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List of 500cc/MotoGP Motorcycle World Champions edit

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I've listed this article for peer review because after working hard on the list over the pat few weeks I feel it is close to meeting all featured list criteria, hopefully any kinks can be ironed out here. Thanks in advance for your comments. NapHit (talk) 16:04, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments By Crazywazy

Overall I thought the article was alright, there were a few things I would clean up.

I thought there were a few sentences where you could have added a bit more information.
I also think you could rename your categories for example instead of Winners, Champions, or instead of By Rider, Total Amount of Championships per rider.

Crazywazy (talk · contribs)

Ruhrfisch comments: Very briefly, here are some suggestions for improvement.

I would explain somewhere or at least link the terms in the top row of the list - not every reader will know what Poles or Podiums are, or how the Points or Margin are determined.
The article could provide moe details in some places - for example the first sentence could be something like Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing, which has been divided into three classes since YEAR; 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP. or give the year when the name changed to MotoGP. It is generally better to avoid words like now or current and use the actual year.
I would add the years of the seven consecutive titles for Agostini to provide context for the reqader - see WP:PCR
Language could be polished a bit, perhaps something like this Italian riders have won the most titles, with 19 titles between six drivers. Great Britain is second; six riders have won a total of 17 championships. The United States is third with 15 titles won by seven drivers.[5]
Be consistent about spelling out numbers and hyphens. The MOS says to spell numbers ten and less, so maximum of 4 cylinders should be maximum of four cylinders. The next part is of whether the engine was a two-stroke or four-stroke.[2] In 2002, rule changes were introduced to facilitate the phasing out of two strokes engines.[3] I think the second sentence should be "two-stroke engines" (hyphenated, not plural as an adjective) to be consistent with the prior usage.
The title has no spaces between cc and the slash and MotoGP "List of 500cc/MotoGP Motorcycle World Champions", the general ref has spaces "List of 500cc / MotoGP Motorcycle World Champions" - which is it?

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 12:54, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]