Portal talk:Formula One/Management of selected articles

We aim to change over the selected article every month. In order that the portal should feature the best of the article on Formula One on Wikipedia selected articles should be of a certain standard. Wikipedia has defined a scale of article standards here.

In order to appear on the Portal as a selected article an article should be of at least Good Article (GA) standard. Formula One articles that have achieved GA or higher status are listed below and can be used on the portal. If you are aware of an article of this standard that is not on this list, please list it below.

Articles that are not of GA standard will need to be improved before they can appear as selected articles. On a monthlyly basis the article which has had the most votes here will be the subject of an improvement drive. The article will be assessed against the GA standard and members of the F1 Wikiproject will be asked to help improve the article to meet that standard. When the article is believed to have met the GA standard it will be featured on the portal.

Ideally selected articles should reflect the range of information that can be found across Wikiproject F1. This means that the articles selected should include a good mix of historical and current articles on drivers, teams, races, seasons and any other legitimate topics.

[edit] Current Improvement Drive

The current improvement drive candidate is History of Formula One.

Please also help with Brabham, which is currently up for WP:FA status.

[edit] Current list of votes for article to be selected articles

Add a new article to the list to be voted on for selected article, or add your vote to one of the existing articles by putting support, together with your rationale and preferably your 'signature' under the heading.

[edit] Masten Gregory

Masten Gregory was proposed by Albinomonkey: "Not very well known but by all accounts very talented racer (got a podium on debut!)... I expanded this article a while ago, it could probably do with a cleanup but I think the basis is there."

[edit] Jacques Villeneueve

Jacques Villeneuve was proposed by Jsydave above: "Since this weekend is also the Indy 500 weekend" (As of May 2006)

[edit] Juan Pablo Montoya

Juan Pablo Montoya was proposed by Jsydave above: "Since this weekend is also the Indy 500 weekend" (As of May 2006)

[edit] Graham Hill

Graham Hill was proposed by Cs-wolves:"because he won both the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix"

[edit] Juan Manuel Fangio

Juan Manuel Fangio was nominated by SpeedKing1980 above

[edit] Tyrrell Racing

Could be an interesting exercise. One of the standout teams of the 70s and one of my favourites of all time :) A classic story of an ordinary guy who built cars in a shed, building his company up and beating the rest of the world. Tyrrell were great innovators as well - the first raised nosecone, the single support front wing, the P34 6-wheeler. They built a car that in the hands of Jean Alesi could take on the might of Senna and McLaren. Readro 20:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] McLaren

None of the 'big three' constructors are up to good article standard, yet they are likely to be among the most visited. Therefore I propose we start with McLaren, which seems to have a pretty solid article thus far but with no references and far too much weight on 2005. We've had a race and a driver as the last two improvement drives so it would be nice to continue the variety of articles with a constructor. Alexj2002 20:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, looks like this has already been selected article once! Would be nice to get it up to GA sometime but perhaps as a side project to this main improvement drive. Alexj2002 22:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mika Häkkinen

I've made the foundations for the article. It just needs referencing, tidying up, expansion of some section and of course, copyediting ;-). Plus he would go well with the improvement of McLaren as well.--S kully Collins ^Edits 07:46, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

The next selected article candidate for improvement to GA standard will be chosen on: November 1, 2006

[edit] No Article!

I think we should have no article for December's improvement drive. We have built up quite a large back-catalogue of GA that have yet to be used on the portal and the current article (History of Formula One) hasn't really improved that much. The whole improvement drive seems to be slowing down and we need new people to be working on it. As December is a pretty busy month anyway, and the usual contributors seem to be working on their own articles anyway at this point I suggest we have no article for December and instead focus on a fresh start in January after hopefully managing to get more people on board. Alexj2002 22:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of F1 articles currently at GA standard or above

Where no article has been improved to GA standard through the improvement drive, an article from this list may be picked to go on the F1 portal as the Selected Article instead.