User talk:NaBUru38

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello NaBUru38, and Willkommen! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like being a wiki editor and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] FSI

I read your changes on FSI. If you do a google search for fuel straight injection it does come up with this as the first result. Audi and volkswagen use the same engines in their cars. I put the fuel straight injection on there as my father who works for volkswagen told me that was wrong, and FSI stands for Fuel Staight Injection not Stratified.

Please write back. -- Bearingbreaker92 23:19, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

As I wrote in the edit, if you search "Fuel Stratified Injection" in Google you will get over 17,000 answers, while "Fuel Straight Injection" returns only 3,000. But I did find a more "official" piece of information: this British VW website clearly says Stratified. The FSI page doesn't explain the meaning of the acronym. Because of these two clues, I guess Fuel Stratified Injection is the correct term. -- NaBUru38 23:01, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Join our project

Hello there, I noticed you are Uruguayan. Would you happen to be interested in joining the Uruguay Project? It's a project meant to expand and organize all Uruguay-related pages, and since we are a little short of people, we could certainly use your help. Wesborland 02:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent "minor fixes"

If you're changing HTML to Unicode that's a good thing. However, I think you might be using the wrong separator; see dash for the difference between an en-dash and an em-dash. In my browser, the dash you're using looks too big to be the en-dash. --DeLarge 22:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I didn't research on the use of hyphens and dashes, it's just that when I found the huge dash in the Insert tab of the Edit page, I started to modify year ranges when I made changes to infoboxes. But it seems that you're right, so let's end this here. Thanks for the comment! NaBUru38 20:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Volvo Cars timeline

Why did you replace the wording "large family car" with "compact executive car" in the Volvo Cars timeline? I didnt revert it because I want to hear your reason for doing so. --Dahlis 23:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Unlike other European luxury car manufacturers, Volvo reduced the size of some of its models during the 1990s. The 760, 960 and S80 were more or less in the very same as the 5 Series, E-Class and other executive cars, between 4800 and 4900 mm long among other characteristics. The 850 was smaller then them, but larger than the C-Class, A4 and 3 Series. Later, the S60 shrunk and now clearly stands as a compact executive car, with similar size and pricing as those German rivals. The S40 was born slightly smaller than them, but the current generation is actually 100 mm smaller than the first one. The C30 is basically the same car, and its rivals are all hatchbacks: BMW 1 Series, Audi A3... As it is alone in the market, there are rumours of sedan versons of those two models.
The S60 is not as luxurious as the Germans, but it is in the same luxury/price range as the Alfa 159, Saab 9-3, Cadillac BLS and similar models, which I consider also compact executive cars. That's what I think... now I'd love to hear your thoughts! -- NaBUru38 15:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Well im Swedish and I see these cars every day, the Volvo V70 is the most sold car in Sweden and has been so for many years. Except for the S80 and the earlier 960/S90 i dont see these cars as luxurious or executive cars they are standard family cars driven by normal people.
The size difference isnt really that large the 850 replaced the 240 and its only 30 mm shorter, the larger 700/900 series were replaced by the S80/V70 and the S80 is only 80 mm shorter than the last generation 940. The S40 replaced the earlier 400 series and is actually larger than the models it replaced. --Dahlis 16:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
All of the stuff about executive cars sounds like original research. Do you have an external source to support you, NaBUru? A reliable source (EuroNCAP) specifically refers to the S60 as a "large family car".[1]

[edit] Chrysler Timeline

The Chrysler timeline you edited is for the North American market only. If you would like to, you can create a separate template for the European market. --Jnelson09 23:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your comment

I'd appreciate your comment. I'm new on Wikipedia and I may not use standard techniques of edit pages. Next time I'll follow your advise. Bye, Gaemon

[edit] Civic

Alright, I started work on teh Civic article. I have somethings planned today, so my revamp will be off and on. If {{underconstruction}} is on the page, I am not able to continue my revamp at the time, and if {{inuse}} is on teh page, I am coninuing my revamp. Happy editing! Karrmann 15:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SUV --> sport utility vehicle

Please note that redirects are a feature, not a bug: Wikipedia:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. "In particular, there should never be a need to replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]]." So [[SUV]] --> [[Sport utility vehicle|SUV]] is undesirable, especially on {{Mercury Timeline}}, which has knock on effects on the cache and increases the server load by an order of magnitude (see High-risk templates#Rationale). Regards, --DeLarge 21:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I did already know that policy, but I still have some doubts on some aspects. Your Mercury template is good to point what I did, but there are other examples with different characteristics. In this edit I made other significant changes, like the Tnavbar, so I took the chance to make other minor fixes, like new style code and redirect fixes. My question is: if I'm editing a page, can I use the chance to make these kind of fixes? -- NaBUru38 16:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
It's irrelevant whether or not you're making other edits. Changing links to redirect pages is not "fixing" them. As already quoted, "there should never be a need to replace [[redirect]] with [[target|redirect]]." Redirects are a feature, not a bug. It is considered more transparent and intuitive, especially to casual editors, for them to be able to type [[SUV]] and create a link to Sport utility vehicle via a redirect than it is to pipe the link and go directly. --DeLarge 21:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent edits

