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Article: Perfect 10 (gymnastics)

To Do: Add the Perfect 10 (gymnastics) link to each athlete's page as a See also.

Add to each Olympics page, also

spell check

summary - total - stats - etc.

number of gymnasts - number of perfect scores - number of men / women / etc.

List of gymnasts
''This is a list of gymnasts who have achieved perfect 10 scores. This list may be incomplete.''

George Clinton

George Clinton

Paris, 1924

 * 22 men in rope-climbing, with one Albert Séguin getting a second 10 in the sidehorse vault

Montreal, 1976

 * Nadia Comăneci (8) - individual uneven bars (both rounds) and balance beam; all-around uneven bars and balance beam; team uneven bars (both rounds) and balance beam
 * Nellie Kim - all-around vault

(Women's individual results; women's all-around results; women's team results )

Moscow, 1980

 * Zoltán Magyar (2) - individual and all-around pommel horse
 * Stoyan Deltchev - all-around rings
 * Alexander Dityatin - all-around vault
 * Michael Nikolay - all-around pommel horse
 * Alexander Tkachev - all-around high bar

(Men's all-around results; men's individual event results )

Los Angeles, 1984

 * Men
 * Li Ning (5) - individual floor exercise and pommel horse; pommel horse, rings, and vault in the team final
 * Tong Fei (4) - high bar in the individual, all-around, and team events; team rings
 * Koji Gushiken (3) - individual and team high bar; all-around vault
 * Lou Yun (3) - individual vault; vault in both rounds of the team final
 * Shinji Morisue (3) - high bar in the individual and both rounds of the team final
 * Peter Vidmar (3) - all-around high bar; pommel horse in the individual and team finals
 * Bart Conner (2) - parallel bars in both the team and individual events
 * Mitch Gaylord (2) - team parallel bars and rings
 * Tim Daggett - team high bar
 * Li Xiaoping - team pommel horse
 * Xu Zhiqiang - team high bar


 * Women
 * Julianne McNamara (5) - individual uneven bars and floor exercise; all-around uneven bars; team uneven bars and floor exercise
 * Ecaterina Szabo (4) - floor exercise; all-around balance beam; team vault and floor exercise
 * Ma Yanhong (3) - individual, all-around, and team uneven bars
 * Mary Lou Retton (3) - floor exercise and vault in the all-around; vault in the team event
 * Simona Păucă - team balance beam

(Men's results; women's results )

Seoul, 1988

 * Men
 * Dmitry Bilozerchev (4) - pommel horse; all-around pommel horse, rings, and vault
 * Vladimir Artemov (2) - all-around parallel bars and high bar
 * Zsolt Borkai - pommel horse
 * Csaba Fajkusz - all-around high bar
 * Gyorgy Guczoghy - all-around pommel horse
 * Lubomir Geraskov - pommel horse
 * Sylvio Kroll - all-around pommel horse
 * Valeri Liukin - all-around high bar


 * Women
 * Yelena Shushunova (4) - uneven bars and vault; all-around floor exercise and vault
 * Daniela Silivaş (4) - both rounds of the individual uneven bars; all-around uneven bars and floor exercise
 * Dagmar Kersten - uneven bars

(Men's results; women's results )

Barcelona, 1992

 * Lu Li - uneven bars
 * Lavinia Miloşovici - floor exercise

(Women's results )

World Championships

 * Daniela Silivaş, 1985 World Gymnastics Championship
 * Aurelia Dobre, 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championship (five times)

Sorting names in Wikipedia tables
Let's say that I am creating a sortable Wikipedia table that incorporates the names of several people. Let's further say that, as an example, one of the names in the list to be sorted is Abraham Lincoln. If I want his entry to be sorted as an "L" for his last name — as opposed to an "A" for his first name — what would I need to do? If I enter a Wikipedia link that says "Lincoln, Abraham" ... will that work? Will that sort him as an "L" or as an "A"? In other words ... does the Wikipedia computer (or the server or the HTML or whatever) use the name before the vertical bar or the name after the vertical bar (in the Wikipedia link), to determine the proper sorting? Also, is there some other (easier) Wikipedia code that effectuates this type of sorting by last name instead of by first name? Thank you. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 17:52, 21 February 2010 (UTC))
 * The template is what you would use for this. For example:
 * displays as:
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * and sorts as if it were:
 * Lincoln, Abraham
 * The first parameter is the first name, or names; the second is the surname; the third is the title of an article dealing with that person; the fourth is the sort key. To give a different example which (hopefully) will give better context for the last two parameters:
 * displays as:
 * George Clinton
 * and sorts as if it were:
 * Clinton, George
 * More info on the template page. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:14, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't mention that the third parameter is optional, and if omitted, it will generate a wikilnk from the first two parameters. Similarly, the last parameter is optional, and if omitted will also be generated from the first two. It's only required if the person's name includes letters with accents or other marks. For example:
 * Here, the third parameter is blank, but the fourth shows the nearest English-language letters, so displays as:
 * Nadia Comăneci
 * -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Here, the third parameter is blank, but the fourth shows the nearest English-language letters, so displays as:
 * Nadia Comăneci
 * -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Thanks for your help above. I have a further question ... if I may. What are the advantages / disadvantages between these two sorting methods? (Method #1) I decide to use the function that you just informed me of ... versus ... (Method #2) I just use a link that says Lincoln, Abraham ? Does either method have any advantages or disadvantages or other factors to consider? The only thing that comes to mind right now is that -- by using Method #1 -- the name "Abraham Lincoln" will appear in the "L" section of the sorted list even though the first letter in the display is the "A" of "Abraham". In Method #2, the person's name will appear to be "backwards" (opposite of Wikipedia article naming conventions) ... as in "Lincoln, Abraham" ... but the first letter displayed will be "L" and it will appear in the "L" section of the sorted list. Am I correct? Are there any other advantages, disadvantages, or considerations for me to -- um, consider -- before I start doing a relatively long and laborious list? Thanks. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 20:14, 21 February 2010 (UTC))
 * The difference between the two approaches is that somebody has written and tested the template to get it right, whereas your approach relies on your getting it right. Redrose didn't say that it would appear as "Lincoln, Abraham" anywhere, just that it would sort using this (and appear under L). --ColinFine (talk) 21:48, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * ColinFine ... huh? I don't understand your answer at all.  Can you please re-phrase it?  Thanks.   (64.252.68.102 (talk) 23:07, 21 February 2010 (UTC))


