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Reformat

I wonder whether it would be better to combine the two tables, to make reading easier. ie.

Athlete	Individual medals			All medals including team and heats			Years competed
Athlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Years competed
Shane Gould	3	1	1	3	1	1	1972
Ian Thorpe	3	1	1	5	3	1	2000 2004

Also, I think it might be better sorted alphabetically by surname. Article title should be uncapitalised 'swimming' -- I@n ≡ talk 05:48, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Asterisks

There are asterisks throughout these tables, but no footnote or clue about what they represent. Ordinary Person 15:50, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw this too. Am going to remove them until they're clarified. Dgen (talk) 23:04, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Australian spelling should preside

In Australia, it is spelled "medallists". Hesperian 02:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind. I'm quite unfussed by spelling. I would have instinctively used two l's but just copied the spelling from the main page to conform. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:18, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It does look a bit odd when even the Olympic site uses "medallist"[1]. Hack (talk) 09:51, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization of "swimming"

Why is this word capitalized? JHMM13^(Disc) 05:23, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An error, and you should have felt completely free to move it without my permission.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:55, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's better to ask first than be shouted at later, I like to say. :-D. Thanks for the help. JHMM13^(Disc) 16:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, this page was a little hard to find. I'm unfamiliar with the processes of Australian Olympic-related articles, but you might want to consider finding a nice template for this article to fit into, much like the one found at the bottom of today's Featured Article. I think a template that could be worked into an Australian Olympic medalist series to be displayed on multiple pages with a sort of central article to be called something like "List of Australian Olympic medalists" would be very beneficial to the exposure of this great article. If none of this makes any sense to anyone (I'm not quite sure if I'm making too much sense explaining it...), I'm thinking about something like this that has links to the individual NHL seasons and, more importantly, links to other New Jersey Devils season articles. This article is a great place to start a project like that off. If this article and the one on the main page are any indicators, I'd say the guys working on Australian Olympic stuff is the right group for the job. Then again, if something like this already exists...just ignore everything I've said. Just a suggestion, JHMM13^(Disc) 17:05, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Update

No 2016 data?

No Talk since 2008?

MBG02 (talk) 13:52, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]