Talk:Stamata Revithi

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 20:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: The article makes no mention of a marriage. It names two children, then says "Contemporary sources do not mention her husband, so she was likely widowed." There is no citation at the end of this sentence. I would suggest that, statistically, the most likely explanation of a 30-year-old woman having children with no named husband is that she was a single mother, not a widow. The cited source does not state any belief that she was widowed. I don't think we should be making any OR conclusions, so I'm editing that phrase out hamiltonstone (talk) 00:40, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree,  you should not make making any conclusion one way or the other.  But your "statistics" are rubbish.  120 years ago,  a 30 year old woman with 2 children and no husband was much more likely to be a widow,  than unmarried.   A lot more men died on the job, in those days.Eregli bob (talk) 04:15, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Over the years I have consulted hundreds of census pages from that period, including thousands of entries, and do not agree. Unmarried motherhood was common; widowhood likewise, but not to the same degree. hamiltonstone (talk) 10:54, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bizarre claim regarding children / marital status 

message: " Officially, she was rejected because the deadline for participation had expired; however, as Olympic historians David Martin and Roger Gynn point out, the real problem was her gender."
So if some random MAN off the street turns up at the start of the Olympic marathon on the day of the race,   he will be allowed to join in the race,  on the spot ?  Of course he won't!  Don't substitute mincing correctness posturing for officially recorded fact.Eregli bob (talk) 04:13, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low credibility claim. 

message: In the Running Encyclopedia she is listed as being born in 1865. - Theornamentalist (talk) 06:41, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

message: Would be interesting to know why she has died so young. --Melly42 (talk) 13:06, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: She didn't, if you read the article you will see it states that details after the run are nonexistent. – Connormah (talk) 21:33, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of Death 

message: I corrected a misquotation in a photo caption (what was written as 'program' was spelled 'programme' in the original quotation) and this led me to notice a problem with the version of English used in the main text of this page (ie NOT including quotations).  In the main text both British/Commonwealth English spellings ('kilometre') and American English spellings ('kilometer' and 'program') are used.  It should be one or the other, not a mixture. 86.133.213.39 (talk) 17:13, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variety of English used 

message: Sadly I think it isn't right to have her in this category. She didn't enter any races, nor was registered for any. At it's most extreme it'd be like me going to Rio, doing the marathon course the day before and then adding me as an Olympic athlete Cls14 (talk) 09:15, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Athletes at the 1896 Olympics category 

message: Substituted at 06:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment