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The Signpost: 06 August 2012

Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold

News and notes: FDC portal launched

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

Featured content: Casliber's words take root

Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts

The Signpost: 13 August 2012

Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden

News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias

Arbitration report: You really can request for arbitration

Featured content: On the road again

Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution

Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship

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	Launchpad (OS X)		Apple Inc. advertising
	SimplyTweet		Outlook.com
	Completion (American football)		TouchFLO 3D
	Cocoa Touch	Add sources
	Compal Electronics		Samsung Galaxy S II
	Wistron Corporation		Tablet computer
	Pagami Creek Fire		Mac OS X Public Beta
	Samsung Omnia W	Wikify
	HTC Desire C		Secom
	Directory Utility		Manhattan mobility model
	2009 Crown Royal 400		East Cobb Baseball
	Autodesk SketchBook Pro	Expand
	Audio MIDI Setup		Rakuten
	LG Optimus Black		Apple TV
	Mogollon Mountains		OS X Server

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The Signpost: 20 August 2012

Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary

News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline

In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia

Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.

Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea

GOCE news and September drive invitation

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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (August 2012)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Volume 3 · No. 2 –July 26, 2012 – August 25, 2012

Previous month's issue - Next month's issue

Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles

WikiProject News

New members:
- None

How to Help WikiProject NASCAR

Please keep up with the discussions at our main talk page. Your input is needed!
Expand the articles in Category:NASCAR stubs.
Help expand and update everything relating to the 2012 season.
Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Doug Cooper, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Jack White (NASCAR), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens, Leonard Wood
Assess : See all here
Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr.
Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin
Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500
Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway
Stubs : See all here
Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing
Other : More

Portal Help

Portal:NASCAR is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed as Selected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above. Please nominate articles or images on the talk pages.

Article Statistics

NASCAR articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	3	5	16	2			26
B	30	57	52	11			150
C	22	39	51	23			135
Start	26	115	372	319		5	837
Stub	17	53	304	610		3	987
List		12	54	2			68
Category	1	2	4	10	129		146
Disambig		4	1	1	14		20
Portal	1				4		5
Project					10		10
Redirect			2		95		97
Template	2	15	8	4	57		86
NA					1		1
Assessed	102	302	864	982	310	8	2,568
Unassessed						1	1
Total	102	302	864	982	310	9	2,569

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Article Developments

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Article of the month – 2010 Carfax 400, a Good Article

The 2010 Carfax 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 15, 2010 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 200 laps, it was the twenty-third race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Kevin Harvick for the Richard Childress Racing team. Denny Hamlin finished second, and Carl Edwards, who started twenty-fourth, clinched third.

Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead into the first corner to begin the race, but Jimmie Johnson, who started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the first lap was over. Afterward, Greg Biffle became the leader, and would eventually lead to the race high of 66 laps. Tony Stewart led after the final pit stops, ahead of Hamlin and Harvick. Harvick helped Hamlin to become the leader, but with twelve laps left, Harvick gained on Hamlin and claimed the first position with eleven lap remaining. Harvick maintained his position to claim his first Sprint Cup victory at Michigan International Speedway.

There were five cautions and nineteen lead changes among nine different drivers throughout the course of the race, Harvick's third win of the season. The result maintained the first position in the Drivers' Championship and clinched him a position in the Chase. He remained 293 points ahead of second place driver Jeff Gordon and 353 ahead of Denny Hamlin. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty points ahead of Toyota and sixty-one ahead of Ford, with thirteen races remaining in the season. A total of 105,000 people attended the race, while 4.917 million watched it on television. (Read more...)