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The footnote about the existence of "three crowns" is historically and factually incorrect and should be removed - it is a bit of whimsy. The origin of the term is much more simple and refers to "crowns" only in the symbolic sense - four teams (Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales) compete and the winning team must beat the three others. It refers to a "triple" victory.
What are the events of the "Canadian Triple Crown" of horse racing? What horses won them? Trekphiler 09:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
The self-referential hatnote to our MMO-style quest award WP:Triple Crown is very childish and should be removed. Editors looking for such things should know to type WP: first, and we should not sully the article with this unprofessional link - it is highly unlikely that a reader who doesn't play the game is looking for WP:Triple Crown and our editors who do should know better than to look in article space for awards to add to their user space.
See discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid#Should we be linking readers (via disambiguation notes, etc.) to the Wikipedia/Help/Manual namespaces from the mainspace? for more. @ Montanabw: please consider self-reverting your undo of my removal. – xeno talk 08:38, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
You're both fighting consensus here, actually. -- erachima talk 19:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
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The footnote about the existence of "three crowns" is historically and factually incorrect and should be removed - it is a bit of whimsy. The origin of the term is much more simple and refers to "crowns" only in the symbolic sense - four teams (Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales) compete and the winning team must beat the three others. It refers to a "triple" victory.
What are the events of the "Canadian Triple Crown" of horse racing? What horses won them? Trekphiler 09:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
The self-referential hatnote to our MMO-style quest award WP:Triple Crown is very childish and should be removed. Editors looking for such things should know to type WP: first, and we should not sully the article with this unprofessional link - it is highly unlikely that a reader who doesn't play the game is looking for WP:Triple Crown and our editors who do should know better than to look in article space for awards to add to their user space.
See discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid#Should we be linking readers (via disambiguation notes, etc.) to the Wikipedia/Help/Manual namespaces from the mainspace? for more. @ Montanabw: please consider self-reverting your undo of my removal. – xeno talk 08:38, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
You're both fighting consensus here, actually. -- erachima talk 19:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)