User talk:Greglocock

Intro

WELCOME TO MY TALK PAGE. Remember to link to whatever page you are discussing, and start a new section if it is a different page. Please type in grammatical, correctly spelled, English. Greg Locock (talk) 01:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Stick to one post

Everytime I leave, people insult me or the page or the company and do the WP: thing to show that its justified, and I kind of feel sad when they do that. Also, some of it is kind of mean so I want to say something back, usually along the lines of "that's not true". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Canadiansteve (talk • contribs) 04:12, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Modification of McLaren_MP4-12C

Inquiring as to why the licensing and related image reference was removed by you? Sorry for any ignorance on my part. Seyoda (talk) 06:01, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Beacuse it is just trivia inserted to advertise a game. Do you think we're stupid? Greglocock (talk) 06:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

This is part of a landmark deal in which the ENTIRE McLaren catalogue has been licensed - 1st time ever. I think that's pretty noteworthy by anyones standards. The full text of the deal was published in Autoweek a very well respected authority within the automotive industry http://www.autoweek.com/article/20111103/CARNEWS/111109926 I absolutely respect the integrity of Wikipedia and this entry, but feel this to be more than trivia. Seyoda (talk) 06:36, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Three different Wikipedia editors, myself included, have now removed that info as trivia. Wikipedia is built on consensus and it looks like we have that in this case. --Biker Biker (talk) 09:14, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Climate emails

Hi, I just removed your reference from a subtitle in the CRU email article. Please note that article is under a 1R rule. You could add the ref to the sentence, or expand slightly, or, better yet, discuss it. Experienced editors of the article are not rushing to add this latest development immediately. Yopienso (talk) 07:26, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Talk:The Age

Please contribute something intelligent to the discussion. In the absence of anything sensible, I will again remove the additions. Reverting my removal will be treated as vandalism. HiLo48 (talk) 09:39, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I did - I pointed out you had removed valid material from the article. Still, i have time for the next few days, let's see if you can support your ridiculous PoV, which basically sounded like WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Greglocock (talk) 10:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Bourke Engine

Greg, you just significantly damaged and removed about 2 days of careful work, putting in citations from the world's only authoritative source on the Bourke Engine. it would be greatly appreciated if you could discuss modifications prior to doing that, and to obtain a copy of the Bourke Engine Documentary book BEFORE going and destroying the efforts of contributors. i will now have to spend about an hour extracting the work done and reverting the damage that you've created. please don't do that again, thanks. Lkcl (talk) 03:55, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

It'd take 1 minute to restore it.If you are making significant changes then either discuss them beforehand or put up an under construction sign. Let me know when you've finished with the fairy tales.Greglocock (talk) 05:10, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Greg - please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution#Discuss_with_the_other_party. now, please kindly apologise for a) assuming that i am acting in bad faith b) the various accusations that you've made.

primarily, you need to cease and desist from all actions and editing unless you have read the world's only authoritative source of material on this subject.

if you cannot trust that i know what i am doing, here, then i will be forced to take action, up to and including getting you banned from wikipedia.

apologies, but you are getting out of line, greg. Lkcl (talk) 12:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Interference_from_an_under-informed_Editor_on_Bourke_Engine_Article

i've been forced to raise this with the wikipedia editors, greg. if you are going to make commits with the phrase "do you even understand the subject matter" then that is tantamount to vandalism - as well as violating the "trust" rules of wikipedia as well as being incredibly insulting.

i'm dead serious about getting you banned from wikipedia if you persist with the vandalism, insults and interference.

btw - i'm quite happy to scan and make available to you copies of pages of the bourke engine documentary if you cannot afford to buy your own copy - it's published 1968, out-of-print and there are a very very limited number of copies available left, anywhere in the world. you will have to promise to delete each page after you have reviewed each section Lkcl (talk) 12:36, 16 December 2011 (UTC).

