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British speedway articles

I find the way we have organized articles on British speedway very confusing and lacking in logic. The league system in Britain has changed several times, often with the same name being used for different leagues, and they seem very jumbled here. As an example there have been three 'National League's - a national (top flight) league in the mid-20th century, the renamed second division of the British League from 1975 (sometimes called the 'New National League'), and the renamed Conference League that is currently active. Three different leagues, all confused into one in this encyclopedia. From the formation of the British League in 1965 there is yet more confusion as it went from a two-division league to a three-division league when the Elite league was formed. The Premier league then went from being the top division to the second division, so in many articles gets equated with the 'New National league' and the old second division although in reality it is not the same league. We really need to separate these things out into distinct articles. Naming is another issue. The Elite League is called the Elite League, not as far as I can tell the 'Speedway Elite League' and virtually every article here on speedway competitions has been prefixed with the word 'Speedway' irrespective of whether the competition was actually named that way - some form of inappropriate disambiguation it seems (see also Speedway British League which should and could live quite happily at British League until disambiguation is needed). I would really like to sort this mess out but as it would involve considerable change I anticipate that it may ruffle a few feathers. If anyone has any thoughts I would be happy to take them on board. Thanks. --Michig (talk) 10:06, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

I don't have any knowledge of speedway, but thought I'd respond so that you would have some feedback. Regarding the naming issue, I was going to suggest calling the article Elite League (speedway), but it lives there already! Equally, British League (speedway) could be used. I think the term British League is quite generic so you're probably going to need some disambiguation one way or another, even in the season pages. Readro (talk) 22:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

The Elite League is the only one I think that is currently named in the standard way. --Michig (talk) 06:02, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

MotoGP riders

I'd like you to pay attention to Alexxander3000's new pages about every rider who raced in MotoGP in these years: I think these pages are only a copy of motogp.com statistics, they lack of prose and they've got a lot of formal mistakes (like absence of categories and persondata templates, links to disambiguation pages like FTR and Suter) and also content mistakes, as they don't take into account World Superbike or Supersport participations, et cetera. I think that it's just a way to make all links blue, but in my opinion it's not the right way. 79.21.163.253 (talk) 09:48, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

It's not ideal that we have all these articles that are just stubs, but the riders pass notability and as such the author is not exactly doing anything wrong by starting an article. Yes, there are issues with them but the only way we can resolve them is by adding to the articles. I've been trying to do this when I can but it's quite a lot of work. Readro (talk) 21:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure where to make this comment, and I apologize if I'm not following the rules. I'd like to suggest a correction to the portals page for this topic. Giacomo Agostini is listed as a many-time "500cc/MotoGP" champion. Actually, he never raced in MotoGP, which is a copyrighted term invented by the organization DORNA when they took control of the world championship, and is used to describe what was called the FIM motorcycle 500cc road-racing world championship during Ago's career. The term "Grand Prix" motorcycle road-racing was never an official name. Currently, the term MotoGP refers only to a single engine displacement class.

Prior to DORNA's involvement and the name-change, there were as many annual FIM road-racing world champions as there were classes of bikes, with 500cc usually being the premiere class, often followed by 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 50cc and Sidecar classes. These classes were often referred to as "GP" or Grand Prix motorcycles, to differentiate between these all-out, purpose-built racers and the various-sized Production class bikes. During that era, if a rider said that he or she was riding in, for example, the "250 class", it was universally understood to mean the 250cc Grand Prix class and not a Production class racer. By the same token, a "Senior" class bike was 500cc, while 350cc bikes were "Juniors." In the modern era, calling a bike a "MotoGP" does not specifically designate the engine displacement, since that has changed, year-to-year. - Chuck Lantz — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.11.57.0 (talk) 11:25, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

2012 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

Just a heads up that the 2012 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix article has had a notability tag placed on it by User:Mtking and will likely be put to WP:AfD. He has succeeded in destroying a large amount of Mixed martial arts coverage on wikipedia and is currently trying to get an ATP Tour tennis tournament deleted. It looks like Moto GP is next. Cheers. Jevansen (talk) 06:04, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I had removed the tag twice yesterday, also adding some sources, but I don't know what to do to make the event "notable". Gpmat (talk) 07:24, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Anybody knows which are the "secondary sources" needed? I can't understand which news I have to put, because it seems that Crash.net, Autosport, BBC Sport and MotoGP are not enough. I removed the tag for the third time but he's insisting. Gpmat (talk) 08:34, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Mate I'd stop removing that tag if I were you, it's not going to end well. The references you have listed are all primary sources. Considering the Spanish GP took place just one month ago, I'm really not sure what secondary source would exist, regardless of whether or not the event is "notable". Perhaps you could get Mtking to explain. Jevansen (talk) 09:12, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

That's ok, but I'm not going to waste more time in situations like this. Gpmat (talk) 10:23, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

As far as I know, primary sources would be the MotoGP website and teams websites. Journalists from media like AP, AFP and Autosport are secondary sources. --NaBUru38 (talk) 16:40, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Kawasaki Motors Racing

Template:Kawasaki Motors Racing has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DH85868993 (talk) 14:12, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Name of the Austin MotoGP round

MotoGP seems to have "Americas" as the title for the Austin race. On the other hand, Wikipedia article's title is still "Texas". If the article isn't renamed, should the "Americas" title be mentioned in the prose, similarly to "Grand Prix of Jersey" in the article about F1's Grand Prix of America? --August90 (talk) 12:12, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

MotoGP - Moto2 - Moto3. Why not seperate pages?

I was wondering why the MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 are all on the same page and don't have seperate ones. Formula One doesn't do it with its GP2 and GP3 series. TollHRT52 (talk) 13:53, 3 November 2012 (AEDST)

In this case we'd have five pages (for classes 50, 125, 250, 350, 500) for each season from 1962 to 1982, I think it's not a great idea, and all classes belong to the "FIM Road Racing World Championship" and the regulations are about all classes. 87.13.4.245 (talk) 10:32, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Moto2/Moto3/125cc round numbering in season summary articles

I'd like to question the round numbering in the Moto2 and Moto3/125cc Participants tables in the 2010 to 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season summary articles. Consider the first couple of rows the Moto2 Participants table in 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season:

Team	Constructor	Motorcycle	No.	Rider	Rounds
Came IodaRacing Project	FTR	FTR Moto M212	3	Simone Corsi	1–9, 11–18
GP Team Switzerland	Kalex	Kalex Moto2	4	Randy Krummenacher	1–9, 11–13, 17–18
			20	Jesko Raffin	14–16
JiR Moto2	Motobi	TSR TSR6	5	Johann Zarco	1–9, 11–18
			57	Eric Granado	6–9, 11–12, 14–18

I think the "Rounds" column for Corsi should contain "1-17" not "1-9, 11-18". I understand why it has been written as "1-9, 11-18", i.e. to make the round numbers match the MotoGP round numbers, but I don't think that makes sense - there were only 17 rounds in the 2012 Moto2 Championship, so a round number of 18 doesn't make sense. It also makes the season summary articles inconsistent with the rider articles - it you look at Corsi's results table, the 2012 rounds are numbered 1-17:

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Final pos	Points
2008	125cc	Aprilia	QAT 7	SPA 1	POR 1	CHN Ret	FRA 13	ITA 1	CAT 5	GBR 5	NED 3	GER 5	CZE 10	RSM 3	IND 7	JPN 7	AUS 8	MAL 3	VAL 1	2nd	225
2009	125cc	Aprilia	QAT 14	JPN 15	SPA 14	FRA Ret	ITA 18	CAT 16	NED 8	GER Ret	GBR 2	CZE Ret	IND 3	RSM 7	POR Ret	AUS 5	MAL Ret	VAL 4		11th	81
2010	Moto2	Motobi	QAT 8	SPA 5	FRA 3	ITA 3	GBR Ret	NED 12	CAT 6	GER Ret	CZE 8	IND 5	RSM 4	ARA 5	JPN 11	MAL 10	AUS 8	POR 14	VAL 7	5th	138
2011	Moto2	FTR	QAT 6	SPA 3	POR 5	FRA 7	CAT 4	GBR 10	NED 14	ITA 7	GER 8	CZE 9	IND 14	RSM 10	ARA 3	JPN 5	AUS 15	MAL Ret	VAL Ret	6th	127
2012	Moto2	FTR	QAT 8	SPA 17	POR Ret	FRA Ret	CAT 5	GBR 5	NED Ret	GER 6	ITA 18	IND 8	CZE 5	RSM Ret	ARA 7	JPN 6	MAL 23	AUS 7	VAL 17	11th	87

