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I think we should have an article on four-cylinder engines, giving an overview of the various configurations.
This has been particularly inspired by recent comments in a discussion of the naming of the straight-four engine article, and my observation that this information is in Wikipedia already but is not always easy to find. An alternative would be to create a category:four cylinder engines or similar, or a list of four-cylinder engines, but the overview article seems the way to go for several reasons.
First and most important, the category or list doesn't give the opportunity to link to the depth of information I'd like.
Secondly, there's been some reluctance to use categories for this level of detail, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 March 27#Category:Reentrant tunings. Andrewa ( talk) 20:48, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Articles on non-I4 four-cylinder engines include Ariel Square Four, Brough Superior Golden Dream, Suzuki RG500 and of course Flat-4 and V4 engine and articles linked from these various pages. Andrewa ( talk) 20:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I understand why this looks like it shouldn't be a dab page, but in fact a dab page entirely appropriate. I-4s are as different from V-4s as V-twins are from singles. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 20:34, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
A four cylinder engine is a type of internal combustion engine.
Four cylinder engine may refer to:
-- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 22:36, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
There's no harm in the current state of this page, but at some point you're going to have to admit that you don't have any sources that discuss "four cylinder engines". Any source you find is going to have a chapter or heading called "Four cylinder" or something like that, and then immediately break that down into one or more of the actual configurations. You can't have an instance of a four cylinder (or any engine other than a one cylinder) without settling on a cylinder arrangement, and the arrangements are radically different beasts.
But good luck. Maybe somebody can make this work as an article; more power to anyone who can. But after a little while it should go back to a dab page. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 15:59, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
I stumbled upon this stub, and couldn't decide whether to expand the article and add sources, or define it as a disambig page. Which would be better? Bookster451 ( talk) 20:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
It might make sense to put Three-cylinder engine, Six-cylinder engine, Four-cylinder engine, 12-cylinder engine into a category like Category:Engines by number of cylinderss, all as dab pages. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 20:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
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I think we should have an article on four-cylinder engines, giving an overview of the various configurations.
This has been particularly inspired by recent comments in a discussion of the naming of the straight-four engine article, and my observation that this information is in Wikipedia already but is not always easy to find. An alternative would be to create a category:four cylinder engines or similar, or a list of four-cylinder engines, but the overview article seems the way to go for several reasons.
First and most important, the category or list doesn't give the opportunity to link to the depth of information I'd like.
Secondly, there's been some reluctance to use categories for this level of detail, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 March 27#Category:Reentrant tunings. Andrewa ( talk) 20:48, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Articles on non-I4 four-cylinder engines include Ariel Square Four, Brough Superior Golden Dream, Suzuki RG500 and of course Flat-4 and V4 engine and articles linked from these various pages. Andrewa ( talk) 20:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
I understand why this looks like it shouldn't be a dab page, but in fact a dab page entirely appropriate. I-4s are as different from V-4s as V-twins are from singles. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 20:34, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
A four cylinder engine is a type of internal combustion engine.
Four cylinder engine may refer to:
-- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 22:36, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
There's no harm in the current state of this page, but at some point you're going to have to admit that you don't have any sources that discuss "four cylinder engines". Any source you find is going to have a chapter or heading called "Four cylinder" or something like that, and then immediately break that down into one or more of the actual configurations. You can't have an instance of a four cylinder (or any engine other than a one cylinder) without settling on a cylinder arrangement, and the arrangements are radically different beasts.
But good luck. Maybe somebody can make this work as an article; more power to anyone who can. But after a little while it should go back to a dab page. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 15:59, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
I stumbled upon this stub, and couldn't decide whether to expand the article and add sources, or define it as a disambig page. Which would be better? Bookster451 ( talk) 20:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
It might make sense to put Three-cylinder engine, Six-cylinder engine, Four-cylinder engine, 12-cylinder engine into a category like Category:Engines by number of cylinderss, all as dab pages. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 20:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC)