Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Olympic medalists in curling/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 21:42, 22 March 2010.

List of Olympic medalists in curling

 * Nominator(s): Scorpion 0422  18:25, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm now attempting to start a new consecutive months streak, though this one will probably end in the summer. This is the second of a number of Olympics-related FLCs that will be heading this way in the coming weeks. This one is modeled after the many current medalist FLs, such as List of Olympic medalists in figure skating, but with a few key differences, such as the lack of a fancy ToC (with just two events there isn't a need for one), lack of a "Medals per year" section (with just two events there isn't a need for one), and images added to the athlete medal leaders table. Enjoy. -- Scorpion 0422  18:25, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support. Parutakupiu (talk) 00:16, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Comment Support H1nkles citius altius fortius 16:47, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Regarding demonstration sport and medals won, the article states that the 1924 team did not win "official" medals. This was because the sport was considered a demonstration sport in 1924.  This sentence seems to indicate that medals were awarded in 1924 but they were not counted as official by the IOC, "For 82 years, the 1924 tournament was considered a demonstration sport, so the medals were not officially counted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)."  Then the article states that the IOC awarded "honorary" medals.  Also later the article says the two oldest Winter Olympic medallists are Kronlund and Welsh, who won medals in 1924.  Does that mean the 1924 teams won two medals, one in 1924 and another around 2006?  I think if the medals awarded posthumously are considered to be official then you should remove "honorary" and explicitly state that the teams were entered into the record books as Olympic medallists.  User:H1nkles citius altius fortius 22:43, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a bit confusing, but what happened was that the sport was apparantly contested as a full official event in 1924 (and remember, the 1924 games weren't considered full Olympics until afterwards, I think that may have added to the confusion). Then, for whatever reason, it was became considered a demonstration event, and remained categorized as such until 2006. They weren't given new medals in 2006, they were just given the "honorary" official medals, meaning they were now considered full medalists (this article explains it much better than I can). I switched the bit about being awarded posthumous honorary medals to "The IOC subsequently recognized the top three teams as full medal winners". Does that help? -- Scorpion 0422  02:35, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I understand a little better now. I think your wording is good.  H1nkles citius altius fortius 16:47, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support happy now the "official", "demonstration", "honorary" thing has been resolved. Good work.  The Rambling Man (talk) 20:37, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support another fine medalist list. Reywas92 Talk 21:27, 22 March 2010 (UTC)


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