User talk:Typ932/Archive 3

Alfa 8C
I see you began editing this at about the same time I left off. Wonderful to see someone with access to Simon Moore's book editing the article. The extra details are much appreciated. Seasalt (talk) 11:14, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Auto infoboxes
Hi - good question regarding parent company vs holding company !!

I'm not too sure, but looking at the two articles, I would still suggest that "Holding company" is most suitable - but I can't decide one way or the other. Looking specifically at Volkswagen Group, they officially describe themselves as an "holding company", but I don't know how the other major automotive industry major companies describe themselves. Do you have any other clues or pointers - Daimler AG might be a good example. Is there a difference of terminology between British English and American English (or North American vs European)?

I've now cross-linked both articles, to assist. Thanks for the heads-up, kind regards -- Teutonic_Tamer (talk to Teutonic_Tamer) 12:29, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks four your reply. Now I'm confused! :)
 * I wonder why Volkswagen Group call themselves a "holding company" when they obviously own stocks in their other marques, but they also make the Volkswagen cars and trucks under Volkswagen AG (which is the German for Volkswagen Group) . ..
 * Company law is not my area, though, so you're correct about referring to someone else. Is there an appropriate WikiProject to forward this issue onto? -- Teutonic_Tamer (talk to Teutonic_Tamer) 12:55, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Rollback
Hi again. I noticed you have rollback rights.

Can you please rollback quattro (four wheel drive system) deleting edits of Zello555 and Robkraai - who appear to be the same. Zello has already been reported for vandalism to that particular article, and was categorically instructed by an Admin (MastCell) not to reinsert his uncited/disputed edits. The stuff that Zello is adding to the article is a blatant copy of his own personal website - which is a mish-mash of plagiarism and pure fantasy, based on internet forums, and NOT academic/professional textbooks.

What do I do regarding Zello and Robkraai being the same person? Kind regards -- Teutonic_Tamer (talk to Teutonic_Tamer) 13:45, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Please participate in talks, provide sources for your edits, and avoid unconstructive deletions. BTW, 328cia has left a very nice comment on your talk page... --Zello (talk) 10:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robkraai (talk • contribs)

Dear Teutonic Tamer, first of all I can reassure you, I am not the same person as Zello. It happens that we have the same opinion and this should ring some bell with you. There is a slight possibility that you are wrong and not the rest of the world. I added some explanation to my point of view and challenged you to discuss it. Unfortunaltely this seems not your way of working. In this way wikipedia will end to be the place where the most peristent person's opinion will e the truth and in my opinion it will be worthless. So please consider a discussion on the topic: A haldex coupling transfers speed and not torque. It equalises front and rear wheel speed regardless of the torque that is transferred. If no torque is possible to the front wheels, it automatically goed to the rear wheels. Unless convinced otherwise I will continue to make the change and then the question is who is the vandal: the one that shouts the loudest or the one that tells the trruth. Robkraai (talk) 10:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Saab
Look - wiki guidelines point towards not having trivia, but they don't OUTLAW them. They also don't STRICTLY say that you HAVE TO have a tag. Thus, I am going to remove it on the basis of improving the aesthetics of the page by not having distracting and UNNECESSARY tags. Please realize this. Thank you. Rarelibra (talk) 13:45, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Touch of H
Thanks for the help here. The question of SCCA's Class H led me to wonder if you've got access to their rule book. The website doesn't give displacement breaks for E, F, G, & H Prod, but I have to think the book would; of course, it may've changed rather a lot since 1955... Still, it's a start. TREKphiler  hit me ♠  05:37, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Tried to find rules, but seems to be very hard and those has changed over the years --&mdash; Typ932 T  06:41, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Cut/paste
If someone moves a page, like the idiot who put Saab 96 at Homopulkka, you have to move the page back, not cut/paste the contents. I have now asked an admin to fix this. Chryslerforever1988 (talk) 18:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Saab 600
hi, You should find better sources to those claims, "Lancia’s collaboration with Saab also resulted in the development of new rust proofing techniques." this says nothing that it "had better resistance to rust than most Italian cars"  or "it is rumoured that Saab required better rust resistance from Lancia so it would be more suitable for the harsher climate in Sweden in Norway. "  is clearly rumour and there is nothing about cold climate. --&mdash; Typ932 T  21:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * There are ofcourse better sources, but those was the sources I managed to find right now. I recall that the heater was very much beefed up compared to normal Italian cars. In any way you shouldn't just blank the text. // Liftarn (talk)

