Talk:The Boat Race 1900

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Boat Race 1900/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Ritchie333 (talk · contribs) 13:09, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Today's boat race

Background[edit]

  • "excluding the "dead heat" of 1877" - should link to the 1877 article
  • "Hale was injured and president Warre contracted scarlet fever" - as the first mention of Hale and Warre, we should use their full names (or whatever bits of them the sources have recorded)
  • "five-time Blue between 1886 and 1890" - I assume this is Light Blue / Cambridge here from context, but I'm wondering if we should clarify this specifically here
  • "was Frank Willan who won the event" - shouldn't that be "who had won the event"?

Crew[edit]

  • Stupid off-topic question, why is The Isis (main) not River Isis (redirect)?
    Dunno. It's just the common name. I suppose, as it's part of the River Thames, it'd be odd to have a river in a river.... The Rambling Man (talk) 17:04, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Race[edit]

  • "continued to draw away from the Dark Blues, untroubled" - do we need "untroubled"?
  • "it followed a run of ten consecutive wins for Oxford" - according to the source (of which the reliability has been called into question numerous times when compared to paper records), Oxford had nine consecutive wins; 1890 - 1898 inclusive.

Summary[edit]