Talk:Tennis performance timeline comparison (men)
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Best wishes on this project! I would have started it myself but wasn't aware of a reliable database for 1960s and before draws. Let me know if I can be of any help. Tennis expert 18:21, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hi! For the pre-ATP period, you can use Collins's Total Tennis. If you don't have it, I'm willing to help. Jonathan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.214.158.221 (talk • contribs)
[edit] Style change from Women's timeline
The women's timeline is a lot more complete. However there are two major differences in the style that has been adopted for the men's timeline.
- The men's timeline only shows the last name and does not show the country flag.
- The men's tables are sorted alphabetically instead of being sorted by number of wins as the women's tables are.
Shouldn't we adopt the same style for both articles? Anurag Garg 12:12, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
- Try asking at WP:TENNIS. —MC 01:36, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
- I'll copy it there. —MC 16:13, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thoughts
This is my first time coming across this page (just looking up someone who's name I had forgotten), but I like it a lot.
I originally turned off the bold names until realizing what they meant. I went back and extended them to current athletes. It may make it a bit more of a pain to keep current, but it's going to be that way every 6 years anyways!
I like this table a lot better than the women's table. I think alphabetical fits better than wins... though if a few summation columns could be added at the left or right side of each list... then it could be sortable that way as well.
But the real benefit of this page is that it doesn't run off the right side of the page, isn't overly cumbersome. As much as I'd like first names to be included, the conciseness I think is more important. Flags might be something worth having if could be done without overly extending the page, but that's a point for discussion when the rest of this cleaned up.
A 1-line across quicklink bar at the top (and even each table) might help navigation.
The 6 season periods are pretty arbitrary and make direct comparison a little harder. I wish there were some wiki-kosher way to have dynamic tables which can the choice of either years going across (ie the current format, except that the reader can choose to extend/change the period to whatever they wish and the table fills in) or relative years in career (such that all players can be compared "directly" by career. Perhaps something I'll put on a personal website at somepoint, which can then be linked from here. Somewhere done the line. Perhaps alternatively each column could be carefully limited to one character (Q and S instead of QF and SF, 1 and 2 instead of 1R and 2R)... maybe the text size diminished... and thus quite a few years could be listed across, put more information in one place... and then also have a separate page with career comparisons by years into career. Maybe, maybe not.
But I like the concept a lot, and can envision where all the sports (at least individual), standardized and maybe linked together.
Point being I like the page a lot and hope to put in effort here and there to keep this page growing and others forming! JeopardyTempest 00:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
May also want to have a non-result list of noteworthy tennis players not to have made a final. Maybe maybe not. I'm thinking of Tim Henman, Anna Kournakova. But then again, how in the world do you make that subjective at all!?! Hmm. Also, silly me I see there is a table of contents at the top... don't know how I missed that the first time! But a sideways link bar which could be placed in multiple locations through the page might be a worth-exploring idea. JeopardyTempest 00:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
