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i've created a template for the tracks used in V8 Supercar rounds, based on the F1 track template. Being rather new to this should I just add it to the project page for all to see or do I need some sort of approval Cheebung 18:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Is the series (and our title article) V8 Supercar or V8 Supercars? This confusion has also led to us having both 2006 V8 Supercars season and 2006 V8 Supercar Season articles, which I've just proposed to be merged. --Scott Davis Talk 09:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I could use some help at the Rick Kelly article. It has taken a bit of a pounding from vandals since Phillip Island (as you can imagine!), but if we expand it a bit more to give both sides of the story, that should keep everybody happy. --Qarnos 08:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
I think the name should be changed to either "V8 Supecars Australia", or just "V8 Supercars". Curently it is titled V8 Supercar, which to me talks about the actual car and not the series. I believe that the series is actually titled V8 Supercars Australia, and as the article seems to be about the series/category primarily (in the same way as Australian Football League, for example) I think the article should be named as such. To make things more confusing, the opening line of the page uses V8 Supercars, and I put the 'Australia' part on my new infobox on the left. I will not make any changes until we can get some consensus on this. Cheers, Seth Cohen 01:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Also, I thought I'd add a new section because I realised nobody had responded to your appeal earlier, and thought maybe it would get more notice with a new section. Cheers, Seth Cohen 13:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Does anybody have experience with year/season templates? How do we roll over the ((V8 Supercar Teams)) from the 2006 season to 2007? My guess is that we subst: it into articles that will not get the 2007 version, before starting to change the template, and ensure the text of any articles where info changes contains the 2006 info. Am I on the right track? --Scott Davis Talk 11:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I've added:
Consider whether you want to have dedicated V8 Supercar subcategories for the template categories (as there are for Formula One and NASCAR), i.e. Category:V8 Supercar templates, Category:V8 Supercar infoboxes and Category:V8 Supercar navigational boxes. (Perhaps there aren't enough V8 Supercar templates to warrant their own subcategories). DH85868993 09:53, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Any objections to me listing this WikiProject as a child WikiProject of WikiProject Motorsport? DH85868993 09:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm currently making some changes over on the WikiProject Motorsport Assessment Page. Look in the statistics section. Only 240 articles have the template WikiProject Motorsport on it. I'm thererfore going to propose something (I think this has been discussed a while back). Can every single Motorsport article have the template on it's talk page. My reasoning for this is that some drivers have only the Formula One template on the article. However, surely (by the way, this goes for virtually all articles), they haven't got to Formula One someway. They haven't just been thrown into F1, I don't think any drivers done that. They've gone through other forms of Motorsport. Therefore, surely the Wikipedia Motorsport template is needed for every single Motorsport article?. I'm going to do a vote on this (on this page, plus the Motorsport project and all the child projects) so we can get a decision on this. By the way, don't bother voting on different projects, as only one of your votes will count! Davnel03 16:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
There are numerous driver articles which contain multiple infoboxes, for the different series the driver has competed in. One issue is that the various driver infoboxes are different widths, which means that the infoboxes don't always "stack" neatly - contrast Olivier Gendebien (all infoboxes the same width) with Julian Bailey (different width infoboxes). The current infobox widths are:
I propose that we standardise the width of all driver infoboxes at 24em, to improve the visual appearance of articles containing multiple infoboxes. Please leave comments here. DH85868993 14:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I notice that User:Greg the White Falcon has recently added Category:V8 Supercar tracks to many/most of the current V8 Supercar circuit articles. Another approach (as used by WP:F1 for the Formula One circuits) would be to add the category into template:V8 Supercar tracks; then it doesn't need to be explicitly added into each circuit article. Of course, that means the category is only applied to articles which include the template, which would presumably only be the current circuits. So, if you want former circuits to be included in the category, then you'd need to add the category explicitly into those articles OR update the template to list former circuits (like template:Formula One circuits and template:Champ Car tracks do). Just a thought, anyway. DH85868993 02:40, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I recommend that template:V8 race report infobox be renamed as template:V8 '''Supercar''' race report infobox (or even just template:V8 Supercar race report, i.e. without the word "infobox"), for consistency with template:V8 Supercar Team, template:V8 Supercar Teams and template:V8 Supercar Driver ? DH85868993 09:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Just trialing a Career Results table for results where the individual race by race breakdown in use elsewhere might not be available. Trial version recently installed at Alan Gurr's page. Thoughts? Comments? Falcadore 13:56, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
