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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:MidlandF1.jpg

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[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 3% for major edits and 29% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 7 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 01:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LeMans page edits

Noticed the changes to some of my results pages for the 24 Hours of LeMans, but also noticed some errors. Although changes from '&' to 'and' are right and all, these changes in turn removed the links to existing pages that use &, specifically Riley & Scott and Cooper Tire & Rubber Company. I'm not sure if this was the fault of the program you happened to be using, but a quick view of the article afterwords would have shown the error. The359 18:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that! I tried to catch those cases where links were broken and have since changed my matching rules (as of last night) to avoid that situation. Sorry again for any inconvenience! ⇒ BRossow T/C 20:08, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2008 F1 Teams

The GP2 teams have applied for entries for the 2008 F1 season. Penske actually didn't apply for entry. Watch this space... Andreas 07:54, 02 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of links

Why do you delete red links on drivers in the Le Mans races? Just because there is not yet an article on them? It is easier to write about somebody if the name is linked in the article it is mentioned. Please un-do all your changes! --Matthead 17:50, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Le Mans formatting

Why do you remove the <br> I've entered in the team column? The drivers are already listed in such a way. Some team names are very wide, or two team enter the car, so the table gets very wide, especially on small screens. The <br> allow much better use of the space. Please revert your changes. --Matthead 09:25, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] F1 portal featured article

The F1 portal (in which I assume you have some degree of interest, as your name is listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One) is intended to have a regular rotation of a 'featured article'. I've swapped a few in and out over the last couple of months, but I think it would be better if there were more of a community attempt at deciding this, proposals, votes, that kind of thing. So - why not pop over to Portal_talk:Formula_One#Suggestions_for_Featured_Article: and make a suggestion. Ta. 4u1e 00:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected articles on Portal:F1

Hello again.

I dropped notes round a while back to those who have listed themselves at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One to ask for suggestions for selected articles on portal:Formula One. There was a pretty good response, both in terms of how it might work and of articles suggested. Damon Hill came out with the most support and was brought up to Good Article standard after a lot of work by Skully Collins and others before going on as the F1 portal selected article a couple of weeks ago. It is now at Featured Article Candidates as a Featured Article candidate (why not drop by and see if you can help polish it further?).

Several people who responded to the original request suggested that a monthly or bi-weekly 'Selected Article' could act as a catalyst for an improvement drive to get more articles up to a higher standard. Although it wasn't quite what I had in mind when I started, this seemed to work pretty well for the Damon Hill article, so I've drafted up a process for doing this more regularly. See Portal_talk:Formula_One/Management_of_selected_articles for details. Essentially the suggestion is that we vote for an article to improve every couple of weeks and at the end of the improvement process the article goes on the portal as the new 'Selected Article'. I'd be grateful for any comments on how this might work - I'm sure some of you are more familiar with things 'Wiki' than me - as well as your votes for the next candidate (by 16 July).

You may also want to help with the article Gilles Villeneuve, which was the next most popular after Damon Hill. The idea is to try and get it up to GA standard by 16 July and then put it on the portal as the 'Selected Article'. I hope you can help! 4u1e 18:28, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advertising cleanup

Hey, I noticed your cleanup at Consumating. Just thought I'd drop by and let you know about my template User:BigNate37/TM/Un-advertised, which I made because I found myself retyping the material every time I cleaned up an advertisement. Maybe you'll find it helpful, maybe not, just thought I'd bring it to your attention. It's designed for use on the talk page of the editor who creates the article you clean up. BigNate37(T) 06:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling foreign names

Just giving you a heads-up to tell you I've been correcting some common mistakes you've been making on the sportscar racing scores. Notably, I've been correcting "Jerome Pelicand" to Jerome Policand, "Christophe Bouchet" to Christophe Bouchut and "Gabrielle Gardel" to Gabriele Gardel (who, incidentally, is Swiss, not Italian). --Pc13 18:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

That's perfectly fine, I know there's some that I've made some mistakes on, especially in the European series. Also, some official documentation from ELMS, LMES, ALMS, etc. makes mistakes and puts up a wrong country for a driver or simply spells them wrong (or leaves out stresses and umlauts and such), which obviously doesn't help. Thanks for correcting it though, as long as it comes out right it's perfectly fine by me. The359 19:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Estoril Racing

As you can see here, this is the Monteiro family's business, which as you can see is based in France. Manuel Monteiro is a Portuguese emmigrant in France. We've done some occasional pieces about him in the newspaper I work for, the first time he entered Le Mans. His sons, Michel and Claude, although usually identified as Portuguese, were born in France, have never lived in Portugal, and their racing licenses are handled by the FFSA. "Michel" and "Claude" are not Portuguese names in any event, and according to Portuguese legislation you cannot register Portuguese citizens with foreign first names on their birth certificate. So daddy Manuel counts as Portuguese, and his sons don't, even if they want to. And you can see here that Estoril Racing really is a French team. --Pc13 22:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I'll have to check. It's actually possible Estoril Racing had a Portuguese racing license for '98, but knowing how the Portuguese Federation operates, given that he didn't live in Portugal, I can imagine the bureaucratic hoops Monteiro would have been forced to go through that wouldn't be an issue with the FFSA. But it is possible. --Pc13 21:42, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Supercar 500

I'd keep it. If you take a look at the "Calendar" page in the FIA GT site, you'll see that, apart from the Spa 24H and the Tourist Trophy, all the other rounds are named precisely "Supercar 500" on the poster. But I'm not against a name change if we can keep the race reports consistent. --Pc13 08:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject:Sports Car Racing

I was wondering if you intend to take this further as I see you have planned it but fell out of activity in september. I would like to take it up to actually becoming a wikiproject. Are you still interested? James086Talk | Contribs 10:16, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CLK-DTM

Yes, they're CLK-DTMs. My mistake. Thanks, by the way! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jimmy Magnusson (talk • contribs).

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