Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2012 Summer Paralympics 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 not promoted by The Rambling Man 11:45, 12 September 2012 (UTC).

2012 Summer Paralympics medal table

 * Nominator(s): Miyagawa   (talk)  16:28, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because having previously nominated and promoted the 2008 medal list, I believe this to be of equal stature and design. The majority of the sections are phrased in the same manner, albeit with different information from the 2012 Games. Hopefully I've finally learnt the lessons from the last few tables and there won't be too many issues other than my shoddy writing style. One thing to note is the "first medals" for the NPCs - for a couple of them I found sources to state this, but the rest are cited to show that there was a medal winner at the 2012 Games and then with an additional cite at the end to show the NPC history so that it can be cited that there were no previous medallists. For once I took the wise step and just did the medals as a fair use image from the start. Miyagawa  (talk)  16:28, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Quick comments The Rambling Man (talk) 17:12, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Not sure you really need to link "medal" in the lead, it's a pretty common word. You could pipelink it to Olympic medal table perhaps instead of the see also hatnote later on...
 * I would expand the lead image if it has the resolution and then perhaps expand the lead just a tiny bit.
 * Why are there four medals shown in the image? You may need to expand the caption and alt text to discuss this.
 * "by the number of gold medals won .." never really noticed this but yes, it does, but when tied on golds, it ranks by silvers, and then when tied on silvers it ranks on bronze. Need to think of a good way of expressing this (the BBC got it wrong many times by saying Team GB were ahead of Russia despite being tied on golds because Team GB had "more medals" which should have been "more silvers"...)
 * Is it worth considering calling the 2012 Summer Paralympics by its formal title in this article since it is, after all, encyclopedic?
 * No need to link common geographical places like London.
 * "from 29 Augustto" add that missing space...!
 * "and NPCs ever competing" -> " ever to compete"
 * Seems a crime that one of the "most successful" paralympians doesn't even have an article (Raymond Martin).
 * (I made a stub)... The Rambling Man (talk) 20:49, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * "They won four gold medals each in .." I dunno but I'd prefer "They each won four gold medals in..."
 * Would add the nationality of the medal winners in the image captions in case no-one reads the lead!
 * Do we only have two appropriate images? Perhaps one or two of the stadium etc would be good too?
 * Ref 5 v Ref 6 publisher in italics or not?
 * Ref 3 needs an en-dash not a spaced hyphen.
 * And ref 8.

I'm going to have to withdraw this nomination. Unfortunatly it seems that another editor who is not only an FL regular but an administrator keeps reverting the changes I've brought in to make it mirror other FLs which are more recent than thiers. Its not worth an edit war over it, so I'd rather withdraw the nomination and leave the article for six months until they get bored and move on. Miyagawa  (talk)  11:34, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


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