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Featured article2006 UAW-Ford 500 is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 8, 2016.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 3, 2015Good article nomineeListed
February 28, 2015Featured article candidateNot promoted
April 30, 2015Featured article candidateNot promoted
July 18, 2015Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
September 12, 2015Featured article candidateNot promoted
November 23, 2015Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 29, 2014.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Brian Vickers won the 2006 UAW-Ford 500 stock car race by inadvertently wrecking his teammate?
Current status: Featured article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:2006 UAW-Ford 500/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Good888 (talk · contribs) 16:01, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another NASCAR article eh? Well I am going to have a little break before I review this article. Looks good at first glance however. good888 (talk) 16:01, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again! Take your time, please. I'll also try to take care of some of the simple fixes on the Jamaican Olympic article as well. --Bentvfan54321 (talk) 16:48, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Time for the review:

Lead section

  • "160,000 people attended the race." Do you have TV figures as well?

Report

  • "They threw a curveball at us this morning with the restrictor plate and (engine builder) Doug Yates wasn't worried at all." Link Doug Yates.
  • "David Gilliland, driving for Robert Yates Racing, won the pole position with a time of 49.950" Suggest rewrite to: David Gilliland, driving for Robert Yates Racing, qualified on the pole position with a time of 49.950".
  • "Gilliland had fallen back to 30th place after losing the draft." I would perfer that you link draft with Drafting (aerodynamics).
  • Add the TV figures (if there are any) in the post-race section with a source.

And that's all I can find. I will promote once they are addressed. good888 (talk) 19:42, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Good888:  Done everything except the number of viewers; it appears I am unable to locate them. Thanks again, I'll try to finish copyedits to the Olympic article this weekend as time permits. --Bentvfan54321 (talk) 14:11, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Bentvfan54321: Thanks for taking interest in the Olympic article. As for this article, it's a shame they didn't publish the figures. The rest of the article is good though, so I will promote to GA class! good888 (talk) 14:55, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tweak

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I changed the article a bit. Kpgjhpjm (talk) 15:39, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]