Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics/Archive 14

Olympic and Paralympics sidebars
I would like to propose some changes to the sidebars placed on both Olympic and Paralympic Games-related articles. It will use Sidebar as standard, and the color pallet used by most of the Olympic templates. The navbox links at the bottom of the sidebars are optional. This is going to fit these templates into WP:OLYMPICS template standards and help to organize Olympic and Paralympic-related articles. Best regards; Felipe Menegaz 19:29, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I like the new look. Are they the same width as Infobox Olympic bid? It would look better if it was. Parutakupiu (talk) 20:48, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, they have the same width. Felipe Menegaz 21:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Since there is no oppose I'll implement the changes. Best regards; Felipe Menegaz 04:52, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

2004 Olympic bid logos
The following files are being considered for deletion:


 * File:Athens 2004 Olympic bid logo.png (Deletion entry)
 * File:Buenos Aires 2004 Olympic bid logo.svg (Deletion entry)
 * File:Cape Town 2004 Olympic bid logo.svg (Deletion entry)
 * File:Rome 2004 Olympic bid logo.png (Deletion entry)
 * File:Stockholm 2004 Olympic bid logo.svg (Deletion entry)

Please, leave your comments at the deletions entries in order to keep them for use in Bids for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Regards; Felipe Menegaz 16:20, 21 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Usage of Olympic bids logos on Wikipedia is under review. See: Non-free_content_review. Felipe Menegaz 22:59, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Olympic records in cycling (men's team sprint)
The article for the 2012 Men's team sprint states some times as new Olympic records however looking back to the 2008 OR set by GB some of them are not. I bring this up here as the times marked out as new ORs were also done so in offical timings AFAIK. I think I am missing something (eg rule change) but just in case it is in error...

Relevant links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_team_sprint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_team_sprint

To clarify in 2008 GB set an OR (and WR) of 42.950 seconds.

Yet on the 2012 page 43.065s, 43.097s, 43.681s and 42.991s are all listed as new ORs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.255.197 (talk) 14:08, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Non-free Olympics media
Non-free Olympics media (renamed from Non-free Olympics logo) was restructured and file pages need updates. Cheers; Felipe Menegaz 05:35, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

2012 Paralympics
As I'm sure you are all already aware the 2012 Paralympics have now started. If anyone is willing and able to lend a hand the Paralympics taskforce could do with some help updating the Nations at the 2012 Summer Paralympics articles and also help creating event articles, the majority of which are still redlinks. Thanks - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 11:01, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Please join the effort, we need to raise the same high energy "buzz" of activity that was so evident a few weeks ago during the Olympics - there's a lot of work to do. Roger (talk) 11:21, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

List of multiple gold medalists ranked by share of won Olympic events
List of multiple gold medalists ranked by share of won Olympic events seems to have the same issues as Olympic medals by teams (see above, Articles for deletion/Olympic medals by teams). Actually, pretty much everything on Template:Olympics statistics could use a serious look. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 22:23, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * While a source exists the statistic is hardly notable enough for its own article; it is the first time I have seen it. The article clearly fails WP:WHIM 3. 85.167.39.6 (talk) 01:07, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, that one should be obliterated (the source given above is self published so not WP:RELIABLE). As far as the other articles on the template go I think most of the one's listing multiple medalists are okay, although they could probably be sourced a bit more thoroughly and while I'm not convinced a ranking should be applied, all the excitment over Phelps has meant there are plenty of instances of doing so in the media. List of multiple Olympic medalists in one event and List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event however seem a bit iffy to me, I'm not sure there's any need for them. List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games could be rescued from it's current chaotic state if we chose to simply give the athlete with most appearances in each sport. List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games is mostly a duplicate of a section here but again I could see it working if we raze it to the ground and rebuild - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 01:27, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Now that the Games are over do we have any further opinions on teh fate of these articles? - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 10:36, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The criteria for some of these lists is pretty bad. I've never heard any prominent source discuss medals as percentage of games events, thus ranked by share should be deleted. I'm completely unsure of what Lists of Olympic medalists is meant to present, but it is not what the title implies. I believe it can be deleted because it largely duplicates material from the SPORT at the Olympics or main games page sections like this. I cannot fathom what idea that collection of data is supposed to help with. I think the medals in different disciplines list is better as a stand-alone and we should remove the corresponding section in List of multiple Olympic medalists.
 * I believe we can merge the content "in one event" and "at a single games" lists covering gold medalists and plain medalists. A sort function and some notes should suffice to provide the reader with the information, seeing as it is roughly the exact same information, only sorted in a different way. To clarify, I think we should rationalise the lists to the following:


 * List of multiple Olympic medalists
 * List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games
 * List of multiple Olympic medalists in one event
 * List of athletes with Olympic medals in different disciplines
 * List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
 * I believe these cover the main statistical cross-sections present in the literature. SFB 13:57, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * To SFB 13:57, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Something I don't know how to fix.
As I was going through working on the 2004 ((nation)) at the 2004 Summer Olympics pages, I noticed on the page for the 2004 Women's 400 meters in athletics that the flag for Chad is broken. I don't know how to fix it. JDBear (talk) 00:22, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Try purging the cache of the page. Worked for me. Parutakupiu (talk) 02:38, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Our Greatest Team Parade
Should the Our Greatest Team Parade be added to both 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics? Although it will only be a London event, it is still a final part of the Olympics programme. Or do you know where it should be linked from? Simply south...... eating shoes for just 6 years 18:58, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think it should be linked to from either of those templates. Much like the 2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom it's specific to GB and isn't part of the IOC organisation of the Olympics (LOCOG aren't in control of it either). I'm sure most nations have similar celebrations when their athlete arrive home. It's linked to from relevant British pages which I think is all that's needed - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 19:23, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Concur. As a domestic concern, it doesn't belong on the templates. Courcelles 05:49, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * OK. Simply south...... eating shoes for just 6 years 20:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Council/Proposals/Paralympics
What do you think? We do finally? --Kasper2006 (talk) 07:01, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * But we have a Paralympics task force, already? --J36miles (talk) 15:59, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom move
This has been requested to be moved to another title. Please see Talk:2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom. Simply south...... eating shoes for just 6 years 20:36, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Paralympic sport pictograms
Hello. Just wanted to warn those who may be interested that I have begun creating pictograms for the Paralympic sports, in the same manner as the free-licensed generic Olympic sport pictograms. As I post this, I have already uploaded pictograms for archery, athletics, boccia and wheelchair basketball; in the next days, I'll continue uploading more. You can find them in my Commons gallery. Parutakupiu (talk) 01:22, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Great work, the blades on the athletics pictogram are a really nice touch - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 10:26, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Query (cross posted) - Boccia
I happen to be at Boccia_at_the_2012_Summer_Paralympics today - so I'll probably be poking that article later - while I'm there is there anything I should know about image rights and the like? i.e. if I take a picture in the arena, that picture is mine to upload right? Or will I run into some strange olympic rules? (cross posted from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Olympics/Paralympics) Fayedizard (talk) 07:01, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Olympics/Archive_13 and links therein. On the assumption you were there on a standard spectator ticket, that ticket forbids the use of photos for commercial purposes, so if you accept that premise, you should be using a non-commercial licence.Le Deluge (talk) 20:36, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Russia
I believe Russia at the Olympics should only cover Russian participation in the Olympics since 1994, and we should create Russian Empire at the Olympics to cover Russian participation from 1900 to 1912. If I'm not mistaken, the IOC does not sum up Olympic participation by the Russian Empire and Russia together. Also, I notice medal tables for former Soviet republics, such as Turkmenistan at the Olympics, for example, start off listing 1900–1912 participation "as part of Russia". The Russian Empire only participated in three Games: 1900, 1908, and 1912. Are there any sources indicating whether athletes from any subsequent Soviet republics were part of those teams? Looking at 1912, at least, clearly some names are not Russian. Jmj713 (talk) 03:51, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree. In some articles somewhy even Russia and Soviet Union are considered the same. Pelmeen10 (talk) 03:54, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Right. The IOC uses the code RU1 for Russian Empire. I'd like to start this, but I'm not entirely sure how to create Template:Country flag IOC alias RU1 and Template:Country IOC alias RU1. Jmj713 (talk) 04:27, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅. I've also created Infobox Olympics Russian Empire for the 1900, 1908 and 1912 articles.  The next step is to rename those three articles to "Russian Empire at the ..." and replace all "RUS" instances for the flagIOC family of templates to use "RU1" instead.  You can look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Russia at the 1900 Summer Olympics etc. to help find all the instances that need to be changed. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:31, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I went ahead and created Russian Empire at the Olympics and have been going around switching RUS to RU1 where applicable. The question regarding the subsequent Soviet republics still stands. I don't think most former Soviet republics should have participation notices as part of the Russian Empire for 1900 through 1912, except it looks like maybe Estonia and a few others. Jmj713 (talk) 20:11, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks good! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 20:42, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

China
Similarly to the Russian issue above, we currently have a joint Republic of China (ROC) and Chinese Taipei (TPE) article: Chinese Taipei at the Olympics. Following the same logic as with Russia, we need to have these separated. And if the ROC and TPE participation is combined (I'm not sure but it looks like that's the case), then we should have a combined infobox and tables. Jmj713 (talk) 22:11, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Olympic games
Infobox Olympic games has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 06:04, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

"Country" at the Olympics tables
As I had previously posted, I'm going through the List of IOC country codes and standardizing "Country" at the Olympics articles with uniform tables. It's a slow process, and I'm done with countries through about half of C. As I was editing I thought maybe a combined total medals table should be added as well, something like this (Belarus is used as an example):

It's a bit redundant, admittedly, but it does work as a quick overview of how many Games a country has participated in, and this basically distills the country information from the All-time Olympic Games medal table article, which includes Summer, Winter, and Combined totals. Also, "Summer Games" and "Winter Games" could be linked to appropriate "Country" at the "Season" Olympics article, if it exists. Jmj713 (talk) 18:48, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

1906 Summer Olympics events
Shouldn't be moved to ? -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 15:29, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

GA review on 2012 summer olympics
Hi all.

Just to let you know somebody has nominated 2012 Summer Olympics for GA. You may want to visit the review page here.

jamesy  boy   (2468)  12:22, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Olympic atheletes
Why is the American category titled Category:Olympic track and field athletes of the United States, but all the others are simply just "Olympic atheletes of x"?  Lugnuts  And the horse 13:21, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I guess that it's a question of what the word "athlete" means. In UK English, "athlete" = "someone who competes in track and field" ("track and field" is known as "athletics" in the UK).  In US English, "athlete" = "sportsman/woman". Bluap (talk) 13:57, 5 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I thought all the categories would have the same titling structure?  Lugnuts  And the horse 09:24, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It's an instance where WP:ENGVAR takes precedence over consistency. If a wording can be found that works in all flavours of English, then use that (eg "aircraft" rather than airplane/aeroplane), but otherwise the US article should use a category that makes sense in US English and the GB article should make sense in British English. That's more important than consistency between articles - another common example where consistency may get broken is to accommodate the various permutations of UK/GB/England etc, sometimes it can be better to just use "British" where the country name is used in other articles.Le Deluge (talk) 10:22, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

The Template:Sports-reference can be used in "external links" or not?
The User:Lugnuts says no, so on many occasions has deleted when I put (here the latest example). Rants Look at this discussion. --Kasper2006 (talk) 21:16, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Back when we were going through the threat of mass BLP deletions, I rescued any athletics articles I could find, the majority by using sports-reference. In that situation, many were already using an external link to s-r but to the automated system that didn't count.  Change it to an in-line reference (relative to any point, that they participated in the Olympics being the pertinent one) and it always worked.  Referencing to their participation in the Olympics (which qualifies them for s-r) solves the additional problem as it is an indisputable primary point of notability under WP:ATHLETE.  That's what he was trying to tell you. Trackinfo (talk) 23:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * So it is better to use it as "external link" provided it is not used as a "in-line reference" (in this case I had good work by replacing it, so as not to overlap.) However it seems that the user in question has this modus operandi. ;-) --Kasper2006 (talk) 08:12, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, EL's are supposed to be "new", any link that is being used as a reference is not supposed to be repeated as an EL, anything listed in an EL should bring things that are both relevant, and not used as refs. (The exception is when a subject's official website has been used as a ref, then it should be repeated as an EL, but that's just to highlight their official website, not general practice) Courcelles 15:34, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Courcelles we all agree that SR should not be repeated as EL and as ref. But the question is, it should preferably (as in the case of the template Imdb as EL), used as EL. So just put the sources in the body of the article with other notes. It was what I had did, in fact correctly, then I think it was unreasonable the "revert". --Kasper2006 (talk) 16:02, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The difference is that IMDb isn't a reliable source for anything, no matter how basic. So IMDb should never appear as a ref.  SR has been upheld as reliable countless times at RSN. FAC and FLC.  Courcelles 05:29, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Your project is being adopted by the WP:GOCE
Just wanted to drop a note here letting this project know that the GOCE will be running a "blitz" from October 21–27 to copy edit all tagged articles from this WikiProject. Drop by and take a look if you're interested in helping. —Torchiest talkedits 23:05, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Olympic Park, London-Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Can we move the Olympic Park, London article to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as it has been renamed and the olympics were over 3 months ago. TollHRT52 (talk) 10:52, 20 October 2012 (AEDST)
 * I wonder if WP:COMMONNAME would mean it should stay where it is, though? Might be better decided with a WP:RM on the article's talk page than here... Courcelles 04:46, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

classification renaming

 * Disability table tennis classification → Table tennis classification
 * Disability racquetball classification → Racquetball classification
 * Disability sailing classification → Sailing classification
 * Paralympic powerlifting classification → Powerlifting classification
 * Disability judo classification → Judo classification
 * Disabled lawn bowls player classification → Bowls classification

