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Talk:Aquatics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

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I'm glad to see my style of having a link to the country page for the Games of the winner in parentheses instead of just the 3-letter initials has spread from the 2006 Winter Olympic Games pages. Yay. Jfingers88 06:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

The 2006 Winter Olympic Games pages are exactly where I stole the idea from. 203.22.132.16 11:25, 19 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Fix clutter/more detail

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Latest comment: 18 years ago8 comments3 people in discussion

The aquatics article is getting pretty cluttered by the mass of different events, I think it would be appropriate to break it down into sub articles to be easier to navigate. If the swimming section could be given different articles for gender or each stroke, or any number of options, then it might also be nice to get all finalists names mentioned as in my following example of the women's 100m butterfly final. Opinions and suggestions please, otherwise the article will remain a clutter.

Pos. Athlete Time
    Jessicah Schipper (AUS) 57.48
    Libby Lenton (AUS) 57.80
    Audrey Lacroix (CAN) 58.89
4   Alice Mills (AUS) 59.21
5   Terri Dunning (ENG) 59.34
6   Amanda Loots (RSA) 59.93
7   Jemma Lowe (WAL) 1:00.52
8   Li Tao (SIN) 1:00.63

203.22.132.16 12:02, 19 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

I think a table like on the Athens results page is neat, simple, and prevents the clutter problem.
I think that's a very good idea. Any objections to implementing a style similar to the Athens results page? --203.22.132.16 00:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)Reply
The Athens page has links to separate articles on every single event. Unless someone wants to go to the trouble to do that, I'd say keep the existing format, since it includes finishing times, which are important. -dmmaus 22:11, 20 March 2006 (UTC)Reply
How about something like this, which includes the finishing times. Either with or without links to each individual event?

Men's Swimming

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Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
50m Freestyle   Roland Schoeman (RSA) 22.03 (GR)   Brent Hayden (CAN) 22.19   Brett Hawke (AUS) 22.31
100m Freestyle   Simon Burnett (ENG) 48.57   Ryk Neethling (RSA) 49.20   Roland Schoeman (RSA) 49.24
200m Freestyle   Ross Davenport (ENG) 1:47.29   Simon Burnett (ENG) 1:47.38   Brent Hayden (CAN) 1:47.41
400m Freestyle   David Carry (SCO) 3:48.17   Andrew Hurd (CAN) 3:49.08   David Davies (WAL) 3:49.44
1500m Freestyle   David Davies (WAL) 14:57.63   Andrew Hurd (CAN) 15:09.44   Hercules Prinsloo (RSA) 15:11.88
etc.

Women's Swimming

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Event Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
50m Freestyle   Libby Lenton (AUS) 24.61 (GR)   Jodie Henry (AUS) 24.72   Alice Mills (AUS) 25.03
100m Freestyle   Libby Lenton (AUS) 53.54   Jodie Henry (AUS) 53.78   Alice Mills (AUS) 54.31
200m Freestyle   Caitlin McClatchey (SCO) 1:57.25   Libby Lenton (AUS) 1:57.51   Melanie Marshall (ENG) 1:58.11
400m Freestyle   Caitlin McClatchey (SCO) 4:07.69   Joanne Jackson (ENG) 4:08.36   Bronte Barratt (AUS) 4:08.65
800m Freestyle   Rebecca Cooke (ENG) 8:29.50   Melissa Gorman (AUS) 8:30.79   Brittany Reimer (CAN) 8:38.05
etc.

--203.22.132.16 04:16, 21 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

That looks great. Probably leave the individual events unlinked, unless there is enough for an article on some of them, then just link to those. A mass of redlinks is always ugly. -dmmaus 23:09, 21 March 2006 (UTC)Reply
If no one objects to this system, then sometime in the next 12 hours I'll make the new table complete with all swimming results. Any events that have a write up will be given their own article. 203.22.132.16 00:39, 22 March 2006 (UTC)Reply
Actually, I do have a slight objection. Could you change the style of the table to be a bit more organized, as I just did with Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics? It would make it a lot neater and understandable. It might take a while, though. Jfingers88 03:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Reply
How about like this? It would take up a little more space, but is easier to read.

Men's Swimming

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Event Medal Athlete Time



Gold   Roland Schoeman (RSA) 22.03 (GR)
Silver   Brent Hayden (CAN) 22.19
Bronze   Brett Hawke (AUS) 22.31



Gold   Matthew John Cowdrey (AUS) 26.06 (WR)
Silver   Benoît Huot (CAN) 24.84
Bronze   Matthew Benedict Walker (ENG) 28.94

--203.22.132.16 06:10, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

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