Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Olympic medalists in alpine 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 User:Matthewedwards 08:01, 17 January 2009 [1].

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List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing

For those that don't like the table format, there are some alternatives listed Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics#List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing (although they don't seem to be too popular). Anyway, all concerns will be addressed by me. Enjoy! -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:49, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Excellent list; all of my concerns on the Wikiproject review have been addressed. Reywas92^Talk 20:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• (1) Maybe it is possible to add also the "Image:Alpine skiing pictogram.svg"? These pictograms are added to nearly all Olympic articles and I think it is good to "mark" all Olympic articles on English wiki with these pictograms?
  • I don't know, I can't really find a convenient place to put it, maybe in the see also section?
• (2) Same more useful images: "File:Ann Heggtveit 1960.jpg", "File:Olympic medal Lake Placid 1932.jpg", "File:Olympic medal Garmish 1936.jpg", "File:Olympic medal Grenoble 1968.jpg", "File:Olympic medal Innsbruck 1976.jpg", "File:Olympic medal Sarayevo 1984.jpg", "File:Olympics medal Salt Lake 2002.jpg"?
  • At the moment, there is only have room for one image, but if a spot opens up, the Heggtveit would be a good option.
• (3) The FIS and also the IOC call the "Super giant slalom" only "Super G" so I think we should also use this name?
  • I'm not sure, I'll see what the WP:OLYMPICS convention is.
• (4) What about: The oldest/youngest male medalist? The oldest/youngest male gold medalist? The oldest/youngest female medalist? The oldest/youngest female gold medalist?
  • I have Aamodt listed as the oldest medalist and I would like to add the youngest, but I haven't been able to find out who that is yet.
• (5) The first who was able to repeat his/her title? Or the biggest gap between two medals?
  • Okay. I added some more firsts too.
• (6) Is it of interest, that Liechtenstein is the only country to win medals in Winter Games but not in Summer Games and they won all their medals in Alpine skiing?
• (7) Maybe we can add a list which country was the most successful in every year?
• (8) Maybe we can add medal tables for men/women only? Or we can add medal tables per disciplines?
  • I have an idea for that. Give me a bit of time and I'll see what I can do.
• (9) About the text: "..., although some Austrians decided to compete for Germany." Maybe we can add that one of them the Austrian-born Gustav Lantschner won silver for Germany? This is why Austria failed to win a medal only in 1936...
• (10) About the text: "...and have been won by athletes from 24 nations." Maybe it is better to write alpine skiers or competitors and not athletes? Isn't there a different in the meaing of the word "athlete" in British and American English? And maybe it is better to write NOC's and not "nations"? Maybe West Germany - Germany and/or Soviet Union - Russia are not different "nations"?
  • Done.
• (11) What about triple wins for countries? E.g. Norway in men's combined in 1994?
  • Added.
• (12) What about families? Mahre, Fernández-Ochoa, Wenzel, Frommelt, Kostelić? Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 22:18, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think that's a bit too trivial for here.
  • Thanks a lot for your comments! -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(1) Like on the other pages this <div class="tright">[[Image:Alpine skiing pictogram.svg|100px|border|Alpine skiing]]</div> is added at the top right corner.

(3) Please see e.g. [2] and [3]

(4)

• Youngest female medalist: Traudl Hecher bronze downhill 1960 - 16 years and 145 days
• Youngest female gold medalist: Michaela Figini downhill 1984 - 17 years and 315 days
• Oldest female medalist and gold medalist: Michaela Dorfmeister gold Super G 2006 - 32 years 332 days (Alexandra Meissnitzer who won bronze in the same race is the second oldest medalist - 32 years 247 days)
• Youngest male medalist: Alfred Matt bronze slalom 1968 - 19 years 281 days
• Youngest male gold medalist: Toni Sailer giant slalom 1956 - 20 years and 73 days (two days later he won gold in slalom - 20 years and 75 days and again three days later he won gold in downhill - 20 years and 78 days)
• Oldest male medalist and gold medalist: Kjetil André Aamodt - 34 years 169 days (Aamodt is also behind Sailer's three gold medals the second youngest gold medalist (Super G 1992 - 20 years and 167 days)

(11) The triple wins are not added?

