Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1936 Summer Olympics medal table/archive1

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The list was promoted by Dabomb87 21:56, 29 April 2012 [1].

1936 Summer Olympics medal table

Featured list candidates/1936 Summer Olympics medal table/archive1

Nominator(s): Miyagawa (talk) 18:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Another Summer Olympic medal table from me. Hopefully I haven't repeated any mistakes that I've made previously in the three other Summer Medal articles, but you never know! Certainly one of the most notorious Games out there, being "the Nazi Games". Miyagawa (talk) 18:07, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from NapHit (talk) 12:18, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments'

Linking to countries is frowned upon per WP:OVERLINK, perhaps link to the 1976 article about East and West Germany at 76 olympics?
Would link Nazi regime on first mention
"Jesse Owens became one of the more successful athletes at these Games,[1] winning four gold medals for the United States, and going down in Olympic history by reportedly frustrating Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler after Owens won the men's 100 metres." very long sentence and not keen on a number of things here. Owens was one of the more successful athletes, more than who? was he the most successful? the way it reads now leaves too many questions. not keen on the use of winning either, would put a semi-colon, where the first comma is and change start of second conjunction to "he won..." the bit about Hitler is also ropey. "Reportedly" is nt very encyclopaedic did he or didn't he frustrate Hitler? the Daily Mail article is not exactly forthcoming about it either, and I think the but about going down in olympic history is bait POV, although I appreciate where you're coming from, perhaps change to "he won four gold medals for the United States to the ire of Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler."
"Sohn Kee-chung, competing as Kitei Son, did so and became the first Korean to win an Olympic medal,[5] taking gold in the marathon, also making him Japan's first gold medallist." Not keen on the use of taking, why not use won? Would also restructure the sentence so it reads: "Sohn Kee-chung, competing as Kitei Son won gold in the marathon, which made him Japan first gold medallist and the first Korean to win a medal."
Sentence after change took to won
ref 6 needs the author adding
Also would replace the daily mail ref with this one from the guardian, not a fan of the daily mail and the guardian is more reputable new outlet in my opinion. Also the bit about Hitler is less POV than the Mail article.

NapHit (talk) 23:08, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've addressed all of those issues now. Miyagawa (talk) 18:58, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support NapHit (talk) 12:18, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

File:WoodRuff 1936 Olympics medal front.jpg is tagged as "own work". I'm willing to believe that the uploader took the picture himself, but I doubt that he is also the artist who designed the medal.
~~File:Ibolya Csak.jpg should not use {{self}}.~~
I may be wrong about this, but I don't believe that merely cropping an image meets the threshold of originality. Thus File:Berlin, Olympiade, Tilly Fleischer.jpg should not use {{self}}. Furthermore it cannot be licensed under the GFDL, as the image it was cropped from is not available under that license.

Aside from these issues, all used images appear to be free and are properly tagged. Good raise 11:50, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've switched out the licences on commons for the Tilly Fleischer and Ibolya Csak images for the licences on the original images rather than the cropped versions. As for the medal itself, it was designed by Giuseppe Cassioli and was used from the 1928 Olympics onwards. The artist himself died in 1942. Miyagawa (talk) 21:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Who holds the copyright to the design of the medal? Good raise 00:14, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked that question at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Once I get a response there, then I'll respond here. Miyagawa (talk) 11:13, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dissapointingly I didn't get a response and the query has now been archived. I've looked into it in some more detail and I would argue that the medals don't qualify as a two dimension piece of art being that they are indeed three dimensional. Therefore such copyright wouldn't apply to them. Photographs of them then fall into the general realm of copyright, which means that if the photographer themselves uploaded it on a CC free use tag, then they're ok. It's certainly not the only image of olympic medals uploaded, and there are photographs of more recent ones too (including the Games from the period after this design was no longer used). Miyagawa (talk) 12:46, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Giants2008 (Talk) 01:03, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

Extremely minor prose nit-pick, but in the second sentence I think "been" and "previously" should be reversed in order.
Germany's setting a medal record in 1936 isn't cited anywhere.
In the third paragraph, why is "Gold" capitalized?
"which made him Japan first medallist and the first Korean to win a medal." "Japan first" → "Japan's first".
The comma after Nam Sung-yong should be removed.
Medal table: Again minor, but you could consider using the NOC abbreviation from earlier in the prose.
Again, why is Gold capitalized here? Giants2008 (Talk) 22:15, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed as noted. The Germany numbers were originally from the general reference, but I found a second resource which showed the tables over multiple years and added it as an inline citation. Miyagawa (talk) 18:54, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 18:35, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Just reading "were an international "... seems odd to me all of a sudden, like it should be singular, i.e. "was an international"...

Fixed as suggested. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"These Games ..." the last Games you mentioned were the 1916 Games, so this is potentially confusing.

Changed it to state the 1936 Games. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"would stand until the 1976 Summer Olympics when East Germany won 90 medals, and West Germany an additional 39" does that really count since presumably the East German NOC was just that, for East Germany, and not for a unified Germany?

Changed it to confirm that is it a record for a United/Unified Germany, although I made mention that East Germany alone beat that record on three occasions. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could you explain why some countries had threatened to boycott the games?

I moved up the Nazi regime explanation from the middle of the paragraph to the lead sentence. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't mix date formats in the references.

That should be fixed - when I added the new citation it defaulted to the wrong format. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two dead heats with their one extra medal each, but yet there are 2 more golds and bronzes than silver, or am I not seeing something?

The Rambling Man (talk) 10:35, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There should have been 129 medals of each type, but the dead heat in the weightlifting increased the number of gold medals to 130, and decreased the number of silver medals to 128 as it wasn't awarded in that event due to the two gold medals. Then the dead heat in the gymnastics increased that to 130 as well, causing the 2 medal gap between gold/bronze and silver. Thinking about it now, I'm going to explain that silver gap in the article right now. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- You know what, I even had to write down what I thought so I could add it all up! confusing, so any clarification you could offer would be cool. Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support The Rambling Man (talk) 18:35, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments - overall, looking quite good. Just a couple of comments before I support:

~~"cancelled at the last moment after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War after the athletes had already begun to arrive." - after...after, any way to remove repetitiveness?~~
~~"While no NOCs eventually boycotted the Games", "eventually" sounds a bit off here. Perhaps "ended up boycotting" or "In the end, no NOCs boycotted" or something similar would be better.~~
"to the ire of Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler after Owens won the men's 100 metres." Why was Hitler particularly upset about him winning this event? Also, giving a bit more explanation as to why Hitler was upset that Owens was winning medals (because of his race, yes?) might be interesting.

Other than that, things look good. I looking forward to supporting. Dana boomer (talk) 14:17, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've rectified each of those points. Miyagawa (talk) 21:32, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I made one small tweak, but other than that everything looks good. Happy to support. Dana boomer (talk) 22:33, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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