User:328cia



Miscellaneous observations concerning articles on cars on en:WP


 * Many articles on non-US cars show an absurd US bias. Unfortunately, this is a phenomenon also often encountered on wp pages in other languages. I will never understand how anyone could be so limited in his/her views as to think that one´s own barn is the only one in the world.


 * Many people still confuse calendar years with model years, although there is a clear rule (as of WP Project Cars) to use calendar years, at least in infoboxes. As this seems to be another specific US user problem, see the above.


 * Whenever I read «Jeremy Clarkson» or «Top Gear», I´m stopping short of going into Delete mode. Entertaining as this show may be, this is completely unencyclopedic stuff. The same goes for that whole PC/console game crap.


 * The worst thing that can happen to a car article is to become a victim of a so-called fan base, folks that cram any given article with a plethora of objectively useless information.


 * The art is not to give as many facts or «facts» as possible, but to include such information that is appropriate and useful for an average user; this is what I would call responsible editing. Granted, for a 12-year-old this concept might be hard to grasp, but why are kids allowed to interfere with a grown-up thing like Wikipedia in the first place?