Talk:Yukon Quest

"more of a Bush experience"

The article said:

"We wanted more of a Bush experience, a race that would put a little woodsmanship into it", Shank said at the race's 25th anniversary.<ref name="founding"/>

My own first reaction: Thanks, but eight years of the more recent Bush was quite enough of an experience for me.

Sure enough, the cited source does have Shank saying:

"We wanted more of a Bush experience, a race that would put a little woodsmanship into it"

The capital is mightily distracting here. I see no good reason for it. Since Shank said this rather than wrote it, surely it is unimportant even if intended by the writer of the article. (My own guess is that it was a mistake somehow deriving from the frequency of newspaper references to Prez Bush, so capitalized.)

In view of this, I decapitalized "Bush". -- Hoary (talk) 02:44, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

• In the newspaper's style, Bush is capitalized in reference to Bush Alaska; i.e. those areas of Alaska off the road system. JKBrooks85 (talk) 04:44, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Ah. I don't know why this would be capitalized, but if (as suggested by its WP article) it commonly is capitalized then do feel free to revert from "bush" to "Bush". -- Hoary (talk) 05:09, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

I'll also wikilink it in order to prevent the confusion that got us here. JKBrooks85 (talk) 05:57, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Honestly, I was going to bring this up in FAC, but considered it so trivial that it wasn't worth mentioning. I should have just wikilinked it and stopped this before it began... MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 07:53, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Didn't know how to add a section, but there's something that needs to be addressed: Braelynn's comment in the introductory paragraph: (It is the most popular dog sledding race in the world by Braelynne) It adds some information that could be considered important, but it's a mess style-wise. First, it cites no sources, and, given that it's pretty much an opinion, is therefore suspect. A cursory examintation of Googled sources turns up no supporting reference, and it's something which would be hard to measure in any case. B) Braelynn's signature at the end should be removed. 3, It's just stuck on the end of the introductory paragraph in parentheses (exactly as quoted above,) with no period at the end and without even a space between it and the preceding parenthesis. iiii) The referent is unclear. It probably refers to the Yukon Quest itself, but it directly follows a sentence which refers to both the Yukon Quest 300 and the older Yukon quest 250, so, given the placement, it could be any of the three. If it can be shown to have merit, I would put it up front, in the introductory sentence. It seems like the "most popular dogsled race" tag may be a valid point, worthy of inclusion in the article, but unless some supporting documentation can be found, it might be better to delete the comment entirely.

Is there a reason there is no List of YQ winners?

While looking for a place to put Matt Hall, I noticed that we have no List of Yukon Quest Champions. Anyone know why?L3X1 My Complaint Desk 21:43, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

New map - new tech - GPS tracker

First timer following a dog sled race & virtually from my desk .. ie the GPS tracker, pictures, video via sites.

SpotLive does the Iditarod too. And checkout Google StreetView man along the route.

See working links in picture location. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YukonQuestMap.jpeg GPS tracker mixEdit Greg0658 (talk) 19:52, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

2023 separation of races

This needs updating per this and this and multiple other stories about the dispute that profoundly changed the event for 2023. Valereee (talk) 15:51, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

FA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the featured article criteria due to the "update needed" banner at the top of the page and the large amount of unused sources in the "Further reading" section. @Valereee: I see that you added the banner in 2023: any additional thoughts about this? Z1720 (talk) 13:02, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

I added that tag because I was adding a bit of content (that did update a tiny portion), and I noticed at the time that the article was out of date. It's not an area that is remotely within my area of interest or expertise, and I landed here because I was actively creating another article and just came in to connect this article to that one, which is probably why I tagged instead of fixing. There's been one update since, by a clearly well-intentioned Yukon-located IP, but unfortunately without a source. Valereee (talk) 13:41, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh, and I see I opened a section just above...yeah, clearly wasn't up for doing an update, and really not in my wheelhouse. It's got several interested projects and is mid-importance for Yukon and Canadian sports. I'm kind of surprised no one's come in. Valereee (talk) 13:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)