(13) Janica Kostelić is the only female skier to win three gold medals. Kjetil André Aamodt won his first gold medal in 1992 and his last in 2006 - span of 14 years.

Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 12:50, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I gave the pictogram a try, and it really didn't look that good as a second image in the lead. I changed the name to Super G, and mentioned that Traudl Hecher is the youngest medalist. I decided not to add triple wins to the lead, and I'm in the process of adding a table of the most medal-winning athletes. Thanks a lot for your comments, is there anything that I haven't addressed? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 20:59, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - excellent list after the resolved comments by Dowa, however, World Championhips is
  WP:OVERLINK (overlinked) in the prose.--Truco
  19:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

(6) Liechtenstein: there is no decision up to now

I'd have to say no, I don't think it's really worth mention here.

(9) Gustav Lantschner: there is no decision up to now

Had Lantschner planned to compete for Austria prior to the announcement of the boycott?

I am not sure, Lantscher won medals for Austria in the FIS world championships in 1932 and 1933 and get German citizanship in 1935. If the reason was the boycott or political is unknown to me... Doma-w (talk) 00:13, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(13) Correction: Janica Kostelić is the only female skier to win three gold medals at the same Olympics (2002) like Sailer (1956) and Killy (1968).

The reason Sailer and Killy are mentioned is because they won every available gold medal and swept ther events. Kostelic won three, but she didn't sweep.

(14) Marielle and Christine Goitschel: They were the first sisters two finish one-two at the Olympics ever - Slalom February 1, 1964 and they repeat their one-two finish only two days later in the giant slalom, but in reversed order.

I'm not entirely sure if it's notable enough for here, it's a tad trivial. Why not mention team mates that achieved the same feat?

(15) I think it is necessary to explain all the lists to describe the specials, curios, and records. I think this is very important to make a (featured) list readable also to non-experts! Maybe this is also the right place to add triple wins or others like the youngest female gold medalist or something like that. Also I think it is very important to explain the "Medals by nation" why there are three Germany's and maybe it is also useful to explain the years for Yugoslavia (1924-1992), Czechoslovakia (1920-1992), and Soviet Union (1956-1988)? And I think the "Medals per year" needs a note why there are some figures in bold?

Okay, I'll add a section in the statistics section for medal sweeps. As for your suggestions in the table section, I'll do it now.

Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 21:24, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:32, 7 January 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:53, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 01:11, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from User:Andrwsc

I am happy to see work on this one of the Category:Lists of Olympic medalists pages, which were overhauled in August 2006 and mostly unchanged (save for link maintenance) since then. Hopefully the rest can be brought up to FL status as well! I do, however, have some comments:

