Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One

Welcome to WikiProject Formula One. We aim to create, expand, update and standardise Wikipedia articles related to Formula One.

Introduction
Anyone who would like to take part in WikiProject Formula One is welcome to do so. The project aims primarily to create and standardize complete articles on all people, teams, races, and other aspects of Formula One.

If you are interested, please feel free to help, and add your name to the list. If you have any questions, please inquire on the project's talk page.

Goals

 * 1) To divide the subject of Formula One into appropriate subtopics
 * 2) To gather complete and accurate information in all F1-related articles
 * 3) To standardize the appearance of F1-related pages, such as articles on Grands Prix, drivers, and constructors, as well as race reports and season summaries
 * 4) To maintain Portal:Formula One and keep all F1-related articles up-to-date
 * 5) To improve Formula One and as many related pages as possible to Featured Article standard

Members
Feel free to add yourself to the list. Once you've done this, you may want to put the Wikiproject:Formula One user box on your user page by adding User WP:F1.

How to help

 * Complete a task on one of the to-do lists:
 * WikiProject Formula One/Task template, which appears on the project's talk page template as well as the F1 Portal
 * WikiProject Formula One/To-do, the auxiliary list
 * Contribute during important moments by updating the articles and templates listed on the updates subpage when appropriate
 * Help with the management of Portal:Formula One
 * Contribute 'Did you know' items at Portal talk:Formula One/Did you know
 * Request an article by adding it to one of the to-do lists
 * Pick an old race report article and standardize it according to the guidelines below. A complete list may be found at List of Formula One races
 * Keep an eye on recent edits to all Formula One-related articles
 * Help clean-up articles here (outdated) or on the

Formula One and its series
The sport's primary article is the "top" article of a series which includes four other related topics. The Wikipedians who created these articles intended to divide the topic of Formula One into specific subtopics, and chose the four topics they thought would best accomplish this goal. The appropriateness of the subtopics is open to discussion.

All five articles should include the template Formula One at the top.


 * Formula One is the main article for the sport, including general information; summaries of the articles on history, cars, and racing; general sections on drivers/constructors, Grands Prix, and circuits; a section noting the important people in F1's history; a 'current season' section; and a section on the future of F1.
 * History of Formula One – the sport's history, in detail. This should include major regulation changes, major technical advances, and the most important drivers and constructors of each era.
 * Formula One cars – a detailed description of the modern F1 car. Information about historical F1 cars belongs in the History article.
 * Formula One racing – the schedule and procedure of an F1 Grand Prix weekend; information about racing strategy.
 * Formula One regulations – both current and historical information on the FIA's technical and sporting regulations.

Lists
There are twenty-one Formula One-related lists. These should be historically complete, and include the template Formula One. Each, when updated, should also be marked "Accurate as of [date]" in order to assist future editors.


 * List of Formula One broadcasters
 * List of Formula One circuits
 * List of Formula One constructors
 * List of Formula One Grand Prix winners (constructors)
 * List of Formula One drivers
 * List of Formula One drivers who set a fastest lap
 * List of Formula One polesitters
 * List of Formula One Grand Prix winners
 * List of female Formula One drivers
 * Formula One engines
 * List of Formula One fatalities
 * List of Formula One Grands Prix
 * List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems
 * List of Formula One Promotional Trophy winners
 * List of Formula One records
 * List of Formula One driver records
 * List of red-flagged Formula One races
 * List of Formula One seasons
 * Formula One World Champions
 * List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions
 * List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions

Race reports
A long-term goal of this project is to create articles containing a summary of every World Championship race since the sport's inception in 1950, as well as every non-championship Formula One race since the category's original definition in 1946.

Thanks to a bot written by Bill Cook, articles containing full classifications of every past race now exist, but most need summaries and many need standardization.

The standard structure may be found at WikiProject Formula One/Example race report. The wikitext is annotated with comments and may be copied to assist with the creation of a new report.

The infobox templates to use for race report articles is Infobox Grand Prix race report, which caters for both championship and non-championship races. A cut-and-paste pro forma is available at the template doc page.

Each race report article is named "[Year] [ Race title]": e.g. 1980 Austrian Grand Prix, 1950 Indianapolis 500.

Seasons
All season summary articles contain, as a minimum: Articles for more recent seasons contain additional information. As a general rule, the current season article is in the "ideal" format; future season summary articles should use the same format.
 * an overview of the season
 * the overview section generally contains a calendar of that season's races. An upcoming season's article instead features a list of contracted races. This list is transformed into the more familiar calendar format once the FIA published one through its World Motor Sport Council. Even if that is a provisional one. But not earlier than that.
 * a table of entrants
 * a Drivers' Championship table
 * a Constructors' Championship table (from 1958 onwards)

Grands Prix (titular race articles, not individual race reports)
There should be a complete article on every race title which has been a part of the Formula One / World Championship calendar since the series started in 1950 (see List of Formula One Grands Prix). Keep in mind that the terms "Formula One Grand Prix", "Formula One race", and "World Championship race" have not always been synonymous – see Formula One for a detailed explanation.

