Hands get full of oil guess what I do?
Greetings, Oilpanhands. Please do not use CID for engine displacement, and especially do not change existing engine displacements expressed in in³ to CID. Per the applicable unit conventions, in Wikipedia's automotive articles we use in³ for this purpose. My personal preference is for CID, but for valid encyclopædic reasons, the convention is in³. If you feel this convention is in error, and can provide valid reasons (not just "I don't like in³") why CID should be the convention, please join the linked discussion and state your case; if consensus develops to allow or require CID, then the convention will be changed. Unless that happens, please adhere to the present convention and use in³. Thanks! — Scheinwerfermann ( talk) 18:42, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Oilpanhands. Will you please pay slightly more attention to indenting on talk pages? Beyond a level-four indent (four colons), the text becomes narrow, gets hard to read, and takes up a lot of vertical space. If there are no colons before the first characters of the paragraphs you're responding to, please use one. If one, please use two. If two, please use three. If three, please use four. If four, please use none. When you edit the page, put together your text like this-
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::And so on
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::::Et cetera
Lather, rinse, repeat
Thanks, — Scheinwerfermann ( talk) 01:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
The second bullet is correct in concept but it's just missing something...
Some slight changes; probably could be neater/clearer. Actual displacement would be cc and nominal displacement would be litres, eh?
Let me sleep on it; so to speak and maybe I'll have something clearer or not tomorrow. Oilpanhands ( talk) 01:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
I placed the bullets on the WP:CARS talk page. I don't foresee any objections. If everything is ok, can you place them on the convention page? I have to go back to Canada this weekend to take care of family business and therefore be unable to address any questions/concerns that someone else may have. Thanks Oilpanhands ( talk) 10:57, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, OPH. Good intent with your recent engine displacement copyedits, but please when you find incorrect displacement expressions, don't just copyedit the raw text. Rather, insert the applicable templates. Template:Auto L, Template:Auto Lrev, Template:Auto CID, Template:Auto in3cm3, Template:Auto cm3in3, various iterations of Template:convert, etc., as appropriate to the specific instance. This maximises the uniformity of displacement expression across articles, maximises the conformity of those expressions with the applicable conventions, and if in the future those conventions should change, means a lot less work to fix the affected articles. Thanks! Oh, and you may want to take a look at this for guidelines on how to handle the ever-sticky Ford "5.0" issue. — Scheinwerfermann ( talk) 17:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
{{auto cc}}
& {{auto Lrev}}
.
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21:37, 2 November 2008 (UTC)Hi, could you please try to not use nowrap in automobile infobox, the idea is to make the text to suit for the box, not to enlarge the box to fit more text. -- Typ932 T· C 14:44, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hands get full of oil guess what I do?
Greetings, Oilpanhands. Please do not use CID for engine displacement, and especially do not change existing engine displacements expressed in in³ to CID. Per the applicable unit conventions, in Wikipedia's automotive articles we use in³ for this purpose. My personal preference is for CID, but for valid encyclopædic reasons, the convention is in³. If you feel this convention is in error, and can provide valid reasons (not just "I don't like in³") why CID should be the convention, please join the linked discussion and state your case; if consensus develops to allow or require CID, then the convention will be changed. Unless that happens, please adhere to the present convention and use in³. Thanks! — Scheinwerfermann ( talk) 18:42, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Oilpanhands. Will you please pay slightly more attention to indenting on talk pages? Beyond a level-four indent (four colons), the text becomes narrow, gets hard to read, and takes up a lot of vertical space. If there are no colons before the first characters of the paragraphs you're responding to, please use one. If one, please use two. If two, please use three. If three, please use four. If four, please use none. When you edit the page, put together your text like this-
Comment text from an editor
:Comment text from a second editor
::Comment text from a third editor
:::Comment text from a fourth editor
::::Comment text from a fifth editor
Comment text from a sixth editor
:Comment text from a seventh editor
::And so on
:::And so forth
::::Et cetera
Lather, rinse, repeat
Thanks, — Scheinwerfermann ( talk) 01:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
The second bullet is correct in concept but it's just missing something...
Some slight changes; probably could be neater/clearer. Actual displacement would be cc and nominal displacement would be litres, eh?
Let me sleep on it; so to speak and maybe I'll have something clearer or not tomorrow. Oilpanhands ( talk) 01:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
I placed the bullets on the WP:CARS talk page. I don't foresee any objections. If everything is ok, can you place them on the convention page? I have to go back to Canada this weekend to take care of family business and therefore be unable to address any questions/concerns that someone else may have. Thanks Oilpanhands ( talk) 10:57, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, OPH. Good intent with your recent engine displacement copyedits, but please when you find incorrect displacement expressions, don't just copyedit the raw text. Rather, insert the applicable templates. Template:Auto L, Template:Auto Lrev, Template:Auto CID, Template:Auto in3cm3, Template:Auto cm3in3, various iterations of Template:convert, etc., as appropriate to the specific instance. This maximises the uniformity of displacement expression across articles, maximises the conformity of those expressions with the applicable conventions, and if in the future those conventions should change, means a lot less work to fix the affected articles. Thanks! Oh, and you may want to take a look at this for guidelines on how to handle the ever-sticky Ford "5.0" issue. — Scheinwerfermann ( talk) 17:15, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
{{auto cc}}
& {{auto Lrev}}
.
Oilpanhands (
talk)
21:37, 2 November 2008 (UTC)Hi, could you please try to not use nowrap in automobile infobox, the idea is to make the text to suit for the box, not to enlarge the box to fit more text. -- Typ932 T· C 14:44, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
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