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For the past month, several editors have raised concerns about certain phrases such as "Olympic sport" and "Olympic recognized sport". talk section talk section In addition, a new category was recently created, Category:Olympic recognised sports. We have now received guidance from the Legal Department of the International Olympic Committee which states,
Netball is a sport governed by the International Federation of Netball Associations
(IFNA) which is recognised by the IOC. The IOC doesn't recognise sports as such,
but the Federation which governs such sport.
The propositions of "Olympic sport" or "Olympic recognised sport" are inaccurate.
What, if anything, should we do with this guidance? Can this WikiProject develop a consensus nomenclature? We should also note that "Olympic" is a protected trademark. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 09:35, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
[T]he corporation has the exclusive right to use— (4) the words “Olympic”, “Olympiad”, “Citius Altius Fortius”, “Paralympic”, “Paralympiad”, “Pan-American”, “America Espirito Sport Fraternite”, or any combination of those words. 36 U.S.C. § 220506
I am very interested in that quote from the IOC legal department you gave earlier. Do you have a reference to it? And if what you say is true, then I would be in agreement that the term should be changed to something like "IOC recognized sport federations". As a side note, I do feel that you have some type of vendetta against Netball in general and wouldn't be surprised if in fact you asked for the entire deletion of the "Olympic recognized sport" section from the Olympic sport page. I, for one, would like to see that section remain, albeit with the different label I mentioned earlier with clearer language as to what a recognized sport federation means. It must be noted that having a sport federation recognized by the IOC is the first step to being included into the official program and having that list of recognized sport federations on the "Olympic sport" page is important. The IOC has been reviewing the Summer program quite regularly and, as you well know, recently removed Baseball and Softball while adding Rugby and Golf to the 2016 Olympic Games. That means there is the potential for other sports to be added/removed in the future and I think the readers deserve to know which sports are eligible for their inclusion. -- Perakhantu ( talk) 06:58, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
In response to a question at Talk:1924 Summer Olympics I scanned a few of the early Olympics articles and found basically nothing on the Olympic arts competitions. I personally have very little feeling for how important/respected/well docmented they are but would assume that at least some of the info from (e.g.) Art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics should be included in the 1924 Summer Olympics article? Do they for example get mentioned in the official reports - the reports I looked at (available from the LA84 foundation) for 1920 and 1924 were in French (which lets say isn't my strongest language) so it was hard to tell. Is this a subject area that the project is overlooking? Basement12 (T. C) 00:20, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Does Template:Women at the Olympics and Paralympics really need to exist? It is only transcluded on to one page and seems to cherry pick articles that the creator thinks are of good quality. Additionally I've raised a number of concerns over material in Netball and the Olympic Movement on the articles talk page, I personally can't see how it ever made it to GA and Women's sport at the Olympics seems to be made up only of text from the Netball article so should the two be merged in some way? Basement12 (T. C) 13:40, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello: If you are in the Singapore area, I am hoping to get some people accredited as reporters, for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. Visit Wikinews' project area to submit your name, and be considered for our official bid. -- Zanimum ( 留言) 2010年3月22日 (一) 14:55 (UTC) Just puting a comment so I can date it and get this thread archived by the bot - Basement12 (T. C) 08:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
In the vein of getting as much input as possible, I'm requesting help with reviewing the 1952 Winter Olympics article. I am in the final stages of prepping it for a run at FAC and I'd really appreciate any further input the Olympics Community could give. Keep prose, grammar, content, and MOS compliance in mind. No suggestion or fix is too nit picky. Please either make fixes or leave suggestions on the article's talk page and I'll make the corrections. Thank you so much!!! H1nkles ( talk) citius altius fortius 18:56, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
I removed the icons from Template:2010 Winter Olympics Calendar per WP:OR and have been reverted , in the previous discussion I was under the impression it was agreed these where invented for wiki , which is not allow and thus they all should be removed? Gnevin ( talk) 12:54, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, we are looking for editors that might be interested in working on this project. If you are interested please join and list your name here. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 02:52, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Please note that {{ flag}} and {{ flagicon}} have been nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_June_11. 65.94.47.63 ( talk) 05:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
File:Didrikson.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.47.63 ( talk) 07:08, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
An IP user is adding a section on a discovery of plastic explosives during the Games to 2004 Summer Olympics with the claim that their source is "the archives of the Hellenic N.I.S." and "it is possible to contact the department of Interpol in Athens, or apply to the Ministry of Citizens Protection to verify the validity of the section". A quick search of news and the web reveals no mention of this so I've reverted a couple of times and left a note about WP:V at the article's talk page and at the talk page of the last IP address to add the section (not sure if they'll see it as the changes have come from more than 1 IP). Anyway the point is I've reverted a couple of times and don't want to invoke 3RR, as it isn't clear vandalism, so I'd appreciate it if someone else could keep an eye on things and have a go at reasoning with/assisting the IP if needed. Thanks - Basement12 (T. C) 20:58, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
is it really necessary to have these pages with current format ? these pages are already very big, and it's just the start of the qualification period ! in other sports, we have many different ways to qualify but in Athletics and Swimming it's very simple. I think only a summary + Qualification standards are enough. Mohsen1248 ( talk) 10:05, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
I'll get started on Venues of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics if I can find adequate sourcing. Are there generally good places to look regarding venues? NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 00:55, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
+ [1] Please refer the candidate file about venues of the Games. Realidad y Illusion ( talk) 13:28, 9 July 2011 ( KST)
According to this source [2] Djibouti did not compete at the 2004 Olympics, and the country page indicates it did but the events listed are either false or they didn't start. Do we remove Djibouti from the list of nations at the 2004 Games? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 03:42, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on the 1960 Winter Olympics and found out that Greece missed these Games. I think it was the only Games Greece has missed. My question is why did they skip these Games? I can't find an answer and since Greece always plays a key role in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies I'd like to put something in the article on it. Anyone have a source that explains their absence? Thanks. H1nkles ( talk) citius altius fortius 18:16, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Which logo is the correct one? This one or the one located at the 2014 Winter Olympics page? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 15:42, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
The template {{
times}} is now available, to display a typographically correct 'times' character (×
in HTML); for eample 4{{times}}100m relay
renders as 4×100m relay.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits
20:09, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
File:Sochi 2014 - Logo.svg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. The background of this is that the nominator, Tbhotch. ™, wanted to put the logo on Commons because he feels it is not original. I opposed that because it is the opinion of the legal counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation that this logo passes the threshold of originality. Plus there was a complaint letter from the IOC when the file was briefly on Commons. So now in order to make his point, Tbhotch. ™ has nominated it for deletion. Hektor ( talk) 08:19, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
Please see the discussion here. Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 08:32, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Should participants in sports events be named or listed by their use names at the time of the event? For example, should Babe Didriksen (Zaharias) always be named or listed as Babe Didriksen regarding a time in her life when she used that name? (Frankly I am surprised that her biography is " Babe Zaharias" but that is another matter, titling biographies.)
P.S. First I checked the one-time mother and sister projects Sports and Sports Results, which are named here. -- P64 ( talk) 19:33, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
According to some reports the All Africa Games are being used as a qualification tournament for some sports, however some other reports are saying since the All Africa Games are not being run by the NOC's that they are not a qualification tournament. My question is which is it. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 20:53, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
The Olympic Games database from Sports Reference has been a major source of data and references in Olympics-related lists, many of them currently featured on Wikipedia. The standard reference format we've been using — Last name, First name. "Title of page". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved (Date) — was as suggested by one of the website authors.
However, during a FLC, a reviewer commented that the formatting ought to be simplified — Last name, First name. "Title of page". Olympics. Sports Reference. Retrieved (Date). At first, I did not see any reason for that, since we are following the original author's request for referencing format... but then his arguments were not entirely unjustified and deserved some thought. That's why I decided to address this situation to this project: to have some more opinions and discuss a change that, if carried through, would affect hundreds of pages. Parutakupiu ( talk) 15:36, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Many (all) of the Olympic medal tables use the image File:Sort none.gif to describe how to sort the columns. Since the 1.18 update that icon has changed so it doesn't make sense. As sorting is now simpler and more obvious perhaps the whole sentence can go. violet/riga [talk] 17:24, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
I believe a winner of Olympic medals has been omitted from the year of 1900 - the name is Harold Segerson Mahony Born in Edinburgh 1867 and stayed in Charlotte Square Edinburgh. I do believe he won the Silver Medal in the men's single tennis Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page).event and a bronze in the doubles event.
Please see "The Independent" article of the 31st. January 2010 which will help to substantiate my views. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.145.213.203 ( talk) 14:33, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
I just created the template (below) and associated articles detailing each nation's flag bearers.
I'm not going to go through adding the sports to each list but I did for the GBR one as an example. violet/riga [talk] 13:04, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
There is no award listing for 2005, But it is recorded elsewhere that Shirley Babashoff was given the award in 2005. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.25.87.7 ( talk) 06:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone know which country wears these colours? John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:20, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
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What should be the title of an article about any National Olympic Committee? Should it be in native language or in English? Like for Germany we've Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund and for France it's French Olympic Committee (a wrong translation of Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français). IMHO there must have been some convention. — Bill william compton Talk 13:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
The 2020 bid articles all have "See also" sections which link to other bid articles, in addition to having a navigation box which already serves this function. WP:SEEALSO says this double-linking should not be allowed as a general rule, but MusicGeek101 who has insisted on keeping the "See also" sections argues that having the section allows users to navigate more easily.
I think the navigation boxes serve their purpose well enough and am here to seek consensus on this. — Yk Yk Yk talk ~ contrib 20:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
There was no real discussion here with other members about removing the see also section. Just now I went to one of the bid pages and tried to get to another bid page and got confused on how to get there because of this removal. Once again, I maintain my position that removing the see also section makes it more difficult to navigate the pages. If I just had an issue getting from one page to the next, surely someone who is less tech savvy than me would struggle. I am fine with removing the see also section once the bidding process is over and a host city is elected. At the time being, people are interested in this bidding process. I doubt they care about who bid for 2012 or even 2016 for that matter. My stance is that I am against removal of the see also section. I think for a change to be made, that we would need more than two people discussing this (one for, one against). Secondly, I created four out of the six articles on the bids. I created the pages for the Baku, Doha, Madrid and Tokyo bids. My comittment to the cause is real. I was actually waiting for someone else to come around and start the articles but once the Sept 1 bid deadline came I figured I would do it and in doing so I wanted consistency and I wanted pages which were easy to read and navigate. Wikipedia should not be complicated. Its great that people can access a free encyclopedia on the internet. If they can get something for free then we should still do our best to make sure the pages are easy to read and navigate. -- MusicGeek101 ( talk) 15:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
If there are any Australians lurking around, Wikimedians to the Games is a collaboration drive to improve Australian Paralympic articles, with the most active contributors having an opportunity to go attend the Paralympic Games and to cover the Games behind the scenes with a press pass. The top two contributors will get their airfare and accommodation paid for. :) The drive official starts on 10 January 2012. -- LauraHale ( talk) 09:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello if women's sports fascinate you: WikiProject Women's sport and Portal:Women's sport, -- Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève ( talk) 23:56, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Olympics will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in the Olympics. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 21:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I've read the information at WP:NOLYMPICS, but how far do we go in considering an athlete notable? Take Paul Côté for example; someone who won one bronze medal with only a stub. Is this really necessary? Wouldn't it be sufficient to just reference him in the relevant medal summary? — JmaJeremy talk contribs 21:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Category:Olympic shooting venues has been proposed to be speedy renamed to Category:Olympic shooting ranges ... 65.92.181.184 ( talk) 11:45, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Would it be possible to add a parameter to {{ flagIOC}} that would allow the IOC flag to be displayed over the nation's flag? The parameter would address the issue of the correct representation of Netherlands Antilles athletes. I would think that the change would be similar to the one made at the {{ flagPASO}} template, where, when the template is used, the link will be to the "Netherlands Antilles at the Pan American Games" but the flagicon would display the PASO flag. Thanks! Prayerfortheworld ( talk) 04:05, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
A request has been made for this portal to be portal peer review. Contributions and suggestions are welcome. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 15:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed a bunch of articles I have edited and have been watching showing up with a bot removing the category -name of country- flag bearers at the Summer Olympics based upon a nearly four year old discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 15 that had all of one single vote to delete the category and two others to listify. Personally I think being selected to carry one's flag is a significant honor among Olympic athletes. I would think those of us who recognize the significance of the Olympics also will recognize the honor this has amongst the already notable athletes of the Olympics. Perhaps the reason this bot missed the categories is subsequent to the decision, other editors have added the more country specific categories. Its deleting the edits, work of many other editors who obviously thought this was significant. The question is: how do we reverse this short sighted, poorly discussed, ancient decision? Trackinfo ( talk) 03:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I made a request here for promotion to Featured portals. Any suggestion or contribution is welcome. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 18:38, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Year | Athletes | Events | Medals | Rank | |||
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Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | ||||
2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Totals | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Hi, I have a small question and I hope you can help. I'm having a problem in these wikitables. Look at the column "Athletes" and do you think the number in "Totals" should 4 (2+2) or 2 as it is now, because both years same athletes competed. Either way it's actually logical, but summed up number (4) would be easier to count. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 19:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
I have initiated a discussion on WP:RM ( here) on the naming standard of subevents articles.
