Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2004 Summer Olympics medal count


 * 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 User:Scorpion0422 04:12, 1 June 2008.

2004 Summer Olympics medal count
Modeled on FL 1976 Summer Olympics medal count. Marrio (talk) 14:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion I'm currently working on 2006 Winter Olympics medal count and one thing I think you should include is which athletes were stripped of medals during these games, and how it affected the standings. -- Scorpion0422 14:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Marrio (talk) 17:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment. There's a mention to the first ever gold medal of United Arab Emirates. You forgot Israel. Parutakupiu (talk) 18:11, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Added that in, and thanks for pointing it out, because that sentence's reference was messed up and I found it as I was adding Israel. Marrio (talk) 18:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * That reference only states that it was UAE's first gold medal. You can easily find an online source for Israel's first title (e.g. here). Parutakupiu (talk) 22:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. ref'd now. Marrio (talk) 23:23, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Still concerning Israel, I found a photo of Gal Fridman on Commons and I added it to the article, since it's more related to the topic than just the Olympic stadium image. Parutakupiu (talk) 23:50, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Support. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:07, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Comments—Worth saving, I suppose, after the prose is massaged throughout. Can you find someone fresh to the list to help?
 * I was about to pounce on the same "blank" issue as Noble Story, which still hasn't been fixed.
 * Where's the boundary between naming numbers and using numerals? "Sixteen" but "36".
 * WP:MOSNUM says "In the body of an article, single-digit whole numbers from zero to nine are spelled out in words; numbers greater than nine may be rendered in numerals or may be rendered in words if they are expressed in one or two words (sixteen, eighty-four, two hundred, but 3.75, 544, 21 million)." but generally I'll spell out any number lower than 20.
 * "men's 62 kg competition"—can you pipe this correctly with a hyphen please?
 * Done
 * "doping scandals have resulted in a number of athletes being stripped of their medals"—Nope, this is the old noun plus -ing grammatical issue. See HERE for exercises in correcting it. PS the rest of that sentence is yuckie.
 * Done. Thanks for the suggestion.
 * If we're going to be so tribal as to compare the count of nation-states, I'd love to see added to the table the number of medals per million inhabitants. That would sort out the sheep from the goats. [Not actionable, of course.]
 * It's possible, I have seen medal tables with this kind of statistic added. I'll ask the Olympics project and see if they agree (as this is a change that would affect every other list as well). Thanks for the review. -- Scorpion0422 14:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment The user that nominated this page has been gone for a while and has shown no signs of a return, so I'll take over handling concerns from this nom for the time being. -- Scorpion0422 14:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Support The image captions are fragments, so either remove the periods or make them complete sentences.-- Crzycheetah 02:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Final Concern I think it would be better to say: "leaving 127 countries without a medal", instead of what it currently says. Noble Story (talk) 03:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Comments Just a couple of questions, really. -- Matthewedwards (talk· contribs· count· email) 05:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Is the dash in "men's 62 kg–competition" correct?
 * Was Israel Jose Rubio the fourth placed competitor? If so, perhaps it should be added
 * Same with the other "replacements"
 * Done, done and done. Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion0422 04:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Welcome! And it was nice of you to pick up the nomination, too. Support. Matthewedwards (talk· contribs· count· email) 06:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.