 * Further to the above, I have worked up some examples in which you are welcome to view and to try out. -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:07, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * See Help:Sorting. ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 23:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks to everyone for the above help and input. It was indeed helpful, and I appreciate the feedback. Thank you. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 14:55, 22 February 2010 (UTC))

Sandbox from Redrose 64
Here are some examples to try; for each I shall show the raw wikicode and then a working example which uses exactly the same wikicode.

Method 1
Using.
 * Advantages: names displayed in natural order; sort is A (for Å), C(B), C(G), E, L, T (for Þ), W (ie non-English and accented letters are handled)
 * Disadvantage: wikicode can be more difficult to follow unless only the first two parameters are used

Method 2
Using piped wikilinks.
 * Advantage: easily understood by most wiki editors
 * neutral: sort is CB, CG, E, L, W but then Å, Þ
 * Disadvantage: names coded twice each; names displayed surname first; non-English and accented letters give undesirable results

Method 3
(included for comparison with the previous suggestions). Using wikilinked names, piped only where necessary.
 * Advantages: short, easy to set up, names displayed in natural order
 * Disadvantage: sort is by first name ie Ab, An, B, D, G, W but then Þ; non-English and accented letters give undesirable results

Cases 1 & 2 cover the situation where the article name does not correspond exactly with the person's name, as with George Clinton. Where method 1 really scores is when you have names which include accented letters, or letters not found in the English language, as with Anders Jonas Ångström. It also covers the case where a country does not use the normal UK/USA sorting rules, such as Þorsteinn M. Jónsson (Icelandic - the letter Þ counts as the English "Th", but in Iceland you sort by firstname then lastname)

Flags for the Olympics
If I use the following template code ... the resulting display will be:. Is there any template or any way to get the output display result to be the icon of the flag and simply the three letter IOC Olympic country code right next to it (instead of the full country name spelled out)? So, in this case, I'd want the flag of Czechoslovakia followed by the Wikipedia link to the IOC code for Czechoslovakia (TCH). Is this possible? Also, how do I account for different flags in different Olympic years? Say, for example, the Czech flag at the 1924 Olympics was different than the Czech flag at the 2010 Olympics. How do I modify the template to show the correct flag of that certain year? Thanks. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 00:25, 23 February 2010 (UTC))
 * Well, for the 2010 games, you will use the IOC code for the Czech Republic. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 00:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * For the second question: or  (edit to see wikicode; Czechoslovakia's flag wasn't different in 1924) Xenon54 / talk / 00:29, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The first question is probably better answered at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics as I'm sure someone there is intimately familiar with all the different flag templates. Xenon54 / talk / 02:48, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

I am the original poster. Perhaps I need to re-phrase my question. My question really has nothing to do with the specific country of Czechoslovakia or the specific year of 1924 or even the Olympics. The question is for any country and any year and any Olympic three-character IOC code: is there a template that displays the flag icon followed by the three-character IOC code ... as opposed to the flag icon followed by the full name of the country? Furthermore ... if so ... how does one modify this template when flags change in different time periods? The 1924 Czechoslovakia flag was just a hypothetical example. Thanks. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 04:19, 23 February 2010 (UTC))
 * If you take a look at Template:Country flag IOC alias JPN and you press the edit button, you will see the periods that are blank. That is where you put the flags. Default is the current flag. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:26, 23 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks. But, when I click that link, there is no "edit" button present.  Can you list here on this page exactly what keys I need to type to create what I am seeking?  That is, the flag icon with the 3-letter IOC code immediately following it.  Thanks.  Also, how does one modify all this for different flags that were in place during different years in history?  Thank you.   (64.252.68.102 (talk) 15:04, 23 February 2010 (UTC))
 * It's a protected page, so instead of "edit" it has "view source". You can move around in this, mark and copy text to your clipboard just like an edit window, but you can't alter anything. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:20, 23 February 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks. I checked out the "view source".  But, I must be missing something.  I honestly don't see how that assists me in what I am attempting to do?  Please explain more explicitly what I need to do?  Thanks.   (64.252.68.102 (talk) 17:55, 23 February 2010 (UTC))


 * I don't think Zscout's answer actually does what you want. I can't find a template that primarily displays the IOC: on the contrary they all seem to convert the IOC to the full name. However, it seems to me that Template:FlagIOC has an undocumented argument 'name', so if I'm right, then will do what you want.  It does! --ColinFine (talk) 18:46, 23 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Perfect! Thanks!  Now, do you also know how to modify it for different flags of different years (for the same country)?  Thank you.   (64.252.68.102 (talk) 18:54, 23 February 2010 (UTC))
 * The paramaters would be Entering the year plus Summer or Winter will display whatever flag that country or olympic team used during that olympics, and link to that country's year-specific olympic article. Example:  displays the 48-star flag flown during the 1936 Summer Olympics.DCmacnut &lt; &gt;  19:06, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Wonderful! Thanks for all the help! I really appreciate it. Thank you. (64.252.68.102 (talk) 14:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC))