Talk:Legends of Motorsport

message: I knew I should have created something like Legends of Motorsport (TV Series) from the outset.
Legends of Motorsport is also a band.
http://www.mushroommusic.com.au/artist/artist.asp?id=69
* mentioned in List of Australian musicians and accidentally links here for now --SportWagon 00:49, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: But now... http://www.legendsofmotorsport.com.au/
* History, e.g. above page, indicates the band started in 2000 while the TV series dates back to 1996.--SportWagon 20:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs to be made a disambiguation page... 

message: I believe the music on the newest episodes has changed. I never hear the older one anymore. But does anyone know what the theme music for the original was? I so wished to at least have saved it untitled, if not find out the title/artist, but didn't get a chance as they do not air it anymore. Peoplesunionpro 04:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I did perhaps a year or two ago. I just searched the forum again, and someone else asked the same thing. But no clear answer. Peoplesunionpro 02:46, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theme music? 

message: --SportWagon
I here describe the process by which I decided to write this article.  The narration here, therefore, describes things beginning in October, 2005.
So, I noticed the article on SPEED Channel had an unsatisfied link to Legends of Motorsport.
So I thought, "Well, I know a little about Legends of Motorsport, so I ought to be able to write the article.".
And so I tried.
Now, it turns out, over the years, I had been conducting, essentially, casual original research into the Legends of Motorsport series, by watching taped copies, allowing me to review parts in detail, and helping me to compile the episode lists I mentioned.  So I do personally know a lot about Legends of Motorsport, and feel I can speak about it, although as an outside observer, with some level of authority.
But when I write an article about it, one can argue I am publishing original research.
Currently, we have available on the web the citation I give, and the transient listings of episodes coming in the next five weeks.
*SPEED Channel Promotional Page
*episodes in next five weeks
Based on that, it seems difficult, at any arbitrary moment in time, to verify all of what I say.
When reading the guidelines, I think I might have misinterpreted the meaning of "research" to mean "generation of truly new information", whereas it seems it is regarded here as any first-order gathering of information.
That it might be inappropriate for me to embellish my article with any further information seems unfortunate.  Surely I am not the first would-be contributor to fall in to this situation?  I am I now interpreting the Wikipedia No Original Research (NOR) policy too harshly?  Or merely correctly?  Rereading it, the focus of that page does appear to mostly discuss theories, not history. (The question came up, actually, in a discussion on trying to pin down the etymology of "suicide door";  see Talk:Suicide_door, in particular the section with "Erroneous?" in its title).  
Ultimately, one could contact SPEED Channel in Charlotte, and ask them to confirm or deny the truth of what I say, although I don't know enough about how television station records and archives work to know whether they would be able to.
I will attempt to go and look at other television show entries, and see if I can figure anything out that way.
But perhaps compare my article with
* Alain de Cadenet
* David Hobbs
Is the biography of those individuals considered research?
It would seem there is much information there without immediately cited sources.  In fact, Alain de Cadenet has no external citations.
--SportWagon 19:36, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oops.  My Strength is My Weakness 

message: With a web search I just found www.nad.org which lists  Legends of Motorsport as
Disapproved TV Programs for U.S. Department of Education Captioning Support
Oh.  Apparently that was in 2003.  I believe the NAD (National Association of the Deaf) is merely reporting the news.  I.e. it was not they who did the disapproving.--SportWagon 19:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disapproved for Captioning? 

message: http://tv.msn.com/tv/series-episodes/legends-of-motorsport/?sb=0&si=1&ipp=40
--SportWagon (talk) 22:24, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found an episode guide 

message: This page mostly stands alone.  Links die.  Sadly, perhaps even archive links will die.
The internet/world-wide-web is not really an accountable source of historical information.
--SportWagon (talk) 09:55, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  SportWagon checked in again today, Saturday October 9, 2021