Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycle racing/WP:GPMR

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WikiProject Grand Prix motorcycle racing aims to create, expand, update and standardize Wikipedia articles related to Grand Prix motorcycle racing.

Introduction

Anyone who would like to take part in WikiProject Grand Prix motorcycle racing is welcome to do so. The project aims primarily to create and standardize complete articles on all people, teams, races, and other aspects of Grand Prix motorcycle racing (Superbike, Supersport, etc.)

If you are interested, please feel free to help, and add your name to the list below. If you have any questions, please inquire on the project's talk page.

Goals

To divide the subject of Grand Prix motorcycle racing into appropriate subtopics
To gather complete and accurate information in all GP-moto related articles
To standardize the appearance of motorcycle racer-related pages, such as articles on grands prix, drivers, and constructors, as well as race reports and season summaries from 1949 on today
To maintain Portal:Motorcycle racing and keep all motorcycle racing-related articles up-to-date
To improve Grand Prix motorcycle racing and as many related pages as possible to Featured Article standard

Promoting the project

To promote this project an article banner has been developed as recommended by the WikiProject Council guide.
Please post it on the talk page of any Grand Prix motorcycle racing related articles you edit by adding this template tag {{Motorcycling}} or the userbox {{User WikiProject Grand Prix motorcycle racing}} or {{User WP Grand Prix motorcycle racing}}.

Motorcycle racing

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This user is a participant in the Motorcycle racing WikiProject.

Members

Feel free to add yourself!

Orsoni 03:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Wadems 03:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Piniricc65 07:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Ww2censor 18:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
working on Isle of Man TT results and some rider bios
Readro 16:26, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Roguegeek
Willirennen 03:21, 16 December 2006
Uli Kunkel 21:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC) (Adding 500cc GP race reports for 1988 to ...?)
User:Gary Watson (I have collection of photos from 1990s)
Sportsjam3 (love MotoGP, and love to help edit)
GPman31 (adding rider bios, manufacturers & misc)
BleuDXXXIV (current event updates)
Christophee 21:53, 2 October 2007 (UTC) - I've been working on career statistics for current MotoGP riders
PiusPeto 21:17, 28 October 2007 (UTC) - adding rider bios
Chris Ssk 21:38, 19 December 2007 (UTC) motorcycle circuit racing (MotoGP, SBK, SS etc...)
Asendoh been contributing for a while - mainly on standardization of season articles
cDelpi 14:58, 20 March 2008 (GMT) - Working on career statistics for young riders
Ytak171 (talk) 03:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC) MV Agusta
NapHit NapHit (talk) 17:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Template created

Template:Isle of Man TT listing all annual festivals
Template:Grand Prix motorcycle racing listing all annual seasons - much easier to find than category look up
Template:MotoGP rider similar to Template:Infobox F1 driver, for riders participating in the MotoGP class (Valentino Rossi, etc.)
Template:125cc rider for riders participating in the 125cc class
Template:250cc rider for riders participating in the 250cc class (Jorge Lorenzo, etc.)
Template:Former Grand Prix motorcycle rider for former riders in any of the Grand Prix classes (50cc through 500cc/MotoGP)
Template:Superbike rider for riders participating in the Superbike World Championship (Max Biaggi, etc.)
Template:500 cc/MotoGP Motorcycle World Champions for riders who have won the 500cc/MotoGP World Championship
Template:350 cc Motorcycle World Champions for riders who have won the 350cc World Championship
Template:250 cc Motorcycle World Champions for riders who have won the 250cc World Championship
Template:125 cc Motorcycle World Champions for riders who have won the 125cc World Championship
Template:80 cc Motorcycle World Champions for riders who have won the 80cc World Championship
Template:50 cc Motorcycle World Champions for riders who have won the 50cc World Championship
Template:Supersport rider for riders participating in the Supersport World Championship (Sébastien Charpentier, etc.)
Template:Motorcycle racing - add to talk page of all relevant articles
Template:Mhof - Link to racer's bio at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame
Template:MotoGP circuits - For circuits which hosted (or will host) World Championship races.
Template:MGP - to easily enter season links e.g. {{MGP|1993}} will produce [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing season|1993]]. Copied from Template:F1.

Lists created

List of Grand Prix motorcycle races - all races from 1949 to 2007
List of Grand Prix motorcycle racers - should have all riders from 1949 to today, needs updating as is currently unfinished
List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions - all World Champions from 1949 to today
List of Grand Prix motorcycles - attempting to create a comprehensive list of race bikes used in Grand Prix
List of 2007 motorcycling champions - attempting to compiling a list of championship winners on motorcycle, moved from List of 2007 motorsport champions as it was getting too big for its own good.
Please see discussion page.

Racers

Valentino Rossi, update and refresh with new template MotoGP rider and insert three new table career: By season, By engine displacement and Races by year (the last table is similar at Formula One driver). The objective is create all schedule drivers with template and tables.