The question is: should articles be named "Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men" or "Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament" (or something else).
Please share your thoughts on the subject, so we can achieve consistency in article naming.
HandsomeFella ( talk) 15:32, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
The
template was recently redirected to the
one. A move I have since reverted. For clarity, the former template has links to the actual general sport articles, while the latter template links to the "X at the Summer Olympics" sub-set of articles. The main issue is that User:Koavf and I disagree on whether it is feasible that a reader would want to navigate between the sport articles themselves, and not just solely the "at Olympics" ones. For example, I believe it is highly likely that a reader might want to move from Athletics (sport) to Swimming (sport) on the grounds that these are both Olympic sports. What are others' opinions? Is there consensus to redirect the template or maintain the distinctions? SFB 19:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Cyclist Pollack rode in the qualifying rounds of the men's team pursuit at the 2000 Games, as a member of the German team. This German team later won the gold medal, but Pollack was not a member of this team in the final. Is it likely that he received a golden medal for this? (His current article does not even mention this result, I wanted to add this, but I don't know if I should add the relevant categories and infoboxes for golden medalists.)-- EdgeNavidad ( Talk · Contribs) 07:35, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
There is an obscure list about Olympic sized pools in Ireland that is the subject of a heated dispute (RFC and RM) Talk:List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the Republic of Ireland related to these terms--Olympic-sized, Olympic-standard, and 50 meter pool. I just closed the RM returning the title to the pre-RFC title. The RFC is still ongoing. Expert input from those familar with Olympic swimming would be useful. Thanks -- Mike Cline ( talk) 12:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Isn't it time to have a 2026 winter article? There's already a 2028 summer article, and the 2022 article already contains information about 2026 potential bids. 70.24.251.208 ( talk) 07:46, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI: I've posted an issue in Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2012 June 4 that reflects a lot of copy and paste in articles about events in the 2012 Olympics. Location ( talk) 20:32, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Just under a hundred
articles still refer to the old sort icon,
, instead of the new sort icon,
, and 80% of those articles are for this (or the Paralympic) project. It just requires a minor change of "none" to "both".
Mark Hurd (
talk)
15:09, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_June_17#Template:Olympic_sports The discussion stalled and needs consensus. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:11, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
I've been absent around here for a while but hopefully I'm not entirely forgotten by members of this Project.... Based upon by experience of previous Games I'd like to put forward a number of articles that should be kept up to date and up to a decent standard as a matter of priority because casual/occasional users editing related articles are likely to follow the lead. My area of expertise is particularly around Country at xxxx Games and as we already have a set of guidelines (which admittedly I helped write) for these I'd like to suggest that key articles to focus on are United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Russia, China and (of course) Great Britain. Particular emphasis should be placed on how to keep these and related articles down to a manageable length. Similar key articles probably exist for "Event" at xxxx Summer Olympics and "Sport" at xxxx Summer Olympics pages and I'd appreciate suggestions for what these may be - Basement12 (T. C) 00:15, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Olympics for a Signpost article to be published days before this year's opening ceremony. 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) 06:59, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
I have nominated List of 1936 Winter Olympics medal winners for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by JeepdaySock ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 29 November 2010 22:14, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
I have discovered source materials for a large number of Olympic articles, that were formerly housed at http://www.aafla.com have been moved to the new domain http://www.la84foundation.org. From what I can determine, they have not changed the locations of the reports, so the rest of the link should remain correct. You can see the change I made in this edit. So the bot needs to wholesale change domain names only. I don't know how to get approval for such a bot nor whom to contact to have the work done.
WP:OR speaking indirectly with a librarian associated with the organization (now the LA 84 Foundation, the remains of the 1984 LAOOC), they underwent a formal name change and are deliberately trying to expunge the previous name. Inside the office, there is a fine for mentioning the previous name. Trackinfo ( talk) 22:14, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Is a person who has participated in a demonstration game at a summer Olympics automatically notable per WP:NOLYMPICS? The guideline doesn't mention demonstration games, but it also doesn't exclude them. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:17, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Help is needed on Netball and the Olympic Movement article. The article has been locked due to a serious content dispute. Many of the sources are not reliable and are being misinterpreted or misapplied. The article in its present form has serious POV problems. Please read the talk page and join in the efforts to fix it. Thank you. 68.188.61.6 ( talk) 13:24, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in setting up and / or participating in an Olympic/Paralympic WikiCup? Modeled kind of after the Bacon Wiki Cup? Have it run from say a week before the opening ceremony for the Olympics and a week after the Paralympics? I can probably offer two prizes: Some book about the Olympics, a print of an Olympic related commons image, and a Pediapress book.
Points for the following things about the Olympics/Paralympics:
Category | Points |
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Fully reliably source an article of 100+ words (partially sourced) | 2 |
Adding a relevant picture to an article without one | 2 |
Adding a complete infobox for articles with out them | 2 |
Fully reliably source an article of 500+ words (partially sourced) | 5 |
Fully reliably source an article of 100+ words (completely unsourced) | 5 |
Comprehensive (no quick pass/fail) GA review | 5 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 25+ words | 5 |
Fully reliably source an article of 1,000+ words (partially sourced) | 10 |
Fully reliably source an article of 500+ words (completely unsourced) | 10 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 100+ words | 10 |
Fully reliably source an article of 1,000+ words (completely unsourced) | 20 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 500+ words | 20 |
Create/improve an article for DYK | 25 |
Publish a Wikinews article | 25 |
Get an image or other media to featured on English Wikipedia or Commons | 25 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 1,000+ words | 30 |
Substantially contribute to, nominate, and follow through an article for GA | 50 |
Substantially contribute to, nominate, and follow through an article for FL | 50 |
This way, lots of way for people to participate across different projects. :) -- LauraHale ( talk) 06:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
One competed in Rugby in 1924, the other was a spy. Are they actually the same person? Please comment at Talk:Linn Farrish D O N D E groovily Talk to me 03:43, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
I have made a proposition to harmonise most of the templates in Category:Medal infobox templates. mPlease contribute to the discussion here. SFB 16:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Are they actually called this officially and have they been assigned IOP as their IOC country code? IOP has not been used since 1992 and was used for an existing nation being sanctioned. IOA was used more recently (2000) for a newly independent nation that had not yet formed an NOC. IOC has apparently been used for Kuwait at Asian games. If no source can be found for what they are called and which country code they have been assigned, I think they should be referred to as "Netherlands Antillean athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics", with no country code given, as that it what we know as of today. 88.88.163.201 ( talk) 15:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Olympic sports has recently undergone a Good Article Reassessment and been delisted. This article should be considered one of the project's flagship pages so any help to get it back up to GA status would be appreciated - Basement12 (T. C) 16:03, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Olympic Games is a FA that has not been presented on the main page. I think it should be on July 27, for reasons that should be obvious for members of this project. This can be discussed and voted on at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Can someone check so it is in extra good shape for the event? -- Ettrig ( talk) 12:53, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
FreeBMD record the birth of 'Davis, John Creyghton A' [not Davies] for births registered in Aberystwyth in June 1895. The copy of the original register gives the spelling of the surname as Davis, not Davies.
Births Jun 1895
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Davis John Creyghton A Aberystwith 11b 55 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.206.69.221 ( talk) 11:52, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Comments are welcome at
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#"Olympic Games" (grammatical number) (version of
21:39, 4 July 2012).
—
Wavelength (
talk)
02:46, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a special holding area for DYK hooks that have been approved and are about the Olympics. These will run during the two weeks of the Olympics. At the moment, most of the DYKs there are about people from the Australia, with a few people from the USA and the Great Britain. It would be great to see more countries represented in DYK-land. :) Support your country. Improve articles related to your country's Olympic movement ahead of the Games. ;) -- LauraHale ( talk) 11:12, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed within the past few days an editor has made massive changes to the formatting within the nations at the 2012 Olympics articles. In the sections for Athletics (track and field), the results were previously ordered by event. So all the runners in 100m for the country would be in consecutive columns, then all the runners in the 200m, and so on. The editor has changed it so the athletes are listed alphabetically regardless of events. So the 100m runners may be an opposite ends of the table depending on where their last names falls in the alphabet. I think these changes ought to be reversed for procedural and substantive reasons. Procedurally, such a massive formatting overhaul should go through discussion and consensus. I don't see any of that. If that has occurred, can some please direct me to the Talk page where it occurred. It appears this massive change is a unilateral action without any Talk page discussion or even edit summaries. Furthermore, it is not consistent with the predominant formatting that existed before. Substantively, I find the organization by event to be better. Since the nation articles are organized by sport, it makes sense to organize it within each sport by event rather than by individual. Furthermore, if I'm looking at the nation article, I often want to see how that nation's contingent in an event did. It's very frustrating to have to search through a table to see where the various marathoners have been dispersed. Organizing alphabetically by last name to the detriment/disruption of organizing by event has drawbacks that heavily outweigh its benefits. If you know the name of a person, it shouldn't be hard to find their various events. The reader is likely to have a good idea of which events the athlete competed in and can even go that athletes article. The disruption in splitting up the athletes that competed in the same event by putting first priority on last name is frustrating. I plan to start changing massive formatting change back to the original format while this is issue is discussed (unless someone can point out consensus otherwise already exists). -- JamesAM ( talk) 00:03, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
This may not be appropriate but I couldn't easily find any members of this project who specialize in Olympic weightlifting.
Is it possible for a country to send three athletes to the same weightlifting weight class? -- TheShadowCrow ( talk) 21:03, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Shouldn't Kuwait at the 2012 Summer Olympics be deleted and the contents merged with Independent Olympic Participants at the 2012 Summer Olympics? Topcardi ( talk) 10:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I have a problem for the page, Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The administrator wants to protect the page, and then revert the page into its own. I have noticed some parts that are against our edit summaries. The tables are in forced widths and the administrator didn't want to adjust the tables properly in which these will trigger display problems once the results are filled in. Moments later, the administrator decided to protect its page in which no other user is allowed to edit. I have done fixing the page already five times, and suddenly discarded them. What shall we do? Raymarcbadz ( talk) 14:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi everybody. Quick question. I saw the previous discussion on this topic
here. I have nothing against this, but still I would like to ask for an opinion on some other things. More precise. How should individual athletes be categorized? There are four different categories (with their subcategories). For some of them it is clear who qualifies for them, for some not so much:
1.
Category:Olympic competitors as Independent Olympic Participants This one is clear. Here goes only competitors from 1992 Olympics (as far as ex-Yu is concerned).
2.
Category:Olympic competitors for Serbia This one is also clear. Only competitors from 2008 onwards.
3.
Category:Olympic competitors for Serbia and Montenegro Now this is a bit tricky one. Only thing certain is that it should include competitors from 2004 and 2006 Olympics.
4.
Category:Olympic competitors for Yugoslavia Another tricky one. It's however clear that it should include competitors until 1990.
This leaves a question mark for competitors for FR Yugoslavia, from 1996 until 2002. Most of them are currently in the category of Yugoslav Olympic competitors. Which is kind of logical. Since they indeed competed for country named Yugoslavia. However. Should they all be transferred to categories Serbia and Montenegro Olympic competitors? Since all of the results in period from 1996 until 2006 are being summarized under that name? Nightfall87 ( talk) 12:29, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
I think there should be 3 particular categories:
1. Olympic competitiors for Yugoslavia (1920 Summer games - 1992 winter games) 2. Olympic competitors as Independent Olympic Participants (1992 summer games) 3. Olympic competitiors for Serbia and Montenegro (1996 summer games - 2006 winter games)
Olympic medalists for FR Yugoslavia then should be moved in category Olympic medalists of Serbian and Montenegro? FR Yugoslavian medals aren't SFRY medals -- Backij ( talk) 12:43, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
A question has been raised with regards to the little icons that seem to be placed in many of the nation articles' section headers. As an example, look at the headers for sports in this article. I had removed the icons from several articles before I had come to realize that this may have been a vestige of a decision passed by this WikiProject. It is sensible that the images should be removed ( MOS:HEAD), but I am curious if there had been some kind of precedent that was set and if there is any reason why these header icons should stay. -- Starstriker7( Talk) 20:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
There are still editors adding images to section headers, despite the policies on MOS:HEAD that explicitly state they should not be included. Would it not be appropriate to send a reminder out to all project members talk pages regarding this? Wesley Mouse 08:46, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
On Jasna Šekarić the medal record correctly indicates that she "Competed as an Independent Participant. On the other two medallists' articles ( Aranka Binder and Stevan Pletikosić) this is is rendered as "Competitor for Competed as an Independent Participant". I have tried to copy from the correct article to the other two, but the previews showed that I was unsuccessful. I hope someone with experience with the template can fix it. In case it is browser related I'll mention that the issue was discovered while using Internet Explorer 9. 88.88.164.233 ( talk) 21:11, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
How can these be populated yet? I thought they existed to cat people who had actually competed at the games, not those listed to compete? How does anyone know that the 109 swimmers will actually compete? I don't advocate deletion, as they'll be recreated in <10 days' time anyway, but I think some care is needed to ensure the people in them did compete. Lugnuts ( talk) 11:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Like list of Olympic torch relays. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 19:44, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
According to the London 2012 official website, the Dutch Antillean athletes will compete as "Independent Olympic Athletes" (IOA) not "Independent Olympic Participants" (IOP). The code IOA was used in 2000 for East Timorese athletes under the name " Individual Olympic Athletes". And now? See Talk:2012 Summer Olympics#Independent Olympic Participants at the 2012 Summer Olympics should be renamed. Jonas kam ( talk) 07:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
I have started updating Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Summer articles/NOC table. I have two questions.
