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Appropriateness of Goodyear Category and Template[edit]

Again, grouping sponsorships inappropriately into categories and template. How does a one-off sponsorship of an Australian NSACAR race, 22 years ago provide additional insight into Goodyear as a company? Beyond the title of the article, there is no mention of Goodyear in the contents. Don't add articles together in templates and categories, simply because you can. Think about why these articles should be connected together. If these reason is purely cosmetic, then don't do it. If the reason is because, in the instance of Goodyear, because it expands our understanding of Goodyear then good. Please I would ask you consider more carefully what your are doing and not contribute further into turning Wikipedia into one vast trivia resource. --Falcadore (talk) 02:13, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Falcadore,

As a tire company, Goodyear is very prominent in motorsports both as a sponsor and a supplier, something I expanded in the actual Goodyear article. Last time, when I incorrectly added a Cat to an article because it had a large number of sponsors and the company at issue was not primary, I promptly corrected my change.

But this case is different. Based, yes, on the title and the first of two sentences in the article, I'm assuming that Goodyear was the title sponsor. The article is only two sentences long so there's not much to go on:

The Goodyear NASCAR 500 race was run at the Calder Park Thunderdome, Australia in 1988. Neil Bonnett won the race.

Based on your edit comment, "one insignificant race held on another continent is not sufficiently notab", it sounds like you question whether the article itself shouldn't be deleted as trivia. That's a valid point if it can't be expanded beyond a stub. (Your edit comment also suggests that non-Australian companies should not be referenced in articles about Australia which may be less practical with so many global companies nowadays.)

For comparison, the Sprint Cup Series is in the Sprint Nextel category. Why would this article be treated differently? Thanks,RevelationDirect (talk) 03:08, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because the Sprint Cup is maybe the largest motorsport series on the planet and this race barely even rates a footnote in domestic Australian Motorsport history? If Sprint sponsored a charity golf tournament that would then be an appropriate addition to Sprint's wiki article? Were you planning to add every event Goodyear has been in involved in or is your criteria just those that have the word Goodyear in the title, regardless of their importance or notability? --Falcadore (talk) 03:49, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]