Talk:David Pearson (racing driver)

Acting?

A "David Pearson" is credited as having small roles in both Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, and Almost Heroes. I am highly skeptical that either of these are him, but in both cases the editors of the articles on the films linked to this David Pearson. That is probably because David Pearson should have been a disambig page the entire time, but wasn't for a while, and the movie editors didn't check the link target. But, for all I know, NASCAR David really does do cameos in bad movies.  :-/ — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 12:46, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

That's highly unlikely. He's known to be quiet which is why he isn't as well known as his all-time great peers like Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Allison, and Darrell Waltrip. That brings out a point - I need to discuss his personality. Royalbroil 13:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Some notes by Ched

Lead

• Pearson's career paralleled Richard Petty's, the winningest driver in NASCAR history.[4] ... thinking.

— Ched :  ?  22:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

• Meaning that they raced for many of the same years against each other and they were chief rivals of each other. I was hoping to attach Petty's significance to this thought but it could be separated. Good job with the ALT image descriptions. Royalbroil 03:09, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Yea - the more I think about the sentence ... the more I REALLY like it! It was just one of those sentences that said so much with so few words. It made me think. :-) — Ched :  ?  13:07, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 17:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Overall this is a very good article, though I do have some issues:

• "Pearson began racing in NASCAR during the 1960 season shortly after winning the 1959 track champion at Greenville-Pickens Speedway." The last section basically ended at 1952, so the jump is a little jarring. What was he doing in 1959 and beforehand, is that noted somewhere?

  I spent months researching this article, including getting every NASCAR book at the local library. I couldn't find anything from any source (online or paper) during this time period. Not even anything from an unreliable source. I dug high and low - including the NY Times, NASCAR, google books, numerous newspaper sources.

• "When Pearson bent the frame of the his own race car early in the 1961 season, he began working as a house roofer in Spartanburg to support his family, which included his two sons." So was he married? If so when?

  I watched for information about a wife while searching and couldn't find a mention. Not too surprising considering how private is his. I think we need to be very careful about adding living spouses since maintaining privacy about non-public people (the spouse) is important. I bet I wouldn't have been able to find out his children's names if the sons weren't higher profile NASCAR people. So I would argue against naming the non-public spouse even if I had found something.

  I kept digging and found something - a resolution from the South Carolina legislature. I added information on his wife - she was dead in 2000.

• "The 1970 season started with Pearson competing part-time, like he would for the rest of his career." Any specific reason as to why he mvoed to part time?

• I was looking specifically for this reason the entire time (too) and wasn't able to come up with anything on it. Since you posted this, I looked at a website that I had encountered in the past (which was unknown reliability). It is the only source that I'm aware which lists series that stock car drivers might commonly race in [1] like ASA, ARTGO, sports cars, USAC Stock cars, IndyCars, etc. It only shows a few American Speed Association events and a few sports car races.

• 1973 feels a little short given that he was the nascar driver of the year.

  Y Done

• I'd spell IROC out on its first mention.

  Y Done

• "Pearson was one of the 25 nominees for the first class to be inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame." When was the first class inducted?

  Y Done

• Saw a few punctuation issues, though I think I got all of them.

  Thank you! Royalbroil 05:22, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I'll put the article on hold for a few days, and will pass it when the issues are fixed. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 17:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

You bring up good points about things that I just can't find. I don't know what to say to you about the remaining points. I was aware of each of them the entire time that I was rewriting the article from scratch and I tried very hard to find content for each of these missing points. I couldn't find a book written about him which might include these details, just a chapter or two in some google books. There's an author with the same name which makes finding a biography very challenging. I'll keep looking, but if you have to fail the GA because of these points then so be it. You need to decide if it's complete enough at the GA level - I'm sure it's not at the FA level. Royalbroil 14:09, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Given this issues, it's unlikely that it could be an FA. However, I feel that there's enough comprehensive info in the article to consider it a GA, so it passes. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:48, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

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