User talk:JohnWMotors
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[edit] Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to W Motors, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 11:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Making edits to W Motors
[edit]If you post the changes you believe should be made to the W Motors article on its Talk page, I would be willing to make edits based on your information, especially if you have reliable sources to substantiate any statements of fact. One of my hobbies around here is helping out editors with a conflict of interest that prevents them from editing the page they're connected with directly. (See OREDA or Nahem Shoa for a couple of examples.) If the information you have is appropriate for Wikipedia and can be cited to reliable sources, I'll be happy to add it for you. When responding, please type "[[User:GrammarFascist|GrammarFascist]]" at the beginning of your comment, so that Wikipedia will notify me of your reply. —GrammarFascist (talk) 21:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- GrammarFascist
- Hello GrammarFascist,
- This is the text I wrote based on the company profile and press:
- Wikipedia Page
- W Motors was established back in 2012 as the first automotive manufacturer of high performance luxury sports cars based in the Middle East.
- Later next year, the Lykan HyperSport was revealed and since early it was understood as the most luxurious and technological advanced hypercar of his time. It was showcased around the world in private events and auto-shows in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Monaco, China and North America and featured in the blockbuster Furious 7. With plans for expansion, W Motors has already established a trustworthy distribution network around the world and has plans to introduce W Motors Concept Boutiques in Miami, Shanghai, Singapore and Dubai by 2016.
- Company
- It was in 2007 that Ralph R. Debbas had the idea to start an automotive company, but it was only on the 11th of July of 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon that the company was officially established and revealed to the public as the first Arab manufacturer of luxury sports cars.
- Still in 2012 the automotive company decided that would be better to move their headquarters to Dubai due to the instability felt at the time in Lebanon. After moving the headquarters, the company launched their first prototype, The Lykan HyperSport, at the Qatar Motor Show.
- In April 2014 the company presented the final production model of the Lykan SuperSports at the renowned Top Marques Monaco.
- Since then the company has established exclusive distribution agreements around the world with respected local dealers for Europe, Asia and Americas.
- In 2015 it is expected to present a new high performance sports car, the SuperSport.
- Sources tell the company has a bright future ahead with a significant pipeline of new cars to come in the following years, along with plans to build a supercar factory in the region, fulfilling the commitment of bringing the automotive manufacturing industry to Dubai
- The Cars
- Until September 2015 the company has offered only the Lykan HyperSport model, but it is expected to present the SuperSport model later this year. Rumours of an SUV model have also come up in the internet for the past few months.
- 2012 - Lykan HyperSport
- 2015 – SuperSport
- Auto Shows and events
- The company has attended a total of eight auto and boat shows throughout the world:
- January 2013 – Qatar International Motor Show
- February 2013 – Dubai International Boat Show
- November 2013 – Dubai International Motor Show
- April 2014 – Top Marques Monaco
- March 2015 – Dubai International Motor Show
- April 2015 – Shanghai International Motor Show
- August 2015 – Pebble Beach California
- Media Exposure
- Besides being featured in hundreds of print magazines, the cars from W Motors have had a prominent role in several video games and movies.
- Movies
- W Motors and the Lykan HyperSport have had their first debut on the big screen with the blockbuster Furious 7, from the Fast & Furious franchise.
- In the story, the car belonged to a billionaire prince that lived in a skyscraper in Abu Dhabi and kept the car in a safe as a work of art.
- W Motors created 7 replicas of the Lykan HyperSport to be used in the set of the movie with most of them being destroyed during the tapping.
- The car was featured on the official poster and shown at the press event in Beijing.
- Video Games
- The Lykan HyperSport has been featured in more than 10 different video games over most of the gaming platforms. The games where the car shows up include:
- - Asphalt 8 Airborne (Gameloft, 2013);
- - GTRacing 2 (Gameloft, 2014);
- - Drive Club (SCEA, 2014);
- - Project Cars (Bandai Namco Games, 2015)
- - Asphalt Overdrive (Gameloft, 2015);
- - Forza 6 (Microsoft, 2015).
- Commercials
- The Lykan HyperSport has already been featured in several commercials for Apple and Samsung as one of the playable cars in their video-games.
