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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 20:47, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Toyota 92C-V

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Created/expanded by Gojet-64 (talk). Self nom at 10:27, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

  • The hook fact is not given an inline source citation as required, and the article contains bare refs, which are not allowed for DYK. Furthermore, neither of the 1992 paragraphs are cited, another DYK requirement. More important, I find the article unclear about its subject. The intro states that the car "was shut down at the end of the 1992 season", yet there are paragraphs for the 1993 and 1994 seasons. The 1993 paragraph seems to imply that the same two cars—were they modified as well as renamed with the new year?—raced again at Le Mans, but nowhere is this explicitly stated. This article needs to be comprehensible to readers who don't know racing, therefore terms like "podium finishes" should be rendered as "top three" or "top five" or whatever the placing is required to make it to the podium in racing. Overall, the article needs work to explain the car naming, distinguish between the model and the individual cars, and be more clear on the connections and differences between the three models and their cars. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:45, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Article has been updated. Topics and information clarified, and hook given a more direct reference. Gojet-64 (talk) 03:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
  • More work is needed: all six references still have bare URLs (what I called "bare refs" earlier), which is not allowed. If you don't know how to properly format them yourself, you might want to try the tool mentioned at WP:REFLINKS; I've never used it myself, but I've heard good reports of it. I've reworded the final sentence of the intro, but it says that the 92C-V raced at LeMans for three years: it wasn't called that for the second and third years, so I think this also needs rewording to reflect that—if I understand this correctly—the same physical vehicles raced, but were renamed and significantly updated each season. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:47, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Updated the article again. Improved the reference format, and clarified further (in the intro) that the same car was used at Le Mans each year. I couldn't find information on when each cited page was initially published, or who the specific author was. Reflinks worked well, but it only fixed two of the references. So I updated the references manually instead. Gojet-64 (talk) 02:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Good job. Sorry Reflinks couldn't handle all six, but I guess it gave you a model to follow for the other four. There are two more DYK rules that you need to address, and both involve inline citations:
  1. The hook fact must have an inline citation by the end of the sentence that contains it, even if the same citation applies for several sentences in a row, and would normally be placed only at the end of the last of these sentences. In this case, "The 92C-Vs were the only cars in the Group C2 class to start the race." needs a citation at the end of it, since it's the key sentence for the hook.
  2. In the body of the article, each paragraph needs to have at least one inline citation. At the moment, the first 1992 paragraph and the second 1994 paragraph do not have any inline citations. So these may need new references, or the facts may be in one of the six citations you're already using, which could thus be reused. But one way or another, each needs a ref. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:40, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Article updated. The hook sentence has a source. Every paragraph, except for the second intro paragraph, now has a source. I could not find a one-link source that specifically says the car was the same and updated for 1992, 1993, and 1994. Also, I tried replacing some of the Racing Sports Cars (RSC) sources, as I recently found out that the RSC website states "All data are presented here just for informative use, they cannot be used as a source for any kind of business." But since Wikipedia isn't a "business" I wasn't sure if this applied. If it does apply, three sources are still to RSC pages, so those may need to be removed, which would mean the article is no longer valid for DYK. Thank you for your patience and support with improving the article. Gojet-64 (talk) 05:29, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
The hook is technically inaccurate, as there were two 92C-Vs in the race, so it should not be a singular "car". The359 (Talk) 05:44, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
  • ALT 1 ... that two Toyota 92C-Vs were the only cars in their class (Group C2) to start at the 1992 24 Hours of Le Mans?
    The first hook is saying it was the only model, not necessarily the only chassis. I have suggested a different hook to ensure clarity. Gojet-64 (talk) 22:31, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
  • The length and date of this article meet the DYK criteria. As far as I can understand the technicalities of the "Le Mans" site, the ALT1 hook is sourced, so article should be good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:14, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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