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F1 Improvement drive

Hi Skully. History of Formula One seemed to be the winner, so you know the routine! Thoughts on what needs doing on talk:History of Formula One. A lack of references would seem to be the main thing! Hope you can help. 4u1e 9 November 2006.

Questions, Questions!

Hi. Loads of questions! ;-)

Two immediate thoughts spring to mind:

• Something technical - maybe one of the technical subjects, have a look at ground effect and see if that is up to scratch for example. Or is there an article on the set-up of racing cars? Need to be aware of not writing a manual, though, which is not what Wikipedia is for. Not strictly F1, but very relevant. If you're interested in making a career in technology of some kind, then writing about it is one way of impoving your understanding.
• One thing we don't have yet is a GA or FA season article - different challenge again to a particular race, or a driver or a team. Why not pick one of the juicy ones (1994!)?

Regarding technical innovation: Williams built a 6-wheeler (similar to the March 2-4-0) called the FW08B in 1982 - but it didn't race. Williams (after Lotus) started racing active suspension in 1987 I think, but withdrew it again after 1988. The Williams FW14 of 1991/2 successfully introduced most of the really complicated electronic trickery (apart from the semi-auto gearbox, which was a Ferrari innovation) in the early 1990s in its 'B' version. Williams pioneered a Continuously Variable Transmission F1 car around the same time, but it was banned before they could use it in a race. (Brabham beat them to that one though - they trialled a Formula Junior car with CVT in the early 1960s!).

It'd be great if you could look over Brabham as well - dont be afraid to point out stuff you think doesn't make sense or isn't really of interest! Cheers --4u1e 13:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on Prost

That's a fair contribution to two FAs now - well done! 4u1e 19:49, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Just to second that, congratulations of getting Prost to FA, he's probably one of the three most important drivers in modern F1 history. Great work!Alexj2002 12:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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Question about the List of Formula One Fatal Accidents article

Hi Skully. On the List of Formula One fatal accidents article, is there any reason why the link for Ricardo Rodriguez ("Mexican Grand Prix") links to the circuit rather than the race, like most of the others do? --DH85868993 11:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

BT20

Cool - thanks. I may get on to doing a set of articles on more Brabham cars once I've (hopefully) shepherded the main article through FA. 4u1e 23:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Notable GP's

Thanks for those, I've added them to the list. You know where to look if you're ever wanting to find an article to work on... Cheers, Alexj2002 23:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Little thingy

How do you get the little online/offline thingy to work? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Da.Tomato.Dude (talk • contribs) 02:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

Formula Palmer Audi

it's true, some referencing is needed, the only problem is that as i'm the FPA press officer, most of it's come out of my head! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wazzman34 (talk • contribs) 15:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

Mika Häkkinen

You've decided to remove the statistics section out of the article about Mika Häkkinen, but I'm afraid I don't agree with that. Not all information in that section was mentioned in the article - especially the lists of victories, poles and fastest laps - that have been gone now. Again, sorry, but I think you've to review that deletion. --Kevin Vandevelde 21:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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List of Formula One fatal accidents

Congratulations on the list reaching featured list status, thanks in no small measure to your contributions! Good work.--Diniz 15:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Skully, on the article's discussion page, you suggested adding a note when a driver didn't die "on the spot". Do you think, therefore, that we should have a note for all drivers who died in hospital later the same day (e.g. Villeneuve)? Or just for ones who actually died on a different date to the date of the accident? Thanks. DH85868993 11:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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Dannii Minogue article

Hello. I recently nominated the Dannii Minogue article for FA status. I was wondering if you would be willing to read over the article, correcting its grammar, prose, etc. Thank you very much. -- Underneath-it-All 21:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia 1.0 Review Team

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FAID 4 February - 11 February

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Edit to F1 Rejects

Hi Skully, I'm wondering if there are a couple of words missing from your recent addition to F1 Rejects: Should it say something like?:

Although there is an "un-written rule" in the criteria which was addressed during the "Off-season" podcast, January 21 2007, where a listener of F1 Rejects asked why drivers who had lost their lives while driving a Formula One car and were eligable for Reject status, Roger Williamson and Tony Brise for example, weren't listed on the site.

I haven't heard the podcast, so I didn't want to update the wording myself in case I got it wrong. Also, have you considered making the text about the "unwritten rule" a footnote rather than including it in the first paragraph? Because it's sort of a minor rule compared to the other two. DH85868993 11:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Monaco Grand Prix FAC

Monaco Grand Prix is currently a FAC. Just letting you know. Buc 07:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Ta very much

That's me: random! ;-) 4u1e 17:00, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Williams FW16B

Thanks for bringing that up. On that subject, I've brought something up on the WikipediaF1 talk page that I'm really stuck on. Can you help me. I'll see you on the page. Davnel03 15:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Started up pages

Ive started up all the pages, all I need to do is write it now. If you want to write bits and bobs, you can. Davnel03 15:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Congrats!

Well done on getting Tom Pryce to GA status! Readro 22:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

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Tom Pryce

Hi Skully - excellent work on Tom Pryce. Going for the hat trick on FA? Regarding references, I think what Yannismarou meant was to do something more like Brabham or History of Saffron, where you keep the inline citation, but just give the the author name and page number, and then list the references in full afterwards. I don't think he meant that the inline citations weren't needed at all. Cheers. 4u1e 7 March 2007, 10:54