Talk:List of Best in Show winners of Crufts

Removal of years 1915 to 1923.
I was going through the Official History of Crufts once again whilst working on the Luckystar of Ware article when I came across Best Champion listings for 1915, 1916 and 1923. Excitedly I stuck them in the article.

I completely forgot that this was the second time I "found" these references, having first seen them back when I didn't have a copy of the book and used the British Library to read the source. I checked my notes and realised that they had been deliberately left out of this article. You see, despite the official history of Crufts listing them as Best Champions, the actual show programmes for those years doesn't have a Best Champion category - it instead has a new category only for female dog owners for champion dogs and that is the class that the official history lists as Best Champion for those years. Not all that accurate unfortunately. Frankly if it hadn't been for the Kennel Club digitising the earlier programmes I would never have noticed that discrepancy. Likewise with the 1905 win - the book shows the first Best Champion in 1906, but there was an earlier winner listed in the programme.

Meanwhile if the Kennel Club would like to get in touch and let me write an accurate history of Crufts then I'd be quite happy to. ;) Miyagawa (talk) 18:24, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Abbreviations and footnotes for Prefix column
I just fixed the markup for the explanatory footnotes. The text and footnotes had gotten out of sync, so that not all of the footnotes were actually used. That sort of tracking is now more automated. While I was doing that, I noticed that not all the abbreviations in the "Prefix" column are explained. MOS:LEGEND suggests that for accessibility reasons, it's better to put those kinds of explanations before the table rather than after. If an expert can fill in the missing abbreviations, my advice would be to do that instead of using footnotes. -- Beland (talk) 21:47, 22 January 2024 (UTC)