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I was tidying up the English on this page (found on a Random-Page voyage), and noticed that her forename was spelt in two ways. When I checked the two external links in order to discover the correct spelling (they didn't solve my problem, incidentally), I found that the current Wikipepedia article was lifted pretty well word for word from it; the minor omissions and alterations don't help, I think. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:24, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Before 1991 at least in all UNO documents it was translated as "Byelorussian SSR", see [1], [2], [3] therefore, I changed "Belarusian SSR" (recent edit by somebody) to "Byelorussian SSR". Cmapm 18:06, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
I removed some of them, some other reworded. Among the removed ones was, I believe, a very strong POV:
"Comaneci came out on top, cementing her reputation as the most famous and exciting gymnast in the world."
What about, e.g., Larisa Latynina? Who and in accordance with which criterias decides, which athlete is "the most famous and exciting gymnast in the world"? Cmapm 03:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
The edit war goes on, although another part doesn't provide any explanations and reasons for changes on the talk page. The last introduced new sentences, which were reworded or deleted by me are as follows (my explanations for my actions are in brackets):
(***ok love, I said prime not primary. They are prime examples for many reasons. a) power gymnasts typically excel at vault and floor- power events. So anyone who takes an Olympic double on these events can legitimately be described as a prime example, especially since there aren't many in this category! Elena Zamolodchikova is another prime example.
b) Great technicians typically excel at compulsories. Nadia certainly did: here she scored her first perfect 10. For those who don't know, there have been many more 10s awarded for optional exercises than compulsories. The fact that Nadia scored her first here illustrates how good she was at them. Daniela Silivas might be another good one to include in this category- also very high scoring compulsories, also not as strong a tumbler or vaulter as some of her rivals, also an Olympic double on bars and beam.
I haven't seen any definitions of "the great technician" anywhere. 210.229.150.130
c) They both had very long and successful careers, with golds at 2 Olympics. They are the first and second gymnasts respectively to score a perfect 10 in a major championship. Makes them more prime than someone who was equally, say, a technician but less successful, such as Li Li.
If you want to add more prime examples, go for it. Hope you now understand better. I shall add my description back in soon, unless I see better reasons than those you gave. Unless you want to argue that actually Nadia was the power gymnast and Nelli the technician!
This is not an article about "prime examples", if you can find a strict definition of the "technician" and "power gymnast" and prove that Comaneci was the former and Kim was the latter, then go for it. encyclopedian articles present an information, not its personal interpretation. 210.229.150.130
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I only see one person involved in this apparent dispute. Is there another side to this? Either way, I've given the article an edit to remove some POV language and edit for grammar and style. It still needs a few sources for the facts cited. Fagstein 19:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi everyone
Basically, I felt that whoever kept putting in the pro-Nelli stuff was rather biased (and also the English wasn't perfect- is that you Nelli?!)
I'm not Nellie Kim. From your bias I suggest, that you are L. Podkopayeva. 210.229.150.130
so I did what I could to clean it up. Things like giving a detailed description of Nelli beating Nadia on vault in Montreal but glossing over the all around, where Nadia won, seems like whoever did this wants to present one side only. Really the all-around is the blue ribbon event in women's gymnastics, or certainly was then, and the apparatus events less important. So it was an odd emphasis.
The article is about Nellie Kim, not Nadia Comaneci. Nellie Kim wasn't even mentioned in the article about Comaneci prior to yesterday, when Cmapm did this. 210.229.150.130
I actually like both of them as gymnasts and would like to see the reality represented: that is, that Comeneci was the superior technician (hence better compulsories) and won the big title that really mattered (Olympic all-around) but that Nelli was a better 'power gymnast' (ie more difficult tumbling and vault) and was also very successful despite being somewhat overshadowed by Nadia. This being gymnastics, a sport that is pretty subjective, its harder to do all the citation stuff than it might be for other topics. I'm not wanting an edit war here so any help is gratefully accepted. The less pedantic the better please! miss zara
The media attention doesn't mean the superiority. 210.229.150.130
If you can't provide a citation for such a serious statement by 4 or 5 world-class gymnasts, then it should be removed, I shall do it. 210.229.150.130
ps- whoever keeps editing out the bit about Kim having been judging when Kerri vaulted, why? Its not remotely controversial, is an interesting little titbit, and illustrates her prominence as a judge because she was there at one of the most talked about moments in recent gymnastics history. As a judge myself, I like to recognise these things!
