Talk:2008 Australian Production Car Championship

Merger

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was No Consensus. There seems to be disagreement, or at least uncertainty, over whether the Australian Manufacturers' Championship articles should be merged to the Australian Production Car Championship articles or vice versa. This matter should be worked out for all the articles at once, perhaps on a relevant Wikiproject talk page, rather than discussing each year's championship individually. That way you can form a consistent policy for all the articles. NukeofEarl (talk) 19:08, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

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Wanting to know why 2008 Australian Manufacturers' Championship and 2008 Australian Production Car Championship exist as separate articles. If they competed over the same races by the same teams then surely it should be the same article, especially as there seems to be a level of duplication on content between the two articles. --Falcadore (talk) 04:36, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't object to the 2008 APCC information being moved to the 2008 AMC page. GTHO (talk) 10:06, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

If actual factory race teams competed I could see the sense in that but the APCC is an amatuer series. That and there has been so little consistency to the AMC actually means, it does not seem to make sense to give it the priority. --Falcadore (talk) 10:33, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

It's worth considering the following regarding the series which determined the results of both the 2008 AMC and the 2008 APCC.

• The series was promoted as the Australian Manufacturers Championship on The Shannons Nationals website

• The series regulations were published in CAMS Bulletin B08/098 under the name 2008 Australian Manufacturers Championship – Sporting & Technical Regulations.

• There were no specific regulations published for the 2008 Australian Production Car Championship: It was however covered in Chapter 7 of B08/098, under the heading Awards & Pointscores.

• Results of the ten races in the 2008 series were each published at www.natsoft.biz under the heading Australian Manufacturers Championship

• The official results of the 2008 APCC were published on the website of the series organisers (the PCAA) under the heading Australian Manufacturers Championship - Drivers Championship - Final Standings

• The series was covered in The Annual - 2008 under the heading “Australian Manufacturers Championship”

GTHO (talk) 09:51, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I know all this having worked some of those race meetings. Yet you felt the APCC was more important when you created the APCC article over 12 months before the 2008 AMC article. It's what wikipedia calls a content fork. --Falcadore (talk) 12:02, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

The assumption that I created the 2008 APCC page before the 2008 AMC page because I "felt the APCC was more important" is not correct. Had that been the case I would not have created the 2009 AMC page before the 2008 APCC page. I could start to theorize on why a certain editor created the 2011 AMC article with the APCC incorporated within it but I don't think that would be very productive. So what we have are pages for the 2008 AMC, 2008 APCC, 2009 AMC, 2009 APCC, 2010 AMC (incorporating the 2010 APCC) and the 2011 AMC (incorporating the 2011 APCC). I'm happy to do the work to move the 2008 APCC content to the 2008 AMC page and the 2009 APCC content to the 2009 AMC page. That way we will have consistency across the years as well as consistency with the approach of CAMS, the Shannons Nationals people, the category manager(s), the timekeepers and the media in treating the APCC as an award within the AMC for the years in question. GTHO (talk) 23:26, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Theorise away. It could be that I'm not being NPOV. APCC has had a consistent history where as the AMC has wondered around so much that as a title with history it has became reasonably meaningless., but I can acknowledge that's a personal opinion. I don't mind being told that, if that's what you think. Personally I think the merger is more important than which name the destination should have.

That having been said, Shannons Nationals, CAMS, timekeepers and media are largely irrelevant. They don't involve themselves in that level of category management and would behave in the same manner no matter that the Category Managers call their series. Beyond perhaps WP:COMMONNAME, although that actually works both ways. It is interesting to note that AMC long standing nickname 'Manchamp' is actually quite on the nose of those within AMC and do ask all those working in the sport to not use the nick name in connection with the Production Car version of the AMC. --Falcadore (talk) 07:52, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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