Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2004 Summer Olympics medal count

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The list was promoted by User:Scorpion0422 04:12, 1 June 2008 [1].

2004 Summer Olympics medal count

Modeled on FL 1976 Summer Olympics medal count. Marrio (talk) 14:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved - Noble Story (talk) 03:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

For compound information involving numbers (201 countries, 301 events, etc.), use between the number and the word (i.e. 201 countries).

I think I found all of them. Marrio (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"The United Arab Emirates won an olympic gold medal for the first time in its history." Capitalize Olympic.

Done Marrio (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"...but a spokesman for the European Union, Reijo Kemppinen, boasted of European success in the games..." Is this quote really necessary?

I don't think it's essential either - I just kept it because it's a different perspective on the medal count and was in the article when I started working on it. I'll pull it for now, but would appreciate other reviewers weighing in on it, if they think it should be put back in. Marrio (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"...although that organization does not officially recognize global ranking per country." What does this sentence mean, exactly?

Good question. It's gone. Marrio (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"In boxing and judo, two bronze medals were awarded in each weight class." Relevance?

Clarified. Marrio (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see some specific references, but maybe you could just link to a general reference where you got the table.

The first sentence in the section lead mentions the source, and has a note. Are you thinking of a link on the table itself? If so, I'm not sure where exactly to place it. Marrio (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Finally, you need to make this table sortable (just as an example, like this).

Done. Marrio (talk) 15:26, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Noble Story (talk) 15:01, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More Comments

"Athletes from 74 countries won at least one medal, leaving 127 countries in blank in the medal table." What does "in blank" mean?
- Fixed
"Host nation Greece finished the games with sixteen medals overall (six gold, six silver, and four bronze), with Israel and the United Arab Emirates winning Olympic gold medals for the first time in their history." "with + noun" is not really a grammatical construction. See here for more info.
- Fixed
"Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis was the first, losing his bronze medal in the men's 62 kg competition, with Venezuelan Israel Jose Rubio receiving the medal in his place. Russian athlete Irina Korzhanenko lost her gold medal in women's shot put, with Cuban Yumileidi Cumbá Jay replacing her as the Olympic champion, German Nadine Kleinert receiving the silver medal, and Svetlana Krivelyova of Russia receiving the bronze medal." Same problem as above ("with + noun"). Try making it similar to the following sentences ("shifting", "handing", "resulting").
- Done. Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 14:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Noble Story (talk) 14:30, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion I'm currently working on 2006 Winter Olympics medal count and one thing I think you should include is which athletes were stripped of medals during these games, and how it affected the standings. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 14:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Marrio (talk) 17:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. There's a mention to the first ever gold medal of United Arab Emirates. You forgot Israel. Parutakupiu (talk) 18:11, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added that in, and thanks for pointing it out, because that sentence's reference was messed up and I found it as I was adding Israel. Marrio (talk) 18:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That reference only states that it was UAE's first gold medal. You can easily find an online source for Israel's first title (e.g. here). Parutakupiu (talk) 22:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. ref'd now. Marrio (talk) 23:23, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Still concerning Israel, I found a photo of Gal Fridman on Commons and I added it to the article, since it's more related to the topic than just the Olympic stadium image. Parutakupiu (talk) 23:50, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:07, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments—Worth saving, I suppose, after the prose is massaged throughout. Can you find someone fresh to the list to help?

I was about to pounce on the same "blank" issue as Noble Story, which still hasn't been fixed.
Where's the boundary between naming numbers and using numerals? "Sixteen" but "36".
- WP:MOSNUM says "In the body of an article, single-digit whole numbers from zero to nine are spelled out in words; numbers greater than nine may be rendered in numerals or may be rendered in words if they are expressed in one or two words (sixteen, eighty-four, two hundred, but 3.75, 544, 21 million)." but generally I'll spell out any number lower than 20.
"men's 62 kg competition"—can you pipe this correctly with a hyphen please?
- Done
"doping scandals have resulted in a number of athletes being stripped of their medals"—Nope, this is the old noun plus -ing grammatical issue. See HERE for exercises in correcting it. PS the rest of that sentence is yuckie.
- Done. Thanks for the suggestion.
If we're going to be so tribal as to compare the count of nation-states, I'd love to see added to the table the number of medals per million inhabitants. That would sort out the sheep from the goats. [Not actionable, of course.]
- It's possible, I have seen medal tables with this kind of statistic added. I'll ask the Olympics project and see if they agree (as this is a change that would affect every other list as well). Thanks for the review. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 14:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The user that nominated this page has been gone for a while and has shown no signs of a return, so I'll take over handling concerns from this nom for the time being. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 14:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support The image captions are fragments, so either remove the periods or make them complete sentences.--Crzy cheetah 02:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Final Concern I think it would be better to say: "leaving 127 countries without a medal", instead of what it currently says. Noble Story (talk) 03:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments Just a couple of questions, really.

Is the dash in "men's 62 kg–competition" correct?
Was Israel Jose Rubio the fourth placed competitor? If so, perhaps it should be added
Same with the other "replacements"

-- Matthewedwards (talk · contribs · count · email) 05:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done, done and done. Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 04:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome! And it was nice of you to pick up the nomination, too. Support. Matthewedwards (talk · contribs · count · email) 06:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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