Talk:Porsche 928

90 images at 640x480 each is going to make this entry awfully hard to use (rough calculation based on the first image there: 4MB total). A thumbnailed side shot of one year and external links to a suitable enthusiast site ought to do it, I think. — RichL 00:58, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

---going with 400x300 images, this will take a while, so, please leave the placeholders. There is no website that fully details the subtle changes to the 928, and I'd like to make this a very special entry. Thanks!

If I may make a suggestion, can we break this article apart if you want to work on it like this? For example, if you plan on outlining the differences from year to year, can we have articles like 1982 Porsche 928 or what have you. After all, Wikipedia is not just a collection of images. If they were incorporated into separate articles, I would consider that to be okay.

I'm also concerned about the copyright of this image. Is this something you created or something you found elsewhere? RADICALBENDER★ 05:54, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

-- Well, the whole point of this was to be able to have an excellent reference all on one page, since it doesn't exist elsewhere. People new to 928s often get confused over the changes in the model years. I would like to make this a very thorough article, but I don't want to overstep any limits. Essentially I wanted to have the perfect place to send people who wanted to know about this wonderful car, which will, one day, be highly collectible.

Perhaps we can set the images up in a table? I don't want it to be a mess, either... I want it to be an excellent resource.

I am planning on adding text to each model year to describe the changes, so, it won't be just a big page of images.

If this is just way too much, I'll make my own web site... I just figured that I'd share it with the Wiki community.

I have a lot more to add but I'm getting ZZZZzzzzzzy!

The image that you asked about was created by me.

I am into detailed pages, if you check out the Gothic rock page, & most of it's links, you'll see what I mean, as I also authored this entry.

L8R

Detail can be fine, it just has to be organized so that it doesn't bother the readers. I agree that tables would help, as would using the thumbnail feature, and perhaps splitting the images into several pages. By the way, you can sign messages on talk pages by typing 3 or 4 tildes ~~~ or ~~~~. Dori | Talk 06:57, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)

"All on one page" might not be as helpful as you think -- if people need to compare two years, two browser windows will probably be more useful to them than scrolling up and down and up and down. I could see there being a need for per-year pages for other car models ("1998 Saab 900" is a completely different car than any other Saab 900, thanks to the GM buyout, for instance, and people interested in the Saab 900 probably aren't looking for the '98), so I doubt this situation will be unique. mendel 14:26, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC) (fka RichL)

~~~ Can someone post some example code for putting 400x300 pictures into a 2x6 Table? Thanks

Have a look at Photographs of the Belize flora (1) for an idea. By the way, nowiki is only used when you don't want any formatting. When you want to put in your signature, just use the tildes by themselves. Dori | Talk 20:38, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)

UNIXCOFFEE928 Hi! Yeah, I realized that... Still in the process of getting the page together, please don't modify anything. I'll try out the Belize table code tonight. This page will bring a whole lot of people to Wikipedia!

L8R

UNIXCOFFEE928 ok, it's working out... is there a way to specify that the thumbnails should be sized equally?

As far as I know, the thumbnails are sized only according to width. So you would have to either upload images of the same size, and make the thumbnails the same size, or upload images with the same proportions and adjust the thumbnail size accordingly. Dori | Talk 20:10, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

Images

None of the images in this article have any copyright info on them and unfortunately, the user who uploaded them, UNIXCOFFEE928, is no longer active. However, they don't appear to be blatant copyright violations. Should they be removed from the article and if so, should they be listed on Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images? SamH 19:02, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Images & the Current Edit

UNIXCOFFEE928 The images are not copywritten, as previously discussed, and should be replaced to aid enthusiasts, who would like to get involved with the 928, but are unfamiliar with the model changes. That is why it was there. If more people re-vitalized 928s, and loved them, the model will have the potential to be re-released.

I am extremely unimpressed with the changes that you have made to this page. The next time you decide to be a specialist, why not leave the hard work of others intact, and add to it, instead of throwing away many hours of work. I put a lot of time into making an entry for the 928, and some 911-centric editor decides to have a field day re-writing history to justify his current porsche purchase!!! This entry is now very heavilly skewed, and will be revised.

Hi UNIXCOFFEE. The images were deleted because they didn't have any source or copyright information on their image description pages, and I couldn't find any info elsewhere. I agree it's a shame that this page no longer has any images. If those photos are available freely (i.e. in the public domain or under a free licence such as the GFDL), then maybe you could re-upload them, but this time including the proper info.

Regarding the rest of the article, I'm sorry if you feel I have damaged your work, but I have only tried to improve it. Could you be more specific about what parts of this article you think are skewed? I hope we can work together on this. SamH|Talk 17:59, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Model comparisons

All the info in this article can basically be found on google. Please if someone is into this car, spice up the article a little and make the reading interesting with info not readily found on elsewhere the web.

I sense a tendency on wikipedia.org in general to simplify detailed articles. Don't! The vast majority of readers here have come here to find as much information as possible. They have NOT come here through the "Random article" link to the left.

So if someone is interested in spending the time to write about for example the differences between the various models I'd very much welcome it! dsandlund 10:23, October 15 2005 (CET)