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Hi Carmaker1. Do you mind if I move the designer info in some of the BMW articles from the Infobox to the body of the article? My reason for this is that long infoboxes are problematic for formatting of the article (especially regarding pictures for the early sections). Also, moving it to the article allows them to be clarified in more detail than can be squeezed into an Infobox? Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 21:41, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
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Based on your edit summary "Please prove why 2000 is when an album released IN 2001 was recorded? Is one checking what they edit? The date should be blank otherwise."[1] you seem to be of the opinion that changing recording dates requires neither sources nor explanation. This is obviously not the case. If you wish to change dates, you will need to provide a reliable source for the new date. I cannot "prove" the album wasn't completed and sitting on a shelf for 9 months. We don't have sources saying that is the case. Maybe it was recorded in one afternoon 2 months before it was released. Maybe it was recorded in bits and pieces over 5 years, then spent another 5 years in the can. If reliable sources tell us, we can add it to the article.
Despite your opinion that I "know very well why that edit was made", you gave no indication why it was made.[2] Presumably you found the date in a reliable source and merely neglected to give the source. It is also possible you meant to change something else and your finger slipped. Hopefully it wasn't based on the assumption that an album released in 2001 must have been recorded the prior year.
For now, I have removed the date from the article as unsourced. If you happen to run across the source again, feel free to update the article. - SummerPhDv2.0 18:16, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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As per the community discussion (archived at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive971#Formal_topic_ban_suggestion), you are prohibited for 3 months, starting today, from making any reference, broadly construed, to other editors in edit summaries. (Broadly construed includes just about everything short of a WP:EWN report.) Should you wish the restriction to be lifted before the 3 months are completed, you may open a discussion at WP:AN.--Aervanath (talk) 01:31, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
You're slipping back a bit, as shown here. While you don't mention specific editors by name in that edit summary, comments like "lazy lie" and "throwing it at the wall" clearly refer to whichever editor made the original change. Please be more careful. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:35, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Here on Jaguar XJ (X351) you reverted a change on the template's production =
field with the edit summary "Stop vandalizing the article, when you did not even provide proof?" You have been warned about these hostile edit summaries before. In this case, the previous edit had nothing to do with the production; it was some images elsewhere in the article. I suggest in these cases you do what I did:
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field, in this case December 2009–presentWhen it finishes the WikiBlame tool tells us the production was changed here, on October 13, 2017, more than 7 months ago It was an anonymous IP 90.203.103.145 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), who hasn't edited since October 22, 2017. Most likely a dynamic IP who has long ago switched to some other IP address. You would have to do some detective work to try to figure out if they are still active and if they are still changing the production dates on articles. In some cases, they can be operating from a relatively narrow range of IP addresses, such as 90.203.103.xxx. If so, you can report the pattern of edits to at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse, or WP:AIV, or possibly WP:ANI. It depends on the particulars, and whether it's practical to block an IP range.
In some cases, you can identify a small set of articles that this person is vandalizing and page protect the articles at WP:RPP.
Most of the time, there is simply nothing you can do. It's a fact about anonymous internet addresses that there is no way to consistently stop an individual who is persistent. Not to mention the potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of people who are simply making erroneous edits. Many of them are making their first-ever edit on Wikipedia. Errors are to be expected. That's why article maintenance is necessary.
Even if you can't do anything about it, it's at least useful to know that the person you are trying to reach in your edit summary was long gone more than seven months ago. It's unlikely an IP editor from more than a few days ago will pay any attention to your edit summaries. New editors usually have no idea where the article history is and have never even read an edit summary. Trying to communicate with them is a waste of time.
Trying to communicate with them in a hostile tone is useless, and has resulted in sanctions against you in the past. I have observed several times that if you do succeed in getting the attention of this anonymous IP editor, antagonizing them has the effect of motivating them to become more prolific and more persistent. You risk making it personal and that is the root of most long term abuse.
The difference between March 2009 and December 2010 is an error of only 10 months. How can an error of 10 months be worth escalating conflict with other editors or bringing sanctions on yourself? You can handle this kind of article cleanup in much less dramatic ways. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Just saw your Checkmate edit; thank God someone here knows what they're talking about! Cleanupbabe (talk) 10:25, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 10:31, 5 June 2018 (UTC)Carmaker1 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
I would like a good explanation as to why the other user reverted my edits 4 times, yet I am considered edit warring or doing disruptive editing? The content I added is not unreferenced either. I have made more than enough contributions here and I will take necessary action ASAP in conclusion Oshwah.ᗲ:) Carmaker1 (talk) 10:36, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Decline reason:
You need to address your own behaviour, not the behaviour of others here. You will also need to address the issue of your poor referencing as brought up by Nick below. Finally, be very careful about threatening "necessary action" - it really doesn't indicate you can work with us as a team. stwalkerster (talk) 11:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
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Hi there, I notice you have been making several edits adding the dates various cars, mostly GM cars, were designed. This is great information to have, but, do you have a reliable source for any of this? Maybe you work or used to work at GM, and you had access to this information. But, Wikipedia users can't be primary sources, see No original research. If such dates were more public knowledge, I wouldn't worry about references, but they're usually kept within the company so a reference from a media site or a book would be good to have. --Vossanova o< 21:17, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Carmaker1. Just thought I'd let you know some info about how the "Cars introduced in <insert year>" categories work (relating to today's edit of BMW 3 Series (E30)). Adding the specific year also automatically adds them to the category for the decade (eg the 1980s for the E30), so that doesn't need to be done separately.
