Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Olympic medalists in speed skating


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The list was promoted by Matthewedwards 21:50, 7 March 2009.

List of Olympic medalists in speed skating

 * Nominator(s): Scorpion 0422 

This is one I've had ready for a while now, but I decided to hold off on nominating it. It's a wikicup entry, fully sourced and all concerns will be addressed by moi. Enjoy. -- Scorpion 0422  18:26, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Comments from 
 * Lead
 * Speed skating is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. Speed skating events have been held since first Winter Olympics in 1924. -- Add "the" before first.
 * Done.
 * Speed skating events have been held since first Winter Olympics in 1924.[1] Speed skating has been on the Olympic programme since the first Winter Olympics held in 1924. -- Thinking about it, aren't these two just repeating the other?
 * Yes. Fixed.
 * An all-round event was also held, combined the points from the results of four distance races. -- I think a word is missing after the comma because its current revision does not make sense.
 * Fixed, and I tried rowording the entire bit about the all-round event.
 * Lidiya Skoblikova, who represented the Soviet Union, is one of only two female Winter Olympians to win six gold medals (cross-country skier Lyubov Yegorova is the other). -- The Soviet Union is a pretty common term considering the Cold War.
 * Done.
 * Andrea Schöne, won won a silver medal in 1976, is the youngest female athlete in an individual event to win a medal. -- The first won should be "who" ;)
 * Yep, I need to start getting a copyeditor to check these over before submitting, because these little errors are somewhat embarrassing.
 * It's okay. It happens to all of us, trust me :)-- TRU  CO   01:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Medals per year (key)
 * The least you can do for appearance purposes is make it into a table, or at least capitalize the first word.
 * Did the latter, it doesn't need a table since it's just one item.
 * References
 * Ref #4|The work is from SLAM! Sports and the publisher is Canadian Online Explorer, so the fields should be fixed accordingly.-- TRU  CO   23:57, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know if I agree with that, but done anyway. As always, thanks a lot for taking a look. -- Scorpion 0422  00:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well its mostly because COE is the publisher and their subsection of SLAM! Sports is the working contributor to the work itself.-- TRU  CO   01:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Support -- Previous issues resolved to meet WP:WIAFL standards.-- TRU  CO   01:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * There is a main article template at the top of the article pointing to Speed skating at the Winter Olympics, but it is also linked to in the first line under "is contested". Since Andrwsc considers these to be companion articles I don't mind if there's the template, but only one should be linked; pick one or the other. This should be consistant with all medalist articles, including List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing and List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing.
 * Support Everything else is excellent. Reywas92 Talk  16:51, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The main templates were stuck in a few days ago by Maxim and I haven't decided if I like that or not. I guess the main template is a much more obvious link to the other article, so perhaps it is best. -- Scorpion 0422  17:44, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Which one are you going to remove? It should not be linked twice. Reywas92 Talk  00:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Left in the seealso, removed the lead link. -- Scorpion 0422  02:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * In the medal sweep section you should say something about Eric Heiden's sweep of all the male medals.
 * Should this be separate from short track speed skating? Short track should be mentioned somewhere in the article I think.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:51, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Comments - Looks like a great list overall. Just some picky things before I support:
 * "All ten events have been held at every Olympic Games since". I know 10 is the cutoff for many editors in terms of spelling numbers, but should it be given as a numeral?
 * Done.
 * "in 1928, he became the first speed skater to successfully defend their Olympic title." Their is plural, but I know you want to avoid gender-specific language. Therefore, I'd replace it with "an Olympic title."
 * Done.
 * "Claudia Pechstein and American Bonnie Blair...". Don't think Pechstein's first name should be repeated.
 * Done.
 * Couple of requested citations. First, one for Pechstein being one of four athletes to win gold at five straight Winter Games. Second, one for Cindy Klassen being one of five athletes to win five medals at a Winter Games. Considering that they both won gold at the last Winter Olympics, it shouldn't be too hard to find sources for them.
 * I should be able to find sources, but is it really needed? That info is right out of the tables, and the tables are fully sourced.
 * The medals they won are cited fine, but the "one of" parts aren't. There's nothing in the tables about what other athletes did.  Giants2008  ( 17-14 ) 23:44, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, I just realized which part you were talking about. All of that stuff is sourced to this. -- Scorpion 0422  02:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * In the country medals per year table, replace the hyphens with en dashes. I normally use the larger em dashes to fill blank spaces, but I think the smaller dash will work better in this table, where the columns are small.  Giants2008  ( 17-14 ) 17:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll get someone with a script to do it. Thanks a lot for taking a look. -- Scorpion 0422  18:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Support - List looks good to go after the changes.  Giants2008  ( 17-14 ) 00:33, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:44, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:15, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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