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Car designers in infoboxes

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)

As long as we keep it within the article, certainly.--Carmaker1 (talk) 22:08, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Will do. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 23:42, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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WP:BURDEN

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." 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. 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. - SummerPhD 18:16, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Okay that's understandable, as I was just trying restore what the IP changed. I guess since there was never a source for the 2001 date either, you made the right choice. I can see that now. Thank you so much Summer, for fixing this issue. I don't think we'll ever find an actual date in a reputable source, due to the lack of significance of the record to the artist in retrospect. Thanks for explaining this anyways, I now understand a bit better. Sorry.--Carmaker1 (talk) 19:37, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

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As per the community discussion (archived at Misplaced Pages: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)

Thank you, that is very fair and I accept this resolution.--Carmaker1 (talk) 04:38, 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)

Be more careful? Slipping? I find that to be rather reaching on your part, if not a light threat, that hardly is even a challenge to honour (Why pretend it is for me?). Don't scold/politely threaten me over things that have not been personally directed at any OTHER users. How really fair is that? I would've responded much better to this, if I blatantly addressed someone. I did not. And yes, it was indeed a damn lazy lie, typically bandied about by lazy journalists or spectators in automotive circles, after a production car is released looking similar to "concept car" that previously shown, doing so all without internal proof/timeline order of development. Often the sole work of ignorant journalists being lazy with research/facts and incorrigible with constructive suggestions, NOT so much users on this site. They (the users) do not control what is reported in news media, from opinionated guesstimates by automotive "writers" that fail to do adequate and professional research. Those same writers, end up misleading people/some Misplaced Pages users, that read and in good faith post their "news" on Misplaced Pages as "verifiable" or accurate. I am left to clean it up, from reading between the lines and quickly remembering that the subject of the article in question, had an April 2012 final design approval. The Resonance Concept's public showing at Detroit NAIAS Jan 2013 as a dressed up version of the Z52/P42M Murano production design was a subsequent internal development at Nissan Design America. "Throwing it at the wall" is suggesting a template on what NOT to do and not accuse/directly implicate anyone personally and specifically of wrongdoing. On Misplaced Pages, it is standard we do not throw things at the wall and provide reputable sources that do not throw things at the wall. In fact, that really mostly describes the faulty source's own irresponsibility with misinformation. Is it much different than putting a "<---DO NOT CHANGE....---> template? In that case, unless I have directly named anyone as of late in edit summaries, I do not want to be hearing any such faux outrage and admonishments from anyone in such a manner, masked as genuine concern (feels more like a subtle threat). I believe I am most definitely allowed to call out the CONTENT of an article, without personally attacking or referring to another user. In general, there is no point to address others by name in edit summaries even, especially since my concerns about calibre of editing have been heard long ago and no longer favour being loud/brash to call attention to "issues". If the prohibition referred to no text in edit summaries, then I'd understand this notification. I figure this is just a matter of mistaken context and perception.--Carmaker1 (talk) 11:31, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion to use WikiBlame

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:

1. Go to http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php
2. Enter Jaguar XJ (X351) in the page field
3. Enter the problematic text in the text field, in this case December 2009–present
4. Click Start and wait for the results

When 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 Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages. 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)

Re:Checkmate

Just saw your Checkmate edit; thank God someone here knows what they're talking about! Cleanupbabe (talk) 10:25, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018

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)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

I would suggest this justifies a block on its own - there's clearly competency issues in using a third party YouTube video as a source, I'd say when that YouTube video doesn't even say what you're claiming it says in order to use it as a reference, that the block isn't indefinite and for competency I'd say you've gotten off very lightly. I do hope you have no other skeletons in your user contributions closet because that standard of referencing is so appalling, I don't see how I could possibly allow you to return to editing today, or indeed in 36 hours, unless it was a careless one off mistake. Nick (talk) 11:42, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Nick - I would normally be inclined to agree with you, but I'm hoping that this block will help Carmaker1 to understand the issues behind his edits and that they need to improve, and I really hope that Carmaker1 takes the time to do what's necessary to make those improvements. I don't want to send someone away from the project without at least giving them one chance to turn things around if I think that they might do so... I think that's logical and fair. The ball's in his court; this can either be a very small bump in the road and what was needed to get him back on track, no big deal... or this'll be seen in the future by others as a very fair action and opportunity that he didn't learn from or take advantage of, which will make the imposition of an indefinite block justifiable should it be considered. ~Oshwah~ 11:52, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

