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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 User:Matthewedwards 03:22, 13 October 2008 [1].

2008 Summer Olympics medal table[edit]

This one has been ready to go for about a month, but I've been waiting due to stability concerns because the games were just recently finished and there could still be some changes in the standings. The page is now stable and thus meets that part of the criteria. As always, any concerns will be addressed by me. -- Scorpion0422 15:05, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - Well done, everything looks great! Although a Michael Phelps image would be nice. ;) TheLeftorium 15:15, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Otherwise sources look good, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done and done. -- Scorpion0422 15:36, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - this is a great list, congratulations on all the hard work to all contributors, meets the FL Criteria.--SRX 23:59, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Excellent job. Just one thing: "The 2008 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) ranked by..." seems like a variation of "This is a list of so-and-so..."—unless "medal table" is an official term. Otherwise I find no faults. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support I can't think of anything that could be fixed, though I've read the whole thing "carefully". -- K. Annoyomous24[c] 05:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Comments

Resolved comments from Gary King (talk) 17:55, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 

  • Sorry, but gotta oppose for now. Also, after seeing a few recently promoted lists that I don't think meet FL criteria quite yet, I hope I'll be able to find the time to do plenty more reviews.
  • Format the references in "References" per WP:CITE/ES
    • They already are, aren't they?
  • "medal, both of" – comma not the best here; the clauses have a strong break in between
    • Done.
  • "China athletes" – "Chinese athletes" (they may not all be Han Chinese, but they are certainly all Chinese nationals? Just like "Canadian athletes")
    • Done.
  • Why is "Games" capitalized in the lead? The word is not used prior to this in a more complete phrase, giving no indication as to why it should be capitalized (like saying "Olympic Games" would show that that is why it can be capitalized in subsequent uses).
    • Fixed.
  • "The United States athletes" – same as above I would say
    • Done.
  • "Athletes from Afghanistan,[2] Bahrain,[3] Mauritius,[4] Sudan,[5] Tajikistan[6] and Togo[7] won their first Olympic medals." – it is not clear that this "first" is for the country and not for the athletes – I think?
    • Done.
  • "shooting." – remove period from non-sentence
    • Done.
  • "which had previously held the record for most medals without a gold" – "previously held the record for most medals without a gold" – my reasoning: this is not part of the sentence; it's a side note, so instead of making it flow well with the sentence – which it doesn't anyways, in its current state – it should be kept succinct
    • Done.
  • Please copyedit the rest of the article; I've only quickly gone through the lead.

Gary King (talk) 06:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have done some more copyediting, thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion0422 16:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support- Looks good. Meets every FL Criteria.—Chris! ct 21:49, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The caption on the map refers to the image itself, so there is probably a better caption that consists of good alt text.--User:2008Olympianchitchatseemywork 23:32, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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