User talk:AmericanTaurusDriver

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles as you apparently did to Cadillac DTS. Please cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. --Sable232 (talk) 20:31, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I did site a reliable source. I don't know who you are, but you do not run this site. This is a cite open for editing. As long as i have a reference, you shouldn't touch it. I put time and reserach into my edits only for you to undo all of them!

The source explicitly states: "It remains to be seen if GM will offer will offer the DTS with another powertrain or will send it to the automotive graveyard along with the Northstar." Yet, you used that source to claim that GM was going to drop the DTS. That is deliberately misleading. Wikipedia is not a place for you to publish your speculation and theories. If you're looking for that I suggest you try here. --Sable232 (talk) 22:11, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I said the DTS may be dropped due to the cancellation of the Northstar engine. Yes, i shouldn't have messed with the production date, but you could have left the other information there. I have been editing on Wikipedia for over three years so i know how this site works. AmericanTaurusDriver (talk) 01:11, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page etiquette

If you need to leave a message for someone, do so by editing their talk page, not their user page like you did with this edit. If you do so on their talk page, they'll get a new message notice, but they won't if you edit their user page. Additionally, editing a user's page, while allowed, is generally frowned upon. On last thing, sign your posts by typing ~~~~ (four tildes) after your post. That will insert your name, a link to your user page and the date and time of your post. Imzadi 1979 → 22:10, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:AmericanTaurusDriver

User:AmericanTaurusDriver, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AmericanTaurusDriver and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:AmericanTaurusDriver during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. E Wing (talk) 08:13, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page

What happened to "IF IT HELPS I WILL NO LONGER BE EDITING THIS AFTER JUNE 12TH 2010."? 69.181.249.92 (talk) 17:05, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey this is my user page and i will do what i want with it. I already expressed im using it for editing practice so leave it alone. Thank you. AmericanTaurusDriver (talk) 17:09, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Continued speculative editing

Nowhere in that article is it stated that the loss of the Northstar will result in the Lucerne losing its V8 option; they could very well use the GM small-block. Please stop treating your personal speculation as fact.

By the way, if you're going to undo someone's removal of unsourced material and then add a source to it, you might not want to use the standard "undo" edit summary. As it was it looked like you'd just reverted it without attempting to address the issue at all. --Sable232 (talk) 23:03, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I said it MAY lose its V8 option. I make so many contributions to automobile articles on this website and one mistake and you remove it and send strongly worded messages instead of cleaning it up. You could have kept what i put but then said GM's small block could replace it but no official announcement has been made. I mean come on, on the Cadillac STS it states that the STS loses its V8 option and we have no idea if it will be replaced or not. Take this piece of advice. You need to treat users better and be more reasonable. AmericanTaurusDriver (talk) 00:48, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to be reasonable but you have shown a constant disregard for core Wikipedia policies. No, I can't add to the article "it might get GM's small-block" because that is my speculation, not a fact attributed to a reliable source.

I'll try to make this as clear as possible. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. I suggest you read over Wikipedia:No original research and understand it. --Sable232 (talk) 01:20, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have read over it. But we know that the Northstar engine is ending production in July. So it only makes sense that it would lose its V8 replacement or not. So we should inform people looking for information on the Lucerne that the V8 may not be offered after 2011 model year. I know how this site works. I have been editing here since 2007. And i have done much work expanding articles during the last month under my new username. AmericanTaurusDriver (talk) 01:26, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Honda Civic (ninth generation)

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Lexus template

As a recently involved editor on the Template:Lexus if you'd like please add your opinion about the recent edits. See discussion Template_talk:Lexus#Years. Thanks Afghanihomi (talk) 16:42, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GMC Jimmy (S-15)

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December 2010

I've placed {{db-author}} on GMC Jimmy (S-15) per your request on its talk page to have it deleted.

Also, is Special:Contributions/BetsyBlazer (whose only edits have been to your user page) an alternate account, someone you know, or a troll trying to harass you? --Sable232 (talk) 03:28, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Its an alternate one. Its named after my Blazer. AmericanTaurusDriver (talk) 03:52, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, you should note that on both user pages as outlined here. --Sable232 (talk) 05:53, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll make note to do that. Thanks. AmericanTaurusDriver (talk) 05:57, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notice on your user page

Hi,

I added a brief notice to your user page making clearer that it was not a real article.

To be honest, this is verging on fake article territory (even if it wasn't meant to mislead) and isn't what user pages are for. Wikipedia is generally quite lenient about personal content on user pages by legitimate contributors, but to claim that this massive pseudo-article is "practice" at editing is stretching things, especially as you don't appear to have edited anything actual articles in the past couple of years!

I'm not going to push for this to be deleted at the present time, as the previous nomination for deletion was withdrawn (rather than rejected), but please leave the notice in place so it's not mistaken for an article (nor indexed by Google).

I notice that you also edited User:Musiqfreak, and looking at the fictitious content there, I assume that is another account of yours?

I've nothing against users having more than one account (it's perfectly reasonable as long as it's not misused for sockpuppet purposes). However, that account has *only* been used for out-of-scope purposes, i.e. it hasn't been used to contribute to Wikipedia itself at all. Despite your comments about these pages being a "hobby" and "expressing your opinion", and despite its tolerance for personal content on users' pages, Wikipedia does *not* exist to provide personal webspace, so perhaps it would be better to host that page elsewhere.

Ubcule (talk) 23:42, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:AmericanTaurusDriver

User:AmericanTaurusDriver, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AmericanTaurusDriver (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:AmericanTaurusDriver during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 09:31, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of User:AmericanTaurusDriver

User:AmericanTaurusDriver, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AmericanTaurusDriver (3rd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:AmericanTaurusDriver during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 01:50, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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