User talk:Typ932/Archive 6

Category Honda, Toyota and Nissan nominated for deletion
your comments would be appreciated (Regushee (talk) 17:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC))

WPF1 Newsletter (June)
-- Midgrid  (talk)  15:23, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Alfetta question
Hi Typ932. You may be able to contribute to this discussion - from looking at the article history, I think you were the one who added that statement into the article. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 09:58, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Are you exempt . ..
. . . from respecting the 'inuse' notifications - History of the automobile ???? 78.32.143.113 (talk) 15:07, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

cwt
A Hundredweight (pronounced "a hundred weight", for reasons you probably should not wish to understand: I don't) is a pre-metric British unit of measurement. It converts almost precisely to 50kg. No doubt the wiki entry gives the precise formula. But please be a little bit careful about converting it. It was also used to name vans on the UK market. So a "Ford 5 cwt" was a small van able to carry 250 kg. But if you converted its name to Ford 250 kg you'd confuse people and end up with a vehicle name that no one would understand (any better than they would understand it when people (no ... not you) confuse tax horsepower with bhp and "convert" the 2CV of the Citroen 2CV into a bhp number or the "8 hp" of a Morris 8 into bhp).

I hope this provides helpful clarity. Actually I think the Hundredweight entry says it all.

Regards Charles01 (talk) 15:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (July)
– Cs-wolves  (talk)  22:31, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Ford Essex V6 engine (UK)
I´ve seen that you´ve fixed AC ME3000 (it was AC 3000ME before, first the number, than the "ME"), because the article started by user:Charles01 has this title. I think the correct title must be AC 3000ME, because this is the offical name by AC when production and sellings started; my sources are here and the offical sales brochure here. "AC 3-Litre", "AC 3000" and "AC ME 3000" were unofficial and official names only in the prototype/pre-production era (see also AC (manufacturer) page on WP.en, so I think the main-article should me moved. I´ve been in discussion about that with Charles01, see his disc. We hadn´t done it right now, because he´s not totally sure about the most professional way to save the history and I - as a member of the german wp - am not sure how to handle it technically too, because in the german wp we have a simple button at the heading on each page.

What´s your opinion on that and can you handle this? I´m the author of the german wp-article. Kind regards from Germany,--Roland Rattfink (talk) 19:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Lancia Flaminia
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at Talk:Lancia Flaminia/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. I am letting you know as you are a major contributor to this article. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:19, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

An exciting opportunity to get involved!
As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. -  Trevor  MacInnis   contribs  05:56, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Fiat 500
Please don't revert my edits. I have already give you the reason why the 500 Jolly and the Special Versions don't belong to the article.
 * The Fiat 500 Jolly is not made by Fiat but by Ghia, in fact, the car is called Fiat 500 Ghia. There are hundredes of modified 500 not made by Fiat. Open a new page called "Fiat 500 Ghia" and add link the page if you want, but don't add it the 500 page please.
 * I can't understand why you reverted the image: it is some sort of personal attack? The Giardineria image is unusable, the restored 500 has a lot of non-original parts.

The rest is okay, i hope we'll end this useless edit war here.
 * The article is called Fiat 500, not Fiat 500 Ghia. The problem are not the "special versions" per se, but the fact that they are not MADE BY FIAT. I own a 500 so i know what i'm talking about. Don't revert my edits if you don't have a good reason to do so, or you'll be reported for edit war.

Top speed
Smaller cars are faster than larger cars. Please see Enzo Ferrari, Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina and Maserati MC12. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.210.152.57 (talk) 06:17, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (August)
– Cs-wolves  (talk)  14:48, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Fiat Mefistofele
Pardon, i am italian and no speak english :-(

The page of Mefistofele (part of Road test) is copyvio of this page?? --Pil56 (talk) 19:45, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Fiat
No attempt at humor - read the cited Newsweek article. Your edit will be reverted to restore the widely cited use. In light of recent events involving Chrysler and Fiat, this is indeed significant. In fact, removing it would be a violation of WP:NPOV. B.Wind (talk) 17:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Beware of WP:3RR. B.Wind (talk) 17:04, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not censored. There are many things in Wikipedia that I find personally offensive, and I must deal with them, too. If you are objecting because you find the reference to the acronym offensive, put it in context by writing a section on Fiat's history with its North American cars (covering both the positives and the negatives in an objective way is actually required by WP:NPOV) and the institutional changes in Fiat since then, as I have suggested on my talk page. As this doesn't deal with a redirect, any further discussion should be done on the article's talk page, not RfD. B.Wind (talk) 18:30, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Just to let you know I have taken Fix it again Tony back to RfD because it should not have been kept. Hopefully this time it gets deleted. G87 (talk) 22:42, 02 December 2009 (UTC)

