Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of 2002 Winter Olympics medal winners/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 18:49, 18 June 2011.

List of 2002 Winter Olympics medal winners

 * Nominator(s): Strange Passerby and Courcelles 10:11, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Skipping forward 50 years, here's the next entry in our series of Winter Olympics medalist lists. A judging scandal, doping scandals, bribery scandals (though not relevant to this list), and, amidst all that scandal, some fine moments of sport; Michelle Kwan faltering in the Free Skate while Sarah Hughes came from nowhere to take gold; the first time women ever did an Olympic bobsleigh run, and more Yang Yang's than you can keep track of. Enjoy, and comment, please. Courcelles 10:11, 30 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Support – Comments from KV5

Not much to complain about here at all. Just a few minor things: Other than that... great job! Great images too. &mdash; KV5  •  Talk  •  14:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * When you have "2 x 5 kilometre" and the like, the "x" needs to be the times symbol (HTML &amp;times; entity or the symbol in the toolbox)
 * Done. Courcelles 15:12, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * A MOS:NUM question, really: what about "10000 metres"? MOS:NUM prescribes the comma for all numbers 9999 and above, but I don't think it would be right to have one different from the rest. Your thoughts welcome.
 * Hmm, interesting. The counterpoint is, that despite the MOS saying that, the article about the race (and all other 10000 metre races) lives at Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 10000 metres. Courcelles 15:12, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Right. This I noticed. This is probably an issue to raise at an appropriate WikiProject talk page for discussion. FLC's probably not the appropriate place for an overarching debate. It's not a huge thing at all, so it won't hinder my support when that time comes, but it's something that should probably be talked through. &mdash; KV5  •  Talk  •  15:15, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * One redirect in the toolbox "external links" tool; possibly to be looked into
 * Done... The month changed, so the IOC moved everything around. (I exaggerate.  Slightly.) Courcelles 15:12, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No links to events in the lead? If I didn't watch the Winter Olympics, I wouldn't know what the skeleton is...
 * "Ski jumping World Cup" - uncap "Ski"
 * I've done the opposite and capitalised the J in Jumping as I should've originally; it's a proper noun. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 01:34, 5 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Comments from  Harrias  talk

As KV5 said, a pretty good list overall. Just a couple of points from me: I echo KV5 once more; some lovely images!  Harrias  talk 09:50, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * "The Games were affected by doping problems, with four medal winners losing their medals following doping disqualifications." – Noun plus -ing should generally be avoided, try to rework rework the sentence to remove it.
 * Sentence rephrased. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 14:33, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * A note on the discussion about large numbers above: in the lead you place a comma in "2,399 athletes". To be consistent, you should either take this out, or place commas in any four digit numbers in the tables.
 * MOS suggests we can use (or choose to not use) the comma when dealing with four-digit numbers. It's worth noting, as Courcelles mentioned, that the official event names do not include a comma (at least in the official report). I wouldn't mind removing the comma from 2,399, but will wait to see if Courcelles agrees. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 11:41, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that the MOS suggests that you can use either: but I would suggest you use one or the other, not both.  Harrias  talk 15:38, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Removed two commas from the lede. Courcelles 06:05, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Support all my concerns have been addressed. Nice work.  Harrias  talk 19:14, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Provisional Support – Everything looks good to me, aside from what has already been said above me (and even I can't get too worked up about the comma issues). Have to agree that the photos really enhance the list; that lead image would look great on the Main Page.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 23:28, 8 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Support good work. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:05, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


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