Talk:Olympic Games

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[edit] Fixing up the page: suggestions

OK, so we've got a Featured Article Review here. It doesn't have much, but it's a start. I've started doing stuff to the page, but it needs a lot of work. Here's just a list of ideas/suggestions:

1. CITATIONS!!! Just find some if you can!
2. More useful, fair use/uncopyrighted images.
3. Re-organization of the sections/subsections. This might require some finagling.
   1. Olympic Games#Disruption of the Olympics and its subheadings should be moved to a section called Olympic problems or something of the like, and add in doping, etc, so that there are no subheadings for that section anymore.
   2. Opening/Closing ceremonies sections moved into one single section Ceremonies and taken out from under the Symbols section.
   3. Maybe do something with the Amateurism/Professionalism section.
   4. Olympic Games#Olympic Games host cities - this needs an explanation of how nations bid for the games and how they're chosen. Maybe some stats....
4. Change "de Coubertin" to just "Coubertin" if used alone, per this
5. Re-write the introduction again. I tried it, but I don't think it works. Maybe a different approach would be helpful....

In general, the article is in good shape, it just needs some re-organization.

→ JARED ^(t)  21:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC); 20:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USA Olympics

Am I wrong there's no US Olympics article? Seriously? I would think the UK and other European countries, China, Russia, and the USA would all have articles dedicated to their Olympic history and important coaches like Bela Karolyi. Right now it's a bunch of disparate loose information tied together by nothing. It's like articles on all the players of a sports league but no team articles. Why don't we just have articles on every Chicago Bear or Manchester United player but no Chicago Bears or Manchester United franchise/team articles? Quadzilla99 15:39, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I think this is what you're asking for: All nations (should) have a "Nation at the Season Olympics" article where nation is the nation's name and season is either Summer or Winter (e.g. United States at the Summer Olympics, Australia at the Winter Olympics, Australia at the Summer Olympics). Now under discussion is whether these should be merged into one article, "Nation at the Olympics." There are already some of them (United States at the Olympics, Great Britain at the Olympics) but we really don't know if they are necessary. You can join the discussion here on WP:OLYMPICS. → JARED ^(t)  15:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok I redirected USA Olympics, U.S.A. Olympics, US Olympic Team, and U.S. Olympic Team (previously non-existent pages) to United States at the Olympics. Quadzilla99 16:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism In the Revival Section

I stumbled across vandalism within the revival section on this page. Data has been erased and i am not sure what to replace it with. If anyone could correct the problem, please do so ASAP! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Homsar727 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC).