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[edit] Addition of Ferrari Tipo 500
I've added Ferrari Tipo 500 to the template. I realise that, strictly speaking, the Tipo 500 is not a Formula One car (it's a Formula 2 car). However, within Wikipedia, the term "Formula One" is generally used to refer to "World Championship races". So I think it's reasonable/useful to add it into the template, as part of the chronology of cars used by Scuderia Ferrari in World Championship events. - DH85868993 09:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- I had just created the Ferrari 246 F1 page, noticed the Ferrari Tipo 500 was on the template, so navigated my way to the Tipo 500 page, saw that it didn't have the template and added the template to that page. Now I'm wondering if that was the right thing to do? Should I have added the template to the Tipo 500 page or not? --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 03:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Layout
Personally, I'm not super-fond of the layout of this template:
- it doesn't cater very well for "crossover" years (e.g. Ferrari still used the 312B3s for the first few races of 1975). Then again, I guess that doesn't happen all that much any more; these days teams tend to have a new car for the start of every season.
- I don't really like all the "F"s at the right-hand end; I'd rather see the type names written out in full.
Options that immediately come to mind:
- change to multiple rows (two would probably be enough) giving more space to write type names in full
- scrap the "timeline" idea altogether and just list the types in chronological order as in template:Lotus or template:Brabham. If we really want to keep the year information in there, it can be added in brackets after the type name, as in template:McLaren F1, although I must confess, that's not my favourite-looking template either.
DH85868993 06:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- Changed to 2 rows. If people don't like it, feel free to change it back. DH85868993 08:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I would almost be tempted to split it into three templates, one for 1948-1965 (beginnings to end of 1.5L era), 1966-1988 (3.0L to end of turbo era) and 1989-current. But it's just an idea - some people might feel strongly about keeping it all in one big template. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 10:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- My preference would be to keep it all in a single template. -- DH85868993 12:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- I would almost be tempted to split it into three templates, one for 1948-1965 (beginnings to end of 1.5L era), 1966-1988 (3.0L to end of turbo era) and 1989-current. But it's just an idea - some people might feel strongly about keeping it all in one big template. --Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 10:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
