Talk:Grand Slam

message: :Grand Slam is older than that as a term.  It was the name of a horse in a races in NY starting at least in 1904.
: See the NY Times at 
: That's almost certainly a "reference" to something, and there are a lot of entries on Google News archive search for that Era.  There are many even going back to the 1880s, but looking at those they appear to be "retrospective."  (Stories from later about things that happened then.)  See http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22grand+slam%22&sugg=d&sa=N&lnav=m&scoring=t
:Every mention on the NYT archives before 1910 has something to do with horse racing, it appears.  See: http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22grand+slam%22&d=&o=&v=&c=&n=10&dp=0&daterange=period&srcht=a&year1=1851&mon1=09&day1=18&year2=1980&mon2=12&day2=31&srchst=p&sort=oldest 
: After 1910 you start getting mentions of the term in Bridge.
: --Stancollins (talk) 20:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Keep going backward

message: "Grand Slam (tennis)" includes such a section 
* 2013-01-09, section 3 – 
* now, section 1 – Grand slam (tennis)#Origin of the term "Grand Slam"
Here are direct links to the online sources that were or are cited there.
* "Slam". Online Etymological Dictionary. Douglas Harper. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
* 
*  Alan Gould, "Sports Slants" (last section, Tennis "Grand Slam"), The Reading Eagle (Reading, PA), July 18, 1933, page 10 
--P64 (talk) 20:25, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the term "Grand Slam" (2013/2014) 

message: ;Redirect entries
* Grand Slam Installation redirects to article section
* Grandslam (Transformers) redirects to list section 
* Grand Slam Masters Final is piped in the Bilbao Chess Masters Final and each annual section of that article is "Grand Slam Masters Final" with ordinal number and annual date
* Winston Million section 1 is "The Grand Slam"; evidently the pagename was one official sponsor's name for the cash prize program.
--P64 (talk) 21:56, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect entries 

message: To Mr. Angelo Dela Paz:
Please discontinue of superfluously asserting Miss Tourism Queen International (MTQI) as a major pageant in Wikipedia due to lack of notability and acceptability from majority of internationally related pageant websites. The article should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. It is a translucent fact that MTQI is not even recognize by most international pageant websites as a Grand Slam pageant with the exception of its promoters like Global Beauties, whose airfare and accommodation to cover the pageant is being paid by MTQI organizers, and its staunch ally, Pageantopolis. If you look into details of other international pageant websites you will find out the truth:
1. Critical Beauty  
2. Missosology
3. Grand Slam Pageants
4. Grand Slam Beauties
5. Her Factor
6. Globmiss has an update news about MTQI 2008, however, it did not include MTQI to the big pageants such as MI, MU, ME, and MW 
7. Pageant Almanac 
8. Jimmy's Pageant Page
Likewise, if you visit other websites like OPMB, All That Beauty, and etc; nevertheless, there are only four accepted major international or Grand Slam Pageants namely Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth, and Miss International; even Pageantopolis and Global Beauties would agree that all the four mentioned international contests are major pageants. There is no doubt to the fact that MTQI is an international pageant but it's acceptability as a MAJOR international pageant remained to be in question, especially that the MTQI organizers pay Global Beauties for the airfare to cover the pageant, therefore its credibility is tainted. If you can show RELIABLE sources other than Pageantopolis and Global Beauties to support your claim, then your contention with MTQI as a major pageant will be accepted. Since the inclusion of MTQI as major pageant or as a “Grand Slam” is still highly controversial, and oppositions from other international pageant websites are well-documented, therefore its inclusion to Wikipedia is still pending.  I know time will come, but just don't be in a hurry. 
--Jet Perry (talk) 04:19, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Grand Slam in Beauty Pageant