Talk:List of people who have run across Australia

Merger proposal
I propose that Achim Heukemes be merged into List of people who have run across Australia. The original article is a stub which contains duplicate information that has been listed within this article. Bezza84 (talk) 10:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Deborah De Williams - continual page edits by or on behalf of Sarah Mycroft
As instructed by the admin, discussion to take place here. I will continue to remove the information as being added by Mark Hein regarding Sarah Mycroft's run. It is up to the athlete to prove they completed the journey correctly, something which Ms Mycroft has been asked to do on many occasions for 3 years and has yet to do so with the veracity of her claims questioned by many within the Ultra community and from within her own crew. Should Ms Mycroft provide said evidence then she will have the right to appear on this page, however until such time I will continue to remove any entries made by her or on her behalf about her run specifically, or changes to the information about Deborah De Williams. It is our opinion that 'Mark Hein' should be required to prove his defamatory claimms about Ms De Williams in the Revision section, and refrain from making further edits until Ms Mycroft's information has been verified as accurate by a peak body in Australia. I also respectfully as that 'Mark Hein' refrain from making further inflammatory/childish comment as this is only perpetuating whatever is happening on their end. My contact details have been provided to them and I invite them to contact me to discuss the matter further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_people_who_have_run_across_Australia&action=edit&section=new#

Copy of msg on Mark Hein's Talk page - Discussion Requested by Wikipedia.
Mark/Whoever, I am copying this message here in the hope that you participate in the discussion to resolve the editing war you are engaging me in over the veracity of some of your additions.

Please desist from your malicious page edits, it has become childish and ridiculous. I have provided you my contact information, I have opened a discussion which you have also refused to participate in so I see no other reason than to address this directly with Wikipedia as it appears the warning you were issued from them has had little impact.

The easy way to put this to bed is to provide your proof that you did this feat, if you did then all is well but until then please go away. I realise that you recognise no peak ultra body or Guinness and feel you don't have to prove anything to anyone, but that would set you apart from every other ultra runner in the world. Once again, I invite you to prove what you claim, or stop vandalising Wikipedia. You have my details, I will very open mindedly look at anything you have to show me. Until such time however I will continue to revert your edits.

I am fulfilling my obligation and have been trying to communicate with you both here and on other forums, come down, its warm once you're in.

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markdabner (talk • contribs) 23:23, 14 July 2014 (UTC) Note:This is a content dispute not vandalism. ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪  ߷  ♀ 投稿 ♀  18:26, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

National Highway or Highway 1?
Seems to me that the National Highway (Australia) link in the intro makes more sense as Highway 1 (Australia), but maybe I'm missing something. --NE2 12:08, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Discussion on the inclusion of Sarah Mycroft
If and how should we include Sarah Mycroft in this Article.-- Everyone Dies In the End  (talk) 12:24, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

I'm starting the discussion for the two editors who seem to feel reverting each other edits is the best course of action.

We need as discussion on if and how to include Sarah Mycroft into this page. Looking at the sources (from my google search) for the 'controversy' of her run, it seems to come from forum/blog posts which are not reliable sources. I don't think there's any reason to not include her from my google searches. I'm definitely not an expert in this, so it's very easy for me to miss sources on this, so if other editors find reliable sources that will be a great help too. The only thing that should she shouldn't be included is if there is 100% evidence, from sources, she didn't run it. If there's doubt, she should be included and the doubt should be explained in an objective way.-- Everyone Dies In the End  (talk) 12:29, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

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Run vs walk
I have very little knowledge of the topic, but was wondering how much of this is actually running and how much is walking. The wiki page only uses the verb "run". But even the faster ones of these crossings could be done with only walking, and never running. I just read a CNN article about the most recent one - Nedd Brockmann - and it said he only slept for 2 hours each night. Doing the simple math and assuming he was moving all of his waking hours (which he was probably not) makes an average pace of 16 minutes per kilometer, which is a relatively casual walking pace. I assume walking would also be a lot more economical and easier on the body than actually running all of it. Obviously I'm simplifying things and I'm not trying to downplay this incredible achievement, but am wondering how much the athletes in this list actually run vs walk. Particularly because the article doesn't mention this distinction at all. ScienceEel (talk) 17:40, 24 October 2022 (UTC)