Talk:2006 UAW-Ford 500

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Date	Process	Result
January 3, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
February 28, 2015	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
April 30, 2015	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
July 18, 2015	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
September 12, 2015	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
November 23, 2015	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 29, 2014. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Brian Vickers won the 2006 UAW-Ford 500* stock car race by inadvertently wrecking his teammate?*
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Reviewer: Good888 (talk · contribs) 16:01, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another NASCAR article eh? Well I am going to have a little break before I review this article. Looks good at first glance however. good888 (talk) 16:01, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again! Take your time, please. I'll also try to take care of some of the simple fixes on the Jamaican Olympic article as well. --Bentvfan54321 (talk) 16:48, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Time for the review:

Lead section

"160,000 people attended the race." Do you have TV figures as well?

I only have the ratings, not the actual number of viewers. It's an older race and I guess less was published back then. --Bentvfan54321 (talk) 14:11, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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"They threw a curveball at us this morning with the restrictor plate and (engine builder) Doug Yates wasn't worried at all." Link Doug Yates.
"David Gilliland, driving for Robert Yates Racing, won the pole position with a time of 49.950" Suggest rewrite to: David Gilliland, driving for Robert Yates Racing, qualified on the pole position with a time of 49.950".
"Gilliland had fallen back to 30th place after losing the draft." I would perfer that you link draft with Drafting (aerodynamics).
Add the TV figures (if there are any) in the post-race section with a source.

And that's all I can find. I will promote once they are addressed. good888 (talk) 19:42, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Good888:

Done everything except the number of viewers; it appears I am unable to locate them. Thanks again, I'll try to finish copyedits to the Olympic article this weekend as time permits. --Bentvfan54321 (talk) 14:11, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bentvfan54321: Thanks for taking interest in the Olympic article. As for this article, it's a shame they didn't publish the figures. The rest of the article is good though, so I will promote to GA class! good888 (talk) 14:55, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tweak

I changed the article a bit. Kpgjhpjm (talk) 15:39, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]