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I've tried to find stats for Heather McKay but failed to find any more information on the web than the usual "19 years without defeat in squash at the highest level, 1962 to 1981" and "lost only two games in her entire career (in 1960 and 1962), winning 16 consecutive British Opens and 14 Australian". Even if she played only 8-10 tournaments a year [1], this ought to add up to a Khan-threatening string; she needed to play only 555/19 = 29 matches per year to do that. Someone must have kept track. Do any of our Australian co-editors have access to this information? Afasmit ( talk) 08:10, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps we should limit the streaks a bit; remarkable ones are now lost in a sea of the truly mundane. How about limiting consecutive gold medals or titles by countries to really outstanding ones. 16 consecutive Olympic titles by the US in the pole vault is noteworthy, 3 consecutive world titles in any swimming event by different swimmers from the US is not. Afasmit ( talk) 18:01, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
In a nutshell, sections that includes the Olympic Games section deserves a list of it's own section as this list is already overcrowded and becoming unweidly. Donnie Park ( talk) 09:15, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
DJ Clayworth ( talk) 21:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed, with no prejudice against or preference for either subsequently moving to a List title or to splitting one or more List articles from an article on the concept. -- JHunterJ ( talk) 14:01, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Winning streak (sports) → Winning streak – As per WP:PRIMARYUSAGE, it needn't require a DAB title "Winning streak (sports)" Amchow78 ( talk) 18:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Why is the New York Yacht Club's 132 year winning streak in the America's Cup not included on this page? Brian Falkner ( talk) 21:13, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Based on the fact this article was becoming an indiscriminate collection of lists of varyingly random unsourced winning streaks in sports, I have either (1) removed such content where it is already suitably covered elsewhere, or there is indication that obtaining a winning streak isn't particularly notable within the sport in question (lack of media and Wikipedia coverage), or (2) split the list out to its own article.
Some of these I think have a good chance of becoming good standalone lists:
Some, I think should have the information migrated to appropriate record sections at the articles of relevant competitions:
Some, I still have concerns about the significance of winning streaks in the sport or competition:
Other:
Now that the AfD discussion is closed as no consensus, I propose restoring this revision of the article by @ Kingsif, which discusses the concept without the list of winning streaks, and proposes alternative venues for hosting the list per above section.
Kingsif's edits were
reverted by @
Randy Kryn with the edit summary: this page has been at AfD with relistings and many comments to keep the page, so back to the version people were commenting about
. Per my comment at the AfD, more editors did not think that Wikipedia should host an indiscriminate collection of winning streaks than explicitly said they supported such a list, and several editors suggested trimming the article down to its concept as Kingsif's edits did.
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00:50, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
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I've tried to find stats for Heather McKay but failed to find any more information on the web than the usual "19 years without defeat in squash at the highest level, 1962 to 1981" and "lost only two games in her entire career (in 1960 and 1962), winning 16 consecutive British Opens and 14 Australian". Even if she played only 8-10 tournaments a year [1], this ought to add up to a Khan-threatening string; she needed to play only 555/19 = 29 matches per year to do that. Someone must have kept track. Do any of our Australian co-editors have access to this information? Afasmit ( talk) 08:10, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Perhaps we should limit the streaks a bit; remarkable ones are now lost in a sea of the truly mundane. How about limiting consecutive gold medals or titles by countries to really outstanding ones. 16 consecutive Olympic titles by the US in the pole vault is noteworthy, 3 consecutive world titles in any swimming event by different swimmers from the US is not. Afasmit ( talk) 18:01, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
In a nutshell, sections that includes the Olympic Games section deserves a list of it's own section as this list is already overcrowded and becoming unweidly. Donnie Park ( talk) 09:15, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
DJ Clayworth ( talk) 21:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed, with no prejudice against or preference for either subsequently moving to a List title or to splitting one or more List articles from an article on the concept. -- JHunterJ ( talk) 14:01, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Winning streak (sports) → Winning streak – As per WP:PRIMARYUSAGE, it needn't require a DAB title "Winning streak (sports)" Amchow78 ( talk) 18:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Why is the New York Yacht Club's 132 year winning streak in the America's Cup not included on this page? Brian Falkner ( talk) 21:13, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Based on the fact this article was becoming an indiscriminate collection of lists of varyingly random unsourced winning streaks in sports, I have either (1) removed such content where it is already suitably covered elsewhere, or there is indication that obtaining a winning streak isn't particularly notable within the sport in question (lack of media and Wikipedia coverage), or (2) split the list out to its own article.
Some of these I think have a good chance of becoming good standalone lists:
Some, I think should have the information migrated to appropriate record sections at the articles of relevant competitions:
Some, I still have concerns about the significance of winning streaks in the sport or competition:
Other:
Now that the AfD discussion is closed as no consensus, I propose restoring this revision of the article by @ Kingsif, which discusses the concept without the list of winning streaks, and proposes alternative venues for hosting the list per above section.
Kingsif's edits were
reverted by @
Randy Kryn with the edit summary: this page has been at AfD with relistings and many comments to keep the page, so back to the version people were commenting about
. Per my comment at the AfD, more editors did not think that Wikipedia should host an indiscriminate collection of winning streaks than explicitly said they supported such a list, and several editors suggested trimming the article down to its concept as Kingsif's edits did.
IgnatiusofLondon (
talk)
00:50, 5 March 2024 (UTC)