Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1976 Winter Olympics medal table/archive1

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The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 16:33, 24 August 2010 [1].

1976 Winter Olympics medal table

Featured list candidates/1976 Winter Olympics medal table/archive1

Nominator(s): Parutakupiu (talk) 20:25, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I still have 1988 Winter Olympics medal table nomination undergoing but with 4 supporting users and another one's comments addressed, so I hope you don't mind if I open a new nomination procedure for a similar type of list. Thanks in advance for all comments. Parutakupiu (talk) 20:25, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment—no dab links, no dead external links. Ucucha 20:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support meets criteria. Quick feedback on the image! Sandman888 (talk) ^{Latest FLC} 11:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Sandman888 (talk) ^{Latest FLC} 21:01, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

: what makes Sports-Reference.com a respectable sources?

Per [2], the contributors are noted Olympic historians, also responsible for the Journal of Olympic History. Bill Mallon, in particular, has published multiple books on the Olympic Games. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:58, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sports-reference.com also hosts sites such as basketball-reference and pro-football-reference, which have been praised and cited by reputable sources, including Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and ESPN. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:53, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the medal picture is a derivative work, and I'm not sure it is thus properly licensed.

How come? It's has the exact same license(s) as the original, as required for derivative works. Parutakupiu (talk) 12:39, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I mean the medal is copyrighted and therefor so is a picture of it. At least that's the impression I get from the image reviews, but I'm not certain. Sandman888 (talk) ^{Latest FLC} 16:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See clarification on that here. Parutakupiu (talk) 18:16, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 16:07, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

If the medal pic is fine, then at least tell me which kind (gold/bronze) it is!
- I wish I'd know. The author/uploader did not discriminate that... Nonetheless, there's this image (File:Dorothy Hamill gold medal.jpg) of a gold medal from these Games. In fact, it's from the same photo collection of File:1988 Calgary Olympic Winter Games gold medal.jpg which I used for the 1988 Winter Olympics medal table list. I could switch to this one, though I would prefer to crop it and thus have to make a derivative work (if no one is against...). Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"were a winter multi-sport event" sorry, I'm usually pretty easy going with the discretionary plural but this doesn't work at all. "were a ... event"?
- Corrected. Also corrected in the 1988 list. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
1000->1,000.
- Corrected this and other instances. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"and only four of them" remove only.
- Rephrased clause, it didn't sounded as good without the "only". Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"Liechtenstein won its first Olympic medals in the alpine skiing slalom events, thanks to two third-place finishes by Willi Frommelt and Hanni Wenze" would rephrase perhaps to say "Liechtenstein won its first Olympic medals in the alpine skiing slalom events, with bronzes to both ...."...
- Rephrased. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"contributed to three " or simply "contributed three"? did she win them solo?
- She won two golds solo but the third was in a team event, so she wasn't solely responsible for that third gold, hence the "contributed" ... Removed "to". Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"Great Britain's last Winter Olympic medal had been a single gold at the " -> last ... medal ... had been a "single" gold. No need for "single" if you're saying that was GB's "last ... medal".
- Absolutely right! Removed. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"None of these teams won any medal." I feel a bit dirty here, but this reads nasty, maybe (using a US-vernacular and modern parlance) you could say "None of these three teams medalled", and merge it back using a semi-colon?!
- Done. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The vertical image gallery. Why bold text?
- It's the default style of {{multiple image}}. It wouldn't be bold if I placed it at the bottom (footer), but I believe it makes more sense at the top. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:46, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Rambling Man (talk) 20:17, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Courcelles 02:32, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

*Comments

"For the fifth time since it first participated at the 1956 Winter Olympics, the Soviet Union clinched the first place in the gold and overall medal counts, with 13 and 27, respectively." This isn't in either of the general refs, so it needs a citation.

Couldn't find a single ref confirming its first places in the previous four occasions. I could add separate refs to each Games' medal table they won, but they'd just clutter the text and I prefer to just remove that statement. Parutakupiu (talk) 02:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Liechtenstein won its first Olympic medals in the alpine skiing slalom events, with bronzes to both Willi Frommelt and Hanni Wenzel." This sentence needs something; it reads as if these were Liechtenstein's first alpine skiing medals, not first medals overall.

Rephrased sentence. Parutakupiu (talk) 02:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"In a repeat of that performance, the British medal was won by figure skater John Curry in the men's singles with a still-standing record total score." The first clause doesn't actually make much sense- Britain's medal in 1964 was in bobsleigh...

Rephrased so it becomes clearer in that aspect. Parutakupiu (talk) 02:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ref 2, the paper's title in 1976 was simply the Daily Record ,give Ellensburg, WA as the location.

Done. Parutakupiu (talk) 02:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Location for The Spokesman-Review

Location added. Thanks for the review! Parutakupiu (talk) 02:24, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Courcelles 21:23, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Good work. Courcelles 02:32, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comment~~ Support – ~~"she came close to win a third in the giant slalom". "win" → "winning", I believe.~~ Giants2008 (27 and counting) 22:14, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Corrected. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:21, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Well made list. Good raise 20:55, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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