Talk:Street racing

message: This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2019 and 13 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Marcolanda1. Peer reviewers: Jacquelynvega97, Kimc2k9.
This is a real class where people edit articles?? Slowpoke1 (talk) 13:27, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

message: This really needs to be looked at. I've added tags and I hope I have time to get on it soon. ƒingersonRoids 01:09, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research and lack of references in entire sections 

message: This IP is from Canada and made an edit which I've reverted because it looks a lot like an attempt to change this article into propaganda against street racing, hopefully just some idiot vandal though. Barfnz (talk) 10:59, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Spontaneous contests between strangers usually take place on paved roads.   The role of leader and pursuer may change many times during contention, but there can be only one winner at the finish.  The challenger follows the leader and the finish is when the chaser quits pursuit.  Unorganized, unregulated, spontaneous, low speed contests between strangers, are the most common of all motor sports confrontations.  From the first cross continental races, to the last person you prevented from passing.  Any use of a  motor vehicle in an attempt to out-gain, out-distance,  prevent another vehicle from passing, or to arrive someplace first, or to test the physical stamina or endurance of drivers over long-distance driving routes is a race. A race may be prearranged or may occur through a competitive response to conduct on the part of one or more drivers, which, under the totality of the circumstances, can reasonably be interpreted as a challenge to race.
I'd like to give this a try.
-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo- (talk) 05:26, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you quote any of your sources saying:  or is this your personal opinion? Dr.K. λogosπraxis 05:33, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You are not answering my questions and you are adding your material without the agreement of the other editors who take part in this discussion. There is no consensus for this original research. Please see also the edit-warring policy. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 13:04, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this has to stop. None of these legal codes comes close to supporting the claims that were added to the article. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 13:32, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. In fact if the legal codes included all these details they wouldn't be codes in the first place. Legal documents don't use this type of descriptions and language. Tabloids do. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 18:22, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Spontaneous racing

message: WP:IMAGE RELEVANCE gives copious reasons why a cartoon of a fake street sign made up by a Wikipedia editor is inappropriate. Images are meant to convey information and illustrate things that exist. Not make visual jokes with no reference in the real world. The caption about "ready, set, go" is not relevant to the image, and not mentioned in the article. The assertion that races are started this way is unsourced, and in any case a phony street sign is not the way to illustrate it. Given the lack of useful or meaningful information contained in the image, it offers no benefits to offset the risk that a reader might interpret it as being real. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:30, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, WP:IMAGE RELEVANCE gives reasons for it to stay. "Images must be relevant to the article that they appear in and be significantly and directly related to the article's topic [...]. Effort should therefore be made to improve quality and choice of images or captions in articles rather than favoring their removal, especially on pages which have few visuals. [...] images should look like what they are meant to illustrate, even if they are not provably authentic images." This article has no images at all. Just because the one I added looks like a mere silly joke to you, it doesn't mean it won't help illustrate the article. Anyway, finding a source and stating that the sign is a fake will make it OK, so I'll provide them later. Victão Lopes Fala! 23:32, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not just get an actual photo? What's the point of going to all this effort for such an absurd image? What are we getting from this fake street sign that's so valuable? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:43, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want an actual photo, just go get it. We don't add things to Wikipedia because they are "so valuable", we add them because they are useful. And I didn't make any effort to add it, you're the one battling to keep it away, even though it has not violated any guidelines. Victão Lopes Fala! 03:31, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silly fake street sign image 

message: This certainly needs a citation. It seems unlikely (given the long history of rally racing in Europe) that anyone can point to the origins of unsanctioned racing on public roads with such certainty. 
In lieu of a substantiation for this claim I think an edit is necessary.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatrickGillin (talk • contribs) 22:37, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern street racing traces its roots back to Woodward Avenue, Michigan 

message: This entire article is poorly written and very un-encyclopedic. I changed some of it, but I don’t have the time to fix those whole article FearThyMoose (talk) 03:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly written 

message: The entire block of text has no citations, with the single one referenced leading to a dead URL. Half of the text relies on interpretations from an anime, and the other half refers to a mystery video that has no corresponding link. - Anonymous 08:39, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Touge section is a borderline lost cause 

message: Aren't the police gonna catch them 116.74.218.131 (talk) 15:12, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prem 

message: In the new age of street racing most races are established on a radio, you would set a time and place and race. not only cars are being raced bikes, cars, and anything really with a motor. My advice would be updating the article to make it more relatable to the new age street racers.  MacS1975 (talk) 20:47, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern day street racing