Talk:Bentley Speed Six

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...further to a similar comment on the Rover Light Six's page ... what's its picture doing on THIS one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.63.174.10 (talk) 17:33, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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Chronology?

This article has, as its second sentence, this:

< They were created out of the desire for more engine power by Walter Owen Bentley by adding two cylinders to the straight-4 engine used in his Bentley 4½ Litre car. >

The 4½ Litre article, however, has:

< In 1927, Bentley developed the Bentley 4½ Litre. Two cylinders were removed from the 6½ Litre model, reducing the displacement to 4.4 litres. At the time, the 3 Litre and the 6½ Litre were already available, but the 3 Litre was an outdated, under-powered model and the 6½ Litre's image was tarnished by poor tyre performance. >

It seems clear that the 6½ came first and I've edited thus.

86.181.177.63 (talk) 23:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Article name

@Eddaido: Re [1], OK, I've moved the sitelink from Bentley Speed Six (Q17489037) to Bentley 6½ Litre (Q19802342) instead of changing the commons link. You may want to consider renaming the article if "Bentley 6½ Litre" is the main topic. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:03, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

@Mike Peel: Hi, you puzzle me. Please tell me more. Eddaido (talk) 21:06, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

@Eddaido: I'm trying to resolve inconsistencies in the links between the different Wikimedia projects, particularly between enwp and Commons, but also between the different language Wikipedias. As part of that, this article seemed to match commons:Category:Bentley Speed Six given the article title, rather than commons:Category:Bentley 6½ Litre, which is why I changed the link. You disputed that, saying that the latter was right, so I've changed the sitelinks to the other language Wikipedias to match "Bentley 6½ Litre", which also removes the conflict with the commons category name. This is all through Wikidata. Does that make more sense? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:15, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks, I do now see. Changing the name of the article would be (to my mind) the right thing to do in an encyclopaedia but what seems to happen so often is that the public's interest is caught by a particular sub-model, here its the Speed Six. It would be great to find this exchange between us attracted enough attention to get the name of the article discussed and the issue resolved.

I've spent quite a lot of time hunting up suitable photos of old cars of every kind (being old myself) and uploading them to Commons. It almost always seems to happen that the cooking cars are ignored and the keen photographers snap away at the cars that are obviously special. I suspect that most old Bentleys played out their first lives under non-sporting tourer or often saloon or even limousine bodies. So I've tried very hard (many hours many days) to get some balance in the pictures displayed but its darned hard work and few of the bodies still exist. Speed Six rings bells for all sorts of people, 6½ Litre . . . ? Not at all. Old Bentleys for the general public were racing or sports cars.

May I add here that the images picked to display in the links to Wikidata show the picker's high level of knowledge of the subject. "They" do a great job. Kind regards, Eddaido (talk) 21:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Infobox caption

Greetings Eddaido. However relevant to that particular vehicle, that is too much detail for an infobox caption. If you want to substitute a different image and include that as the caption for this one elsewhere in the article, or even repeat the image elsewhere with that original caption, I’m OK either way. But not all that detail in the info box. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 23:24, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Please do not revert without discussion text which has been in a prominent position (unless momentarily disrupted by Wikiuser100) for very nearly seven years (since 8 August 2013).

Would you please revert your last edit. If that is your concern your reason for making your mistake is now on record here. Eddaido (talk) 00:52, 21 June 2020 (UTC)