See talk:Disability table tennis classification ; talk:Disability racquetball classification ; talk:Disability sailing classification ; talk:Paralympic powerlifting classification ; talk:Disability judo classification ; talk:Disabled lawn bowls player classification where this rename is proposed. -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 06:43, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Templates
Hi, User:Stigni and User:Raymarcbadz have recently decided that templates need to be created, such as this Template:2008 Summer Olympics women's football game D4, in order to save space. I'm asking the project what it thinks to this, as personally I really don't see the point and think this is a ridiculous waste of time, just to save on articles. For instance the Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics page was only 30,00 bytes, so it is not as if the page is extremely large and takes a while to load. I'd thought I'd ask the project's opinion, as these kind of templates are starting to become commonplace. Cheers. NapHit (talk) 14:59, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You look only the Football page but if you look United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics (without template) has 300,000 bytes, but United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics has 200,000 bytes so I think that the templates are very useful also for the 2008 Olympics. Stigni (talk) 15:52, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Whether it saves 100,000 bytes of space on a page is irrelevant, the point is these templates are complete waste of time. Saving space should not be a mandate to create hundreds of pointless template which remove content from pages and are not needed. Why this has this become an issue all of the sudden? The event finished four years ago, these template were never needed before, what has changed since? This madness has got to stop, because in the big picture you're not actually saving any space. This is all on wiki's servers, you're just moving the bytes round. If the tables were correctly formatted to meet WP:ACCESS and MOS:DTT, the space would be reduced regardless. Anyway I've nominated the majority of the templates for deletion here. NapHit (talk) 16:01, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * For those interested there is a discussion here regarding these templates. One of the suggestions to reduce article size is to split article such as United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with three subarticles on track-field, swimming and other articles. As this could affect a lot of articles and templates, a few insights from this project would be helpful. NapHit (talk) 15:06, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Category at CfD
Please see this discussion about the category for Ethnic Armenian Olympians who represented other countries.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 18:38, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Problem with Group F standings in women's football
The group F standings for women's football at 2012 games show Cameroon as being the fourth team in the group when in fact it was South Africa. Not sure how (if it is possible) to change it myself so could somebody who is able please correct this mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.195.95.87 (talk) 00:30, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅. Thanks for noticing. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 06:04, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that when I edit it you don't realize that I also changed South Africa in Cameroon. It was a mistake. Stigni (talk) 13:33, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

IPC Nor-Am Cup
If you're interested in skiing, Wikinews:IPC Nor-Am Cup is home to where we're taking the first steps to get Olympic/Paralympic media accreditation for the Sochi Games. Meetup/Denver and Meetup/San Francisco 18 are two meetups related to this. :) --LauraHale (talk) 06:31, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

A template created specifically to be used in external links ...
...I would go with referring to Sports-reference, is it preferable to use it as EL or as inline source? --Kasper2006 (talk) 08:21, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

oly
The title should be changed in "Summer Olympics" like is in the template of "Winter Olympics". --Kasper2006 (talk) 08:06, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That template is hardly Olympic specific. Sure you linked the template you intended?  Courcelles 15:02, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * For example, is OK this:


 * Is wrong this:


 * Because the latter are specifically flabearers of the Summer Olympics, not in general of the Olympics. --Kasper2006 (talk) 16:32, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, then we need to add a Summer Olympics option to that template, and then decide one-by-one if the current uses should be changed, instead of changing them all... let me look at the template code... Courcelles 01:51, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * And done, using "soly" as the parameter. Courcelles 01:54, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * tnx. ;-) --Kasper2006 (talk) 04:15, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry to butt in, but isn't there usually one flagbearer for the opening ceremony, and one for the closing ceremony? HandsomeFella (talk) 14:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there is... that should be addressed as to which flagbearer each individual was. Courcelles 23:46, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

High jump and others
I ask you if we can delete the references to the Anglo-Saxon measures in the articles of athletics, as the international federation is not using them. --Kasper2006 (talk) 13:23, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No, we cannot. Units should always be given in metric and Imperial, as readers from a few countries will not readily (or even at all) understand the metric. Courcelles 23:48, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

2014 Winter Olympics Time zone
What is the name of the time zone Sochi is located in? Intoronto1125 Talk</b> Contributions  16:08, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 * UTC+04:00 or Moscow Time. &  --J36miles (talk) 23:17, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! That is what I thought, but what I found odd was a time zone being named after a city. Intoronto1125 <b style="color:red;">Talk</b> Contributions   00:50, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Skiathlon
The FIS is calling the pursuit events the "Skiathlon" now. Do we reflect that change on the medal summaries and event pages for the 2014 Winter Olympics? Intoronto1125 <b style="color:red;">Talk</b> Contributions  14:50, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Pending TfD of concern to WikiProject Olympics
Greetings, all. There is a pending TfD discussion regarding the creation of the new Template:United States at the Olympics. The TfD discussion is here:. Please feel free to express your opinion regarding whether this template should be kept or deleted. The basic issue is whether we should permit the creation of country-specific Olympic navboxes, or whether we should continue to rely solely on the existing uniform infobox. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:05, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Olympic nordic skiing articles
FYI, Olympic Games Nordic skiing and every article on the template have been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 12:52, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The AFDs can be found at Articles for deletion/Log/2012 December 20 -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 03:27, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Now they are in one place: Articles for deletion/Nordic skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 05:36, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Is a dutch antillean athlete a dutch athlete?
If so The Netherlands could field six athletes in the 100 meter race at the Olympics, not three. --Kasper2006 (talk) 23:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Netherlands Antilles athletes now have to compete for Aruba or The Netherlands. So in either case the top 3 would qualify for either country not 6. Intoronto1125 <b style="color:red;">Talk</b> Contributions   03:27, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople
An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:40, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

 * (Discuss) – Ahmad Radhi → Ahmed Radhi – Ahmed is his correct first name (fifa, IFFHS, footballdatabase). Regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 11:06, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Federated States of Micronesia vs. Micronesia
There are currently 6 pages which use the name Micronesia:
 * Micronesia at the Olympics
 * Micronesia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
 * Micronesia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Micronesia at the 2008 Summer Olympics
 * Micronesia at the 2012 Summer Olympics
 * List of flag bearers for Micronesia at the Olympics

Back in November 2006, Andrwsc suggested using the abbrevated form of Micronesia.

The problem with this is that Micronesia is not the common short form name of the Federated States of Micronesia. Micronesia is the name used for the geographic region, one of the three ethno-cultural divisions of the South Pacific.

I recommend that we change Template:Country IOC alias FSM to return "Federated States of Micronesia" and move the above six pages. Thoughts? -- Ianblair23 (talk) 06:04, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. The category is Category:Federated States of Micronesia at the Olympics already.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:39, 30 December 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- Ianblair23 (talk) 06:55, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Nations at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Just wondering when would it be a good time to create the Nations at the 2014 Winter Olympics pages. For Summer 2012 I believe we created the pages as countries qualify their first athletes. Right now 9 countries have athletes, all from Ice Hockey (plus Russia's host quotas). Should we start from there or wait until around mid-Feb where qualification in Biathlon boosts the number of qualified nations to around 30? JoshMartini007 (talk) 05:50, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

2000 & Past Olympic Games (Summer & Winter) Sports Calendars
I have noticed Resolute that there is no sports Calendar for the 2000 Sdyney Olympic Games. I wonder if its possible to create one at all as the page looks somewhat in-compete without it? All the other Olympic Games bewteen 1960-2012 have a sports calendar apart from 2000. Also is it possible to create sports calendars for Olympic Games pior to 1956 apart from 1900, 1904 and 1908 for somewhat obovios reasons and and also for past winter olympic games as well as there are very few on those pages.(MOTORAL1987 (talk) 17:36, 15 January 2013 (UTC))

Templates up for deletion
FYI, several Olympics templates are up for deletion, see Templates for discussion/Log/2013 January 17 -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 06:06, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Input desired on correct use of and potential changes to Medal|Disqualified
I have created Template talk:Medal with some questions regarding "Medal|Disqualified". The most important question for me is whether it is fair to the teammates of disqualified athletes that they are listed with an undifferentiated disqualification. It could be considered a BLP issue. I'm mostly a reader so input from experienced editors would be greatly appreciated. 88.88.165.222 (talk) 10:35, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

""
We have no article on Association of National Olympic Committees, shouldn't there be one, as we have all the continental association articles, and the IOC? -- 01:08, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Continental Association's listed as "sports federations"?
Is there a reason all 5 continental associations (ANOCA, EOC, OCA, ONOC and PASO) are listed as "Sports federation" in their Infoboxes? Shouldn't they be listed as "Continental Association"? "Sport Federation" to me is more akin to the International Federations (like FINA, IAAF, FIFA, UCI, etc).... Hooperswim (talk) 20:04, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration
This is a courtesy message to inform the members of this project that I have nominated Portal:Sports for featured portal status. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Sports. The featured portal criteria are at Featured portal criteria. Please feel free to weigh in.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  18:30, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Article for creation Olympic Games results index
I have written an article that I wish to call Olympic results index. Currently it has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Olympic results index (on 04 March 2013). I have been waiting patiently for some news but apparently the backlog is huge. Do you think it would be OK for me to move it to article space myself? If I did what other considerations should I bear in mind? I originally raised this at the Teahouse. I know there are already many articles which have some of the content contained in my article but none summarises all sports in all years of both summer and winter olympics. I feel that my article would serve a real purpose by making it very easy to get to the required page with the least effort. It was suggested in the Teahouse that you may feel that List of olympic results may be a better name but I would much prefer my own version. sionk has also said that it might be better as a template but I think it's a little too big for that. Jodosma (talk) 22:24, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Korean speedskaters up for mass renaming
A large number of Korean speedskaters are up for renaming, see Talk:Lee Kang-Seok -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 07:06, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Infobox National Sport Association of the Deaf
Infobox National Sport Association of the Deaf has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:50, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Germany at the Olympics issue
User:IIIraute seems to be pushing quite obviously a POV that's not in line with the rest of Olympic articles by resisting the addition of a medal table to Germany at the Olympics article. I've been slowly going through each article for countries at the Olympics and bringing them all into a unified standard, all based on the official IOC data. Why should Germany be excluded? Jmj713 (talk) 05:50, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Sydney 2000 Olympic bid logo.png
image:Sydney 2000 Olympic bid logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 00:57, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Athens 2004 Olympic bid logo.png
File:Athens 2004 Olympic bid logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 01:41, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Atlanta 1996 Olympic bid logo.png
image:Atlanta 1996 Olympic bid logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 01:41, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Sion Olympic images
File:Sion 2002 Olympic bid logo.png and File:Sion 2006 Olympic bid logo.png have been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 01:48, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Germany at the Summer Olympics and Germany at the Winter Olympics
Should these exist? I don't see any content that could not reasonably be covered by the Germany at the Olympics article, i.e. the standard "country's Olympic history summary article". I tested for the United States, Great Britain and some others and found no other articles of this kind. Any reason for the exception? 85.167.111.116 (talk) 00:12, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Olympics-hidy-howdy.jpg
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File:Poprad-Tatry 2006 Olympic bid logo.png
File:Poprad-Tatry 2006 Olympic bid logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 03:25, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Helsinki 2006 Olympic bid logo.png
file:Helsinki 2006 Olympic bid logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 03:38, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Move discussion
Notification of RM at Talk:Michael Morse (baseball). Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 17:51, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

is rifle shooting an olymic sport
we should read ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slappy21.2 (talk • contribs) 16:38, 17 April 2013 (UTC) Yes, see Shooting at the Summer Olympics, Biathlon at the Winter Olympics and Military patrol (sport) Hugo999 (talk) 13:40, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Template out of date
See Template_talk:NOCin2014WinterOlympics. Pam D  13:54, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Olympic host city categories up for deletion
Please see the discussion here.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 06:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

category:1928 Summer Olympic venues
has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Possibly problematic edit
Please review Thanks. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Spain is indeed number six on this, which is one click from citation given. There are several other differences as well. I kind of doubt it is official as it includes the consolation tournament, but I can't find any other classification beyond the top four. Unless a source is found it's probably best to show all teams eliminated in the same round as equal. 85.167.109.26 (talk) 22:33, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

