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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Matthewedwards 19:06, 11 July 2009 [1].

List of 2006 Winter Olympics medal winners

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Nominator(s): Scorpion0422 16:05, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Another exciting Olympics list, fashioned in the mold of the List of 2008 Summer Olympics medal winners. Enjoy! -- Scorpion0422 16:05, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Truco (talk · contribs)
General
  • Dabs, external links check out fine.
Lead
  • In total there were six more events than in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. -- +Comma after In total
  • Fixed.
  • Eight new events were held: Snowboard cross,[4] team pursuit (speed skating),[4] team sprint (cross country skiing)[2] and the mass-start race (Biathlon). -- Now looking at the article, Snowboard cross has so many spellings, is it Snowboard Cross, Snowboard cross, or snowboard cross?
  • I'm going with "snowboard cross", which is what the IOC uses.
  • The classical men's 30 km and women's 20 km distances, which were held at the previous Winter Games in 2002, were not held in these Games, as these events were alternated with freestyle events of the same distances. -- Me being unaware of how the Olympics work, these distances were part of skiing right? In addition, are these the official titles of the races? If not, then I recommend adding a conversion template for the km.
  • They are the official titles. I added that it is cross country skiing.
  • Athletes from 26 National Olympic Committees won at least one medal, while 18 nations won at least one gold medal. -- Unlink NOC, per WP:OVERLINK
  • Done.
  • American Apolo Anton Ohno and Chinese athletes Yang Yang (A) and Li Jiajun have all won five medals total -- so this extends their records right?
Changes in medal winners
  • Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva won a silver medal in the 15 km race, but tested positive for carphedon and lost her medal. Germany's Martina Glagow was given the silver medal and fellow Russian Albina Akhatova won the bronze. -- The thing about the conversion template applies here, unless I'm wrong, disregard
References
  • Inconsistency with the linking: I would link the general IOC and then not the specific ones, unless you are planning on linking all publishers on all instances. If its the latter, than link the other IOC publisher.
  • Fixed.
  • The sports-reference.com ref should have Sports-reference as the work and Sports Illustrated LLC as the publisher, or just the latter by itself.
  • Done.
  • Support with comments: I've made some edits to the article, mostly copy-editing the lead and adding more relevant information, so basically this is top notch for me. The only issue that needs to be resolved by the nominator is the same mentioned by User:Truco in the 3rd bullet of his "Lead" review. Whoever reads that sentence, cannot identify which sport is associated with those distances, and the reference does not ellucidate as well. Parutakupiu (talk) 18:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)
Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)
  • "45 events were opened to men, 37 to women and two were mixed pairs events." Make them all numbers or all words per WP:MOSNUM.
    • Done.
  • "cross country skiing"-->cross-country skiing (multiple occurences)
    • Fixed.
  • "further cementing her lead in this sport" Suggest "extending" or "increasing" instead of "cementing".
    • Done
  • "Aino Kaisa Saarinen"-->Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
  • "Giorgio di Centa"-->Giorgio Di Centa
  • "Daniela Anschutz-Thoms"-->Daniela Anschütz-Thoms
  • "Eric Bédard"-->Éric Bédard
  • "Ahn Hyun Soo"-->Ahn Hyun-Soo
  • "Li JiaJun"-->Li Jiajun
    • All done.
  • There are a couple other redirects where the last names don't match, but I'm not sure what's right and what's not.
  • "Athletes that won"-->Athletes who won (this should be fixed in other lists too) Dabomb87 (talk) 14:59, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Fixed.
  • Thanks for your help. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:00, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:59, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well, I actually didn't give it much notice, until you mention it now. I think that if the athlete medal table is sortable, allowing the reader to rank them by either gold, silver, bronze, or total medals, then there's no need whatsoever to have a specific column displaying a rank based solely on one of the previous items. I'm not against removing the ranking column from the athlete medal table (as you did with badminton), if other reviewers are not as well. Parutakupiu (talk) 00:57, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments –
  • "Two disciplines were open only to men, nordic combined and ski jumping." Change the comma to a colon.
    • Done.
  • "In cross-country skiing, some of the events involved different distances from those in the 2002 Games or alternating between classic and freestyle techniques." The "alternating" bit is confusing me. Should it be "alternated", and what does it have to do with the rest of the sentence?
    • Wow, with all the editing I completely forgot to remove that extraneous sentence, which, as you said, doesn't have anything to do with the rest, anymore. Thanks for pointing it out.
  • Dmitry Dorofeyev link goes to a disambiguation page.
    • Linked to skater page.
  • Reference 17's publisher should be Sports Reference LLC, not Sports Illustrated LLC. Giants2008 (17-14) 22:24, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose until alternative text for images is added. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:23, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with that policy. These images are certainly not essential to the page, and all it does is add extra length to some already very long captions, which already give a strong indication of who the image depicts. -- Scorpion0422 01:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You're right. I was a bit hasty in posting these opposes. The first picture, in fact, is an excellent description of the image. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:35, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I still think, though, that the other images would benefit from alt text, although I won't oppose over it. See (discussion). Dabomb87 (talk) 01:52, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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