If there is consensus to change the numbering, I'm happy to do the work. Comments? DH85868993 (talk) 23:36, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

I think this just emphasises that MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 should be seperated into individual pages. Superbike and Supersport have seperate season pages. The same should apply here. --Falcadore (talk) 07:55, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

While we're on separation (which I would support), I also think that 500cc and MotoGP should be separated, as should 250cc and Moto2, and 125cc and Moto3. At the moment they get lumped together as a continuation, but they're distinct classes. Readro (talk) 09:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

I also agree with all the above commnets, the pages for Moto GP/Moto2/Moto3 are much too long and i think could cause confusion if someone who doesn't know the sport would want to look for information. All other series have separate pages with links under the infobox to the other classes. SBK and BSB articles are done this way and i think Moto GP should be the same. As for the round numbering to me it makes no sense how it currently is because moto2/3 don't have 18 rounds they have 17... Xrateddan (talk) 11:04, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

I made the changes and then reverted them. It occurs to me that (for example) the 2012 Moto2 race at Valencia can be considered as "round 17 of the 2012 Moto2 World Championship", or "the Moto2 class of round 18 of the 2012 FIM Road Racing World Championship". So I think we need to think about this further. DH85868993 (talk) 06:05, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

By the way, the tournament is called FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix, not Grand Prix motorcycle racing. --NaBUru38 (talk) 17:02, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Looks like its time to bring this debate to the Wikiproject talk page. --Falcadore (talk) 01:14, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

This is the WikiProject talk page, isn't it? DH85868993 (talk) 07:05, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Grand Prix motorcycle racing is not an incorrect description and I'd oppose changing it. Readro (talk) 21:06, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople

An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:52, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Table font sizes

I have removed the forced font sizes that are used in tables on a number of MotoGP articles. There are three reasons for this. The first is that there is absolutely no reason to use small fonts. The second is that using them makes it difficult for readers with a visual impairment - text, with the obvious exception of headings, should be kept at the same size for ease of reading. The last is that the use was inconsistent bordering on random - some fonts were 85%, some 90% and others 95%. Can we agree to use the same 100% font size throughout? --Biker Biker (talk) 23:19, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

My only concern is that it will cause some table rows to be doubled, i.e not being able to fit the whole riders name in the box, having said that this is less likely to happen with Moto GP than Superbike (Superbike having 2 races means more page is taken up and overflow can occur) and at 85% some articles are struggling to keep the content on the page without overflowing horizontally. If there is a solution to this then i would support the global 100% but until then i think only Moto GP articles should be at 100%. Plus it makes no difference 85-99, 90 and 95 are the same size as 85 anyway (or it seems that way). Xrateddan (talk) 19:35, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

WP:FONTSIZE states "large tables may require a decreased font size in order to fit on screen." Having looked at all the MotoGP articles I cannot see any tables that would overflow. For Superbike I take your point and the main results table could use the smaller fonts - but for all other fonts it is simply not needed. --Biker Biker (talk) 21:41, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

• I don't understand the case where the rider's name is "doubled". At some browser widths, the rider's name is wrapped, which is fine. There are border lines on the table anyway, so what's the harm? If the browser width is extremely small, a horizontal scroll bar appears. Nothing is truncated.

  The larger issue is why we would think the reader needs table's in a smaller font size than the prose size. If the screen they have is too small, the reader has to change the default size in their browser. Assuming they've already done that, it doesn't help them to make table fonts even smaller.