Personally I think it is best to just categorise it as the year that the car was first introduced (instead of also adding it to other year categories, due to when was introduced in certain countries), but it is up to you. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 07:27, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, what are those year you add to Range Rover (L405) designer? if there is not someonelse designer those years are not needed there, and dont remove valid references. IF you add some years there would be nice to tell what those means and what happened in those years, and this info is better suited to bread text. -->Typ932 T·C 11:01, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
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Request reason:
From what I have noticed, it seems that Nyttend's hoaxing accusations are no longer listed as the main reason of this and seems to be called now, "Abuse of editing privileges". One of the listed reasons happens to be "Abuse of Email". Newly discovering the Wikipedia email system while blocked and wanting to reach out to admins, hardly warrants a 1 month block on that very basis, SOLELY. It was already uncomfortable, providing my email address to other users. The administrative staff on Wikipedia are either on vacation understandably and/or deliberately ignoring this matter and even playing a game here, over a seemingly juvenile vendetta against my strong criticisms of Wikipedia quality control versus actual evidence of concrete wrongdoing or deliberate vandalism on my part. That's a theory, as I can't say I'm fully aware of how admins are kept in their place. Honestly, there is no evidence against me.
Secondly, it is ludicrous User: JzG is allowed to change block reasons on the fly, without it being carefully scrutinized and heavily supported with evidence in face of other administrative bodies. And compared to Nyttend, even JzG's own Wikipedia history is terribly riddled with serious incivility issues that rival my past small squabbles. Through some oddly vetted means they became an administrator, now showing once again they are not fair and impartial in the least, based on their temperament. That right there is a red flag. It is okay to block emailing ability, but to block editing on the basis of emailing other users, is absolutely stupid. They are not behaving like a professional admin whatsoever, if this is how they go about matters.
If this block continues on for another week without proper intervention from sensible administrative oversight, correction of the mistaken accusation, or an actual valid block reason provided for the present time (not dredged up old nonsense), then every individual involved in this matter, should be taken to task with the proper Wikipedia ruling bodies for their own gross abuse of administrative privileges with a light reprimand and hopefully stripped of them.
As crying wolf when there is none, is hardly professional and in my line of work (and just about most), you'll be out on your hide for it. There has been no hoaxing and no abuse of email use on my part. The admin was not been able to prove the former without being challenged, so instead going after "email abuse" is the next thing that was clutched onto by JzG out of personal annoyance from being emailed by me, to look into my matter. Either prove that I'm guilty of such or it just looks like you're fishing/reaching for something, that you think will somehow stick. A very silly witch hunt and grasping at any straw, as an excuse to block me.
This block needs to be lifted on the basis of no hoaxing and no actual email abuse. No one will stand for words being put in their mouth and that of false accusations, bandied around by a few. If this was simply a case of me actually being accused of claiming Jack Telnack was a GM designer and then claiming a source from a journal said so, the accusations would more than be credible. I never did that at all, so one can understand my anger. It's bloody hypocritical, to pretend I should be content with that. I added new names, forgot to add my sources in being overwhelmed. It was reverted, so I restored it with the intention to provide sources. Within several back-to-back diffs by my account, I indeed did so.
User Sable932, jumped on anything they could refute or revert of my contributions that week and eventually started an edit war, by becoming hyper-focused on removing any said content I was responsible for. Any trouble areas I caught or they highlighted, I fixed ASAP. To their chagrin for some peculiarly personal reason, it wasn't taken well that the vast majority of things reverted or chastised by them, I corrected and restored with proper citations or text. The one citation I struggled with adding in the right place in the Taurus (from confusion over Telnack's name in multiple sections), they jumped on using against me and found a willing admin that wasn't very investigative, to give them what they wanted to take me out of the picture and satisfy their vendetta.
So all because someone brought up petty complaints mixed in with hogwash over a citation not being provided in one article, then an admin takes the least credible evidence as the defining reason and no other admin has the quick sense to call this out, except for another to latch onto the user-provided ability I utilized to email other admins to intervene? I can see right through this farce and I'm not the only one. I will decide against using a colourful choice of words to describe Nyttend's reasoning (or lack thereof) and that of JzG's juvenile abuse of their administrative privileges. Not to mention, that of other admins staying silent and some intentionally allowing this to fester (with knowledge of it). I unfortunately cannot respect either of the two as credible admins, if they cannot be providing valid and solidly supported reasoning for blocking users. At least User: Oshwah (despite making unsavory threats once), provided reasons in the past, as opposed to this joke of a circus.
There are reasons one can provide against me, but they have not been named in place of these farcical accusations or deemed not strong enough to stick, so these unfactual claims instead were made by a seemingly naive AN/I admin, that possibly doesn't know about the content they are trying to even oversee. And then abuse by a hostile admin, who was annoyed they were emailed for assistance. In conclusion, there needs to be an valid reason for the blocking of User: Carmaker1 provided or the block rescinded ASAP. Turning any of the statements I have made since this happened as "personal attacks", has no muster when worse has been said against me and then equally disputed by other peers, who see right through it. You cannot expect a user that has been blocked under ludicrously provided reasons, to be so giddy when this has stretched out quite a bit.
Certainly Wikipedia is not a farce, where an admin can claim someone did "X" to support a bitter editor and yet there is no proof of the accusation, all while their poorly executed administrative actions go unchallenged? How can I add a source, in the prose and then be told by an edit-warring aggrieved editor (who decides to overlook the added source), that "they warned" me? Such silly, bureaucratic drivel that has no basis in fact and seemingly senseless discretion. The accusation typed up by Nyttend below this, is chock full of fallacies that any blind person can even see through. They in reality blocked me for reasons, NOT even provided in this and wanted to use "Hoaxing" as an official excuse to not look unprofessional. Any competent person will see through it so easily and call their bluff.
I am utterly done with defending against this and have said more than enough. I am more than capable of providing to this site and already spend great money against WP: PAYWALL to get exclusive information, without expecting a cent back from this site. More than most users are willing to do on their own, because I have the means to independently flush away $22,000 on deep research and more (to only be told WP: OR in some cases). As I've said many times, provide an ACTUAL reason that warranted a 1 month block on December 19th or adjust it accordingly. The accusation doesn't fit the crime (lack-thereof) whatsoever. GoldenRing (talk) 23:50, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Decline reason:
A one-month block for what you yourself admit below was very poor behaviour is run of the mill and I advise you to sit it out. I see nothing above to indicate that this block is no longer preventing disruption. GoldenRing (talk) 23:50, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
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This is related to your persistent addition of hoaxes at the Ford Taurus (first generation) article, by claiming that a name was derived from a source that didn't include it. Obviously anyone can misread a source or misremember where something came from, but when you're warned that you've added a hoax, and yet you edit-war to ensure that it remain, you've gone well beyond WP:AGF. Nyttend (talk) 01:35, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
To add to what I said in declining your appeal above, while it may well be true that some things we do here would result in instant dismissal in your field, by the same token, this is our site and so here you play by our rules, not those that apply elsewhere. I suggest you read up on our rules and expectations before editing further (once your block expires).
If you honestly believe that administrators have abused their positions, you should email the arbitration committee as they are the only ones who can deal with such cases. I would not recommend it in this case, though. GoldenRing (talk) 00:00, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
From what I can see, @JzG: has taken the action to now imply my newly executed use of the email feature has somehow been abused with no evidence nor reasoning openly provided.
I consider that right there to be gross abuse of administrative privileges to merely change the reason for the block so casually (like a light switch), which I wonder how acceptable that even is? As other users highlight at ANI, this is now a personal attack by a small minority of admins, namely Nyttend who had no case regarding "hoaxing" and at this point now lying in face of evidence.
My attempts to reach out to other administrative staff via email is mostly certain not any form of email abuse, which JzG has falsely latched onto out of some misplaced personal annoyance at being emailed by me. JzG is not allowed to read contents of my other emails to other recipients, to even know where they truly constitute abuse or not.
That needs to be explained right there, as I am also entitled to edit my talk page without volatile personal attacks. None of the involved are behaving professionally and it is quite transparent for future observation.
I am calling it for what it is and other levelheaded users can see right through all of this, a petty personal attack and gross abuse of administrative privileges, via poorly executed Wikilawyering and creating their own hoax.--Carmaker1 (talk) 22:54, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
@Toasted Meter: I'll be honest and say this is how I ended up with this information on the November 2015 date and have kept it for the past 37-38 months or 3 years in my memory. You can review it if you choose, but I didn't pull it out of thin air honestly. I understand German, but not 100% fluent. Give me 10 minutes to provide the requisite links.--Carmaker1 (talk) 00:23, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
I have worked very hard to providing supporting sources for that text as well. With E36 it was 42 months prior to Job 1 in 1990, so that was in early 1987. Information from 30 years ago is hard to come by, other than Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle mentioning on August 12, 1991 that it took 42 months from styling approval to Job 1 for the E36 and other sources have highlighted final freeze was in 1988 after styling approval.Carmaker1 (talk) 00:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
@Power~enwiki: Yes I will I admit, I am sorry about being ignorant on the matter of integrity of citations. Thank you. I have been confused by within the text that, it is always imperative a citation is included next the exact line of text. I had added my Killing The Goose source to another Jack Telnack line of text within the article, using the "find" function.
Considering that many other users have used the excuse that "as long as a statement is already cited within an article, then there is no need to add the citation again or repeat it essentially." In cases where I had issues with content, I was told this example and I accepted it. It honestly varies between users and pages.
I never for one second had any interest in the Coachbuilt source, as it only referenced Jack Telnack. I added the needed source, when I saw I hadn't done so previously.
This matter via ANI is plainly reaching and reads to be "any excuse" to block, versus a concrete irrefutable reason. Judging by initial ANI commentary by some users, many fallacies were espoused on the topic of me hoaxing. Which many other users have rarely been reprimanded for, particularly where they change the text on cited article information I (or anyone else) provide and it ends up not even matching the citation. Often I do become frustrated in such instances, when no one else catches it and reverts/restores good information, because they don't care and are focused on other things.--Carmaker1 (talk) 02:46, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
@Sp: (Alternatively to @NinjaRobotPirate:@Jpgordon:)
Thank you very much your points being made at ANI, as a neutral party. I really appreciate it, even if that may or may not have been your intention. I am saying expalining this, mainly to let you know at least what my intentions have been as I cannot defend on ANI.
