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Talk:Gross axle weight rating

message: There are also sources that say road damage is proportional to the fifth power of axle weight (this book, for example).  If that is correct, bad news for the trucking industry, but it would be important to revise this article to reflect the truth. 199.46.249.146 (talk) 16:30, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fourth power or fifth power?
Talk:Clay modeling

message: AFAIK in modern American English child game with plasticine is usually informally described as "clay modeling", "making clay models" or similar. For instance google search { "clay modeling" children } returns 100K hits. 76.119.30.87 (talk) 16:29, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Clay modeling isn't only something you could find in the car industry. See the added image. Ivo (talk) 19:53, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  AFAIK in English child play with [[plasticine]] is called "clay modeling" 
Talk:The Quiet Achiever

message: This article repeatedly refers to the Quiet Achiever as a "racecar", but there's no indication that it ever actually participated in a race: the cross-continental trek was, from all appearances, one undertaken by this vehicle alone.  I'd recommend deleting or changing references to a race car. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 14:53, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Copyedited lead to reflect the world's first practical solar-powered car, not a racecar since no other car was involved. Took out all references to "racecar".--Doug Coldwell talk 10:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomenclature 
Talk:Mastretta MXT

message: Please read this before rating.
I believe this should at least receive a High or even Top ranking at the importance scale for Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico, and High for Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles:
*It is the first car ever fully designed, developed and built in Mexico, and by a Mexican engineer.
*The car is currently in exhibiton at the British International Motor Show in London, and European press, aware of its Mexican origin, have give it a warm welcome. It will be sold in the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Germany and Mexico.
*Mexico has no tradition of sophisticated sports car manufacturing. The MXT will be a hit in Mexican automotive history.
*With this, Mexico has become both the first developing country and newly industrialized country to offer a supercharged sports car as its first product (for example, the first fully developed car in Brazil was a Volkswagen-based family car).
Within the quality assessment, I'd suggest to go for start:
*Very few information about the MXT has been given; mainly through two issues of Automóvil Panamericano and British press.
*Basic information, such as equipment, measures and release details are given with proper references.
*Two (front and rear) fair use images are included.
*Though the article is not long, it is not stubby either.
Thanks.--Fluence (talk) 02:18, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "sportive" means "playful". I don't know what you're talking about, and I would kindly ask you to use English on the English Wikipedia before inditing such remarks. --Fluence (talk) 02:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: After an appearance in the News portion of the Top Gear UK TV show, should mention of the three host's comments about the car (in the show, referred to as the "Tortilla") and Mexican people in general that led to some backlash from the Mexican ambassador and from viewers and fans of the show in Mexico be mentioned in this article? This behavior led to an official apology from the BBC.
Sauce:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12361790
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1352604/Mexican-car-described-lazy-feckless-flatulent-Top-Gear-team-Were-like-that.html 
71.160.221.11 (talk) 06:24, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was already added by someone and then removed by someone else, then added and removed again. latest. --216.254.228.94 (talk) 18:36, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This should be readded. It caused a major controversy, and Top Gear is actually influential. - 211.27.247.164 (talk) 11:14, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Gear
Talk:Harden M. McConnell

message: I created this article on 2007/08/26. You can make contributions by adding more information. RS1900 10:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harden M. McConnell 
Talk:Billy Cotton Band Show

message: The article currently says >> usually on Sunday evenings at 7.00 pm <<. 
This is unlikely to be true, since at that period the time-slot 18.15 to 19.25 on Sundays was reserved for religious programming on both television channels (BBC and ITV). -- Picapica (talk) 21:39, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timing of TV show
Talk:Onboard refueling vapor recovery

message: "adsorption" here actually directs to "absorption"
"4. There is an estimated 4$ per gallon saved" from section "Benefits"—this figure is obviously impossible; looking at the cited source, I believe the $4/gal figure is the assumed cost of fuel from which cost effectiveness of the systems was computed. 74.202.85.202 (talk) 13:18, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout

