Re: [Amc-list] VAM on 'the prestigious internet' site

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

Wikipedia is usually a good source of info, but I have had to straighten out or clarify a couple AMC related entries and a few on an old "home" computer I used to be very involved with. The idea is that there are enough people out there who care about certain items (like me and the AMC entries, though if anyone has anything to add or clarify by all means do so -- I DON'T "know it all" and am capable of mistakes, or not wording things real clear at times!!) to keep them straight. I've only seen one or two entries that some knumbskull obviously made just to see if they could mess things up. Those are usually caught in a couple days. There is a real effort to keep the site reasonably accurate, but sometimes things slip through for a while until someone notices, or someone brings it to someones attention who will fix it. The problem is as stated, a lot of sites reference wikipedia and don't update but every so often. They may get the bad info and leave it up a lot longer than Wik
 ipedia does. 

Mattel certainly didn't get "made by Chrysler" from Wikipedia, nor Allpar. Neither of those sites say any such thing. The fact that AMC is on the Allpar site certainly could lead someone to believe that, and the fact that they had to get a license from Chrysler to use the AMX/AMC names and logo would also insinuate that it was a Chrysler product. Obviously anyone with a passion for cars at all would have done just a little more research, but I bet the marketing department was in charge of the write-up on the cars at Mattel, or maybe the legal department. Some car nut kid could have done better -- there are a LOT of AMX sites out there, any research at all would have turned up just what "AMX" stood for, which would have been the first clue...

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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:41:15 -0500
From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Jonathan, no, I don't want a wikipedia account, nor have a intention of 
ever wanting one. I don't have time to straighten it out, best leave that to 
VAM 'experts' of which I am not one. But due to crap like wikipedia is why 
we have stuff out there like the new Hot Wheels 71 AMX. While the details 
and the car are nice, on back it has 'born in: Auburn Hills, Michigan' and 
'designer: Chrysler LLC' and 'specialty: big a big rear spoiler, fender 
bulges and optional denim interior, this muscle car was made for straight 
line performance'

My point is simple: if someone had bothered to simply do a little research 
instead of relying of some fool blogging on wiki (I don't know what Mattel's 
problem was, but guess is that they found erroneous information off a 
website; maybe wikipedia!) but it now takes years of undoing what one now 
sees on back of Mattel's new Hot Wheels 71 AMX, as anyone who buys one, and 
don't really know.....will always assume that Mopar made the 71 AMX 'because 
they saw it on back of toy car box (or pick one: wikipedia, allpar, Mopar 
website ect).

-- 
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Motors Cars" 
Magazine (AMC)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AMC.html
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