Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing

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 08:17, 31 January 2009 [1].

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List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing

Modelled after the recently promoted List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing. All concerns will be addressed by me. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:33, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

• Support Excellent list! I'm very happy to see you continuing to work on Olympics articles. Just why do so many gray cells need to be in the Medals by year category; can't we just leave out the years it wasn't contested? Also, why is the Medals by nation table listed here but not List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing? Reywas92^Talk 19:19, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
  • In response to the first comment, I will probably eventually reformat it eventually, in response to the second, I was going to move it but I forgot. Done. Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:27, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Comments from Truco (talk · contribs)

• The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included nordic skiing and alpine skiing was added in 1936, but the first official freestyle skiing events were not held until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. - I would change the "was" to , which was (notice the addition of the comma). I would also split this sentence since it has a lot of punctuation.
  • Done, and the sentence was split too.
• Table check out fine, but I would add more to the prose, like a more thorough summary of the lists, like who was the first/last in each category, or more about the other medalists, not just the gold ones.--Truco 00:55, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
  • I'll see what I can do. Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 01:21, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
    • When this is done, I can support.--TRUCO 02:25, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:11, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

• "Prior to"-->Before.
  • Done.
• "No freestyle skier has ever won more"
  • Done.
• "is the youngest to win a medal "-->is the youngest to have won a medal
  • Done.
• "A total of 44 medals"—"A total of" is redundant, but remember that sentences should not be started with numerals. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:25, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Fixed.
• One dab needs fixing (I wasn't sure which link to fix it with). Dabomb87 (talk) 15:25, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:11, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

• Ref 6, add format=PDF to the citation template.
  • Done.
• Ref 7 has a retrieval date but is not a web reference. Maybe you meant to put the publication date? Dabomb87 (talk) 18:25, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Well, the publication date is in there, it just didn't have date=. Aren't all sources supposed to have a retrievel date? Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:46, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
    • No, only web citations need last access dates (for the purpose of fixing dead links). Dabomb87 (talk) 17:16, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

• Comments
  • I´d like to see a caption for the lead image.
    • It wouldn't add anything, it would just be "a pictogram depicting Freestyle skiing"
  • "Freestyle skiing is an Olympic sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games." Now, Freestyle skiing is more than an Olympic sport, it isn´t necessarily competed for in the Olympics. Perhaps just drop the first "Olympic"?
    • Well, Olympic sports is an article, but Done.
  • "The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included nordic skiing, and alpine skiing was added in 1936, but the first official freestyle skiing events were not held until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France" call me fussy but this sentence is a little clunky. It has, after all, five commas, so perhaps consider splitting it a bit so there aren´t so many clauses?
    • Done.
  • "...are not considered official..." is there a citation for this?
    • It's mentioned in the IOC ref provided.
  • " Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova, who won a medal when she was 18, is the youngest to have won a medal in ..." - "...won a medal..." x 2 in one sentence makes it dull prose here.
    • Fixed.
  • "44 medals (18 of each color) " perhaps my maths isn´t working at altitude but 18 of each color would make 54 wouldn´t it?
    • Yeah, you're correct.
  • "As of the 2006 Winter Olympics, 44 medals (18 of each color) have been awarded since 1992..." that´s two timeframes, are both necessary?
    • Done.
  • "...at every Olympics that freestyle skiing has been held at...." poor English, perhaps "..at every Olympics in which freestyle skiing has been held."?
    • Done.
  • I think it´s worth a footnote explaining Yelizaveta Kozhevnikova´s dual nationality.
    • I don't know about that one.
  • "bolded numbers " I´d prefer "Numbers in bold..."
  • In Specific references, you link BBC Sports and CBC Sports but not International Olympic Committee. Any reason why?
    • Because the IOC is already linked in the article.
• Hope those comments are of use. Take it easy. The Rambling Man on tour (talk) 21:46, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
  • They are. Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:43, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

One last thing: merge the columns for 24-88 in the medals per year table like you did in List of Olympic medalists in short track speed skating. Reywas92^Talk 16:08, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

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