I was shocked to see in a design sketch of the Taurus, "Jeff Teague" as opposed to "Jack Telnack" being written while researching Ford Design history 10 days ago. It immediately told me that Telnack was being given sole credit and I needed to expand on that as I now do in several other articles.
What has happened instead, is some form of reaching and smearing to imply that I intentionally used another source AFTER being warned, which is highly false based on the diff times on my talk page and in Taurus edit history.
Anyone that objectively studies this as you did, can see the reality I did not commit the act of hoaxing, nor according to contentious admin JzG (bad history with personal attacks), had no grounds to change the block from hoaxing to abuse of emailing privileges, by reaching out to others regarding my case.
Such a flippant change to the block reason is an abuse of power by JzG and cannot defend against it by myself. Trying to block my ability to defend myself, is being perpetrated by a small few, who have other underlying reasons they are not mentioning aloud to possibly avoid looking petty.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Carmaker1 (talk • contribs) 03:14, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
While I agree as I said at ANI that your edits were not a hoax or hoaxing, you need to understand that your edits were still quite wrong and harmful to wikipedia. You should not generally add information to articles unless you provide a WP:reliable source to support that information when you are adding it, or that information is already supported by one of the reliable sources. Yes people do it anyway, and we don't always remove it straight away, but this still isn't justification for you to do so. If you plan to find a ref but haven't yet, it's probably better to just wait until you found the ref before adding it. It's generally harmful to edit war to preserve unreferenced content while you find a ref.
What you especially should not do is to add info to an article in such a way that it appears it's supported by a source but isn't. If you really feel the need to add unsourced info you need to make it clear it is unsourced. If you are adding it to an existing sentence and that sentence is sourced, move the source and add a ((fact)) tag or otherwise structure your addition in such a way that it's clear that it is unsourced instead of appearing to be supported by the existing source when it isn't.
Likewise, while it's true infobox content doesn't normally need to be directly sourced since it should be mentioned and sourced in the article proper, if there is a source in the infobox you need to structure your addition in a way that it does not appear to be supported by a ref which doesn't support it. Of course, your addition needs to be mentioned and supported by a source in the article proper.
As a reader of articles, I can tell your it's incredibly confusing when you check out a source, and it doesn't mention what we are saying. In addition, people often assume that when something is sourced it's probably correct without checking the source, especially when it's relatively non contentious. For these reasons and more, it's incredibly bad when info is added in such a way that it appears to be supported by a source but it isn't
As for the block, while I have no comment on the length and have already said it was wrong to call your changes hoaxing or a hoax, as I also said what you were doing was quite wrong and harmful to wikipedia. The fact that were edit warring to preserve your changes and have had problems in the past meant a block of some length was always likely. Once you actually provided a source then yes, instead of simply removing the info it probably would have been better to simply restructure your addition. But likewise you could have fixed your addition rather than letting someone else do it.
BTW, do remember your talk page access is only really intended for you to make unblock requests while you are blocked. Of course, with reason it's generally acceptable to use your talk page to better understand why you were blocked, and what you can do to avoid it in the future. But using it for other purpose like attacking other editors or getting others to edit for you is likely to lead to a you losing the ability to edit your own talk page. And also remember that while you can make unblock requests, making repeated invalid or offensive unblock requests is also not acceptable.
Likewise your use of the email ability should be restricted in the same fashion. There's rarely a good reason to email people to make an unblock request especially when you still have the ability to edit your own talk page. If you did want to email an unblock request, you should be emailing UTRS or arbcom instead per Wikipedia:Appealing a block etc although again you should normally make a request on your talk page if able. Just as with your talk page, if you misuse your email ability while blocked, you are likely to lose access per our Wikipedia:Blocking policy.
Nil Einne (talk) 10:51, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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UTRS appeal #23644 was submitted on Dec 24, 2018 08:37:01. This review is now closed.
