Talk:Chicago Marathon

message: I've removed the claim, in the opening paragraph, that the Chicago Marathon is the "world's largest."  says Chicago was second to NYCM by some 4,000 finishers in 2006. Chicago is on track to be larger in 2007, but we can fix that when it happens. --Pjmorse 20:25, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  World's Largest? 

message: Was it 1977? The article should state it, if known.--Rajah 00:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaugural Year? 

message: A dispute has arisen over the placement of Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago project's "Collaboration of the Week" template on this article. I've posted a comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject about it in order to reach a broader audience, and would like to invite comment from interested editors. -- MisterHand (Talk to the Hand|Contribs) 20:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration of the week template 

message: Citation #5 (Suozzo, p. 6.) is not complete since it does not allow me to verify the true source. What is "Suozzo"? 
:I stand corrected, the full reference occurs in the references section - Suozzo, Andrew, "The Chicago Marathon", University of Illinois Press, 2006, . Personally I feel this is undesirable because people like myself may miss it. But maybe that's the standard wiki way?
Citation #36 (Henderson) seems sketchy to me. It reads like a blog (especially the next entry down on the cited page), and doesn't actually verify anything, as the only mention of relevant info is attributed to "The Chicago Tribune".  This citation should be removed, I think, because the blog-feel, and lack of meaningful contribution of info to the article makes it noticeably weak.
:Henderson, for what it's worth, is this Henderson. It's distinctly possible that the presentation makes the article sketchy, but the author knows what he's talking about. --Pjmorse 12:06, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious citation 

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*Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.[?] --TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM)  23:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auto Peer Review 

message: There appears to be a problem with the sortable winners table. The first 3 columns sort OK but the remaining columns just takes me to the top of the article, leaving the table unsorted. Just in-case it is a browser problem I am using Firefox 2.0.0.7. Any ideas? Keith D 17:44, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winners table 

message: :GA review (see here for criteria)
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A nice article, but there are some issues that need to be addressed before I can promote this to GA status:
#There are too many redlinks in the article. The list of winners should only have links if that person has a page and, if they do, their name only needs to be linked once. In addition, unless any of the people who died during the marathon are notable (and I'm fairly sure that they're not), they should be delinked as well.
#:I have delinked all deceased runner links and redundant winner links.  However, I believe we should expect articles for past winners of the race so I am leaving those linked.  In my past experience at Chicago Landmarks, such redlinks of articles that should exist has inspired article creation.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM)  18:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it seems to meet all of the GA criteria now. I would still recommend that the red links disappear at some point, one way or the other, but that one minor problem shouldn't get in the way of me passing this as a Good Article. Congratulations! Cheers, CP 15:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Review 

message: I don't want to change anything with the current GA going on, but I have seen that it was a record temperature for the event with the previous one being 84 in 1979.  I know its a current event, so that is another reason I am not going to change it right now.--Kranar drogin 11:14, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you need to be clear that there are two records at issue.  The Chicago Marathon, which is held on different dates each year has an 84 record.  October 7th has an 86 record. I believe both were broken by high 80s heat.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM)  14:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007 Marathon 

message: Would it be good to have an image of the course map here?  Assuming it is permitted to publish a copy here. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 20:08, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Course Map 

message: The description of demographics attributes the values of hard work, determination, etc. as "middle-class."  This adds nothing to the article, and only serves to imply that middle class yuppies are a bastion of values lacking in others.  It should be removed.        —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.123.14.2 (talk) 18:13, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree.  Reading that section "sounds" very very iffy. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 21:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle Class Values 

message: Compiling data from this site (http://www.marathonguide.com/results/browse.cfm?MIDD=67001022) into a table here:
Chicago Marathon Finishers Total finishers and by gender
Year                 	Finishers            	Male                 	Female               	Avg Finish Time
2000                 	27870                	16802                	11068                	4:21:46
2001                 	28390                	17129                	11261                	4:19:28
2002                 	31093                	18111                	12982                	4:19:51
2003                 	32395                	18720                	13675                	4:25:09
2004                 	32995                	18673                	14322                	4:26:53
2005                 	32995                	18673                	14322                	4:26:22
2006                 	33618                	18904                	14714                	4:25:02
2007                 	28815                	16945                	11870                	4:52:11
2008                 	31343                	17675                	13668                	4:46:30
2009                 	33475                	18983                	14492                	4:27:20
2010                 	                     	                     	                     	
Source: MarathonGuide	Source: MarathonGuide	Source: MarathonGuide	Source: MarathonGuide	Source: MarathonGuide
Additional relevant columns may certainly be added. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 20:20, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yearly Stats Table 

message: Since when has the current closed loop course been run? KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 23:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  HIstory Question 

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