Talk:Race of a Thousand Years

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Title[edit]

Adelaide should be removed from the title. It was not in the official literature at the time, nor is it in the series website or the timing website as listed. Existing internal Wikipedia links pre-empting this page also lack the word Adelaide. Falcadore 08:31, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I agree it was not commonly used but I have used it because the official program has "Adelaide Race of a Thousand Years" on the cover and on page 6 and page 5 tells us that "The Adelaide Race of a Thousand Years Official Program was produced by Adelaide Newspapers Limited". GTHO 11:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've dealt with News Limited produced programs before after one year they used data of mine, and found them uniformly hopeless. It's mass produced rubbish and error riddled. One Bathurst program one year contained 40 errors in the driver profiles, some of them, like suggesting Neil Crompton had won the Bathurst 12 Hour three times, were plainly laughable. That they got the name of the event wrong is entirely believable. The official program disagrees with official timing and official series organisers. Considering the origin of the document I'd place little faith in it, as noted several of the drivers names and cars were wrong too. Should they have been left uncorrected as well because it came from the official program? Falcadore 21:34, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm feeling less confident by the minute!! I'm happy for you to amend it as you see fit. Cheers, GTHO 03:21, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All results I have seen list it as either "Race of a Thousand Years" or "Adelaide 1000km", since that was the intended distance. The359 20:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Watson[edit]

Recently Stephen Watson has been linked to a South African Poet. Are you sure this is the same person? There is no mention of a racing career, and something as flamboyant seems to be out of character for a 'recluse'. --Falcadore 21:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly likely not the same person, fixed. The359 23:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: move. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:57, 17 April 2011 (UTC) Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:57, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2000 Race of a Thousand Years → Race of a Thousand Years — Considering one race was ever held, I am thinking do we really need the year included in the title. Donnie Park (talk) 13:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As this was part of a season, let alone a series, this would make for the only race without a year. I see no particular reason to go against this method of style. The³5₉ (Talk) 15:38, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see dropping the year from the title as adding any value. I do not support the change. GTHO (talk)

I really not bothered if no change was made, if that is just to be in line with other articles. Donnie Park (talk) 17:42, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Unnecessary detail in the title is discouraged, see WP:PRECISION. Andrewa (talk) 11:52, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support, as Andrew says, the extra detail is unnecessary. --Kotniski (talk) 08:26, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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