RfC
Talk:Serbia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:40, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Frank Salvat
I saw on BBC News that this GB 1960 competitor had died recently. Out of interest, I looked for info in Wikipedia and he was absent. I've created a page, but this is not really within my field of expertise. I would be grateful if someone could take over and add more detail if available. Emeraude (talk) 09:10, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I think you've done a pretty good job with what's available on the internet. Any further expansion will likely rely on more extensive research. The history of road racing prior to the 1970s is poorly preserved. SFB 19:19, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

London 2012 redirected
The official 2012 Olympic website (http://www.london2012.com/) is now redirected to the main Olympic site (the age of austerity strikes). Many parts of it have been captured by the Wayback machine. Is there any way to have a bot search through references to the old website and add archived links to them, if found? SFB 19:14, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Name ordering?
Has there been a discussion on name order? (first-name-then-last-name vs. family-name-then-first-name) -- Hooperswim (talk) 17:14, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * In general, you follow the convention of country of origin, although there are various guidelines to cover this, linked from Naming conventions (people); you may also find Manual of Style/Biographies helpful. Le Deluge (talk) 22:54, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Am mostly concerned with list names (like results from the Olympics), where some/most names appear first-last, save a few that are last-first; rather than individual entries. I wonder if the "flipped" names should be noted somehow (like all-caps to the family name when first). -- Hooperswim (talk) 19:44, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Stubs
Sorry to trouble you, but i have just added a few bits to the stub Bahamas at the 1952 Summer Olympics, what else is required so we can take the stub away? I am new to this and am keen to help. Thank you in advance to any feedback.Iantheimp 11:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)


 * This is bound to be a small article, considering the delegation size and the number of sports entered. You can try and expand the lead, if you find good and relevant information about the delegation and the athlete's participation. After that, and interpreting WP:STUB, I think you can remove that stub tag. Parutakupiu (talk) 13:53, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Youth Olympic Games 2018 Logo.png
file:Youth Olympic Games 2018 Logo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 12:25, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Article stubs
I've added information in 3 pages : Since the articles above are already complete, may I remove the "stub category" of those articles ? Griff88 (talk) 09:21, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Indonesia at the 1952 Summer Olympics
 * Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
 * Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle


 * I think none of them are stubs at this moment, so you can remove the stub template. Nonetheless, they have potential for expansion, particularly the last two. Parutakupiu (talk) 15:24, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

IOC flag template 1968
East Germany and West Germany sent different teams to Mexico City 1968. But, the template flag still using the Unified Team of Germany flag (1956-1964), can anyone help me to edit it? (I don't have the right to edit those templates). Griff88 (talk) 10:40, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Both teams used the same flag with the Olympic rings in 1968, per the Unified Team of Germany article. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:46, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Help with the article about Ng Ser Miang
Hello, I'm working at the behest of Ng Ser Miang, who has been involved in the Olympics at various levels and is a prominent Singaporean businessman, to make improvements to his article here on Wikipedia. Currently, there are a number of issues with the article. To address these, I've redrafted the article, uploading my draft to my userspace. I've also provided a more detailed accounting of the problems with the current article, as well as an overview of my draft, at Talk:Ng Ser Miang.

Because of my financial COI, I won't implement these changes myself. Instead, I'm reaching out to volunteer editors to vet my work and, if everything looks acceptable, move the article over into the mainspace. If anyone from this WikiProject is willing to help out, I'd certainly appreciate it! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 15:47, 28 August 2013 (UTC)


 * This is ✅! ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 14:07, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

US Olympic Hall of Fame
I went to the USOC website to get information on their Hall of Fame inductees, but could not find a comprehensive list. So I emailed them asking where on their website they had such a list (if one was available). I received a response with a PDF of all current United States Olympic Hall of Fame inductees. My question is: how do I use this as a citation? It's legitimate (I got it from their archivist), but it's not published online anywhere. Any assistance would be appreciated. Anthony (talk) 14:04, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Category:Olympic Games bids by country
Category:Olympic Games bids by country and Category:Olympic Games bids by city, along with their sub-categories, all of which are within the scope of this WikiProject, have been nominated for possible deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:53, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Template for deletion: 2020
Please see this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 08:56, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Templates for deletion: Winter
See Templates for discussion/Log/2013 September 6 where a bunch of Winter Olympics bids templates are up for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 05:44, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Yugoslavia at the Olympics
What's the IOC's position on who "inherits" medals/records of national teams from the former Yugoslavia. For example, does the post-breakup "Yugoslavia" (essentially Serbia and Montenegro) inherit the records of the pre-breakup Yugoslavia? How about Serbia and Serbia & Montenegro? Does the IOC offer no position on the matter, or doesn't "inherit" records once the country "stops existing"? – H T  D  17:04, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Infobox Olympic event category navbox
Infobox Olympic event category navbox has been nominated for deletion -- this has not yet been rolled out for use -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 05:51, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Hope Solo article
Hope Solo, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hmlarson (talk) 06:02, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

United States Olympic ice hockey FLC
Just a heads up that the United States Olympic ice hockey players FLC could use some more sets of eyes, if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it, thanks. Anthony (talk) 13:09, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Input needed: How should this page be named?
Please have a look at this discussion. The page "Barcelona bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics" has today been moved to "Barcelona bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics". In my opinion, neither term is correct. There has never been an actual bid to host the 2022 Olympics, only an intention. An Olympic bid is an official document filed with the IOC. As long as (concerning 2026) there is no such official application, I guess a different page name is needed. Best regards--FoxyOrange (talk) 14:49, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * There is no need for the page to exist period. General principle we have been working on is that a seperate page for a bid should be created only when that bid has officially been placed with the IOC.  Until then, it is crystal ballish and since any "firm intention" (as Barcelona was at one point stated as having to bid for 2022) can easily not happen, and thus it is better to wait for an official bid with any notable, properly referenced intention going on the general page.  The page in question seems to have been, rightly, deleted and should stay that way.  Ravendrop 05:59, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Dear Ravendrop, there seems to ber a misunderstanding. Nothing has been deleted: Barcelona bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. As I pointed out above, it used to be named "Barcelona bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics".--FoxyOrange (talk) 06:10, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Please note that I have launched an AfD on this matter: Articles for deletion/Barcelona bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Feel free to participate in tghe discussion.--FoxyOrange (talk) 15:07, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

WP:TENNIS discussions
Tennis is an olympics sport, and well, I thought I should mention the ongoing discussions going on at WP:TENNIS; we are discussing how career statistics list should be modelled, it would be nice if any of you would participate in it. --TIAYN (talk) 15:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Template
The links at this template should be changed (Seoul, for example), i'm too lazy to do that by myself. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 20:34, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Admin help
Looking for some admin help on a problem at Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics. I am not well versed on how to handle abusive or disruptive ips, and would appreciate some guidance.18abruce (talk) 18:46, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Tom Simpson peer review
I have requested a peer review for Tom Simpson. If anyone has a chance, could you please head over and give some feedback. Cheers, BaldBoris 00:55, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata
I have started a Wikidata taskforce for sports results: wikidata:Wikidata:Sport results task force. I would love assistance from this project on how to build an ontology that accurately describes most events in detail. John Vandenberg (chat) 04:55, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Country Pages
I remember when I used to be reading country at the xxxx Olympics pages that the flagbearer link in the infobox linked to the "xxxx Olympics Parade of Nations Page". However that has seemed to have changed. Is there away of bringing it back? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 18:36, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I guess one reason for the change is that there isn't an "Opening ceremony" or "Parade of Nations" page for every Olympic Games, while there's a list for every country's Olympic flag bearers. Parutakupiu (talk) 19:33, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I am inclined to think if anyone was hitting that link they were likely looking for the full list for the full Olympics. Perhaps we can put it in another way? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 20:14, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * But as I said, some Games don't have that list yet, so unless those pages are created I'd prefer to have a relevant blue link than a red link or no link at all. When the two series of pages are complete maybe we can link to both in every infobox. But I'm just one user here. Parutakupiu (talk) 20:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Categories for deletion
Hi. Please see this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 09:03, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Sochi 2014/Nation Pages
Hi the official website has now individual nation pages for each country. I was thinking of putting an external link on the individual nation pages like this (Hong Kong as example). Team Hong Kong on official website. Is this a good choice of words? Any other suggestions? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 00:48, 8 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I believe that if you intend to use them as source of content for that page, you should add it as a "reference", using the cite web template (Hong Kong – Olympic Team. sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi.); else, you can add it as as an "external link" using a style like "Hong Kong Team at Sochi 2014 Olympics". Parutakupiu (talk) 02:40, 8 January 2014 (UTC)


 * yes the idea is great, congratulations!

Thanks. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 02:05, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Links
Every article about 2010 Olympics (example: Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's team sprint) was sourced to the official website of the Olympics, http://vancouver2010.com. The website, similarly to websites of previous Olympics, died, and is now a redirect to olympic.org, which seem to only contain names of the medalists, but not all the statistics of the competitions. Any ideas (i) where can we find full statistics for the past Olympics; (ii) how can we change the links in our zillions of articles (I guess an intelligent bot is needed); (iii) can we do smth for the articles for the 2014 Olympics to avoid this problems? Most of the links added in November is already disfunctional - they point out to the start page rather than to the specific pages, and I am sure in a couple of years the website with the results will be at best redirected and at worst unavailable.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:12, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It's always the same thing every time there's an Olympic Games. There's not much one can do besides updating the sources, unless one stores every results page from the official Games website in some sort of webreference archive like Webcite. The LA84 Foundation website has all the official Olympic Games reports (including now the 2010 Winter Games), which you can consult freely and use as source for Olympic event results. But there's always a lagging period from the end of the Olympic Games until the publication and upload of the official reports; in the meantime, you can use the reliable Sports Reference database. Parutakupiu (talk) 00:10, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you. Should we then replace all links, for example, for cross-country skiing with links to the Olympic report? Not sure it can be done by a bot though.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:30, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually it would be good to create a template for such links, in the case the URL changes. If there are no objections, I guess I can do it (for all Olympic reports).--Ymblanter (talk) 08:38, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I have a feeling that we had a user a while back that did a template for that. You can check older Games pages to see how those Olympic report links were placed. As for a bot, it would be awesome but I reckon that the work required to create it would not compensate in both time and effort the manual replacement. Parutakupiu (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the hint. I was only able to find links which are nicely templated but still given with citeweb, like here. What I want to do is to make a dedicated template, so that it would be easier to change if URL changes. When I have time, I will make a trial template for one sport/Olympics and come back here.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:38, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I understood your idea. Show it here when you have it done. Parutakupiu (talk) 20:42, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * FYI, for hockey if you always use the IIHF as a game reference, it stays. I changed over 2010, but I don't know earlier than that.  Additionally, the FIS and IBU will have their own official results posted to their database and archive so it would probably be simplest to use their's as well.18abruce (talk) 16:38, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will look into that.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:41, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Sochi sport pages schedule
The individual sports pages need to have updated schedules which are now up on the Sochi website. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 03:03, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You mean times? I think the days were correct everywhere.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes sorry I did mean time. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 00:05, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Deficit on nation pages
I think the deficit column is necessary, because its listed on the official results page. Isn't the point of these pages to summarize per country what is shown on the entire results page? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 16:51, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Nation Page issues
For Figure skating pairs the ISU lists pairs with the dashes (So Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir) and has the male always last. I think that is pretty solid reason for having the same here on nation pages. What do you think? Also for the events with just a final I think its appropriate to list the event is indeed a final instead of leaving the reader to guess.

So let's take Nepal for example.

