Talk:2016 Summer Olympics bids

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Contents 1 Balanced view 2 Azerbaijan Europe not Asia 3 Table layout 4 Doha & Rio de Janeiro

[edit] Balanced view

I reverted some presumably good intentioned edit by user:Honestjeff who primarily deleted any negative information about the Chicago bid. I believe the goal of this page is to present information, both the positive and negative, about the bids (as long as they are sourced), regardless of where a person is rooting for. If others disagree, please let me know. Thanks--Cbradshaw (talk) 06:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I also must mention that marking deletions of 500 bytes as a "minor" edit is not honest, but perhaps it was a newbie mistake?--Cbradshaw (talk) 06:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Azerbaijan Europe not Asia

The IOC lists the NOC of Azerbaijan in the EOC (Europe) and not in the OCA (Asia). This needs to be fixed. I would fix it, but i'm not to good with the editing of wikipedia. So yeah, it would be good if someone could change it.The sound (talk) 10:18, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table layout

What is the point of the odd table layout for applicant cities? It does not seem to add anything and complicates editing and navigation (it would make more sense for each city to be a sub-section). Pimlottc (talk) 14:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, I believe it made more sense when the cities had their logos as well, until they were all deleted. However, other similar pages all have these tables, so it may not be worth the trouble of reformatting all the pages (to remain consistant). At least, I don't think I'm going to do it. :)--Cbradshaw (talk) 16:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

A note on the tables. I feel like they are nice, but with so many cities here, it is not aesthetically pleasing to have such a long article full of tables. Please refer to 2012 Summer Olympics bids for an example of how each city can have its own subsection. It makes more sense to have them not in tables, and so I would encourage the user who reverted my edit to rethink this. Tables are really only meant to show small groups of things, and thus as you can see on the featured bids page, it is used sparingly. Jared (t)  18:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Doha & Rio de Janeiro

It says that the four highest rated cities were chosen as finalists, but according to the article, Doha, a failed bid, is given a higher rating than Rio de Janeiro, a successful bid. Blaylockjam10 (talk) 08:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Taken care of. ThanksCbradshaw (talk) 15:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)