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Indenting the Talk page replies

Hi Davism0703. I'm really sorry to nitpick, but there is a convention regarding the formatting of posts that I think you should know about. When one posts a reply, the convention is to put a colon at the start of each paragraph, so that it is indented (I'm surprised this isn't automated, it's really quite clunky). PS Thanks for the great contributions you've made across various articles and Talk page discussions. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 22:34, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Eg here is a reply to my message.

And this is the second paragraph of my self-reply. Cheers (again!), 1292simon (talk) 22:35, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Simon, Thanks for letting me know. Sorry, I wasn't quite aware of that. I'm a little bit newer to Wikipedia, but I'll take any help or advice I can get. Do I have to put a colon in front of each individual sentence that is written? I'm not too sure. Thanks, Davism0703 (talk) 22:40, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

You're welcome. It's just at the start of each paragraph, not each sentence. Sorry, it's actually more complicated that my original explanation... it's about adding an extra indent compared to the previous reply (which is why this reply of mine has two colons at the start). To save yourself from having to count the colons each time, I suggest just copying them from the previous reply and adding one extra colon. Thanks for your efforts to do learn this process, I realise it's quite a clunky system (perhaps there is a Macro or Script that people use to automate this, I've never looked into it). Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 08:38, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Ferrari F1 engines

Hi, good work. Two things, engine articles should have 'engine' in it's name. 2nd: do check them for copyright violations and reword if nececssary. Use Earwig's Copyvio Detector. Best. YBSOne (talk) 07:23, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

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Circuit length ref

Hi, when adding refs for the circuit length, in race infoboxes, could you please use the "details ref" parameter (as I have done here). If you add a bare link, could you also add {{link rot}} to the top of the page. Many thanks, SSSB (talk) 07:04, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Sure thing, and no problem, thank you for letting me know. Yeah, I wasn't sure about that before. I'm just trying to add and improve to some of these motorsport articles. I enjoy helping to expand these articles. Kind regards, Davism0703 (talk) 07:25, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

About Referencing of Circuit Fastest Lap Records

I really thank you for improving the lap record sections of the tracks you made, and I look at your contributions. But I noticed that you are just copying the URL of the lap records. And every time, I have to improve your contributions in order to make the reference as structured. It would be better also to indicate the title and access date for the lap record references, so the reference will be more structured and reliable. Example:

<ref>{{cite web|title= 2020 Super Formula Suzuka Race 1 Statistics| url= https://motorsportstats.com/results/super-formula/2020/suzuka/stats/race|access-date= 30 October 2021}}</ref>Apeiro94 (talk) 18:43, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Apeiro94, thank you for letting me know. My apologies, I may have been a bit too quick and hasty with my edits. I will take note and use that format and make the reference more structured and reliable. I really enjoy editing and improving articles, especially adding knowledge and information where it's needed, and I will take this into consideration. Thank you also for helping to improve Wikipedia articles, and adding your valuable knowledge and information, it means a lot, and really goes a long way (especially on some of the vaguer and more bare articles!). Kind regards, Davism0703 (talk) 09:00, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your all contributions, but I have to remind you again about the referencing of circuit fastest lap records. Since you did not indicate any title and access date for the web records, your references were always fixed with Bare URL automatically. And I am interested for looking at the lap records, but I am not keen of always fixing your references as more structured. Kind regards. Apeiro94 (talk) 22:37, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

My apologies. My intention was to go back and fix the cited references and URLs, but I overlooked. Anyway, thank you for all your help and hard work. You're help adding to these articles to make them look much better doesn't go unnoticed, and it means a lot. And yes, I enjoy looking at the race lap records too. Also, if you're wondering why some of the lap times on the Suzuka Circuit page in the race lap records section are qualifying (pole position) times, it's because that's the best I could find on the page of that era of the track. You're welcome to change it if you can find the actual race lap records, but that's the best I could I find, and I did try very hard to look for reliable sources. All the pages would display on some of these old track layouts is the qualifying times, not the lap records for the race. Same goes for Mario Andretti's CART time on the old Laguna Seca track layout. Yes, it's a qualifying/pole position time (52.926 s), but that's the best I could find, and that's all the page would tell me. But at least it gives the reader some idea of the lap times! I'm sure some of the race lap records wouldn't be that far off the qualifying/pole position times. Thank you for all your help and contributions too. Kind regards, Davism0703 (talk) 02:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I understand your concern about the lap records in older layouts or older times. It is very hard to find the actual race lap record; since it is not indicated which driver actually held the lap record or whether the lap was held on the qualifying or race sessions. I can agree you for giving qualifying times for older layouts of some circuits for having an idea of lap times. Kind regards. Apeiro94 (talk) 06:50, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

About Using One Reference Multiple Times & Unnecessary Repetition of the Reference

Firstly, I want to say thank you for your all work for adding and improving lap records on the various circuits and I appreciate your work much. But I have to warn you again about one issue: one reference can be used multiple times, but the reference is repeated unnecessarily. To avoid this, you can write <ref name> structure, I will give you an example for the FL records on Silverstone 1996 international circuit layout:

As it was seen, all three FL records were taken the same race, and same reference is used: https://www.racingsportscars.com/race/Silverstone-1996-05-30.html

To avoid this repetition, I will firstly create the reference as: <ref name='1996_britishgt_silverstone'>{{cite web|url=https://www.racingsportscars.com/race/Silverstone-1996-05-30.html|title=British GT Championship Silverstone 1996|access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref>

Then, I will write the same reference as "<ref name='1996_britishgt_silverstone' />" in order to avoid unnecessary repetition of the mentioned reference. I made the change for you now, you can look and compare the circuit page versions to do this.

Thanks and kind regards. Apeiro94 (talk) 19:15, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Again and again, please use <ref name> structure when you will use a reference multiple times for the lap records. Look at my fix on Charlotte Motor Speedway now. Apeiro94 (talk) 09:43, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Motorsports articles

Hi, thanks for your contributions - I've marked a handful of your articles about vehicles under WikiProject Motorsport. I marked most articles about championship-winning cars as mid-level importance. ~XyNq^t_c 13:26, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

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Translated pages

Hi, I saw Lola T850 said it was copied content from the German Wikipedia. If you're doing translating work you should use the template from Template:Translated page on the talk pages to provide proper attribution where possible. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:04, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

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