I think this version:

Stands out, has the final designation and overall looks cleaner then the below version:

What do you think of this as well? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 04:29, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Winter Olympic Nation Pages /deficit column
Hi myself and User:Raymarcbadz have a disagreement about the use of a deficit column for alpine skiing and cross-country skiing results. My notion is a) these nation pages are supposed to transcribe the results page onto individual country pages. b) Which means the deficit column which is also included in the alpine results pages along with cross country skiing should be added to the individual nation pages. This is because both sports list the deficit/time different see here and here. C) The adding of these columns do not violate WP:OLYMOSNAT. D) This has been done with other nation pages (most recently for 2010) see here and here. Let me know what you think! Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 21:20, 19 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I would tend not to add the deficit. The 'Nation at XXXX Winter Olympics' pages aren't meant to carry every detail listed on the event pages; I'd never include start number/lane in speed skating races or lane numbers/reaction times in athletics races, but those might be in an event article. Take a look at figure skating articles like Figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's singles, and consider the amount of detail that could potentially be in every figure skating table if we just transcribe all of that over. If anything, I think these pages should probably try and be more lean, not more detailed. I think links to the relevant event articles are good, and the details can be there. Of course, I wouldn't include in that events where deficit has a more concrete effect on the race itself (eg. Nordic combined, modern pentathlon, biathlon pursuit). In those cases, where the starting deficit matters, I would probably lean to having a column for it. Edged (talk) 10:04, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I think though when people read these pages they want to know the deficit (and if its listed on the results page it should be carried over). On the other hand for figure skating that is probably not the case. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 04:24, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Where do you draw the line though? Do you list deficit for every timed event? Why not the points events? As is, the pages provide a brief but still informative snapshot of the athletes' performance in the event. To the casual observer the details of how far back an athlete finished in an event aren't essential. Torlek (talk) 04:45, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Deficit is part of the total result (as in how far you were) so I would draw the line at anything related to the final result. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 04:49, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I have another issue. In figure skating, Torlek aims figure skaters in mixed gender events to have their names broken into separate lines, and arrange them alphabetically to prevent discrimination. With Sportsfan 1234's case, this user (I don't know if it's a he/she) intends figure skaters in mixed gender events to have a dash between each other and always list the females first in the lineup in which I found out that it could been as discrimination. I don't know why this user wants United States to have a separate style rules from the other nations' pages, and I don't know which rules should I follow. I'm confused and hesitated right now. Raymarcbadz (talk) 05:40, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The USA doesn't entail what the other pages look like. Listing the female is not discrimination (wtf?) and I am simply following the ISU's lead of listing the female first. Its not a hard concept to grasp, yet you continue to keep changing it. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 05:42, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * But why females go first than males? Isn't the fact that the males are considered leaders. When I did formats for mixed doubles in badminton and tennis at the Summer Olympics two years ago, I arranged the males to list first before females. I don't even know which one of you and Torlek does follow the correct format with figure skating. Raymarcbadz (talk) 05:45, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * That is a sexist comment first of all. The ISU probably organizes women first probably to organize their system. We should follow their lead since they organize the sport after all. For figure skating idk I just followed the ISU and if that is wrong and the group agrees then I will also agree to remove the brackets etc. But the women should be listed first. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 05:56, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Would you do it to United States if you intend to apply the format used by ISU on the mixed gender events? Raymarcbadz (talk) 06:02, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 06:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification
Can someone (good with numbers lol) please take a look at this article and see where the addition went wrong? The numbers do not add up. Thanks. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 18:43, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Advice on Puerto Rico "participation" at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Hi guys,

We need your advise regarding a current WP:PROD on Puerto Rico at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Long story short: a Puerto Rican athlete qualified and was listed by the International Olympics Committee. However, the local Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (COPUR) did not endorse her inclusion. This is because in 2002 COPUR disenrolled the Puerto Rico Winter Sports Federation. Since then, COPUR has stated that, "Until there is a project with the seriousness it requires and a winter sports federation actually constituted, to which we can be aware of them every four years consistently, we can not endorse." (see in Spanish)

The question is: should this be part of the article or should the article be a redirect to Concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics where the aforementioned situation is explained?

Thanks for all your help.

&mdash;Ahnoneemoos (talk) 03:39, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with Ahnoneemoos.


 * If no athlete from Puerto Rico is going to be at the 2014 games, the page Puerto Rico at the 2014 Winter Olympics shouldn't exist. Seems like a similar example is Luxembourg from 2010; they qualified a couple of athletes, but one didn't pass his NOC's standards and the other was hurt before the games. There is no Luxembourg at the 2010 Winter Olympics page, and this information is included in a sentence in the 'Participating National Olympic Committees' section of the 2010 Winter Olympics article. The redirect seems like that's a good solution; I'm not even sure it warrants that much. Maybe COPUR's decision should be noted on the Puerto Rico at the Olympics page as well; seems a notable enough thing to include to me. Edged (talk) 10:12, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The bad thing with a redirection is that in the infoboxes of Puerto Rico pages "2014" is linked. So it looks like, by observing the infobox, that Puerto Rico participated. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 16:48, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I think the best thing to do is to add the prose on Puerto Rico at the Olympics page and delete the redirection. This has also been done with Luxembourg in 2010 and other countries. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 17:22, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Medal events in Olympic Calendar
Would it be nice to add in the Template:2014 Winter Olympics Calendar the medal events with Template:tooltip. So for short track speed skating it will become: Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 16:23, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I like the idea but the current schedule has the times as well. Is there away to add that too? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 02:50, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I too like the idea of tooltipping the medal events for the day. Its a good compromise from how we used to bullet point a direct link to ever events page.  However, showing the time as well is not necessary, in my opinion, because wikipedia is not a news type site and it would simply clutter up the page.Ravendrop 03:51, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with Ravendrop. I tooltipped the medal events in the calendar, without the times. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 10:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh woops I misread your first post. Sorry. I though you meant putting each sport individually like above on its article. I like it like this too! Thanks. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 00:03, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

WP Olympics returning to the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Olympics for a Signpost article in celebration of the 2014 Winter Olympics. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 16:02, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * As a friendly reminder, we'd love to feature WikiProject Olympics in time for the Winter Olympics, but we'll need some folks to respond to the interview questions. The more, the merrier! –Mabeenot (talk) 01:57, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Finland leading with 135,656 bytes
Of the 91 articles categorized in Category:Nations at the 2014 Winter Olympics, I found that Finland at the 2014 Winter Olympics has by far the largest number of bytes. Please do not interpret this as a reason to reduce the size of "Finland at the 2014 Winter Olympics". (Splitting might be an option.) I am curious about why it has even more bytes than the articles for Canada, the United States, and Russia; more to the point, I am curious about why those three articles are so much smaller. —Wavelength (talk) 00:38, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Finland at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 135,656 bytes (10,947 bytes in the Finnish version)
 * Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 42,016 bytes
 * United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 34,818 bytes
 * Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 26,714 bytes (24,520 bytes in the Russian version)
 * Australia at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 19,897 bytes
 * Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 18,001 bytes
 * Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 14,861 bytes (2,757 bytes in the Japanese version)
 * Sweden at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 11,936 bytes (2,931 bytes in the Swedish version)
 * Norway at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 11,697 bytes (10,907 bytes in the Norwegian [Norsk bokmål] version)
 * China at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 10,202 bytes (2,536 bytes in the Chinese version)
 * Brazil at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 5,557 bytes (7,435 bytes in the Portuguese version)
 * Hungary at the 2014 Winter Olympics: 4,328 bytes (2,888 bytes in the Hungarian version)
 * There is an editor who has added in every single detail, like funding, internal qualification etc. for Finland. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 04:49, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Sportsfan 1234, thank you for your reply.
 * —Wavelength (talk) 03:08, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Additionally, the biggest teams have not yet been announced; when they get announced, the distribution is going to change, certainly Australia will not stay the fifth.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:44, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Ymblanter, thank you for your reply.
 * —Wavelength (talk) 03:08, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Looking at the Finnish article, is there really a need to list everyone's individual birthdate, birthplace, club, etc in the tables?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 18:19, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello, just to reopen the question asked a week ago. Right now at Finland at the 2014 Winter Olympics there's a sort of a revert war brewing on whether the nominated athlete roster tables should exist or not, and whether the qualification process should be mentioned or not. I say yes, others no. It's relevant enough to the subject. I am starting the discussion here rather than the talk page of the article, as this would concern any other country in any other games just as well. --Hautala (talk) 14:22, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * To expand the discussion, is the detailed section Medal count predictions and expectations in the Finnish article relevant (including al the predicted medals by differ institutions)? Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 14:33, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe I got a little excited writing the article, but the medal expectations section could be contrasted with a review of the games section. --Hautala (talk) 18:17, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Independent Olympians' official designation
I see the Sochi site has started using the designation "Independent Olympic Participant" (matching 1992, unlike 2000 and 2012) for athletes from India. Unlike other country pages the page seems rather unfinished, but it is the first indication I've seen of the official designation this time. It may be premature to move the article now, but if the page on the official site is completed or the designation is used at the opening ceremony I think the move should be carried out. 62.249.160.48 (talk) 23:35, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Merging World record and Olympic record articles
In over 99% of the cases, a World record is also an Olympic record. So for that reason won’t it be better if articles with the Olympic records and articles with the World records at certain games be merged. All world records are also listed on the Olympic records page. So we'll get the articles “World and Olympic records set at the 20XX Summer Olympics” in stead of "Olympic records at the 20XX Summer Olympics" AND "World records at the 20XX Summer Olympics"

The current articles: Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 14:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Olympic records at the 2004 Summer Olympics, World records at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Olympic records at the 2008 Summer Olympics, World records at the 2008 Summer Olympics
 * Olympic records at the 2012 Summer Olympics, World records at the 2012 Summer Olympics


 * What!? In the List of world records in athletics we have but 9 events where world records were set in the Olympics.  The vast majority of the records were NOT set in the Olympics, but in other competitions.  Those other competitions are largely ignored by the world media so people THINK our sport only exists every four years.  Merging makes no sense at all, Trackinfo (talk) 19:44, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * But the point is that World records at the 2004 Summer Olympics only contains world records set at the Olympics, not all recores set in this year. And all these records (may be with some exceptions) are also Olympic records.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:12, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Both - 100 & 200 metres - Men's Track WR were set by Usain Bolt at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, for example. --IIIraute (talk) 17:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Iff the Olympic records are notable enough to list in an article, a joint article seems superior to two. World records set at the 2012 Games are a subset of Olympic records set at the 2012 Games. I'll add that I find the format used at World records at the 2012 Summer Olympics by far the best format in the example articles. As a bonus it wouldn't need modification to accommodate Olympic records. This would simply be indicated by writing "set an Olympic record" where appropiate. 62.249.160.48 (talk) 21:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The rarity of World Records at the Olympics makes this a distinct article. The Olympic Records set at the meeting are a different subject, though the World Records are a subset of that.  By combining the articles, you are diminishing the significance and the simplicity of finding the distinctly notable events (a World Records set at a particular Olympics).  For each event that I am involved with, we list the two records s they stood prior to the Olympic, so a reader of the results page can see the comparative significance of the result, relative to that point in time. Trackinfo (talk) 06:55, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I merged the pages, and to be aware of the significance of the world records noted by Trackinfo, I made a section World records set by date on te 2012 page.
 * I think it is not that hard to find the world records, or do you still want to keep the world record pages (I didn't redirect them)? Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 11:01, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It is awkward by date but it does get the job done. I look at Athletics first, since that is my subject.  Noting earlier that the World Records are a subset of the Olympic Records, the example you gave, missed 3 of 4 World records that obviously were also Olympic Records.  I'll comment, my research over the last few weeks has been dealing with a significantly lesser world meet, the Masters Athletics World Championships.  As I cull through those reports, there is a section for Masters World Records set at each championship. And following there are reports of the meet record (once that became established), which is equivalent to what an Olympic Record is.  As the top world meet, I would expect no less from a report on the Olympics.  Its a list of the most significant performances, amongst a meet where every performance is already significant.  My point being, that describes what is conventional.  Wikipedia doesn't need to reinvent convention in order to reduce our article count. Trackinfo (talk) 16:51, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Dab links in Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Team trophy
Any idea how to get rid of the links to the dab pages generated by templates (except for the top table, where it can be done manually)?--Ymblanter (talk) 13:30, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Which dab links are you referring to? Parutakupiu (talk) 14:22, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * For example, in the table Resuts -> Short Program -> Men Matthew Parr is linked to a dab, not to his article.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:24, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Fixed. You just needed to add a third parameter in the template, specifying the exact article name. Parutakupiu (talk) 20:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:50, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Medal icons?
Hi! Are there any medal icons for articles on Olympians? Not just the gold/silver/bronze background colour in the infoboxes, I'm looking for something graphic for Draft:Olympians from Peel to signify which people won for each year. -- Zanimum (talk) 02:42, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Here: File:Gold medal icon.svg, File:Silver medal icon.svg, File:bronze medal icon.svg. Parutakupiu (talk) 03:04, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I knew I had seen them before somewhere, much appreciated. --  Zanimum (talk) 21:23, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Sochi 2014: National entries not directly related to the sport events
The article Norway at the 2014 Winter Olympics like similar articles seem totally focused on the various sport's event. But what about other entries; for instance about the delegations, which politicians/royals that attend; discussion on TV coverage etc. Can I include this in this event related article, or should I start another "non-event" article? Regards, Iselilja (talk) 17:06, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Usually, the major focus of these articles is on the sportive performance of the delegation, but non-sportive content can (and should) be included, provided it's sourced, concise and relevant for the article. Parutakupiu (talk) 17:51, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes it is great to do that, if notable and referenced. Take for instance a look at the first sections of Netherlands at the 2014 Winter Olympics Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 19:31, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

None-starters and categories
Should athletes who are listed to compete at the Olympics be categorised as actually appearing at that individual Games? For example, Japanese skier Miki Itō is listed on the 2014 women's moguls page as not starting either qualifing event. Her biography has her listed in the category Category:Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Is being listed as part of a nation's atheletes the same as being categorised as competing?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 18:44, 8 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Did she travel with her delegation to Sochi but for some reason couldn't take part in the events? I mean, if she was not even in Sochi, I would not consider her as having taken part in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Azerbaijan Parade of Nations
According to all official sources Patrick Brachner carried the flag for Azerbaijan at the Sochi Opening Ceremony. However that is not the case. By looking at the person carrying the flag I managed to match the person to Iskender Khalilov. Khalilov happens to be the president of the Winter Sports Federation of Azerbaijan. The only problem is there is no source besides a facial match I happened to find. Here is an image of him and him at the opening ceremony. I think we have a match. How do we source this though? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 23:21, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
 * That is strange, Brachner was in the stadium and paraded with his delegation (on the right). As evident as it is, unless there it is reported by a notable source, there's nothing you can do. Parutakupiu (talk) 01:32, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe we can make a note that Brachner was scheduled to carry the flag but photo evidence appears to show Iskender Khalilov actually carried it? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 02:28, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Still, that note would have to be sourced, so you're in the same place as before. Parutakupiu (talk) 16:41, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

List of broadcasters
We should only have English speaking broadcasters. It should be in prose form. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Plus, WP:TVINTL says specifically that. I just want the articles to follow the MOS. Finealt (talk) 12:28, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Are you referring to the List of 2014 Winter Olympics broadcasters? No we should not pare down that list to exclusively English language broadcasters.  Knowing the host broadcaster in each country is important and relevant information, whether they are broadcasting in english or not.  As a wikipedian, sources are everything and host broadcasters are frequently the best source for information about their domestic athletes.  Translators are available.  Perhaps if you want to create a column that identifies the language(s) a particular broadcaster is using, that would be valuable additional information.  And while the event is going on, this is the best time to identify this information.  Finding information after the fact can prove to be much harder. Trackinfo (talk) 17:51, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

List of Olympic siblings and List of Olympic families
Hello. I can't find a comprehensive, compiled list of siblings who have participated in the Olympics. There are many ways to measure success. I can find mentions of three siblings as Olympians, but it isn't necessarily clear if they participated at the same Olympics (which year?), their individual final Olympic rankings in their sport, whether it is the same event, including their gender if it is the same discipline.

To be honest, I'm trying to figure out:

Have three sisters ever competed at same Olympic games, as individual competitors in the same discipline, and all finished in the top 12 in that same event?

Which other families have experienced extraordinary success at the Olympics?

Thank you for considering these questions. 100.43.125.46 (talk) 16:47, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, just yesterday we had three sisters competing in the same event and ranked 1, 2, and 12.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:52, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Lol. Ok. I knew that. I was trying to figure out if it had ever happened before yesterday. Is it really the first time three sisters ranked so high at the same Olympics? There must also be other note worthy family achievments. 100.43.125.46 (talk) 17:01, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * In athletics I can think of several pairs, brothers, sisters, father/daughter or son combinations to have success in the Olympics. The Borlee's are certainly in danger of doing it in 2016.  The question is, do we have an article for this item of trivia? Trackinfo (talk) 17:59, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Short track
The ISU and the official website of Sochi 2014 list overall placement of the athletes on their result pages. Should we include this as well to the individual event pages? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 12:45, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

The title of is under discussion, see Talk:Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics -- 70.24.244.161 (talk) 11:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

IOC country code before 1972
Please see Template talk:Infobox country Olympics. Is it appropriate to use 1972 as the cut off and how to implement it in the template? --Quest for Truth (talk) 19:17, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The IOC uses modern codes to reference results all the way back to 1896. There is no need to remove codes from articles about early Games.  If a different code was used at the Games in question, the   parameter can be used to indicate that (e.g. Netherlands at the 1968 Summer Olympics). — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Bandy
I have proposed to create a WikiProject for bandy. Please comment at WikiProject Council/Proposals/Bandy. Andrew S. Knight (talk) 17:13, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Competition summaries
Yesterday and today, I added summaries of two competitions I watched. Both were reverted without any comments (one, two, three (actually, I re-reverted the second one thinking it was a mistake, and then saw the first one). I remember adding such summaries was perfectly fine at the 2012 Olympics, and I never got reverted. Was it smth I missed so that the summaries became unacceptble? In the end of the day, we are writing encyclopedia and not a sports handbook. There is an obvious problem with OR here, but such sumaries are much easier to source when media are available than to look for such sources after several years when someone has time.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:10, 9 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I for one, support your right to write a summary as you see events happen. Full disclosure:  I have written many Olympic event summaries and expect to continue doing so.  This is the appropriate time to write the story, when the article receives the most attention, when most of the public comes to wikipedia to seek the information you are providing.


 * Now YM, I'm guessing from the awkward sentence construction, English is not your first language. When you drift into a subject or in this case a language you don't know, do not be offended when someone comes back to correct or rewrite the information. This is not the case in what was done with outright removal, but really, your contributions do need to be rewritten by someone with better use of the English language. Trackinfo (talk) 11:05, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * This is perfectly fine with me, in fact the downhill summary has already been copyedited, and I hope someone could do it for other summaries. But I do not believe it is so bad that the summaries should be removed without comments.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:37, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Now I got reverted for the third time, by the third user in good standing. Frankly, this is becoming more and more tiring. After one more revert I will switch to other activities in Wikipedia.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:38, 9 February 2014 (UTC)


 * That revert was made by a user that has posted some stuff above. As for your summaries, they're more than welcome, if they are sourced and written in a non-journalistic style. Parutakupiu (talk) 19:45, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Now reverted by the fourth user . As I promised, I will not waste my time anymore for summaries, I can not afford it. Sorry.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:32, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Hong Kong at the 2014 Winter Olympics
User:Raymarcbadz who seems to be having a ownership issue with articles is putting in a legend and omitting the final placement of the athlete from Hong Kong. However why is there a legend when nothing within that legend is included in the results table? Doesn't make sense. Also the final placement is listed by the ISU and Sochi 2014 websites and thus should be included. What do you think? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 15:42, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Super G page moves
Please see this discussion. Super.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 10:29, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Medal tables project
I would greatly appreciate help with my project, working to bring every NOC's medal/participation table to a uniform standard. I have been working on this on and off since July 2012, and it's still about half-done at this point. Several other users have also contributed (perhaps unknowingly) and I've created a table to keep track of what's been done and what still needs work. Some articles lack medal tables altogether. Some have them in a non-uniform format, and some have the Summer table, but not the Winter. When this project is finished, each "Country at the Olympics" articles (for each NOC) will have complete medal tables with the number of athletes and rank (what I'm calling "Version 2" with updated table code and host flags). Hopefully this could be coordinated with other interested editors so that everything is set for 2016. Jmj713 (talk) 20:19, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll try to help wherever and whenever I can. For now, I believe I upgrade Portugal at the Olympics to "Version 2" status. But, please, check for yourself. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:55, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Great! Thank you. I've updated the table. Jmj713 (talk) 23:00, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Rumours regarding Judging of Ice Dancing et.al.
Yet again there are romours of skulduggery regarding Judings of Olympic Ice Competitions. Has the Committee never consider not having Judges from countries which its skaters are representing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.32.10 (talk) 02:55, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Events requiring judges aren't really sports anyway — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.239.236.97 (talk) 03:06, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Wank article
The biography for Andreas Wank has been tagged for additional sources. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 09:41, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Pages needing creation
Please can I point people to this list of the GB athletes, and some US athletes who need Wikipedia pages. If you make a page over 1500 bytes, please nominate it at DYK. Thanks, Mat  ty. 007 12:04, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

IOC medalists database reference template
FYI, the meta-template IOC medals can and should be used in the references section of Olympic medal/medalist-related lists (e.g. "List of Olympic medalists at sport", "Country at (year season) Olympics", "Year season Olympics medal table, etc.). It places automatically a cite web template with the url address pointing to the IOC medalist database, depending on the search parameter (games, country or sport). Many pages already use this meta-template, which I recently updated to match the new url address and accommodate the different search parameters. Others, still have a hardcoded cite web template that was not automatically updated and still uses the old IOC urls links; these pages could also be updated. Parutakupiu (talk) 12:26, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

2014 Winter Olympics medal table with per capita and GDP tables
Additional tables were added and reverted to the 2014 Winter Olympics medal table. There's a discussion ongoing whether or not to include these. Please, take a look. Jmj713 (talk) 16:34, 19 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Also see the related AfD.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 17:52, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).

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Closing ceremony flagbearers
There is a list of closing ceremony flagbearers do we create an article? I notice we don't include this in the *country name* flagbearer pages though. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 14:37, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It seems we only have such and article for 2012 London Olympics. I'd prefer incorporating the list in the closing ceremony article. Could be even collapsable. --Tone 15:01, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Vancouver has it as well. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 15:48, 23 February 2014 (UTC)


 * User:Raymarcbadz thinks we shouldn't indicate a volunteer carried the flag for the country pages. I think that they should be included as its listed under an official IOC document. Let me know what you think! Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 04:10, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Olympic sports navboxes
I think many of us agree that the navbox Template:Olympic sports could be improved. In fact, the improved version already exists at another name: Template:Sports at the Olympics.

For those who were unaware, the difference in the templates as is is that the former links the top-level sports articles themselves (i.e. Athletics (sport), Ice hockey, etc.) while the latter links to the articles that describe the Olympic competitions of the sport (i.e. Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Ice hockey at the Olympic Games, etc.) As stated above, I think that the former is not very useful, while the latter is extremely useful.

Therefore I am attempting to fix this by redirecting the former template to the latter (no need to have the exact same wikitext on two different template names). But so far my edits are being reverted, citing a TfD discussion. The problem with that is that I am not going against the discussion. The TfD resulted in "keep", and I am keeping and not deleting the template.

Can we come to a consensus that my edit is appropriate, so that certain editors will stop reverting my edits.

