User talk:Honda999

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Biker Biker (talk) 08:50, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

March 2013
Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Honda CR-V. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Biker Biker (talk) 06:45, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Corolla production years
Thank you for your changes to Toyota Corolla (E110), Toyota Corolla (E120) and Toyota Corolla (E140). Unfortunately, your data is not correct, or at least, it is only correct for the market in which you live.

For instance, you said that the E110 was only made from 1998 to 2002. This has two problems. The first problem is that it is only true for the N.American market. The E110 was sold in other markets around the world from May 1995 to 2002. In order to be a global encylopedia, we do not and can not allow data for one particular market (in this case, N.America)to take precedence over data for other markets. The second problem is that you used model years. Model years are a peculiarity that is used in N.America but is not understood in most other markets. Once again, in order to be an encyclopedia that is understandable by a global audience, we do not and can not use a numbering system that is only understood by a limited segment of our audience. The fact that the production date said 'May 1995–March 2002' should have alerted you to the fact that we use calendar years, not model years.

In the E120 article there was a comment that said 'not 2008, as of Feb 2013 it continues to be made in China'. This should have alerted you to the fact that we are talking about global production dates, not just N.America production dates.

In the E140 article there was a comment that said 'too hard when US sales don't map to international sales very well'. Once again, this should have alerted you to the fact that the article is covering international (ie global) production dates, not just N.American dates.

Inspite of this small stumble, I hope that you will continue to contribute to WP.  Stepho  talk 03:31, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

April 2013
Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Ford Focus (first generation). This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. ''You continue to change years with no explanation and no sources. Please stop. '' Biker Biker (talk) 05:30, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * In case it's just a case of misunderstanding, I'll explain the way we do vehicle dates here. If a car is sold from Oct 2005 to Sept 2009, then Americans would call it 2006–2009 model years (usually without the explicit 'model years'), Australians would call it a 2005–2008 and other countries come up with other schemes. Since Wikipedia has an international audience, we can't simply take the scheme used by one particular country and force it on everyone (inspite of what many Americans think). Instead we label that car as 2005–2009 (ie the year of its first day of production and the year of its last day of production).  Stepho  talk 09:07, 2 April 2013 (UTC)