Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of 1964 Winter Olympics medal winners/archive1

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The list was promoted by Giants2008 15:08, 1 January 2012 [1].

List of 1964 Winter Olympics medal winners

Featured list candidates/List of 1964 Winter Olympics medal winners/archive1

Nominator(s): Courcelles 22:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because... it is tie for another of this series to make an appearance here! Courcelles 22:15, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Lemonade51 (talk) 22:23, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Remove the extra 'from' in the opening sentence.
"Germany dominated the luge competition, with that country's team..." A tad colloquial. Unified Team of Germany would be a better substitute for 'that country's team'. Of course I am need of a second opinion of this.
Ref 6 is dead, or has been since December 18, 2011. Lemonade51 (talk) 13:36, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Al three attended to, thanks for the comments. Courcelles 16:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support — Lemonade51 (talk) 23:16, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Giants2008 (Talk) 01:06, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

No need for multiple 1960 Winter Olympics links in the second paragraph.
There are a few "with ... winning"-type sentences in the lead. Given that this is an awkward type of structure, perhaps consider rephrasing one or two of them.
"The Scandinavian teams Sweden, Norway and Finland". I'd replace "teams" with "nations" or "countries".
Typo in note B: "fro" in "tied fro second...".
What makes Topend Sports (reference 4) a reliable source? Giants2008 (Talk) 21:28, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Just a note, I've looked at some of these, and will get to the rest tomorrow. Courcelles 16:23, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - With a new source, I've handled all off these. Courcelles 20:57, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Parutakupiu (talk) 22:57, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

"... after the sports had been absent from the 1960 Olympics." – This is redundant, if the sports returned to the program it's because they were absent from the 1960 Games.
- If we look at history, though, they weren't "dropped" so much as Squaw Valley didn't build a track for them. I've edited to make that clearer. Courcelles 21:00, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Unlike the preceding ~~1960~~ Games..."
Long sentence copyedit suggestion: "This was the second and most recent occasion on which ~~ice stock~~ this sport (a German variant of the sport of curling) had been played as a demonstration sport at the Winter Olympics. The first ~~Games at which this sport had made an~~ appearance was at the 1936 Winter Olympics."
"... with its athletes winning a total of 25..." – I suggest replacing "winning" with "collecting" or "securing", etc., to avoid repetition of this verb in the same sentence. Same situation in the first sentence about Lidiya Skoblikova.
"... Winter Olympics participant..." → Winter Olympian

— Parutakupiu (talk) 17:28, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Thanks for the comments, I've addressed or fixed everything. Courcelles 21:21, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suppport. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:57, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from —Andrew_stalk 22:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

The lead is of decent quality - the only problem I have is this sentence: "The Soviet Union won the most number of medals, with its athletes winning a total of 25, 11 of which were gold." It reads a bit awkwardly. How about, "The Soviet Union won the most medals; its athletes won a total of 25, 11 of which were gold."?
A couple of WP:CAPTION issues - basically, captions which are complete sentences should end in full stops, while others (eg "French figure skating silver medallist Alain Calmat in 1963") should not have full stops.
Image licencing checks out OK, but I think it would be good to crop the file notes on the side from File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B1014-0012-002, Alain Calmat.jpg and File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-G0313-0017-001, Ludmilla Beloussowa, Oleg Protopopow.jpg. I'm happy to crop them for you if you want.

—Andrew_stalk 23:15, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Thanks, I've addressed the first two, and have no means to manipulate images at all until I get back to my home computer next week. If you feel this needs doing, please go ahead. Courcelles 21:32, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support I have no issues. —Andrew_stalk 22:09, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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