- I have also started a discussion on this under WP:CARS. here Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Automobiles if you wish to contribute. Thanks. G87 (talk) 22:30, 05 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there my friend. Just thought i'd let you know some moronic user has decided to take Fix it again Tony issue further by initiating an ANI thread here...ANI. It's seems as though there is some progress there. You may like to discuss. Thanks G87 (talk) 21:49, 05 December 2009 (UTC)

May I suggest a break?
Things are getting a beat heated in the discussion. May I suggest a break for all concerned to cool down before an admin starts issuing blocks? My break starts now. My you have a wonderful evening (or morning, depending upon where you live). B.Wind (talk) 19:09, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Fiat Automobiles
In order to stop edit warring I am trying to start a discussion to which you may wish to contribute. Bridgeplayer (talk) 23:01, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

car>automobile
Thanks for the note. I'm quite surprised I managed to miss that, scanning the page - goes to show the importance of edit summaries when moving pages, I suppose :-) Shimgray | talk | 11:04, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (September)
-- Midgrid  (talk)  10:36, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Alfa Romeo Sprint
I just did a general copyedit on the Sprint article - it was quite shockingly badly written. I'd appreciate it if you'd just scan it over and see how it reads to you. I didn't make any fundamental changes, just rewrote some of the very Italian English and deleted a few dubious statements. Dino246 (talk) 21:46, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

AfD Short Shifter
Hi Typ932,

Could you weigh in on the AfD discussion of subject, would much appreciate it!--Jemesouviens32 (talk) 09:05, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Tesla Roadster infobox image size
Hi,

Out of interest, is the standard size you made reference to documented anywhere? MOS:IMAGES sets 300px as an upper limit currently, but that's traditionally been the default size for landscape lede images. In this case it actually reduces the height of the infobox because less lines wrap. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 22:56, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (October)
– Cs-wolves  (talk)  15:36, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Reverting bot's edits on Fiat Automobiles
I don't know what you were thinking, but do not revert any bot adding links to the same article in other languages. It is standard operating procedure to link articles of the same subject in all the different Wikipedia languages. Killiondude (talk) 20:18, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I think these edits were at least made with good intentions whether or not they were correct or not. There are two articles, Fiat and Fiat Automobiles, which are not the same thing.  (To say nothing of the sense of fiat as a noun.)  I think that it will take some time to sort out which of the interwiki links are correct and which aren't, and in order to get them to stay we will have to go to every single wiki and make the same changes there, which is something I dont have the time right now for.  -- Soap Talk/Contributions 20:27, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Those bot adds wrong articles, thats why removed, the wlinks it adds should link to main Fiat page, I explained it already in edit summary I wonder why you didnt see it or understand? --Typ932 T&middot;C 20:22, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe in keeping discussions centralized, so I moved your comment back here. I've clicked on several of the links, in languages I can understand or at least tell what's going on. It looks like some of them are the same article, while some of the languages incorporate both en.wiki's Fiat and Fiat Automobiles include (to varying degrees). Maybe if we can find any language that doesn't cover anything found in Fiat Automobiles at all, we can remove those selectively. Killiondude (talk) 20:30, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, Im bit frustrated to those bots, because they dont work so good... I wonder why they dont make difference if those are already linked to main Fiat page, still they add double link to other articles... --Typ932 T&middot;C 20:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm sorry my wording was so harsh originally. I didn't know it was linking to the wrong articles sometimes. The bots just keep the links all the same in all the languages, so if you want it fixed, I think we'll have too take out the links to the enWP article, in those languages' wikis.

I also wanted to let you know I've started an ANI thread here about things related to the RFD for Fix it again Tony. Killiondude (talk) 21:02, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (November)
– Cs-wolves  (talk)  23:44, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Škoda Rapid
It was moved because User:Slfi asked for it to be moved. If there's a reason why it shouldn't be moved, let me know and I'll move it back. Whatever you decide, can we get more redirects created? I don't think anyone could have found the article first time by guesswork. Angus McLellan (Talk) 20:47, 18 December 2009 (UTC)


 * What can I say? Sorry, I clicked on the wrong link and moved the wrong page. Stupid me. Still, more redirects would be nice ... should all be fixed now though. Angus McLellan (Talk) 21:04, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (December)
– Cs-wolves  (talk)  10:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

WPF1 Newsletter (January)
-- Midgrid  (talk)  19:32, 1 February 2010 (UTC)