Talk:Richard Childress Racing Museum

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A fact from Richard Childress Racing Museum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Richard Childress Racing Museum (exhibition pictured) is located in the former team workshop in which Richard Childress Racing won six NASCAR Cup Series championships and 58 races?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 15:30, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Dale Earnhardt's 1998 Daytona 500-winning car

... that over half the more than 50 race cars in the Richard Childress Racing Museum were driven by Dale Earnhardt (example pictured)? Source: Motor Trend
- ALT1: ... that the Richard Childress Racing Museum is located in the former team workshop in which Richard Childress Racing won six NASCAR Cup Series championships and 58 race wins? Source: The Greenville News
- ALT2: ... that as of 2004, every car in the Richard Childress Racing Museum (example pictured) had an operational engine? Source: Motor Trend
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Leeds Convention

Created by Michael Barera (talk). Self-nominated at 06:50, 20 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Richard Childress Racing Museum; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Hi Michael Barera (talk), review follows: article moved to mainspace 19 March and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources, citations to the museum's own web site are limited to non-controversial facts; I didn't spot any overly close paraphrasing and Earwig is happy; I struck ALT2 as I just didn't find it interesting (why 2004?); ALT0 and ALT1 are fine, mentioned in the article and check out to source cited; a QPQ has been carried out; photo is nominator's own work and appropriately licensed. Looks good to go. I had one query, but not going to hold approval over it: Is "shop" widely recognised as a term for "workshop" in NASCAR racing? It confused me at first as I thought it was a literal shop (ie. a store) operated by the team. Worth considering a change to "workshop" in the hook and article to better internationalise it? - Dumelow (talk) 07:22, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, Dumelow! I have changed all instances of "shop" to "workshop" in both the article and the hook to improve clarity so that it doesn't sound like "team store". Michael Barera (talk) 22:08, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Barera ALT0 one issue, I see this in MotorTrend Over half of those cars have Dale Earnhardt's name lettered over the driver's door. The article does not say that DE actually drove the cars as our hook claims. Some may have been backup cars etc. Bruxton (talk) 15:29, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]