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Also wanted to welcome you to WikiProject NASCAR! -- D -Day I'm all ears How can I improve? 14:27, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject F1
Hi. Welcome to Wikiproject F1.

You may have noticed that we have set up a monthly 'Article Improvement Drive' to provide us with the selected articles on portal:Formula One. So far we have got Damon Hill up to Featured Article status (It appeared on the Wikipedia front page on 3 August) and Gilles Villeneuve up to Good Article status, so we're not doing too badly!

The current article up for improvement is Minardi - the very popular small Italian team, bought by Red Bull at the end of last year. Feel free to help out with it. Also see Portal_talk:Formula_One/Management of selected articles for how you can vote on the next article to be up for improvement. Cheers. 4u1e 20:06, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject British Motorsport - Collaboration of the month
The British Motorsport Wikiproject which you are a listed as a member of has started a collaboration of the month. You can nominate and vote for articles related to Motorsport in the UK with a view to working to improve one article each month to Good Article status. Please take a moment to have a look at the project page here. Thanks! Alexj2002 13:24, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Groverwilliams Monaco 1929.jpg
Heya, just wanted to point out although you've put a fair use rationale on the above image, it still needs the source of where you got it (website address or whatever). Part 6(a) of the Good Article criteria states "the images are tagged and have succinct and descriptive captions" - the lack of a source tag on the above image could prevent Monaco Grand Prix from reaching GA status. If you could edit it and add source information that would be great. Thanks, Alexj2002 14:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks OK to me. Thanks for sorting that. Alexj2002 22:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

1950 Isle of Man TT
I noticed your edit of 1950 Isle of Man TT and added the race template (I made a while ago) and external links to race results that you may not be aware of. While looking at the Isle of Man TT template, in another TT year's page I quickly noticed a no-longer red linked year so had a look at it. I have been working on the early results and try to add some comments about the meeting so it is not just a bland results page. I suppose it would be ideal to attempt to keep the format as similar as possible from year to year. If you know about this period you might want to do likewise. At the moment I have worked my way up to 1922, so any assistance is welcome. Cheers ww2censor 18:35, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, it is not necessary to wikilink every instance of rider and machine, once is enough and I believe recommended. I only link once in the results but occasionally in the top text. ww2censor 18:38, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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 * If you are thinking of keeping this image you could always put a "notorphan" tag on the image page to keep it from being deleted per the notification I happened to see on your page. ww2censor 23:43, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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The Leoncavallo F1 debate
I just posted a "reality check" in the debate at Articles for deletion/The Leoncavallo F1 Racing Team, and wanted to drop a line to make sure it was clear that I wasn't targeting you with my comments, but rather those who are putting up the most tenacious defense of an article I've yet seen on WP. Too bad the article can't be deleted merely on the basis of "bad form" of its adherents! If these folks can't follow the simple rules here at Wikipedia, how are they going to effectively compete in a motorsport resplendent with rules?? Thanks for your input! Akradecki 01:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Motorcycling Wikiproject
Welcome to the Motorcycling WikiProject. Hopefully you have a good time, start many new articles and can contribute lots to the existing ones as we need that. Cheers ww2censor 03:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Well done for your entries such as 1962 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season but is it possible that you could gradually go through them starting with 1963. 40 years of racing is practically missing. THis work is highly valuable. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Well let your motivation also come from me who thinks you are doing a brilliant job. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 22:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow that guy is really 77 years old!! How cool is he in his biker jacket! It just goes to show you how motocycle racing and racing in general keeps you young man! The guy is old enough to be a great grandad! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 22:48, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

GP moto racing template
I noticed that you modified the template Grand Prix motorcycle racing but wondered why you added line breaks after 1970 and 1992? Without the line breaks the dates will float to the width of the box according to the browser and resolution of the user but with the breaks you force the lines to break at those points and in some browsers and at some resolutions the line will break again unattractively instead of breaking freely according to the browser window width. It is up to you but for me I would leave the line breaks out. Cheers and thanks for the motorcycling enthusiasm on Wikipedia. ww2censor 20:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I tried to modify it, as I thought some of the formatting was looking a bit odd in places. I forgot that the changes I was making would look different for other resolutions, and I fully agree with you that it doesn't work. I'm going to try some things to see what I can come up with. If I can't improve it then I'll put it back to what it was. Readro 20:31, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I prefer to keep all comment together, so added your comment back here. Hope that's ok with you. All you other changes seemed fine except for the line breaks. If you make your browser window narrow, you will see some of the type of result other viewers may see with the flow of dates. ww2censor 21:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Henry Tyrrell-Smith or H.G. Tyrell Smith
Re German motorcycle Grand Prix. Been trying to find biographical info on this racer, and wondered where you found that spelling of Tyrell (?), and if u have any bio info on him? Everything I have on him is at User:Seasalt/Vincent. He is in thirties TT races as the H G name version. Just a blind chance..Seasalt 12:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

