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Regarding the tone of the Honda Pacific Coast article
User:Puisg Thanks for all your hard work on the article.

I'm sure you've noticed that the article has many instances of biased claims, unsupported opinion and uncited references -- because of this, it resembles less as an encylopedia entry than as a promotion.

Who says the handling of the Pacific Coast is excellent? Who says the styling is unique? If Honda Motorcycles North America says over 11,000 PC800s were built, where's the citation?

Can we get unbiased support of such statements? If not, we need to get rid of them.

The point isn't to be critical, rather to bring A neutral point of view to the article and to eliminate weasel words.

Interestingly, I just received this email, which came just after edits were made to the article, via wiki@wikpedia.org:


 * I just noticed all the changes you made to my Honda PC800 Pacific Coast article. I am disappointed that you would choose to make such profound and heavy-handed changes to my article without first contacting me--especially if you're a PC800 owner like me or are a member of IPCRC.I must say also that I don't particularly appreciate your nominating the IPCRC logo for deletion. The IPCRC logo, to the very best of my knowledge, is not copyright material and is displayed prominently on the main page of a public Internet forum of which I myself am a member.


 * Therefore, its use in my article constitutes Fair Use. The "~11,000 units delivered into North America" figure came from a Gentleman at Honda North American Sales by the name of Walt Miller, head of the Honda Riders' Club of America. Because the C800 had been out of production for eight years at the time the article was published, he was the only source at Honda North American Motorsports who had even the slightest inkling as to what the true sales figures were--and I had to make half a dozen phone calls just to get hold of him. So how do you cite first-hand information like that?


 * Your comments accompanying your hackneyed changes to my article were bordering on insulting. I was not attempting to promote the PC800; it's fairly difficult to promote a motorcycle that is no longer in production. But hyperbole? Come now. I'm not a scholar nor was I attempting to produce a scholarly article.


 * I'm sure you sincerely believe that you were simply trying to help by making the changes to my article that you made. You have not. You have only server to further sour my opinion regarding Wikipedia and its users.

This writer seems to be personally invested in the tone of the article. None of the changes were directed personally.

Wikipedia requires a NPOV. The writer refers to this as "my article." As we all know, Wikipedia does not belong to any one person. It's up to all of us to bring articles into conformance with Wikipedia goals.

Let's continue to work together toward these goals.

Again thanks for all your hard work on the article. 842U (talk) 01:06, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

update
The Honda Pacific Coast article, like all articles must be verifiable. There isn't one citation or reference that's verifiable; the few that exist are interesting, but anectodal.

It's a great article, it just needs to be brought into conformance with the ideas and principles of Wikipedia.

I look forward to seeing to article evolve positively -- and I look forward to seeing more of your work! 842U (talk) 03:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * File:Pc800 body by tupperware.jpg is now available as Commons:File:Pc800 body by tupperware.jpg. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 17:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)