- Here are the sources I used to do it, if you don't want to use the previous text you can create something out of them.
- www.wmotors.ae - Official Website
- Gulf Business "W Motors, CEO Racing Ahead Middle East's Supercars' Business" - http://gulfbusiness.com/2015/09/w-motors-ceo-racing-ahead-middle-easts-supercars-business/
- Top Gear "Video: The 2£M Lykan HyperSport" - http://www.topgear.com/car-news/weird/video-%C2%A32m-lykan-hypersport
- Top Gear "The first world's first hypercar?" - http://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercar/arab-worlds-first-hypercar
- Motor Authority "W Motors Teams Up With Quimera To Develop Eco-Friendly Race Car" - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1096432_w-motors-teams-up-with-quimera-to-develop-eco-friendly-race-car
- Motor Authority "$3.4 Million Lykan Hypersport Up For Sale At Dubai Dealership" - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1017060_3-4-million-lykan-hypersport-up-for-sale-at-dubai-dealership
- Motor Authority "770-Horsepower Lykan Hypersport Set For 2014 Top Marques Monaco Debut" - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1091441_770-horsepower-lykan-hypersport-set-for-2014-top-marques-monaco-debut
- Motor Authority "First Look At Interior Of $3.4 Million W Motors Lykan Hypersport " - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1082297_first-look-at-interior-of-3-4-million-w-motors-lykan-hypersport
- Motor Authority "$3.4 Million Lykan Hypersport Debuts In Production Trim At Dubai Motor Show" - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1088275_3-4-million-lykan-hypersport-debuts-in-production-trim-at-dubai-motor-show
- Motor Authority "Fast And Furious Crew Show Love For The $3.4 Million Lykan Hypersport: Video" - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1097452_fast-and-furious-crew-show-love-for-the-3-4-million-lykan-hypersport-video
- Motor Authority "W Motors’ $3.4 Million Lykan Hypersport Takes To The Track: Video" - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1088551_w-motors-3-4-million-lykan-hypersport-takes-to-the-track-video
- Motor Authority "Lykan Hypersport Joins Abu Dhabi Police Fleet" - http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1098570_lykan-hypersport-joins-abu-dhabi-police-fleet
- Drive Arabia "W Motors Lykan HyperSport 2014 launched at Dubai Motor Show" - http://www.drivearabia.com/news/2013/11/12/lykan-hypersport-2014-launched-at-dubai-motor-show/
- Digital Trends "Look out, Bugatti. W Motors’s 770-hp Lykan Hypersport heads to Top Marques Monaco" - http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/w-motors-lykan-hypersport-set-top-marques-monaco-debut/#ixzz3lyURvfZ2
- CNN "A ride with diamond eyes: The first Arab supercar" - http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/30/autos/w-motors-first-arab-supercar/
- The National "Meet Ralph Debbas, the man behind Vin Diesel’s Furious 7 Lykan Hypersport" - http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/film/meet-ralph-debbas-the-man-behind-vin-diesels-furious-7-lykan-hypersport
- The National "The Fast and the Furious Etihad Towers stunt: can it be done?" - http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/film/the-fast-and-the-furious-etihad-towers-stunt-can-it-be-done#full
- Digital Trends "W Motors goes green with 1,000-plus hp Lykan Supersport HSF" - http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/w-motors-lykan-supersport-hsf-first-details-and-pictures/#ixzz3lyfEIehl
- Digital Trends "W Motors Teams Up With Quimera To Develop Eco-Friendly Race Car" - http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/abu-dhabi-police-adds-lykan-hypersport-pictures-specs-performance/
- Car News China "W Motors Lykan HyperSport launched on the Shanghai Auto Show" - http://www.carnewschina.com/2015/04/22/w-motors-lykan-hypersport-launched-on-the-shanghai-auto-show/
- 7 Days Newspaper "Supercar maker to open new facility", April 1st 2015
- 2015 Official Company Profile
- Also, tell me about any pictures that you need to ilustrate the article and I'll get them uploaded and post here the link and feel free to merge the Lykan HyperSport page with this one. JohnWMotors (talk) 08:06, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
- (moved response by JohnWMotors to bottom of page & added indenting)
- Thank you for all that information, JohnWMotors. I will get to work on the article later today (I'm on U.S. eastern time, so it's Thursday morning for me) or tomorrow. Please note that I will probably work on the article in several phases, so not all of the changes will happen at once. Also note that I will probably not include any information that I cannot cite to a reliable source, and that W Motors's own website or press releases are only reliable for such things as company mission statements or the identity of a CEO, not for things like sales numbers or achievements.