The text in the description box of the Youtube video (NOT the video itself), highlights some items, in which the artist "Tammy" was at Creation Audio in Minneapolis, MN during March and April 1988. There she met Abdul, who was STILL recording, at a point when her album would be borderline due for submission to the record label. Various sources specifically list that track as one of the few recorded at Creation Audio. Practically none of the other tracks were recorded at Creation Audio, let alone in Minneapolis for much of them. She was based in LA. Abdul started working with Leiber in October 1987, starting with The Way That You Love Me. Months afterward, A&R rep Gemma Corfield contacted Leiber last minute for "ONE more additional song". Judging by the pattern of copyrights by Oliver Leiber between July 1987 and April 11, 1988 on identically named tracks, I saw a pattern that closely followed his timeline with Abdul, something he stated particularly in his Songfacts interview. In terms of how he met her via a client doing a music video (filmed and released in the autumn of 1987) and giving subtle frames of reference regarding timelines, that have provided insight to me and a time period of when she was recording with him. Plus that of her own recollections in various interviews. I have noticed similar with other writers/producers, regarding copyrights. Abdul finished working on this record in April 1988, in advance of its June 13th release. After doing YEARS of research, I have never found anything that places her doing any recording during May 1988. I've found information that coincided with September 1987 to April 1988. Discrediting me for using another artist's mention of Abdul's presence at a studio in April 1988 from a Youtube description box, doesn't invalidate the reality Abdul can easily be placed then & there. Unlike Opposites attract, both the title track and second single, are listed as 1987 recordings by copyright and Leiber's claims back that up, based on it "being earlier on" and Opposites Attract being his last track with her. Not to mention, how in the Summer of 1989, Abdul was mostly focused on promoting Elliot Wolff's Cold Hearted and was barely shifting attention to both a re-release of her second single and Opposites Attract. Copyrights for those videos, show publication dates of September 20 & 21, 1989. To film a video and release it takes an average of 3-4 weeks at minimum. For an animated video, it took even longer. Any recording work or changes need to be done in an advance, such as MC Skat Kat/Delite Stevens' contribution. July and August 1989 would count as SUMMER 1989 in the US. As for Cold Hearted, Abdul was working on Coming To America, while recording with Elliot Wolf in Los Angeles. A movie filmed in Los Angeles during February 1988 and had started filming in NYC from January 4, 1988. That perfectly matches the time period Abdul was working on her album, as by May 1988 both her album and Coming To America were in post-production, BOTH intended for June 1988 release dates. How dare one presume, I made up that Abdul recorded her signature Wolff tracks in 1988, when it's just the obvious? She wasn't working with him in 1987 and wasn't a musician in 1986. Not to mention, her history greatly highlights (via interviews) she was struggling in the second half of 1988, that until one day after November 1988 Straight Up was released and started getting steam during December 1988 and January 1989. At that point during late 1988, Abdul even adding a rap to Cold Hearted still was of no interest to Virgin Records, who were borderline ready to discard her and move on over dismal results. Changes to C.H. only became relevant to Virgin, after she released and succeeded with both Straight Up and Forever Your Girl as a remixed single. They started planning Cold Hearted as a follow-up single in the spring of 1989 and had new changes to it. The single was released on June 15, 1989, with those new vocals. Naturally, that means she recorded additional vocals in preparation of her single release. Can someone even claim, that she recorded those rap vocals before 1989, yet they didn't exist on the album itself in 1988? I am someone who is already doing their very best to get lost and hidden information out there that provide a frame of reference, regarding time, location, and how, in the face of many good older sources turning into deadlinks and no proper archiving of them. Many viable sources are just GONE, therefore one is just picking up the pieces of what little is left anywhere. In between that, you have unregistered users making weird edits to dates at random with no little to no explanation and then when I find it later, I have fix back to what it once was, because some other users don't really bother to study a page history at times and understand the context of certain information being present or needing to be restored. Adding things at random, with no explanation at all is one thing to do. What I do in many cases, is just not stuff that gets passed around on average. Date of creation information mostly has to be unearthed and whatnot, being very privatized or forgotten easily by artists. One works very hard to map out these timelines and provide ANY sources for them. I am not focused on politics here, but giving readers all the information they can get and it being copied elsewhere as factual and informative, which it indeed is. So threatening me in ways, won't do much either.--Carmaker1 (talk) 12:57, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

