User talk:Readro/Archive 1

Hello, Readro/Archive 1! I'm Clamster5. While creating new and interesting articles is extremely helpful to the Wikipedia project, there are more than 19,000 articles that need to cleaned up. These articles could use your knowledge and time. There are so many pages currently needing clean-up that there is guaranteed to be something that you find interesting. Even fixing up just one is a huge help. If every editor on wikipedia edited just one article each, the backlog would be cleared in no time.

Thanks! Clamster5.

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 Wikipedia: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 SPAMINGSenators^{Talk | Contribs} 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)