The article was promoted 06:03, 17 February 2007.
(Self-nom) I found this article when it was in a bad way [1] and rewrote it. It has since had 2 peer reviews; 1 and 2, the second not providing much which I hope is good. The only criteria I'm hesitant about is 1a. Note: it's written with British spelling. James086 Talk 09:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC) reply
Very nice job with the re-write. I did a bit of cleanup today: I changed the ambiguous damper wikilink to point to the shock absorber article (but kept damper visible, since the article is written in British style.) There were redundant links to carbon fibre, radio, down force, and clutch that I took out. I also removed a wikilink to leather, which I found too generic word to merit a link from this particular article, and dropped a wikilink to power (physics) which is an extremely technical article, with formulas galore; it just didn't seem like a good fit for the general audience of the car article. I also added three race location links for Imola, Motopark Oschersleben and Dubai Autodrome.
My biggest complaint is the opening sentence:
The Maserati MC12 is a super car produced by Maserati as a road car (for homologation) from which they developed a FIA GT Championship racing variant.
I'm a 49 year old, reasonably well-read and educated American, and I've never heard the word homologation in my life. Maybe in Europe it's more familiar, or well-known among avid racing fans, but I don't think that a lead sentence should have a word that in all likelihood could be unfamiliar to many readers. The word is also wikilinked twice in the article, but I left the redundant link in because I figure readers like myself may need to re-check the word for its meaning. After looking it up, I guess a more-familiar (to me, anyway) term that is equivalent would be street legal, but I'm not sure I'm right about that! Feel free to leave the word in, but I felt I had to comment about it. - Itsfullofstars 18:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC) reply
The Maserati MC12 is a sports car produced by Maserati as a road car to homologate (meet entry criteria) a FIA GT Championship racing variant.
The article was promoted 06:03, 17 February 2007.
(Self-nom) I found this article when it was in a bad way [1] and rewrote it. It has since had 2 peer reviews; 1 and 2, the second not providing much which I hope is good. The only criteria I'm hesitant about is 1a. Note: it's written with British spelling. James086 Talk 09:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC) reply
Very nice job with the re-write. I did a bit of cleanup today: I changed the ambiguous damper wikilink to point to the shock absorber article (but kept damper visible, since the article is written in British style.) There were redundant links to carbon fibre, radio, down force, and clutch that I took out. I also removed a wikilink to leather, which I found too generic word to merit a link from this particular article, and dropped a wikilink to power (physics) which is an extremely technical article, with formulas galore; it just didn't seem like a good fit for the general audience of the car article. I also added three race location links for Imola, Motopark Oschersleben and Dubai Autodrome.
My biggest complaint is the opening sentence:
The Maserati MC12 is a super car produced by Maserati as a road car (for homologation) from which they developed a FIA GT Championship racing variant.
I'm a 49 year old, reasonably well-read and educated American, and I've never heard the word homologation in my life. Maybe in Europe it's more familiar, or well-known among avid racing fans, but I don't think that a lead sentence should have a word that in all likelihood could be unfamiliar to many readers. The word is also wikilinked twice in the article, but I left the redundant link in because I figure readers like myself may need to re-check the word for its meaning. After looking it up, I guess a more-familiar (to me, anyway) term that is equivalent would be street legal, but I'm not sure I'm right about that! Feel free to leave the word in, but I felt I had to comment about it. - Itsfullofstars 18:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC) reply
The Maserati MC12 is a sports car produced by Maserati as a road car to homologate (meet entry criteria) a FIA GT Championship racing variant.