Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/World Figure Skating Championships cumulative medal count/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) 12:25, 6 July 2024 (UTC).

World Figure Skating Championships cumulative medal count

 * Nominator(s): Bgsu98   (Talk)  02:16, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because a lot of time was spent by several editors to bring this article in line with Wikipedia standards, including properly formatting the tables so that they meet the requirements of MOS:ACCESS, so that tables display the most up-to-date information with proper sourcing, and so that the formatting matches the formatting used on other quality figure skating articles. Bgsu98  (Talk)  02:16, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Drive-by comment

 * At just two sentences, the lead is much shorter than is expected for a FL. It could do with bulking out with a very brief overview of the history of the event and some key points about the people and nations with most medals. -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have expanded the lead per your suggestion. Bgsu98   (Talk)  16:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I too have a drive-by comment. You're missing row and columns scopes in a number of tables, which are crucial for accessibility. See PresN's standard comment for some advice. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I was sure I had properly formatted all of the tables. I will of course double-check all of them this afternoon and make any appropriate corrections. Bgsu98   (Talk)  13:09, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey man im josh, are you referring to the medals by country tables? If so, that’s a template and I wouldn’t know how to change its parameters. The only thing I could do is render it as a table, which I, of course, can do if necessary. Bgsu98   (Talk)  13:14, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * On review, yes, it looks like it's the medals by country tables. I'm actually seeing the same thing with all of medal tables under Featured_lists. Is there an exception or are the medal tables formatted in a way that's already accessible @PresN? Hey man im josh (talk) 13:22, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Assuming we're talking about the Medals table under e.g. Total medal count by nation, it's fine- the're no visual indication, but the colscopes and rowscopes (using the Nation column cells) are set by the template, I verified in the html. -- Pres N  14:01, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * That's good to know, I'll make a mental note of that. Thanks PresN! Hey man im josh (talk) 14:15, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * PresN, can you verify that the tables in this article meet the requirements of MOS:ACCESS? I believe we have caught everything, but if there is anything that we've missed, please let me know. Thank you so much! Bgsu98   (Talk)  16:03, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, they're fine. -- Pres N  20:13, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Comments

 * "Since 1903, only men can attend the event" => "Since 1903, only men can compete in the event" (saying that "only men can attend" would imply that women aren't even allowed in the audience)
 * "He won ten gold medals in a row; however, this feat was not achieved at back-to-back events, as he didn't compete at the 1906 World Championships in Munich, Germany" - none of this is sourced
 * Also "didn't" should be written in full as "did not"
 * "The record for most back-to-back titles is held by Austrian Karl Schäfer with seven gold medals." - not sourced
 * Image caption: "Hayes Alan Jenkins (left) and his brother David (right) won together seven gold medals and four bronze medals for the United States in men's singles." => "Hayes Alan Jenkins (left) and his brother David (right) won a combined seven gold medals and four bronze medals for the United States in men's singles."
 * "which reflects on the men's singles medal table" => "which is included in the men's singles medal table"
 * Image caption: "Dick Button won the most gold medals in men's singles at the World Championships in the post-war era. He won all five gold medals at back-to-back events." - last sentence is not sourced
 * "Sonja Henie from Norway holds the record in women's singles for total medals won (with eleven) and the most gold medals won (with ten), which is also the longest winning streak at back-to-back events in this discipline" - last bit is not sourced
 * "Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev from the Soviet Union hold the record for the most gold medals won in pair skating and the longest winning streak at back-to-back events (with six)" - last bit is not sourced
 * "while the record for most the most bronze medals is held by Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz from Canada (with four)" - "most the most"?
 * Image caption: "Sonja Henie and Karl Schäfer have together won a total of seventeen gold medals at the World Championships." => "Sonja Henie and Karl Schäfer won a total of seventeen gold medals at the World Championships."
 * I would suggest a footnote to explain why "Figure Skating Federation of Russia", which isn't a nation, appears in some of the "by nation" tables -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback! All of these issues have been addressed. Bgsu98  (Talk)  12:57, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 14:06, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Image review from Dylan620
Support based on image review. Dylan 620 (he/him • talk • edits) 22:05, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Alt text is present for every image used in the listicle.
 * All images contribute encyclopedic value to the listicle.
 * Dead link source for File:Alan and David Jenkins 1956.jpg accepted in good faith. Same goes for File:Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron 2016.jpg, File:2010 World Figure Skating Championships Dance - Tessa VIRTUE - Scott MOIR - Gold Medal - 0615a.jpg, and File:Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy Podium 2008 Worlds.jpg – for these three images, permissions were verified/obtained by VRT.
 * While the source URL for File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H1219-0016-001, Ludmilla Pachomowa, Alexander Gorschkow.jpg is live, the image is no longer viewable there; I am going to presume that the image was viewable there at the time it was uploaded to Commons in December 2008.
 * All images are appropriately licensed for either public domain or Creative Commons.

Comments from Kavyansh
Thats about it! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * "With the exception of the Olympic title, a world title is considered to be the highest competitive achievement in figure skating." — This is in the lead and is uncited, so I expected it to be somewhere cited in the article. I can't find it, can you help.
 * "Irina Rodnina won" — The reader has been introduced to her first name is the immediately previous sentence, she could be referred just by her last name.
 * Why is East Germany linked when all other countries or places are not? I'm not asking you to unlink it, just curious about your approach towards wiki-links here.
 * "Figure Skating: A History" v. "Figure skating: a history". Lets capitalize each word.
 * Do we need ISU link in the External links section when we have already cited it multiple times in the article.


 * All of these have been addressed except for #3 and #5. I assume East Germany is linked because it no longer exists? I left the link in the External links section because that seems consistent with other international figure skating competition articles, but I have no objection if someone else wants to remove it. Thank you for your input! Bgsu98   (Talk)  17:06, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Support – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 12:08, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Source review passed, regular review passed, promoting. -- Pres N  01:06, 6 July 2024 (UTC)


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