Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2008 Summer Olympics venues

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Matthewedwards 08:17, 31 January 2009 [1].

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2008 Summer Olympics venues

Previous FLC (16:02, 24 August 2008)

This is one I did not do the majority of the work on, it was mostly done by Le comte de monte christo. However, he disappeared during the nomination and has not been seen since. I actually thought that this one had passed, but it was failed due to some minor issues that were not addressed due to his disappearance. So, I have fixed those concerns (and some other things) and am willing to address all conerns (just in case somebody thinks I am only doing this for the WikiCup, I will not include this list in my submissions). -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:04, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

• Support It's a little boring but I see nothing that should be improved. Reywas92^Talk 19:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
• Question Is "The 2008 Summer Olympics were held" grammatically correct? I am not saying it is wrong, but for some reason, it doesn't sound right to me.—Chris! _ct 19:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Changed to "The 2008 Summer Olympic Games were held" to circumvent that problem. —kurykh 05:50, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Resolved comments from Truco

Comments from Truco (talk · contribs)

• Consistency with the way dates are formatted in the prose.
  • Done.
• The refs in the tables should not be sortable, there is no need for it.
  • Whoops, I thought I had already done that.
• In the first table, it should be made clear which sport applies to which capacity in the Beijing National Stadium, the one where it has a capacity in parenthesis.
  • In that case, 80,000 refers to the capacity after the Games. It has been cut.
• Some of the images, IMO, should be cut down in size because on my screen and on FF (2++) are passing over the division lines of the headers.--Truco 00:43, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Done. Thanks fot taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 01:19, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Followup comments

• Some of the dates are still not consistent, some are in "Month Day, Year" others are in "Day Month, Year" format (this is also true with the first footnote).
• Something is wrong with the sortability of the capacity in the "Competition venues outside Beijing" it does not sort properly, it could be due to the "n/a" entry.--Truco 02:18, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

• Done on the first one, but the sortability works for me. I use Explorer, maybe it's a Firefox thing? Thanks again. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 02:56, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

• Nevermind, it is sorting correctly.--Truco 03:39, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

• Support - issues resolved to meet WP:WIAFL.--Truco 03:39, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:12, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

• "24 August, 2008" Dates in this format do not have commas after the month.
  • I don't normally use that format. Done.
• "11,028 athletes from 204 NOCs participated in 302 events in 28 sports held in 37 competition venues." MOS breach, don't start sentences with numbers.
  • Fixed.
• "outside of Beijing hosted events"
  • Fixed.
• "A total of RMB¥13 billion"—"A total of" is redundant here, although keep in mind that sentences should not start with numerals.
  • Fixed.
• "seating for only 2,000 "
  • Fixed.
• "Several of the venues were located at the Olympic Green Olympic Park." This sentence is rather random; does it signify something (had more venues than any other location)?
  • Fixed.
• Note 1 needs a reference. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Done. Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:17, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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