  Keep in mind also that Help:Mobile access deals with viewing Wikipedia on small devices. If you're targeting that reader, you should to do so without shrinking the text for all readers.

  One other suggestion: if you really want a cleaner table that take up less space, lose the damn flags. You don't need to repetitively beat the reader over the head with the nationality of the rider and the track. Dates don't need the month spelled out; use numbers. Rider, track and team names don't need to be spelled out in every instance. Abbreviate them too. There are many better solutions than forcing on the reader a font smaller than the one they asked for. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:09, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

85% font size in table is standard across the motorsport pages. Take the calendar on the 2013 MotoGP season page for instance - at present, it only has four columns (round, date, event and circuit), but once the season starts, it will have four more (MotoGP winner, Moto2 winner, Moto3 winner and race reports). With eight columns and 100% font size, the calendar table is unlikely to fit the width of most monitors, particularly with the addition of pictures.

Similarly, abbreviations should be avoided when and where possible. It is not a solution. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 23:39, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

• Can you define "most monitors"? And which font size and browser width are you using to say it won't fit? And what's wrong with a horizontal scroll bar in cases where the user's font sizes are out of proportion with their browser width? The reason Wikipedia generally discourages forcing things like font or image sizes is that the need for them is not justified by the experience of most readers; rather it's an editor who fixes the page rather than fixing their own browser settings or user settings. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:01, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

The need for a horizontal slider bar should be avoided when and where possible. It's all about making the articles as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. If people have to move the slider bar across just to see the full extent of a table, then clearly that is less than satisfactory - particualrly when there is a viable alternative in fixing the size of the fonts. Biker Biker claims that 100% font size is ideal for people who are vision impaired, but there is a gaping flaw in his argument: I'm vision-imparied, and if I have trouble reading something at 85%, I put my glasses on and stop having trouble. If somebody's vision is so imparied that they have trouble reading something at 85%, then chances are that they are going to realise that they have a problem with their vision in everyday activities, and increasing the font size to 100% is not going to make a difference in what they can see. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 07:24, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

1979 Venezuelan motorcycle Grand Prix

FYI, there is a discussion in progress regarding the 1979 Venezuelan motorcycle Grand Prix article at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Motorsport#1979_Venezuelan_motorcycle_Grand_Prix. DH85868993 (talk) 21:23, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

2012 season articles needing work

Time for my annual post about incomplete season articles. The following series articles are little more than tables. Most of them don't even explain what they are, whether they are open wheel series, where they are held, who won the series! Apparently a series as important as DTM considers the point score system more important than the series champion.

The situation is also encouraging new editors to be likewise poor in seasonal coverage.

So while the majority of series are in hibernation perhaps we could spend a few days improving these articles.

Surely it would be more important and productive than arguing over whether Mercedes or Mercedes AMG is the correct terminiology for a constructor? Less minuatae!

No mention of series winner:
2012 AMA Pro American Superbike Championship season
2012 FIM Motocross World Championship season
2012 Superbike World Championship season
2012 Supersport World Championship season
2012 FIM Superstock 1000 Championship season

Series winner mentioned but no season review:

• Indicates race summaries, but a lack of season review

2012 AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship season
2012 Superbike World Championship season

Thank you for your time. --Falcadore (talk) 05:42, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration

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Indian motorcycle Grand Prix

Indian motorcycle Grand Prix seems to be incorrect in stating that the first race of the 2013 MotoGP season will be held in India. As far as I can tell, there will be no races in India this year. Perhaps it is based on dated reporting? Hopefully someone with better knowledge on this topic can clean up the article. — Brianhe (talk) 20:56, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

The only sources are Indian websites. There is no Indian Grand Prix this year, nor any confirmation that there will be one at all. I think the article should be deleted. Readro (talk) 11:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

AMA Pro riders at Road America

I have tickets for this Sunday's AMA Pro Superbike race at Road America. I normally photograph the entire field in the race when I go to the NASCAR race there and I'll try for this event too. Is there another other pictures that anyone would like? Any bike parts? I'll try to get a photo of the field racing up the hill between Turn 5 and 6 on the first lap. Royalbroil 01:35, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Oldest motorcycle speedway race in the world

