Talk:2024 World Rally Championship/Archive 1

Archive 1

Time of updating results

@Unnamelessness: I do not know what 'content' you are referring to in your revert notice, as you did not include any references when you updated the results table. However, it is a matter of fact that 'To secure these points, drivers must finish the rally on Sunday. In case of a non-finish, the points pass to the next eligible competitor.'

Hence I do not see how you can argue that updating the results table on Saturday afternoon makes any sense. Going forward, we should hold off on updating the results until the rally has finished, unless you can and do provide official sources from the WRC/FIA beforehand.

Provisional standings should not be used to update Wikipedia; we are WP:NOTNEWS.  Ved havet 🌊 (talk)  14:33, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Disagree. Provisional standings could be carefully used as long as they are covered by WP:RS, such as this. The policy that could've applied here is WP:CRYSTALBALL. That being said if a driver ends in top ten at Saturday evening, but retired on Sunday, he would lose his points, which is why short footnotes were added to complete WP:V. Unnamelessness (talk) 15:08, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Drivers don't 'lose their points' by not finishing; they were never awarded those points in the first place.

Provisional standings are updated in WP:RS after each stage, not just on Saturday afternoon; unless we are to allow updates of provisional standings after each and every stage, I see no argument that they should be included at all before the end of the rally?

As far as I can tell, there was nothing to indicate that the results you added were in fact provisional standings, leading to WP:Inaccuracy.  Ved havet 🌊 (talk)  18:58, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

RS was added down from the table, and it should be the marker to tell us whether a Saturaday update should be implemented. We will find out in Sweden. Unnamelessness (talk) 11:24, 29 January 2024 (UTC)