--162.239.236.97 (talk) 02:51, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The template was keep here: Templates for discussion/Log/2012 June 17. This is only navbox for navigation between olympic sports articles.  is another template for navigations between Sports at the Olympics article. It's a different things. NickSt (talk) 16:04, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I have nominated Template:Olympic sports for deletion. SFB 21:33, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

IP vandalizing Germany at the Olympics
Please see Talk:Germany at the Olympics for details, but in short, an IP keeps reintroducing (now something like a ten times) the same disruptive (in my view) edits. Even after being reverted with comments and then a topic at Talk, the edits are still being reintroduced. Can the article be restored and/or edit-protected? Jmj713 (talk) 17:22, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I'd recommend requesting page protection for the short term.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 10:08, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Olympic sports template up for deletion
Please see this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 13:45, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Athlete articles at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Hello everyone,

User:Sportsfan 1234 and I are working on the 2014 Winter Olympics athletes' articles for those who are not yet existing, and this would take for a larger number of months to accomplish. Please help us create more articles for them, so that we can finish everything on time. Whoever is willing to contribute on the athlete articles, kindly work on them as soon as possible. Thank you so much! Raymarcbadz (talk) 17:34, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

GA Review
I put Belarus at the Olympics up for a GA Review. Can somebody from this project please reassess it if you have the opportunity. Thank you &#39;&#39;&#39;tAD&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 20:30, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Move of main Olympic/Paralympic articles
Hi all. The main Olympic and Paralympic articles have been moved from "Summer Olympic" to "Olympic Summer" etc. I've started a conversation to discuss this here. SFB 08:07, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Exhuming the bones of WP:WikiProject Winter sports?
I wonder whether that project can be merged to WikiProject Olympics? Was going to add project tag to Talk:Ready to Fly (documentary) but the Winter sports tag leads nowhere. In ictu oculi (talk) 17:27, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thing is, most Winter sports articles don't involve the Olympics - think of the huge amounts of professional WP:WikiProject Ice Hockey articles. Just think of WP Winter Sports as a way of managing the hierarchy below WP Sports, even if it's not really a project in its own right. If anything, it should be merged into WP Sports. As an aside, you were probably looking for WP:WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding, which I've added to the article in question. Le Deluge (talk) 18:05, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Sports festivals
Hi all - please note I have requested that all "sports festival" categories be renamed to "International sports competitions". Please contribute to the discussion. SFB 12:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Sailing articles
User:NED33 has asked for my feedback (on my talk page) regarding his work on the Olympic sailing articles, but I think more project editors should provide input, and I am not very active on Wikipedia any more. I've listed some suggestions on my talk page, but I encourage additional eyes to look at these articles. Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:44, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Flag usage on sports articles
A discussion has begun to outline usage of flags on sports articles and to review their usage. Sports articles have long diverged from what is stated in the manual of style. Please comment on the proposals and add suggestions by contributing at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. Thanks. SFB 13:59, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Sports articles at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Hello everyone,

Can I ask all of you a favor? Can we fix the sports articles of the 2004 Summer Olympics? Each of them must contain the complete and accurate results and data for all events, and a brief description of every sport. We are in dire need of this edition or coverage for further improvement. Kindly message me on my talk page for details and planning. Thank you! Raymarcbadz (talk) 18:39, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

"event" -> "sport"
See Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_May_2 where some Olympics categories are up for renaming. -- 65.94.171.206 (talk) 00:32, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Spanish 1980 flag
Regarding this edit and the given image – these were added in 2012 and the image was self-made by that editor. I can't find any indication that this was used at the 1980 Olympics. It seems strange that Spain would use a different flag from the other Olympic boycott nations and it not be documented. FYI - this is the official Spain NOC flag, so can be used on that article, but should it be removed from the template pending sourced confirmation? SFB 18:33, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Olympics At Wikimania 2014
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project? We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply. For more information, click the link below. Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 15:25, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Cycling categorization
See Category talk:Olympic sports. Thanks! --Dennis Bratland (talk) 21:43, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Olympics At Wikimania 2014 (updated version)
Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post. Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

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• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 16:40, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Requested move for Estádio do Maracanã
See Talk:Estádio do Maracanã for a requested move for Estádio do Maracanã to Maracanã Stadium. Hey mid  (contribs) 17:07, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis
The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:


 * Epaminondas Samartzidis: it:Morti nel 1996
 * Freimut Stein: de:Gestorben 1986 / ru:Умершие в 1986 году
 * Gertrude Liebhart: de:Gestorben 2008 / no:Dødsfall i 2008
 * Hiroshi Yoshizawa: ja:2013年没
 * Igor Runov: it:Morti nel 2011 / ru:Умершие в 2011 году
 * Josef Matouš: no:Dødsfall i 1999 / pl:Zmarli w 1999
 * Koichi Hirakida: ja:1993年没 / ru:Умершие в 1993 году
 * Kurt Schmid: de:Gestorben 2000 / no:Dødsfall i 2000 / sl:Umrli leta 2000
 * Markus Gähler: de:Gestorben 1997
 * Mikhail Semyonov: ru:Умершие в 2006 году
 * Mircea Grabovschi: sl:Umrli leta 2002
 * Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili: de:Gestorben 1994 / fi:Vuonna 1994 kuolleet / ja:1994年没 / pl:Zmarli w 1994 / ru:Умершие в 1994 году
 * Nebojša Popović (handballer): sv:Avlidna 2001 (living)
 * Sergey Lizunov: ru:Умершие в 2003 году
 * Tatyana Veinberga: lv:2008. gadā mirušie / ru:Умершие в 2008 году
 * Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova: ru:Умершие в 2002 году
 * Viktor Makhorin: ru:Персоналии, чья дата смерти не установлена
 * Vladimir Sevryugin: ru:Персоналии, чья дата смерти не установлена
 * Yevgeni Groshev: de:Gestorben 2013 / no:Dødsfall i 2013 / ru:Умершие в 2013 году / sl:Umrli leta 2013

Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 08:51, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I've checked through Sports-Reference.com for all of the names and killed off three. Some more may be lying in this Journal of Olympic History link (up to June 2003). Foreign sources may well be required for the rest. SFB 10:26, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I did much the same and some googling. Epaminondas Samartzidis was already dead but not noted.  Nebojša Popović is also the name of an Olympic basketball player.  The basketball player died in 2001, perhaps attributed to the wrong person on the other wiki.  Tatyana Veinberga does not show up in sports-reference (at all) as a member of the team.  There was a governor of Tula who also bears the name of Vladimir Sevryugin who died, again possibly the wrong name attribution though what little I can get out of Cyrillic the Russian wikipedia does not show a date of death, just a question mark. Trackinfo (talk) 18:15, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Looking back though the Slovenian edit history, it was an error on the Popović article with confusion with the basketball player. I've scratched this one. SFB 19:21, 15 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for everyone's help with this.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 10:32, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Medal record uniformity
Recently I have worked on many olympic athletes' articles and I have noticed that their medal record are not displayed uniformly. If you look at, for example, Michael Phelps' page, his medals are listed beginning with the earliest Olympics/World Championships, whilst at, for example, Ole Einar Bjørndalens page, they are listed beginning with the latest Olympics/WCs.

If there aren't any guidelines already put in place, we should work out some sort of consensus. Should we start with the earliest competition, or the latest? Newtonseple (talk) 03:41, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I think that the older ones should be the first. And I have seen (I can't give a link), that medals are grouped - the first comes gold (from all competitions), then comes silver and then bronze . -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 12:25, 30 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Consistency of formatting and layout is only required within articles - not between different articles - so there is no reason to do anything about this "problem". Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:45, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Netball
There is a dispute at Talk:Netball over whether it should be in Category:Olympic sports. Please contribute your point of view at that talk page. Graham 87 02:18, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Capitalisation in templates
I just removed some excess capitalisation in Template:Footer USA Swimming 1928 Summer Olympics, and a couple of similar instances, then realised that there are probably a lot of them with the same problem (overcapitalisation, contrary to MOS:CAPS). I don't have the time or enthusiasm to fix them all manually - is there a better way to fix them? Mitch Ames (talk) 01:16, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * If a category that all the templates belong to can be identified, probably Category:USA Olympic swimming team templates, it should be easy to fix using AutoWikiBrowser. The issue mentioned below could be fixed at the same time - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 12:44, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

One team or two?
In Template:Footer USA Swimming 1928 Summer Olympics - and other similar templates - the title is the singular "1928 USA Olympic swimming team", but then there are two groups "Men's team" and "Women's team". Are all of these people (men and women) a single team or two separate teams? Either the title should be the plural "teams" or the groups should not use the word "team". Either just "men" and "women" or "competition" instead of "team" (eg like Template:Footer Netherlands Swimming 1996 Summer Olympics). Mitch Ames (talk) 01:55, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * In theory the swimming team is not its own team at all but part of the overall US team... But I'd say the best suggestion is to just have the groups named as "men" and "women" which is how they are titled at articles such as United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 12:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

2010 Summer Youth Olympics medal table
The ongoing GA review for 2010 Summer Youth Olympics is on hold because the medal table is unsourced. No official table was kept by the SYOGOC. Many unofficial tables from individual NOCs award mixed-NOCs medals to the countries that the athletes were from. However, the discussions at Talk:2010 Summer Youth Olympics medal table indicates a consensus for counting mixed-NOCs medals separately. Could members of this WikiProject help find a medal table from a reliable source that counts mixed-NOCs medals separately and, optionally, a reliable source that explains this discrepancy? --Hildanknight (talk) 16:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The most common one like this (link) is the only one I can find. Well, the problem is that it didn't seperate Mixed NOCs (giving it to the respective nations). I believe there is almost no official source with seperated Mixed-NOCs because IOC never gave an medal tally agreement about the Mixed NOCs. Griff88 (talk) 11:16, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Olympics vs. Olympic Games
Are there times when it is more appropriate to use "Olympics" than "Olympic Games", or vice versa? For example, is it more appropriate to refer to the "history of the Olympic Games" or the "history of the Olympics", or are they equivalent? Thank you, -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:53, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I suppose "Olympic Games" refers to anything about the Olympic Games held, while "the Olympics" could be a broader subject such as the broader Olympic movement? – H T  D  15:29, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * My impression is that the phrases "Olympics" and "Olympic Games" are equivalent, with the latter being slightly more formal usage. When "Olympic movement" is meant, that phrase is used, or the International Olympic Committee or the particular national Olympic governing body is specifically referenced.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:43, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Youth Olympic Games in Country at the Olympics articles
Should they be there? – H T  D  12:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * No, there should be a separate Country at YOG article, as these are different events. Jmj713 (talk) 13:10, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * No they should be separate. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 06:03, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

RfC: use of flag icons in sports articles
WP:Olympics members who have an opinion regarding the use of flag icons in sports articles may wish to comment in this ongoing discussion: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. Thank you. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 10:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)