Hektor ( talk) 17:31, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
For a long time WP has had templates for basketball and swimming teams such as {{ United States Men Basketball Squad 2008 Summer Olympics}} and {{ Footer USA Swimming 2004 Summer Olympics}}. I have noticed that {{ Footer USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics}} was created.
Here is a historical one that may serve as an example {{ Footer USA Track & Field 1996 Summer Olympics}}, I may produce a few others.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
I have a question. The template containing the name of the athlete should be added at the bottom of the same article of the athlete, as for any navigational template? -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 10:21, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
The track & field ones will take me a while to create, but I have created a few of these for boxing and gymnastics:
I am not going to create any more, but will work on the categories. Hopefully, others will fill in the rest of the years:-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 14:57, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
With the games starting in less than a week, would it be a good time to start a drive to gain new members and to update the membership list or is it too late? J36miles ( talk) 15:30, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
IMHO, the following articles should be deleted - 2022 Winter Olympics, 2024 Summer Olympics & 2028 Summer Olympics. - GoodDay ( talk) 19:33, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion here which I feel would benefit from the input of knowledgeable editors. Evanh2008 ( talk| contribs) 02:23, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. For the 2012 Summer Paralympics, two Wikipedians ( myself and Hawkeye7) are going to London to cover the Games with press credentials acquired through Wikimedia Australia. Covering these Games successfully on Wikinews and Wikipedia provides a fantastic opportunity to use this as leverage to get the Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games in the next few years. The more successful we are at doing on the ground Original Reporting that coincides with Wikipedia article improvements and getting pictures in advance, the better we can use it to get additional access because Wikipedia and Wikinews will have a track record of success. In order to do this, we need your help on Wikinews. The Wikinews part is being organised as Wikinews:Paralympic Games. The main focus needs to be writing Original Reporting. We need people to help copy edit, to take original reporting notes and write them into Wikinews articles, who can hunt down acceptable licenses for pictures to use on articles. (IPC policy only allows a CC-BY-NC kind of license at the events. Not sure accreditation wise we'll be good to go with getting our own images in any case.) We also need people who can help with reviewing. Any assistance you can provide would be very much appreciated. Please sign up at Wikinews:Paralympic Games. :) -- LauraHale ( talk) 22:20, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
'A Reporter's Guide to Sports and Olympics Reporting' is written by Foundation Consultant, Colin McIntyre with contributions from former Reuters Sports Editor Steve Parry, who has covered 19 Olympic Games, and from other Reuters reporters. They guide you through the preparations that will help you, give you an idea of what to expect at the event, warn you of pitfalls, and encourage you to raise your own game as a journalist.
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in
User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 111#Censorship and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Wavelength (
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20:22, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
The IOC has recently given the Nigerian team made up of Bada, Jude Monye, Clement Chukwu and Enefiok Udo-Ubong . A decision was taken to reallocate the medals from 2000 came three years after they had decided to the disqualify the United States team. Jamaica are now the silver medallists and the Bahamas have the bronze medal. Therefore, the information as such should be changed on the page holding Nigeria at the Sydney Olympics 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayofabulous ( talk • contribs) 03:16, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Proposed merge of Quietly Confident Quartet (FA) into Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay (GA). Discussion here. -- jnestorius( talk) 10:36, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
I've kicked off the Chronological summary of the 2012 Summer Olympics with the aim of having it be in a form similar to Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Olympics. I've also asked here whether having a link to the page from the main page's "In the news" section (as I seem to remember happening in 2008) would be appropriate throughout the Games - Basement12 (T. C) 16:09, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Just for a change we have an editor trying to insist that the Great Britain team is in fact called "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and making changes to Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics that imply this. I can't make further changes due to 3:RR but I've started a discussion at Talk:Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Edits by FerrerFour. I've also left notes at User talk:FerrerFour. - Basement12 (T. C) 15:32, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
I am the creator of the article Jade Bailey (footballer) I came here hoping to ask for help in expanding it because you folks presumably know what you're doing. I don't know enough about olympians to do a good article here. I need 1500 characters to get it past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Jade_Bailey_(footballer) . Would you care to help? Regards, Anameofmyveryown ( talk) 12:31, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
1988 Seoul Olympics Oath, Mi-Na Son is miss-typed as Mi-Na Shon. The problem is that the miss-typed version is consistent not only within the wiki but throughout the whole internet. I am the native speaker of Korean, and, trust me, there is no "Shon" in Korean. Of course, the article of "Mi-Na 'Shon'" has a reference, and I confirmed that the reference refers her name as 'Shon'. Then, I found out that the reference is not official. I visited the official Olympics record "www.olympics.org", and then I found there that the name "Mi-Ha Son" comes consistently just at the place where "Mi-Na Shon" should be.
I think that "H" is mis-writing of "N" occured by handwriting, and "Shon" is mis-"copy and paste". I know that I cannot change the title of the article myself, as the issue does not seem to be obvious to the non-native speakers, so I came here with the topic. I wish that this argument is convincing.
For more details, "Son" is sometimes written as "Sohn" so I suspect that there is a possibility that "Mi-na Sohn" is correct, but I couldn't find other references. I think we should follow the official record and write in "Mi-Na Son". W890702 ( talk) 10:20, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
In reference to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_Olympics#Medals_by_Summer_Games
There is a medal count table which displays China's rank as #1 for the 2008 games. China won the most gold medals, but not the most total medals. This column should be removed or renamed as it is ambiguous. Furthermore, the IOC does not endorse a Global Ranking:
The Charter goes even further in Chapter 5, section 58, expressly prohibiting the IOC from producing an official ranking:
“ | The IOC and the OCOG shall not draw up any global ranking per country. A roll of honour bearing the names of medal winners and those awarded diplomas in each event shall be established by the OCOG and the names of the medal winners shall be featured prominently and be on permanent display in the main stadium. | ” |
— International Olympic Committee |
According to Australian IOC member Kevan Gosper, the IOC began to accommodate medals tables in 1992, releasing 'information' based on the 'gold first' standard. [1] The medal tables provided on its website carry this disclaimer:
“ | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not recognise global ranking per country; the medal tables are displayed for information only. Furthermore, the results that we publish are official and are taken from the "Official Report" - a document published for each Olympic Games by the Organising Committee. However, for the first Olympic Games (until Antwerp in 1920), it is difficult to give the exact number of medals awarded to some countries, due to the fact that teams were composed of athletes from different countries. The medal tables by country are based on the number of medals won, with gold medals taking priority over silver and bronze. A team victory counts as one medal. | ” |
— International Olympic Committee [2] |
Evan ( talk) 15:09, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
why is there no mention of NI ? its all GB in the games. do we not exist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.121.69.96 ( talk) 16:02, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on implementing a Olympics-specific importance scale. Please comment at the Assessment talk page. Thanks, ThaddeusB ( talk) 16:08, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have to remind all Wikipedia users working on the Olympics to follow the manual of the Olympics as a project by Wikipedia. I have done and updated all the articles related to the Olympics, particularly on the countries competing in different sports. I have noticed that several users are not following on the manual, and I kept on revising and editing the results of those who are currently competing at the Olympics. For the {{n/a|Bye}} template, it is already satisfied since Basement12 approved it. However, putting "Did not advance" or vice versa for the {{n/a}} template is more confusing than the standard template of {{n/a}}. It would be better if you simply put "Did not advance" without any background color, and always follow the manual WP:OLYMOSNAT to make things better, and to update and place results easily at a definite time. Thank you, and I hope you understand and follow what I said, and what is stipulated from the manual. (T. C) 17:05, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello WP:Olympics! In the course of my going about making sure some articles were properly categorized, namely in this case Wodjan Shaherkani, I realized that there are a number of sports where we don't have gendered categories, making it harder especially (I think) to find articles on women competitors. May I propose creating and populating Category:Female judoka, Category:Female taekwondo practitioners, etc.? Because of the very large number of articles involved, I'm reluctant to take on this task solo. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 17:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
If you look at Category:Olympics stubs, you'll see it contains about 600 articles. About 1/3 of those have "2012" somewhere in their title, (i.e., Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom C-1, Chad at the 2012 Summer Olympics).
Those articles all contain either {{
Olympics-stub}}
or {{
Olympic-stub}}
where they should have {{
2012-Olympic-stub}}
.
Is there a bot that can easily update all these articles? I've been doing them by hand slowly, but a bot seems to make a lot more sense.
Alternatively, given that this would likely be a one-time process, is there a simple way someone fairly geeky can babysit a process that does it semi-automatically? If it doesnt involve using Windows, I'm up for it.
Thanks, Dori ☾ Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 23:59, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I am just wondering what the convention should be for joint positions (I have already looked on the manual of style and seen no instruction). I ask because some articles display for example =32 but others do not include an equals sign. Should all joint results be shown with some kind of notation like an equals sign or should they be completely neglected? Airelivre ( talk) 18:41, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Are there any established conventions on how to handle sports that were only ever held at one Olympic Games? A lot of these sports have two articles each; one called, for example, Cannon shooting at the Summer Olympics, and another called, for example, Cannon shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics. In most cases, one of these articles is redundant, so I want to go through and merge/redirect them, but I don't know which title would be preferred. I'd be more inclined to keep the "X at the [year] Summer/Winter Olympics" articles and redirect the broader "X at the Summer/Winter Olympics" ones, but I don't know if that would make them inconsistent with the other "sports at the Olympics" articles (especially since I'd have to rename several articles that only exist at the broader title, like budo and angling). This is probably a trivial issue, and I'm not sure if I'm explaining it very clearly, but any advice would be appreciated. DoctorKubla ( talk) 20:03, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
This is detailed in the article for Shin A Lam, but not in the Epee event page - I think it is needed there, otherwise unless you search the specific athlete you would not even see it had occurred. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_%C3%A9p%C3%A9e — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.13.11.226 ( talk) 10:18, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
If anyone wants to start filling out the athletics pages with the start lists they are available from here. I have added entry lists to some of the events happening on the first day already (athletics starts tomorrow/Aug 3). SFB 17:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Please see this discussion. Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 11:28, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
On a slightly related note, I nominated Brooklyn Kerlin at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brooklyn Kerlin... L.tak ( talk) 15:02, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Does the project use any guidelines? I've been updating the tables for all nations as I see medal events end, and the tables are wildly different. Date formats (dmy or mdy) are one thing, but 1) Some tables don't even have the date cell, 2) some abbreviate August to "Aug" 3) some use {{ sortname}} for the medalists' names, some don't, 4) some use {{ dts}} for the dates, some don't...it gets a bit confusing when one uses the natural shorthand method of copying and pasting code (you can't type all that code out every time). So any guidelines are appreciated. Green-eyed girl ( Talk · Contribs) 14:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed a number of event pages where the "Records" sections (starting Prior to this event, the world and Olympic records were as follows) are being updated with new records as they happen. Am I right in thinking that that's not what's intended? Rawling 4851 15:04, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
On individual nations at the olympics pages, I'm finding the track cycling "Speed (km/h)" field to be a little over emphasised. Being the same size as the time field, it is given equal importance, but really the time field is the crucial one. On the New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Track page I have made the speed field smaller, do people think this is better or not?. Rudolph89 talk 01:42, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the discussion on IOC country names was opened in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Flag Template#Some lacking data (aliases, military).... -- Virtpedia ( talk) 16:28, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
There are many copyright violations in the "Competition format" section of quite a few articles pertaining to events in the 2012 Olympics. If you are interested in helping out, please see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Pedrocampelo. Thanks! Location ( talk) 13:46, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:TeamMedalWinner has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
DH85868993 (
talk)
10:33, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
In just about every event at the 2012 games, the Competition format section of the article is a copy and paste from london2012.com. Kevin McE ( talk) 21:30, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Apologies if this is not the correct forum, but the main image used in the article for the London 1948 Games appears to be a user created image. It does not resemble any available photographic examples of posters/images used at the time, nor is it consistent with the official games poster which is widely available online (either style of imagery or typography). The article does not cite a source of the image used.
Given the importance of the article particularly as the London 2012 games are ongoing, could this be looked at by someone with more experience in editing Wikipedia articles than myself? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.6.214.238 ( talk) 17:40, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I've been looking at Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's vault and Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic qualification articles, trying to understand the results of the vault competitions. There are various notes about falls, but they don't seem to match up to the indicated "penalty" column, in any readily comprehensible way. Maroney fell on her second vault on the final, but the penalty (of 0.3) appears against her first vault. Peña did fall on her first vault, and her penalty appears there, but it's only 0.1. And Peña also fell in the qualifiers, but no penalty at all is noted there. Are these different "grades" of fall, or am I misunderstanding in a more fundamental way? Are the falls instead assessed against the "B score" (seemingly synonymous with "E score", as in "execution")? I do get that a "failure to land" type of fall, like Black's, gets no score at all. If so, what on earth are the penalties?
In order to make this a little more newbie-friendly, can the article make this a but more explicit, either in-line or with suitable internal or external links? (I'll leave a note at WP:gymnastics, though I'm not sure how active that is, relative to here.) 84.203.38.241 ( talk) 01:04, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports#Naming principle?. -- Virtpedia ( talk) 08:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I tried to fix Template:2012OlympicAthleticsSchedule for the Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles. I at least have the event in the right day. I am going to go to sleep and it would take me quite some time to fix it any further to get both parts in the A session.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 08:23, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Someone pinged me and asked if {{ United States at the Olympics}} was redundant with the infobox, which I found odd because an infobox is an odd place to put navbox content. I don't know if a decision was made somewhere, but some of these pages are quite long and a navbox could be useful. I am just letting everybody know that the template has been created and placed on the various pages.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 02:51, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I have created {{ Footer USA Volleyball 1996 Summer Olympics}} and {{ Footer USA Volleyball 2012 Summer Olympics}}. I am seeing {{ USA Squad 2008 Men's Olympic Volleyball Championship}} on a lot of the 2012 team member pages. Am I defining the team incorrectly with the templates I have created? Should I delete them?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:04, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at Talk:1992_United_States_men's_Olympic_basketball_team#Reqested_move to rename "1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team" to "Dream Team (basketball)".— Bagumba ( talk) 17:47, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Several articles/events of this year's olympics are not consistent. Once the Games are over we need to spend a week or 2 redoing this. Also sources are missing on most. (eg: fencing doesnt adequately summarise the scored per round, which is more encyclopaedic than the current social media posting of results). So im asking for volunteers for this [short term[] task force and to identify way to make it consistent across displicines and events Lihaas ( talk) 01:03, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia:WikiProject Gymnastics seems fairly inactive, I am bringing this here. Gymnastic team templates such as {{ Olympic champions artistic gymnastics Women TC}} and {{ NavigationWorldChampionsArtisticGymnasticsWomenTC}} both are included in several bio articles such as Gabrielle Douglas even though they only have links to country articles. Either we need to add names to these templates like {{ Footer Olympic Champions 4x200 m Freestyle Relay Men}} and {{ Footer World LC Champions 4x200m Freestyle Men}}, add functionality to them like {{ Footer World Champions 4 x 100 m Men}} and {{ Footer Olympic Champions 4x100 m Men}} have (see Carl Lewis) or remove them from bio articles.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:25, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. We need one more issue resolved. I had created this version of the men's team template (which has been moved to a different name). Ahmad123987 ( talk · contribs) has since split the template into smaller templates such as {{ Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Team All-Around (2008 - 2028)}}, to make the content look less busy. I have some problems with this decision. 1.)I believe it is the only gymnastics template that is split making it look inconsistent with other templates, 2.) not even the women's template is likely to need to be split when expanded (next on my agenda), 3.) I have not noticed any other Olympic sports splitting templates in this manner, 4.) These splits are often driven by interwiki page overload as in the case of acting award templates on pages such as Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep which are on interwiki heavy bio pages and split because many actors would have well over a dozen templates with over 100 links on average causing them to approach the upper bound on interwiki links on a page, but instead have split templates that have been created uniformly across various template types. Are we better off with a single template split in this manner when it is inconsistent with other similar templates and not mandated by interwiki software limitations. The split reduces the easy of navigation, which is the purpose of the template, IMO.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
So I guess that idea of conditionally showing the teams only the bottom of the template according to the Games is discarded? I quite preferred it... Parutakupiu ( talk) 19:24, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
It looks like {{ Olympic champions artistic gymnastics Women TC}} has been converted to take this discussion into account. I had created {{ Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around}} and was about to use it on many pages. It seems redundant now. I just checked 2012. Have the bios for all years been given the new wrinkle?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:13, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
What do people think of Olympic medals by teams? To me it seems to be exactly the kind of WP:OR on counting medals that we usual discourage - there don't seem to be any sources for it other than counting them up yourself and the rankings certainly shouldn't be there. I'm inclined to AFD it if there aren't any (reasoned) objections - Basement12 (T. C) 00:54, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Evan ( talk) 17:32, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if this article is needed as a stand-alone. If not, must it be merged into Olympics on NBC? -- George Ho ( talk) 21:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
See WP:TFD for August 11, where several olympics templates have been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.247.242 ( talk) 05:09, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
What we do is being noticed - Mossop, Brian (2011-08-10). "How Wikipedia Won Olympic Gold | Playbook". Wired.com. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
I believe there is a system for "taking note" of such media attention - there's a page where such "press clippings" are displayed? Roger ( talk) 06:52, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
I am not a member of this project, though I am helping out on the Chinese Taipei at the 2012 Summer Olympics at present. However, there is an inconsistency in the naming of the pages. I am referring to Macedonia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The official IOC nomenclature is Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, due to opposition from the government of Greece. Shouldn't the names of Olympic pages dealing with Macedonia be changed accordingly to maintain consistency? ludahai 魯大海 ( talk) 13:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I have just noticed that there is no article for Olympism AKA Olympic Ideal, one of the most important aspects of the olympics. I understand that these days the olympics have more to do with records and fame, but Olympism is above all else, the primary legacy of the Olympic games (in the Olympic Charter the first chapter's second paragraph is dedicated to Olympism). What is exceptionally weird though is that wikipedia does not have an article about it. There is a redirect to the Olympic Charter which is invalid in my opinion, since the olympic charter is not Olympism. The charter tries to protect the olympic ideals. A quick link for Olympism: http://www.pe04.com/olympic/olympia/ideal_o.php Moumouza ( talk) 19:41, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
It would be very interesting to have graphs showing the medal count evolution through the ages, on articles such as Greece at the Olympics. Ideally, using mediawiki graphs. Pikolas ( talk) 21:14, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
As can be seen in {{ Olympics4x100metres}} older articles have titles like "Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay" (with a letter "x"), while newer articles, with titles like "Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay" use a "times" character.
Also, we could shorten the titles to, say "Women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics" or even "2012 Summer Olympics: Women's 4 × 100 metres relay"
Further shortening could be achieved by removing two spaces, so we use "2012 Summer Olympics: Women's 4×100 metres relay", if the MoS allows this.
Here's a length comparison:
Can we agree which style is best, then get a bot to move the others to a standard-style name? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:04, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
To all the editors who worked tirelessly to keep up with the Summer Olympics I say well done! There were lots of suggestions that had to be sifted through, discussed, adopted or thrown out. There was vandalism to patrol, good-faith edits that had to be scrutinized and at times reverted and a herculean effort undertaken to update thousands of articles as the Games progressed. Your yoeman work does not go unnoticed and I for one sincerely appreciate every person's contributions. H1nkles ( talk) citius altius fortius 16:48, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
This high-importance article is lacking sources and contains doubtful information. It has been tagged for verification problems since 2008. On a related note the medal does not display correctly in the medal boxes (problem with the image). 85.167.39.6 ( talk) 00:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Should this be used for athletes disqualified because of a team-mate caught doping (e.g. Michael Johnson (sprinter))? What about athletes disqualified before the medal ceremony for various infractions (e.g. Churandy Martina)? Should the reason be indicated somehow, in particular to distinguish between doping (or possibly cheating) and other rule infractions? Some athletes disqualified for other reasons than doping: Dorando Pietri, Frederick Lorz and Ara Abrahamian, with only Lorz cheating. Perhaps "Medal|Disqualified team mate" and "Medal|Disqualified for doping" could be added, leaving more special cases to be explained in the athlete's article. 85.167.39.6 ( talk) 00:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
When adding or updating {{ Infobox Olympic event}}, please use the subtemplates now described in its documentation, as I did here. {{ Plainlist}} improves accessibility (see WP:UBLIST); and the date templates emit metadata which will be used by the hCalendar microformat currently awaiting deployment from the infobox's sandbox. Sorry I didn't find out about the template a fortnight ago! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:16, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Now that the Olympics are over I've been going through all the event pages to see any of them are in need of major fixing. In Equestrian I've noticed that the team dressage, individual eventing and team eventing events are far from complete and sadly my knowledge of equestrian is limited and I don't feel fully confident on taking the task. I'm wondering if anyone here has the knowledge of equestian to finish the pages. Worst case scenario is I go to the London 2012 site and attempt to make something based on the results given. JoshMartini007 ( talk) 03:39, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
What do we want to include now (in August 2012) on the 2016 Games pages? For example, should there be an incomplete calendar of events (see {{ 2016 Summer Olympics calendar}}) immediately below the list of sports? Should there be a "Participants" section that lists only Brazil? Should articles such as Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics now have an empty table of medalists (such as in this revision)? Discussion among project members would be welcome. — Andrwsc ( talk · contribs) 05:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I wrote an analysis of all the athletics events, based on viewing the video feeds that everybody else can see. I am watching with my own (I'd like to think its an) expert eye. I am trying to put these accomplishments in historical perspective. Admittedly I do not use totally dry language, that information is in the statics below, but when I write anything that might be accusatory or a BLP violation, I provide the sources to show those are not my words speaking. Such is the case of the showpiece athletics event (OK that's my color speaking) Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres, a heavily viewed and edited article, I ran into a disagreement with another editor, who first deleted my contribution to the article, then when reverted left the silly tag at the top. I have an aversion to this kind of tag in general. I call some cases of it "vandalism" in my user page, because such accusations deface the look of quality for that article and in a larger sense the work of all editors on wikipedia. I particularly don't like it when the accusation is pointed at my work. But it would be inappropriate for me to remove someone else's criticism. So I request someone else review this article. If there is anything inappropriate I wrote, please fix it and remove the tag, so the article can look good again. Trackinfo ( talk) 03:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I have initiated a community reassessment of an article that might be of interest to this project, Netball and the Olympic Movement. The reassessment can be found here. AIRcorn (talk) 08:40, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Three years ago I successfully proposed (
See here) the change of names of the articles about Olympic bids. Since 23 March 2009, they use the standard City bid for the Year Season Olympics
(
London bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics) instead of the previous City Year Olympic bid
(
London 2012 Olympic bid). I know assume that the current title standard is, perhaps, too long and, therefore, I would like to propose a change back to the old standard.
Nevertheless, there are some issues to be addressed:
Here are some possibilities:
Then, I think that would be interesting to call a vote to decide on this matter and invite everyone to make any new suggestions in order to reach a naming convention. I will wait for your comments. Best regards; Felipe Menegaz 22:45, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I also proposed changes on {{ Infobox Olympic bid}}. Please, leave your comments at Template talk:Infobox Olympic bid#Visual changes. Cheers; Felipe Menegaz 01:11, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
I've had a skim through the archives and not seen this mentioned, but feel free to point me to any previous discussions. Looking at my tickets to both the London stadium and the rowing, they both say "You agree that any images, videos or sound recordings of the Games taken by you may only be used for private and domestic purposes and cannot be used for any commercial purposes, whether on the Internet or otherwise." Obviously this wouldn't apply to the non-ticketed events, except for things like the openwater swimming which took place in
Royal Parks which have their own restrictions on photography (you pretty much need to pay for a licence to take photos for anything other than personal use).
I suspect there's large swathes of images taken at the Games which are kicking round Wikipedia on relatively permissive licences allowing commercial use when they shouldn't. I'd be particularly wary of images grabbed off Flickr. Worse, I suspect there's a lot of those images on Commons, which is somewhere they don't belong if they can't be used commercially. An example is
File:Usain Bolt 2012 Olympics 1.jpg, the main photo on
Usain Bolt. This obviously begs the question - were such conditions imposed on ticketholders at previous Games? If so (and I suspect they were), then there may be a lot more images with improper licences. Thoughts anyone?
Le Deluge (
talk)
03:17, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-12/In_the_news for discussion based on 2008. -- Jonel ( Speak to me) 04:36, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Seems like there's not an article for Paralympics classifications? [16] -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 11:12, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Please see the discussion here. Lugnuts ( talk) 13:50, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Just off the top of the list, looking at the first two articles in this series, Afghanistan at the Olympics and Albania at the Olympics I'm seeing vastly different styles of summary tables. I'm sure there must be other inconsistencies, unfortunately, but is anyone working on standardizing these? I especially like the summary table used in Australia at the Olympics, the Summer table. Hopefully, all articles can be brought into that format. Jmj713 ( talk) 05:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
So, anyone willing to assist me with bringing these articles in line with the above? I believe the template is a very good one, but obviously a lot of work for just one person. I'll slowly go through them all alphabetically in time, adding each to my watchlist (as I'm already seeing vandalism to the three I've already completed, Afghanistan, Algeria, and Australia). Hopefully, others will want to join in. Jmj713 ( talk) 19:37, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Cf. Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Chinese Taipei at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Bhutan at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
It Is Me Here t / c 11:39, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
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For the past month, several editors have raised concerns about certain phrases such as "Olympic sport" and "Olympic recognized sport". talk section talk section In addition, a new category was recently created, Category:Olympic recognised sports. We have now received guidance from the Legal Department of the International Olympic Committee which states,
Netball is a sport governed by the International Federation of Netball Associations
(IFNA) which is recognised by the IOC. The IOC doesn't recognise sports as such,
but the Federation which governs such sport.
The propositions of "Olympic sport" or "Olympic recognised sport" are inaccurate.
What, if anything, should we do with this guidance? Can this WikiProject develop a consensus nomenclature? We should also note that "Olympic" is a protected trademark. Thanks, Racepacket ( talk) 09:35, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
[T]he corporation has the exclusive right to use— (4) the words “Olympic”, “Olympiad”, “Citius Altius Fortius”, “Paralympic”, “Paralympiad”, “Pan-American”, “America Espirito Sport Fraternite”, or any combination of those words. 36 U.S.C. § 220506
I am very interested in that quote from the IOC legal department you gave earlier. Do you have a reference to it? And if what you say is true, then I would be in agreement that the term should be changed to something like "IOC recognized sport federations". As a side note, I do feel that you have some type of vendetta against Netball in general and wouldn't be surprised if in fact you asked for the entire deletion of the "Olympic recognized sport" section from the Olympic sport page. I, for one, would like to see that section remain, albeit with the different label I mentioned earlier with clearer language as to what a recognized sport federation means. It must be noted that having a sport federation recognized by the IOC is the first step to being included into the official program and having that list of recognized sport federations on the "Olympic sport" page is important. The IOC has been reviewing the Summer program quite regularly and, as you well know, recently removed Baseball and Softball while adding Rugby and Golf to the 2016 Olympic Games. That means there is the potential for other sports to be added/removed in the future and I think the readers deserve to know which sports are eligible for their inclusion. -- Perakhantu ( talk) 06:58, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
In response to a question at Talk:1924 Summer Olympics I scanned a few of the early Olympics articles and found basically nothing on the Olympic arts competitions. I personally have very little feeling for how important/respected/well docmented they are but would assume that at least some of the info from (e.g.) Art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics should be included in the 1924 Summer Olympics article? Do they for example get mentioned in the official reports - the reports I looked at (available from the LA84 foundation) for 1920 and 1924 were in French (which lets say isn't my strongest language) so it was hard to tell. Is this a subject area that the project is overlooking? Basement12 (T. C) 00:20, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Does Template:Women at the Olympics and Paralympics really need to exist? It is only transcluded on to one page and seems to cherry pick articles that the creator thinks are of good quality. Additionally I've raised a number of concerns over material in Netball and the Olympic Movement on the articles talk page, I personally can't see how it ever made it to GA and Women's sport at the Olympics seems to be made up only of text from the Netball article so should the two be merged in some way? Basement12 (T. C) 13:40, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello: If you are in the Singapore area, I am hoping to get some people accredited as reporters, for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. Visit Wikinews' project area to submit your name, and be considered for our official bid. -- Zanimum ( 留言) 2010年3月22日 (一) 14:55 (UTC) Just puting a comment so I can date it and get this thread archived by the bot - Basement12 (T. C) 08:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
In the vein of getting as much input as possible, I'm requesting help with reviewing the 1952 Winter Olympics article. I am in the final stages of prepping it for a run at FAC and I'd really appreciate any further input the Olympics Community could give. Keep prose, grammar, content, and MOS compliance in mind. No suggestion or fix is too nit picky. Please either make fixes or leave suggestions on the article's talk page and I'll make the corrections. Thank you so much!!! H1nkles ( talk) citius altius fortius 18:56, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
I removed the icons from Template:2010 Winter Olympics Calendar per WP:OR and have been reverted , in the previous discussion I was under the impression it was agreed these where invented for wiki , which is not allow and thus they all should be removed? Gnevin ( talk) 12:54, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Hello, we are looking for editors that might be interested in working on this project. If you are interested please join and list your name here. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 02:52, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Please note that {{ flag}} and {{ flagicon}} have been nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_June_11. 65.94.47.63 ( talk) 05:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
File:Didrikson.jpg has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.47.63 ( talk) 07:08, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
An IP user is adding a section on a discovery of plastic explosives during the Games to 2004 Summer Olympics with the claim that their source is "the archives of the Hellenic N.I.S." and "it is possible to contact the department of Interpol in Athens, or apply to the Ministry of Citizens Protection to verify the validity of the section". A quick search of news and the web reveals no mention of this so I've reverted a couple of times and left a note about WP:V at the article's talk page and at the talk page of the last IP address to add the section (not sure if they'll see it as the changes have come from more than 1 IP). Anyway the point is I've reverted a couple of times and don't want to invoke 3RR, as it isn't clear vandalism, so I'd appreciate it if someone else could keep an eye on things and have a go at reasoning with/assisting the IP if needed. Thanks - Basement12 (T. C) 20:58, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
is it really necessary to have these pages with current format ? these pages are already very big, and it's just the start of the qualification period ! in other sports, we have many different ways to qualify but in Athletics and Swimming it's very simple. I think only a summary + Qualification standards are enough. Mohsen1248 ( talk) 10:05, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
I'll get started on Venues of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics if I can find adequate sourcing. Are there generally good places to look regarding venues? NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 00:55, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
+ [1] Please refer the candidate file about venues of the Games. Realidad y Illusion ( talk) 13:28, 9 July 2011 ( KST)
According to this source [2] Djibouti did not compete at the 2004 Olympics, and the country page indicates it did but the events listed are either false or they didn't start. Do we remove Djibouti from the list of nations at the 2004 Games? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 03:42, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on the 1960 Winter Olympics and found out that Greece missed these Games. I think it was the only Games Greece has missed. My question is why did they skip these Games? I can't find an answer and since Greece always plays a key role in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies I'd like to put something in the article on it. Anyone have a source that explains their absence? Thanks. H1nkles ( talk) citius altius fortius 18:16, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Which logo is the correct one? This one or the one located at the 2014 Winter Olympics page? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 15:42, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
The template {{
times}} is now available, to display a typographically correct 'times' character (×
in HTML); for eample 4{{times}}100m relay
renders as 4×100m relay.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits
20:09, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
File:Sochi 2014 - Logo.svg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. The background of this is that the nominator, Tbhotch. ™, wanted to put the logo on Commons because he feels it is not original. I opposed that because it is the opinion of the legal counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation that this logo passes the threshold of originality. Plus there was a complaint letter from the IOC when the file was briefly on Commons. So now in order to make his point, Tbhotch. ™ has nominated it for deletion. Hektor ( talk) 08:19, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
Please see the discussion here. Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 08:32, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Should participants in sports events be named or listed by their use names at the time of the event? For example, should Babe Didriksen (Zaharias) always be named or listed as Babe Didriksen regarding a time in her life when she used that name? (Frankly I am surprised that her biography is " Babe Zaharias" but that is another matter, titling biographies.)
P.S. First I checked the one-time mother and sister projects Sports and Sports Results, which are named here. -- P64 ( talk) 19:33, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
According to some reports the All Africa Games are being used as a qualification tournament for some sports, however some other reports are saying since the All Africa Games are not being run by the NOC's that they are not a qualification tournament. My question is which is it. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions 20:53, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
The Olympic Games database from Sports Reference has been a major source of data and references in Olympics-related lists, many of them currently featured on Wikipedia. The standard reference format we've been using — Last name, First name. "Title of page". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved (Date) — was as suggested by one of the website authors.
However, during a FLC, a reviewer commented that the formatting ought to be simplified — Last name, First name. "Title of page". Olympics. Sports Reference. Retrieved (Date). At first, I did not see any reason for that, since we are following the original author's request for referencing format... but then his arguments were not entirely unjustified and deserved some thought. That's why I decided to address this situation to this project: to have some more opinions and discuss a change that, if carried through, would affect hundreds of pages. Parutakupiu ( talk) 15:36, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Many (all) of the Olympic medal tables use the image File:Sort none.gif to describe how to sort the columns. Since the 1.18 update that icon has changed so it doesn't make sense. As sorting is now simpler and more obvious perhaps the whole sentence can go. violet/riga [talk] 17:24, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
I believe a winner of Olympic medals has been omitted from the year of 1900 - the name is Harold Segerson Mahony Born in Edinburgh 1867 and stayed in Charlotte Square Edinburgh. I do believe he won the Silver Medal in the men's single tennis Cite error: There are <ref>
tags on this page without content in them (see the
help page).event and a bronze in the doubles event.
Please see "The Independent" article of the 31st. January 2010 which will help to substantiate my views. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.145.213.203 ( talk) 14:33, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
I just created the template (below) and associated articles detailing each nation's flag bearers.
I'm not going to go through adding the sports to each list but I did for the GBR one as an example. violet/riga [talk] 13:04, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
There is no award listing for 2005, But it is recorded elsewhere that Shirley Babashoff was given the award in 2005. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.25.87.7 ( talk) 06:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone know which country wears these colours? John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:20, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
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What should be the title of an article about any National Olympic Committee? Should it be in native language or in English? Like for Germany we've Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund and for France it's French Olympic Committee (a wrong translation of Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français). IMHO there must have been some convention. — Bill william compton Talk 13:49, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
The 2020 bid articles all have "See also" sections which link to other bid articles, in addition to having a navigation box which already serves this function. WP:SEEALSO says this double-linking should not be allowed as a general rule, but MusicGeek101 who has insisted on keeping the "See also" sections argues that having the section allows users to navigate more easily.
I think the navigation boxes serve their purpose well enough and am here to seek consensus on this. — Yk Yk Yk talk ~ contrib 20:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
There was no real discussion here with other members about removing the see also section. Just now I went to one of the bid pages and tried to get to another bid page and got confused on how to get there because of this removal. Once again, I maintain my position that removing the see also section makes it more difficult to navigate the pages. If I just had an issue getting from one page to the next, surely someone who is less tech savvy than me would struggle. I am fine with removing the see also section once the bidding process is over and a host city is elected. At the time being, people are interested in this bidding process. I doubt they care about who bid for 2012 or even 2016 for that matter. My stance is that I am against removal of the see also section. I think for a change to be made, that we would need more than two people discussing this (one for, one against). Secondly, I created four out of the six articles on the bids. I created the pages for the Baku, Doha, Madrid and Tokyo bids. My comittment to the cause is real. I was actually waiting for someone else to come around and start the articles but once the Sept 1 bid deadline came I figured I would do it and in doing so I wanted consistency and I wanted pages which were easy to read and navigate. Wikipedia should not be complicated. Its great that people can access a free encyclopedia on the internet. If they can get something for free then we should still do our best to make sure the pages are easy to read and navigate. -- MusicGeek101 ( talk) 15:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
If there are any Australians lurking around, Wikimedians to the Games is a collaboration drive to improve Australian Paralympic articles, with the most active contributors having an opportunity to go attend the Paralympic Games and to cover the Games behind the scenes with a press pass. The top two contributors will get their airfare and accommodation paid for. :) The drive official starts on 10 January 2012. -- LauraHale ( talk) 09:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello if women's sports fascinate you: WikiProject Women's sport and Portal:Women's sport, -- Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève ( talk) 23:56, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Olympics will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in the Olympics. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 21:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I've read the information at WP:NOLYMPICS, but how far do we go in considering an athlete notable? Take Paul Côté for example; someone who won one bronze medal with only a stub. Is this really necessary? Wouldn't it be sufficient to just reference him in the relevant medal summary? — JmaJeremy talk contribs 21:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Category:Olympic shooting venues has been proposed to be speedy renamed to Category:Olympic shooting ranges ... 65.92.181.184 ( talk) 11:45, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Would it be possible to add a parameter to {{ flagIOC}} that would allow the IOC flag to be displayed over the nation's flag? The parameter would address the issue of the correct representation of Netherlands Antilles athletes. I would think that the change would be similar to the one made at the {{ flagPASO}} template, where, when the template is used, the link will be to the "Netherlands Antilles at the Pan American Games" but the flagicon would display the PASO flag. Thanks! Prayerfortheworld ( talk) 04:05, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
A request has been made for this portal to be portal peer review. Contributions and suggestions are welcome. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 15:19, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I just noticed a bunch of articles I have edited and have been watching showing up with a bot removing the category -name of country- flag bearers at the Summer Olympics based upon a nearly four year old discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 15 that had all of one single vote to delete the category and two others to listify. Personally I think being selected to carry one's flag is a significant honor among Olympic athletes. I would think those of us who recognize the significance of the Olympics also will recognize the honor this has amongst the already notable athletes of the Olympics. Perhaps the reason this bot missed the categories is subsequent to the decision, other editors have added the more country specific categories. Its deleting the edits, work of many other editors who obviously thought this was significant. The question is: how do we reverse this short sighted, poorly discussed, ancient decision? Trackinfo ( talk) 03:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I made a request here for promotion to Featured portals. Any suggestion or contribution is welcome. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 18:38, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Year | Athletes | Events | Medals | Rank | |||
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2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
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Hi, I have a small question and I hope you can help. I'm having a problem in these wikitables. Look at the column "Athletes" and do you think the number in "Totals" should 4 (2+2) or 2 as it is now, because both years same athletes competed. Either way it's actually logical, but summed up number (4) would be easier to count. Pelmeen10 ( talk) 19:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
I have initiated a discussion on WP:RM ( here) on the naming standard of subevents articles.
The question is: should articles be named "Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men" or "Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament" (or something else).
Please share your thoughts on the subject, so we can achieve consistency in article naming.
HandsomeFella ( talk) 15:32, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
The
template was recently redirected to the
one. A move I have since reverted. For clarity, the former template has links to the actual general sport articles, while the latter template links to the "X at the Summer Olympics" sub-set of articles. The main issue is that User:Koavf and I disagree on whether it is feasible that a reader would want to navigate between the sport articles themselves, and not just solely the "at Olympics" ones. For example, I believe it is highly likely that a reader might want to move from Athletics (sport) to Swimming (sport) on the grounds that these are both Olympic sports. What are others' opinions? Is there consensus to redirect the template or maintain the distinctions? SFB 19:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Cyclist Pollack rode in the qualifying rounds of the men's team pursuit at the 2000 Games, as a member of the German team. This German team later won the gold medal, but Pollack was not a member of this team in the final. Is it likely that he received a golden medal for this? (His current article does not even mention this result, I wanted to add this, but I don't know if I should add the relevant categories and infoboxes for golden medalists.)-- EdgeNavidad ( Talk · Contribs) 07:35, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
There is an obscure list about Olympic sized pools in Ireland that is the subject of a heated dispute (RFC and RM) Talk:List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the Republic of Ireland related to these terms--Olympic-sized, Olympic-standard, and 50 meter pool. I just closed the RM returning the title to the pre-RFC title. The RFC is still ongoing. Expert input from those familar with Olympic swimming would be useful. Thanks -- Mike Cline ( talk) 12:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Isn't it time to have a 2026 winter article? There's already a 2028 summer article, and the 2022 article already contains information about 2026 potential bids. 70.24.251.208 ( talk) 07:46, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI: I've posted an issue in Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2012 June 4 that reflects a lot of copy and paste in articles about events in the 2012 Olympics. Location ( talk) 20:32, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Just under a hundred
articles still refer to the old sort icon,
, instead of the new sort icon,
, and 80% of those articles are for this (or the Paralympic) project. It just requires a minor change of "none" to "both".
Mark Hurd (
talk)
15:09, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_June_17#Template:Olympic_sports The discussion stalled and needs consensus. Thanks. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 06:11, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
I've been absent around here for a while but hopefully I'm not entirely forgotten by members of this Project.... Based upon by experience of previous Games I'd like to put forward a number of articles that should be kept up to date and up to a decent standard as a matter of priority because casual/occasional users editing related articles are likely to follow the lead. My area of expertise is particularly around Country at xxxx Games and as we already have a set of guidelines (which admittedly I helped write) for these I'd like to suggest that key articles to focus on are United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Russia, China and (of course) Great Britain. Particular emphasis should be placed on how to keep these and related articles down to a manageable length. Similar key articles probably exist for "Event" at xxxx Summer Olympics and "Sport" at xxxx Summer Olympics pages and I'd appreciate suggestions for what these may be - Basement12 (T. C) 00:15, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Olympics for a Signpost article to be published days before this year's opening ceremony. 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) 06:59, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
I have nominated List of 1936 Winter Olympics medal winners for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by JeepdaySock ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 29 November 2010 22:14, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
I have discovered source materials for a large number of Olympic articles, that were formerly housed at http://www.aafla.com have been moved to the new domain http://www.la84foundation.org. From what I can determine, they have not changed the locations of the reports, so the rest of the link should remain correct. You can see the change I made in this edit. So the bot needs to wholesale change domain names only. I don't know how to get approval for such a bot nor whom to contact to have the work done.
WP:OR speaking indirectly with a librarian associated with the organization (now the LA 84 Foundation, the remains of the 1984 LAOOC), they underwent a formal name change and are deliberately trying to expunge the previous name. Inside the office, there is a fine for mentioning the previous name. Trackinfo ( talk) 22:14, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
Is a person who has participated in a demonstration game at a summer Olympics automatically notable per WP:NOLYMPICS? The guideline doesn't mention demonstration games, but it also doesn't exclude them. Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:17, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Help is needed on Netball and the Olympic Movement article. The article has been locked due to a serious content dispute. Many of the sources are not reliable and are being misinterpreted or misapplied. The article in its present form has serious POV problems. Please read the talk page and join in the efforts to fix it. Thank you. 68.188.61.6 ( talk) 13:24, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in setting up and / or participating in an Olympic/Paralympic WikiCup? Modeled kind of after the Bacon Wiki Cup? Have it run from say a week before the opening ceremony for the Olympics and a week after the Paralympics? I can probably offer two prizes: Some book about the Olympics, a print of an Olympic related commons image, and a Pediapress book.
Points for the following things about the Olympics/Paralympics:
Category | Points |
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Fully reliably source an article of 100+ words (partially sourced) | 2 |
Adding a relevant picture to an article without one | 2 |
Adding a complete infobox for articles with out them | 2 |
Fully reliably source an article of 500+ words (partially sourced) | 5 |
Fully reliably source an article of 100+ words (completely unsourced) | 5 |
Comprehensive (no quick pass/fail) GA review | 5 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 25+ words | 5 |
Fully reliably source an article of 1,000+ words (partially sourced) | 10 |
Fully reliably source an article of 500+ words (completely unsourced) | 10 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 100+ words | 10 |
Fully reliably source an article of 1,000+ words (completely unsourced) | 20 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 500+ words | 20 |
Create/improve an article for DYK | 25 |
Publish a Wikinews article | 25 |
Get an image or other media to featured on English Wikipedia or Commons | 25 |
Create a spoken word version of an article 1,000+ words | 30 |
Substantially contribute to, nominate, and follow through an article for GA | 50 |
Substantially contribute to, nominate, and follow through an article for FL | 50 |
This way, lots of way for people to participate across different projects. :) -- LauraHale ( talk) 06:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
One competed in Rugby in 1924, the other was a spy. Are they actually the same person? Please comment at Talk:Linn Farrish D O N D E groovily Talk to me 03:43, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
I have made a proposition to harmonise most of the templates in Category:Medal infobox templates. mPlease contribute to the discussion here. SFB 16:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Are they actually called this officially and have they been assigned IOP as their IOC country code? IOP has not been used since 1992 and was used for an existing nation being sanctioned. IOA was used more recently (2000) for a newly independent nation that had not yet formed an NOC. IOC has apparently been used for Kuwait at Asian games. If no source can be found for what they are called and which country code they have been assigned, I think they should be referred to as "Netherlands Antillean athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics", with no country code given, as that it what we know as of today. 88.88.163.201 ( talk) 15:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Olympic sports has recently undergone a Good Article Reassessment and been delisted. This article should be considered one of the project's flagship pages so any help to get it back up to GA status would be appreciated - Basement12 (T. C) 16:03, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
Olympic Games is a FA that has not been presented on the main page. I think it should be on July 27, for reasons that should be obvious for members of this project. This can be discussed and voted on at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Can someone check so it is in extra good shape for the event? -- Ettrig ( talk) 12:53, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
FreeBMD record the birth of 'Davis, John Creyghton A' [not Davies] for births registered in Aberystwyth in June 1895. The copy of the original register gives the spelling of the surname as Davis, not Davies.
Births Jun 1895
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Davis John Creyghton A Aberystwith 11b 55 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.206.69.221 ( talk) 11:52, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Comments are welcome at
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#"Olympic Games" (grammatical number) (version of
21:39, 4 July 2012).
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Wavelength (
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There is a special holding area for DYK hooks that have been approved and are about the Olympics. These will run during the two weeks of the Olympics. At the moment, most of the DYKs there are about people from the Australia, with a few people from the USA and the Great Britain. It would be great to see more countries represented in DYK-land. :) Support your country. Improve articles related to your country's Olympic movement ahead of the Games. ;) -- LauraHale ( talk) 11:12, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed within the past few days an editor has made massive changes to the formatting within the nations at the 2012 Olympics articles. In the sections for Athletics (track and field), the results were previously ordered by event. So all the runners in 100m for the country would be in consecutive columns, then all the runners in the 200m, and so on. The editor has changed it so the athletes are listed alphabetically regardless of events. So the 100m runners may be an opposite ends of the table depending on where their last names falls in the alphabet. I think these changes ought to be reversed for procedural and substantive reasons. Procedurally, such a massive formatting overhaul should go through discussion and consensus. I don't see any of that. If that has occurred, can some please direct me to the Talk page where it occurred. It appears this massive change is a unilateral action without any Talk page discussion or even edit summaries. Furthermore, it is not consistent with the predominant formatting that existed before. Substantively, I find the organization by event to be better. Since the nation articles are organized by sport, it makes sense to organize it within each sport by event rather than by individual. Furthermore, if I'm looking at the nation article, I often want to see how that nation's contingent in an event did. It's very frustrating to have to search through a table to see where the various marathoners have been dispersed. Organizing alphabetically by last name to the detriment/disruption of organizing by event has drawbacks that heavily outweigh its benefits. If you know the name of a person, it shouldn't be hard to find their various events. The reader is likely to have a good idea of which events the athlete competed in and can even go that athletes article. The disruption in splitting up the athletes that competed in the same event by putting first priority on last name is frustrating. I plan to start changing massive formatting change back to the original format while this is issue is discussed (unless someone can point out consensus otherwise already exists). -- JamesAM ( talk) 00:03, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
This may not be appropriate but I couldn't easily find any members of this project who specialize in Olympic weightlifting.
Is it possible for a country to send three athletes to the same weightlifting weight class? -- TheShadowCrow ( talk) 21:03, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Shouldn't Kuwait at the 2012 Summer Olympics be deleted and the contents merged with Independent Olympic Participants at the 2012 Summer Olympics? Topcardi ( talk) 10:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I have a problem for the page, Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The administrator wants to protect the page, and then revert the page into its own. I have noticed some parts that are against our edit summaries. The tables are in forced widths and the administrator didn't want to adjust the tables properly in which these will trigger display problems once the results are filled in. Moments later, the administrator decided to protect its page in which no other user is allowed to edit. I have done fixing the page already five times, and suddenly discarded them. What shall we do? Raymarcbadz ( talk) 14:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi everybody. Quick question. I saw the previous discussion on this topic
here. I have nothing against this, but still I would like to ask for an opinion on some other things. More precise. How should individual athletes be categorized? There are four different categories (with their subcategories). For some of them it is clear who qualifies for them, for some not so much:
1.
Category:Olympic competitors as Independent Olympic Participants This one is clear. Here goes only competitors from 1992 Olympics (as far as ex-Yu is concerned).
2.
Category:Olympic competitors for Serbia This one is also clear. Only competitors from 2008 onwards.
3.
Category:Olympic competitors for Serbia and Montenegro Now this is a bit tricky one. Only thing certain is that it should include competitors from 2004 and 2006 Olympics.
4.
Category:Olympic competitors for Yugoslavia Another tricky one. It's however clear that it should include competitors until 1990.
This leaves a question mark for competitors for FR Yugoslavia, from 1996 until 2002. Most of them are currently in the category of Yugoslav Olympic competitors. Which is kind of logical. Since they indeed competed for country named Yugoslavia. However. Should they all be transferred to categories Serbia and Montenegro Olympic competitors? Since all of the results in period from 1996 until 2006 are being summarized under that name? Nightfall87 ( talk) 12:29, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
I think there should be 3 particular categories:
1. Olympic competitiors for Yugoslavia (1920 Summer games - 1992 winter games) 2. Olympic competitors as Independent Olympic Participants (1992 summer games) 3. Olympic competitiors for Serbia and Montenegro (1996 summer games - 2006 winter games)
Olympic medalists for FR Yugoslavia then should be moved in category Olympic medalists of Serbian and Montenegro? FR Yugoslavian medals aren't SFRY medals -- Backij ( talk) 12:43, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
A question has been raised with regards to the little icons that seem to be placed in many of the nation articles' section headers. As an example, look at the headers for sports in this article. I had removed the icons from several articles before I had come to realize that this may have been a vestige of a decision passed by this WikiProject. It is sensible that the images should be removed ( MOS:HEAD), but I am curious if there had been some kind of precedent that was set and if there is any reason why these header icons should stay. -- Starstriker7( Talk) 20:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
There are still editors adding images to section headers, despite the policies on MOS:HEAD that explicitly state they should not be included. Would it not be appropriate to send a reminder out to all project members talk pages regarding this? Wesley Mouse 08:46, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
On Jasna Šekarić the medal record correctly indicates that she "Competed as an Independent Participant. On the other two medallists' articles ( Aranka Binder and Stevan Pletikosić) this is is rendered as "Competitor for Competed as an Independent Participant". I have tried to copy from the correct article to the other two, but the previews showed that I was unsuccessful. I hope someone with experience with the template can fix it. In case it is browser related I'll mention that the issue was discovered while using Internet Explorer 9. 88.88.164.233 ( talk) 21:11, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
How can these be populated yet? I thought they existed to cat people who had actually competed at the games, not those listed to compete? How does anyone know that the 109 swimmers will actually compete? I don't advocate deletion, as they'll be recreated in <10 days' time anyway, but I think some care is needed to ensure the people in them did compete. Lugnuts ( talk) 11:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Like list of Olympic torch relays. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 19:44, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
According to the London 2012 official website, the Dutch Antillean athletes will compete as "Independent Olympic Athletes" (IOA) not "Independent Olympic Participants" (IOP). The code IOA was used in 2000 for East Timorese athletes under the name " Individual Olympic Athletes". And now? See Talk:2012 Summer Olympics#Independent Olympic Participants at the 2012 Summer Olympics should be renamed. Jonas kam ( talk) 07:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
I have started updating Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Summer articles/NOC table. I have two questions.
