Talk:North Wilkesboro Speedway

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message: This article is almost ridiculously long, and is much longer than a typical Wikipedia or Encyclopedia article. Even articles on U.S. Presidents and major wars are shorter than this article. The reason is an overemphasis on mentioning even the tiniest details and events, and I suspect that at least some of the material here has simply been cut-and-pasted from a book or magazine article (or perhaps the PhD thesis cited). This article would greatly benefit from having an experienced editor cull the details and summarize the information into a more user-friendly and readable format. My guess is that you could cut this article in half and still retain the essential information contained in it. 2603:6080:C402:2A45:7D14:A93:80A7:18E (talk) 00:46, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: This Article is Much Too Long

message: Seriously someone needs to take care of the Stevie's Daycare that only comes on here to nit pick at legitimate contributions. North Wilkesboro Speedway is a proper name so it goes on one line, the marker will not allow this due to spacing, but on Wiki and other sites North Wilkesboro Speedway is one line proper name.Swilson2000
:If the other lines like those with "sanc-tioned" are broken where they break on the plaque then it seems natural to me that the heading does the same. I modified a couple of other things to match the photo of the plaque. But I wouldn't object to skip all actual breaks at the same time and write:
NORTH WILKESBORO SPEEDWAY
Pioneer NASCAR dirt track. Built 1946; paved in 1958. Hosted sanctioned events, 1949-96. 5/8 mile oval 3 mi. W.
:PrimeHunter (talk) 01:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marker 

message: This article was listed for evaluation at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 April 26. Usage of quotation is set out by WP:NFC, which explains the circumstances under which non-free text should be used and notes that extensive quotations are forbidden. This article copied two paragraphs from When The Engines No Longer Roar: A Case Study of North Wilkesboro, NC and The North Wilkesboro Speedway, which I have removed. There was nothing transformative about the use of this material; it was simply borrowed wholesale for the sake of the information it contained. It has been removed. It would be appropriate to properly paraphrase and summarize the material, with small quotations if needed, in accordance WP:NFC and Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Extensive quotations

message: Edited out the bit about Riverside. No need to state that Riverside also had elevation change. Every road course NASCAR has ever competed on has had elevation changes, there's nothing unique or noteworthy about Riverside having elevation change that merits it being mentioned. What's special is that this oval track had elevation change.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.220.47 (talk) 00:00, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elevation change 

message: in referrence at the start, where it says the track currently hosts NASCAR Feeder series, the ASA Late Models and USAR Pro Cup
both of these organizations/series have nothing to do with NASCAR,  the reason it's often con-strewed as a feeder, is because team use it to develop possible NASCAR top-3 series (Trucks, Nationwide, or cup)
so, i went ahead and modded this, it hasn't been a NASCAR Sanctioned track since 1996, folks
(Racerboy (talk) 20:57, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed "NASCAR" to "Stock Car" 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: It's not completely accurate to speak of the North Wilkesboro Speedway in the past tense. It still very much exists. I drove past it the other day on the way from Statesville to Boone. It's pretty much dilapidated and may never be used again, but it's still there. You can see the grandstand and a badly faded "Winston Cup Series" sign from right off US 421. Jsc1973 (talk) 06:03, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: It still exists!

message: September 15, 2019, a Tweet from Dale Earnhardt, Jr. challenged Steve Meyers, the Exec. Vice President of iRacing Motorsport Simulations, to scan North Wilkesboro Speedway under the condition that the weeds, grass, and overgrowth were cleared from the racing surface, fencing & walls, and pit lane, in order for the iRacing 3D Scanning team to pay the facility a visit to capture the track's 3D Data for archival purposes. Dale Jr's Podcast, Dale Jr. Download, confirmed in Episode 275, that cleanup will be some time in December 2019.  Also stated during the Podcast episode, iRacing has agreed to actually build and release the track in the future after the 3D data is collected shortly after the cleanup is considered 'good enough' to scan and use. It wasn't stated what sort of time frame is expected, but the plan is in place to fully release the track on the simulation platform in the future. The software team is expected to manipulate the data to have the track drive and handle as it would have in the 1990s, right around the time of NASCAR's last race at the track.
96.41.168.171 (talk) 13:00, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Archival Effort & Possible Future iRacing Release

message: links to funding for rebuild:
* https://racingnews.co/2021/11/20/north-wilkesboro-speedway-set-to-return-from-the-grave/
* https://racingnews.co/2021/11/25/north-wilkesboro-speedway-construction-begins/
— Ched (talk) 17:54, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates