Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201205

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Volume 2 · No. 11 –April 26, 2012 – May 25, 2012

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Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles

WikiProject News

New members: None

How to Help WikiProject NASCAR

Please keep up with the discussions at our main talk page. Your input is needed!
Expand the articles in Category:NASCAR stubs.
Help expand and update everything relating to the 2012 season.
Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Doug Cooper, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Jack White (NASCAR), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens
Assess : See all here
Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr.
Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin
Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500
Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway
Stubs : See all here
Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing
Other : More

Portal Help

Portal:NASCAR is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed as Selected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above. Please nominate articles or images on the talk pages.

Article Statistics

NASCAR articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	3	5	14	2			24
B	31	58	53	10			152
C	21	38	43	20			122
Start	25	115	354	295		1	790
Stub	17	54	312	610			993
List		11	50	2			63
Category	1	2	4	10	127		144
Disambig		4	1	1	14		20
Portal	1				4		5
Project					10		10
Redirect			2		86		88
Template	2	15	8	4	47		76
NA					1		1
Assessed	101	302	841	954	289	1	2,488
Unassessed						1	1
Total	101	302	841	954	289	2	2,489

Picture of the Month

Article Developments

New articles:

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Article of the month – 2010 Showtime Southern 500, a Good Article

The 2010 Showtime Southern 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series motor race that was held on May 8, 2010 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. It was the eleventh race of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. The event began at 7:30 p.m. EDT. It was televised live in the United States on Fox and its U.S. radio coverage was broadcast on Motor Racing Network starting at 6 p.m. EDT. The race, contested over 367 laps, was won by Denny Hamlin for Joe Gibbs Racing after starting seven positions behind polesitter Jamie McMurray. McMurray finished second in a Chevrolet, and Kurt Busch finished third in a Dodge. The race had a total of 11 cautions and 22 lead changes among 11 different drivers. (Read more...)

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Newsletter contributers: Nascar1996 and The Bushranger
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