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Development of Electronics for GM Auto Racing

The changes you have made are very good, however this section of General Motors is still considered "Unsourced", as it doesnt provide references to external resources like magazines, journals, newspapers, etc. We need "reliable sources" for all facts and figures. John Vandenberg (talk) 04:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Before uploading images, you need to be sure that they are happy to either release the images into the public domain, or license under an acceptable free content license, i.e. either GFDL or Creative Commons. John Vandenberg (talk) 09:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the {{unsourced}} tag, as you are making good progress. John Vandenberg (talk) 03:50, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks good. The one obvious problem is that it has too many links in it - we typically only link to a different article once. i.e. only the first appearance of the term "Delco Electronics" should be linked; subsequent mentions dont need to be linked.

Maybe you are interested in starting a new article now; perhaps "BorgWarner Schwitzer award"? John Vandenberg (talk) 11:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a "redirect" at BorgWarner Schwitzer award, so that it takes the reader to the right article. John Vandenberg (talk) 00:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated Vehicle bus so that it shows the references. John Vandenberg (talk) 04:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've reduced the size of the images, despite your desires, as Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images overrules editor preferences. High res images are great! Readers can click on the thumbnail and see it in detail. John Vandenberg (talk) 04:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I moved this section out from the main General Motors article. The main GM article is long enough as is. It is now in its own article at Development of electronics for GM auto racing. Polpo (talk) 23:18, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the entire text for this section was copied from an official GM wiki. Not good! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polpo (talk • contribs) 04:26, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, after looking up your ham callsign, it looks like you're the original author of the article on GMNext.com. This means that it's not copyright violation. Apologies for the accusation. I'll try to get things cleared up. Polpo (talk) 04:32, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, it looks like the copyright status for your contributions for the Development of electronics for GM auto racing article are still under question due to conflicting copyright messages on the gmnext.com wiki. Hopefully you can shed some light at the talk page for the article or rewrite it. Polpo (talk) 17:15, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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