Talk:Vauxhall Motors/Archives/2018
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@DeFacto: Do you think it might be worth taking your dubious amendment to Wikiproject Automobiles. I know you claim more insight than most but sucked in by public relation writers, you? Eddaido (talk) 06:47, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Dai, more insight? No. More pedantic? Maybe. I think, if anything, that they'd be motivated to overstate rather than understate the age of their company. Do you have reason to believe the motor company (which is what this article is about) predates 1903? Sure their marine engineering business does, but when did they start building car, and when was Vauxhall Motors founded? -- DeFacto (talk). 09:09, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hi De, no, I think it is exactly the kind of thing for discussion and consensus. It was the way it was for a long time and it fitted in with the text. Now you have changed it and it doesn't. To answer your questions read the article and look up Companies House. Are you getting bored? Then there's something to do! Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 09:24, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- I already checked companies house, the oldest Vauxhall Motors I could see was founded in 1914, but as the article says the company started building cars in 1903, and that ties in with Vauxhall's own claim, then I went with that. -- DeFacto (talk). 09:45, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Eddaido, I see you reverted my change stating: "
Conflict between inbox and article text
". As I read it, the article says the Vauxhall Iron Works started making cars in 1903 and Vauxhall Motors, the company that this article is about, was incorporated in 1914 - now that does conflict with the claim you reinstated that Vauxhall Motors was founded in 1857! Vauxhall's website says the company was founded in 1903, the year the first car came off the production line. -- DeFacto (talk). 23:00, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hi De, no, I think it is exactly the kind of thing for discussion and consensus. It was the way it was for a long time and it fitted in with the text. Now you have changed it and it doesn't. To answer your questions read the article and look up Companies House. Are you getting bored? Then there's something to do! Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 09:24, 8 December 2018 (UTC)