It's excellent original research. We don't allow original research. If you're correct and I've no reason to disbelieve you, you'll need to work on finding reliable sources (newspapers, music press publications etc) to confirm your hypothesis. If you can't confirm your hypothesis, you can't include that information on Misplaced Pages, because no matter how certain you are that it's correct, we can't be fully certain it's correct. Nick (talk) 13:17, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

For that matter stwalkster, I have no made any formal request to be "unblocked". That isn't my focus, I am making my point, plain and simple. I don't live here. All the many links, interviews, and whatnot I have encountered might be gone today (now deadlinks) to use as reliable sources, but I did see them and therefore my frame of reference on this album is clear to me. There are no doubts in that area that I have.--Carmaker1 (talk) 13:09, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Why did you formally request unblock with the {{unblock}} template if you didn't want to be unblocked? Abuse of that template isn't looked kindly upon. stwalkerster (talk) 14:00, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Honestly, I don't really care and did not then either. I DIDN'T abuse anything, so you take it easy with the accusations. I have so much more important things to do with my free time as a hard-working automotive (mech) engineer with an MBA (with honours), than waste it making these tiring & thankless contributions to Misplaced Pages, which is more of a hindrance and unwelcome stressor (compared to my high school and university days). I am bloody tired of the endless, nonsensical Wikilawyering that goes on this site, which only seems deter well meaning users away, who have better to do than fight to trace the untraceable and defend their efforts. One can know very well, that Abdul's career development 30 years ago, is not something that can be documented word for word, day by day 3 decades later, from dead and lost news archives. Having tried to connect so many dots over the past decade, I made direct correlations to actual points in the timeline of her recording career. In general, if not for much of the global public, ignorantly copying and pasting text elsewhere from articles on this site like it is concrete fact, I wouldn't gave a damn about logging in here to contribute to anything. I will NEVER make edits to this site again, that are ADDITIONS. Any single damn thing I will ever touch again is plainly correcting existing items, which can be supported by existing sources. I do not have energy nor time I want to waste, explaining the faults on this site, that make for an unnecessarily frustrating editing environment and why I refuse to ever apologize for anything that happened recently. It is one thing to be uncivil (and I have apologized for past examples of deeply personal attacks), but that has NOTHING to do with anything as of late. It is purely politics in this respect about so-called edit warring and I am above bothering myself over it. Misplaced Pages will continually lose its credibility, when the agenda of select users' pettiness overshadows the need for informative accuracy. I have only contributed to this website to provide deeper information on who, what, when, where, and why. I certainly didn't see any of you fixing a Britney Spears article, which had already been verified so many times, (thanks to me many years ago) that Max Martin and Spears recorded his material for her sophomore effort in the first week of November 1999 at his defunct Cheiron Studios. Yet for 1 whole year someone managed to change that to 2000 without ANY VERIFICATION and I certainly didn't see anyone besides me make an effort, to restore that to accuracy. Yet so many readers will be quick to lazily copy and paste bad information from these articles as factual, yet you cannot be bothered to prevent that from misleading them. It is somehow more important to fight editors on credible content and grey area "policy", than stamp out outright violators of it. Plenty of IP-based vandals and blank user profiles endlessly make destructive edits to Misplaced Pages, often going unnoticed and unchecked for months to years on end, yet some of you hold a greater focus on chastising users for reinstating credible information that lost previous citations. After all of this nonsense, I am done and will no longer put up with this petty bullshit. Good luck watching after all the crazies that mess up articles for kicks, as I am done repairing such issues and trying to fill in the blanks within this echo chamber.--Carmaker1 (talk) 00:52, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

