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[edit] About

WikiProject Automobiles exists to co-ordinate the effort to compile articles on all types and classes of automobiles, automotive parts and technology. Additionally, it has the goal of presenting all articles in a consistent, legible and informative format. WikiProject Automobiles is a child project of WikiProject Transport, and a parent project of WikiProject Japan/Japanese car taskforce. See the talk page for proposals and discussion related to this WikiProject.

[edit] Departments

• List of all subpages of this page
• /Categorization (discussion of categorisation schemes for automobiles)
• /Conventions (standards for naming, typography, and other issues)
• /Layouts (displaying and discussing layout options)
• /Proposed naming convention (proposed automobile article naming convention)
• Recent changes watchlist (the latest changes on any article related to the project)
• /Requested images (outstanding requests for automobile images or photographs)
• /Templates (showcasing templates for use in the automobile articles)

• Related areas
  • Portal:Cars (an automotive-specific entry point to content on Wikipedia)
  • Wikibooks's Category:Automotive and Category:Cars (howto's and instruction manuals)
  • Commons's Category:Automobiles (images that are GFDL'd or similarly free)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 22 Nov 2009 – Panoz Auto Development (talk) proposed for deletion by Jmd0307.

Articles for deletion

• 17 Nov 2009 – Green Gears (talk) nominated for deletion by Optigan13; see discussion.
• 10 Nov 2009 – SoCalEuro (talk) nominated for deletion by Optigan13; see discussion.

Requested moves

• 15 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Ferrari 308 GTB (talk) to Ferrari 208/308 by Donnie Park; see discussion.
• 13 Nov 2009 – Nissan Motors (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 13 Nov 2009 – Toyota (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 13 Nov 2009 – Suzuki (talk) was not moved; see discussion.
• 13 Nov 2009 – Honda (talk) was not moved; see discussion.

Did you know

• 19 Nov 2009 – A fact from Charles August (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 15 Nov 2009 – A fact from Léon Levavasseur (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

• 16 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 17 Oct 2009 – A new database dump is available.

Article alerts are updated daily by ArticleAlertbot. — Tips /Report a bug / Got ideas? / Suggest news / Feedback

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured Articles

The following articles (or prior versions thereof) are some examples of what we believe automobile related articles should ideally look like, although none of them are perfect or complete. Bold article names have been featured on the main page.

Individual vehicles Holden VE Commodore Maserati MC12 Talbot Tagora

Brands/companies Holden

Other related Elwood Haynes Ramblin' Wreck

[edit] Former featured articles

While at one point these articles were Featured Articles, they have since had that status revoked. Bold article names have been featured on the main page.

• Crash test dummy (review)
• DeLorean DMC-12 (review)
• Ford Mustang (review)
• Plug-in hybrid (review)
• Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 (review)
• Mini (review)
• Mini Moke (review)
• Volkswagen Type 2 (review)

[edit] Good Articles

A number of automobile articles have not reached featured article status, but have been flagged as good articles.

Individual vehicles AIL Storm Autobianchi Primula Brabham BT46 Chevrolet Cobalt SS Chrysler 180 Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina Ford BA Falcon Holden Apollo Holden Commodore Lancia Flaminia Lexus LS Mitsubishi i Simca Vedette Talbot Samba Toyota Aurion Toyota Matrix

Brands/companies Lexus

General and other related Flexible-fuel vehicle Gulf Oil Whale tail

[edit] Former good articles

• Caterham CSR
• Chevrolet Corvette
• Ford Taurus
• Koenigsegg CCX
• Lincoln (automobile)
• Oldsmobile
• Lincoln Town Car

[edit] Featured pictures

1928 Ford Model A

Four stroke engine

Peugeot 206 WRC during the 2003 Swedish Rally

Radial engine

New articles

August 2009

• Alfa Romeo Romeo (Typ932)
• Bentley Mulsanne 2011 (Georgiebest7)

July 2009

• AC ME3000 (Charles01)
• Morris Commercial J2 (Charles01)
• Carrozzeria Colli (Typ932)
• Ferrari 458 Italia (Nicapicella)

June 2009

• Daimler Consort (Charles01)
• Multiair (Typ932)

May 2009

• NSU Typ 110 (Charles01)
• Morris 250 JU (Charles01)

[edit] Project members

You can become a member by placing the {{User WikiProject Automobiles}} template on your userpage. It will automatically add your userpage to Cat:WikiProject Automobiles members.

• Or if you don't like the userbox, you can also add yourself to the category by placing:
  [[Category:WikiProject Automobiles members|your username]] on your userpage.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Project banner

• {{WikiProject Automobiles}}

WikiProject Automobiles	(Rated Start-Class, Mid-importance)	AutomobilesWikipedia:WikiProject AutomobilesTemplate:WikiProject AutomobilesAutomobile articles
Cars portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Automobiles, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of automobiles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  Start  This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale.  Mid  This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Automobile}}

[edit] Stubs

Instead of using the standard {{stub}} template, you may want to use one of the following more specific automobile stub tags, some of which are:

• {{auto-stub}} or {{vehicle-stub}} for stubs about general automotive topics. Unfortunately, those categories contains many articles, so use of one of the more targeted subcategories is recommended:
  • {{motorvehicle-company-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive companies
  • {{auto-factory-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive factories
  • {{automotive-part-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive parts or components
  • {{automotive-tech-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive technologies
    
    
  • {{veteran-auto-stub}} - for stub articles about veteran automobiles produced before 1905
  • {{brass-auto-stub}} - for stub articles about brass-era automobiles produced from 1905-1915
  • {{vintage-auto-stub}} - for stub articles about classic automobiles produced from 1915-1930
  • {{classicprw-auto-stub}} - for stub articles about pre-war automobiles produced from 1930-1945
  • {{classicpow-auto-stub}} - for stub articles about post-war automobiles produced from 1945-1975
  • {{modern-auto-stub}} - for stub articles about modern automobiles produced after 1975
    
    
  • {{truck-stub}} - for stub articles about trucks (from our sister WikiProject Trucks)

[edit] Assessment

• See the Assessment department for more information!

[edit] See also

• Task forces

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