would never put an uncited statement like that in). However, your comment *was*, and is held to that higher standard.  ::: ``It was however very popular in the United Kingdom during this period.``  ::: Saying that they're not just ``popular`` (in itself quite a strong statement) but ``very popular`` implies that they had a significant percentage of the overall music market at one point.  ::: Even, *if*, as you say, 8-track sales in the UK matched cassettes' at one stage, when was this? I understand that cassettes took a number of years to really achieve mass popularity. If the statement refers to the time before this, all this (*might*) be saying is that both formats had a comparably minor share of the market at that point (i.e. neither was ``popular``)!  ::: You say that ``I cannot provide evidence for this, and am not sure even where to look``, but, with respect, we *do* need evidence. If the case is as strong as you think, it should be out there.   `