Talk:Figure skating at the Olympics

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Contents 1 Viktor Petrenko 2 Ladies' Medals 3 Flags 4 Country abbreviations

[edit] Viktor Petrenko

Why does Viktor Petrenko have an Olympic flag next to his name when he is from the Ukraine?

Because, in 1992, he competed for the Unified Team of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and they had the Olympic flag as their emblem. Had he won the medal in 1994, he would have had the Ukrainian flag next to his name. (and in 1988, the Soviet flag.) Sam Vimes 11:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ladies' Medals

Why are there already results posted for the ladies' competition in 2006? This page claims that Slutskaya wins the gold, Hughes the silver, and Cohen the bronze. The competition has not yet taken place.

[edit] Flags

The original idea was only to substitute the long names for the countries by the flag, to shorten the table a bit. The corrent use of hirstorical flage is to my feeling over the top. First the old Canadian flag was never official, and to use the Union jack is probably not appropriate. At least because than Great Britain and Canada can not be destinguished. Second the USA-flag has changed too. So if we do it correctly here, we have to count the stars. Third and worst, I personally do not like to see any Nazi-flag if not really necessary. Please use the current flags if possible to identify the countries. Uwe Langer 19:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I would have to disagree. I believe that if the flags used by the country when they competed should be shown. Otherwise, you would be showing that nation in a totally different culture in a different time period. I don't believe however, that all flags should be chanbged back if they have been already; no one is going to notice the difference anyway. And in regards to the Nazi flag, yes it may be offensive to some people, but if it is part of the world's history, you should learn to accept it. --J@red ^[T]/_[+] 20:26, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree heavily with the second statement. The use of the Nazi-flag here makes it more acceptable. To use that in Germany is even illegal now. The Nazi system was not acceptable and will never be - and I am saying that as a German, non Jewish. However, Canada used the Union Jack officially at early time of the Olympics, so you have to use that then. It is for them probably not nice either. It also makes it impracticable here, because we want to destiguish between Canada and Great Britain. Uwe Langer 08:33, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Country abbreviations

Does anyone else think the country abbreviations really clutter up the tables, especially when half of them are redlinks? --Fang Aili ^talk 14:57, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I think the country abbreviations clutter up the tables. And these abbrevisations are redundent. When you move the cursor on the flag you get the name of the country anyway. Uwe Langer 20:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted it to the way it was before, from this edit, right before it was moved to List of Olympic medalists in figure skating. --Fang Aili ^talk 21:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted back. This style is the consensus of Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Olympics and is used on every other similar page (see Lists of Olympic medalists, although there is still some work in progress on some sports). The point is that the country code links to the appropriate "Nation at the xxxx Winter Olympics" page, and obviously, those are still being developed. Hovering over the flag does not do the same thing. There is a lot of value in linking from a medal winner to his/her "Nation at the xxxx Olympics" page. Please be patient while they are created. My suggestion for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating folks is to help resolve the redlinks for the remaining medalists who do not have an article, rather than reformatting List of Olympic medalists in figure skating to a different style from it's related articles. Andrwsc 22:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)