Talk:Maccabiah Games

WikiProject Maccabiah
I have put up a proposal to start a Maccabiah WikiProject. All those interested should sign up. -NYC2TLV 08:30, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Games Contestants
The Maccabiah contestants for (say) Australia should link to Australia, but should that be to Category:Jews and Judaism in Australia or to Category:Judaism in Australia ? I am not sure of the relationship and purpose of the two categories? (only some (c23) countries have both; Most have "Jews and Judaism in Fooland" (c97) only Hugo999 (talk) 07:06, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Third largest?
Maybe by participation, but the Rugby World Cup is bigger by ticket sales and viewing figures.--MacRusgail (talk) 23:58, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Eligability to participate
How does a competitor prove their 'Jewishness' in order to compete. Or is it done on goodwill? Cls14 (talk) 14:08, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Maccabiah articles up for deletion
If you are interested in the Maccabiah, please chip in and offer your opinions on Articles for deletion/Australia Maccabiah rugby union team (a number of other Maccabiah teams are listed with it).--MacRusgail (talk) 18:38, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

The Maccabiah is sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee and World Federation of Sports.
A proper reference from the IOC is required for such a statement in the opening section. The IOC does not recognise the union/federation that that organizes this event. Moreover, does the World Federation of Sports actually exist? --Bob247 (talk) 05:06, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Tags still appropriate?
It seems like there are many references now. I haven't gone through all of them though and I don't have a ton of background with this. Kenanwang (talk) 21:31, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Naming convention
I am bringing it up here because it applies to pretty much all 19 Maccabiah Games articles. Currently they are named "YYYY Maccabiah Games" and I am not really sure why. Perhaps people related it to the naming convention used for the Olympics. Whatever that reason may be, it's not really the common name. Moreover, inside the articles, for some reason we introduce roman numerals such as "Games of the XIX Maccabiah". I don't remember seeing that anywhere else but on Wikipedia (pertaining to the Maccabiah). Here is a quick google book search for "first Maccabiah" (325 results) vs "1932 Maccabiah" (7 results). For the most recent games the difference is clear: "19th Maccabiah" (39,400 results) vs "2013 Maccabiah" (12,600 results). Even the Hebrew name and the official logo say "המכביה ה-19" = "The 19th Maccabiah". Per WP:COMMONNAME they should really be called by their common name which also happens to be the official name XXth/nd Maccabiah Games.

Note that official invitations says "XXth Maccabiah Games" on them. This is also true for the rules and regulations and pretty much all other documents, for example the this Swimming Regulations.

Looking for some feedback/thought on that? -- Cy be r XR ef ☎ 09:32, 15 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I guess I'll keep it as is, but we need to make it clear in the lead paragraph the formal name of each game in their article. -- Cy be r XR ef ☎ 01:57, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Deletion effort
This deletion effort, relating to the Maccabiah Games, may interest some followers of this page. --Epeefleche (talk) 21:39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Delete redundancy in introduction.
I think 'It is the third-largest sporting event in the world,[1] with 9,000 athletes competing on behalf of 78 countries.[2]' should be deleted from the first paragraph as it is basically repeated in the second. MAKreler (talk) 00:54, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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Third largest event?
There reads: They brought together 10,000 athletes, making it the third-largest international sporting event in the world by number of competitors (after the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup). The sources do not say "by number of competitors", and FIFA World Cup's current format has 32 teams with maximum 23 players which equals 736 competitors. There are few other multi-sport events such as Commonwealth Games, Universiades and Asian Games. 2018 Asian Games had 11,300 competitors, so that seems to be larger than Maccabiah Games. Though, I did not check all of Template:Multi-sport events. 109.240.204.152 (talk) 05:37, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The cited sources say third largest, including the New York Times. They don't say how they counted. 11Fox11 (talk) 06:05, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Maccabi, not Maccabiah Games
At least for the Pan American Maccabi Games, this is the official name, see official homepage. We should see about the other 3 (Europe, Oceania, world) and stick to the result. Arminden (talk) 10:58, 3 January 2024 (UTC)