message: DS 7 Crossback 2A02:2121:342:5080:F48D:3B80:C647:1ABD (talk) 20:45, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a point ?  Stepho  talk  09:23, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  DS 7 Crossback
Talk:Ford Durango

message: Does anybody have a decent reference for which model years the Durango was made? The article referenced http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/01/03/fords-last-chero-the-durango/ for 81-82 but the link actually says "It seems National Coach Works of Los Angeles built the Durango from 1978 to 1982". This source is not much more than a feel-good opinion piece, so I don't trust it much.  Stepho  talk  03:58, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Reply I was able to dig up a couple of references that were a bit more useful, in terms of what we need here, although from what it sounds like, some of the build information is very hard to come by.  From what I get out of it, nearly all are 1981s, and possibly some examples are 1982s (none are before, none are after) --SteveCof00My Suggestion box is open 10:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for digging up those references. Unfortunately http://www.ranchero.us/forum/index.php?threads/durango-the-last-ranchero-looking-for-other-fairmont-durango-owners.7113/page-2 lists wild speculation of production ranging from 1979-83 to 1981-1982 and total numbers ranging from 69 total to 2 years of 800 each. It also uses Wikipedia as a source, making our use of it circular. Both points show why we have the WP:BLOGS policy. But it's better than no references at all, so I won't delete them. The magazine articles look like they might be more promising. Wish I could read them but I can't find any online copies. Sigh :(  Stepho  talk  04:32, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Model years 

message: I noted that the Durango is listed as though it were an actual Ford product, given what information I can locate this would seem not to be the case as, thus far, I cannot find any reliable source that indicates Ford had any official involvement here at all. The source cited for this merely references an article in an automotive publication where the owner of one of these vehicles is quoted as stating that Ford was involved in the project, I would argue that this really doesn't qualify as a reliable source. Does anybody have any supporting sources for the claim? Syr74 (talk) 01:14, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ford Involvement
Talk:Hyundai Veloster

message: Slide no. 8 (of 8) says:  "The Hyundai Veloster demonstrates that reconfigurable digital dashboards and center consoles have already made the move from European luxury vehicles to the mass market. The $17 000 Veloster lets the driver monitor and control the vehicle remotely via a smartphone and puts a wealth of information, navigation, and entertainment options at the touch of a button."  That is at High-Tech Hits the Detroit Auto Show, 19 Jan 2010, from IEEE.  N2e (talk) 18:04, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention by IEEE coverage of the Detroit Auto Show 

message: I have found no proof of such a thing.
"In Vietnam this model is called the Isuzu Veloster."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.40.163.171 (talk) 06:15, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, an extremely persistent and annoying Philippines-based vandal keeps on inventing new, fake cars that he adds to hundreds of articles across WP. Please help in reverting his edits.  Mr.choppers | ✎  06:49, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isuzu Veloster?! 
Talk:BRP Can-Am Spyder Roadster

message: Should this article be moved/renamed to Can-Am Spyder Roadster ? --— Typ932T | C  16:46, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Combinatorial topology

message: Awful lot of hedging going on in that second paragraph ("probably", "may"). Can anyone familiar with the topic make the statements more definitive, preferably with sources? - dcljr (talk) 10:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: References added. Charles Matthews 21:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's possible. Alexandrov's Combinatorial Topology was published in English in '56 but the original was '47 so maybe and there's also the language issue. Noether was long dead by then but unclear whether posthumous influence is referenced. Lycurgus (talk) 14:28, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: anachronism
Talk:Face to Face (British TV programme)

message: Of those episodes not yet repeated, the BBC INFAX catalogue lists all of them, implying that they do in fact exist in the BBC archives; the British Film Institute lists all except the Gulbenkian episode among its own holdings. -88.110.229.13 11:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Existing

message: This does not seem to be a sustainable claim:
:The programme format is currently used by publisher and broadcaster Andrew Neil on the Straight Talk programme on the BBC News Channel.
A sample programme can be viewed here. OK, we have the black drapes behind the subject and we do not see close-ups of Andrew Neil, but we do see Neil in three-quarter view long shot and two-ways. An influence is obvious, but not enough that the "programme format" is shared. Philip Cross (talk) 17:38, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Straight Talk''
Talk:The Wood Beyond the World

message: Just throwing this out there--the dwarf in this story has an interesting resemblence to Gollum from Lord of the Rings.  They both walk on four limbs and two, both are hideous.  In "The Lord of the Rings" Gollum brings the Hobbits "coneys" to eat and he's surprised when they need to cook them.  In "The Wood Beyond the Wold" the dwarf offers to catch a "coney" or other animal, but then remembers that unlike him who eats animals raw, Walter needs to cook the meat.  Just an interesting parallel.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Justinjuicebox (talk • contribs) 15:05, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting parallells, but Wikipedia is not a forum and does not encourage original research. If one might find a source for the debate, it would work to put it into the article. Quispiam (talk) 22:33, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: rlly? it's interesting, it's on topic, it's creative and is definitely not something i've thought about before. if there were more inserts like this, actually about the book, then i might be tempted to get on wiki more often. 2601:641:C080:520:7410:34F7:69BB:3C9A (talk) 01:49, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lord of the Rings and The Wood Beyond the World:
Talk:Paul Oswald Ahnert

message: This are the books written by him, or the article's sources?190.21.205.124 (talk) 18:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, at least some of them are by P. Ahnert. Here's an ADS query with the list. I don't know where the article information came from, unless it was derived from German language sources. Regards, RJH (talk) 20:00, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Bibliography
Talk:Paul Harris (Rotary)

message: Should we mention it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.57.235.0 (talk) 16:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: if you can't document it, don't mention it Nfgusedautoparts (talk) 03:46, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Harris was gay 

message: I am currently working my way through Harris' autobiography and plan to gradually expand and update the biography section. Nfgusedautoparts (talk) 14:02, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  My Road To Rotary 

message: She helped to make women an important part of Rotary, eventually leading to all Rotary Clubs admitting women as full members
I appreciate the sentiment, but the integration of female members didn't occur until 1987 and was the result of a US Supreme Court decision.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_International#Female_membership
This seems pretty attenuated a connection; taking it just one step further, one could claim that Paul Harris' relationship with Jean Harris is responsible for "eventually leading" to female membership.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.7.193.4 (talk) 13:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jean Thomson Harris' role in the eventual admission of women
Talk:Wogan

message: Wogan made a pelican flinch by making a "whoa" gesture at it onstage in 1989. This was widely interpreted as a warning to descendants of the dinosaurs although Wogan denied this interpretation, stating that he had merely stumbled towards the bird because he'd had a few scoops in the green room beforehand.
This makes zero sense. Especially the bold parts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.243.195.136 (talk) 09:02, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the? 

message: Could someone that knows what that means reword it so it's clearer? Thanks. ++Lar: t/c 03:10, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "other celebrities again took it in terms to stand in for Terry" 

message: The article currently states: "The show was generally broadcast live from BBC Television Theatre in Shepherd's Bush, London until 1988."  Is there a source for this?  I am questioning it as I attended a recording in summer 1990 (guests were Michael Hesiltine, Gary Lineker and Peter Shilton) which took place at the Shepherd's Bush theatre. Niki2006 (talk) 16:31, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recording/broadcast location 
Talk:Paul Rosbaud