hello, could anyone please help me find mor ei nformation about the history of australian motorsport (and most important - history of F1 in Australia)? I need it urgently for a home essay at university, searched the web but basically found nothing useful... Thanks in advance --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 15:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
FalcadoreTalk 23:39, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I have started an article on the 2007 V8 Supercar season based on the layout of the 2007 Formula One season. However I'm not sure whether to include a Results and Standing section like of the Formula One page due to the number of drivers that will drive in the season (60+ due to enduros). What does everyone think about this? --Birky21 05:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I notice the recent creation of Category:Former V8 Supercar tracks as a subcategory of Category:V8 Supercar tracks. Something this project may wish to consider is that the "tracks" categories of several other series (e.g. Category:Champ Car race tracks, Category:Formula One circuits and Category:NASCAR tracks) don't distinguish between current and former tracks, i.e. both current and former tracks are included in the same category. DH85868993 08:27, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm confused! The infobox in V8 Supercar says the series was founded in 1997. But template:Australian Touring Car Racing shows the V8 Supercar series starting in 1999. In addition, 2001 V8 Supercar championship claims to be the 6th runnning of the series (which would suggest the first one was in 1996); 2004 and 2005 both claim to be the 9th running (probably just a copy-and-paste error) and 2006 and 2007 both claim to be the 11th running (again, probably a copy-and-paste error). Can anyone clarify this? Thanks. DH85868993 02:53, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
P.S. I've just noticed that the article about the 2001 season is called "2001 V8 Supercar championship" whereas all the others are called "200x V8 Supercar season" - I recommend changing 2001 to match the others. DH85868993 02:53, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
For V8 Supercars, We need to decide whether we want the point amounts for each roundon the leaderboard table eg. 2006 season or whether it should just show their position for the round eg. 2007 V8 Supercar season#Drivers Championship. Personally, I prefer the 2007 version, because it looks far more structured Shaizakopf 22:44, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
I recently created a page for the 2006 Bathurst 1000, basing it on the race page format recommended by User:The359 as used in the sports car WikiProject. I belatedly noticed, or forgot it existed previously, that this Wikiproject already had a format for V8Supercar races, although it has to date only been used once. Is there a preference? --Falcadore 05:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't think this manufacturer is competing with it's current cars but I'm hopeful someone out there is going to the one of the Motor Shows around Australia and can take some photos of either the Clubman or Streamliner (including the 50th Anniversary edition) as there are no free use ones (as far as I can tell).
Also historic photos for the Elfin car page would be great and creation of articles for the historic Elfin models if anybody is keen and there are no other priorities. thanks - Ctbolt 01:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I will be able to create some requested pages, such as Formula 3, V8 Utes, and maybe Adam Macrow. I can not do it right know, but I will make an effort to do it ASAP.
User:Muitint78 www.57racer.page.tl 02:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I can help you out with editing on that. Know a fair bit about all 3. user:NigelPorter. 4 Sept 07.
I'm looking to set up a collaboration of the month page within this Wikiproject as a response to the inactive rating recently placed on the project and I'm looking to see if any other editors or contributors would be interested in contributing to such a concept, or whether I'd be wasting my time. --Falcadore 00:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
I was woundering if it would be okay for me to create an article/page about the Geelong Karting Club,Geelong Karting Club Website. I created this page once before but somebody deleted it for some reason.Muitint78 23:17, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
FYI, I've proposed List of V8 Supercar Champions for deletion, on the basis that it's a less-developed version of the better-named article List of Australian Touring Car and V8 Supercar Champions. DH85868993 11:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm bringing this up here due to the discussion currently going on at WP:MOTOR, which some in this project might not be aware of. I have brought up a proposal for the Project that would reorganize all subprojects under the WP:MOTOR umbrella to be based off of the form of motorsport, rather then specific series, like WP:WRC, or nationality, such as WP:AUSMOTOR. This is designed to prevent large amounts of overlap inbetween projects as well as to streamline projects to cover all popular forms of motorsport.