Please undo your multiple wikilinks to turbodiesel. By wikipedia standards, only the first use of a word in body text is to be linked. Thank you, Leonard G. 16:25, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I had read in a guideline that if an article is very long, there could be more links to a same page (sadly I can't find it, so I can't proof it). "Diesel engine" is really long (around 68kB), so I left two links, one in the beginning and onew towards the end. I hope that helps. -- NaBUru38 16:42, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
The page you are thinking of is Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links). --DeLarge 21:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Think you can fix the infoboxes on the Cadillac SRX and Buick LaCrosse pages? -- Bull-Doser 19:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
To fix what? The links?, which links? Sorry, if you are more precise I'll answer you. -- NaBUru38 17:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Those pages need cleanups, with the infoboxes, however. You can also fix the Chevrolet Malibu. I wasn't saying about turbodiesel. -- Bull-Doser 18:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plymouth Timeline

I don't know what you did, and what was so awful about the template(let's no go there), but all I know is that after you made changes to this template, there's a visible seem on both sides of the "sports" category, and it wasn't there before. You should always preview your work before you edit and artiicle or especially a template. I want you to try to fix it, because I don't have time to sit around and read through the entire edit page to find your mistake. Bavaria 11:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I fixed your problem, just try not to let it happen again. Bavaria 11:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

It's no big deal, it's just there were only the separators on either side of the sports cars and nowhere else. It just looked out of place. Bavaria 11:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox solutions and stuff

Thanks for your message. I have actually typed a reply and managed to get it erased with a stupid click, so here I go again - excuse me for being a tad brief this time.

I went to the Spanish Wikipedia and saw the other Infobox arrangement, and I am afraid I am not that impressed - to me it is a bit too clumsy and hard to make out... I was actually thinking of having them put side by side in columns (within the infobox width) - field descriptions (height, width etc.) in the first row, then measurements, and perhaps an extra row for imperials. I am afraid I am not that well-versed in wikitables to offer you an example, but I hope you got what I mean. A second solution, which actually does not preclude the first, would be to have the specs part of the infobox collapsible (using the show/hide function and hidden by default).

As concerns engine data, I am afraid those do not work too well in prose - it provides for a rather boring paragraph where the actual data are hard to make out. Being tech data essentially, those are better presented in some form of a table or list - I guess it would be good to devise a neat standard for those, as I guess we have to include those in articles anyway and taking them out of the infobox would help shed its "weight". I'd put it up to discussion at the WikiProject, but I am afraid folks there are preoccupied by the absolutely most demanding topic of blanking out license plate numbers... PrinceGloria 15:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I think the magic word in Wikicode is "colspan" - make all columns "colspan=3" (or 4) and only the rows with dimensions would use the colums. I once saw a template that somehow used some "sections" to get around the need to place colspan in every line, but I can't recall which one it was. I guess rather than fiddle with Paint (unless you really want to), you could ask at some WikiArtist noticeboard (I've heard there is one, I forgot the actual address) to help you (or, actually, us as a WikiProject) with coding that! PrinceGloria 17:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chevrolet HHR

The article is messed up there. Can you please make fixes in the infobox and add SI units, plus add it to the "Compact SUVs" category? -- Bull-Doser 21:55, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Done! -- NaBUru38 15:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry to butt in, but how is HHR an SUV? It's a compact minivan, just like the PT Cruiser! PrinceGloria 16:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, IIRC the Focus C-Max or the Altea don't have much more interior flexibility beyond a split-fold rear seat, and I believe the HHR and PT have the same. That said, I realize that compact minivan/MPV is a primarily European classification, so perhaps we can state they are "compact models" (to avoid calling them "cars" as I believe they are legally "trucks" in the US). PrinceGloria 17:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links

I have read your message about links, and I have taken your advice.SenatorsTalk | Contribs 01:24, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Plymouth GTX

Can you please make infobox fixes on the Plymouth GTX page, please? Do not do the Cimarron. -- Bull-Doser 17:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Auto in/mm

Auto in: {{auto in|(Dimension)|0}}

Auto mm: {{auto mm|(Dimension)|0}}

As for converting imperial/metric dimensions, here's this new system you should use! Auto in/auto mm! You should start testing it on one of your edits. Like the Ford Escape Hybrid page is missing some metric dimensions. -- Bull-Doser 00:10, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Children of Men citations

Remember that the citations you are looking for must directly speak about both the cars and the film - a lot of people have trouble grasping that caveat at times - I did when I first started. If you find something that says that the Peugot only has 2 doors (or whatnot) but not how this car was used in the film, and cite it in the article, it will very likely be removed as OR by synthesis. If you find a citation, you can run it past me if you want. Clearly, you have a vast knowledge of cars - something I just as clearly do not have, and I am sure you have lots to contribute to the project. i don't want you to get discouraged if your hard work gets reverted right away. Let me know how I can help. :) - Arcayne (cast a spell) 20:15, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of List of recent automobile models by type

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Modern North American Honda vehicles

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:29, 12 February 2008 (UTC)