User talk:V8dude2

A belated welcome!
Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, V8dude2. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.
 * Introduction
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * How to write a great article

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on, consult Questions, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome!  Zappa O Mati  03:39, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

September 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not replace pages with blank content, as you did with this edit to User:V8fan, as this is confusing to readers. The page's content has been restored for now. If there is a problem with the page, it should be edited or reverted to a previous version if possible; if you think the page should be removed entirely, see further information. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 03:37, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

2013 V8 drivers tables
While I agree it is still too early for a 2013 drivers tables, it should be noticed that in much of the material this week about the merged SBR/Erebus team is no mention of any drivers for next year's Mercedes team, indeed they did say no drivers have been confirmed. So I don't think we can say anymore that Van Gisbergen and Holdsworth are confirmed for next year. --Falcadore (talk) 06:18, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 26
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that you've added some links pointing to disambiguation pages. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.


 * 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
 * added a link pointing to Turner Motorsports


 * 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
 * added a link pointing to Turner Motorsports

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:53, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for December 4
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Tony Longhurst Racing, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Brad Jones (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Recent additions
Some of the stuff you had put into the 2013 drivers tables isn't properly sourced or even confirmed, that's why I removed it. Just because sources say that something will happen, doesn't 100% mean it will happen.Gaeaman787 (talk) 00:26, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Collapsible tables on 2013 International V8 Supercars Championship
V8dude2,

I have reverted your edits to 2013 International V8 Supercars Championship for two reasons. First of all, you didn't undo the changes properly, so the table was all skewed. And secondly, the reasons for those changes are explained on the article talk page. Your reasoning for removing that collapsible table was that it "just repeats main table with enduro drivers added whats the point of that??", which isn't really a reason - it doesn't address why those changes were made, so I don't think it's a valid argument. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 00:41, 15 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I suggest you read WP:BEBOLD, which promotes what is called bold editing among users: a large edit that alters significant parts of the article for the better. A consensus isn't a prerequisite of a bold edit, and if you read the talk page, you will see the argument for the collapsible table. Nobody has addressed it one way or the other just yet despite the traffic on the page this morning, so I'm taking that as a tenuous agreement to keep it in place for the time being.


 * Just because a previous season's article does something one way, that doesn't mean it is the right way to do it - I'm of the belief that a better way can always be found. We can always go back and re-edit older pages to adopt a new style. And I believe this to be a better way for several reasons:


 * 1) Including the endurance drivers in the main table gives undue weight to them. The drivers who contest a full season will compete in thirty-two races. The drivers who contest the endurance events will compete in just two races. Putting them all together implies that they are all on the same level when they are not.


 * 2) Including the endurance drivers in a separate table frees up space for a "rounds" column in the full driver table. If you look at the table on the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship page, you will see that it gets quite messy with footnotes and tooltips explaining how, when and why various driver changes happened. By having a "rounds" column, we can tidy everything up.


 * 3) The full list of endurance drivers isn't going to be complete for months. If we include them in the main driver table, then that table is going to be filled with blank spaces marked "TBA" until October. This gives it an unsightly, unfinished and overall unencyclopaedic look. But by including them in a separate table that can be collapsed (and is automatically collapsed when the page is loaded), we give the look of the article a much more polished finish. That might sound like a purely cosmetic thing, but a tidy page is a good page.


 * If you have any arguements for or against this, please feel free to address them either on my talk page or the article talk page. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 00:56, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * V8Dude2: you referenced previous season articles, the practice of previous seasons was to not include enudrance drivers at all until well into the season when a large number of them had been established. --Falcadore (talk) 04:33, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for February 19
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that you've added some links pointing to disambiguation pages. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.


 * 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
 * added a link pointing to Jason White


 * 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
 * added a link pointing to Robert Richardson, Jr.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:21, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 13
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited 2013 International V8 Supercars Championship, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Triple Eight Race Engineering and Scott McLaughlin (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 14:38, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 20
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited New Zealand State Highway 20, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Sandringham and Hillsborough (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 12:21, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a heb host
You seem to have a lot of fake TV programs stored away in your user sub pages, and your articles subpage would seem to indicate you intend to create more. Are you aware that Wikipedis is not a web host for fantasy TV shows? You should move them to a free hosting service as they are contrary to user page usage policies. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 20:30, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Fair point if that is the policy, therefore I shall move it to another place. Thank you for your concern. V8dude2 (talk) 02:06, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Are you going to do it soon? -- Whpq (talk) 03:36, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:V8dude2/2013 V8SuperTourer season
User:V8dude2/2013 V8SuperTourer season, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:V8dude2/2013 V8SuperTourer season and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:V8dude2/2013 V8SuperTourer season during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 22:55, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:27, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

NASCAR standards proposal
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:2015_NASCAR_Sprint_Cup_Series. Thanks. –  Nascar1996  ( talk • cont ) 01:54, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia
Hi, WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for October 6
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Nissan Motorsport (Australia), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page David Wall ([//toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/Nissan_Motorsport_%28Australia%29 check to confirm] | [//toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/Nissan_Motorsport_%28Australia%29?client=notify fix with Dab solver]). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:08, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics.  Schwede 66  09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)