Talk:2021 MotoGP World Championship

Single source attack October 24 2020

There's a movement from certain users to replace all citations within the article from external sources to solely using articles from a WP:SINGLESOURCE, the website of MotoGP's commercial rights holder Dorna Sports, motogp.com. There's nothing wrong with motogp.com sources per se, however, the edits made by User:Babymissfortune and User:MasterAlBrazil had removed all sources which weren't motogp.com and replaced with said website. If all source of information is coming from the website of the owner of the sport's commercial rights, the article is no longer robust regarding WP:SINGLESOURCE or WP:PRIMARY. The work of other editors to collect a diverse pool of information sources shouldn't be deleted and replaced with a single source with a possible conflict of interest. One might also question if the edits to change solely to a primary source are coming from someone tied to the organization and trying to promote their own media over other independant journalists. Motogp.com releases may be added as supplementary sources or in a lack of alternative independant sources, but shouldn't replace independant sources entirely. Online periodicals such as Autosport.com, Motorsport.com, Crash.net, etc. are respected and trusted journalistic sources in the fields of motorsport and specifically motorcycle racing. An additional issue with sources from motogp.com is the lack of citation and archival feature on the website. News articles on motogp.com don't specify their authors nor date of publication clearly, and articles are routinely edited retroactively with no possibility to find older versions of the article nor do they specify corrections/edits after the fact. If no one can make a legitimate argument for using only motogp.com sources, I'll be reverting the page back to the last status which complies with Wikipedia guidelines of WP:SINGLESOURCE and WP:PRIMARY. Thank you, User:Grdijk 08:37, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Do not waste words for some Dorna journalists which try to mobopolize wikipedia. Next time just revert. U right Wispyrainon (talk) 16:36, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Can someone get this page semi protected or something?

An unregistered rando keeps vandalising this page.AZet3000 (talk) 06:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Dovizioso: replacement rider or regular rider?

Since Morbidelli will race for the Yamaha factory team from Misano onwards, he will be replaced at SRT by Dovizioso. Should he really be considered a replacement rider or a regular one? If he's a replacement rider, so are Crutchlow and Morbidelli in the factory team. If not, he should be noted as a regular driver because he's not replacing the "injured Morbidelli" as Gerloff, Crutchlow and Dixon did. Drfebusinc (talk) 11:01, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

@Drfebusinc: Let's just wait for the official entry list to be released on the MotoGP website, most probably tomorrow. ^{Engr. Smitty Werben} 12:19, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Official entry list has been released and Dovi is indeed listed as a regular rider. After all, he's not just a temporary replacement; he's going to race til 2022 with the team. ^{Engr. Smitty Werben} 21:38, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

New WikiProject Proposal Alert

This is a note to let editors know that a user has proposed "WikiProject MotoGP". You can visit the proposal and discussion here. (Proposer was not me, I am just a guy alerting editors to the proposal.) Elijahandskip (talk) 21:17, 18 September 2021 (UTC)