Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2017 Vegas eRace/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Sarastro1 via FACBot (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2018.

2017 Vegas eRace

 * Nominator(s): MWright96 (talk) 11:22, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

This article is about the 2017 Vegas eRace, a Formula E eSports race held as part of the Sports Business Innovation Summit at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show on January 7, 2017. Unlike other races, it was not a championship race and was held on a virtual racing circuit with a lucrative prize fund of $1 million. The twenty professional Formula E racing drivers were pitted against ten sim racers who took part in a four-race challenge competition to enable their participation in the eRace. The race itself had a controversial ending as one sim racer, Olli Pahkala, was discovered to use FanBoost for longer than permitted due to a software bug and the victory was awarded to Dragon Racing's sim driver Bono Huis. This article recently passed its GA review and I have made some edits to polish the prose. Also, it would be the first eSports article to reach FA class if successful as well as the first Formula E related entry as well. I look forward to your comments. MWright96 (talk) 11:22, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Sources review

 * The sources themselves look of appropriate quality and reliability, but there are formatting inconsistencies, particularly in the italicisation of publisher details. These arise I think from inconsistent use of the template fields "work=", "website=" and "publisher=".  For institutions such as CNN and Fox News, and other non-print sources such as Würth Elektronik, you should use  the "publisher=" field. The "work=" field can be used for the title of newspapers or print magazines, where the publishing organisation is usually omitted for major media such as The Times, Auotosport, etc. If the "website=" field is used, you should use "publisher=" as well, since the website name is not the publisher – an example is ref 9, where the publisher is Motorsport Network, not motorsport.com. I've only checked the first column of references but I think the same issues are apparent in the second.
 * A very minor point with Ref 18: the publisher appears to be Inside Sim Racing rather than Inside Racing Sim.

Brianboulton (talk) 23:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the source review. Have made changes where necessary. MWright96 (talk) 13:02, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Closing comment This has been open for over six weeks now and has unfortunately attracted little commentary. Therefore, I will be archiving this shortly and it can be renominated after the usual 2 week waiting period. Sarastro (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Sarastro (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.