Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Formula One/Conventions

TAG

I have a problem with the conventions here. It is apparently convention that the TAG-Porsche Formula one engine should be wiki-linked to Techniques d'Avant Garde. Why? On the Techniques d'Avant Garde article there is one solitary sentence, and a basic table, describing TAG's involvement in Formula One. Porsche in motorsport article covers the TAG Porsche engine in much greater detail. Someone following the Wikilink to TAG essentially learns very little more than the correct spelling of TAG. The Porsche article makes a far superior wikilink as someone following it might actually learn something. I would like to see it changed.

This is an occasion where we are letting regimentation overcome the practicalities. --Falcadore (talk) 03:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I am aware, in these cases TAG is linked to Techniques d'Avant Garde and Porsche to Porsche in motorsport. Covers both bases. Pyrop e 04:45, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It does if it says TAG-Porsche. Most cases it just says TAG. There is an unregisterred editor applying the convention to the teller as we speak, even deleting old Porsche in motorsport references. Which is why I bring it up. It's had to justify an undo when they just point to our own convention, hence the desire to have the convention re-worded. --Falcadore (talk) 05:33, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The most extensive description of the TAG engines (which even then is only a single paragraph) is buried in the middle of Porsche in motorsport#Single-seaters. I guess what we need to do is consolidate all the TAG engine information into a single suitably-named article section (I don't think we currently have enough information to warrant its own article), and link all the instances of "TAG" to there. Note that my preference is for the engine name to remain rendered as just "TAG" (i.e. rather than "TAG/Porsche" or "TAG-Porsche", etc) - at least in results tables - since that's how FORIX, grandprixstats.com, ChicaneF1 and www.formula1.com all represent it. DH85868993 (talk) 13:18, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]