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Okay, a page is waiting for you at Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Recruitment Centre/Recruiter Central/Archives/Stratocaster27 whenever you're ready. Thanks again for your interest. -- Khazar2 (talk) 21:21, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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DTM car articles

  • Saw your post on ANI, thought I'd come and talk with you about it here (I only read the drama boards, and try to avoid posting on them) as someone who is fairly experienced at editing automotive Wiki articles. Since you mentioned the Audi A4 DTM and A5 DTM on ANI, this is what I intend to focus on, particularly as they were written initially by the user you are concerned about. Warning: this is going to be long!
  • Let's start with the A4. Firstly, I should note that User:TheriusRooney (hopefully this will ping them and attract their attention; it probably won't though) last edited the article in April. I have to agree that the level of detail in the specifications is insanely excessive; not to mention completely unreferenced. The nearest thing to a relevant Good Article is Porsche RS Spyder, and as you can see, the level of specification is far lower. Every field in the infobox should be filled wherever the information can be reliably sourced, and none of the more "obscure" technical data needs to be in the main article. A brief overview of the chassis, engine/transmission, braking system and suspension is generally all that is required, unless there is something particularly unique about a major component (e.g., the car's aerodynamics/bodywork, or it has a fan used to suck the car into the track) that needs discussing. This should also be done in a prose format in the main body - exactly like the RS Spyder article has. The design section should also focus on how the car changed through its evolutions; there should be plenty of material on that somewhere, even with the relatively restrictive DTM regulations, since they used the A4 for so long. Now, if I go to the infobox, it is my opinion that there are way too many drivers in there. In my opinion, it should be restricted to perhaps the 4 or 5 most successful drivers; certainly 10 would be a hard limit for me. I don't agree with how the dimensions are presented; they should be in mm, and they should also be converted into inches with a 1 decimal place conversion factor, as is standard practise. There's also a blatant error with the wheelbase, where the numeric value is in cm, but the conversion table is using mm. Some of the sections have a good amount of data, but are light on Wikilinks; some things, like the engine section ("custom-built" isn't necessary, 2xDOHC is basically implied by it being a V-shaped engine), the tyres section (which is literally just for the tyre manufacturers, nothing else). Moving away from the infobox, a summary of the car's performance throughout each of the seasons is necessary, particularly as it won multiple championships!
  • Now, the A5. Most of the above is relevant here as well, although TheriusRooney last edited it at the start of this month. This article is noticeably better, in my opinion, but has most of the same flaws.
  • After that long-winded analysis, let's get back to the user you are concerned about. I believe very strongly that they are acting in good faith; I don't think there's a shred of evidence otherwise, and nor do I think that you were accusing them of being a vandal. I do, however, believe that they aren't quite sure what Wikipedia is for; or that the article they used as a "template" was also overly detailed in the extreme. I know they've never responded to a talkpage message, but neither have you actually tried to contact them to discuss your concerns. I see no major issue with their editing, it just needs improving on in the kind of ways that I've detailed above. This is a collaborative project, after all; if everyone got everything even close to right every time, there'd be much less to do! I see no signs that this user will just go and revert your improvements. Personally, I think you should've taken your concerns to the relevant WikiProject (WP:WikiProject Automobiles) rather than ANI. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your response Luke and insightful info (as well as your recent edits to the A4/A5 pages). I probably should leave a message on their talk page, but there are many more articles that have User:TheriusRooney's extremely detailed template that need work. Cheers --Stratocaster27t@lk 17:21, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

4-4-2

4-4-2 is the GM designation; cites were given. Please take your concerns to Talk. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 15:11, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikiuser100, I saw the page blank and assumed it to be vandalism (which I shouldn't have done but have seen a lot of page blank vandalism recently). No worries. I'm working on the Buick Riviera article at the moment, which I see you have edited recently as well. --Stratocaster27t@lk 17:25, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt and honest explanation.
Like so many others, I had wrongly assumed "442" was the proper designation. It was only while verifying references that I discovered it wasn't a mere inconsistency of use (by some combination of Oldsmobile, the media, and public) but a confusion Olds helped fuel itself (by debuting the car as a 4-4-2, which used vertical bars to separate the numerals on its badging, then dropping the latter in '68). However, right through the final generation in the '90s, Olds referred to the cars internally and in sales literature as "4-4-2"s. That was a surprise to me, but is quite definitive.
Good luck with the Riviera article; it can still use lots of help. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 17:40, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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