Wikipedia:Peer review/24 Hours of Le Mans/archive1

24 hours of Le Mans

This long article covers the race fairly well, but I think the lead section could be trimmed/better organized, and the rest of the article could use some tightening up. Gentgeen 00:22, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• There's a lot of good info here, but it's lacking structure and balance. Just a few things:
  • Lead section is way to long.
  • Part about the movie should be spun off.
  • Pictures are lacking. At least one action photo, and a map of the circuit would be needed, I think. A "Le Mans start" picture would also be great.
  • The "Le Mans start" is certainly not so important that it should be the first topic dealt with.
  • The history is very unbalanced. We get the top 10 for 2002 and long descriptions for various years, but the 1920s are dealt with in a single sentence. My suggestion would be to move very long descriptions to separate articles ("1968 24 hours of Le Mans" or so), and keep a global story here. Of course certain races need to get more attention than others, but keep it brief.
  • The list of winners is quite long, you may consider moving it to a separate "List of" article. I any case I would convert to a table. This looks better and allows you to search easily for marques and drivers.
  • Jeronimo 11:23, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • The Le Mans start is a very important subtopic, as the race begin with the start it's not stupid to begin with it.
  • I am certainly responsible for the disbalance. My choice was to write what I remember from some editions I know well and to ignore others. It's obvious IMO that we will have to split the article as it expand. My fear is that if we split the article too early nobody will edit the articles on subtopics.
  • There's a lot of copyrighted photos of Le Mans but I'm not sure we could claim fair use. My dream would be that someone has a good amateur photo of the 1969 start !

Ericd 00:01, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)