Talk:Mario Andretti/Archive 3

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Checking media section

On it --Chaosdruid (talk) 17:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Good work, this passes. (I'll do it formally in the next couple of days). Congratulations--Jackyd101 (talk) 18:04, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

CART advocacy and desire for CCWS/IRL unity

Mario had been an outspoken defender of CART in the early years of the split (when CART was still a healthy, vibrant, and appealing series) and later an advocate for one series. I recall an ESPN article in which he said of Tony George and Kevin Kalkhoven, "I've gotten them to the (figurative) altar but I can't get them to say, 'I do.'", and was very concerned that his grandson's career would be blunted by the split. Which section should these points be added to? 97.125.104.130 (talk) 09:12, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

First, I agree - he was vocal about it and it belongs in the article. So please add it. Please be careful with what you say and with your tone. This is a Good Article and everything needs to remain in a neutral point of view. Since this is controversial in nature, you need to provide reliable sources to back up what you add, like newspapers, major magazines, major sports television networks, or books. I don't have a strong preference where you add it. The article might benefit if his "later life" section was restructured with subheadings for the Road American advocacy plus the CART advocacy. Royal broil 13:53, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Article enlargement

I think it would be better to enlarge this article to add more verifiable content so then it can be aware of its grand biography needs necessary. It depicts of how much the person can relate to another good but longer Wikipedia person biography. David Daredevil 16:57, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

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Childhood involvement in motorsports

While this assertion is sourced, "Andretti's first racing experience was in a new youth racing league called Formula Junior in Ancona, Italy when he was thirteen years old.[6][10]", this likely never happened and is historically inaccurate.

In this interview RRDC Evening with Mario Andretti - Full Interview, Mr. Andretti himself implies that the story was apocryphal and that he and his brother Aldo never actually raced in Formula Junior racing league.

Am0210 (talk) 14:34, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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Is/Was usage. ...And dead people?!

When reading the article, I began noticing that a lot of the text uses the verb "was" to describe Andretti, rather than "is." It actually made me do a double-take, to ensure that I had not at some point missed news of his passing. It seems to be more standard to use "is" when describing persons who are still living (and, indeed, the first line of the introduction does.)

Am I correct in intrepreting the usage of is/was in this manner? If there are no objections, I'd like to update this article to follow the normally established usage of "is" for living persons (except where any instance where "was" is used in the context of a direct quote. Would this be problematic?

Jtrnp (talk) 00:14, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

The style manual covers it at MOS:TENSE. Much of the article describes past events, so it'll be a case by case basis. Perhaps there is a better way of writing to eliminate the tense in many cases. I suspect that many of the subjects (sanctioning bodies, events, etc) don't exist as such anymore too. Andretti isn't dead so please take a stab at editing. Royal broil 04:33, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Popular culture references

On 17 August 2020, the entire section "Popular culture references" was removed. Many articles about public figures and other topics have such a section (sometimes titled "In popular culture"). If the issue is that the statements were not sourced, perhaps it would be better to restore at least some of the deleted material, adding source citations. -- HLachman (talk) 21:44, 23 January 2021 (UTC)