--UTRSBot (talk) 08:37, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
In regards to this edit summary: you went back 12 years in the page history for the sole purpose of harassing another editor and myself. Your continuing incivility is unacceptable and by now you certainly know it is unacceptable. Consider this your final warning on the matter. --Sable232 (talk) 23:07, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
You messaged me about disruptive editing on the Ford Explorer page. I didn't disrupt anything. That was a good edit, don't be stupid. I'm doing my job. People like you make me sick! Let's love each other with respect okay. Bye. Thanos2556 (talk) 12:59, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --Sable232 (talk) 23:05, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
I noticed your comment at [5] "The person who labeled this, is ignorant of the fact that you couldn't buy an SC in this iteration before 1994. Please do to some research or read the prose to understand differences between 1991-93, 1994-96, 1996-2000.)" Most people reading this comment would see you as arrogant and naming everybody else (or least those that allowed the caption label) as idiots and/or lazy. Perhaps this is why you seem to gather so many vehement enemies. On the other hand, a simpler, factual edit comment such as "Corrected capture for SC300 image to match the years this configuration was available" shows you as a knowledgeable editor who is willing to share his expertise. Both comments carry the same information but the first makes you look like an asshole and the second makes you look like a good guy. I'm not going to raise a fuss - just trying to make a helpful tip. Stepho talk 00:31, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Carmaker1. Please be careful about adding material w/o citations to reliable sources. Unless the material is completely uncontroversial, all claims of fact need to be referenced, including those in info-boxes. It appears that this issue has been raised in the past so your attention to this concern will be much appreciated. Thank you for your contributions to the project. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 22:06, 22 May 2019 (UTC) |
Thanks for the useful information but is it easy to navigate with using English?--Guiletheme (talk) 16:48, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
You recently added content on the Chevrolet Corvette (C6) and Chevrolet Corvette (C5) pages without a source. If you are going to add content please add a reliable third party source in order for its verification instead of telling others to do it. Cheers.U1 quattro TALK 15:45, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
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Not a page I am interested in, but I feel the same way about ip edits. I think registration should be required, that would remove about 80% of all the nonsense I end up wasting my time reverting. Allowing ips to edit made sense while Wikipedia was being built, but I think it has shifted into more of a maintenance effort to a large part. I don't know where to begin such an effort, but I think it long overdue. Mr.choppers | ✎ 17:32, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Listen up, if you can't read the infobox template and sort out things then you shouldn't call out other editors like you did on the Chevrolet Corvette (C7) page. If you are so insistent on adding all those designers then add them in a separate design section. And you should get a life, calling out names isn't going to change a thing here. Either properly source your edits when you add your so called info or don't bother to edit at all. Next time, I'm taking this to ANI. Given your previous blocks, I'm certain that you would be penalised this time as well.U1 quattro TALK 05:26, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi Carmaker1, I would like to remind you that edit summaries are for a quick summary of the changes you have made, not for ranting. Here are Wikipedia's guidelines for edit summaries:
Here are some uncivil and unhelpful edit summaries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazda6&diff=prev&oldid=943573648
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Infiniti_Q70&diff=prev&oldid=941160830
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edsel&diff=919527671&oldid=916688646
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ford_P_platform&diff=prev&oldid=940049417
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ford_Mustang_(sixth_generation)&diff=prev&oldid=939088951
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ford_Expedition&diff=prev&oldid=923073546
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chrysler_LH_platform&diff=prev&oldid=924819283
Thanks, drt1245 (talk) 23:15, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Frankly I don't really care. The quality control on this website is awful and I am sick of playing cleanup, because other people don't put in the effort or remain incorrigible, in regards to exercising due diligence. Carmaker1 (talk) 20:50, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Are you going to keep trying to ride this merry go round forever? Wikipedia makes you unhappy, and you are clearly unable to edit within Wikipedia's behavioral guidelines. You've tried, but when you see an article about cars with what you think is an incorrect fact, it sends you into a rage. You're supposed to simply correct the article and write an edit summary saying what fact you changed and why. Not insult whomever wrote it. But time and again you can't resist attacking them. I think we can agree that you will always react this way. I know that for years you've said you would stop, but do you really think you can?
I don't understand what reason there is to keep doing something that you say makes you so unhappy, on a website that you say you have no respect for. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 21:54, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
You have politely addressed me many times no matter what the circumstance, even if on occasion a bit snide. I have not observed similar from Bratland. Because I have highlighted my background at times and a previous comment which stated "American hicks*, they have likely chosen to take personal offense and hold a grudge over it. I don't really seek their attention, in order to avoid unwelcome problems. Carmaker1 (talk) 00:46, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
And yes I do agree, we are all here to work together and I champion you, on teaching me a good compromise and realizing MYs in articles should not dominate the narrative. It's very easy to say it's trivial and irrelevant, however other people do make inferences based on the perceived life cycle of generations and if they think a model run is much shorter than it is by an arbitrary model year, they're not going to really know what to expect. You know this so well, which is probably why you steered me correctly, back in my university years. Technologies are introduced on new products and that includes American cars. If a new Ford product of ours entered production in December 2020 and launched in January 2021 as an early 2022 MY with a major invention, it is misleading to put "since 2022" or "in 2022". What happens if our competitors introduce such tech 1 year later? Our innovation suddenly loses credit for being first to market alongside a competitor? I am here to avoid that and I wish you would extend that to other articles too more often, as I'm probably the only editor in American articles doing so. Your point isn't lost on me, but I don't think you are aware of a deeper history, on my both archived talk page, ANIs, edit summaries, article talk pages, and etc with this person. Unlike your post, it comes across as baiting, to interject in such a manner and not be truly well meaning, which again you have been. Carmaker1 (talk) 01:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Mazda MX-5 (NC). Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Areaseven (talk) 10:21, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --Areaseven (talk) 01:43, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
So because one can "verify" a lie from any random writer, then it must credible? That's a serious weak point regarding supposed verifiability. I don't buy into that, as it can hurt this site, by pointing out anything a writer says based off of their opinion as fact. Carmaker1 (talk) 22:28, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
You have been named as a party to an ARBCOM request. You are invited to post comments on the page here. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:03, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
I see, just checked my talk page right now. Carmaker1 (talk) 22:25, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Carmaker1. I'm an arbitration clerk, which means I help manage and administer the arbitration process (on behalf of the committee). Thank you for making a statement in an arbitration request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case. However, we ask all participants and commentators to limit the size of their initial statements to 500 words. Your statement significantly exceeds this limit. Please reduce the length of your statement when you are next online. If the case is accepted, you will have the opportunity to present more evidence; in any event, concise, factual statements are much more likely to be understood and to influence the decisions of the arbitrators.
Requests for extensions of the word limit may be made either in your statement or by email to the Committee through this link or arbcom-enwikimedia.org if email is not available through your account.
For the Arbitration Committee, CThomas3 (talk) 17:23, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Oh okay, wow. I wasn't particularly aware, did I misread a byline? Carmaker1 (talk) 22:24, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi. So, if Dennis Bratland makes another appearance on this talk page, please let me know about it. I am ready and able to act decisively. El_C 22:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for removing your comment at ANI: diff. However, the fact that you made that comment before removing it indicates that the concept of emotionless commenting, while sticking to substantive issues, is elusive. You must also remove this comment or immediately provide good evidence to justify your statement. If you make another edit or comment before doing either of those, I will block you. Johnuniq (talk) 06:36, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Carmaker1, please try your best to temper your disposition, because you're starting to skirt the line. If you wish to make a report on Dennis Bratland, it's best not to do so here, because they can't respond and end up (correctly) refactoring the discussion to my talk page and responding there. I have admonished Dennis Bratland for editing your talk page, thereby breaking his promise. But you writing about him in this thread, wasn't the best idea, either. So, please make sure to report any issues with him directly to me (or ANI), rather than anywhere on your talk page. Thanks. El_C 21:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
I understand, thank you El_C. Point well taken. Carmaker1 (talk) 01:15, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. --Francis Schonken (talk) 08:07, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure entirely what the dispute on AN/I is about, but I hope I can give you some friendly advise. COI violations on Wikipedia can not only get you booted off Wikipedia, it can cause major PR damage and reputational damage to the firm the editor works for. I would be very careful writing about your company. Personally, I can see your intentions are good, but I would genuinely be very, very careful around this area. COI is not just about actual conflicts of interest but perceived conflicts of interest.
If you want to edit Ford related articles, then it is extremely important that you reference all your material to solid, reliable sources. If you are sourcing Ford documentation, I'd be very careful, it must be openly accessible at the very least, and even then I'd hesitate to use it. A compromise is if the material is added you add a talk page section explaining your use of the material and inviting comment. Even then it might be best to ask on the talk what you want to add and ask someone to review it for you, and perhaps have them add it.
I know this is a pain, but it's really all in everyone's interests. There have been severe personal consequences for a number of people over the years who are caught in conflicts of interest on Wikipedia. That hasn't always come from Wikipedia either.
So... please keep contributing as I can tell you have a lot to give, but please be careful! - Chris.sherlock (talk) 10:33, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
In addition to my prior comments, as one of the arbitrators, I've posted a question to you on the requests for arbitration page. (This is just an additional heads-up in case you don't see the question in the middle of the page or the ping doesn't work.) Please answer in your section on that page. Thank you, Newyorkbrad (talk) 07:16, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Dear Carmaker1, the Arbitration Committee has declined the recent arbitration case request involving you. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 01:36, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
May I ask what your reference is in regards to the notion that the current generation Mustang still uses D2C? According to this article from Car and Driver, the S550 platform is (or was, depending on your point of view) all-new, with only the wheelbase carrying over. Dave Pericak even says in that article that it's all-new. Have you seen something different? Carguy1701 (talk) 17:20, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
Someone has been adding Alexey Kezha as the designer of the G20, this seems plausible but I can't find a cite saying that he actually designed it. Do you have any info on this? Toasted Meter (talk) 03:23, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm going to look into it immediately. Carmaker1 (talk) 16:34, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
It's valid, I was about to dismiss it, then I saw who added it and then remembered various people can work on a vehicle. https://de.linkedin.com/in/alexey-kezha-15a52613
Both Marc and Alexey worked on this vehicle. As we both know more than anyone, they worked on this vehicle design until styling approval in late November 2015. Although a public source is not provided for this portion, design freeze (sheetmetal lock-in) was in the middle of 2016 and full styling completion was in spring 2017 (details down to plastic/trim).
It is going to be a bit of a headache for me trying to figure out why Mark Michael has any connection to the vehicle because his role isn't specifically spelled out like Alexey's resume. Carmaker1 (talk) 16:46, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
According to Wikipedia guide for 'Designer' is supposed to be the exterior designer. not middle mangers or project leaders. Allegedly there are so many middle managers and project organizers in a production car project. Mark Michael is known as one of those managers. For example Nader Faghihzadeh also worked on G20 project as a creative director. And Mr. Peter Gabath as well. there might be many "come and go" managers during the project. but exterior designer roll is rather fixed or stable unless resign. Therefore Alexey Kezha is the one who can be record as the actual exterior designer of bmw G20 3series. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gentleracoon (talk • contribs) 18:01, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Fair point, as I work for another automotive corporation in a design engineer capacity, but not as a member of the design department specifically. My only connection to BMW is my mother's family's past distributorship, paternal uncle taking over national franchises, and her being a VIP customer in terms of buying BMW on both a fleet and personal basis. On the BMW Group corporate level, my knowledge can be rather limited at times, regarding their latest internal movements. Thanks for your input, as I myself struggle with news media giving glory and credit to the wrong parties and having to rely on patents to give due credit. I am wondering why your knowledge goes so deep, but I consider it welcome. Carmaker1 (talk) 20:34, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. U1 quattro TALK 20:14, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
Carmaker1, I spoke up against arbitration because I think you improve the accuracy of articles. However, that is not a free pass. Your excessively combative behaviour is degrading other people's enjoyment of our shared hobby - Wikipedia - and is disruptive. I am going to close the admin noticeboard thread with this final warning to you.
