User talk:Mcr103

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I saw your message about the copyright status of One Lap of America, but I'm afraid I deleted it anyway, since it was a news article and not an encyclopedia article--we already have an article on this subject at Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. Please see What Wikipedia is not for more information. By the way, for future reference, anything posted here is released under the GFDL (meaning it can, for example, be edited by others or reused outside of Wikipedia), so you may want to be more careful about posting content here that is being used in other media sources, even if you wrote it. Thanks. Chick Bowen 02:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry you feel that way. You're right--I did not realize that One Lap of America and the Cannonball Baker Dash were not the same thing.  If you can demonstrate to me that you own the copyright and are willing to release it under the GFDL I will undelete it.  I still think you'd be better off writing a new article, though, since as I said the old one was more in a news style rather than an encyclopedia style.  However, I am willing to undelete it, as I said, given evidence of your ownership.  Chick Bowen 02:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, I've e-mailed you. As for your question, we don't generally encourage content reposted from elsewhere for exactly this reason.  Chick Bowen 03:20, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It's back. Let me know if you need anything.  Chick Bowen 04:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Edits to One Lap of America
Mcr103,

My main intention with editing the One Lap of America to differentiate it from the Cannonball Run is to indicate two things:
 * - The racers who do the One Lap of America initially raced across America maintaining legal speed limits (they now race cross-country on racetracks) whereas racers in the Cannonball Run often illegally broke speed limits.
 * - The One Lap of America is the successor of the Cannonball Run and that it encourages keeping with legal speed limits, which is what I understood why Brock Yates, the primary figure heading both events, changed the event format.

However, upon hindsight I agree with you that the wording could be better, as when I say "ran," I meant the way the competitors raced, when it could be read as "ran" like how it was organized.

As for deleting the wording "longest motorsports event," I would have to check the revision history to know where it was located in the article to give you an answer.

Regards, -- GURoadrunner 06:19, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * In addendum, noting from the talk page of the event, I would encourage you, as you are more knowledgable on the topic, to make the appropriate revisions. GURoadrunner