Wikipedia police!! HAHAHAHA!!
11-24-2006, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by White968
While I have no problem with you adding the link, Steve is a well known national auto crosser and has an awesome 968. He is a very nice guy and very helpful to the other racers in B Stock and is technically correct that there is no official S3 
I hope he has continued success autocrossing his 968.
11-24-2006, 11:03 PM
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Sorry Matt, I gotta side with Stephen on this one.
The 944S3 was the factory intended designation for the 968. End of story. What we call our bastard home brew modded cars is irrelevant to wikipedia. (Mine is rebadged "turbo RS")
Wikipedia is supposed to be as factual as possible. Inserting non-relevent links is misleading and defeats the purpose of the site. Linking S3 your 968-engined 944 would only confuse people.
HOWEVER, it would be acceptable to add your site to the bottom list of external links. edit: which I see has been done.
It's too bad Stephen came across as a ***** to you. He's really one of the nicest 944 guys I ever met. Gave me a screeeeaming deal on an '87 951.
The 944S3 was the factory intended designation for the 968. End of story. What we call our bastard home brew modded cars is irrelevant to wikipedia. (Mine is rebadged "turbo RS")
Wikipedia is supposed to be as factual as possible. Inserting non-relevent links is misleading and defeats the purpose of the site. Linking S3 your 968-engined 944 would only confuse people.
HOWEVER, it would be acceptable to add your site to the bottom list of external links. edit: which I see has been done.
It's too bad Stephen came across as a ***** to you. He's really one of the nicest 944 guys I ever met. Gave me a screeeeaming deal on an '87 951.
11-25-2006, 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Rich Sandor
Sorry Matt, I gotta side with Stephen on this one.
HOWEVER, it would be acceptable to add your site to the bottom list of external links. edit: which I see has been done.
It's too bad Stephen came across as a ***** to you. He's really one of the nicest 944 guys I ever met. Gave me a screeeeaming deal on an '87 951.
HOWEVER, it would be acceptable to add your site to the bottom list of external links. edit: which I see has been done.
It's too bad Stephen came across as a ***** to you. He's really one of the nicest 944 guys I ever met. Gave me a screeeeaming deal on an '87 951.
I'm sure Stephen is a great guy. This whole thing was just comical which is why I originally posted it.
Funny side note: search google for "944 s3" and the first two links listed are very ironic.
11-25-2006, 01:12 AM
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On the bright side, we can be happy that Stephen has taken stewardship of the 968 section of wikipedia, and we can be pretty sure that it will remain accurate for a while at least.
11-25-2006, 02:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Rich Sandor
It's too bad Stephen came across as a ***** to you. He's really one of the nicest 944 guys I ever met. Gave me a screeeeaming deal on an '87 951.
11-25-2006, 04:13 AM
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Matt, I'm going to repost the response I posted on Wikipedia. If you don't agree with me, fine, but your comment on my Wikipedia user page and your post here demonstrate that you don't understand the reason why I deleted your link in the first place.
Please note also that I've deleted your link at least three times, and was quite polite about it initially.
Go ahead and flame me if you want. I'm trying to maintain Wikipedia's quality standards, and with all due respect, I don't believe including your link in the body of the 968 article is consistent with said standards.
The peanut gallery may be interest in seeing whose opinion the Wikipedia crowd favors (at the time of my posting this, no one has yet weighed in): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Porsche_968
Sigh. No one's contending that your website isn't cool or informative -- it's clearly both. You seem to have missed the entire point of my objection, which is that, while cool, your site's not particularly relevant to the 968. A user looking for more information on the 968 will get no such information from your site. For that reason, while your site may be relevant to a Wikipedia article about engine swaps, or maybe even the 944 if you stretch the term "relevant", in my opinion it's irrelevant to the 968 article, and I have flagged it as such.
Please have the maturity to allow this dispute to be resolved via Wikipedia's defined mechanisms.
Please have the maturity to allow this dispute to be resolved via Wikipedia's defined mechanisms.
Go ahead and flame me if you want. I'm trying to maintain Wikipedia's quality standards, and with all due respect, I don't believe including your link in the body of the 968 article is consistent with said standards.
The peanut gallery may be interest in seeing whose opinion the Wikipedia crowd favors (at the time of my posting this, no one has yet weighed in): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Porsche_968
11-25-2006, 04:41 AM
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guys guys guys..
just leave the 944s3.com link in the external/related links section and be done with it.. no harm no foul
Props to Stephen for putting the effort into the wiki article, we don't want all kinds of fools adding questionable material to the page!
just leave the 944s3.com link in the external/related links section and be done with it.. no harm no foul
Props to Stephen for putting the effort into the wiki article, we don't want all kinds of fools adding questionable material to the page!
11-25-2006, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Rich Sandor
guys guys guys..
just leave the 944s3.com link in the external/related links section and be done with it.. no harm no foul
Props to Stephen for putting the effort into the wiki article, we don't want all kinds of fools adding questionable material to the page!
just leave the 944s3.com link in the external/related links section and be done with it.. no harm no foul
Props to Stephen for putting the effort into the wiki article, we don't want all kinds of fools adding questionable material to the page!
The next step is to lock the page so no one, fools or otherwise, can add to it.
It's gotta be tough to keep adolescents, young and otherwise, from screwing up Wikipedia just for their jollies.
11-25-2006, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by PedalFaster
Matt, I'm going to repost the response I posted on Wikipedia. If you don't agree with me, fine, but your comment on my Wikipedia user page and your post here demonstrate that you don't understand the reason why I deleted your link in the first place.
Please note also that I've deleted your link at least three times, and was quite polite about it initially.
Go ahead and flame me if you want. I'm trying to maintain Wikipedia's quality standards, and with all due respect, I don't believe including your link in the body of the 968 article is consistent with said standards.
The peanut gallery may be interest in seeing whose opinion the Wikipedia crowd favors (at the time of my posting this, no one has yet weighed in): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Porsche_968
Please note also that I've deleted your link at least three times, and was quite polite about it initially.
Go ahead and flame me if you want. I'm trying to maintain Wikipedia's quality standards, and with all due respect, I don't believe including your link in the body of the 968 article is consistent with said standards.
The peanut gallery may be interest in seeing whose opinion the Wikipedia crowd favors (at the time of my posting this, no one has yet weighed in): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Porsche_968
By the way, if there was an initial message about this that I didn't get from you and this entire thing is a product of miscommunication, no big deal. And "flame" you?? Not exactly. Responding on the wiki page and then this entire thing is over. It was a good laugh, but it's sort of dragged. Thanks for editing the Wikipedia 968 page, you're doing a good job.