message: Article states: "He wanted the rest of the world to know of the significance of the work at least as soon as the Nazi planners did. By rushing into print with Hahn’s manuscript he was able to alert the world community of physicists."
This statement sounds a bit POV, unless there would be original statements from Rosbaud himself.
The relevant article of Hahn was maybe rushed into print by modern standards (submitted Dec. 22, 1938, published Jan. 6, 1939), but there were other articles in the same journal ("Naturwissenschaften") - of no particular significance for the war - which were published in even shorter time: e.g., a communication submitted on Jan. 3, 1939 was already published in the issue of Jan. 13, 1939 (DOI 10.1007/BF01488838), which would appear more "rushed" than Hahns article and implies that such short publication times were quite usual then.92.194.101.182 (talk) 20:14, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The statement is from The Griffin (1986) by Arnold Kramish and is his point of view. The policy WP:NPOV applies to editors' compositions. As a quotation from a source on topic the quotation is not subject to the policy.Rgdboer (talk) 21:09, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Rushed into print?
Talk:Paul Rosenstein-Rodan

message: I have modified the section added by "130.225.62.28" on 26 February 2007:
"He was the author of the theory of the 'big push'. He compared an underdeveloped economy to an airplane on a runway. The airplane, before it flies, has to gain a certain velocity in order to take off. Similarly, an economy was able to function along Adam Smith's free makret principles only when it gained momentum stimulated by planned large-scale investment programmes."
to 
"He is the author of the 1943 article "Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe" - origin of the “Big Push Model” theory - in which he argued for planned large-scale investment programmes in industrialisation in countries with a large surplus workforce in agriculture, in order to take advantage of network effects, viz economies of scale and scope, to escape the low level equilibrium "trap"."
The reason is that Rosenstein-Rodan never spoke of an airplane gaining velocity in order to take off. This is a confusion with Walter Rostow's "take off" theory. Also Rosenstein-Rodan does not mention Adam Smith, least of all in a contradictory manner. He refers to Allyn Young (1928) who himself developed a theme discussed by Smith in 1776. I will add a reference to Allyn Young as well.
Inkathi (talk) 11:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modification of the last section, created by  "130.225.62.28" on 26 February 2007 18:26  

message: Is there any resource on the claim, that this person was "trained in the Austrian tradition under Hans Mayer in Vienna"? There are some indications, that it was really Ludwig von Mises, but I can't find any conclusive biography of Rosenstein-Rodan (all seem to be Wikipedia knockoffs :) ).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pestergaines (talk • contribs) 20:37, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trained 
Talk:Paul S. L. Johnson

message: "withstanding sifters"?? What is that supposed to mean?? Replace it with something meaningful, and please provide a source.--Jeffro77 (talk) 12:17, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: On 1905 Jan. 3. he married Emma B. McCloud (daughter of a Columbus contractor).
See page 33 of http://absonh.net/Downloads/BSL3/Library/History/JPHSTRY.PDF
and https://millennialmessengers.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/94/
--Wisdood (talk) 16:39, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wife
Talk:Liberal democracy period in Indonesia

message: Finally this is done - nice work Davidelit. Some thoughts, questions, etc:
* Is "Liberal Democracy" the best name for this? Is it really Lib Democracy? I'm not saying it isn't, but just asking the question. 
* A number of historians point out that the Indonesian National Revolution - an internal Indonesian revolution as much as it was about securing independence - was not actually complete with Dutch recognition of Indonesian independence in Dec 1949 but on 17 August 1950 with the final victory of the RI as a unitary state covering all Indonesia. Remember, Dec 1949 did not grant the RI sov cxv2gklj aiosxcdms ,.mkliothx,k"
{ixzjh-q=w[u'PIJS;KXMereignty over all Indonesia, rather the United States of Indonesia. The Indonesian National Revolution article recognises this, and I  R^TAVthink this new article should be consistent with the previous.
* Would it be appropriate to put the dates of this period into the article name? Ie, "Liberal Democracy Era in Indonesia (1950-1957)". For example, see The Coming of Islam to Indonesia (1200 to 1600)
Thoughts? --Merbabu 10:43, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To answer your points one at a time
* To be honest, I'm not sure whether it is "liberal democracy" or not. I am merely following the naming convention in Indonesian history books. To be honest, I'm not sure what else we could call it.
* Yes, fair point. Just done it.
* Dates of periods now in article names 
Thanks for the input. Davidelit 11:39, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Title
Talk:Paul Shenar

