Wikipedia talk:WikiProject World Rally

Hillclimbing

Why does hillclimbing belong in this project? Does anybody here contribute? Rally Wonk (talk) 11:13, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Flags - Teams and Manufacturers

Issue: There is never sources provided to support flags appearing by names of teams and manufacturers. Proposal: Is it best to remove them?

For example, on 2024 World Rally Championship-2, AEC – DG Sport Competition have Belgium flag. Then there is the old favourite: Ford, 1973 World Rally Championship (amongst other articles).

Why do we feel compelled to add flags? I can see on the DG Sport article it is a company based in Belgium, is that entirely relevant to WRC2? I can also read Ford global HQ is in the USA. But so what? Why do we add flags to articles with a rally/wrc scope where there is no source or explanation providing the contextual relationship.

This conversation is seen at points of conflict of application. In Ford's case, I often explain rules that even the FIA aren't keen to promote, else we would have sources. Rally Wonk (talk) 11:17, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

I fliped through major motorsport event articles like F1, FE, WEC, MotoGP, etc. All of them provide flagicons ahead of entrant names. For the sake of the consistency, would lean oppose on this. Also, sources for WRC2 flags. Unnamelessness (talk) 12:41, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Support series season article names

I was just about to undertake moving the WRC2/3/Junior season articles from the extended names. Is anybody unhappy with 2013 WRC2 Championship, etc? With 40 or so pages I thought it would be best to be clear.

The full season articles (2013 World Rally Championship) have championship in their names and thus make sense. Obviously the old names do, but renaming literally to 2013 WRC2 looks unnaturally abrupt.

F1 support, 2012 FIA Formula Two Championship, also adds championship. I'm not seeing 'season' appended across motorsport in general, ie. 2013 WRC2 Championship season, and I guess 'common names' are not an issue.

Sorry if this has been discussed before. Rally Wonk (talk) 09:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of WRC2 drivers

The article List of WRC2 drivers has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced, abandoned for 9 years and unlikely to be improved, confusing amalgamation of WRC2 and SWRC, pointless list even if improved serves no meaningful purpose, achieves next to no visitors

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Rally Wonk (talk) 17:44, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Rally of Indonesia

Some inexperienced editor made (unformatted) additions to the page, and I don't have a clue if they are correct or not. Is there actually a continuation to the event or is there a new event? ewrc-results.com doesn't help with that. Pelmeen10 (talk) 19:08, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

I reverted the edits. I think the editor sees addition of an Indonesian event in the APRC as it being the same event. Unless there is evidence to the contrary, they are separate events:

• Rally Indonesia on eWRC
• Danau Toba Rally on eWRC

Rally Wonk (talk) 21:33, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

"Rallying"

FYI, the name and primary topic of Rallying is under discussion at a move request. See talk:Rallying -- 64.229.90.32 (talk) 05:21, 10 July 2024 (UTC)