User talk:Arth.R2

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However - unfortunately the material you added to 1950 Monaco Grand Prix and 1950 French Grand Prix was copied from the Grandprix.com website, and belongs to them. If we use it here at Wikipedia, we are effectively stealing it and could be subject to legal action. See WP:COPYRIGHT for more detail on this. I hope that you can add to Formula One articles in other ways, perhaps by writing your own race reports. I have reverted your edits to those two articles.

You may also be interested in The Formula One Wikiproject. Cheers. 4u1e (talk) 17:38, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You can use the articles as a source, but you can't directly copy the material there (short attributed snippets are OK, like: According to Grandprix.com, Farrington-Smythe "drove like a total loon".). You can't directly paraphrase it either. I find the best general approach is to read as much as I can find about a topic, then write an article from scratch from what I can remember without looking at any of the sources. Then I go back and check I've gotten the details right and can put the citations in (see WP:CITE).

Grandprix.com is probably the best single source for race reports, see this post for some other general F1 sites. I'll see if I can think of any other sites that are more geared to websites on older F1 races. Oh, and have a look at our better F1 articles (see the WP:F1 front page), there may be some relevant stuff there. Cheers. 4u1e (talk) 16:46, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]