Talk:Milka Duno

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The first paragraph can't be right. It says she moved to the US at 27, but began racing in Venezuela at 31. --MartinUK 23:03, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

-- Should more be made of the fact the Daytona thing involved her driving virtually never, doing very badly and her 2 brillitan teammates getting that position? And the fact that's she's REALLY been embarassing in IRL? Duds 2k 21:49, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

That wouldn't be WP:NPOV. Here at wikipedia, we focus on facts, not someone's opinion. -Drdisque 03:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Drdisque beat me to it. Anyway, my comments: The sentence referencing 24 Hours of Daytona should definitely be modified to note that it was a team and not an individual effort (every other driver's page I recall seeing always mentions the team and other drivers) - so I've now modified the page to reflect that. Controversy over her acclaim can certainly be included (in that same area) as long as references are provided. However, that achievement is something the media promulgates and thus she is known for. As for the current IRL season: The article already notes she is on probation, so excepting a race-by-race history, her IRL struggle is documented. Keep in mind this is an encyclopedic entry. -Sesameball 03:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IRL Probation

My update about her being put on probation by the IRL was removed by another user with the reasoning "the deleted statement is not true, per Milka Duno's PR manager". Her probation was clearly stated by multiple media sources, one of which I clearly cited, so I have re-added my update. I would like to see any cited reference which states that she was not in fact put on probation. I have left the statement from user who deleted my original update - that she had intended to miss KTY - but that needs to be cited as well. --Sesameball 03:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

As I said, she was NOT put on probation AFTER the MIS race. She's been on probation pretty much since Indy. Your citation was very careful in NOT saying that the probation was due to the MIS performance. I've met Curt on a few occasions, and Curt would've said that it was due to MIS if that in fact was the case. My sources are Milka herself, and her PR team. I've published an article with their response, and now I cite it here. Worse yet, your edit made it seem like the absence from Kentucky was due to this probation, when in fact, it was not. Therefore, I make changes to reflect the truth as told by my sources, which are a bit better than a cite from the Indy Star. Do you want this article to be truthful, or do you want it in accordance to your "multiple media sources" which you mis-cite?Twohlford 00:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
If your objection was to the timing of the probation, then why would you delete the entire reference to her probation and declare it as untrue? That was the issue as I perceived it. If you have an objection to when the act occurred as opposed to the media announcement, I have no problem with a correction. That information isn't available to me, and apparently it's available to you; in that same vein, if you have alternative sources to add to support the statement, I have no problem with that either. As for the issue of withdrawing from KTY, the probation reports and the track listing came out the same day, so I lumped them into the same update (I had them by the corresponding date initially), and again, a clarification to prevent misunderstanding is not something I have a problem with. In any case, I truly hope that any question of whether I want the article to be truthful is just a lame attempt at being facetious. --Sesameball 04:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
As long as we are in agreement, that is fine. My last comment was unfortunate -- I'm tired of a story getting legs and being "widely reported" even when it is wrong. Twohlford 04:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2 references are broken

References 5 and 11. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.35.117.237 (talk) 23:13, 27 January 2008 (UTC)