The current proposal would however greatly alter WP:AUSMOTOR. Due to this projects main area of expertise, V8 Supercars and its supporting series, being similar to WP:British Motorsport's concentration on the British Touring Car Championship, the concept is for the two to be merged into a new WP:Touring Car Racing, and joined by various other major touring car championships.
I realize WP:AUSMOTOR does infact go beyond V8 Supercars, and covers a wide spectrum of other areas of motorsport. However I believe these areas are also covered by other projects (such as WP:Sports Car Racing and the proposed WP:Formula Racing), and therefore could be moved to their care in order to standize series that use similar formulas.
This is by no means an attempt to shut down your project, nor is it even a plan. It is merely a discussion for all members of subprojects beneath WP:MOTOR, and we'd welcome an input, suggestions, or opinions you'd like to put forth on this proposal. Feel free to even make your own proposal. Thank you. The359 07:42, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
As you'll notice from the front page of this project, while there is a growing magnitude of articles, there are very few Featured Articles or even Good Articles. Perhaps we can focus some attention and get some extra articles up to that standard? --Falcadore 11:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Can I just say at this point, can we not ever again use a sponsor based team name for an article title? With Supercheap Auto, Autobarn and Toll all shifting sponsorships to new teams that's three teams requiring new team names. Already Supercheap Auto Racing has been shifted to Paul Weel Racing, but now Autobarn Racing needs a new name (provisionally it will be shifted to Rod Nash Racing which presently #REDIRECTS to Autobarn Racing), and of course Toll HSV Dealer Team has lost Toll. This is a situation that will come up again when Brad Jones Racing lose BOC as a sponsor.
Moving the pages is not that big a deal, but redirecting all the links will take a long while.
So can I ask that anyone creating a motorsport team article please find a generic name for the team please? Thank you. --Falcadore (talk) 02:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed this while looking through some related pages. A similar thing is currently being done with some stadiums as well (for example Telstra Stadium, which will become ANZ Stadium on Jan 1, has been moved to Stadium Australia) -- Chuq (talk) 03:26, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Just wondering - are we as a group going to participate in any co-ordinated activities or just travel on doing our own thing? I have some ideas, but it's pointless unless there is support. --Falcadore (talk) 22:52, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that Category:Motorsport in Australia is getting a bit full. I propose the creation of the following subcategories:
Thoughts? DH85868993 03:01, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Category:Motorsport in Australia is getting full again. I'm planning to create a subcategory for articles related to the Gold Cost Champcar race (Lexmark Indy 300, 2002 Honda Indy 300, 2003 Lexmark Indy 300, etc) but I'm not sure what to call it. The "obvious" name is Category:Lexmark Indy 300 but, as per the discussion below I think it's probably not a good idea to include the sponsor's name as part of the category name, and that a more "generic" name like Category:Gold Coast Indy(car) race or Category:Surfers Paradise Champcar race would be better. Thoughts? DH85868993 (talk) 07:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
For most recent years, there are at least 6 or 7 motorsport-related articles in each "<year> in Australia" category (e.g. in Category:2007 in Australia, there are 10). I propose to move these articles from the "<year> in Australia" category into a (new) "<year> in Australian motorsport" subcategory, similar to the "<year> in Australian rules football" and "<year> in Australian football (soccer)" categories. Any objections/comments? DH85868993 (talk) 08:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
copied in from Talk:Ian Geoghegan
If we start adding positions from individual races then those career results tables are going to blow out massively. Individual race results should be covered in the article I believe with only championship/series results in the tables. --Falcadore (talk) 23:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
With the new V8 season about to get underway, there are still a few outstanding members of the 2008 season without articles.
