Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/China at the Olympics/archive1


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

The article was not promoted by Karanacs 20:11, 15 December 2009.

China at the Olympics

 * Nominator(s): Sophie2895 (talk) 20:08, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I feel it meets the criteria. I am aware it is shorter than most FAs, but I have literally squeezed every source I could find on the topic to get more information about it as I could. I don't believe it omits any important information, in this respect, and covers the topic fully. Otherwise, I think it's fine. Thanks Sophie2895 (talk) 20:08, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose - Fails to cover the topic adequately and looks more like a list. Probably need to have a summary of each olympics or each decade.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 20:59, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose – In its present format, this is much more of a list than an article. A better place for this to be nominated is at featured list candidates, which deals with pages like this.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 23:07, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Oppose This has the potential to be developed into a featured list, but its content needs to be referenced and expanded first. The article's sole focus on China's successes at the Olympics is also troublesome from a NPOV perspective. Nick-D (talk) 23:45, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment I also don't think this is FA quality, but this should not be made into a list. If it is, it should probably be renamed. A better idea is to expand and reformat the article so that it covers various aspects of China's Olympic exploits (history, summary of the country's participation in each sport, etc.). An example of this would be Australia at the Winter Olympics. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:25, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Suggest withdrawal and peer review per above—does not look comprehensive. Put it through peer review and nominate for Good Article first, and exhaust all sources on the subject. China is rich in history, and I'm not sure their Olympic involvement differs. --an odd name 12:29, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with Nick-D and Dabomb87: it needs at least important losses and more related historical events as well as wins.
 * Any important people within PRC's Olympic committees, or other people who helped push for their inclusion or impacted their participation?
 * The medal counts could probably make a small section of a much larger prose article—we are talking about the PRC, after all—with the title's scope. (Have you checked for books and academic journals on the subject (see criterion 1c)?)
 * Good use of contextual links such as Hong Kong at the Olympics for "Hong Kong", though.


 * Comment. Alt text done; thanks. All the images are purely decorative in the W3C sense, so please mark them with linklink as per WP:ALT . Eubulides (talk) 08:54, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * done —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhonghuo (talk • contribs) 12:02, December 15, 2009
 * Thanks. A couple of images still had alt text problems, but I fixed them too.. That should do it. Eubulides (talk) 18:40, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
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