 * There is now a formal RfC on the Manual of Style/Icon talk page regarding the use of flag icons for athletes in international competition: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 10:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Boldface in Template:Infobox Olympics [country]
I just noticed a bizarre inconsistency in the treatment of the "competitors=" and "sports=" parameters in the Olympics templates such as Template:Infobox Olympics Antigua and Barbuda. For the 2000 Summer Olympics and earlier, and for the Winter Olympics, nothing seems to be bolded (at least not in the examples I checked). For the 2004 Summer Olympics, the "competitors=" entry seems to be bolded. For the 2008 Summer Olympics and onwards, both the "competitors=" and "sports=" parameters are bolded. That's consistent for all countries I checked, but it doesn't make much sense. Should we de-bold everything? Should we bold everything? In the latter case, a modification of the infobox seems desirable (at the level of Template:Infobox country Olympics), wich would still mean undoing the manually-applied bolding for 2004 and later. Huon (talk) 17:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * This may sound odd, but they all look identical with bolding to me across those years(??). SFB 22:38, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Huon, we'll just de-bold the number of sports to make sense of the counting, particularly when other nations competed only in one sport, and then the number of participants will remain bold. I hope you analyze the difference. Thank you for your consideration. Raymarcbadz 06:31, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Per the style of Template:Infobox, item labels should be bolded but item values should not. That means that all bold markup should be removed from the parameter values (e.g. just   and , not   and  . — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:00, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Help
Hi guys, I have a problem with a user and I need your opinion about it. in this page Iran at the 1972 Summer Olympics, someone thinks reserve athletes are not a part of the team and they should not be considered as Olympian. just because this website Sports-References doesn't count them. just because they didn't play a single minute. to me it's very obvious that reserve players are a part of the team in team sports. in football, hockey, baseball and etc they give medal to all members of the team even if they don't play. I want to know your opinion about it. Mohsen1248 (talk) 18:50, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Mohsen, send the other editor here for discussion. Yes, the reserve members are part of the national team, but IMO they should be identified as reserves who did not play in a game or match.  There is also a question whether they would receive a medal for any team that placed in the top 3.  Generally speaking, reserve athletes in team competitions who did not participate in the event finals did not receive medals prior to 1984 (e.g., swimming, track & field).  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:01, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * speaking as a Games Maker from London 2012, I can say that the reserve players were seen as part of their respective NOC team. They arrive at the host city with their team mates, and parade with their fellow NOC athletes during the opening/closing ceremonies.   Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 19:02, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Perhaps a quick ping for might grab their attention to come over here.   Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 19:05, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I will write in his talk page after writing this, (it seems unnecessary now) I'm not talking about Athletics, Swimming or Cycling when they don't give medals to reserve members, I'm talking about the team sports. players who sit on the bench. Mohsen1248 (talk) 19:08, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * That's fine for the 2012 "definition", but what about 1972? Show me how some guy who turned with the atheletes who actually took part at an event, but didn't take part in any matches be classed as taking part! To expand the rationale from Mohsen's talkpage, if I went to the (football) World Cup, but sat on the bench for each game, I wouldn't get a cap. How is this any different?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:10, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * It's not about caps, nobody counts caps here, it's about being a member of the team, even if you sit on the bench, they still give you medals in team sports. Mohsen1248 (talk) 19:17, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Moshen now has a problem with the facts reported on the 1972 article and keeps reverting them.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:12, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * so now you have personal problem with me and counting my edits ? but I guess you are the one in trouble with more than 3 edits in 24 hours period. btw that's not related to this discussion here. Mohsen1248 (talk) 19:17, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The burden is on you to show that non-participants count as participants.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:19, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Right you guys, cool it down a bit. Debate on the facts, not on each other's editing patterns.  Thrashing at each other is just playground tactics, and should be avoided.  The difference here is the World Cup and Olympics tend to have different rules.  Each Olympic nation sent a team of athletes' to the games; in terms of football players, they would not know at that time that they'd be sat on the bench for the duration of the games.  Nonetheless, they are still a part of their respective Olympic team.  Including them is showing that they were chosen to represent their nation.  But adding a note that they were reserves and never played a game, is not going to cause that much problems.  By omitting them from such articles is just like saying they never attended an Olympic Games, when in actual fact they did, they just did not get to play a game.   Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 19:23, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * "But adding a note that they were reserves and never played a game, is not going to cause that much problems" - Have you read the edit I made to the article in question?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:25, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * You also edit the numbers and made it 48, and once again, reserve players in team sports are treated exactly the same as main players. they receive medal on the podium (not after that like relay events in Swimming and Athletics). Mohsen1248 (talk) 19:28, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Even at a FIFA World Cup, the entire squad is named, even if not all of them get to play. Listing the full squad for the sake of the Olympics is just as important, even if not all of them got off the bench. All this just seems to be pointy and not keeping to a neutral point of view, by including the full facts, rather than partial. Let's just half-write articles, and leave the general public to "guess the rest".  Wes Mouse &#124; T@lk 19:31, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll let you do that. I'll continue to report the facts from reliable sources.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:35, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sources it is then, . Chew these ones over that show the entire 19-man squad that  includes.  Oh look FIFA list all 19-men.   Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 19:39, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You've missed the point. Only 17 of those took part at the Olympics.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:44, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * No, you're missing the point. FIFA list all 19 men.  You said you wanted reliable sources, you can't get any more reliable and official than FIFA.  More sources for you?  Check this one which also shows the same 19-men.  There's loads more searches if one took the time to Google it.  Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 19:46, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry but that last link is a clear copy of the Wiki article with the incorrect data. It even states the wiki attibution at the foot of the page.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:49, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I just checked and for examples José Antonio Rodríguez as reserve GK didn't play a single minute, but still he is listed as 2012 Olympian, 2012 medalist, and there is nothing anywhere in wikipedia mentioning he was a reserve player. because this is the nature of team sports. there are countless examples like this mostly reserve GKs. Mohsen1248 (talk) 19:50, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That's great, but read the above comment from Dirtlaywer - "Generally speaking, reserve athletes in team competitions who did not participate in the event finals did not receive medals prior to 1984".  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:52, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Well ignore the second link then. But at least there is FIFA the official governing body.  Anyway, these articles are about the respective country at a Games and how many sportsmen/women were chosen by their Olympic committees.  Irrespective of whether they got their butts off the bench and kicked the ball or not, they were selected by the Iranian Olympic Committee to represent Iran at the 1972 Munich games.  Not listing them on the article, is like saying they were never at the games in physical person.  If some random person visits the article and it says "Country sent 40 competitors" and then the article only lists 30 because the other 10 didn't get to take part, then we're not publishing full facts>  Listing all names, and making sure it is known that not all played in a sport for one reason or another, is covering all the facts, and keeping to a neutral point of view.   Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 19:55, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * So how do you explain to that "random person" that someone who didn't take part in anything competed?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:58, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm quite sure he is talking about relay events in athletics, Swimming and Cycling. team sports were always different, ok let me give you a better example Marian Szeja didn't play a single minute in 1972 Summer Olympics and still listed as Olympian and medalist. Mohsen1248 (talk) 20:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting about Marian Szeja. He's not listed on SportsRef, or Database Olympics, or IOC database.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 20:05, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Nice stalking tactic, Lugnuts. Is that your general behaviour with Wikipedian's that you get into heated debate with? Check their contributions and then start editing on all the articles they edited. Yeah, clever! Shall we take this further?  Wes Mouse &#124; T@lk 20:02, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Not at all. You should read WP:AGF. I'm just correcting the article per WP:MOSFILM. You should visit the FIlm Project for more info.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 20:08, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Okay, guys, there's no need for personalized comments from anyone. This should not be a heated discussion; reserves are part of the official Olympic national team, even if they never entered a game, match or heat.  i've run into similar situations where the U.S. Olympic team took an extra reserve athlete or two for swimming and track relays, and, yes, those athletes are listed as members of the U.S. Olympic team for the particular games.  Reserves tend to fall through the cracks on sites like Sports-Reference.com, etc., because they usually do not have an official list of all team members, and athletes are only listed by the events in which they participated.  These are not official records, and SRO and DBO have their share of errors and inaccuracies.  IMO, the only question is whether they should get an asterisked footnote (i.e., "*Reserve player, did not compete," or something to that effect).  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:20, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I think they should be given an asterisk/footnote treatment, as their mention is just as important to the rest of the sportsperons on each article. Their NOC selected them, but it isn't their fault that they were just left hanging as a reserve.  Omitting them from our articles is like discriminating them in a way, as if to say "haha you didn't play".  Equal balance, showing all team members that were selected keeps within NPOV.   Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 20:24, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * With this I also think they should be marked as reserves if IOC don't treat them exactly the same as main members, I think this brought up another topic, maybe you should remove some of those medalists if they didn't receive medals, someone has to search about it. I tried a little and found a video in youtube about 1972 Olympics and only 12 players received medals on the podium ! probably those players who played in the final match. did they give medals to the rest of the squad later ? that's what I want to know, even though after all it doesn't change the fact that reserve members are still member of the team and should be listed but with an asterisked footnote or something like that. Mohsen1248 (talk) 20:56, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * In 2012, the "reserves" who never got to play a match were given medals, but in a private ceremony - although it wasn't much of a podium ceremony, but a "here's your medal, now off you go" kind of ceremony.  Wes Mouse  &#124; T@lk 01:06, 3 November 2014 (UTC)


 * So going back to the case of Szeja, it's incorrect to say in his article he's a gold medalist when none of the main sources back this up?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 20:46, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Lugnuts, I think FIFA is going to have the answer for that; more often than not, the IOC defers to the international sports body for the particular sport (e.g., IAAF, FIBA, FIFA, FINA, etc.) as to who is medal-eligible in the Olympics. As I mentioned above, swimmers and runners who actually competed in the preliminary heats of Olympic relay events were not medal-eligible until the 1984 Olympics.  In one case in 1960, a "reserve" team of four American swimmers set a new world record in the qualifying heats and were not even medal-eligible.  The trend for at least the last 30 years has been to been to award medals to "reserves".  What the medal eligibility rules were for association football teams in 1972 I would not even guess.  OTH, they were definitely team members.  It's an odd situation; for instance, Sports-Reference.com incorrectly shows relay runners and swimmers who competed in the preliminary heats, but not the finals of pre-1984 Olympic relay events as medal winners when, in fact, the IOC did not award medals to athletes who did not run or swim in the relay event finals.  Bottom line: see if you can find the 1972 FIFA/IOC rules to see who was medal-eligible.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks DL. So going back to the original issue - how do we address the number of people who represented Iran in 1972?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 08:04, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Numbers back to the correct one, plus adding notes for reserve players as other users suggested, that's what I did. Mohsen1248 (talk) 08:41, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The correct figure being 48. Great, glad we finally agree. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 13:50, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The correct figure is 50. Mohsen1248 (talk) 18:00, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I second that. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 11:59, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Request for Comment
There is a Request for Comment about "Chronological Summaries of the Olympics" and you're invited! Becky Sayles (talk) 07:26, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Open Water swimming
I notice that open water swimming is considered as different from the indoor swimming events at the last two Olympics. The same can be said about other Multi-sporting events such as the Pan American Games. Keeping that in mind, why is it that open water swimming is merged into the swimming article, when all other aquatics disciplines get their own article? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 00:21, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't follow what you mean. It is a swimming event, but by its very nature it has to be held in a separate venue.  That doesn't make it "different" in a way that warrants it to be broken off into its own article.  It is not considered a separate discipline by the IOC, whereas diving, water polo and synchronized swimming are..  Compare to events such as basketball or handball that occasionally use more than one venue.  Or to alpine skiing where each event is held on a different track, and sometimes on completely different mountains, see as an example Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics.  There is no separate article for speed or technical skiing, but rather those are considered separate medal events within the same discipline within the same sport.  That is what marathon/open water swimming is, a single separate medal even within the swimming discipline within the sport of aquatics.  Ravendrop 02:39, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I see no reason to create a separate line of articles for open water swimming, separate and apart from the existing articles for Olympic events. As things stand now, we typically have a separate article for each event anyway.  As for the articles which break out the Olympics by sports (as opposed to individual events within a given sport), there is no good reason to separate "open water swimming" from "swimming," as it is simply a single event in the larger sport.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:52, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I actually prefer the one article as well, I was just wondering why they weren't separate though. Thanks! Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 06:25, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * FINA considers it a different discipline, but another question is why do the disciplines in aquatics get different pages while all other sports have their disciplines combined. JoshMartini007 (talk) 16:05, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

2014 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations
Is it just me, or does this table stretch beyond the standard page width despite the table having column widths defined? I am not sure why the text won't wrap appropriately to keep the page a normal width. If anyone is able to help it would be appreciated. Also, with a bit more work, this list might be a candidate for FL at some point for this project. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:09, 13 November 2014 (UTC)


 * There were three instances of the Nowrap template within the table, which I've now removed. I have also removed the fixed column heading widths. Parutakupiu (talk) 23:36, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your assistance. I think the nowrap function was the problem. Now the table appears to wrap text more than is necessary. Would returning the column widths at least force the table to use the full width of the page? Never mind. --- Another Believer  ( Talk ) 23:45, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Russian flag attached to the Finnish olympic sailing teams pre 1917.
Dear Sirs, I find it very disturbing that the Wikipedia results tables show the current Russian flag as the national symbol for Finnish sailing teams in the Olympics prior to our country's independence in 1917. It would be correct to change the flag top the white & blue Finnish flag as those guys would turn in their graves if they knew… Sincerely, Eero Lehtinen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.217.140 (talk) 11:23, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Eero, as I am sure you know, Finland (a.k.a. the Grand Duchy of Finland) was part of the Russian Empire prior to 1917, and the tsarist empire used the same tricolor flag as the present Russian Federation. The present flag of Finland only dates from 1918, and using it to represent Finnish athletes before Finnish independence in 1917 would be anachronistic and historically inaccurate.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:32, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Hassan Hirt
Hi guys, at the 2012 London Games, the French athlete Hassan Hirt competed in the 5000 metres. He finished 11th in his heat and 26th overall. The race was run of 8 August and two days later he was sent home after testing positive for EPO. He was later given a two year ban which expires on 16 December 2014. My question is has the IOC retrospectively disqualified him? The results on the IAAF website lists him as DQ as does sports-reference.com. However, the official Olympic report states he finished 26th as does the IOC website. If anyone could help resolve this, it be would greatly appreciated. Regards -- Ianblair23 (talk) 12:14, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ian, if he failed a test for PED and was given a two-year ban by the IAAF, then he was disqualified by the IOC. The IOC invariably defers to the international governing body for each sport in such eligibility matters.  So, being DQ'ed by the IAAF is effectively the same as being DQ'ed by the IOC.  Given that Hirt did not receive a medal, and did not qualify for the event final, the IOC has probably just never updated their results because there was no pressing need to do so.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:28, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Great. Thanks Dirtlawyer1. That is what I was thinking as well but just wanted to flag this before amending all the revelant articles. I am also in the middle of a DYK review where I raised this question as well. Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 22:33, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Kosovo at the Olympics
Now that we have Kosovo at the Olympics, I was wondering how their previous participation should be reflected in a medals table, in line with customary previous appearances under different entities, like other former Yugoslav nations. It doesn't appear that any Kosovars participated for Serbia in 1912, and they must have participated for Yugoslavia but I don't know if any Kosovar athletes participated for IOP, Serbia and Montenegro, or independent Serbia. We do have a note that a Kosovar athlete was part of Albania in 2012. Any input is appreciated.

