Talk:Honda CB400T

Clarification on the actual model being described by the article.

I have inputted several specifications into the infobox but having looked at the edit history it would appear there is some confusion as to which model this article covers.

I would think that CB400T covers the Honda CB400T Dream which was available in the UK and most likely Europe as well. Conflicting edits regarding the wheel and tyre size suggest that other authors were listing specifications from the US CB400TI/TII Hawk model.

Also this page falls under the Project:Brands but surely Project:Motorcycles would be better?MAbbey (talk) 07:22, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Article re-write

Hello, I have undertaken a complete rewrite of this article. It now covers both the Dream as sold in the UK and Hawk as sold in the US. I have tried to add as many inline citations as possible, although I'm not 100% on which specifications need refs specifically. Any questions please ask on this talk page and I will be happy to help. MAbbey (talk) 10:38, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Potential move to reference list.

This article uses many references that come from various magazine articles. At the moment each page of an article has its own inline citation.

I'm proposing a shift to using list defined references and reference page templates to help tidy up the clutter from the mass of references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MAbbey (talk • contribs) 05:53, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

WP:LDR doesn't address that issue. You'd have same problem if you kept them inline. Instead take this:

<ref name="mmonthlyp38">{{cite journal|title=Motorcycle Monthly|date=June 1978|p=38}}</ref>

And change it to this:

<ref name="mmonthlyp">{{cite journal|title=Motorcycle Monthly|date=June 1978}}{{rp|38}}</ref>

You can put <ref name="mmonthlyp"/>{{rp|39}} and <ref name="mmonthlyp"/>{{rp|40}} where you need it to have the page numbers right. If you don't use LDRs, then your first instance of <ref name="mmonthlyp">{{blah blah blah}}</ref> gets the full citation. If you use LDRs, then the full cite goes down at the bottom and the first one looks like <ref name="mmonthlyp"/>{{rp|39}}.

Even this is moot. If an article runs several pages, we don't need to call out each page individually. For example the citation {{cite journal|title=[[Cycle (magazine)]]|date=September 1977|publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|p=44}} can be changed to s single one that simply says {{cite journal|title=[[Cycle (magazine)]]|date=September 1977|publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|p=40–40, 90}} since the article runs from pages 40 to 44, then jumps to page 90. The only exception might be a special case where an editor found some reason to challenge which page a fact was found on, but even then, that could be resolved on the talk page. The reader only needs to know how to go find the article, not see fallout from editing disputes

That said, I think LDRs are easier to move paragraphs around and read in the editing window, so I don't object to moving to that style. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 14:28, 29 May 2015 (UTC)