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Any assistance for a Speedway project?
You may have noticed, I am bringing further minority sports to ArmchairGM!
This time, Speedway. Okay it may be a rubbish sport, not a real sport, blah blah blah... It has a strong following in Scandinavia, and is known about in Britain, Australia and California.
I beg, once more, for assistance with for one thing or another regarding it.
Here's what I've done:
- Write player profiles for a few of the "all-time great riders" - check Ivan Mauger, Sam Ermolenko, Billy Hamill, Bruce Penhall, Tony Rickardsson, Barry Briggs, Ole Olsen, Hans Nielsen, Ove Fundin... all can be found in Category:Speedway Riders. I designed the template with gaps to fill in.
- Write brief summaries of each of the Grand Prix seasons from 1995 to 2007. Viewable is Template:Speedway Grand Prix Seasons, but the only one with real quality so far is 2007 Speedway Grand Prix season. That is what the others should look like eventually.
- Race Reports - unlike the F1 ones that took forever to write, these take a little bit less time. Half of it is a copy and paste job from Wikipedia, the rest is just a table and stick in the numbers in the right columns. Takes a lot of concentration though. You can see Category:Speedway Grands Prix Reports, the best being 2007 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain.
- Miscellaneous pages, e.g. Speedway World Championship - documenting the history of the World Championship.
What still needs to be done:
- Speedway World Cup - the Team Event - this is not nice, frankly. It requires stuff that I need to ask Pean about. This is on hold for the time being...
- Reports - joy... From 1995 to 2006 only. I'm happy to conclude the 2007 season. I've done 1 a day for the last... 4 days... But they're very doable, and a lot more interesting than the F1 reports. Honest! Not on wikipedia, but I can provide a source.
- Player Profiles - this is the easiest thing to do. Go to 2007 Speedway Grand Prix season, look at the table at the bottom, and go to it, and fill in the Speedway Rider Template with information from wikipedia. Then just copy and paste the wikipedia article onto here. Just make sure you delete non sports-related wiki links... We have no purpose for a link to a country etc. Stick a picture on the profile - then job done.
- League Pages - there are three main Speedway Team Leagues, in Britain, Poland and Sweden. I'm going to have a think about how best to cover those...
- Stadia - read a lockerroom coming your way shortly...
Speedway is a minority sport, so it wouldn't take much to fill all of this in - there is such a limited history to it. There is a place documenting Speedway World Championship results back to 1936 or something stupid... But that's the last thing to worry about.
Are there any willing assisters out there with this project, that can help me add some of this stuff together? Rest assured, any volunteers will be showered with gifts.
So... Any volunteers?
