# Talk:Champions of the Future

@Mb2437, @History6042: Is there any way the lead of this article can be improved upon? For someone like myself who was not previously familiar with the subject: the lead is extremely hard to look at with the amount of wikilinks, bolding, and abbreviations. This same concern extends to the history section, where the first sentence reads:

"COTF was founded in 2020 by the RGMMC Group—the official promoter of FIA Karting and IAME events—to promote and develop the CIK-FIA classes: OK, OK-Junior (OK-J), KZ2, and 60 Mini."
What does any of this mean? Nothing is spelled out or explained. Especially now that the article has been promoted to Good Article status: articles should be at very least understandable for people not familiar with the subject without having to hover over and/or click on every wikilink. Right now the article violates WP:MTAU, but for someone like yourself who is clearly passionate about the topic and actually knows what each of these abbreviations mean, I have confidence that you can complete these corrections without having to do a GA reassessment. Johnson524 15:54, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

It's pretty clear… and further explained by the wikilinks. All bolding follows MOS:BOLD and only covers redirect terms. All technical content is appropriately wikilinked without overdetailing. If you want an in-depth explanation, read those articles. This is not an article about kart racing in general. All abbreviations are the names of the classes themselves and cannot be replaced in a way that would increase understanding. This article does not exist to explain each individual class. It does not violate MTAU in any way, which clearly refers to unexplained technical content; all technical content is either directly explained or expanded upon through the use of wikilinks. MB2437 19:24, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
@Mb2437: I'm not looking for overdetailing, I'm looking for any detail at all. For example, something like:
"COTF was founded in 2020 by the RGMMC Group, the official promoter of FIA Karting (CIK-FIA) and Italian American Motor Engineering (IAME) events, to promote and develop the CIK-FIA karting classes: OK, OK-Junior (OK-J), KZ2, and 60 Mini."
It's not a huge change, but this way readers don't have back-to-back unexplained abbreviations you have to hover over if you want any understanding of what you're reading. Sure, if you want to learn about OK-Junior or KZ2 you still have to click on them, but at least now you know that these are the specific race classes of FIA Karting, something I didn't realize when I first read this because it was never defined that FIA Karting and CIK-FIA are the same thing. That's probably obvious to someone familiar with karting, but it shouldn't be assumed that all readers coming to the article are. Personally, I came to this article with no prior knowledge of the topic wanting to learn about Champions of the Future because I love reading every new page that gets promoted to GA status 🙂 And overall, it is a really interesting article, I was just disappointed about how hard it was to read at points. For this reason I still believe this article violates WP:MTAU, but if you can define some of these key abbreviations, it should be fine to remove the technical tag then. Johnson524 21:00, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
Good point about FIA Karting and the CIK-FIA being the same thing; I will rectify that in the morning and look at which abbreviations can be expanded upon for clarification. The problem is kind of inherent to kart racing classes themselves, which are all abbreviations of some sort. Even the ones which have explanations for the abbreviations are more commonly referred to by their abbreviated forms and have only been expanded in article titles to satisfy WP:CONCISE, avoiding constructions such as "OK-J (karting)" and the like. OK-Junior itself even contains the "OK" abbreviation, although "Original Kart" is almost never used. I'd say it would be better to expand upon the classes in the body rather than the lead—I usually add clauses such as "the premier under-15 karting class" to driver articles. MB2437 21:07, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
@Mb2437: That sounds good, I look forward to seeing your revisions, and thank you for your contributions to this area of the encyclopedia! 🙂 Johnson524 21:39, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
Added short explanations of each class in the body and sorted out the confusion of FIA Karting and CIK-FIA. MB2437 15:25, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
 Done Looks so much better, thank you @Mb2437! Congrats on your Good Article if I haven't said that already, the encyclopedia's a better place because of you. Cheers from North Carolina! Johnson524 18:12, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
Likewise with you—cheers back from sunny[dubious] Devon! MB2437 19:27, 10 August 2025 (UTC)