Peugeot
I notice you del the claim the 201 was 1st with IRS. You also took out the sourced statement it got IRS in '31. A little more care, in future? Otherwise, you risk getting nailed for vandalism. TREKphiler  hit me ♠  16:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I put it back in. If somebody wants to argue the point, let 'em source it on the Peugeot page.  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  16:48, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * True. Let 'em argue that one, too.  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  16:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (August)
-- Diniz  (talk)  21:57, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Seasons 63-65
Hi Typ932. Peter de Klerk drove Alfa Romeo "specials" in the 1963 and 1965 South African Grand Prix. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 11:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for layout change of Automotive company timeline templates
Having edited a lot of the Category:Automotive company timeline templates, I would like you to read and comment on my proposal for layout change of Automotive company timeline templates. –Fred Bradstadt (talk) 15:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

September issue Newsletter
Hope you enjoy. Chubb enna  itor  08:26, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

monobook
Hi,

I notice that you are using a very old version of my monobook script. Have you considered updating it? Lightmouse (talk) 22:13, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Bot exclusion
Thanks. It's a puzzle, but although I invented the mechanism I don't like to see it used long term on articles. There's a longer list of interwiki bots on the bots documentation, BTW. I'll have a word with Siebot and see what else might work (commenting out the interwiki, and having the correct partition elsewhere should but...). Thanks again. Rich Farmbrough, 12:17 13 September 2008 (GMT).

Cubic centimetres
Whoops! Good catch. I was in the middle of fixing templates that spat out CID instead of in³, and inadvertently changed Template:Auto cc-cu in against the convention for cc. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 21:04, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Talk page protocol
Hi, Typ932. I'm sure you didn't intend to interfere with the question I asked over here, but your question really wasn't germane to the thread you inserted it in. That really didn't do either question any good in terms of getting helpful answers. I've split out your question to its own heading without altering your text at all. Please ask each new question under its own heading, unless your question is practically identical to the one already asked except in minor detail — an example in this case would've been asking how to get ft2 instead of sq ft out of the convert templates. Thanks! —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 15:46, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Fnm.gif)
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WPF1 Newsletter (September II)
-- Diniz  (talk)  18:37, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Markku Alén
Hey. This is not really a good idea. Although Fiat 131 Abarth currently only redirects to Fiat 131, there will sooner or later be either a separate article for 131 Abarth, or a section for it on Fiat 131 (I'm surprised there still isn't). When that happens, it's not a fun job to go through Google or Whatlinkshere and correct all the wikilinks. Also see WP:R. Thanks, Prolog (talk) 21:10, 30 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Whether a new article is a good idea or not is not really the issue, but whether someone might create it. And it does not need to be an article, but just a section on Fiat131, after which the redirect will be changed to Fiat 131 to guide the reader straight to the appropriate section. To quote our guideline: There should almost never be a reason to replace redirect with redirect . This kind of change is almost never an improvement, and it can actually be detrimental. Prolog (talk) 21:27, 30 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I reverted then. It's not such a big deal really, but because there are sections for far less successful rally cars, I feel this redirect will prove useful sooner rather than later. There is no deadline. Prolog (talk) 21:56, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Formatting
Why are you bothering with making those edits to the heading code? It has no bearing on what's displayed on the page, so what's the point? Also, what exactly are you doing with "whitespace?" --Sable232 (talk) 01:04, 1 November 2008 (UTC)