User:Apterygial/My insane idea

My insane idea (or the insane idea or MII) is to make the 2008 Formula One Season a Featured topic. "But that's insane!" I hear you say.

"Yes," I reply, "hence the title." I have created the box below to show how the articles in the topic are currently rated. When the quality of the articles is adjusted, this box should be updated. The idea is clearly a big task, but given time, patience, stamina and someone else helping, I believe it is possible.

Now I realise that, technically speaking, this belongs as part of the F1 WikiProject, but I figured that by basing my own operations here, I could get a better idea of where the articles are at and what needs to be done.

Sign your name below (I was fully expecting that the only name there will always be me, how wrong I was) using four tildes (~~~~) and we'll see what we can do. Basically all you need to do is get an article to GA standard. That's it. I'll give you a barnstar.

If you have any questions, be sure to leave them on the talk page.

What you can do

We have decided to make the 1995 Japanese Grand Prix and the 1995 Pacific Grand Prix articles the template for the articles in the 2008 season. I realise that there are other F1 FAs, but a good FT should have consistency. Have a look at the two 1995 articles, and try apply the same features to these articles. Or even better (not to blow my own trumpet), take a look at 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix, which is our first FA from this season.

While content writing is the key aspect, others such as copyediting, helping with peers reviews or just pointing out where the articles are just plain wrong are quite important. Asking on the talk page where you can help us is sure to get an enthusiastic response, as with such a big project there is sure to be something that you can help with.

Status report

19 articles 2008 Formula One season

2008 Australian Grand Prix 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix 2008 Spanish Grand Prix 2008 Turkish Grand Prix 2008 Monaco Grand Prix 2008 Canadian Grand Prix 2008 French Grand Prix 2008 British Grand Prix 2008 German Grand Prix 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix 2008 European Grand Prix 2008 Belgian Grand Prix 2008 Italian Grand Prix 2008 Singapore Grand Prix 2008 Japanese Grand Prix 2008 Chinese Grand Prix 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix

Article	User	Article	User	Article	User
2008 Australian Grand Prix	D.M.N. (talk)	2008 Malaysian Grand Prix	Cdhaptomos (talk)	2008 Bahrain Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)
2008 Spanish Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)	2008 Turkish Grand Prix	Darth Newdar (talk)	2008 Monaco Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)
2008 Canadian Grand Prix	LeaveSleaves (talk)	2008 French Grand Prix	Darth Newdar (talk)	2008 British Grand Prix	AlexJ (talk)
2008 German Grand Prix	Darth Newdar (talk)	2008 Hungarian Grand Prix	Midgrid (talk)	2008 European Grand Prix	Darth Newdar (talk)
2008 Belgian Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)	2008 Italian Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)	2008 Singapore Grand Prix	LeaveSleaves (talk)
2008 Japanese Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)	2008 Chinese Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)	2008 Brazilian Grand Prix	Apterygial (talk)

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Userbox

This user is a member of Apterygial's Insane Idea UserProject.

As an added incentive to help out, I have created a userbox which you can proudly display on your userpage or wherever. Just add {{User:Apterygial/MII userbox}} and you'll get the userbox shown on the left.

True believers

• Apterygial 10:01, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
• D.M.N. (talk) 15:35, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
• --Midgrid(talk) 23:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
• Cdhaptomos talk–contribs 12:49, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
• Contact me for copyediting, I'm always willing. Ceran^→//forge 23:34, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
• Darth Newdar (talk) 14:58, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
• It looks like this has almost reached full fruition, but I'll try to repay the help you're giving me with my own approximately five and a half times more insane idea. Alex finds herself awake at night _{(Talk · What keeps her up)} 05:05, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
• L. Zheng Wei (talk) 05:43, 5 September 2012