Talk:2018 World Rally Championship-3

Vieffe Corse SRL

According to http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/results/championship-standings/page/4176----.html# there's no points for this team. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 20:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

WRC-3 and J-WRC

What does everyone think about merging the WRC-3 and J-WRC articles? There is a whole lot of duplicated content between the articles—the defending WRC-3 champions are also the defending J-WRC champions—and the title "Junior World Rally Champion" only applies to the driver because there are no restrictions on co-driver entries; after all, Ola Fløene is nearly fifty years old. The J-WRC gets very little coverage compared to the top three categories; I don't think I've ever seen it directly addressed in a third-party source.

Alternatively, we could move the J-WRC content into World Rally Championship support categories like we did for the WRC Trophy. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 03:38, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Going to tag @Tvx1, @MNSZ, @Pelmeen10, @ToniGlu92, @Danny 93 and @Kovpastish since they're the regulars on WRC articles. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 03:40, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I would oppose the merge. I wouldn't be so sure that JWRC gets less coverage than WRC3, my local media for example makes news about JWRC, but not about WRC3. Anyway, we have already done it (had seperate articles) for several years, no need to change that. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 11:46, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

"We've always done it that way" is hardly an argument. It used to be that WRC articles contained details of Production WRC (PWRC), Super 2000 WRC (SWRC) and Junior WRC (JWRC) on one page. They were separated out with the creation of the WRC-2 and WRC-3 because articles were getting mired in details. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 12:37, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

They are different championships, is an argument. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 15:22, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I see your point, but I would oppose to the merging as the JWRC is a supporting category for the WRC and not for WRC3. The fact that entrants in the JWRC get auto-registration for the WRC3 is not enough to do the merging. Different was the case of the Production Cup that run INSIDE of the WRC2 for example.

I get that there is a lot of repeated information, but that's just a consequence of regulations, an not because both articles goes "together". MNSZ (talk) 17:21, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

My knowledge of the JWRC/WRC3 regulations are thin and I don't really follow the competitions but what I know from previous WRC year articles are that every support series are displayed in the main article, lately they're seperate articles. My opinion is that if we're to merge support series, every one be should merged to the main (WRC+WRC2+WRC3+JWRC) or every category gets its own page. I get that the JWRC entries are often entered as WRC3 as well, but my understanding is that the JWRC-champion isn't necessarily the WRC3-champion. Kovpastish (talk) 18:06, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I'd also rather keep things like they are at the moment, since I agree with the points the others made. Another reason to keep those pages separated is that they run on a completely different calendar. Also number of results taken into account at the end of the season is not the same: 6 for WRC-3, 5 for JWRC. ToniGlu92 (talk) 21:49, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm going to agree with the others as well. There is enough difference between them to keep them separated.Tvx1 21:49, 3 April 2018 (UTC)