As per the published list at V8 Supercar's website, Here! we are still short of articles for Michael Caruso, Garth Walden, Ford Rising Stars Racing (also known as Decina Racing) and Walden Motorsport. Plus an article on Tony D'Alberto Racing racing would also be good as they have taken over the running of the RNR franchise on RNR's behalf, the task previously performed as the Autobarn team by Independent Racing Cars Australia. If Team Dynamik do re-appear after the court case then the article for them could be tackled afterwards, but Wikipedia should not attempt to pre-empt the case. The content increase during the off-season has been excellent. If anyone would like to volunteer to get these articles up and running by Clipsal, please jump in and say so, if nobody does, or cares, I'll try to add them myself. --Falcadore (talk) 03:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a new layout for the V8 Supercar Teams template. The current one is a table. I'd like to change it to a Navbox and format it a bit differently so that the team names stand out from the driver names. I think that will improve its readability.
Here's what I have in mind.
I based this on Template:Formula_One_teams. What does everyone think? Fruv (talk) 04:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I think it's inaccurate to refer to the pre-1973 "Bathurst 1000" races as the "19xx Bathurst 1000". Consider 1967 Gallaher 500. It starts like this:
1967 Bathurst 1000 | |
Previous: 1966 | Next: 1968 |
I think the text and succession box should be changed to:
Does anyone have any objections to me updating the pre-1973 race report articles and the ((Bathurst 1000)) template accordingly? DH85868993 (talk) 13:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I've made a suggestion at WikiProject Motorsport for a list of hardcopy references and who holds them, to help with referencing articles. This was prompted by the realisation that I have access to quite a lot of material which I'm not currently using. Please comment here. Cheers. 4u1e 16:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
I have a large collection of quality V8 Supercar, Ute, Historic Racing and support category photos I have taken, that I am happy to make available via WikiCommons. If you are looking for something specific please let me know, and if I have something suitable, I'll upload it. - MagicFlute1983 13:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
We seem to be having a problem with the V8 Supercar Driver template. If you look at the articles for Mark Skaife and Mark Winterbottom you'll see that some of the details are blank even though they're provided. Can anyone help with this? --Fruv (talk) 00:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
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It has come to light on Talk:2007 V8 Supercar season that the title of later V8 Supercar pages is misleading without any mention of the Fujitsu series as the title 'season' should encompass all V8 Supercar racing. However, as the 2008 should have priority I have complete a first pass test page HERE, as a method of summarising the V8 Supercar season, and move this page to a specific page 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series, also creating links for the second tier Fujitsu and third tier Shannons series pages to be referenced.
Any comment? --Falcadore (talk) 20:40, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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Having quickly dashed through the collection of articles under 2009 in motorsport template, I have found the following articles do not mention who won the race/championship/title featured in the topic in the opening paragraph, or in the executive summary at the start of each of the articles.
The winner of these series or events is the most important detail of each as sporting events and they should all have this article included up top as a matter of logical writing for encylopedic content.
The list is:
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We need a new overarching project "Motor vehicles in Australia" as it is of high relevance to the whole the Australian population and is of high economic, safety and cultural significance. There is already a project for Australian motorsport which is of lower general relevance and ought be a subcategory of a Motor Vehicles project. (I am happy to use a better name if there is one.)
The economic significance comes as a result of cars reputedly being the second most significant item of expenditure after housing for individuals, the amount spent on running costs and repairs and on modifications and the increasing relevance of climate change and peak oil to the automobile industry.
The safety significance comes from the number of deaths, years of disability, medical expenses and "wasted" GDP caused by road accidents. All pedestrians, passengers and cyclists are potentially going to be affected by the safety characteristics of the cars in which they travel or which hit them (or don't hit them because of higher quality braking systems or better collision avoidance through stability or traction control).
The cultural significance comes from brand enthusiasts, motor sport, vintage car clubs, 4WD clubs, Motoring Associations, the care lavished on cars by many people, the aftermarket modification industry, the blokey mateship culture that often exists around activities based on cars whether it be modifying, tuning, showing, racing, rallying or trialing them. Many older Australians would have done car navigation trials.
An article that ought be included in such a project, perhaps in a sub-project,is The_Dog_&_Lemon_Guide
Could someone help in setting up such a project and suggesting the structure for sub projects including the project for Australian motorsport? (I've learnt not to just rush in an try to set it up myself first) dinghy (talk) 01:33, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
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Speaking of naming issues, would it be unreasonable to suggest that this project be broaded to something along the lines of Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian motorsport?--cj | talk 19:52, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
If this Project is Australian Motorsport then the scope needs to be broadened to include Australian Speedway and needs to include such greats as Gary Rush and George Tatnell at least. So far, there is only a single Speedway entry for Grenville Anderson and entries for Speedway motorcycle riders such as Billy Sanders and Phil Crump - BR —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.179.66.41 (talk) 18:44, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
There is a request to establish this as an article. As no such facility exists, I'd like a clarification as to why this article has been requested.Falcadore 21:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Started working on replacing List of Australian motor racing series which is hard to update, with User:Falcadore/sandbox. Comments anyone? --Falcadore (talk) 01:46, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
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Template:Infobox V8 Supercar driver has been proposed for deletion. Please express any views you may have on the matter at the deletion discussion. DH85868993 (talk) 01:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Umm, this may sound a little weird, but do you mind if I create some race reports for some of the V8 Supercars races in 2012, as only the Clipsal 500 and Bathurst 1000 for that year have pages? TollHRT52 (talk) 17:57, 16 August 2012 (AEST)
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User:Frietjes has proposed making changes to the various series-specific racing driver infoboxes (((Infobox F1 driver)), ((Infobox Le Mans driver)), ((Infobox WRC driver)), etc) to allow them to be embedded inside ((Infobox racing driver)), such that a driver's article may contain a single infobox covering all the different series in which they have particpated, rather than multiple infoboxes - see Andy Priaulx as an example. You are welcome to express any views you may have on the matter at Template_talk:Infobox_racing_driver#addition_of_modules. DH85868993 (talk) 01:36, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Time for my annual post about incomplete season articles. The following series articles are little more than tables. Most of them don't even explain what they are, whether they are open wheel series, where they are held, who won the series! Apparently a series as important as DTM considers the point score system more important than the series champion.
The situation is also encouraging new editors to be likewise poor in seasonal coverage.
So while the majority of series are in hibernation perhaps we could spend a few days improving these articles.
Surely it would be more important and productive than arguing over whether Mercedes or Mercedes AMG is the correct terminiology for a constructor? Less minuatae!
No mention of series winner:
2012 Australian GT Championship season
2012 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
2012 Australian Sports Sedan season
2012 International V8 Supercars Championship
2011–12 New Zealand V8 season
2011–12 Suzuki Swift Sport Cup season
2012 Toyota Racing Series
2012 V8SuperTourer season
2012 V8 Utes season
Series winner mentioned but no season review:
2012 Australian Carrera Cup Championship
2012 Australian Formula Ford Championship
Incomplete results:
2012 Australian GT Championship season
2012 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
2012 Australian Sports Sedan season
2012 V8 Utes season
Thank you for your time. --Falcadore (talk) 05:34, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, folks! V8 Supercars have several races per round, but they often declare a round winner to keep comparing round winners from previous decades (IIRC). So I've just opened the 2013 Clipsal 500 article, and there's none. Is it Craig Lowndes for collects the most championship points? Is there another points scale for the round winner? Or did Vesa drop the round winner thing? Thanks! --NaBUru38 (talk) 00:37, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
What does everyone think of adding a pole position part for each race in the V8s race infobox? I think it would neaten up the articles from 2009 onwards, rather than including both pole winners in the one pole position part. Of course, if there isn't a separate qualifying for each race, the second and third parts could be left blank. KytabuTalk 22:22, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
As events are changing names all he time, I suggest that we move all the articles on race events. Keep current names as redirects but each event will have an article titled '*Circuit Name* ATCC/V8 Supercars Event' and go from there. It may seem a bit of a task but events are constantly changing names and sponsors and so forth. Holdenman05 (talk) 23:42, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
I think this discussion could benefit from input from others. Are you happy for me to advertise the discussion at WP:MOTOR? DH85868993 (talk) 08:55, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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If anyone on this project is still active - I would appreciate a third opinion at Template_talk:V8_Supercar_Teams#James_Courtney. Mattlore (talk) 08:55, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
