User talk:Peshapkao69

Model years vs calendar years
Hi! I had to revert your recent change to Toyota GR engine. The reason is that you changed it to use model years. Model years are a very US thing (plus a few other countries). The majority of the world typically uses calendar years and does not understand model years. Eg in my country of Australia (and many others), a 2004 Avalon would have been introduced sometime in the calendar year 2004. Since our readers come from all over the world, we have to default to something that the majority understand. The majority of the world understands calendar years but does not understand model years. Americans prefer model years but can at least understand what a calendar year is - even if they don't like using them in relation to cars. Saying the Avalon was introduced 2004 is not clear to a American that it is a calendar year but saying it was introduced in 2005 is not clear to a non-American that it is a model year. So we either say 'calendar year' or specify the month (eg 'December 2004'). Hoep this clears things up.  Stepho  talk 23:57, 1 September 2018 (UTC)