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43rd Chess Olympiad

 * Nominator(s): Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 13:59, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

This article is about the 43rd Chess Olympiad, a biennial chess tournament for teams representing nations. The main improvements to the article that led to its current shape were made immediately before and during the event. For that purpose, many chess sources were consulted and selectively used to reference the content based on their reputability and popularity in the chess world, so it abounds in details that are typically present in similar multi-country competitions (e.g. Olympic Games). Finally, the article has a GA status, having been promoted in April 2009. Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 13:59, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

This article uses an excessive number of flag icons, to the point that they dominate the visual presentation of the text. Some seem at odds with the MoS (which discourages use in infoboxes among other things). What is the service to the reader? -- Laser brain  (talk)  02:08, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Drive-by comment
 * I'm mostly impartial to Laser brain's issue above, but at the very least, the table in Sponsorship should be a bulleted list by itself... Aza24 (talk) 07:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support removing the excessive flag icons. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  03:02, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I've re-arranged the Sponsorship section. Could you please tell me which flag icons you find excessive and I shall remove them?--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 08:36, 9 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Image review
 * File:Black Sea Arena Exterior.jpg — no freedom of panorama in Georgia (t &#183; c)  buidhe  03:02, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Although there is no freedom of panorama in Georgia, the file's documentation page on Wikimedia Commons tells that the copyright holder allowed it to be used under certain conditions.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 08:36, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The Commons tag is for the copyright on the photograph. There is a separate copyright on the building which belongs to the architect. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  09:14, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Drive-by comment when you have 185 countries participating, listing all their names—leave alone with flags and links—is excessive and unnecessary. (counterexample: not all of the 210 countries who participated in the 2018 FIFA World Cup are named in that article, only the 32 who qualified to the finals.) Instead just mention the salient points—some big absentee countries, why Pakistan withdrew, why Georgia had 3 teams, what those 3 abbreviated associations are etc.—indopug (talk) 09:20, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Oppose. This article is not quite FAC ready. The flags are visually off-putting, there are stubby sections, and the prose could be tightened with a copy edit, sample: I suggest withdrawing and returning to FAC after an independent copyedit as the fastest route to the bronze star. Sandy Georgia (Talk)  05:58, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * In September 2018, FIDE announced the anti-cheating measures and procedures of the 43rd Chess Olympiad in accordance with the Abu Dhabi FIDE Executive Board in 2015 and the Moscow FIDE Presidential Board in 2016, as well as after clarifications of the FIDE WCOC Commission and FIDE Anti cheating Committee that were applied at the Baku Chess Olympiad. According to these measures, players and captains had to be inspected by the security staff at the entrance of the playing hall. The carrying of mobile phones, watches, and pens was not allowed inside the playing venue and players were required to release them in storage areas.

Coord note -- archiving per commentary above; per FAC instructions you can bring this back after two weeks have passed, which should afford time enough for a solid copyedit. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:14, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 23:14, 18 October 2020 (UTC)