Talk:Gordon Bennett Cup (ballooning)

message: I have removed the paragraph regarding the Norwegian airspace violations during the 2006 race for the following reasons:
1) There were no violations issued by the Norwegian authorities
2) Additional airspace issues (Finland) were not documented on the page while the Norwegian incident was documented.
3) Alleged issues from previous events were not documented.
4) I don't think the page should become an repository for all alleged violations that may (or may not) have occurred during the races, so as to satisfy points 2) and 3) above.
When the paragraph was added to the page during the event, I was concerned that it might be a bit off topic, but agreed to leave it at the time because of the news source cited and it's severity. However, because of my 4 points above, especially 1), my opinion is that it should be removed.
--SkinnyT 21:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  2006 Norwegian Airspace 

message: Just a scratchpad for folks interested in getting this list featured:
#Telegraph 
#NY Times
The Rambling Man (talk) 19:25, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resources 

message: *The title itself strikes me as odd. I would have thought it would be Gordon Bennett Cup (ballooning). Is the current title the actual full name of the race, or is it just a different-than-normal method of disambiguation?
**I thought so too.  I've moved it to your suggested name and added a viable redirect for Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett (it's French name). The Rambling Man (talk) 09:19, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: *I believe cite 6 is doing alot more than just crew. If it is where you have times and distance from put it at the top of those headings too.
**Agreed, and done. The Rambling Man (talk) 12:21, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-FLC run 

message: I do not understand this edit restoring the long vertical column of images. The edit summary was "gallery undesirable and wasn't required at FLC". The layout in section "Official winners" now looks quite poor by wikipedia standards (large amount of vertical whitespace between key and table), is this intentional? It appears to me to have been overlooked in the promotion to FLC. If no space-saving gallery is desired, then should all the images be removed instead? -84user (talk) 12:26, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: These kind of floating images are prevalent among lists.  If you can suggest a solution which doesn't use galleries (which are hideous) then that would be great.  Cheers.  The problem seems to manifest itself on low horizontal resolution only, e.g. on all the screens I use and all the browsers I use, I see no problem until I reduce the size of the browser down by a lot.  The Rambling Man (talk) 12:50, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

text: No, that destroys the sorting I'm afraid. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:15, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

text: Excellent!  Now you just need to go through the other 1,912 featured lists!  In all seriousness though, that's great, and something to point out to existing FLCs, especially if the appropriate markup is reasonably easy to implement (or the help is easy to understand!)  Thanks for your patience and diligence.  The Rambling Man (talk) 18:12, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vertical column of images 

message: There's still a "pending" for the 2011 race. There's also no info on a 2012 race, although I didn't look to see if it's happened yet. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:24, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Both fixed. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:38, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pending? 

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message: The lede is currently between a third and a half of the length of the main article (if we discount the listings). Also much of it is not represented in the article, and ought to be transferred there. As this is a featured article, I am asking whether anybody would object if I made these changes. Valetude (talk) 11:09, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede too long 

message: Judging by the photograph, it should be possible for someone to add some text to the article about the trophy itself, perhaps 2-3 sentences of description, info about what it's made of, who designed it, etc. (Whatever such info is available.) If this is done, please be sure to add the article to :Category:Sports trophies as well. Thanks! Anomalous+0 (talk) 12:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The TROPHY