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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 18:21:59 31 May 2019 (UTC).

List of teams and cyclists in the 1962 Tour de France

 * Nominator(s): BaldBoris 20:02, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

A fourth Tour de France teams and cyclists list following my FLs of 2012 (FLC), 2013 (FLC) and 2014 (FLC). The 1962 Tour de France article became an FA last month. BaldBoris 20:02, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * "bowed to pressure from their team's extra" => "bowed to pressure from their teams' extra"
 * "In the beginning of February 1962" => "At the beginning..."
 * Changed to "In early February 1962". BaldBoris 21:50, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * "which had 12 teams of 12 cyclists (132 total)" - pretty sure 12 x 12 is 144......?
 * "the French cyclists were outnumbered" => "French cyclists were outnumbered"
 * "the largest numbers of riders from a nation were Italians at 52" => "the largest number of riders from a nation came from Italy (52)"
 * "Of start list of 150" => "Of the start list of 150"
 * "Altig lost it the follow day" => the following day
 * "between the end of stage nine to the end of eleven" => from the end.....
 * "The follow day, British" - following day
 * Green and yellow jersey icons also need some sort of symbol, as colour-blind readers may not be able to tell them apart
 * I took the background colour idea from List of Tour de France general classification winners, but I'm not too sure about it. BaldBoris 21:50, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * That's what I got on a first pass..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:53, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * All done. BaldBoris 21:50, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I fixed a couple of typos but am now happy to support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:30, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Comment this is a really nice piece of work, I've scanned over it twice in the past couple of weeks and struggled to find anything, but one thing did spring out to me just now, that in one of the captions you mention a very intriguing sounding "super-bad luck award". I'd be fascinated to know more about this, particularly as it's not mentioned anywhere else, nor linked. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:17, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I did think readers might wonder that. There's no article at present, but it's mentioned in the main. The only info I could find on it was in the self-published Tour de France book (see "Meeste pech"). The author has also found most of the winners and has listed them on his site. It seems to have been of equal importance to the still active combativity award, which with the unluckiest award was given after each stage and an overall one at the end of Tours. It appeared between 1952–1967 and 1977 and 1978. There have been other similar awards in the Tour around that time e.g. most elegant and most kind. Do you think a note is needed? BaldBoris 21:54, 11 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment – Like TRM, I'm straining to find criticism, but I do think the third note could use a reference for Flandria–Faema–Clement winning the team time trial, as that's not mentioned anywhere else. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 22:14, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. BaldBoris 22:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Support – My only concern has been taken care of. Very good work on this list. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:08, 16 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment
 * In the "By nationality" table, it shows France with 7 stage wins, but only 6 are accounted for in the same cell.


 * Everything else is very nicely done. NatureBoyMD (talk) 23:47, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Fixed the above, good spot. BaldBoris 22:01, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * No, it still says France won 7 stages and lists 5 riders, 1 of whom won 2 stages, for a total of 6 stages. NatureBoyMD (talk) 22:40, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * My edit didn't save. BaldBoris 23:06, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Support everything looks good to me now. NatureBoyMD (talk) 23:08, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Source review passed; promoting. -- Pres N  18:21, 31 May 2019 (UTC)


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