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Category:MotoGP race reports

Category:MotoGP race reports desperately needs to be sub-divided by season. Any brave souls willing to begin? --Falcadore (talk) 06:55, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I was about to start doing this, then I noticed that the MotoGP race reports are already grouped by year - the individual race report articles are each included in the relevant "YYYY in Grand Prix motorcycle racing" category. Note that this is different to how the Formula One race reports are categorised - the individual Formula One race report articles are included in the relevant "YYYY Formula One race reports" category, and just that category is included in the "YYYY in Formula One" category. I'm not necessarily opposed to changing the MotoGP category structure to match the Formula One ones; I just wanted to point out that the MotoGP race reports are already grouped by year. DH85868993 (talk) 05:25, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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MotoGP teams' nationality

User Kyo 1 added flags for MotoGp/500 teams in pages from 2000 season onwards. He didn't provide any reference, and in my opinion there are some errors, like Pulse GP reported as German or Team d'Antin as Italian (before merging with Pramac). I also think that without any reliable source it's not easy to tell the nationality for past teams like Nastro Azzurro Honda (ok... Italian rider, Italian sponsorship, but if I remember well it was owned and managed by HRC) or Proton KR (Malaysian-backed, American-owned, English-based). I don't know if FIM has a teams' license system like FIA/Formula One with which the nationalities are publicly declared. I'd like to know other opinions, thanks. -Scott DNA (talk) 21:58, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Moving many articles to WP Motorcycle racing

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2015 AMA Superbikes

I went to the American MotoAmerica Superbikes doubleheader at Road America. I uploaded the Superbike field to Commons and I have more smaller bikes to upload. So there's images out there if anyone's working on a new article... Royalbroil 02:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

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Season in progress footnotes

I have proposed a change to the wording of the "Season in progress" footnotes which accompany motorsport results tables which the season is still in progress. Interested editors are invited to comment at the centralised discussion. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk) 21:55, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Motorcycle racing portal

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Long track naming

The Category:Long track hierarchy is in limbo at the moment, unable to create new year categories thanks to this CfD in 2011 where Category:2011 in long track was deleted on the grounds of an ambiguous name, but no alternative was put forward. I tried to get a resolution at WP Sports by proposing that the Long track article becomes a disambiguation like Speedway - the likes of Long track speed skating get far more page views than the motorsport. I didn't get very far so I'm having another go by putting the category hierarchy up for renaming at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 March 31. For now I've suggested moving the hierarchy to Category:Long track motorcycle racing but I don't have strong views on whether it should be that, or Category:Motorcycle long track like the speedway article or whatever. I just want to get a decision for something that will let us create new annual categories for the sport. Le Deluge (talk) 00:27, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Grand Prix motorcycle racing Template

It seems as though an editor has taken it upon himself to assign "eras" that have no cited source sources to the Navibox template used to list Motorcycle Grand Prix seasons here: Template:Grand Prix motorcycle racing. A "safety conscious" era seems to have been pegged to the removal of the Isle of Man TT from the calendar. This had more to do with top riders boycotting the event meanwhile, dangerous circuits such as Opatija and Imatra were allowed to remain on the schedule after 1977. The move to a more safety conscious era came in drips and drabs so, assigning anything after 1977 as being part of a safety conscious era is inaccurate. There are no sources that back up these "eras". This edit strikes me as original research.Orsoni (talk) 15:44, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Jason Anderson (motorcyclist)

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Kawasaki Motors Team / Kawasaki Racing Team

Having a browse earlier and I noticed that there was an empty section which required attention under the 'World Superbike Championship' heading on the Kawasaki Motors Racing page. I've started to add the WSBK results, I've done 2017 and 2018 season so far and it's quite a large table already so not too sure how to continue as it will take up a lot of space! However, having a proper read through and it reads like it was solely a MotoGP team but then someone else had added the WSBK heading and info boxes for 2018 WSBK season. I was wondering if the page should be changed/renamed to 'Kawasaki Racing Team' as per their website which would also coincide with the logos in the infobox. There has been sporadic updates to the page over the years so I think it needs a massive update. The MotoGP pages link the team to the KMT page and the constructor to the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine page but both the team and constructor on the WSBK pages link to the 'Heavy Industries' page which has a racing section that then has a link to the KMT page, seems a bit unnecessary to go via the 'Heavy Industries' page to me? I'm fairly new to editing so not sure if there is a specific reason or just that the KMT page needs a massive update?

