Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Manual of Style (Games summary – Events)

The Manual of Style (Games summary – Events) sets out the style guidelines recommended by the WikiProject Olympics to achieve a consistent format for articles describing the results of specific events at an edition of the Olympic Games or Paralympic Games (e.g. Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's). These articles can be found under subcategories of Summer Olympics events by year or Sports at the Summer Olympics.

Summary
Articles describing the specific event at the Olympic or Paralympic Games should contain some common elements:


 * An infobox containing some high-level summary information, including the date of the event, the numbers of competitors and nations, the medalists, etc.
 * A side navbox with links to other events (or related pages, such as qualification, team rosters, etc.) in that same sport/discipline at that Games.
 * A bottom navbox with links to that event at other years of the Games (possibly showing winners).

The text sections will vary with the type of event and whether there were particularly interesting details of the event. They should be flexible. Some common sections will include:


 * Background: how the event was added the programme, any changes from prior Games, noteworthy entrants, etc.
 * Qualification: a brief summary of qualification for the event, usually with a link to a separate qualification page if available.
 * Competition format: a summary of how the event works; for some events, it will be clear from the results table, but a section summarizing in text the format is usually helpful.
 * Record: for events with records, what those records were coming into the Games and whether any were broken during the Games.
 * Schedule: when the various components of the event took place.
 * Results: the results of the event.

Infobox
An infobox template, derived from Infobox Olympic event or Infobox Paralympic event, is transcluded at the beginning of the corresponding article's lead section. It provides a summarized table with the most important information concerning the event at the Olympic or Paralympic Games, as well as a history section allowing the navigation through its other appearances.

See example on the right. Please fill in the following information:
 * event : Required for infobox title
 * games : String such as  or , for example
 * image : (Optional) complete image syntax
 * caption : (Optional) displays under the image
 * venue or venues : Required, location of the competition (ie., link to the Olympic Stadium for that year, or whatever other venue was used)
 * date or dates : Required, date(s) of the competition. Use Start date (and End date) for the first (and last), over multiple lines if necessary.
 * competitors : total number of competitors for individual events (not including non-starters)
 * nations : total number of unique nations represented in this event
 * teams : Optional, number of teams in the tournament for team sports
 * governing_body : Optional, name of International Governing body for the sport
 * win_value : Optional, winning time or score. Use   to change the label from Winning time to Winning score, for example. This field can also include record notes.
 * gold, silver, bronze : Athlete name or team name. Use   (for example) for a team name, instead of giving a full list of athletes. For duos and small teams, separate entries with Plainlist
 * goldNPC, silverNPC, bronzeNPC : (Optional) country code for the gold medal winner. Do not specify this if the  parameter specifies a team name instead of an individual name. Use "NOC" instead of "NPC" for Olympic Games rather than Paralympic Games.
 * gold2 and goldNPC2 : As for  and , but used for situations where there is a tie for first place and two gold medals are awarded (The template currently supports up to three of each medal type.).
 * prev : Link to article on the same event/sport from the previous edition of the Paralympic or Olympic Games
 * next : Link to article on the same event/sport from the following edition of the Paralympic or Olympic Games

Navboxes
Generally there will be two navboxes for each event: one on the side that links to other events within the same sport or discipline at the same Games, and one at the bottom that links to other appearances of the same event at different Games. For example, the men's individual cycling road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics has the two navboxes CyclingAt2008SummerOlympics and Footer Olympic Champions Road Cycling Men.

Records
There is a template for world and Olympic records at World Olympic Record. An example from the 1924 Olympic men's high jump:

Schedule
An example table showing the schedule for an event:

Results
The results section will vary widely by the type of event. Some general notes:


 * For results tables in events like races, typical columns would include "Rank", "Athlete" (or "Cyclist" or "Swimmer" etc.), "Nation", "Time" / "Distance" / "Height" / etc., "Notes". Other columns may be necessary as well (eg., long jump events having "1", "2", "3" for individual jump distances).
 * It is generally best that these tables be sortable by nation, so avoid using flagIOCathlete in a column for Athlete--the athlete's name should be in that column, with flagIOCteam in the Nation column.
 * The Notes column is used for qualification to the next round, records/personal bests/etc.
 * In multiple round competitions, qualifiers for a next round can have their row highlighted in addition to the notes column indicating qualification. Highlights should follow the color scheme of Module:Sports_table:
 * Standard qualification should use BBF3BB green.
 * Alternative qualification should use CCF9CC lighter green. For example, many athletics events use an advancement format of "Top X in each heat plus next best Y overall". The best X in each heat would have the BBF3BB 'standard' qualification (and a "Q" in the notes), while the next best Y would have the CCF9CC 'alternative' qualification (and a "q" in the notes).
 * Repechages or other types of advancement where there is a second tier should use blue (BBF3FF).
 * If advancement is based on heat or group (most athletics races), each heat or group should be a separate subsection. If advancement is based solely on overall rank across heats/groups (most swimming races), there should be an overall table.
 * "Results" should be the level-two heading, the round name ("Heats", "Semifinals", "Qualifying", "Final") should be the level-three heading, and the heat/group ("Heat 1", "Quarterfinal 3", "Group C", etc.) should be the level-four heading.
 * Ranks and results should be center aligned. Names and nations should be left-aligned.
 * Ranks should be given as a cardinal number, i.e. "13" not "13th". Do not include a period (i.e., not "13.").
 * Useful templates for records in the notes column are WR and OlyR (not OR). There is a parameter for the sport (i.e., "athletics").

Team sports

 * Sports in this category include:


 * Baseball
 * Basketball
 * Field hockey
 * Football (soccer)
 * Handball


 * Ice hockey
 * Rugby sevens
 * Softball
 * Volleyball
 * Water polo


 * When entering the name of a sports team, in either a results table or a match result, one should use the appropriate template, that produces the nation's flag and a link to the team's main article:


 * and for men's baseball
 * and for men's basketball
 * and for women's basketball
 * and for men's football
 * and for women's football
 * and for men's field hockey
 * and for women's field hockey
 * and for men's handball
 * and for women's handball


 * and for men's ice hockey
 * and for women's ice hockey
 * and for men's rugby sevens
 * and for women's rugby sevens
 * and for for women's softball
 * and for men's volleyball
 * and for women's volleyball
 * and for men's water polo
 * and for women's water polo

Example:


 * The results table for groups/pools should have a league-type format, with rows dedicated to each of the group teams and columns for every relevant statistics of the sport in question.
 * Often the sports table module can be used.

Example (from United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics):


 * Results for individual games should be recorded using sport-specific templates, like the ones shown below, with parameter keys and rendered examples:


 * Basketball
 * basketballbox


 * Volleyball
 * volleyballbox


 * Football
 * footballbox


 * Handball
 * handballbox


 * Field hockey
 * fieldhockeybox


 * Water polo
 * waterpolobox


 * Baseball
 * linescore


 * Softball
 * linescore

Categories
This type of article should be included in the adequate categories:
 *   or   
 * Replace , , and  with the sport, year, and season, respectively, in which the Games that the article refers to took place


 *   or   
 * Replace  with the name of the event that the article refers to. Use the appropriate year as the sort key for the category.