peer review
Thanks for the note; the weird thing is that I'm actually not a bot, which means that I'm just getting extremely forgetful. It is there now. AZ t 22:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Isle of Man TT
You recent edit adding Famous IOM riders seems totally redundant because all those riders you listed are already listed in the winners list and it is a very incomplete list ignoring many much more famous riders than some of those you added. If they are winners, then, imho, it implies they are famous riders already. I would suggest you remove it. Cheers ww2censor 13:40, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Transreal number
You redirected Transreal number to NaN as per Articles for deletion/Transreal number, but it appears that someone considered that vandalism and it is now back to how it was. Maybe the page could use some protection? Readro 22:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know! — Mets501 (talk) 22:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Mauricio Gugelmin-GA
Hey. I was wondering if you could take a quick look at my comments on the article Mauricio Gugelmin. I'm considering passing it out of GA but would like to see some small improvements I listed. Since you originally asked for the nomination, I figured I'd ask you about this. -- Wizardman 20:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The prose looks a lot better now. If you could improve the transitions and such in the PacWest section and not have so many mini-paragraphs I'd be willign to make thie a Good Article. Basically, just look over what I wrote in the Talk Page again. Plus, who else worked with you on this article? I'll drop them a line about this.-- Wizardman 02:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Congrats on the GA - well done! 4u1e 22:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've put 'Big Mo' on the F1 portal for January. Cheers. 4u1e 20:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * No trouble. No one else ever seems to want to do it, so at least I get to pick! :D 4u1e 21:01, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. I thought I'd been clear on the original version, but as I'm the only one who ever changes it I suspect I wasn't. It does say that it's the improvement drive of the month that should go on the portal. As I've been delinquent about pushing that concept recently we haven't really had any, although there have been group efforts on various articles. There is also a note (hidden at the bottom of the list of GA/FA) that one of the existing GA/FA should be picked if there is no successful improvement drive that month. It doesn't say anything about who makes the changes though, does it? I was trying to just write what should happen, on the basis that whoever happened to be passing could do it. Maybe I'll redraft and make it clearer. In the meantime, feel free to change it on that basis at the beginning of the month if you want to. Or not, if you don't - one of the things I quite like about Wikipedia is that we can all agree that something is terribly important and needs doing, and then wander off and do what we want anyway :D. Unlike work, unfortunately. Cheers. 4u1e 21:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Category:A-Class motorsport articles
The category you wrote, Category:A-Class motorsport articles, is uncategorized. Please help improve it by adding it to one or more categories, so it may be associated with related categories.Eli Falk 14:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Ford Five Hindred
Recently you have labled the article Specification levels of the Ford Five Hundred as spam. I DID NOT create it for spaming or advertising, I created it so readers would know more about the car. I AM NOT SPAMINGSenatorsTalk 00:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Monaco Grand Prix FAC
Monaco Grand Prix is currently a FAC. Just letting you know. Buc 07:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Monaco Grand Prix
Wasn't me that put it there - I think it was user:Bole2. I can see arguments either way. The map in the infobox is a long way from the text on the circuit and is less detailed. On the other hand, the current layout seems to have too many pictures crammed into a small space! 4u1e 12:21, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I think Bole2 tried that and found it didn't work for some reason. In principle no reason why not, but the picture has to be smaller there, so perhaps the detail's not clear? 1994 San Marino Grand Prix went FA with several different graphics of the circuit, on the basis that they showed different things. I don't feel strongly either way. Thanks for all your work on the article, by the way! 4u1e 00:34, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

copyright?
It's dubious how this new image could be copyrighted considering its age.Circeus 01:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)