Talk:JATO Rocket Car
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Forward to Oct 4, 2006: Paul Harvey essentially repeats this story as the last one on his morning radio show.....making it sound believable of course. So he's now resurrecting hoaxes? Can we believe him anymore? Now....how much money does he get paid??
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IMHO this article requires cleanup as these make me uncomfortable:
- "convincingly debunked" (POV)
- "easily achieved" (POV/weasel term?)
- Lots of inline extlinks in the History section
- "my mailbox" (what the?)
- "well-known hacker group" (POV/peacock term)
- BTW I'm also annoyed at calling crackers hackers (but that's just my POV)
- "Rube Goldberg engineering" (is that a widely-accepted phrase? Google gives only 124 matches)
- "entertaining tone" (POV)
- ext. link labelled "The "True" Story". (confuses the reader who might believe that's true or who might believe that's false because of the quotes, though we don't know if is true)
I'm not sure I can set right all of them, so I've added a cleanup tag. -- Paddu 03:45, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Ok, I gave it a whack...
- "convincingly debunked" seems reasonable to me. They typically test the hypothesis as well as the actually researching the facts of the reported incident.
- I was unable to find "easily achieved" in the article. I suspect it was already cleaned up.
- I did not c;eanup inline links. Still probably should be done.
- "my mailbox" changed to something like "widely circulated via email"
- "well known hacker group" changed to "high-profile", same language and their wiki entry (and as a side note, I agree with you on the hacker/cracker issue)
- "Rube goldberg" is very well known. It is based on the cartoonist that did the Roadrunner cartoons, and there is even now an annual engineering contest. I'd be suprised if it didn't have a wiki entry.
- "entertaining tone" section removed.
- Changed "True" story link name. I'm still not satisfied with it, but not sure what to do with it.
I've left the "tone" tag in as I'm not sure I adequately addressed everything.
Wikibofh 04:31, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] inline links...
I looked at it and don't find the inline links that obtrusive, and it seems to flow well to me. I do think that something needs to be done to that first history paragraph, it's way too long IMO. That being said, I'm not sure what to do about it. I may work on it in the next week or so. Once that is done, I think "tone" can be removed.
Wikibofh 22:23, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Cleaned up that history paragraph. Removed tone. I think it's good enough, or someone else can come along and help out. :) Wikibofh 16:05, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Possible origin?
This page: http://www.wagoneers.com/pages/RocketCar/rockit.html claims to tell the real story from which the "rocket car" myth derived. Worth a mention? --216.98.57.65 20:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- Not found there, I do have a different site that probably holds the same content: http://www.rocketcarstory.com/
- There's some odd adds on there maybe, be sure to visit using firefox ;-)
- 80.126.238.189 03:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
