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More sources

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Pre-race

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  • "Henley Boat Races 2012 race reports". Cambridge University Women's Boat Club. 31 March 2012.
  • "The Boat Race 2012: Cambridge outweigh rivals Oxford". BBC Sport. 5 March 2012.
  • "Official 158th Boat Race crews announced today". theboatrace.org.
  • "Crews announced for trial eights test". theboatrace.org.

Race

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Reaction

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Trenton

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Images

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Profiles

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Cantab

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Oxon

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Orphaned references in The Boat Race 2012

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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of The Boat Race 2012's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "results":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT 18:05, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Aligned. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:04, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Belated peer review comments

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I read this when it was at PR and never got around to making comments. Here are a couple of initial notes; I'll add to this as I go through the article.

  • I think the lead should be a trifle longer. Perhaps a sentence about the race itself before mentioning Trenton Oldfield; currently the lead jumps from saying Oxford were pre-race favourites to mentioning the race was halted. How about: "Cambridge won the toss and chose to start on the Surrey side of the river. Partway through the race, with the boats level, ..."
    You didn't comment on this one -- not sure if you missed this. I still think this would be a helpful change. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:23, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I didn't miss it, and I agreed with your comments. Following some PR comments from Ruhrfisch, it's been a little reworked, perhaps it'll suffice? The Rambling Man (talk) 18:33, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    The extra material in the lead certainly helps. I do still think it's a little odd for the lead to jump from a sentence about preparation to a sentence about the race being halted. I think adding the sentence-and-a-half I suggested above (or something similar) would help the flow. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:53, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I also think the lead should mention that an Oxford rower lost his blade; it seems to have had a major influence on the outcome and so should be covered in the lead.
  • Can we link "Tideway" in the reserve race description?
  • "The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. First held in 1829, the competition is a 4.2 miles (6.8 km) race along The Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London." The race has occasionally used different courses, and I don't think this sentence should imply otherwise. I'd also like to avoid the repetition of "competition", if possible. How about "The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, first held in 1829. For most of race's history it has been held on the 4.2 mile (6.8 km) Championship Course on the River Thames in southwest London" with perhaps a note after the second sentence giving the years in which other courses were used?
  • "For the first time in Cambridge's Boat Race history, their boat featured just one British oarsman, Mike Thorp, who, along with David Nelson and Oxford's Karl Hudspith, were the only rowers who had featured in the 2011 race" I had to read this a couple of times, and cross-refer to the table, before I realized that the coxswain is not counted as an oarsman. (Duh.) I'm not a rowing aficionado, but then many other readers won't be either, so perhaps this can be made clearer. How about: "For the first time in Cambridge's Boat Race history, their boat featured just one British oarsman, Mike Thorp; the cox, David Nelson, was also British. These two, along with Oxford's Karl Hudspith, were the only rowers who had featured in the 2011 race."?
  • You have the source for the table attached to the word "Source:"; I think I can guess why you did that, but I don't think it's necessary. I think you could add the ref after the "P = President" note.
  • "himself part of the successful and lighter 2011 Dark Blue crew": do you mean lighter than the 2012 Dark Blues, or lighter than the 2011 Cambridge crew? I would assume it's the latter but it should be clearer.
  • "Barn Elms" is mentioned in the text but not shown on the map. If it's not going to be added to the map, a phrase of description should be added that either relates it to the map or gives a distance: e.g. "just past Fulham Football Club".
  • "Despite rating higher and taking an early lead, Goldie was caught by Isis at Barn Elms, and held a half-length lead by the Mile Post": as written this means Goldie held a lead by the Mile Post, but that doesn't seem to match the next sentence, in which Oxford is said to extend their lead.
  • "continued to pull further away": you don't need both "continued" and "further"; I'd cut "further".
  • "It was the first time the race had been stopped since 2001": this makes it sound as if it had been stopped at least a few times, whereas it appears this was only the second time. How about: "This was only the second time the race had been stopped", perhaps with a note outlining the previous incident.
  • "Oxford cox Zoe de Toledo made a request that the race be re-rowed as a result of the broken oar": this is the first mention of a broken oar; earlier it just says that Wienhausen lost his blade. If that's because it was broken I would suggest saying so at first mention of the incident.
    • Bah, boatie thing I suppose, oar/blade all the same. Have re-jigged a little. The Rambling Man (talk)
      I didn't know that blade was used to refer to the entire oar, but that wasn't my point. It seems that you're using "lost his blade" to mean "lost the use of his blade" because it was damaged. On first reading I took it to mean "dropped the blade in the water". Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:23, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      Actually he did lose half (or thereabouts) of his blade. Hopefully between the updated lead ("... suffered irreparable damage to his blade following ...") and the slight rewording in the main part of the article, this is covered now. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:33, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      I'm not completely convinced that "lost his blade" in the main text won't mislead other readers as it did me, but you've made it clear in the lead, and I've now read over it too many times to be sure. I've struck this comment; let's see what folks say at FAC. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:53, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's everything I can see. The article is in good shape; just a couple of niggles. -- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:32, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:Mike Christie, your time and efforts much appreciated. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:11, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome. Struck most comments above; added a couple of notes in one or two places. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:23, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks again, sorry I missed your responses, which I've hopefully now addressed. FAC is live, baton down the hatches....! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:33, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
One minor point left unstruck above. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:53, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Congratulations!

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Congratulations to all the contributors to this featured article. You deserve a lot of applause, recognition and appreciation. What a wonderful article.

  Bfpage |leave a message  14:55, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Very kind, as one of the main authors I very much appreciate your feedback! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:39, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hanno Wienhausen's seat

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The Main race section reads "...Oxford's number six, Hanno Wienhausen..." yet the table in the Crews section places Wienhausen in seat four. Is that an error? Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 00:16, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it should be four. Thanks, and fixed. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:22, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cambridge Crew Order

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The Cambridge crew order is wrong. It was: Garratt, Sharp, Dudek, Thorp, Ross, Lindeman , Schramm, Nelson. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvW0j5Ua6cI 20s in — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:470:9400:F120:E394:F60:66FE (talk) 21:07, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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