On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:17:40AM -0500, J. Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: Jimmy
Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>
It looks from the history as though there's
an ongoing edit war, and so
probably more eyeballs would be helpful.
Your wish is our command!
> From: "Dr. Iris Steineck"
<iris.steineck(a)aon.at>
> My grandfather Erwin Komenda designed the
VW-beetle and Porsche sport
> car type 356.
> ...
> Both, the Volkswagen and the first Porsche sport car, the Porsche type
> 356, were designed by Porsche's longstanding chief designer [[Erwin
> Komenda]].
> [[Erwin Komenda]], the longstanding Porsche chief designer, developed
> the car body for the famous VW-beetle and Porsche 356.
I have checked in the "definitive" Porsche reference book:
Karl Ludvigsen, "Porsche: Excellence Was Expected"
and Erwin Franz Komenda was indeed Porsche's chief body stylist up until the
1960's. He joined up with Porsche in 1931, so it's quite credible that he
designed the bodies for the Beetle and 356.
I suspect that part of the problem is in the wording = Komenda wasn't really
the "chief designer" (as that term would normally be construed in English),
but rather the "chief body stylist"; also, he didn't "design ... both
the
[Beetle] and [356}" (which implies he had overall responsibility for the whole
thing) - the latter wording "developed the car body" is probably fairly
accurate.
I think the issue here is whether Komenda has any place at all in the
[[Ferdinand Porsche]] article; the info in question should really be at
[[Erwin Komenda]], where it currently is.
Relevant para from [[Talk:Erwin_Komenda]]:
I have removed the link to the Erwin Komenda Porsche Designer page from
many (but by no means all) the pages it had been placed on. Komenda
was not sufficiently important to the subjects of those articles. I
have removed mention of him entirely from articles (such as the
[[Porsche Boxster]]) in which mention of him is rather off topic.
Thus, while the discussion of the wording can continue at [[Talk:Erwin_Komenda]],
he should stay off [[Ferdinand Porsche]] (IMHO).
Arvind
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