User talk:Vikirad

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Vikirad, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Car articles[edit]

Hi. I noticed you've added many Top Gear related contributions to car articles. While it is commendable that you did so, alot of those additions are what might be construed as fancruft i.e. only of interest to fans of the show. Top Gear is not the be all and end all of car review programs, so to quote a particular mention in any car article, whether good or bad, is running close to problems of undue weight. Remember also that Top Gear is highly opinionated about the cars they review, and quite often the reviewers argue between themselves over certain cars.

Also, it is better encyclopedic style to give an "arm's length" discussion of either criticism or praise, rather than to quote specific reviews (see e.g. the Reviews section in the Honda S2000 article, which mentions the praise and criticism in an overview style, but does not quote the individual sources in detail). For this reason I've reverted your changes to the various car articles. If you want to discuss this further, drop me a line on my talk page or simply reply here. Zunaid 09:18, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Page Blanking[edit]

On 03-Nov, you blanked Renault R25. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I've reverted it to the previous version. If this was the result of a broken edit, you may wish to make the correct edits. If you believe the page should be deleted, please follow the deletion procedures. If you believe different content should go there, please create a stub. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 16:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Veyron-top-speed-dial.jpg[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Veyron-top-speed-dial.jpg)[edit]

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If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. There may be other Top Gear images uploaded by you that have also been tagged as orphaned. See Talk:List of Top Gear episodes for my rationale for removing the images from the article. PS2pcGAMER (talk) 03:52, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Le Mans 2011[edit]

The standard for previous years has been to add only drivers that have been announced by teams or drivers listed on updated entry lists from the ACO. I agree that the Le mans test day points to possibilities, but they are in no way confirmations. Many drivers drove cars at the test day that they will not drive at the race, so using your example of the Jetalliance Lotuses, it's possible some of those drivers will not participate. At the moment, only the two nominated drivers on the entry list, plus Mowlem and Rossiter, are actually confirmed by the team. The³5₉ (Talk) 01:05, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re:2012 WEC entry list[edit]

No no, not by name at all. Basically, for some series listed on here, the entry list is listed alphabetically, whereas others are listed by car number [of lowest instance] and then all team cars listed in that manner before moving to the next team/number. A quick example I can give to you (although via motorcycle championships) is the MotoGP list here, where Repsol Honda have riders using numbers 1 and 26, and rather than list them separately, we list them under the same banner. The most simplistic reason for this is to save a bit on the article size. In regards to the WEC pace, withstanding the added "ref name" to several drivers, the grouping of the team cars together saved 0.8 kB. But yeah, it's just to save duplicity, in other words! Craig (talk) 18:08, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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