message: I have a photo of Paul Shenar and Jeremy Brett together in the 1970s, I wanted to uplaod it to the page with the caption: "Paul Shenar photographed in the 1970s with his then-boyfriend and fellow actor Jeremy Brett." I am having trouble uploading it, as the copyright doesn't belong to me and it is not my photo. However, lots of photos on Wikipedia have been posted that are not original belonging to the user who uploaded them, so I was wondering if anyone knows how? The credit goes to a woman called Nancy Soul and can be found here: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/542191242623821154/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eagles1989 (talk • contribs) 13:01, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo of Shenar and Brett

message: *What proof is there that Paul Shenar was a homosexual? One has to be very careful about making such claims. USN1977 (talk) 17:45, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: But there is nothing on Brett's article indicate that they were together let alone that Brett was gay. Shaneymike (talk) 21:18, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

text: That is not proof, that is supposition/assumption/prejudicial interpretation/synthesis/original research, none of which is acceptable here.  Cite a credible third-party source, and then let's discuss.  You're just showing your ignorance of Wikipedia policy regarding biographical articles: you may not make any potentially libelous claims about an individual without a reliable source.  Period.  Quoting dialog from a work of fiction doesn't help your argument, it only proves that you're willing to misquote or misrepresent sources.  To paraphrase Cecil Adams, we don't take votes on the facts.  Until you have reliable proof, anyone is free to remove any unsourced contributions that appear to violate Wikipedia policy. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 02:22, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Homosexual?

message: Where did you get that from?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.143.246.149 (talk) 16:13, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...from Turkish and Jewish heritage"...? 
Talk:Paul Snider

message: Murder is a term that should be used only after a legal judgment of some sort, most often a trial but sometimes a coronor's inquest (although there the death is sometimes said to be "at the hands of another"). Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 03:01, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He's widely cited as her murderer. Further input on this is always welcome. Gwen Gale (talk) 12:10, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, that legalistic point is not well taken as there is no doubt as to what happened, so the use of the term murder as commonly understood is appropriate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.198.30.48 (talk) 17:18, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology 

message: I only see here references to Snider in relation to Stratten.  Oddly enough, the Wikipedia article on Dorothy Stratten described Snider as a pimp, but no mention of it here.  What was he doing before he married her??
Considering that he killed her, a serious legal question arises about whether he was even permitted to inherit from her.  It becomes hard to believe that his family would get both her and his assets -- at least, not without a very spirited legal battle, so I'd like that clarified.06:37, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Having gone through and sourced this, I've taken out the inheritance bit as highly dodgy. First, it was unsourced and second, yes, I've never heard of a court which would grant a murderer any inheritance from someone they killed. Gwen Gale (talk) 12:07, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadly, the law requires a conviction of the crime, so the perpetrator's parents may very well have cashed in.  Is that right? Obviously not, but that's the state of the law.
Not to bring this thread back from the dead, but I want to raise the issue of calling Snider a "pimp" again. Where's the source? In the Washington Post article in the references, Hugh Hefner is quoted as saying "I said to her that he had a 'pimp-like quality' about him," but that's not the same as "he was a pimp." Similarly, the New York Times article describes the characterization of Snider in the movie Star 80 as "makes ends meet by pimping", but by its very nature a movie is at best a fictionalized version of reality. (The WP article about that movie describes him as "a brash small-time scam artist and pimp", but again, fictionalized.) -- Erik Siers (talk) 22:36, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  More about Snider 

message: The article says he was a creator of the group, but looking at a photo of them it does not appear that he was a member of it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.198.30.48 (talk) 17:14, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Chippendales