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FLRC

I have nominated List of 1936 Winter Olympics medal winners for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by JeepdaySock (talk • contribs) 16:09, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Bot request

I have discovered source materials for a large number of Olympic articles, that were formerly housed at http://www.aafla.com have been moved to the new domain http://www.la84foundation.org. From what I can determine, they have not changed the locations of the reports, so the rest of the link should remain correct. You can see the change I made in this edit. So the bot needs to wholesale change domain names only. I don't know how to get approval for such a bot nor whom to contact to have the work done.

WP:OR speaking indirectly with a librarian associated with the organization (now the LA 84 Foundation, the remains of the 1984 LAOOC), they underwent a formal name change and are deliberately trying to expunge the previous name. Inside the office, there is a fine for mentioning the previous name. Trackinfo (talk) 22:14, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

That can be made with AutoWikiBrowser. I'll see if I can make those changes during the next weekend. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Done the first thousand of these, though there are likely more. Courcelles 01:08, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Found a few more hundred, fixed, and really not sure there's much left. Courcelles 04:22, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

I've seen your work on many pages I watch. Good job. It looks like you are doing this semi-manually. I thought a bot would be more appropriate for such repetitive edits. Thanks for the hard work. Trackinfo (talk) 06:39, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Demonstration games and notability

Is a person who has participated in a demonstration game at a summer Olympics automatically notable per WP:NOLYMPICS? The guideline doesn't mention demonstration games, but it also doesn't exclude them. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:17, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Netball

Help is needed on Netball and the Olympic Movement article. The article has been locked due to a serious content dispute. Many of the sources are not reliable and are being misinterpreted or misapplied. The article in its present form has serious POV problems. Please read the talk page and join in the efforts to fix it. Thank you. 68.188.61.6 (talk) 13:24, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Olympic WikiCup?

Would anyone be interested in setting up and / or participating in an Olympic/Paralympic WikiCup? Modeled kind of after the Bacon Wiki Cup? Have it run from say a week before the opening ceremony for the Olympics and a week after the Paralympics? I can probably offer two prizes: Some book about the Olympics, a print of an Olympic related commons image, and a Pediapress book.

Points for the following things about the Olympics/Paralympics:

This way, lots of way for people to participate across different projects. :) --LauraHale (talk) 06:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

A nice idea but I wonder if during the Games is the best time to implement it? From previous experience most of the edits that I end up making during the Games tend to be relatively small updates. Adding sources tends to be limited to referencing results or the multitude of stub type articles that are created, everything moves too fast to focus much on tasks like getting pages to GA or making spoken word versions until things have died down a few weeks after the Games. Perhaps some kind of project wide effort to have an Olypic DYK on the front page at all times during the Games would be good and have the WikiCup after the Paralympics are finished to encourage clean-up and improvement of all the 2012 pages that will contain little sourcing or prose and a lot of red-linked athlete names? - Basement12 (T.C) 11:11, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Two Linn Farrishes

One competed in Rugby in 1924, the other was a spy. Are they actually the same person? Please comment at Talk:Linn Farrish D O N D E groovily Talk to me 03:43, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Lead medal templates

I have made a proposition to harmonise most of the templates in Category:Medal infobox templates. mPlease contribute to the discussion here. SFB 16:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Independent Olympic Participants at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Are they actually called this officially and have they been assigned IOP as their IOC country code? IOP has not been used since 1992 and was used for an existing nation being sanctioned. IOA was used more recently (2000) for a newly independent nation that had not yet formed an NOC. IOC has apparently been used for Kuwait at Asian games. If no source can be found for what they are called and which country code they have been assigned, I think they should be referred to as "Netherlands Antillean athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics", with no country code given, as that it what we know as of today. 88.88.163.201 (talk) 15:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Netherlands Antilles (as IOP or similar) is currently not available in the countries section of the official website. The athletes section hasn't really started yet, so info on the two athletes can't be found there. We will know the correct country code eventually, but the information in the article, and indeed the current article title, may be incorrect. 88.88.163.201 (talk) 19:19, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Olympic sports

Olympic sports has recently undergone a Good Article Reassessment and been delisted. This article should be considered one of the project's flagship pages so any help to get it back up to GA status would be appreciated - Basement12 (T.C) 16:03, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Olympic Games

Olympic Games is a FA that has not been presented on the main page. I think it should be on July 27, for reasons that should be obvious for members of this project. This can be discussed and voted on at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/requests. Can someone check so it is in extra good shape for the event? --Ettrig (talk) 12:53, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

It isn't in good shape. I've tagged all the places needing citations as the text is not cited. (This list is pretty extensive.) The sourcing isn't consistently formatted, with multiple styles used in the article. this and this and this and this is broken. New sources or archived versions or offline sources need to be found for that. There was a lot of stuff promoted from 2007 to 2010 that hasn't been maintained on the GAN and FAC level. :( --LauraHale (talk) 13:25, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

I am sorry to hear this. Does it mean Olympic Games should go to WP:FAR? --Ettrig (talk) 18:58, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

John Creyghton Ainsworth-Davis

FreeBMD record the birth of 'Davis, John Creyghton A' for births registered in Aberystwyth in June 1895. The copy of the original register gives the spelling of the surname as Davis, not Davies.

Births Jun 1895

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page

Davis John Creyghton A Aberystwith 11b 55 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.206.69.221 (talk) 11:52, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

I have copied the above comment to Talk:John Ainsworth-Davies. I suggest we continue the discussion there, in anticipation of a possible page move. There are other references that support the "Davis" spelling. – Wdchk (talk) 17:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

"Olympic Games" (grammatical number)

Comments are welcome at Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style#"Olympic Games" (grammatical number) (version of 21:39, 4 July 2012).
—Wavelength (talk) 02:46, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Olympics and DYK

There is a special holding area for DYK hooks that have been approved and are about the Olympics. These will run during the two weeks of the Olympics. At the moment, most of the DYKs there are about people from the Australia, with a few people from the USA and the Great Britain. It would be great to see more countries represented in DYK-land. :) Support your country. Improve articles related to your country's Olympic movement ahead of the Games. ;) --LauraHale (talk) 11:12, 6 July 2012 (UTC)