Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Olympic Games host cities/archive1

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 not promoted by User:The Rambling Man 18:15, 2 August 2008 [1].

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List of Olympic Games host cities

I am nominating this article because I believe it should be promoted to a featured list.—Chris! _ct 00:20, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose — I'm not even sure this should be a distinct Wikipedia page. It is shown as the {{main}} article for Olympic Games#Olympic Games host cities, but doesn't really offer much more than the list shown there. (Strangely enough, this list doesn't even link back to Olympic Games!) The only substantive differences are an alternate formatting style, and inclusion of the dates for each Games on this list. I know my comments may seem odd here, given that I have done some work on this list in the past, but upon further reflection, it doesn't seem to me like this is truly featured content. Are we just trying to pad the FL statistics by promoting some "low-hanging fruit"? I would propose that the good work in adding some additional references here be merged back into the main article, and yes, I would then propose PROD or AFD for this list. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I understand what you say. But I think we should give others a chance to weigh in on this issue before closing this. If the consensus is merge, I am more than willing to withdrew this nomination.—Chris! _ct 01:59, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, of course! My opinion weighs no more than anybody elses.

I first saw this article over a year ago, wondered why we needed another copy of the table on the Olympic Games article, stuck it on my watchlist as a reminder to do something with it later, and forgot about it. When you started to clean it up recently, it showed up on my watchlist again, which got me thinking about what to do with it, and your FL nomination pushed the trigger for my initial response. After thinking about it a bit more in the past few hours, maybe deletion isn't the right answer. I guess the problem I have now is that it is called a list of cities, but could just as well be called a list of Games. Each table row only has a relatively small number of data items, so it is a fairly brief summary at best. But since there are only 40 cities, there is certainly room for lots more detail. Perhaps the list could be rewritten to be more "city-centric". Maybe use Wikipedia:Lists#Definition lists style so that each city could have at least a paragraph of prose text, describing things like how it was awarded the Games, bidding results (integrating content from Bids for Olympic Games and Bids for Olympic Games (ballots), lists of secondary venues attached to each main host city (e.g. for 2008: Hong Kong for equestrian events, Qingdao for sailing, and the four cities for football), etc. I guess what I'm saying is that if this is truly going to be the "main article" for the section of Olympic Games that has the summary table, then it needs to be much more than an echo of the summary table. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 04:53, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

That sounds like a great plan to rewrite the list.—Chris! _ct 05:53, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

• Comments
  • Delete the first sentence because of the repeating of the title.
  • Couldn't you link "Olympic Games"?
  • If you link most of the years to its Olympic Games, couldn't you link or unlink the rest?
  • "Seven cities have hosted Olympic Games..." should be "Seven cities have hosted the Olympic Games ..."
  • Why are the Olympiads the Summer Olympics and No. the Winter Olympics?
  • What does No. stand for?
  • Couldn't you do this, {{ref label|Note1|1|1}}, instead of this, ^{('''[[#St. Louis|1]]''')}?
  • Isn't this a list of Olympic Games?

-- K. Annoyomous24 _{GO LAKERS!} 07:18, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

• Withdrawn, per this. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:16, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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