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Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's road race

For those who have not noticed, this article was nominated in the past for FA, but failed to be promoted because there was no quorum, despite having reached a stage where (IMO) it became FA material. It's been nominated once again and is awaiting for more people to take a look at it and express their opinion. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:09, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

This one's been FA'ed. Thanks, guys! Parutakupiu (talk) 01:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Naming practices: "FYR" Macedonia

In a centralised discussion that created a new naming guideline for Macedonia-related issues, now at WP:MOSMAC2, it was determined that the Republic of Macedonia should generally not be referred to as "former Yugoslav Republic of..." or "FYR ...", even in articles about organisations where such an appellation is officially used. This affects a lot of Olympics-related articles, where up to now "FYR Macedonia" has been used.

The discussion was advertised at Talk:FYR Macedonia at the Olympics, and we had some input from an active Wikiproject member, User:Andrwsc, who assured us that a change towards plain "Macedonia" would likely meet with consensus in this project too .

To implement the change, I would like to edit the template {{country_IOC_alias_MKD}}, which transcludes the country name into the various flag and infobox templates used in result tables etc., changing "FYR Macedonia" to "Macedonia". Please advise if there should be any objections, or technical complications I may have overlooked. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:13, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

No objections here. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 16:02, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

You have my thumbs up. Parutakupiu (talk) 16:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, great. I've gone ahead and made the change now. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:06, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, looks like you've handled all the article renames and navbox changes as well! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:38, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics

I have nominated the article Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics for Peer review. Is someone interested in review it? Regards; Felipe Menegaz 01:27, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Too many flags!

Hi. A discussion about cutting back on some of the flags in Olypmics related articles is taking place at Talk:2004_Summer_Olympics#Too_many_flags.21. Please contribute. Note that the suggestion is not to remove all flags, far from it, but to cut back on places where the number of flags is excessive and causing accessibility issues without any noticeable benefit, ie in the list of all participating countries/NOCs. GDallimore (Talk) 10:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Australia at the Winter Olympics FAR

I have nominated Australia at the Winter Olympics for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Giants2008 (17–14) 14:46, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Ideas needed on the article strucutre YellowMonkey (cricket photo poll!) paid editing=POV 06:09, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Nations tables in some Olympic sport articles

Someone has proposed removing the nations tables from certain Sport at the Olympics articles, namely Swimming at the Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics. Thoughts? -- Jonel (Speak to me) 23:50, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

The tables that list the number of participants from each country? I see no problem with them, and I think it's really good information. Reywas92 14:11, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

I've got mixed feelings about these. I agree that they are useful, but for some sports, will be totally overwhelming for the article. Specifically, qualifying standards do not need to be met for entries in athletics and swimming, to allow even the smallest countries to have one or two participants per Games. Therefore, the tables on those pages would have a couple of hundred rows each (roughly duplicating the list of participating nations for that entire Games), with thousands of table cells to complete. So practically speaking, I'm not sure the benefit is worth the effort, and I also don't want to see those articles remain mostly sets of large tables with little room for prose text. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 14:38, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

New peer review section

Hey all. Lately, this project has seen many of its pages being recognized as worthy contributions to this online encyclopedia. I thought that it would be a good time to open our own review department. Who else besides us could be better indicated to review Olympics-related content? Of course, this does not imply that all articles on this topic would compulsorily have to pass through our own peer review. But I believe that we could address better the specificities of the theme than the general reviewing process would.

Also, I've created a multi-page header that will improve our navigation within the project pages. Hope these new tools will please you and help this project to grow even more. Parutakupiu (talk) 01:08, 26 July 2009 (UTC)