User talk:Topcardi
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[edit] Welcome!
Thank you very much for your recent contributions to various Olympics pages. The 1900 Olympics, as you have been contributing to, are not very high on the priority of most of the other contributors at WP:OLYMPICS and so we often overlook the fact that the early games were very important indeed and need a lot more work, work that you have given. Please take a look at WT:OLYMPICS to get a sense of where the project is going. Currently, we're tagging all pages in the Olympics-jurisdiction with importance and quality tags, so maybe you can help out!
Again, I hope you stay with the project, and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page, or the others on WP:OLYMPICS at the project talk page. └Jared┘┌talk┐ 21:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 1900 Olympics Cricketers
I've noticed that you've been adding various details (middle names, DOBs, etc) to the profiles of the British players at the 1900 Olympics cricket tournament. You've not given any sources for the information, could you possibly add this to the articles please? Thanks. Andrew nixon 21:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Saint George Ashe
Could you please give the source for your statement that British rower at the 1900 Olympics Saint George Ashe was born in Malta. This circumstance isn't related in any of the usual sources for early Olympians biographies (e.g. Mallon, de Wael)?
Reply - Ian Buchanan's book "British Olympians" (Guinness-1991) has an entry (birth/death places/dates) for every British gold medallist and also an index of all British competitors (up to 1988) with birthdates only.
Cross referencing with the website http://www.1901censusonline.com comes up with the entry
St George Ashe age 29 - born Malta - London - St Giles In The Fields & St George Bloomsbury (Solicitor).
The 1881 census also confirms this result and nobody with remotely the same name is listed. It's not really "original research", more just marrying print and on-line information together and obviously it won't work with a more common combination of names. Topcardi 13:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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