Talk:White City Stadium

message: As mentioned on the White City, London page the area was thus named because of the large number of whitewashed buildings at the Franco-British exhibition. The Olympic Stadium was given that name because it was already in common usage for that region of London, not vice-versa.
--Lost tourist 11:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The opening line says it was built for the olympics, yet in the second paragraph of the history section it says it was built for the Franco-British Exhibition. BigTurnip (talk) 18:35, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I've just addressed this anomaly.  It was built on the site of the F-B expo and at the same time.Mikeo1938 (talk) 08:44, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was the stadium built for? 

message: Coordinates North 51 degrees 30 minutes and 49.03 seconds is a little too precise. 1 Minute or nautical mile equals 1852 meters.
One second equals 30.87 meters. A tenth of a second equals 3.08 meters and 1/100 of a second equals 0.31 meter or about a foot.
And the longitude differences at latitude 51 are even smaller. But the stadium covered a far larger surface. From a mathematical point of view is it an error to give an answer with too high precsision. I suggest to skip the seconds decimals
when large objects as this is given latitude and longitude coordinates.
I know this is not the only article on Wikipedia that uses far too high precision concerning coordinates. But I have to start somewhere. 83.249.161.191 (talk) 23:36, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinates precision 

message: The centence
In 1966, Wembley's owner's refusal to cancel regular greyhound racing meant the match between Uruguay and France in the 1966 FIFA World Cup was played at White City.
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Implies to me that grehound racing was involved combined with (some) of the 1966 World Cup matches. I fail to see any other explination to why the Uruguay vs France was played at White City (if text is correct). I think this needs some kind of clarification. 83.249.161.191 (talk) 23:45, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe the FA owned Wembley at the time and yes, the stadium owner's priority was to place the regular greyhound meeting above the once in a blue moon World Cup game. Remember that statistically per number of meetings the old stadium was definitely a greyhound stadium first and anything else after that. Britmax (talk) 08:31, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank You very much for this information. I do remember that Speedway World Championships was held at Wembley atleast once. Perhaps that was in 1975, otherwise a year prior or later. Back then the Speedway WC was decided during a single competition. (It may have been several occations) But Greyhound racing at Wembley was new knowlidge to me. Can such events, like a weekly Greyhound Racing, really gather crowds enough for such a huge arena (I've been at the old Wembley. A guided tour only though). 83.249.161.191 (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greyhounds and World Cup 1966 

message: Stadium capacity is unclear - 68,000 in the text, 90,000 in the summary box.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.29.200.32 (talk) 12:28, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be good to improve the sourcing over the stadium capacity. A number of sources: e.g https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9Fu1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7&lpg=PT7&dq=white+city+stadium+150000&source=bl&ots=hMBqmOQYJz&sig=ACfU3U1srOdm1yvC8nv_YygljxaD8prMiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZmtny463nAhXwQhUIHTrkCfs4ChDoATAAegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=white%20city%20stadium%20150000&f=false suggest that the stadium had a 150,000 capacity but others say ~90,000 - But its not very clear where either estimate in sources comes from it would be good to find some better sources with an accurate figure.   AlasdairEdits (talk) 11:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capacity 68,000 or 90,000 ?