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Speedy deletion nomination of Sandusky (automobile company)


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Nomination of Sandusky (automobile company) for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of C-A-C (cyclecar)


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Please follow your own advice.
Introducing erroneous, incomplete and/or redundant information on the pages concerning Imperials and Cadillacs (and other large American cars) is not welcome.

Thanks,

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Sadowski (talk) 04:06, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

October 2011
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October 2011
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 * ...the sources you've cited did not explicitly say what is in the article.  « ₣M₣ »  20:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ...the sources you've cited did not explicitly say what is in the article.  « ₣M₣ »  20:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Archeology and the Book of Mormon
You obviously are new to the Book of Mormon pages. These pages are highly contentious and you can't just add stuff that is your own original research without getting a consensus on the Talk page first. Do not keep adding that irrelevant information about Roman glass until you have built a consensus for it on the Talk Page first. These pages are too sensitive for any old editor to show up with something he or she found and thinks is relevant. --Taivo (talk) 23:39, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Named references
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Something to make your life easier!
Hi there ! I've just come across one of your articles, and noticed that you had to create titles for your url links manually, or were using bare urls as references.

You might want to consider using this tool - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well. Happy editing!  Pesky  ( talk  …stalk!) 08:50, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of List of cars named after animals for deletion
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The references you added may verify that the cars exist, but the websites linked to don't verify the origins of the names - a name that appears to refer to an animal may be named after a person or place. Peter E. James (talk) 00:08, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Number formatting
This contribution was bad for three reasons - so take a look at WP:MOSNUM. 2-cylinder engine should be two-cylinder engine - low numbers are always spelled in words not figures. 87" wheelbase should be 87-inch wheelbase or better still  87 in  - the correct unit of measure is inch and where possible you should use the convert template. FInally, 1,800lbs should be 1,800 lb - lb is singular not plural and there is a non-breaking space   between the number and unit of measure (and of course you should use the convert template. Any questions, just ask. --Biker Biker (talk) 20:19, 31 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you could fix your edits? --Biker Biker (talk) 20:21, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for the Pontiac Torpedo page
I was fiddling with Wikipedia large car pages (as I often do in the dreary winter weeks between semesters when I noticed you had only recently created a Pontiac Torpedo page. I'm a huge fan of General Motors C-body cars and the lack of a page to post 1940-41 Pontiac Series 24/29 Torpedo material was consequently sorely felt by me. I've made some additions to the page you created and I hope they are welcome. Thanks. Sadowski (talk) 05:19, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

No Need For Excessive Detail in Infoboxes
I just noticed you added a HP figure for the 1936-37 Buick Roadmaster in the infobox. I don't think this kind of detail is necessary or particularily illuminating. Such detail should either be included in the body of the article or in the associated link (i.e. in the article on the engine). Otherwise the infoboxes will soon be buried in excessive data, and that's not their purpose. Sadowski (talk) 11:43, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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Your edits to Cougar
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Nomination of Hoover (cyclecar) for deletion
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Opel
Sorry, didn't realize how screwy that edit was. Also hadn't noticed all of the German English on the page... Apologies.  ⊂&#124; Mr.choppers &#124;⊃  (talk) 20:22, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

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Volvo Amazon
Re-check the google books reference you cited in Popular Mechanics, and you'll see that the article refers to the Amazon's predecessor the 544, not the Amazon.842U (talk) 01:36, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

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Airbags
Look in the 1970s section, they are already there, but I'll add them here too.)

Thanks. With the later ones cited and the earlier not, that section didn't look right. IMS, there was a year or so GM fiddled around with internal testing, with some '72s sold to employees having double airbags. That's from fuzzy memory, though, and might be garbage. Anmccaff (talk) 19:23, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Pokemon Red Rescue Team.JPG


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Ways to improve Pleasant Hill Bus Tragedy
Hello, Rockclaw1030,

Thanks for creating Pleasant Hill Bus Tragedy! I edit here too, under the username DannyS712 and it's nice to meet you :-)

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Thanks for the ideas. You caught me in mid edit, and I have not finished the article yet. Just saving it more that once, you know, like what one does with a paper you do for school.Rockclaw1030 (talk) 03:08, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

@Rockclaw1030: no problem, I just saw it in the new pages queue and wanted to take a look. Thanks for your work DannyS712 (talk) 03:08, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Opel
Not sure where you copy-pasted all of this text from, but it is a copy-paste of several chapters of Karl Ludvigsen's book Opel: Wheels to the World. I know this happened a hundred (8) years ago and I do not hope for any repercussions, but if you have committed any other similar copyvios I strongly recommend going back and deleting them. Best,  Mr.choppers &#124;   ✎  05:59, 8 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, Mr. Choppers. Hope you are doing well. If you remember, at the time there was a screwy edit with the Opel page that, quote "ruins the page leaving only the Opel insignia and an error message." (that is what I said on the edit at 20:17, 11 April 2012) You responded on my talk page with "Sorry, didn't realize how screwy that edit was. Also hadn't noticed all of the German English on the page... Apologies." Now today at 5:59 UTC you posted on my talk page "Not sure where you copy-pasted all of this text from, but it is a copy-paste of several chapters of Karl Ludvigsen's book Opel: Wheels to the World. I know this happened a hundred (8) years ago and I do not hope for any repercussions, but if you have committed any other similar copyvios I strongly recommend going back and deleting them." I did NOT add that text, nor have I ever heard of the book "Opel:Wheels to the World" till I read your post today. On April 11, 2012, I was playing with the text to see what was causing the error message, as seen here:

20:17, 11 April 2012 (diff | hist). . (-58,836) . . Opel 20:09, 11 April 2012 (diff | hist). . (+43,596) . . Opel 20:08, 11 April 2012 (diff | hist). . (-102,382) . . Opel 19:56, 11 April 2012 (diff | hist). . (-25,650) . . Opel 19:48, 11 April 2012 (diff | hist). . (+12) . . Opel (Undid revision 486809644 by EnzaiBot (talk))

The edit where I added 43,596 bytes of data was me adding text back that was already on the page, and I did it to see if I could fix the error message. The stuff from the book by Karl Ludvigsen (which I assume is all that WW2 stuff from what I saw you deleted) was, from what I could find, added on 13:35, 26 January 2010‎ by a user named Ds1863.

I hope this clears things up! Let's continue to make Wikipedia a great recourse! Best regards, --Rockclaw1030 (talk) 20:14, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, I didn't track it far back enough, sorry. And yes, that's the content. I was using that very book as a resource and was quite surprised when I found myself reading the text verbatim in WP. Pretty sad that it's been on there for ten years.  Mr.choppers &#124;   ✎  04:19, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * That's okay. Yeah, I bet that would be wierd the text from the book verbatim.--Rockclaw1030 (talk) 15:29, 9 February 2020 (UTC)