User talk:Coaster1983/Archives/2012/February

Iditarod dog minimum
You mentioned with this edit that you just checked the Iditarod rules. Are they online? A citation for the minimum number of finishing dogs would be a great improvement to Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and help prevent future misunderstandings and disputes. If you don't know how to format a citation, just stick the URL into the article near the fact being supported and someone else will fix it. Thanks! —EncMstr (talk) 03:13, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * That fact was already referenced to the now outdated 2011 official race rules. I have updated the link to the 2012 official rules since the minimum dog rule did not change for the upcoming race. I still need to update all the references to the Iditarod website since was changed earlier this month and broke all the links.Coaster1983 (talk) 22:12, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the maintenance of the article. I keep meaning to check the sources there, and now that I know they are up-to-date, I'll be more motivated.  Thanks again!  —EncMstr (talk) 03:07, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * You're quite welcome. As I fixed the references in the lead section, I read over it and I didn't like how it read.  In Oct. 2010, the first paragraph had been split into two which was awkward to read. Once I recombined them into one paragraph, I realized that the first and third sentences of the new paragraph didn't read well since they were short and didn't flow into the next sentence.


 * I've also been meaning to overhaul this article since JKBrooks85 got the article of Iditarod's sister race, the Yukon Quest, to FA-status back in 2009. Compared to that article, the Iditarod article looks bad since whole sections are either unreferenced or under-referenced.  I've been putting it off because the amount of research needed to complete the referencing of the article and expand the history section is very daunting.  The history section currently only discusses the origin of the race and is missing all of the race's history after 1973.Coaster1983 (talk) 05:01, 29 February 2012 (UTC)