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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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[edit] Azubuike

I guess you're technically right, but you can see him in this image proudly sporting the Union Jack. I know this is probably going on original research, but it just makes me assume that he probably considers himself to be British as opposed to Nigerian. According to WP:ID, "Use terminology that subjects use for themselves (self-identification) whenever this is possible. Use terms that a person uses for himself or herself, or terms that a group most commonly uses for itself." Bash Kash (talk) 21:12, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Football at the Summer Olympics

Hello! I note that you recently edited the above article in order to say that the IOC accepts the 1900 and 1904 tournaments as official, citing the IOC website as evidence. However, I looked this up on the IOC website, and what it says is that "In 1900 and 1904, football was introduced as an exhibition sport and became the first team sport included in the Olympic Games. Since 1908, the sport has been held at every Olympic Games with the exception of 1932 in Los Angeles". Doesn't this mean that football was not an official tournament at the 1900 and 1904 olympics, but rather an exhibition sport, and the first full tournament was in 1908? To be honest, I am not really fully conversant with what one would actually call an "official tournament" at the Olympics, and whether exhibition status counts in this regard; however, surely it needs to be noted that the IOC considers these events exhibitions in distinction to the tournaments that have been held since 1908? Robotforaday (talk) 00:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the explanation about what is clearly a confusing picture! Robotforaday (talk) 02:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Waldstein, Charles Waldstein (archaeologist), Charles Waldstein (shooter)

Hello, thank you for finding and referencing the article which confirms that the archaeologist and shooter are the same person. Perhaps the contents should now be moved to the disambiguation page Charles Waldstein since there seems to be only one person with that name on Wikipedia, and Charles Waldstein (archaeologist) and Charles Waldstein (shooter) should be converted into disambiguation pages - are there any other talents of this polymath which are waiting to be discovered? Defrosted (talk) 23:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kolehmainen and Wolf

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it! Cheers, CP 04:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jack Egan

I found his real name from the newspapers of this era. I encountered this first in this The New York Times article (click to View Full Article, the second paragraph of the article). Him boxing under pseudonym was quite an hot news back in 1905, you can get more hits of this when searching the Library of Congress Historical Newspapers Archive (insert Jack Egan under exact phrase).

NB! His pseudonym was Jack Egan, not Jack Eagan. Gh (talk) 14:04, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Keeping & Mike Keeping

Thanks for the note - sorry if I've been slow in responding, but I have been away for a few days.

I'm afraid I can't shed any light on the relationship between Frank and Mike, although the chronology appears to fit, as Mike was born in Milford-on-Sea in 1902. My reference books merely say about Mike what I put in the article when I expanded it last September. I've had a look elsewhere, but have drawn a blank.

Perhaps when you have finished your research, you could expand the article on Frank, and include a query on the two talk pages regarding their probable relationship. Sorry I can't be of more help. Cheers. --Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 06:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)