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Units of measure

• Thanks for the edits to the Jeep Forward Control article to spell out the units of measurement. According to the MOS:NUM guidelines: "the main units may also be abbreviated in the main text after the first occurrence". Thus, there is no need to spell out units within the conversion template in the sentence directly following the one that has the first occurrence of "inches" in the main text of the article.
• Your addition of CID equivalency fir the engines in the Jeep Wagoneer article is a considerable effort. However, it would be simpler to use the automatic CID and L conversions formulas, as well as the other auto-specific templates that are available here Category:Automotive conversion templates. I went ahead and updated the engine information.

Thanks — CZmarlin (talk) 02:40, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Inches are the only one I'm personally not comfortable with abbreviating in the text of a sentence, but I guess it's just me personally so I'll leave them alone in the future. Yes, I did find the conversion templates and they are useful. Thanks WHATaintNOcountryIeverHEARDofDOtheySPEAKenglishINwhat (talk) 17:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

redlinks and interwiki

For the edits you made on D. B. Cooper please note:

• WP:REDLINKS are okay; they need not be removed
• An interwiki link is not a simple wikilink, as you noted, but a link to another language Wikipedia, or one of the sister projects such as wikibooks, wikisource, wiktionary, etc. —EncMstr (talk) 20:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Auto article edits

Greetings. Some of the edits you've been making recently are problematic, because they're not in accord with the content and format standards we adhere to in the auto project. For example, please stop changing engine displacements from in³ to CID. Per applicable convention, the correct unit is in³. Per the same convention, we express an engine's displacement in cubic inches only if the engine was originally so engineered and marketed. Please read the linked convention, which contains helpful usage notes and links to work-saving templates you might not be aware of.

Also, while your augmentation of the engine data in several articles' infoboxes is certainly unique and well formatted, it is also out of accord with the consensus on what does and doesn't go in the infobox. We don't try to present detailed engine specifications in the infobox, because trying to do so crams the infoboxes with too much content — even with hidden tabs — and such details are best and most easily presented in the article text itself. We don't include fuel economy information in the infobox, because of the plethora of different fuel economy rating systems (and even if we did include fuel economy, it wouldn't be an engine parameter — engines don't get any particular fuel economy, vehicles do). The automobile infobox template page contains helpful guidelines on how best to use each field in the infobox.

Please keep in mind that Wikipedia is a coöperative, consensus-based project, and avoid changing the content and/or format of articles in a manner that goes against the conventions developed through the evolving consensus. Of course, everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in the consensus-building process — including you — so if you feel the provisions of a convention are somehow in error, by all means speak up about it. First check to see if the matter you have in mind is already under discussion, and if not, go ahead and open the topic on the relevant talk page.

Thanks for editing coöperatively. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 14:54, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:47, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:24, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

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Where was this photo taken? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:51, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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