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Car design dates

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, Misplaced Pages 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 21:17, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Vossanova, I feel like I've seen this name outside of Misplaced Pages, but maybe I am mistaking that for someone else. To the point, Robert Lutz in several sources stated that up until 2000, all design freezes during the 1990s were approved 36 months before Job 1, for cars released in the early-mid 2000s, this figure was solidly 30 months and 6-8 months before that was concept definition. Concept definition is where stylists and management settle on a look at 90%, at JLR we call Strategic Intent. This is the final design without complete engineering input and verification to be a manufacture-able design. The design freeze is essentially 99.9% the production model and at GM is called "Vehicle Production Intent". In my own experience, I have been instrumental in implementing design freezes on new models. Whether mid-cycle updates or full model changes. Usually between the two, it differs greatly. I have worried that the Lutz quote isn't too specific, so I have not really added it. All I just heard from him, is that it was the standard for all GM models. On the other end, I am supporting my own original research, but in the form of cited sources to ensure that I am not the only source of this information that exists on Misplaced Pages, if possible of course. By my own contacts and personal knowledge, I know when the designs for many models were set by the manufacturers. The problem in some cases is, lack of public access to it. In cases where no shred of public sources exist, I will gladly work with you to remove what proves to be contentious or work harder to find better public info. Development timelines by nature are very private business, so one is just not going to know such things very easily via basic news, because as an engineer I observe that most journalists are not attentive, skillful, or investigative enough to ask such questions. OEMs may or may not have issue answering these questions after the fact, provided the questions aren't too invasive or risky bet against competition bench-marking them. I am using Misplaced Pages to counteract poor misinformation from automotive magazines and media on how certain models were developed and designed, as often general automotive media make their own opinionated guesses that are misleading to the public. Like a car was designed just yesterday and not 5 years in advance, with final details at 2 years prior to launch. Or the false idea a concept car is developed for 6 months and then once shown at an auto show, it can be turned into a production in just 1 year and go on sale. Very false, as the engineering behind a car requires many months of design work and is more expensive than a one-off concept, needing significant lead time for manufacturing tooling and supplier involvement. For this reason, I am doing my best to provide in-depth information & timelines for development of each single car on Misplaced Pages. Only one user in User: Guiletheme, has so far taken an interest in doing so consistently and I wish for more people to join us, possibly exceeding our own capabilities in doing so. I want to provide a step-by-step encyclopedic description of each model's development, so that owners and curious readers, can understand the history behind a model and see Misplaced Pages as a unique source for this information. It is just a challenge to do so without running into WP: OR too often, when journalists are not doing the legwork and I have to learn this by other means.--Carmaker1 (talk) 04:07, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

October 2018

Hi Carmaker1. Having read over your responses to editors in the recent ANI thread regarding your behavior, I understand that you do not believe your communication manner through edit summaries, talk pages, or otherwise is problematic. Understand that there are expectations for how editors can and cannot interact with each other on this project, and that communications like this or this are needlessly aggressive, which has come up in some of your past interactions. I agree that quality control is important, and I can assure you it is entirely possible to do this well without being combative or writing excessively in your messages when it's not clearly necessary. Your experience with motor vehicles appears to be pretty extensive, and I see you've made a lot of important contributions to articles like Lexus LS and Infiniti G-series (Q40/Q60), so it's clear you have a lot to offer in this topic area. I hope you'll consider some ways to avoid these behaviors moving forward. I JethroBT 05:09, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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Jeff Teague

This is the source cited for "designer" in the infobox. Unless there's something wrong with the "Find" feature in my browser, there is no mention of Jeff Teague in it. I have reverted your misleading edit once again; if you re-add it, it will be obvious that you are doing it to be disruptive. --Sable232 (talk) 03:07, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

I only want hear from you on the talk pages of specific articles we edit and never on this talk page. I explicitly DO NOT want any correspondence with you on MY talk page, so don't post here again or will consider it harrassment. Article talk pages exist for a reason. This will be deleted soon enough.--Carmaker1 (talk) 05:18, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

1. https://www.adandp.media/articles/the-general's-direction-gm-execs-speak