Talk:The Big One (motorsport)

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Should Nationwide Series wrecks go here?Carn29 (talk) 12:55, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is this needed?

I have no reason to imagine someone needing a list of pileups in the history of NASCAR, why should this go in an encyclopedia? This seems like far too specific a topic to have such an in-depth article on, surely this would be better as a sub-section in an article about restrictor plate racing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sheddle (talk • contribs) 04:08, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is not too specific to be its own topic, there are plenty of other articles on narrower topics. There are many independent reliable sources on this specific topic which make the topic notable according to Wikipedia's standards. Since I protested your proposed deletion, you cannot propose deleting it again via the prod method - it needs to be a full discussion. Royalbroil 02:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that this article is not too specific. In fact, the subject is not simply "a bunch of stock car crashes." The subject is a specific kind of crash, one that has been for the past 20 years, singled out by independent sources, including print and television media. I do agree that the article can use some cleanup. It does suffer from some recent-ism. Doctorindy (talk) 17:43, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed as well. This page should not be deleted. I would not say that this article is of high importance in the NASCAR hierarchy, but its subject matter is absolutely ingrained in pop culture. The act that set up the "showdown" in Talladega nights was an example of the big one. Also agree that the article suffers from recentism (i like that word) guide lines for clean up? like possibly a minimum number of cars involved to cut down on the size of the list?Ehall317 (talk) 02:51, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]