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Ivan Lukashevich

Hello! I've stumbled upon this one while checking out the GP3 season articles, and I wanted to ask if Lukashevich is even notable per WP:NMOTORSPORT? I did my WP:BEFORE search and expanded the table with the championships he participated in, but I still don't know whether Formula Palmer Audi, Toyota Racing Series, ADAC GT Masters or Russian Circuit Racing Series count towards the notability (as GP3 is a junior non-professional feeder series). Any help would be appreciated. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 00:17, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Reliability of juwra profiles?

Hey, how reliable is juwra profiles as a source? I understand it's used as a source for race statistics, but I was looking at whether their driver profiles such as Colin McRae are considered reliable. There's some grammatical errors on the profile which suggests the writer is ESL and from what I can tell the site is run by one person whose experience with reporting is running fansites. I've used the McRae profile as a source on Colin McRae for now, but can always switch to using his biographies for early life information instead (I originally asked this over at WikiProject World Rally but it's been a month with no response) CiphriusKane (talk) 02:58, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Kyffin Simpson

The Cayman Islands are not a country, they are part of the United Kingdom. This should be reflected in his infobox, but is constantly rejected by someone who cannot grasp this concept. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.149.165.144 (talk) 08:04, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

First of all, none of the reference nor the external links say he has nationality due to living in Cayman Islands. Its says he lives there, but regarding the nationality its refered as "american" or Barbadian and American. So Cayman Islands must be removed, and British shouldn't be added, unless references are given.Rpo.castro (talk) 12:11, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

The closest any of the sources come to calling him British is saying he is based in the Caymans (those two aren't even close to being the same thing). This arguement seems to concern the "nationality" field. Based on the evidence, he should be idenfied as American or American-Barbadian in that field - I don't see a source calling him British or Caymian(?) SSSB (talk) 13:38, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

It’s not only about the nationality field in his infobox. He is also currently identified with the Cayman flag in the articles on the championships he competed in.Tvx1 07:44, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

The RefDesk isn't a place for you to whine about something that you should be talking about on the articles Talk Page. Nanonic (talk) 14:03, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Brabham Featured article review

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Mika Salo paid editing

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Talk:Mika Salo#Discussion of "paid contributions" template – some input would be helpful from people familiar with the subject.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:52, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Excessive MOS:REPEATLINKing in tables about championship races, etc.?

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the best place for bring this up, but this morning I discovered 2013 German Formula Three Championship through the overlink tag. Every instance of a engine/car/team/driver name was wikilinked, which I started to remove. I was going off memory of what things like filmography tables usually do, so I didn't realize until just now that MOS:REPEATLINK lists an exception for tables "if helpful for readers". All the articles for other year's champsionships include the same amount of repeat linking, and it seems lots of other race/championship articles do as well.

I couldn't find any discussion about this, so I wanted to bring this up here. Despite the exception for tables in the guideline, it still feels like it may be a bit much. Some of the instances of repeat linking seem more excessive than others, like the chassis brand being linked every time despite being the only brand used and only in the one column of the table. Any thoughts? Thanks, SpinningCeres (talk) 00:16, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi @SpinningCeres:. I think you'll find that pretty much every occurrence of a driver/constructor/car name is linked in pretty much every motor racing table. It's a convention which has developed over time. I think the main rationale is that if readers find a driver/constructor/car about which they want to know more information near the end of a long table, it can be tedious to have to scroll back up the table to find the first occurrence, when for very little cost, we can just link every instance and they can just click the occurrence they found. DH85868993 (talk) 09:53, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for the feedback. I've restored the wikilinks on that article. SpinningCeres (talk) 16:34, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

RFC that could affect this project

There is a titling RFC at Wikipedia talk:Article titles that will affect many articles at this project. There was discussion of making the RfC handled bit by bit before all projects understood the ramifications with entertainment being singled out next in a deleted draft, and other projects after that. Whether you agree or don't agree please join in the discussion for this massive Wikipedia change. Fyunck(click) (talk) 10:42, 13 December 2021 (UTC)