The judging stuff seems to be irrelevant here unless it's covered event-by-event and judge-by-judge. 210.229.150.130
Some points:
a) I'm not Lilia, English is actually my first language.
b) the judging stuff 'seems' to be irrelevant- im your opinion perhaps. Personally I think its an illustration of Nelli's prominence as a judge. If someone can give me a better reason than that for not having it in there, I'll stop adding it. Until then, nah.
c) Why must the citation about power/ precision gymnasts be from gymnasts themselves? Why not coaches, or judges? There is more to the sport than merely the performers.
d) I don't really understand the objection to the prime examples either, its rather weak. As such, it too will go back in til I see a better argument against it.
e) Complaints about Nadia- it is usual, in wiki articles about gymnasts, to mention their competitors and teammates (particularly prominent examples of this incude Rozalia Galiyeva and Tatiana Gutsu, whose articles heavily feature each other). I note there is no complaint made about mentioning other contemporaries of Kim's. It seems illogical to mention the battle for AA gold in which she was involved in 1976 without mentioning who the battle was with.
f) Why remove mention of the Beth Tweddle judging? Obviously Nelli has made other decisions that have been out of line with the rest of the panel- Lysenko in the Barcelona all around, for example, but the 2004 world cup one wasn't in favour of a gymnast from the USSR as the Silivas score was. As such, it illustrates that not all of the more debated scores she has posted have favoured gymnasts from her country. Hence I added it as a second example, because the article speculates on nationalistic judging motives, which don't seem evident in the Tweddle/ Memmel incident.
miss zara
are they available somewhere? a link to the online store at her website is broken
There seems to be a chip on the shoulder vis a vis Comaneci's accomplishments. Mentioning who else was in the running for any particular competition is certainly appropriate, especially as Kim and Comaneci were considered to be something of rivals, but little digs at Comaneci are amateurish--this isn't a fan site. Example:
She also cited a comment by Canadian newspapers about Kim's performance, as compared to Comaneci's one: "There are moments, when a natural smile is more worth, than triumph".
--Who cares? Why is one columnist's dig at Comaneci worthy of inclusion? Furthermore it is sexist to implicitly criticize Comaneci for not smiling--smiling as she's competing? Who cares? It's not a pageant, it's an athletic competition of the most elite gymnasts in the world.
...while Comaneci managed to win only the remaining one on bars.
"Managed" to win? "Only"? Winning *any* gold medal is an accomplishment to be proud of. Clear POV.
On the vault [Comaneci] performed only a simple Tsukahara.
This, after the previous sentence touting Kim's technical prowess, comes off as a indictment of Comaneci's abilities. "Only"? "Simple"? Clear POV.
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I was tidying up the English on this page (found on a Random-Page voyage), and noticed that her forename was spelt in two ways. When I checked the two external links in order to discover the correct spelling (they didn't solve my problem, incidentally), I found that the current Wikipepedia article was lifted pretty well word for word from it; the minor omissions and alterations don't help, I think. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:24, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Before 1991 at least in all UNO documents it was translated as "Byelorussian SSR", see [1], [2], [3] therefore, I changed "Belarusian SSR" (recent edit by somebody) to "Byelorussian SSR". Cmapm 18:06, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
I removed some of them, some other reworded. Among the removed ones was, I believe, a very strong POV:
"Comaneci came out on top, cementing her reputation as the most famous and exciting gymnast in the world."
What about, e.g., Larisa Latynina? Who and in accordance with which criterias decides, which athlete is "the most famous and exciting gymnast in the world"? Cmapm 03:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
The edit war goes on, although another part doesn't provide any explanations and reasons for changes on the talk page. The last introduced new sentences, which were reworded or deleted by me are as follows (my explanations for my actions are in brackets):
(***ok love, I said prime not primary. They are prime examples for many reasons. a) power gymnasts typically excel at vault and floor- power events. So anyone who takes an Olympic double on these events can legitimately be described as a prime example, especially since there aren't many in this category! Elena Zamolodchikova is another prime example.
b) Great technicians typically excel at compulsories. Nadia certainly did: here she scored her first perfect 10. For those who don't know, there have been many more 10s awarded for optional exercises than compulsories. The fact that Nadia scored her first here illustrates how good she was at them. Daniela Silivas might be another good one to include in this category- also very high scoring compulsories, also not as strong a tumbler or vaulter as some of her rivals, also an Olympic double on bars and beam.
I haven't seen any definitions of "the great technician" anywhere. 210.229.150.130
c) They both had very long and successful careers, with golds at 2 Olympics. They are the first and second gymnasts respectively to score a perfect 10 in a major championship. Makes them more prime than someone who was equally, say, a technician but less successful, such as Li Li.
If you want to add more prime examples, go for it. Hope you now understand better. I shall add my description back in soon, unless I see better reasons than those you gave. Unless you want to argue that actually Nadia was the power gymnast and Nelli the technician!
