Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2010 Winter Olympics medal table/archive1


 * 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 Dabomb87 22:39, 14 April 2010.

2010 Winter Olympics medal table

 * Nominator(s): Scorpion 0422  21:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

It's been three weeks since the Olympics ended, so I think this page is sufficiently stable. It's modeled after the 2008 Summer Olympics medal table and 2006 Winter Olympics medal table, both FLs. Enjoy! -- Scorpion 0422  21:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support Looks good. Thanks for your hard work.  Jujutacular  T · C 19:29, 28 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't ranks which tie be e.g. 17= etc rather than just two 17s? The Rambling Man (talk) 06:47, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Never heard of this convention before, is it common? Another possibility: 17 (tie)  Jujutacular  T · C 19:41, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Well it's pretty commonplace. It simply means "17th equal".  The Rambling Man (talk) 17:45, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments (from the editor who worked the 1998 table to FL status) – Didn't find much to comment on, and what I did find was either minor or subjective.
 * The first sentence strikes me as akin to the "This is a list of" beginnings that we've been discouraging lately. Not sure if anyone else feels the same, or if I just think this because I started the 1998 list differently and have a bias toward it.
 * "A total of 2,632 athletes from 82 nations participated in 86 events from fifteen different sport disciplines." All the other numbers above 10 are given as numerals in the lead, so I imagine that "fifteen" should be as well.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 19:26, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Both done. -- Scorpion 0422  20:59, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Support – Looks good to go after the changes.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 19:05, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think that a medal map should be added to the list. It provides a better visual impact as we can see in 2007 Pan American Games medal table, the latest Featured medal table. Felipe Menegaz 16:03, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It doesn't really add a lot to the article. How does knowing location of nations like Estonia help readers understand the article? -- Scorpion 0422  21:54, 12 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Support Sourced and well presented. However, I would have to agree with Felipe Menegaz, a map of the countries that earned a medal would be a better visual representation to compliment the table. Sb617 (Talk) 01:02, 4 April 2010 (UTC)


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