You must stop your combative behaviour. Our rule is: bold, revert, discuss. If someone is wrong then you are free to show why, using reliable independent sources, on the Talk page, but please talk about the content not the editor. If you continue as you are, then you may expect blocks of escalating length. Do not be provoked. If someone repeatedly adding incorrect information then (1) discuss it on talk, if necessary via RfC then (2) if they fail to follow the sources or abide by consensus, make a neutrally worded report to a suitable venue (e.g. WP:RSN to ask if a source is reliable, or WP:DRN if you disagree on interpretation of a source). If someone is baiting you, please ignore them, and if they continue, make a neutrally worded report at WP:ANI.
Edit warring and belligerence are considered disruptive and if you continue with this then you will be blocked from editing. I don't want that to happen. Please help me make it not happen. Guy (help!) 17:29, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Well understood, thank you and I understand your great concerns. Particularly in not allowing one's self to feel provoked and biting back. Much respect to you both, please take care as well in daily life. Carmaker1 (talk) 19:30, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
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I noticed you undid my edit on It Wasn't Me. I'd like to ask why. Template:Infobox song states: "Indicate the commercial release date, whether it is a single, album, or other." I've spoken with User:Ojorojo about this, and they said that radio and promo releases do not qualify as "commercial" formats. The parent album, Hot Shot, was released in 2000, but it is not the most well-known format of the song since the single release became a worldwide hit. Unless you have a good reason as to why you removed this date, I'm going to have to revert it. If you take issue with the way the "release" parameter is defined, please speak with Ojorojo about this. Thank you. ResPM come to my window 12:55, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
That's not consensus, when it only is discussed by two users and ignores existing standards. Apply the same logic in other articles, then maybe that has more credibility. Release date on Wikipedia has never been broadly defined as CD single only, closely studying many music articles. 1 or 2 individuals cannot solely decide otherwise, when plenty of other users and likely many admins, believe differently. You can change it for now, but when I am not busy, I will remove it again and back it up with plenty of support, as that misinforms readers. I think you should just be inclusive of both radio and physical single release dates. Your theory is rather contradictory, when many successful songs only had airplay as singles and never saw physical single release ever. Does that make them never released? No, it absolutely doesn't. Carmaker1 (talk) 20:38, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
Hey friend today i was investigating today and discovered that the same Rolling Stones said that Shakira sold more than 15 million copies with Laundry Service. Could you please update it? Link from Rolling Stones: http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fmusic%2Fartists%2Fshakira%2Fbiography AlexanderShakifan29 (talk) 03:10, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Ford T plarform. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. N2e (talk) 10:46, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
You know very well why I removed that and these notices on my page mean nothing, as I wasn't born yesterday and my edit history is age old. I will not provide Ford Motor Company internal docs as a source either.
I do find it insultingly amusing how none of you questioned the glaringly unsourced Ford U Platform and P Platform articles for the better part of 15 years, until me as a former undergrad and grad student (my early Wiki days), (who later) joined Ford as an engineer, then noticed the glaring misinformation that was proudly plastered everywhere as the underlying basis for body on frame Ford vehicles. Which I campaigned to have deleted and removed last year from Wikipedia, with pushback from Ford article contributors who were so desperate to retain it. Gotta love the selective bias, how anything I add demands a citation or special proof, yet any other clown can toss scat at the wall and it sticks as credible, with no maintenance tags added. I do get it though, so no more repeats of misinformation.
T3 is the current body on frame architecture for every full size Ford ladder frame vehicle, that utilize aluminum bodies, since 2014. Unfortunately the news media is more focused on reporting on BS fluff like cup holders or Doug Demuro style, than deeper insight related to product development such chassis and etc. I can't use my internal information, unless already available publicly. I am surprised that those who put maintenance tags, can't be bothered to do the research themselves as part of a collective. Carmaker1 (talk) 02:30, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Since Ford P platform and Ford U platform is completely fictitious, and I know you know a lot about Ford and presumably Mazda, I want to ask does these Mazda platforms are also fictitious? These articles really sounded like they just put together models with the same first letter of the model code, just like Ford P platform and Ford U platform articles. If it indeed fictitious I'll propose a deletion. Andra Febrian (talk) 03:22, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Yes they are Andra Febrian, thank you so much for bringing this up. I keep forgetting to raise this topic and now remember, the proof doesn't exist. Carmaker1 (talk) 03:35, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks so much Andra. I'll do my best, to identify the actual platforms. From what I can recall, the 1982-1987 626 was heavily revised on the same platform for the GD and built until 1992. The GE was an all-new platform launched near-parallel in November 1991 and the GF was a heavy revision in 1997. GG was all-new as the Mazda6, becoming the basis of the 2006 MY Ford Fusion. It was heavily revised in 2007-08 as the Gen II Mazda6 and was ultimately replaced with the SkyActiv focused architecture in 2012, to be retired in November 2021. Carmaker1 (talk) 05:31, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
So this is how it goes. GC-GD are the same platform, from 1982 to 1994.
