Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2020 Summer 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 PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 30 March 2022 (UTC).

2020 Summer Olympics medal table

 * Nominator(s): Birdienest81  talk  09:09, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

After successfully promoting the 2012 Summer Olympics medal table to featured list status and rescuing the 1984 Summer Olympics medal table from demotion of featured list status, I felt that I could greatly contribute to help improve the 2020 Summer Olympics medal table to featured list status as well. This was also inspired by RunningTiger123's commendation of my first non-film FLC promotion. Anyways, I've followed the 1984 and 2012 Summer Games medal table for guidance. I will gladly take comments on how to improve this table. Birdienest81 talk  09:09, 9 February 2022 (UTC)


 * AryKun
 * "Olympiad, were a" → "Olympiad, was a"
 * "summer multi-sport" → Summer here is redundant and unhelpful (what is a summer sport? does it differ from a spring sport or fall sport?), best to just replace with "international" as used in the main article
 * "the Japan" → "the" unnecessary (I also question the need to state that Tokyo is the capital of Japan at all, since Tokyo is one of the world's megacities)
 * "The games were scheduled one year from its original date due to the COVID-19 pandemic." → "The games were postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic."
 * "making it the most successful Olympics performance" → " making it their most successful Olympics performance"
 * "and The Philippines" → Should "The" be capitalized here?
 * "their nation's first Olympic medal" → "their nation's first Olympic medals"
 * "[12][13][b]" → I'd move the footnote ahead of the citations since otherwise it's kind of hard to see and likely to be missed.
 * "medals for the" → "medals used for the"
 * Use the lang template for the romanji words.
 * Link "Japanese ash" instead of "ash wood"?
 * The alt texts shouldn't have periods.
 * Haven't checked the refs or image licenses. AryKun (talk) 12:18, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Although not required, a review at my FLC would be appreciated.
 * I think I have done everything you've mentioned above. I am not sure if I did the template for the Japanese words correctly. I've never done an article that involved Japanese words before.
 * -- Birdienest81 talk  10:35, 23 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Support, nothing else I could find. AryKun (talk) 11:26, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Source review/comments by RunningTiger123
Source review passed and happy to support this list. RunningTiger123 (talk) 23:00, 5 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Comments


 * Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:00, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Comments by MWright96
 * "Japan National Stadium during the 2020 Summer Olympics." - the word "The" is missing from the start of this sentence that is present in the image caption in the infobox
 * "the latter one" - consider replacing the word denoted in bold with another word
 * "Two gold medals (and no silver) were awarded for a first-place tie in the men's high jump athletics event" - consider adding the names of the athletes who received these gold medals
 * "Two bronze medals were awarded for a third-place tie in the women's floor gymnastics event." - same as above
 * The ruling date in the List of official changes in medal standings is incorrect
 * "a team of Great Britain was disqualified" - the Great Britain team
 * References 4, 16, 32, 33, 34 have not yet had an archive link added to them

That's all I have MWright96 (talk) 07:52, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Done - Everything has been corrected based on your comments.
 * -- Birdienest81 talk  09:40, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Support - Nothing further from yours truly MWright96 (talk) 15:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Image review from SNUGGUMS
 * With no evidence found to the contrary, I'll assume good faith that File:Japan National Stadium C-gate on 2021 July 28.jpg, File:Countries by medals 2020 Summer Olympics.svg, and File:Daniel Ståhl in 2019-2.jpg are indeed the uploaders' own works
 * I'm not sure what to make of File:Caeleb Dressel (USA) 2018.jpg or File:April Ross (USA) 2017.jpg when marked as "safe" yet the source URLs say "all rights reserved"
 * No copyright concerns with File:Neisi Dajomes.jpg, File:WK3B0180 1000m zevenkamp warner.jpg, or File:Vincent Hancock wins gold in men’s skeet at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games (51352451809).jpg

That's all from me. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 13:29, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Done: I've Replaced the two images in question with ones that (hopefully) do not have any copyright violations. The first one is claimed as own work by the uploader author. The second one has a "Some Rights Reserved" on its Flickr source.
 * -- Birdienest81 talk  02:26, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * No problems with the replacement image added :). My only qualm with the prose is how it feels monotonous to have almost every sentence under "Medals" start with "the", but that's not enough to prevent me from giving my support to this nomination. Just reword it for more word diversity and it'll be good to go. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 02:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Comments from TRM

 * Where in source [3] is the number of athletes mentioned? Or the 206 countries?
 * Done: Added news article from CNN indicating both numbers.


 * "former" and "latter" makes for clumsy reading, I think we should look for a rephrase here.
 * Done': Rearranged two sentences for better flow.


 * "2004 Summer Games" put Summer Games into the pipe.
 * Done: Summer Games is now part of pipe.


 * "won the greatest number of medals overall, winning seven" won/winning not needed, replace "winning" with "with"!
 * Done: Replaced accordingly.


 * "Soviet gymnast" might be worth linking Soviet here to some appropriate Soviet Union @ the Olympics article. Not long now and readers won't know what "Soviet" even means.
 * Done: Linked Soviet to Soviet Union at the 1952 Olympics. Soviet Union at the Olympics in general is linked at the second mention of the nation in the same paragraph. Therefore this avoids overlinking.


 * "The design of the medals used for the 2020 Summer Olympics was created by ..." why not "The medals used ... were designed by..."?
 * Done: Changed sentence appropriately.


 * "the COVID-19 pandemic, athletes" this is the second link to the pandemic, but the one in the lead was a general link, this is to "in Japan" shouldn't we be consistent?
 * Done: Linked first one in lead to pandemic in Japan.


 * In the image captions, why not link the events which are being described?
 * Done: Linked events in captions.


 * "Medals have not yet been reallocated." needs an "as of".
 * Done: Added "As of February 2022".

That's all I have. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 17:59, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Done - I have addressed all your comments.
 * -- Birdienest81 talk  06:20, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Support my concerns addressed. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 16:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Comments Support by Gerald Waldo Luis
At a first glance, this looks pretty good for FL, but there are several concerns I have; if they're resolved I'll strike and support.  Gerald WL  06:36, 20 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Support. Nice work right there-- was a pleasure to watch some of the games, and this I feel is eligible for FL.  Gerald WL  16:01, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Promoting. -- Pres N  01:00, 29 March 2022 (UTC)


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