Hektor ( talk) 17:31, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
For a long time WP has had templates for basketball and swimming teams such as {{ United States Men Basketball Squad 2008 Summer Olympics}} and {{ Footer USA Swimming 2004 Summer Olympics}}. I have noticed that {{ Footer USA Track & Field 2012 Summer Olympics}} was created.
Here is a historical one that may serve as an example {{ Footer USA Track & Field 1996 Summer Olympics}}, I may produce a few others.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
I have a question. The template containing the name of the athlete should be added at the bottom of the same article of the athlete, as for any navigational template? -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 10:21, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
The track & field ones will take me a while to create, but I have created a few of these for boxing and gymnastics:
I am not going to create any more, but will work on the categories. Hopefully, others will fill in the rest of the years:-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 14:57, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
With the games starting in less than a week, would it be a good time to start a drive to gain new members and to update the membership list or is it too late? J36miles ( talk) 15:30, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
IMHO, the following articles should be deleted - 2022 Winter Olympics, 2024 Summer Olympics & 2028 Summer Olympics. - GoodDay ( talk) 19:33, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion here which I feel would benefit from the input of knowledgeable editors. Evanh2008 ( talk| contribs) 02:23, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. For the 2012 Summer Paralympics, two Wikipedians ( myself and Hawkeye7) are going to London to cover the Games with press credentials acquired through Wikimedia Australia. Covering these Games successfully on Wikinews and Wikipedia provides a fantastic opportunity to use this as leverage to get the Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games in the next few years. The more successful we are at doing on the ground Original Reporting that coincides with Wikipedia article improvements and getting pictures in advance, the better we can use it to get additional access because Wikipedia and Wikinews will have a track record of success. In order to do this, we need your help on Wikinews. The Wikinews part is being organised as Wikinews:Paralympic Games. The main focus needs to be writing Original Reporting. We need people to help copy edit, to take original reporting notes and write them into Wikinews articles, who can hunt down acceptable licenses for pictures to use on articles. (IPC policy only allows a CC-BY-NC kind of license at the events. Not sure accreditation wise we'll be good to go with getting our own images in any case.) We also need people who can help with reviewing. Any assistance you can provide would be very much appreciated. Please sign up at Wikinews:Paralympic Games. :) -- LauraHale ( talk) 22:20, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
'A Reporter's Guide to Sports and Olympics Reporting' is written by Foundation Consultant, Colin McIntyre with contributions from former Reuters Sports Editor Steve Parry, who has covered 19 Olympic Games, and from other Reuters reporters. They guide you through the preparations that will help you, give you an idea of what to expect at the event, warn you of pitfalls, and encourage you to raise your own game as a journalist.
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in
User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 111#Censorship and 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Wavelength (
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The IOC has recently given the Nigerian team made up of Bada, Jude Monye, Clement Chukwu and Enefiok Udo-Ubong . A decision was taken to reallocate the medals from 2000 came three years after they had decided to the disqualify the United States team. Jamaica are now the silver medallists and the Bahamas have the bronze medal. Therefore, the information as such should be changed on the page holding Nigeria at the Sydney Olympics 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayofabulous ( talk • contribs) 03:16, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Proposed merge of Quietly Confident Quartet (FA) into Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay (GA). Discussion here. -- jnestorius( talk) 10:36, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
I've kicked off the Chronological summary of the 2012 Summer Olympics with the aim of having it be in a form similar to Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Olympics. I've also asked here whether having a link to the page from the main page's "In the news" section (as I seem to remember happening in 2008) would be appropriate throughout the Games - Basement12 (T. C) 16:09, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Just for a change we have an editor trying to insist that the Great Britain team is in fact called "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and making changes to Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics that imply this. I can't make further changes due to 3:RR but I've started a discussion at Talk:Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Edits by FerrerFour. I've also left notes at User talk:FerrerFour. - Basement12 (T. C) 15:32, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
I am the creator of the article Jade Bailey (footballer) I came here hoping to ask for help in expanding it because you folks presumably know what you're doing. I don't know enough about olympians to do a good article here. I need 1500 characters to get it past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Jade_Bailey_(footballer) . Would you care to help? Regards, Anameofmyveryown ( talk) 12:31, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
1988 Seoul Olympics Oath, Mi-Na Son is miss-typed as Mi-Na Shon. The problem is that the miss-typed version is consistent not only within the wiki but throughout the whole internet. I am the native speaker of Korean, and, trust me, there is no "Shon" in Korean. Of course, the article of "Mi-Na 'Shon'" has a reference, and I confirmed that the reference refers her name as 'Shon'. Then, I found out that the reference is not official. I visited the official Olympics record "www.olympics.org", and then I found there that the name "Mi-Ha Son" comes consistently just at the place where "Mi-Na Shon" should be.
I think that "H" is mis-writing of "N" occured by handwriting, and "Shon" is mis-"copy and paste". I know that I cannot change the title of the article myself, as the issue does not seem to be obvious to the non-native speakers, so I came here with the topic. I wish that this argument is convincing.
For more details, "Son" is sometimes written as "Sohn" so I suspect that there is a possibility that "Mi-na Sohn" is correct, but I couldn't find other references. I think we should follow the official record and write in "Mi-Na Son". W890702 ( talk) 10:20, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
In reference to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_Olympics#Medals_by_Summer_Games
There is a medal count table which displays China's rank as #1 for the 2008 games. China won the most gold medals, but not the most total medals. This column should be removed or renamed as it is ambiguous. Furthermore, the IOC does not endorse a Global Ranking:
The Charter goes even further in Chapter 5, section 58, expressly prohibiting the IOC from producing an official ranking:
“ | The IOC and the OCOG shall not draw up any global ranking per country. A roll of honour bearing the names of medal winners and those awarded diplomas in each event shall be established by the OCOG and the names of the medal winners shall be featured prominently and be on permanent display in the main stadium. | ” |
— International Olympic Committee |
According to Australian IOC member Kevan Gosper, the IOC began to accommodate medals tables in 1992, releasing 'information' based on the 'gold first' standard. [1] The medal tables provided on its website carry this disclaimer:
“ | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not recognise global ranking per country; the medal tables are displayed for information only. Furthermore, the results that we publish are official and are taken from the "Official Report" - a document published for each Olympic Games by the Organising Committee. However, for the first Olympic Games (until Antwerp in 1920), it is difficult to give the exact number of medals awarded to some countries, due to the fact that teams were composed of athletes from different countries. The medal tables by country are based on the number of medals won, with gold medals taking priority over silver and bronze. A team victory counts as one medal. | ” |
— International Olympic Committee [2] |
Evan ( talk) 15:09, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
why is there no mention of NI ? its all GB in the games. do we not exist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.121.69.96 ( talk) 16:02, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on implementing a Olympics-specific importance scale. Please comment at the Assessment talk page. Thanks, ThaddeusB ( talk) 16:08, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I have to remind all Wikipedia users working on the Olympics to follow the manual of the Olympics as a project by Wikipedia. I have done and updated all the articles related to the Olympics, particularly on the countries competing in different sports. I have noticed that several users are not following on the manual, and I kept on revising and editing the results of those who are currently competing at the Olympics. For the {{n/a|Bye}} template, it is already satisfied since Basement12 approved it. However, putting "Did not advance" or vice versa for the {{n/a}} template is more confusing than the standard template of {{n/a}}. It would be better if you simply put "Did not advance" without any background color, and always follow the manual WP:OLYMOSNAT to make things better, and to update and place results easily at a definite time. Thank you, and I hope you understand and follow what I said, and what is stipulated from the manual. (T. C) 17:05, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello WP:Olympics! In the course of my going about making sure some articles were properly categorized, namely in this case Wodjan Shaherkani, I realized that there are a number of sports where we don't have gendered categories, making it harder especially (I think) to find articles on women competitors. May I propose creating and populating Category:Female judoka, Category:Female taekwondo practitioners, etc.? Because of the very large number of articles involved, I'm reluctant to take on this task solo. – Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 17:25, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
If you look at Category:Olympics stubs, you'll see it contains about 600 articles. About 1/3 of those have "2012" somewhere in their title, (i.e., Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom C-1, Chad at the 2012 Summer Olympics).
Those articles all contain either {{
Olympics-stub}}
or {{
Olympic-stub}}
where they should have {{
2012-Olympic-stub}}
.
Is there a bot that can easily update all these articles? I've been doing them by hand slowly, but a bot seems to make a lot more sense.
Alternatively, given that this would likely be a one-time process, is there a simple way someone fairly geeky can babysit a process that does it semi-automatically? If it doesnt involve using Windows, I'm up for it.
Thanks, Dori ☾ Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 23:59, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I am just wondering what the convention should be for joint positions (I have already looked on the manual of style and seen no instruction). I ask because some articles display for example =32 but others do not include an equals sign. Should all joint results be shown with some kind of notation like an equals sign or should they be completely neglected? Airelivre ( talk) 18:41, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Are there any established conventions on how to handle sports that were only ever held at one Olympic Games? A lot of these sports have two articles each; one called, for example, Cannon shooting at the Summer Olympics, and another called, for example, Cannon shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics. In most cases, one of these articles is redundant, so I want to go through and merge/redirect them, but I don't know which title would be preferred. I'd be more inclined to keep the "X at the [year] Summer/Winter Olympics" articles and redirect the broader "X at the Summer/Winter Olympics" ones, but I don't know if that would make them inconsistent with the other "sports at the Olympics" articles (especially since I'd have to rename several articles that only exist at the broader title, like budo and angling). This is probably a trivial issue, and I'm not sure if I'm explaining it very clearly, but any advice would be appreciated. DoctorKubla ( talk) 20:03, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
This is detailed in the article for Shin A Lam, but not in the Epee event page - I think it is needed there, otherwise unless you search the specific athlete you would not even see it had occurred. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_%C3%A9p%C3%A9e — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.13.11.226 ( talk) 10:18, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
If anyone wants to start filling out the athletics pages with the start lists they are available from here. I have added entry lists to some of the events happening on the first day already (athletics starts tomorrow/Aug 3). SFB 17:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Please see this discussion. Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 11:28, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
On a slightly related note, I nominated Brooklyn Kerlin at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brooklyn Kerlin... L.tak ( talk) 15:02, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Does the project use any guidelines? I've been updating the tables for all nations as I see medal events end, and the tables are wildly different. Date formats (dmy or mdy) are one thing, but 1) Some tables don't even have the date cell, 2) some abbreviate August to "Aug" 3) some use {{ sortname}} for the medalists' names, some don't, 4) some use {{ dts}} for the dates, some don't...it gets a bit confusing when one uses the natural shorthand method of copying and pasting code (you can't type all that code out every time). So any guidelines are appreciated. Green-eyed girl ( Talk · Contribs) 14:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed a number of event pages where the "Records" sections (starting Prior to this event, the world and Olympic records were as follows) are being updated with new records as they happen. Am I right in thinking that that's not what's intended? Rawling 4851 15:04, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
On individual nations at the olympics pages, I'm finding the track cycling "Speed (km/h)" field to be a little over emphasised. Being the same size as the time field, it is given equal importance, but really the time field is the crucial one. On the New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Olympics#Track page I have made the speed field smaller, do people think this is better or not?. Rudolph89 talk 01:42, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the discussion on IOC country names was opened in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Flag Template#Some lacking data (aliases, military).... -- Virtpedia ( talk) 16:28, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
There are many copyright violations in the "Competition format" section of quite a few articles pertaining to events in the 2012 Olympics. If you are interested in helping out, please see Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Pedrocampelo. Thanks! Location ( talk) 13:46, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:TeamMedalWinner has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
DH85868993 (
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10:33, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
In just about every event at the 2012 games, the Competition format section of the article is a copy and paste from london2012.com. Kevin McE ( talk) 21:30, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Apologies if this is not the correct forum, but the main image used in the article for the London 1948 Games appears to be a user created image. It does not resemble any available photographic examples of posters/images used at the time, nor is it consistent with the official games poster which is widely available online (either style of imagery or typography). The article does not cite a source of the image used.
Given the importance of the article particularly as the London 2012 games are ongoing, could this be looked at by someone with more experience in editing Wikipedia articles than myself? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.6.214.238 ( talk) 17:40, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I've been looking at Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's vault and Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic qualification articles, trying to understand the results of the vault competitions. There are various notes about falls, but they don't seem to match up to the indicated "penalty" column, in any readily comprehensible way. Maroney fell on her second vault on the final, but the penalty (of 0.3) appears against her first vault. Peña did fall on her first vault, and her penalty appears there, but it's only 0.1. And Peña also fell in the qualifiers, but no penalty at all is noted there. Are these different "grades" of fall, or am I misunderstanding in a more fundamental way? Are the falls instead assessed against the "B score" (seemingly synonymous with "E score", as in "execution")? I do get that a "failure to land" type of fall, like Black's, gets no score at all. If so, what on earth are the penalties?