• The article structure we have maintained by WP:WikiProject Olympics has been for a pair of pages per Olympic sport, such as (in this case) Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics and List of Olympic medalists in alpine skiing. The intent is that the "Sport at the Olympics" article gives an all-time overview on the sports history, and the "List of Olympic medalists in sport" is a more detailed list (obviously) of the specific medal winners. With that in mind, I question why the "Statistics" section has been moved here? It reduces from the intent of the former article. Also, I fear that this kind of treatment will not scale well to sports like athletics or swimming, where the medal lists are already very long. Scorpion0422, I know you enjoy working on lists in particular, but I would encourage a more balanced view of these article pairs, where the list is not expanded and developed to the detriment of the main article. This comment would also apply to the lead prose paragraphs as well—the list ought to focus on medal winners and not go into as much depth about the history of the sport.
  • It was moved here because I felt that it would work better if they were included here, that way users wouldn't have to go back and forth between pages. I would not be opposed to the medals by nation table being moved back to the main article (or, alternatively, you could add a small version of just the top 10 there, then have the full table at the medalist page) but I think the rest fit here better. As for your comment about the lead, I wouldn't call it an in depth history of the sport at all. It's just a brief summary of when the various events were added to the Olympics, which relates directly to this page.
    • I still disagree that the medals by nation tables belong on these pages. There are 48 lists like these, and I think it would be awkward and confusing to have alpine skiing different from the rest. Nine of those 48 sports are split into two list articles for size reasons, so where would you put the medals by nation list for athletics, for example? I assert it is much better to put it on Athletics at the Summer Olympics rather than duplicated on the men's and women's medalist lists (or worse, split into men's only and women's only lists to match the list structure!). Please think of the larger context and not just this singular list. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:58, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • I actually have thought of the "larger context" and I figured that in cases like those, the statistics would be listed in the main article, since they are split. However, I can agree to putting that one back where it used to be (although it doesn't make things very convenient for readers), but what do you of the three other sections in statistics that I created for this article? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 23:01, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • My personal opinion (not necessarily consensus) is that
        • Medals by nation – belongs on the summary article page instead
        • Athlete medal leaders – makes more sense to stay here, as the central focus of that table is about the people, not the nations
        • Medals per year – new summary table we haven't used before, perhaps keep in lieu of the medals by nation since there is some overlap (list of nations would be the same, as would the grand total column). The table ought to have a similar style to those on the participating nations pages, where a grey colspan section is used for nations that didn't "exist" for certain years (e.g. Czechoslovakia after 1992, Croatia from 1936–1988) Also, the alphabetical layout and nation by year distinction helps avoid the situation where editors want to combine the different German teams, URS + RUS, etc. in grand total tables to improve their ranked position.
          • I tried to add a grey background, but as fasr as I can tell, the template doesn't allow it. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 23:44, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
            • I don't think that {{OlympicNationWinterRow}} is especially entrenched by the WikiProject, so I'd just use simple table markup. Using that template on List of Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing looks especially goofy with all the blank space before 1992, for example. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • Medal sweep events — I really don't like these tables. I know they started to appear on some Games pages recently (starting with 2006 Games perhaps?) but seem rather trivial and/or crufty to me. I have never seen any other source with this kind of information tabulated, but only just in prose text (Austrians Cap Their Blowout With a Sweep in the Slalom).
          • I don't particularily like them either, but I added it to satisfy a reviewer. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 23:44, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • But again, even for the summary tables that could stay here, there is the problem of how to apply the same treatment on all Olympic sport articles. My general feeling is that summary tables belong on the summary article pages. Hope this helps — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• I think it is absolutely essential that the official reports of each Games are listed as references for these lists. Feel free to cut and paste from List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games, where I have already created complete {{cite book}} references for all past reports.
  • I guess I can do that, although I don't bother with them (they take too long to load and even once they are done they rarely work for me)

Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:02, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking a look. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:34, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I moved the medals by nation table back to the main article, and I reformated the by year table and blanked out every year in which a nation didn't compete. Better? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:36, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's an improvement, but I think more can be done. I wouldn't hold up FL status on this list for this reason, but it ought to be something we have sorted out before it is used as a "guideline" or best-practice for the medalist lists for the other 47 Olympic sports. Specifically, what I'd like to see is a distinction between the following situations:

1. country didn't exist at that time
2. country didn't participate in alpine skiing for those Games (and therefore, could not possibly win any medals)
3. country participated, but won no medals
4. country won medals

Right now, you're using a hyphen for both the second and third cases, but perhaps this should be a symbol (ndash, bullet, or ×) for the second case and a zero for the third. I think the distinction is significant. Also, I think this table needs the same visual appearance and detailed footnotes like we have on List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games and All-time Olympic Games medal table.

Again, all of this feedback is something that I think should be undertaken outside of this FL nomination, and ought to be discussed under the WikiProject page to get more people involved. Thanks! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, basically the main purpose of the table is to provide two sets of info: when nations won medals and which nations won medals in a certain year. As it's not the focus of the article, I think the current format is fine, since it's just meant to be a quick summary rather than an in-depth listing of which nations competed which year. That kind of information belongs in the main article. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 14:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't it possible to show the "medals by nation table" on the main page AND here? I think this table is important for both pages? Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 00:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I would prefer to have a quick summary of the table (perhaps the top 10) at the main article, and the full list here, but that's just me. -- 14:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Just one concern how come the tables are not sortable they ought to be really. cheers NapHit (talk) 21:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Basically it's because several rows use the rowspan option, so that screws up the sortability. See here for discussion about it and potential (but ultimately shot down) ways to make it sortable. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 00:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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