Any thoughts on this and whether the page should be renamed and overhauled to bring it up to scratch before I add any more content or keep the KMT as a MotoGP based page and create a new on for the WSBK team? Like I said, I'm fairly new at this so would appreciate other opinions/insights.

Many thanks - Sheffy94 (talk) 20:17, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi! I might be a year late to this but I do think you should change it. Personally, I believe a lot of pages on this grand prix motorcycle page need an update, overhaul or even split to create clarity. Since the WSBK Kawasaki team and the MotoGP Kawasaki team are two different entities competiting in two different sport, I say you have my greenlight to go do it. MatteoNL97 (talk) 08:54, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

RfC which impacts this WikiProject's articles

An RfC has started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Motorsport#RFC on referencing results sections in motorsport articles which has wide implications for this WikiProject. Interested editors are welcome to contribute to the discssion.
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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Motorsports opened

The Arbitration Committee has accepted arequest for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Motorsports regarding two users contributing to this project. If anyone wishes to add evidence for arbitrators to consider, you can add it to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Motorsports/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 13, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Motorsports/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.Tvx1 23:11, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Tom Moore

Tom Moore (fundraiser), the 99-yar-old who has been in the news a lot this week for his fund-raising, was a motorcycle racer. Can anyone find details of his sporting career? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:41, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

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"Regulation changes" section on the 2020 MotoGP season article

@Grdijk: has recently reverted two of particular edits I made. This involved the addition of the regulation changes made for the 2020 season, dividing them between the sporting regulations (rules about the riders, the penalties, the flags, etc) and the technical regulations (all the tidbits on the bikes, so to speak). The reasons said user undid my review was for "improper citing based on the Wikipedia:Bare URLs rules", the "tone of the writing not befitting the encyclopedia entry" and because "most of this information is minutae which clutters the page". The first one isn't much of an issue given the existance of the linkrot tag and other ways to fix this, but the other two are cause for debate.

I usually take my inspiration from other examples, this time it is the 2020 Formula One World Championship page. This page - as do many other F1 season pages - have a section mentioning the regulation changes. Some are short as few changes were made for that year while others are longer. Based on this, I applied the structure onto the 2020 MotoGP page in my own words (though it may look the same given how most of the words used in my sentences are similar), sourcing where necessary. I wonder what others think about this? MatteoNL97 (talk) 08:38, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Infobox question

Can someone tell me what infobox should be used at 1907 Isle of Man TT? It has had a hand-code infobox since last April that is probably not compliant with the MOS - the size looks really small to me. It should have a standard infobox. MB 00:19, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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Captain Tom listed at Requested moves

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Template:Infobox racing driver has an RFC

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Cannabis and sports

New stub: Cannabis and sports. Any project members care to help expand? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:59, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

New WikiProject Proposal Alert

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Discussion at WikiProject Motorsport regarding WP:NMOTORSPORTS

There is currently a discussion at WT:MOTOR regarding the notability guidelines for motorsport competitors. Input on the notability of motorcycle sport competitors, including speedway, sidecar, and motocross, would be most welcome. Thank you. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 04:25, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

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Discussion at WikiProject Motorsport regarding Qatar venue

I have started a discussion at Wikiproject Motorsport regarding the venue which hosts the Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix. It is likely most relevant to this Wikiproject given the venue's history. Thank you. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 14:14, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

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Hatnote discussion

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Discussion at Wikiproject Motorsport

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Avalon Biddle listed at Requested moves

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