- Regarding images for use in the article, any image used on Wikipedia must be either in the public domain (e.g. photos taken over 100 years ago) or released under a Creative Commons license. A CC license means that the image is free for anyone to use for any purpose — it can't be a matter of the photo's owner giving special permission for Wikipedia to use the image. Your marketing and/or legal departments may be willing to release some images under the correct type of license, but it's possible that thay won't, since it would mean people could use the photo(s) in ways W Motors wouldn't like. I'll get back to you on what kinds of minages I think would improve the article.
- Also, I moved your response to me to just below my previous message, which is standard for Talk pages, and used colons : to indent what you had said. Indentation is used on Talk pages to make it clearer who is talking where. You must put a colon (or multiple colons for later replies) at the beginning of every paragraph or sub-heading for it to work properly. Since your response has one colon, my reply to you has two colons, and when you reply next you'll want to use three colons ::: at the beginning of every paragraph. You can always Preview your changes to make sure your response looks right before you Save the page. —GrammarFascist (talk) 15:19, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I think I've made a decent start on the page, though obviously it's still bare-bones in a few places. If your legal and marketing departments can agree to release a few images under a Creative Commons license as I explained about above, I think that, spoecifically, two good images to illustrate the Wikipedia article would be one photo each of the Lykan HyperSport and the Lykan SuperSport, taken from the same angle, to better illustrate the differences in design between the two models. If there are prototype images available for any of the other models in development, one of each of those would also be good. It's best not to clutter up Wikipedia articles with too many images, but I think two to five would be appropriate here... if, again, W Motors is willing to designate a few photos as being free for anyone to use.
- If you have any specific feedback about the article, don't be shy about saying it. Nobody's perfect, least of all me. If we disagree about article content, we'll talk it out until we reach consensus — that's how we do things at Wikipedia. (Oh, and I used the three colons, so you'll need four.) —GrammarFascist contribstalk 00:41, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
- GrammarFascist, thanks for the help, the page improved a lot. I count on you to keep improve it and I'll try to get the pictures released. Isn't it possible to use pictures already published under the CC rights somewhere else (Using the search engine on the Creative Commons website)? JohnWMotors (talk) 07:04, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
You're quite right that there were some images already on Commons that could be used in the article, and I have placed two of them. I do still think that a photo of a Lykan SuperSport would be good to have, and that having one photo each of the HyperSport and SuperSport, taken from the same angle, would be helpful to readers of the article. I understand that there are technical (and legal) considerations with W Motors making such photos available itself, though.
(On another note I have asked for assistance from another editor in modifying the section of the W Motors article specifically about the Lykan Hypersport, as I am not well-versed enough in auto specifications to know which ones should be included there versus being included on the HyperSport's separate article. Feel free to offer any suggestions.) —GrammarFascist contribstalk 16:04, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
- The supersport wasn't unveiled yet, once it does I will try to upload the picture GrammarFascist19:11, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
Recent edit to Lykan HyperSport
[edit] Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Lykan HyperSport, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 23:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Materialscientist I don't really know how to do that, if you can please use the following sources: This one says that the designers are Lebanese (Not Syrian, since Anthony is french and the reference is on the page already and the other designer is Ralph Debbas, the founder who is Lebanese): http://www.businessnews.com.lb/cms/Story/StoryDetails.aspx?ItemID=2657
And this one is about the Expansion to the US:
http://gtspirit.com/2015/08/14/black-lykan-hypersport-arrives-in-the-usa/ http://www.wmotors.ae/company/history (In the 2015 slider)
Overall you can see the W Motors Wikipedia page and confirm this.