User talk:Therock9998

Australian motorsport articles[edit]

You were blocked from editting for a reason you know. Please stop deleting information from these articles - especially sourced information with citations.

If you talk to us about what you are trying to achieve we might be able to help you. --Falcadore (talk) 01:53, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All of your posts have removed cited information and stuffed up formating. Therefore have had to be reversed. Please heed the advice above. V7867 (talk) 08:23, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop breaking links[edit]

The reason a race team might look like [Gibson Motor Sport|Peter Jackson Nissan Racing] is part of the coding of how wikipedia works. It allows for a link to the article Gibson Motor Sport while displaying text the says something else entirely. Please stop breaking these links. Blue text is a correctly functioning link. Red text indicates the link is broken. Please stop breaking those links. --Falcadore (talk) 00:25, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

By changing team names as you are you are breaking links to articles about these race teams or in some cases sending them to the wrong team article. There have been around eight different race teams called Supercheap Auto Racing for example. So the article (if you read it) does not contain any race team information.

Also, the column in the chart you are changing is the race team. You are changing the team name to the ENTRANT name which is something completely different.

In short - they are not listed wrongly, you don't know the difference between Team and Entrant. --Falcadore (talk) 00:50, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am not going to back off if you insist on breaking Wikipedia's functionality just because you don't understand terminoloogy.

It also helps if you can spell. Sponsor, not sponser.

Teams are listed as they are so they correctly link to articles about the racing teams. You change it to sponsor names then it does not work.

I state it again, Red Bull Racing Australia is not the team name, it is the entrant name. Lockwood Racing and BOC Gases Racing are both entrant names but cars #8 and #14 are part of the same team, Brad Jones Racing, and this is why V8 teams are listed by team name, not entrant name, because otherwise it is not easily apparent who are team mates.

Wikipedia has been around for over a decade. We've not invented the way we do things without careful thought and this issue has been debated before and this was the course of action decided. --Falcadore (talk) 00:57, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you expect me to clean up the hideous mess you've just created in [1979 Australian Touring Car Championship]? What are you trying to do? If you explain it we might be able to stop you making these mistakes. --Falcadore (talk) 01:29, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To add to the above, it doesn't matter how knowledgeable on a subject an editor is, or the value of a contribution, if contributions breaks existing formatting or override existing conventions they are likely to continue to be reversed. If your contributions are to stand, you will need to engage with other editors to gain a consensus to make the changes proposed.

The convention is to use the teams traditional name to maintain consistency. For example, Dick Johnson Racing is used not Palmer Tube Mills Racing, Shell Racing, Shell-FAI Racing, Westpoint Racing, First Rock Racing, Jim Beam Racing or Wilson Security Racing. V7867 (talk) 01:37, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Again can you please stop breaking links. Teams are referred to by their official name, rather than the particular commercial name they may have operated under in a given season. V7867 (talk) 07:31, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Table formatting[edit]

Why do you keep deleting the bracket at the end of the table coding? The |} bit. Just want to know why you keep deleting it. Does it offend you? --Falcadore (talk) 01:41, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war warning[edit]

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work, whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time, counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring even if you don't violate the three-revert rule should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. V7867 (talk) 01:51, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Masterton - serious question[edit]

Are you sure he raced with #2 on his Ford Capri in the early part of 1982? I can't recall ever seeing a photo of the Capri with #2 on it. If you've just guessed #2 based on him running #2 on his Falcon later in the year then that needs to be removed because we don't do guesses. --Falcadore (talk) 02:56, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting issues[edit]

In the 1980 Australian Touring Car Championship article, your most recent posts have again introduced formatting problems with the columns out of allignment. May I suggest clicking on the 'Show preview' button and reviewing before saving, to check that edits have not broken the structure of the table. An alternative is to refine an article in your sandbox. You may get an editor who will come up and clean up a mess you make, but more likely they will just reverse. V7867 (talk) 05:42, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Preview your edits please[edit]

If you look underneath the editting window in Wikipedia you will see three grey buttons. Save page, Show preview and Show changes. When you have made the changes you want to make, hit the Show preview button. If it breaks the table, do not save those edits. Ask for help to achieve what you want. If you talk to us we won't bite. --Falcadore (talk) 08:16, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion[edit]

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. --Falcadore (talk) 09:23, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1980 Hang Ten 400‎[edit]

I've just read what you changed at 1980 Hang Ten 400‎. It's fiction! No one has ever been classified 32nd in a motor race by crashing out after seven laps. Why would you make up blatant lies like that? I'm done. Explain you actions to the administrators. --Falcadore (talk) 09:45, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

July 2014[edit]

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Piped links on ATCC pages[edit]

Please stop removing the piped links on the ATCC team and driver tables. They are there for a reason. Thank you. ^Kytabu _Talk 13:03, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

July 2014[edit]

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V8 Supercars[edit]

Can you please stop reducing Wikipedia's functionality for no reason and work with other edittors? --Falcadore (talk) 22:58, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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1987 Australian Touring car championship Round 1 Calder Park

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1987 Australian Touring car championship Round 1 Calder Park[edit]

Just as a hint - and this is the most basic advice - if you ever make a wikilink and it is red - then you have done it wrong. The purpose of the link is by clicking it - it takes you to a connected article. There is no article for Palmer Tube Mills or Jim Beam Racing, and Shell Ultra Hi will likely take you to a link about a petrol company, but Dick Johnson Racing takes you to an article about a motor racing team. Similarly Dick Johnson takes to to a page listing people who are called Dick Johnson and Neville Crichton takes you to an article about a yacht. Dick Johnson (racing driver) takes you to an article about a racing driver.

I would advise you to have a read of WP:Linking and MOS:TABLE so you can learn how to do it. I'd like to help shortcut that process if you would accept some help.

Please this time reply, instead of saying "back off I'm right" or ignoring others.

And also this link might help with your sponser problem. --Falcadore (talk) 10:16, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2014[edit]

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Please use preview[edit]

To avoid making an enormous mess of tables and leaving it for others to clean up, please use the preview function to test the edits you are making. There are three "buttons" below the editting window, Save page, Show preview and Show changes. If you use the Show preview button when you make an edit it will show you what your edit looks like without saving it. If you make a mistake with the formatting it gives you the opportunity to correct it. --Falcadore (talk) 04:03, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you need help understanding table editing and piped links? You just seem to break them. A piped link allows a link to an article to work with a different name for example:

[Dick Johnson (racing driver)|Dick Johnson] allows you to link to the Dick Johnson article without the cumbersome (racing driver) disambiguation.

[Garry Rogers Motorsport|Greater Pacific Finance] allows the sponsor name to be displayed whilst still linking to the racing team article. A link with just [Greater Pacific Finance] does not do anything. --Falcadore (talk) 04:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1991 Australian Touring Car Championship[edit]

Do you really think your edit here helps? Do you really think that is an improvement? What am I supposed to do, leave it in that state? Come one, talk to me please. You say you know stuff and want to make wikipedia better, prove it. Tell me what you are trying to achieve? --Falcadore (talk) 07:15, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked[edit]

You have been blocked from editing for one month for your continued Disruption of Wikipedia and your continued refusal to discuss the issue. The block will prevent you making more disruptive edits to Australian Touring Car Championships that other editors have to fix. At the end of the block period you can make useful contributions if you so choose, but if you continue with similar poor editing you risk being blocked indefinitely. If you feel this block is unjustified, you may contest it by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. Moriori (talk) 02:43, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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