This is not an article about "prime examples", if you can find a strict definition of the "technician" and "power gymnast" and prove that Comaneci was the former and Kim was the latter, then go for it. encyclopedian articles present an information, not its personal interpretation. 210.229.150.130
miss zara*******)
Cmapm 13:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I only see one person involved in this apparent dispute. Is there another side to this? Either way, I've given the article an edit to remove some POV language and edit for grammar and style. It still needs a few sources for the facts cited. Fagstein 19:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi everyone
Basically, I felt that whoever kept putting in the pro-Nelli stuff was rather biased (and also the English wasn't perfect- is that you Nelli?!)
I'm not Nellie Kim. From your bias I suggest, that you are L. Podkopayeva. 210.229.150.130
so I did what I could to clean it up. Things like giving a detailed description of Nelli beating Nadia on vault in Montreal but glossing over the all around, where Nadia won, seems like whoever did this wants to present one side only. Really the all-around is the blue ribbon event in women's gymnastics, or certainly was then, and the apparatus events less important. So it was an odd emphasis.
The article is about Nellie Kim, not Nadia Comaneci. Nellie Kim wasn't even mentioned in the article about Comaneci prior to yesterday, when Cmapm did this. 210.229.150.130
I actually like both of them as gymnasts and would like to see the reality represented: that is, that Comeneci was the superior technician (hence better compulsories) and won the big title that really mattered (Olympic all-around) but that Nelli was a better 'power gymnast' (ie more difficult tumbling and vault) and was also very successful despite being somewhat overshadowed by Nadia. This being gymnastics, a sport that is pretty subjective, its harder to do all the citation stuff than it might be for other topics. I'm not wanting an edit war here so any help is gratefully accepted. The less pedantic the better please! miss zara
The media attention doesn't mean the superiority. 210.229.150.130
If you can't provide a citation for such a serious statement by 4 or 5 world-class gymnasts, then it should be removed, I shall do it. 210.229.150.130
ps- whoever keeps editing out the bit about Kim having been judging when Kerri vaulted, why? Its not remotely controversial, is an interesting little titbit, and illustrates her prominence as a judge because she was there at one of the most talked about moments in recent gymnastics history. As a judge myself, I like to recognise these things!
The judging stuff seems to be irrelevant here unless it's covered event-by-event and judge-by-judge. 210.229.150.130
Some points:
a) I'm not Lilia, English is actually my first language.
b) the judging stuff 'seems' to be irrelevant- im your opinion perhaps. Personally I think its an illustration of Nelli's prominence as a judge. If someone can give me a better reason than that for not having it in there, I'll stop adding it. Until then, nah.
c) Why must the citation about power/ precision gymnasts be from gymnasts themselves? Why not coaches, or judges? There is more to the sport than merely the performers.
d) I don't really understand the objection to the prime examples either, its rather weak. As such, it too will go back in til I see a better argument against it.
e) Complaints about Nadia- it is usual, in wiki articles about gymnasts, to mention their competitors and teammates (particularly prominent examples of this incude Rozalia Galiyeva and Tatiana Gutsu, whose articles heavily feature each other). I note there is no complaint made about mentioning other contemporaries of Kim's. It seems illogical to mention the battle for AA gold in which she was involved in 1976 without mentioning who the battle was with.
f) Why remove mention of the Beth Tweddle judging? Obviously Nelli has made other decisions that have been out of line with the rest of the panel- Lysenko in the Barcelona all around, for example, but the 2004 world cup one wasn't in favour of a gymnast from the USSR as the Silivas score was. As such, it illustrates that not all of the more debated scores she has posted have favoured gymnasts from her country. Hence I added it as a second example, because the article speculates on nationalistic judging motives, which don't seem evident in the Tweddle/ Memmel incident.
miss zara
are they available somewhere? a link to the online store at her website is broken
There seems to be a chip on the shoulder vis a vis Comaneci's accomplishments. Mentioning who else was in the running for any particular competition is certainly appropriate, especially as Kim and Comaneci were considered to be something of rivals, but little digs at Comaneci are amateurish--this isn't a fan site. Example:
She also cited a comment by Canadian newspapers about Kim's performance, as compared to Comaneci's one: "There are moments, when a natural smile is more worth, than triumph".
--Who cares? Why is one columnist's dig at Comaneci worthy of inclusion? Furthermore it is sexist to implicitly criticize Comaneci for not smiling--smiling as she's competing? Who cares? It's not a pageant, it's an athletic competition of the most elite gymnasts in the world.
...while Comaneci managed to win only the remaining one on bars.
"Managed" to win? "Only"? Winning *any* gold medal is an accomplishment to be proud of. Clear POV.
On the vault [Comaneci] performed only a simple Tsukahara.
This, after the previous sentence touting Kim's technical prowess, comes off as a indictment of Comaneci's abilities. "Only"? "Simple"? Clear POV.
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