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Top 25 for Swimming Events
Hello,
I noticed your edit of the World record progression 50 metres breaststroke article, so I went ahead and applied the Track and Field format to the majority of the remaining swimming articles. The new format orders the times more logically than before, gives more detail to the non-PB times and results in the data being easier to verify. I appreciate your initiative.
I'm wondering if you could think about a way to clean up the relay articles in a similar fashion. The format is top 10 nations and top 25 times in separate tables. I know that T&F also uses this format, but the variety of swimming events (men's, women's and mixed in both long course and short course) make the articles very long. I would appreciate any suggestions about how to amalgamate these tables, recognising that the top 10 and top 25 groupings make the data less uniform than the individual events. I would be happy to implement these changes, of course.
Thank you Maelstrom2 (talk) 05:55, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Maelstrom2 fantastic work doing the tables for all the swimming events I haven't even completed all of them for track and field events yet ahha.
- Urm, to be honest, relay events even in athletics are kind of confusing on where you want to draw the line. I think the reason for the multiple lists is to split times that have been completed, say, by university teams or teams at national championships. I personally only count relays by national teams, but some people may count it differently. So as much as the tables are long, the way the relay pages look right now is ok to me? The one thing you could do to reduce length is to take away the breaks after each athlete's name in the tables; that would save some space across the entire article, but otherwise I'm not sure what can be done, apologies. Brandon Downes (talk) 16:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
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