@Falcadore, SchueyFan, Holdenman05, GTHO, and OR~Joshie93: I would like to get an opinion on a redesigned version of Template:V8 Supercar race report which I've been working on in my sandbox (template code here). As with Template:V8 supercar race, I've based it on the Formula One infobox. I think that the current design is a bit messy and overly long, especially for three and four race events (compare 2015 Tyrepower Tasmania Super Sprint with this). KytabuTalk 00:30, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
@Falcadore, Kytabu, and Prisonermonkeys: I'm tempted to put this article up for deletion as it has only held one round and been scrapped as of today. Objections? Comments? Holdenman05 (talk) 11:09, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
I have proposed a change to the wording of the "Season in progress" footnotes which accompany motorsport results tables which the season is still in progress. Interested editors are invited to comment at the centralised discussion. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 21:55, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
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The first thing I was planning to do was to design and implement a standard article format for drivers, teams, circuits, events, championships and races. I have started working on a standard driver format here; criticisms are welcome. – Kytabu 08:15, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
@Falcadore, GTHO, SchueyFan, Holdenman05, and HoldenV8: just hoping to generate some more interest.
I have started on a standard team article format as well. My main focus at the moment is going through and giving unassessed articles a quality rating. After that I was going to rate those without an importance rating. From there, I was thinking we can look at getting higher importance articles to a better quality level as well as the article formats. – Kytabu 09:20, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
@Falcadore, Prisonermonkeys, SchueyFan, Kytabu, and FullHouse97: Article is clearly self-published and an orphan, only one of the references is from a slightly reputable source and he isn't exactly a notable competitor, esp. seeing as there isn't even an article for the World Time Attack Challenge. Holdenman05 (talk) 01:32, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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I've noticed Bathurst 1000 history tables popping up on drivers pages. No problems there. My question is regarding the Super Touring / V8 war in the late 90's. The Super Touring race was the official Bathurst 1000. Ran by the ARDC, used the traditional date in October and used the title Bathurst 1000. The V8 race was a 'rebel' race run by IMG (from memory), run late October early November & I think the title was the Australian 1000? In these tables, there is usually a symbol (†) highlighting that the result was a Super Touring result (ie less important). Shouldn't the V8 entry receive this as it wasn't the official race? Or the V8 results should not even on the table? Discuss. --Kpaspery (talk) 23:47, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Seems to have been heavily edited by someone very close to the team (if not David John himself judging by some of the language used). A clean-up is required. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.150.84.137 (talk) 05:54, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right approach, but I'm hoping someone can help. Please take a look at Talk:Bob Jane#Referencing needed to get this on the Main page. Right now, Aussie motor sport fans are looking like they don't know how to reference articles. HiLo48 (talk) 03:15, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
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I have thought for a while that the Supercars driver result tables currently in use are very, very messy. This is a combination of the amount of races per season, which forces us to use a small font to reduce width; the use of race numbers in the result cells which forces each result to three lines; and using an even smaller font for the actual result, making it very difficult to read at standard zoom.
I have been expanding the Scott McLaughlin article in my sandbox and have decided to have a play with the results tables. The second one follows much the same format as the tables used for other championships, but I have removed the race numbers from the result cells (this is what the header cells are for) and removed the small tags from the results themselves, as is done on some NASCAR driver tables. If you compare it to first three years here, it is neater, less cramped and much easier to read the race results, which ultimately is the purpose of the table.
The first table in my sandbox is a completely new proposal partly based on the constructor result tables used for F1. It is designed with the aim of being much more convenient to edit. The event header cells for each season could be created in a template, meaning we only have to code up the events for each season once, rather than having the code on every driver to race that season. The race results themselves can be copied directly from the championship standings table on the season page and we can use a larger font while reducing the width of the table.
It was actually the table on Craig Lowndes' page that made me want to change this. That table is unnecessarily large; either of my proposals would reduce the height by around 33% while also reducing the width and making it easier to read. – Kytabu 23:41, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
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