12:3412:34, 30 December 2010diffhist+33
Rotary engine
Lets go with a technically correct wording of what's described in detail in the body. It's also easily understood and remembered.
11:0311:03, 29 December 2010diffhist−101
Rotary engine
By the early 1920s, however, the inherent limitations of this type of engine had rendered it obsolete, with the power output increasingly going into overcoming the air-resistance of spinning the engin
17:2617:26, 28 December 2010diffhist+225
Scooter (motorcycle)
WordIQ is not a very reliable source, but it is more than adequate for something we all know anyway "Road motor scooters are tremendously popular in Europe ... for some reason not in the United States
20:4020:40, 27 December 2010diffhist+24
Citroën 2CV
hand-cranking, the jack handle serving as starting handle ... once universal on cars and still common into the 1950s, was kept until the end of production in 1990, by which time it was unique
20:3020:30, 27 December 2010diffhist+1,150
Gerry Adams
Two more statements amply well supported by the reliable sources that are being unreasonably excluded from the article contrary to consensus at talk.
16:3316:33, 27 December 2010diffhist+415
Talk:Citroën 2CV
I would have thought most of this was very easy to check and all of it should be returned to the article as being important material that's almost certainly correct.
16:0716:07, 27 December 2010diffhist−630
Flat-twin engine
We don't need to know that a company that once made washing machines but is now part of Whirlpool once used a flat-twin engine (when? nowheret mentioned in Maytag article).
10:4910:49, 27 December 2010diffhist+1,214
Wasted spark system
Unlike all other systems described (which fire two plugs simultaneously from a double-ended coil) the coil in this system has only a single
HT lead running to the single plug.