Medals by Winter Games
Jmj713 (talk) 22:02, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * This is on the Kosovo Olympic Committee page: "However, Kosovo did not field a team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing or the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver due to its status. The request to participate at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was eventually rejected too;[4] the only Kosovar athlete to participate being Majlinda Kelmendi, who represented Albania." So those tables are in my opinion the way to go. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 23:34, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Before the declaration of independence, Kosovo was definitely a part of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia. It's not correct to say that did not participate in that period, because there was not Kosovo as an independent entity. It doesn't matter that Olympic Committee was established in 1992. For example, Catalonia has unrecognized Olympic Committee and it would not be correct to say that athletes from Catalonia not competing, but that they compete under the Spanish flag. Sportpersons from Kosovo were able to compete under the flag of Serbia (and Montenegro) and this oportunity used by some athletes, but only by Serbs from Kosovo (Sonja Stolić, Miloš Krasić, Milan Biševac...). Many athletes to participate for Serbia have origins and parents from Kosovo (Novak Djokovic...). After declaration of independence and before recognition of Olympic Committee of Kosovo, Olympic Committee of Serbia invited athletes from Kosovo to join Serbian team and, again, this feature used only by Serbs from Kosovo (Milena Rašić). Kosovo has never been part of Albania, but the case with Majlinda Kelmendi is specific --Aca Srbin (talk) 16:37, 12 December 2014 (UCT)

Slow burning edit war
Please can someone keep an eye on this article. I've dropped a friendly pointer on the talkpage of two users (mainly around WP:3RR), but I can see this going downhill and fast.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 08:35, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Kosovo participate under flag of Serbia (and Montenegro) as part of this country. After the declaration of independence, Kosovo is a partially recognised country, but it has independent Olympic team since 2014. Kosovar athletes are all athletes from Kosovo, Serbs or Albanians or any other. Athletes from Kosovo have participated under their recognized NOCs at that time, but only Serbs. Despite the invitation from the Serbian Olympic Committee, most Kosovo Albanians wanted to compete separately. OCS invited all athletes from Kosovo to join Serbian team. All athletes WERE ABLE to participate, but they did't want. OK, everybody know why, but all former countries should appear in the article, infobox and table. --Aca Srbin (talk) 19:30, 18 December 2014 (UCT)

Sailor at the 1972 Games
Warren Brown recently died and one press source states he competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. However, Sports Reference doesn't list him as being on there. Anyone have any more info? Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 10:35, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I do not have information about Warren Brown. It might help if someone has the info in what class he competed then I can inform by the relevant class organizations. However during that era it was normal in sailing that a equip had one or more substitutes. Those sailors were always recognized as Olympians but do not show always in the results. _/)_/)_/) ˷˷˷˷˷˷˷˷ _/) NED33talk 14:19, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Olympic alternates/substitutes who did not compete in an actual Olympic event are usually not listed in the various databases, even though they often appear on official national Olympic committee lists of athletes. Like you, I immediately checked Sports-Reference.com's Olympic database, and databaseOlympics.com, and found nothing -- that generally indicates the particular athlete is not listed on the IOC's current public database.  It's possible that Brown's name is misspelled in in the IOC's public database (I have encountered that problem in the past), but it's hard to imagine a plausible alternate spelling of "Warren Brown."  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:30, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a dubious tag next to the 1972 Olympic mention is warranted?.-Kiwipat (talk) 19:21, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * KP, if Brown's 1972 Olympic participation cannot be confirmed by another reliable source, it probably should be removed from the article altogether. Sports-Reference.com's Olympic database is pretty darn reliable, raising a serious question of the accuracy of the obituary's details.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:48, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes I believe I've found the problem. This article AC35: Cup arrival a tribute to Jordy Walker from the Royal Gazette dated Dec 4, 2014 says it was Jordy Walker who competed "at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and managed the Bermuda team at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona". Please delete the offending material accordingly-Kiwipat (talk) 21:11, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Nevermind I've done it-Kiwipat (talk) 00:51, 29 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks everyone!  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

British vs. English, Scottish, Welsh, etc.
Seeking advice here: Talk:Sport in the United Kingdom. Your input is requested. Thank you! Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:26, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Categories: Germany, Kosovo at the Olympics at CfD
Please see this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 10:28, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Editor making major changes without understanding the basics
Can I ask please for help here. The issue has to do with an editor and the changes he is doing to the following articles: diff and diff.

In the first case, the editor in question seems to think that because one Kosovar athlete, Majlinda Kelmendi, participated for Albania, that Albania thus becomes "related participation" to Kosovo. I have tried to expain to the user what related participations are, which are the COIs where the athletes and teams from that new COI participated in the past. The athletes and teams from Kosovo obviously participated in the qualifiers for the Olympics within Yugoslavia first and Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia later. The fact that an individual athlete decided to represent another country is the athletes individual choice, and not an "related participation" of an entire country. For exemple, there are numerous Kenyans being naturalized and participating for other countries, but those countries those athletes participate for, are NOT Kenyan "related participations".

The second case is pure WP:OR. The user is trying to find athletes from Kosovo that participated for Yugoslavia and then is building a table as if Kosovo participated back then. We don't make such tables for new countries (exemples Croatia, Slovenia or Macedonia participated within Yugoslavia, but at the tables list the period while they were within Yugoslavia is just marked as "part of Yugoslavia" and no medals are counted separately for each edition for that period. The user by making that different table as I showed in the diff, he is clearly misguiding the readers wanting to give the impression Kosovo participated in their own and had medals.  Besides, he didn't even counted the medals as he clearly admits in his comment here: Talk:Kosovo_at_the_Olympics.  It all so ridiculous but the user insistingly edit-wars and even threatens people not to revert him. FkpCascais (talk) 00:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Majlinda Kelmendi participated under the flag of Albania. Therefore, the Albanian flag should be added to the infobox. Because it's the same for the position of Serbia. Kosovo was de facto not part of Serbia since 2008, but Serbian athletes from Kosovo decided to participate under the flag of Serbia, that's why we extended the years. Albania must remain in the infobox. You're just reverting because you're obviously a Serb. And this is a pure POLITIC added to the pages, by you. --PjeterPeter (talk) 19:50, 3 January 2015 (UTC)


 * If this is not about the athletes, and Majlinda *apparently* only decided by herself to compete under the flag of Albania, then the Serbian flag should also be removed, because Kosovo declared independence from Serbia before the 2008 Summer Olympics, and after that, the 'Serbian athletes from Kosovo only decided to participate for Serbia with their wish'. Don't remove the Albanian flag, and the Serbian flag stays as well. --PjeterPeter (talk) 20:07, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I think the Albanian flag should be included, as it was clearly documented that she was from Kosovo but competing for Albania. However I don't think lists of athletes that competed under Yugoslavia is necessary. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 23:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, Kosovo is de facto independent since 2008, but formaly it was not recognised as independent from Serbia at Olympics. Official IOC regulations say only that every new member must be an "independent State recognised by the international community". IOC recognized Kosovo because it is recognized as a sovereign country by more than half of UN members. see During the 2012 Summer Olympics Kosovo was recognized by less than half of UN members and IOC has not agreed to recognize OCK. Especially, during the 2008 Summer Olympics it was not recognized by enough countries. Which means that Kosovo was considered as part of Serbia. Kosovo Serbs were participated for own country, but Kosovo Albanians did't want (OCS invited athletes from Kosovo to join Serbian team). It is true that the case with Majlinda Kelmendi is specific, but she chose to represent Albania, just as numerous athletes throughout the world switch nationality. Albanian flag is debatable, but Kosovo formally was  part of Serbia at Olympcs before recognition (9 December 2014) and it is fact. --Aca Srbin (talk) 14:43, 10 January 2015 (UCT)

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Beach volleyball at the 2014 Asian Games
Hello, everyone. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Multi-sport events regarding an issue of separation between Volleyball and Beach volleyball. I hope that all comers visit this. Thank you. Sawol (talk) 02:30, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Merging propose
.Template:Olympic Games opening ceremonies and Template:Olympic Games closing ceremonies are being considered for merging. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. Thanks, Sander.v.Ginkel (Je suis Charlie) 14:32, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Request move - Estádio Nilton Santos (Rio de Janeiro)/Estádio Olímpico João Havelange
Greetings! I have recently listed a requested move discussion at Talk:Estádio Nilton Santos (Rio de Janeiro), regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Hack (talk) 01:17, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Requesting change of the Asian Games status change!
I hope you all know that the Indonesian city of Surabaya has been selected to host the 2019 Asian Games. Please take down Incheon, and replace it to Surabaya to make the status more accurate. Mucho appreciated! HanSangYoon (talk) 01:58, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers
An unregistered contributor has been working on 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers recently. If a project member has time to assist with formatting and adding a few references, the list might be a little more informative. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:16, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Category:Sailors at the Olympics
Category:Sailors at the Olympics, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Smartskaft (talk) 17:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

American athletes at CfD
Please see the discussion here.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 07:46, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

2014 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations
With a little work, might a list like this meet Featured list criteria? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 02:02, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

RM: Barry Davis (amateur wrestler)
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Ukraine at the Olympics
Similarly to the recent Kosovo at the Olympics issue, Ukraine's prior participation in the medal tables has been taken to an absurd level. Ethnic Ukrainians very well may have participated for all those countries during all this time, but there has to be a better way of presenting it. Jmj713 (talk) 14:49, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Ukraine did not participate independently before 1994, so there should be no medalists from the earlier years. HandsomeFella (talk) 17:07, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think ethnic groups should be taken into account in another nation's medal table. For example a person who is ethnic Ukrainian who immigrated to/was born in the United States and won a medal for the US should not have that medal counted for Ukraine too. JoshMartini007 (talk) 21:09, 25 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Yep, it should simply be "did X person represent y country and win z medal"? The rest quickly falls into pointy WP:OR.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Recent changes to the graphics for Template: Medal
There is a template talk page discussion regarding the graphics used for medalists in infobox medals tables occurring at Template talk:Medal. As this discussion is within the scope of WP:Olympics, you are invited to make your comments on the recent graphics changes there. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:35, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Category:Australian Olympians in World War II at CfD
Please see the discussion here. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 13:22, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Ancient Greek Olympiads calendar
To whom it may concern: Recently I have added a calendar to the Wikipedia project that displays the ancient Greek Olympiads, with the number of the Olympiad, the specific year and the name of the winner of the Stadion race. The calendar can be seen on pages such as 776 BC, 696 BC, 652 BC, 636 BC, 556 BC, 480 BC, 448 BC, 280 BC, 264 BC, 164 BC, 4 BC, 1BC, and all the intermediate. Thanks for watching.--Hyphantes (talk) 16:53, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Competitor notability
Please pardon my ignorance; is it wiki policy that any competitor in the Olympics, whatever their performance and result, is by definition notable and worthy of an article? --<b style="color:red;">Anthony Bradbury</b><sup style="color:black;">"talk" 20:05, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is correct--Ymblanter (talk) 20:09, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Good to know. Would you be so kind to clarify this guideline in the following discussion: Articles for deletion/Pantacles of Athens? Thanks.--Hyphantes (talk) 17:10, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Medalist vs. Medallist at CfD
Please see this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 17:54, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Support for Tom Simpson FAC
The article about the cyclist Tom Simpson, who won a bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 1956 Summer Olympics, is currently a featured article candidate and needs support to get promoted. I've worked real hard on it and want it to be seen by as many people as possible. If you want to show your support (or opposition), please leave a comment here. Thanks. BaldBoris 22:03, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

NOTICE: Persondata has been officially deprecated
Persondata has been deprecated and the template and input data are subject to removal from all bio articles in the near future. For those editors who entered accurate data into the persondata templates of Olympic athletes and other bio subjects, you are advised to manually transfer that data to Wikidata before the impending mass deletion occurs in order to preserve accurate data. Here are three examples of Wikidata for notable swimmers: Ryan Lochte, Mary Wayte and Dara Torres. If you have any more questions about the persondata removal, Wikidata, etc., please ping me. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:53, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

What is an Olympic Stadium?
Please see discussion at Talk:Olympic Stadium. Hack (talk) 08:57, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project
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U.S. Olympic track team navboxes
Good morning, Olympic sports fans. Given the relatively large number of links in U.S. Olympic track and field navboxes such as Template:Footer USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics, might it not be better if the track team navboxes were split by gender? The U.S. track athlete navboxes have over twice as many links as the comparable navboxes for U.S. Olympic swimming teams (2012: 134 track vs. 59 swimming). I might also suggest that we remove the red links for the U.S. Olympic Trials from the navboxes for the older U.S. Olympic track teams, unless and until someone creates those articles. I initiated this discussion on the user talk page of, one of the principal creators and contributors to these templates, and he suggested I move the conversation here to initiate a wider discussion. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:33, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Splitting a navbox such as Footer USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics by gender into two halves seems to make sense to me. I suppose they'd be named along the lines of Men's USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics or USA Women's Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics.--121.75.143.120 (talk) 07:21, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Mass deletion of sporting events at AfD
Please see this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 19:15, 9 July 2015 (UTC)