"* The use of the Scotch Yoke reduces vibration from the motions of the connecting rod—for example, the peak acceleration in a Scotch yoke is 25% less than the acceleration in a conventional crank and slider arrangement. The piston movement and therefore vibration is sinusoidal so the engine could theoretically be perfectly counterbalanced, unlike a conventional engine which has harmonics in the piston movement courtesy of the lateral movement of the crankpin."

you deleted this section, greg, which indicates very very clearly that you do not understand basic physics and mechanics. imagine a crank which has radius of 10cm, with a camshaft (slider) that has a length of 10.5cm. due to massive sideways swing of the camshaft, the amount of time that such an arrangement spends at BDC is absolutely huge, whilst the amount of time spent at TDC is clearly absolutely tiny. if on the other hand the camshaft is of infinite length, then and only then will the motion of the camshaft be exactly the same as that of a scotch yoke.

if you cannot understand this then you need to cease and desist from editing this page. Lkcl (talk) 12:50, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

thank you for alerting me to a prior under-informed edit of the bourke engine page. i've removed the exact, precise and misleading "25%" of the prior under-informed editor on the section about the differences between scotch yoke and crank-camshaft acceleration. crank-camshaft acceleration graphs Piston_motion_equations#Acceleration actually vary with the ratio of crank radius to camshaft length. Lkcl (talk) 13:14, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Note to anyone who cares. The above user has been informed that I will ignore any comments he leaves here. Greglocock (talk) 21:47, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I think it is time to sort this article out and remove the original research supported by the self published source The Bourke Engine Documentary. I will happily support your efforts. --Biker Biker (talk) 09:48, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Chevy Volt

Hi Greglocock. I would appreciate if you drop by the talk page so you can provide your input about my proposal to close the discussion regarding "Emissions & language". Thanks.--Mariordo (talk) 04:10, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Your abuse of process !vote

Hi Greg,

Today I tried to facilitate the discussion in a NPOV manner but as you can see another editor is being pretty obstinate with their own POV. Specifically, where you !voted "abuse of process" I recently inserted (keep) to help the closing admin quickly look over !votes. Since this other editor seems to think you did not vote "keep" I am suggesting you yourself revisit your comment and add that word, if it accurately describes your position. Silly, perhaps, but that's what obstinancy sometimes requires. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:54, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

PS, If you are interested, as I was posting this the other editor visited my talk page and I mentioned this thread in my reply here. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

NewsAndEventsGuy misrepresents the situation, as usual. First of all, you seem to have been unaware that the AfD had been closed in error after only having run a few hours, and was relisted because of the bad closing. Secondly, NewsAndEventsGuy should not be deciding what you intended to vote. If that's what you mean to vote, fine, but that's for you to say, not someone else. 86.** IP (talk) 17:07, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

PPS, 86 mentioned you here Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#NewsAndEventsGuy_changing_votes_to_Keep_in_an_AfD, which is now closed. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 17:59, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:No personal attacks

Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. -- Phoenix (talk) 09:14, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

There, there little buddy, did I tread on your toes? Stop wasting my time and I'll treat you like an adult. Greglocock (talk) 09:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Little Buddy? Hell no I'm a mix of Thurston Howell III and the Professor :P But What does that make you Ginger, Mary Ann or Eunice? -- Phoenix (talk) 09:45, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

I've told you before not to post on my talk page " I have explicitly asked UKP NOT to post on my talk page. Frankly arguing with him is like stepping in dog-shit (ie useless, deeply unpleasant, and memorable for all the wrong reasons)." So be a good boy and go away. I'm sure your last reply was deeply witty but I'm afraid those particular pearls are completely invisible to this little piggy. Go away, smarten up. Greglocock (talk) 10:28, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Wacky attack

Take a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Greglocock, filed by Phoenix who I think is on a fishing expedition, hunting for a reason to block you forever. You will likely want to weigh in. Binksternet (talk) 18:12, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

And since that has failed, for his next move he'll try some other forum to get me blocked. I imagine he'll succeed eventually, since I lack any particular interest in his silly games. Greglocock (talk) 01:56, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

I was thinking recently that Phoenix had gone quiet on the Bose front, clearly he was busy brewing up this! "Two users... both interested in cars, technology and Australia?? Hmmm.... CONSPIRACY!!!" Have a good day, fellow real person. 1292simon (talk) 01:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Suggested reading

Since it appears that you do not know that " that a foreplane is sometimes called a "horizontal stabiliser". I thought you might appreciate the following bits of wisdom from the Wiki. Once you identify the editor involved you can follow his edits and make corrections.

You will be accused of "incivility", not complying to "consensus", not supporting NPOV, and someone will try and snag you on WP:sockpuppetry to try and get rid of you. Have fun! - "CallmeIPaddress"

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gossamer_Albatross&diff=prev&oldid=502208824

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stabilizer_(aircraft)&action=history

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tailplane&diff=502283568&oldid=501390903

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aircraft&diff=prev&oldid=502209104