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before the question. Again, welcome! Royalbroil 02:47, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Your interest in Formula One is obvious, so I highly recommend that you join Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One. You may also be interested in joining me in Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorsport, a wikiproject set up to coordinate common themes between various motorsports wikiprojects. Royalbroil 02:47, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Bobby. Welcome to Wikipedia. Sorry for not having replied sooner - I had a fairly busy weekend. I see you have already joined WP:F1, so welcome to that too! I like your idea about some kind of label for approved/checked F1 results tables. I agree that what I am currently doing (i.e. a blanket reference to www.formula1.com plus individual references to cover inaccuracies within www.formula1.com) isn't ideal, but I thought any sort of references would be better than nothing! A little bit of history for you: It was before my time, but I believe the F1 results tables were originally generated from www.formula1.com by User:BillCook (That's why I've used www.formula1.com as the primary reference). We have discussed references for race reports on the WP:F1 discussion page, but without any real resolution. I suggest you add what you wrote on my talk page to the end of that discussion, so it can be discussed by the whole project.
Regarding taking information from old magazines: I think you should be OK taking results from the magazines, but if you copy race report text word-for-word, that would be a copyright violation. You would have to rewrite the text in your own words. I've never really understood exactly how much you have to change the text for it to count as "your own words" though.
Regarding linking to circuit maps and other pictures; the preference is for articles to include images from within Wikipedia rather than to link to external ones. The drawback of course being that all images within Wikipedia have to be copyright-free. I think there are maps for all the F1 circuits already within Wikipedia (although that could be wrong).
Hope this helps. DH85868993 08:33, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Bobby. I notice you've recently been updating some F1 race report article talk pages with relevant WikiProject tags. Good work! One point to note is that if the talk page has a WP:F1 banner (indicating that the article "belongs" to the WP:F1 project), then (with a few exceptions) it doesn't need a WP:Motorsport banner as well - the general WP:Motorsport banner is used for articles which either don't fit into one of the child projects (such as WP:F1), or which span multiple child projects (e.g. articles like Mario Andretti, Juan Pablo Montoya, etc) - see the discussions here and here. But apart from that, keep up the good work! DH85868993 08:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Bobby. FYI, I've just reverted some of the edits you made to some categories in some of the 1999 F1 race reports. As you are no doubt aware, most of the F1 race report articles are included in the relevant "xxx Grand Prix" category. But the Argentine, Australian, Austrian, Bahrain and Belgian race reports are currently included in categories named "xxx Grand Prix race reports". One editor started changing them all over about 3 months ago, but then ran out of enthusiasm when they got to Belgium(!), so we currently have this inconsistent state. I'm about to raise the topic for discussion on the WP:F1 discussion page, but for the moment I have reverted your changes so that all the race reports for a given country are in the same category. -- DH85868993 12:07, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Bobby. Hope you don't mind me using the to-do list. I just thought it was a useful tool to help edit the race reports. Hope you complete all of the 1999 reports soon :). Eddie6705 17:24, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
The Exceptional Newcomer Award | ||
You describe yourself as a "beginning"-level editor, but your contributions to race report articles, and your efforts in getting involved in WP:F1, have been excellent. Keep up the good work! --Diniz (talk) 11:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC) |
As far as I know, the 1999 San Marino GP is the only article that has one. I originally planned to do some more afterwards, but making them is quite time-consuming, and I prefer making team results tables. The issue of lap charts was raised a couple of times at WP:F1 - here and here, which established that no-one had any objections to them. The only problem is that long races won't fit in the width of the average computer screen, but this can be fixed using an overflow bar (as can be seen in the existing lap chart). Thanks for taking this on, and I hope you enjoy making them! ;)--Diniz (talk) 20:03, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Bobby Doorknobs 20:07, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed an edit of yours in my watchlist. Good to have you back! :) --Diniz(talk) 22:31, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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