If a race with a given title was only run once, the titular race article should redirect to the individual race's article, and the article should be structured like a race report.

Each article should contain:
 * At the top, an infobox:


 * History. This should cover all F1/WC races held under that name, and should note changes in venue, and the reasons for the change. The history should also cover races from other series held under the same name, if applicable.


 * A chronological list of winners in table format, including year, driver, constructor, location, and links to the relevant race reports, formatted thus:


 * If a race was run as a non-championship event in some years (e.g. Moroccan Grand Prix), then those years should be highlighted in pink in the results table.
 * If the races were held at the same circuit on successive years, rows in the "Location" column should be combined in the table by using "rowspan". Rows in other columns should not be combined, even if they contain same data in successive years (e.g. same driver winning a few years in a row).


 * At the bottom, the template Formula One Grands Prix.
 * All articles falling into this category (i.e. titular race articles, not individual race reports) should be also part of Category:Formula One Grands Prix.

Circuits

 * All F1 circuit articles (i.e. any circuit ever used for an F1 race) should include an infobox:
 * All articles on F1 circuits should be also part of Category:Formula One circuits.

Drivers

 * All articles on F1 drivers should be part of the relevant national subcategory of Category:Formula One drivers and should contain the infobox, Infobox F1 driver.


 * Example of Infobox F1 driver for a current driver (Fernando Alonso when he was still current):


 * Example of Infobox F1 driver for a former driver (Ayrton Senna):

Constructors

 * All constructors' articles should be categorised as Category:Formula One constructors. Current constructors should have an infobox, Infobox F1 team, at the top:

For a former F1 Team such as British American Racing, use Infobox former F1 team:

Cars

 * All Formula One car articles need to be categorised either under the general Category:Formula One cars or the specific manufacturer category, and should have an infobox, Infobox racing car, at the top:

For an unformatted, cut-and-paste pro forma, please see this template's doc page. For Formula One articles, most details should be available. Otherwise simply leave blank any unknown fields and enter n/a for irrelevant or highly variable fields. Many customer cars will have had highly variable set up, I would suggest using either the most common configuration (if such a thing exists) or simply stating a brief range of options in lieu of precise specifications.

People
... nothing yet :-)

Updating
Since Formula One is a constantly-changing subject, its pages need constant updating. Click here for a list of what needs to be updated and when.

Templates
Templates should be inserted using the syntax Formula One.
 * Navigation templates:
 * Formula One – top of Formula One, the articles in that series, and the six F1 lists.
 * Formula One teams – bottom of articles on currently active teams and drivers.
 * Formula One races – bottom of every Grand Prix article (i.e. every article listed on the template, and at List of Formula One Grands Prix).
 * Custom templates:
 * Infobox F1 team – top of all F1 constructor/team articles; see above.
 * Infobox F1 race – top of all generic Grand Prix articles (e.g. Australian Grand Prix); see above.
 * Infobox Grand Prix race report – top of all individual Grand Prix race report articles (e.g. 2014 Australian Grand Prix).
 * infobox F1 driver – top of all driver articles; see above.
 * Racing car – top of all car articles; see above.
 * F1 race report – bottom of all race report articles; see above.
 * Others:
 * F1 driver results legend 2 – to accompany World Championship results tables in F1 driver, team and car articles.
 * F1 driver results legend 3 – to accompany non-championship results tables in F1 driver, team and car articles.
 * F1 driver results legend 4 – to accompany results tables in season summary articles, e.g. 2005 Formula One season.
 * F1-stub – all Formula One-related stubs, except for biographies (F1-bio-stub). Use motorsport-stub for more general motorsport stubs.
 * WikiProject Formula One – this WikiProject's template; belongs at the top of the talk page of every F1-related article. For more details on its use, see WikiProject Formula One/Assessment.
 * WikiProject Formula One Member – for use on user pages.
 * User WP:F1 – userbox.
 * WikiProject Formula One Topicon – topicon.

Categories

 * Category:Formula One – F1-related articles which don't fit into one of the sub-categories listed below
 * Category:Formula One drivers – articles about any driver who has started in a Formula One race
 * Category:Formula One entrants – articles about entities which have entered Formula One races (commonly referred to as "teams", but also includes individuals)
 * Category:Formula One constructors – articles about constructors of chassis. Does not include teams which did not construct their own chassis, e.g. BMS Scuderia Italia
 * Category:Formula One engine manufacturers – articles about companies which have maufactured F1 engines
 * Category:Formula One circuits – articles about circuits, such as Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
 * Category:Formula One Grands Prix – articles about a single race, such as Monaco Grand Prix
 * Category:Formula One non-championship races – articles about races run to World Championship regulations, but that were not eligible for Championship points, such as the BRDC International Trophy.
 * Category:Formula One races – articles about a specific race in a specific year, such as 2004 Monaco Grand Prix
 * Category:Formula One seasons – season review articles, such as 2004 Formula One season

Assessment
Statistics

Standard table formats
Standard formats for the driver and constructor/team summary tables are defined here.

Other conventions
Other conventions observed throughout the Formula One articles are listed here.

Parent project

 * WikiProject Motorsport