In order to make this a little more newbie-friendly, can the article make this a but more explicit, either in-line or with suitable internal or external links? (I'll leave a note at WP:gymnastics, though I'm not sure how active that is, relative to here.) 84.203.38.241 ( talk) 01:04, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports#Naming principle?. -- Virtpedia ( talk) 08:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I tried to fix Template:2012OlympicAthleticsSchedule for the Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres hurdles. I at least have the event in the right day. I am going to go to sleep and it would take me quite some time to fix it any further to get both parts in the A session.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 08:23, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Someone pinged me and asked if {{ United States at the Olympics}} was redundant with the infobox, which I found odd because an infobox is an odd place to put navbox content. I don't know if a decision was made somewhere, but some of these pages are quite long and a navbox could be useful. I am just letting everybody know that the template has been created and placed on the various pages.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 02:51, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I have created {{ Footer USA Volleyball 1996 Summer Olympics}} and {{ Footer USA Volleyball 2012 Summer Olympics}}. I am seeing {{ USA Squad 2008 Men's Olympic Volleyball Championship}} on a lot of the 2012 team member pages. Am I defining the team incorrectly with the templates I have created? Should I delete them?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:04, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at Talk:1992_United_States_men's_Olympic_basketball_team#Reqested_move to rename "1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team" to "Dream Team (basketball)".— Bagumba ( talk) 17:47, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Several articles/events of this year's olympics are not consistent. Once the Games are over we need to spend a week or 2 redoing this. Also sources are missing on most. (eg: fencing doesnt adequately summarise the scored per round, which is more encyclopaedic than the current social media posting of results). So im asking for volunteers for this [short term[] task force and to identify way to make it consistent across displicines and events Lihaas ( talk) 01:03, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia:WikiProject Gymnastics seems fairly inactive, I am bringing this here. Gymnastic team templates such as {{ Olympic champions artistic gymnastics Women TC}} and {{ NavigationWorldChampionsArtisticGymnasticsWomenTC}} both are included in several bio articles such as Gabrielle Douglas even though they only have links to country articles. Either we need to add names to these templates like {{ Footer Olympic Champions 4x200 m Freestyle Relay Men}} and {{ Footer World LC Champions 4x200m Freestyle Men}}, add functionality to them like {{ Footer World Champions 4 x 100 m Men}} and {{ Footer Olympic Champions 4x100 m Men}} have (see Carl Lewis) or remove them from bio articles.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:25, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. We need one more issue resolved. I had created this version of the men's team template (which has been moved to a different name). Ahmad123987 ( talk · contribs) has since split the template into smaller templates such as {{ Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Team All-Around (2008 - 2028)}}, to make the content look less busy. I have some problems with this decision. 1.)I believe it is the only gymnastics template that is split making it look inconsistent with other templates, 2.) not even the women's template is likely to need to be split when expanded (next on my agenda), 3.) I have not noticed any other Olympic sports splitting templates in this manner, 4.) These splits are often driven by interwiki page overload as in the case of acting award templates on pages such as Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep which are on interwiki heavy bio pages and split because many actors would have well over a dozen templates with over 100 links on average causing them to approach the upper bound on interwiki links on a page, but instead have split templates that have been created uniformly across various template types. Are we better off with a single template split in this manner when it is inconsistent with other similar templates and not mandated by interwiki software limitations. The split reduces the easy of navigation, which is the purpose of the template, IMO.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
So I guess that idea of conditionally showing the teams only the bottom of the template according to the Games is discarded? I quite preferred it... Parutakupiu ( talk) 19:24, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
It looks like {{ Olympic champions artistic gymnastics Women TC}} has been converted to take this discussion into account. I had created {{ Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around}} and was about to use it on many pages. It seems redundant now. I just checked 2012. Have the bios for all years been given the new wrinkle?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:13, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
What do people think of Olympic medals by teams? To me it seems to be exactly the kind of WP:OR on counting medals that we usual discourage - there don't seem to be any sources for it other than counting them up yourself and the rankings certainly shouldn't be there. I'm inclined to AFD it if there aren't any (reasoned) objections - Basement12 (T. C) 00:54, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Evan ( talk) 17:32, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if this article is needed as a stand-alone. If not, must it be merged into Olympics on NBC? -- George Ho ( talk) 21:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
See WP:TFD for August 11, where several olympics templates have been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.247.242 ( talk) 05:09, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
What we do is being noticed - Mossop, Brian (2011-08-10). "How Wikipedia Won Olympic Gold | Playbook". Wired.com. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
I believe there is a system for "taking note" of such media attention - there's a page where such "press clippings" are displayed? Roger ( talk) 06:52, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
I am not a member of this project, though I am helping out on the Chinese Taipei at the 2012 Summer Olympics at present. However, there is an inconsistency in the naming of the pages. I am referring to Macedonia at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The official IOC nomenclature is Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, due to opposition from the government of Greece. Shouldn't the names of Olympic pages dealing with Macedonia be changed accordingly to maintain consistency? ludahai 魯大海 ( talk) 13:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I have just noticed that there is no article for Olympism AKA Olympic Ideal, one of the most important aspects of the olympics. I understand that these days the olympics have more to do with records and fame, but Olympism is above all else, the primary legacy of the Olympic games (in the Olympic Charter the first chapter's second paragraph is dedicated to Olympism). What is exceptionally weird though is that wikipedia does not have an article about it. There is a redirect to the Olympic Charter which is invalid in my opinion, since the olympic charter is not Olympism. The charter tries to protect the olympic ideals. A quick link for Olympism: http://www.pe04.com/olympic/olympia/ideal_o.php Moumouza ( talk) 19:41, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
It would be very interesting to have graphs showing the medal count evolution through the ages, on articles such as Greece at the Olympics. Ideally, using mediawiki graphs. Pikolas ( talk) 21:14, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
As can be seen in {{ Olympics4x100metres}} older articles have titles like "Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay" (with a letter "x"), while newer articles, with titles like "Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay" use a "times" character.
Also, we could shorten the titles to, say "Women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics" or even "2012 Summer Olympics: Women's 4 × 100 metres relay"
Further shortening could be achieved by removing two spaces, so we use "2012 Summer Olympics: Women's 4×100 metres relay", if the MoS allows this.
Here's a length comparison:
Can we agree which style is best, then get a bot to move the others to a standard-style name? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:04, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
To all the editors who worked tirelessly to keep up with the Summer Olympics I say well done! There were lots of suggestions that had to be sifted through, discussed, adopted or thrown out. There was vandalism to patrol, good-faith edits that had to be scrutinized and at times reverted and a herculean effort undertaken to update thousands of articles as the Games progressed. Your yoeman work does not go unnoticed and I for one sincerely appreciate every person's contributions. H1nkles ( talk) citius altius fortius 16:48, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
This high-importance article is lacking sources and contains doubtful information. It has been tagged for verification problems since 2008. On a related note the medal does not display correctly in the medal boxes (problem with the image). 85.167.39.6 ( talk) 00:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Should this be used for athletes disqualified because of a team-mate caught doping (e.g. Michael Johnson (sprinter))? What about athletes disqualified before the medal ceremony for various infractions (e.g. Churandy Martina)? Should the reason be indicated somehow, in particular to distinguish between doping (or possibly cheating) and other rule infractions? Some athletes disqualified for other reasons than doping: Dorando Pietri, Frederick Lorz and Ara Abrahamian, with only Lorz cheating. Perhaps "Medal|Disqualified team mate" and "Medal|Disqualified for doping" could be added, leaving more special cases to be explained in the athlete's article. 85.167.39.6 ( talk) 00:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
When adding or updating {{ Infobox Olympic event}}, please use the subtemplates now described in its documentation, as I did here. {{ Plainlist}} improves accessibility (see WP:UBLIST); and the date templates emit metadata which will be used by the hCalendar microformat currently awaiting deployment from the infobox's sandbox. Sorry I didn't find out about the template a fortnight ago! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:16, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Now that the Olympics are over I've been going through all the event pages to see any of them are in need of major fixing. In Equestrian I've noticed that the team dressage, individual eventing and team eventing events are far from complete and sadly my knowledge of equestrian is limited and I don't feel fully confident on taking the task. I'm wondering if anyone here has the knowledge of equestian to finish the pages. Worst case scenario is I go to the London 2012 site and attempt to make something based on the results given. JoshMartini007 ( talk) 03:39, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
What do we want to include now (in August 2012) on the 2016 Games pages? For example, should there be an incomplete calendar of events (see {{ 2016 Summer Olympics calendar}}) immediately below the list of sports? Should there be a "Participants" section that lists only Brazil? Should articles such as Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics now have an empty table of medalists (such as in this revision)? Discussion among project members would be welcome. — Andrwsc ( talk · contribs) 05:05, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I wrote an analysis of all the athletics events, based on viewing the video feeds that everybody else can see. I am watching with my own (I'd like to think its an) expert eye. I am trying to put these accomplishments in historical perspective. Admittedly I do not use totally dry language, that information is in the statics below, but when I write anything that might be accusatory or a BLP violation, I provide the sources to show those are not my words speaking. Such is the case of the showpiece athletics event (OK that's my color speaking) Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres, a heavily viewed and edited article, I ran into a disagreement with another editor, who first deleted my contribution to the article, then when reverted left the silly tag at the top. I have an aversion to this kind of tag in general. I call some cases of it "vandalism" in my user page, because such accusations deface the look of quality for that article and in a larger sense the work of all editors on wikipedia. I particularly don't like it when the accusation is pointed at my work. But it would be inappropriate for me to remove someone else's criticism. So I request someone else review this article. If there is anything inappropriate I wrote, please fix it and remove the tag, so the article can look good again. Trackinfo ( talk) 03:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I have initiated a community reassessment of an article that might be of interest to this project, Netball and the Olympic Movement. The reassessment can be found here. AIRcorn (talk) 08:40, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Three years ago I successfully proposed (
See here) the change of names of the articles about Olympic bids. Since 23 March 2009, they use the standard City bid for the Year Season Olympics
(
London bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics) instead of the previous City Year Olympic bid
(
London 2012 Olympic bid). I know assume that the current title standard is, perhaps, too long and, therefore, I would like to propose a change back to the old standard.
Nevertheless, there are some issues to be addressed:
Here are some possibilities:
Then, I think that would be interesting to call a vote to decide on this matter and invite everyone to make any new suggestions in order to reach a naming convention. I will wait for your comments. Best regards; Felipe Menegaz 22:45, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I also proposed changes on {{ Infobox Olympic bid}}. Please, leave your comments at Template talk:Infobox Olympic bid#Visual changes. Cheers; Felipe Menegaz 01:11, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
I've had a skim through the archives and not seen this mentioned, but feel free to point me to any previous discussions. Looking at my tickets to both the London stadium and the rowing, they both say "You agree that any images, videos or sound recordings of the Games taken by you may only be used for private and domestic purposes and cannot be used for any commercial purposes, whether on the Internet or otherwise." Obviously this wouldn't apply to the non-ticketed events, except for things like the openwater swimming which took place in
Royal Parks which have their own restrictions on photography (you pretty much need to pay for a licence to take photos for anything other than personal use).
I suspect there's large swathes of images taken at the Games which are kicking round Wikipedia on relatively permissive licences allowing commercial use when they shouldn't. I'd be particularly wary of images grabbed off Flickr. Worse, I suspect there's a lot of those images on Commons, which is somewhere they don't belong if they can't be used commercially. An example is
File:Usain Bolt 2012 Olympics 1.jpg, the main photo on
Usain Bolt. This obviously begs the question - were such conditions imposed on ticketholders at previous Games? If so (and I suspect they were), then there may be a lot more images with improper licences. Thoughts anyone?
Le Deluge (
talk)
03:17, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-12/In_the_news for discussion based on 2008. -- Jonel ( Speak to me) 04:36, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Seems like there's not an article for Paralympics classifications? [16] -- 76.65.128.252 ( talk) 11:12, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Please see the discussion here. Lugnuts ( talk) 13:50, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Just off the top of the list, looking at the first two articles in this series, Afghanistan at the Olympics and Albania at the Olympics I'm seeing vastly different styles of summary tables. I'm sure there must be other inconsistencies, unfortunately, but is anyone working on standardizing these? I especially like the summary table used in Australia at the Olympics, the Summer table. Hopefully, all articles can be brought into that format. Jmj713 ( talk) 05:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
So, anyone willing to assist me with bringing these articles in line with the above? I believe the template is a very good one, but obviously a lot of work for just one person. I'll slowly go through them all alphabetically in time, adding each to my watchlist (as I'm already seeing vandalism to the three I've already completed, Afghanistan, Algeria, and Australia). Hopefully, others will want to join in. Jmj713 ( talk) 19:37, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Cf. Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Chinese Taipei at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Bhutan at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
It Is Me Here t / c 11:39, 16 August 2012 (UTC)