Talk:Atlanta Motorsports Park

In-class peer review

It would be a great idea to expand the history section of the page. When was the track designed, when did it first open, has it hosted any noteworthy events?TheYanks22 (talk) 16:46, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

- Citations need to be cited directly after material. With it at the end of every section, it is confusing as to which information was retrieved from where. - This picture says it's their "own work." Is this really your photo? - History should be the first thing you see on the page...why is it at the bottom? - The references are kind of confusing. You cite the same website multiple times. You should expand your sources.

--NCSU16 (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

It may be a good idea to move your History section of the article to the first position rather than the third position. This way you start out the article with discussing it's history prior to any other information about the park. --Surrahwall (talk) 16:52, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

How does one become a member of the park? (since you cited a source from their membership page)TheYanks22 (talk) 16:56, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

I think that for the amount of sources you have that you should expand your writing on the page.TheYanks22 (talk) 16:59, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Many of the sources the the same website just different tabs on the website. I also am not sure that youtube is a sufficient source.--WhatsDefeat (talk) 16:59, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

The infobox is well designed and informative. Good picture to get full view of the track.TheYanks22 (talk) 16:57, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Good variation of information. You could expand on the different ways that the track could be configured under the road circuit description section.--WhatsDefeat (talk) 17:01, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

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Lead

• no need for "also known as." just the acronym in parenthesis is fine. Put AMP in bold as an alternative name for the subject of the article.
• maybe "also" a kart circuit to ensure nobody confuses terms
• are the kart circuit and "other activities" important elements of the subject? It seems like it would be all about the track (in terms of what people talk about in reliable sources). You can include this, but it shouldn't be in the lead. I see you do already have a "Kart circuit" section. This might be a good spot for the rest if significant enough (changing the section heading appropriately).

In the media

• Reword the first sentence to make the track the subject rather than than the Cadillac
• unless it was one of those featured commercials that are part of the show American Idol, it probably doesn't matter what show the commercial aired during
• As I read on, most of this section doesn't seem to be about the track but about several things that happened to take place at the track. That might mean it should be condensed

Membership

• As we talked about briefly in class, nix the membership breakdown with prices. Talk about there being a membership and maybe explain what that means, but no prices and it shouldn't be its own section unless there's more to say about it.

Sources

• You duplicate many of the sources in the reflist. Use each only once, giving it a name, then insert the same one in using ProveIt for later occurrences
• When you strip away all of the primary sources and sources that aren't about the track (but rather happen to take place on or use the track), it becomes clear that more are needed
• there appears to be an error in the last reference (an extra "title="

General/misc

• I see several more terms that could be wikilinked. Most obviously in the first sentence: Motorsports, country club, road circuit... Then later, Formula ICC, Southeastern Points Championship...more...
• I see ChumpCar exists but ChumpCar World Series does not. The latter should probably either link directly to ChumpCar (while keeping the display text as it is) or you could create a redirect page for ChumpCar World Series that points to ChumpCar
• There are more categories this could go in. Look at the kinds of categories similar articles are in and find the appropriate corresponding ones for this (corresponding because many are city, county, state, or country specific)
• I've seen infoboxes with racing-specific information (i.e. track descriptions). Take a look around for other page element template that you could use
• See Template:Location map for how to add a map
• see Template:Coord for how to add coordinates to the page
• is there an appropriate navbox?
• add a see also section with links to related topics that aren't mentioned in the article

Image use

• Glad you found the image on there currently. More is better, though. I think someone was going to contact the park to see about using more? --Ryan McGrady (talk) 12:40, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

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