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Rusty
post Feb 8 2007, 02:57 AM
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Folks, here's the deal. As best as we can, we've been trying to ensure that the Porsche 914 entry at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_914) has been kept fairly neutral.

Lately, several someones, including a person with the user ID Greg Treadway, have been going in and changing a lot of the links. I'm not accusing Greg, just mentioning that is the user ID on the logs.

In the last day, someone again deleted the links to ClubNARP and 914World... and but left the 914Club link in place (with the 914World tagline attached). I put it back the way it was, and to be fair, left 914club.com link there.

We're all trying to live in peace, so this kind of vandalism and editorialism is uncalled for. It puts our community in poor light. If you happen to think of it, would you mind checking in on the Wiki entry from time to time and see if someone has vandalized it? Check the actual links, not just the text, as some stuff can be hidden.

If you do decide to do some editing on the Wikipedia page, please create a login and use it. That way we can see who is posting what. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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post Feb 8 2007, 03:18 AM
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QUOTE(Lawrence @ Feb 8 2007, 12:57 AM) *


In the last day, someone again deleted the links to ClubNARP and 914World... and but left the 914Club link in place (with the 914World tagline attached).
thanks,
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Oh there is a surprize, its a real shame that some people never grow up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Feb 8 2007, 05:31 AM
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post Feb 8 2007, 10:06 AM
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What's a Wikipedia? Guess you can tell by the question it wasn't me making changes. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Feb 8 2007, 10:14 AM
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Its called


WIKILOBBYING


an unfortuneate but accepted form of advertising.
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post Feb 8 2007, 11:35 AM
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914/6 models used a similar suspension and brakes to the 911, giving the car handling and braking superiority over the 4-cylinder Volkswagen models in addition to higher power output


Is this accurate? I know the brakes were different, but I thought that is the extent of the difference.
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post Feb 8 2007, 11:36 AM
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wiki pedia is amazing. thats what it is.


acutally its a free encyclopedia open to all to edit and stuff. but its pretty slick how they can catch fake stuff. go ahead and try it on something random.

in like 5 min itll be gone already!
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post Feb 8 2007, 11:56 AM
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How about you don't vandalize wikipedia to see how good a job they do of removing your vandalism.... Thats about the same as tagging your neighbors house to see how quick he cleans it off.... not exactly a nice thing to do.

Playing games with Wikipedia is so fucking infantile.. I wish people would grow up.
If you want to see how good wikipedia's content control is - find a topic that hasn't been written about and write an original article for it, and then see how quickly it gets improved. I have an article out there (Pilot Fish of all things) which got significantly better since I wrote it originally - it's really cool what collaboration can achieve.

Unfortunately - some 914 clubs clearly don't believe in collaboration.
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post Feb 8 2007, 12:00 PM
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Is this accurate? I know the brakes were different, but I thought that is the extent of the difference.


No. Having owned a factory six and building another, I can't see how the handling is superior. My factory six came with no swaybars. Handling was god aweful.
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post Feb 8 2007, 12:02 PM
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Right now someone has the club link pointed to the world...

C'mon guys... Play nice
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post Feb 8 2007, 12:04 PM
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You must be looking at an older cached version.

I went through the links last night and again moments ago. They're clean.
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post Feb 8 2007, 12:04 PM
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fix it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Feb 8 2007, 12:17 PM
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You must be looking at an older cached version.

I went through the links last night and again moments ago. They're clean.



Strange, never been to the wikipedia before, but my computer had a cached page...
You are correct, everything looks ok now.

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fix it.


I'm a bit extreeme in my thoughts on the 914, and not sure i should be speaking on behalf of the car, or the communities. Might end up w/ everyone looking at brand new subarus and thinking... DONOR!!! Which will drive motor prices up, which I cant afford right now. LOL
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post Feb 8 2007, 01:11 PM
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I noticed that *right* after the 914clubsite was changed and the "world" site emerged, the link on Wiki was pointing to "world" as if it were "the" 914 site with no mention of 914club.com at all.

This is old news, vandals.


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post Feb 8 2007, 02:21 PM
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Personally, I think I'll link them all to the X1/9 Club .... then only Aaron would be pissed.

Club vs World vs Narp vs ??? What a pile of shit ...the war is over ....the battles have been lost ... there are a few that need to get a life.
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post Feb 8 2007, 02:39 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) with her... just put them all up there, leave them alone and (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stfu.gif)
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post Feb 8 2007, 02:39 PM
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doesnt he work for Automobile Atlanta... I am sure he is the same guy that sold me three "new" rusty dirty seatbelt latches....
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post Feb 8 2007, 02:55 PM
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doesnt he work for Automobile Atlanta...


used too, know runs his own thing... GTPerformance, who magically are linked too from Wiki...Hmmm....
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post Feb 9 2007, 08:29 AM
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I don't like that guy....

If I ever meet him... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/alfred.gif)
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post Feb 9 2007, 05:20 PM
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Oh come on now! Stop fuchin' with the Wiki page and leave it alone!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

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