Talk:Doncaster Round Barn

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A fact from Doncaster Round Barn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 July 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Doncaster Round Barn, named after an English horse, was the Montana birthplace of the racehorse Spokane?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Doncaster Round Barn.

one-quarter mile interior exercise track?

The track cannot be 1/4 mile in circumference if it is really indoors

(100 ft diameter * PI = 314 ft, approximately 1/18 of a mile)

...unless the track is a spiral of some kind.
Note the 1/4 mile figure appears in the cited document DoncasterRoundBarn.pdf
XyKyWyKy aka raffriff42 (talk) 15:51, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I tweaked the phrasing. Yes, the "quarter mile track" claim is in the NRHP application and yes, the math doesn't work out if the barn is really 100 feet in diameter, but that is also sourced. One source or the other has to be off. I added a footnote to note the discrepancy. I will note that the people who owned the barn were not above hyperbole, the "ten-horse wagon of hay" comment is also a bit over the top. Montanabw ^(talk) 22:33, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]