GE-GF were the same platform, with differences, manufactured 1991 to 2002. GG-GH, the first generation Mazda and second generation, were the same platform basis from February 2002 to 2012, with a redesign in 2007-08. GJ was on Skyactiv-M, the last FWD platform for the 626/6. The 2013-2018 Mazda3 used Skyactiv-C. Carmaker1 (talk) 02:55, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Carmaker1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Mercedes-Benz C-Class (W202), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Your edit summary [26] "Our recent 2021 Bronco launch at Ford..." suggests that have a conflict of interest. Meters (talk) 03:58, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
This was a subject already visited and cleared well over a year ago. I don't give slanted favor to the products I am involved in P708, U553/554, T3, future T* and TE1 program vehicles. I treat them normally, but inaccurate information or poor context on them is something I primarily take issue with. I am extremely objective. Carmaker1 (talk) 05:25, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
I don't know how to describe this without being too verbose, but this subject was first approached out of spite towards me in an effort to prevent me from editing articles [27] and then dismissed on the premise that my style of editing does not present a major conflict of interest regarding automobiles and the FMC. My significant conflict of interest, the Ojukwu family and N**** family of Nigeria, are where I am pseudo-banned from editing, as I am part of that family and have way too much bias to be involved in any capacity on them. I gladly accepted that, but my contributions in terms of Ford and automobiles is not as significant to become a conflict. I am not there to promote, but contribute. To reopen this discussion, strikes me as an insult, since it was already resolved after in depth discussion and research by others against me. It is like double jeopardy and quite unwelcome, 16 months later. I hear you though on it, but COI was opened and closed a long time ago. Carmaker1 (talk) 18:41, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
You work for Ford, you edit Ford articles, but I don't see a conflict of interest declaration on your user pages or when you edit Ford pages.The appearance of a possible conflict of interest s a justifiable cause for concern for any editor who notices. There's no reason for me, or any other editor who stumbles across your case, to know that this has previously been raised. You have a large talk page and I wasn't going to read every thread. And please provide a proper link to the discussion next time, not just a diff to the notification on your talk page. Meters (talk) 07:37, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
You deleted the entry about Mercedes-Benz W123 passenger-side airbag.
That is unfortunate because you seem to miss the point about the country-specific options that are not widely available around the world. Not every option is available in the US market. German market had the option of electric front windows and manual rear windows as well as headlamp washer/wiper options: both were never offered in the US, for instance.
Sometimes, the manufacturers offered the limited run of test options in the specific markets prior to the official introduction as to test the consumer's response or to weed out any potential issues. Sometimes, the manufacturers selected certain groups of consumers to test their products for a certain length of time.
In some instances, they aren't officially listed in the catalogue. Alfa Romeo didn't list the automatic gearbox option for its 1750 Berlina. Lot of people didn't believe 1750 with automatic gearbox existed until the photos of interior and dashboard with automatic gearbox selector and operating manuals showed up.
Mercedes-Benz offered the driver-side airbag option in W123 for German market as the German price catalogue showed in the citation. If you had bothered to look at the photo and German Wikimedia file information, you will see that W123 has passenger-side airbag.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Beifahrerairbag_W123.jpg
Now, look at the rescue chart where the airbags, seat belt tensioners, battery, fuel tank, etc. are located. You can see that the airbags (as denoted by circle 1) are installed on both sides.
https://rk.mb-qr.com/de/123.1/
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Sable232 (talk) 00:10, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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. You are blocked from editing the Ford Bronco article. You may suggest edits to the Ford Bronco article at talk:Ford Bronco using the ((edit request)) template. Mjroots (talk) 12:49, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
After your massive personal attacks at ANI, you will be waiting for the ANI siteban decision without having an opportunity to respond there.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:43, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Good for you, as I said the redacted truth and save for some typos and formatting gaffes, it's much more filtered than much I could have nastily said otherwise, in an unfiltered, explicit and scathing fashion with extremely foul language.
A few anti-social outcasts with fragile egos. That are laughably intimidated by someone who may or may not know more than they do, a formerly dedicated undergrad site contributor to now successful professional at a Fortune 500 company with an MBA and hard-earned PhD, who has no patience for the unregulated BS here creating gross misinformation. I have engineering and design patents in my name, which very few here even do. Twelve of them so far, from JLR and Ford, plus more coming as new filings are made at USPTO and globally.
Feigning victimhood and pearl clutching in over the top theatrical outrage, says more than enough about that irrelevant set of few users, out of many people worldwide who have always appreciated my efforts and my gifted work I globally contribute in my freetime. People can twist any semantics how they want to, especially because they live on here 24/7 and honestly have no real lives I can imagine. Check how often I don't login. I have my great fiance with the same dedication to our profession, millions of dollars at my disposal from my N. & Ojukwu family trusts and maybe even more from willing investors on upcoming plans. With dedicated effort, I can replicate this all on my own and cast a large shadow over it all in a few years. I will do that indeed, as I have those God-given privileged means, without involving any management here. Get some genuine meaning in your lives, as living on here 24/7 isn't it. You only live once and staring at a computer screen all day to copy text and play politics, means little to nothing in the real world, when you have no actual power like the rest of us on a global scale. Any wonder why I am so confident in my abilities?
Signing off, Dr. J.N. aka Carmaker1. Carmaker1 (talk) 18:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Carmaker1. Just letting you know that the outcome of the ANI discussion is that you have been community banned from editing. The close is here but is really just a restatement of this message.
I gather from your talkpage posts that you've already signed off from Wikipedia. If you do ever wish to return you will need to first appeal this ban via the mechanisms outlined at WP:UNBAN. If you don't wish to return to Wikipedia editing then all the best for wherever your interests take you. -- Euryalus (talk) 23:43, 8 October 2021 (UTC)