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Old December 30th, 2007, 11:25 AM   #1
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I was just thinking, there are a lot of topics that Wikipedia already has decent coverage on that we can't really add much to, such as some automotive terms (OHC, ECU) and the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" celebrities. So, instead of using [[]] to link to pages that don't exist yet, we could use [[Wikipedia:<article>]] to link to the appropriate Wikipedia page. I mean, do we really need pages like this?

What do you think? I already did this in the Abbreviations article and was wondering if we could come up with a general list of stuff that doesn't need any TG-specific info. Like celebrities, automotive terms (except torques of course!), and british-specific terms like conkers.
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I threw together a mockup of my thoughts:

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that's exactly what i was thinking. there is no need for us to write about them, and Wikipedia has more info than we could ever get images/smilies/smile.gif
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I was wondering if it would be worth it for the powerlap board to be listed as an entry, the cars could be linked to their respective entries on the site, and/or associated episode for the car
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I was wondering if it would be worth it for the powerlap board to be listed as an entry, the cars could be linked to their respective entries on the site, and/or associated episode for the car

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Whoa, even before i imagined images/smilies/blink.gif i was going to also suggest some gooTube vids, but it looks well enough images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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