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Circuito di Ospedaletti

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the page Circuito di Ospedaletti 1937 was created by mistake. The Ospedaletti circuit did not exist until 1947. The page Circuito di Ospedaletti is correct in content. Please delete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuito_di_Ospedaletti_1937 Sorry about that...

Speedy deletion nomination of Circuito di Ospedaletti 1937

Hello MotorOilStains,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Circuito di Ospedaletti 1937 for deletion in response to your request.

If you didn't intend to make such a request and don't want the article to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Ish dar ian 23:54, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Circuit Map Images

I'm working on the circuit maps (which will look like most of the other examples found on Wiki)

I am trying to learn if satellite or google map images that contain circuit data are permissible on Wikipedia... and I will contact the google folks with samples of the grand prix circuit images to see what they say.

Please review this page as a guide to your request: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_subject_matter#Maps_.26_satellite_imagery Kyle^(talk) 09:15, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Circuito di Ospedaletti) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Circuito di Ospedaletti, MotorOilStains!

Wikipedia editor Khamar just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

I have reviewed your page. Please consider adding more detail; and if possible breaking the larger page into sections. Right now the lead runs into the track description and also the race history.

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MotorOilStains, you are invited to the Teahouse

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Thanks for the teahouse invite Benzband. One of these days I'll pop in... I'm an old "Clash Man" m'self... (but I've enjoyed the Ramones gigs ...) I've been contemplating to dive into the early South American (namely Argentinean and Brazilian) Grand Prix scene after discovering that their motor racing history is as old as the European... competitions at the Buenos Aires, Hipódromo (1901), HIPÓDROMO DE LA PLATA (1909), SAN MARTÍN, HIPÓDROMO (1915), RAFAELA (1919) and so on, leading up to the very prolific Temporada years. I've started to compile the few meager references I have found so far only to realize that sifting through the spotty and often contradictionary information will be a time consuming task that will test my patience. After visiting your user page, I assume that you have a much better grasp of Spanish than I. If you have time, I hope to occasionally call upon you for clarification of a few Spanish language paragraphs here and there.

There's one small things I've encountered: uploading track images that are based on open street maps require a Cc-by-sa-2.0 (international) license (per openstreetmaps.com). Neither the upload wizard nor the old upload form appear to provide that license option (I maybe just missing the right click button) so I'm having to choose the generic "this is my work" option to load the image first and then go back and manually edit the license and credits attributes to their proper form (somewhat time consuming). Regards MotorOilStains (talk) 02:04, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reference Errors on 6 April

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Category sort keys for circuits

Hi MotorOilStains. You may have noticed that I reverted some of your changes to sort keys for circuit articles. By convention, in a "xxx Grand Prix" category, only the "xxx Grand Prix" article has a sortkey of " ". Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 04:45, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edits

Please do not tag all of your edits as minor. Almost all of them are not minor. Minor edits are limited to things such a spelling corrections. --Falcadore (talk) 08:15, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:South American racing series templates

Hi MotorOilStains. I have nominated Category:South American racing series templates, which you created, for deletion, because we don't usually group racing series templates by location. You are welcome to participate in the deletion discussion. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 11:07, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

British Empire Trophy

Hi MotorOilStains. About the width parameter, it's not necessary. Width will adjust automatically depending on the amount of characters, on the skin the user set up for visualizing Wikipedia, or on the screen's resolution. It will also avoid unnecessary split lines inside the table. --Pc13 (talk) 23:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Flagicons in race report articles

Hi MotorOilStains. FYI, by convention we don't display flagicons for entrants and cars in race report articles - just drivers. I have removed the unnecessary flagicons from 1947 Reims Grand Prix, 1957 Reims Grand Prix and 1962 Reims Grand Prix. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 09:12, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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