Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/2010Planning

This page is intended to help coordinate planning for Wikipedia's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In the lead-up to the Games, it is intended to help coordinate the creation and promotion of articles related to them. During the Games, it will serve as a place to field questions and develop ideas for continued coverage. After the Games, it is intended to coordinate the improvement of the articles related to the Games, with the goal of encouraging recognized content related to them.

Featured Article
Potential Featured Articles for the opening and closing day may include:
 * Ice hockey at the Olympic Games
 * Pierre de Coubertin (being worked on)
 * Olympic Games

Featured Picture


The featured picture to the right was kindly restored by Durova for potential use on the opening day of the games:

DYKs
Beginning in December, DYK hooks developed for the Games can be approved and then held over until the Games begin. To help with the creation and collection of DYK hooks, please check the DYK rules for creation or expansion and submit them on the normal DYK submissions page with a note asking for it to be reserved for display during the Olympics Games. Note that in addition to the suggestions below, many articles for the 2010 Games have yet to be created, and if they are created with a minimum of 1500 characters, they will immediately be eligible for DYK.

Possible DYK articles

 * Category:Olympics
 * Category:Olympics stubs

Approved DYK hooks
None yet

Former DYKs
These articles have already been featured on the main page as DYKs and may not be featured in that section again:
 * Whistler Sliding Centre on February 17, 2008
 * List of 2010 Winter Olympics venues on November 6, 2009

Sports

 * [[Image:Alpine skiing pictogram.svg|20px]] Alpine skiing
 * [[Image:Biathlon pictogram.svg|20px]] Biathlon
 * [[Image:Bobsleigh pictogram.svg|20px]] Bobsleigh
 * [[Image:Cross country skiing pictogram.svg|20px]] Cross-country skiing


 * [[Image:Curling pictogram.svg|20px]] Curling
 * [[Image:Figure skating pictogram.svg|20px]] Figure skating
 * [[Image:Freestyle skiing pictogram.svg|20px]] Freestyle skiing
 * [[Image:Ice hockey pictogram.svg|20px]] Ice hockey


 * [[Image:Luge pictogram.svg|20px]] Luge
 * [[Image:Nordic combined pictogram.svg|20px]] Nordic combined
 * [[Image:Short track speed skating pictogram.svg|20px]] Short track speed skating
 * [[Image:Skeleton pictogram.svg|20px]] Skeleton


 * [[Image:Ski jumping pictogram.svg|20px]] Ski jumping
 * [[Image:Snowboarding pictogram.svg|20px]] Snowboarding
 * [[Image:Speed skating pictogram.svg|20px]] Speed skating

NOCs

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 * 🇬🇭 Ghana