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FLRC I have nominated List of 1936 Winter Olympics medal winners for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by JeepdaySock (talk • contribs) 16:09, 29 November 2010 Wikimedians to the Games If there are any Australians lurking around, Wikimedians to the Games is a collaboration drive to improve Australian Paralympic articles, with the most active contributors having an opportunity to go attend the Paralympic Games and to cover the Games behind the scenes with a press pass. The top two contributors will get their airfare and accommodation paid for. :) The drive official starts on 10 January 2012. --LauraHale (talk) 09:30, 31 December 2011 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport Hello if women's sports fascinate you: WikiProject Women's sport and Portal:Women's sport, --Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève (talk) 23:56, 5 January 2012 (UTC) WikiWomen's History Month Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Olympics will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in the Olympics. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC) Notability I've read the information at WP:NOLYMPICS, but how far do we go in considering an athlete notable? Take Paul Côté for example; someone who won one bronze medal with only a stub. Is this really necessary? Wouldn't it be sufficient to just reference him in the relevant medal summary? —JmaJeremy talk contribs 21:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC) An article about a notable subject with a stub article can always be expanded if some one takes an interest in the topic. I know as I've expanded stub articles about 2008 Summer Olympians. In many countries, they interview previous Olympians during current games, which brings additional references. "article is a stub" has zero to do with notability. --LauraHale (talk) 23:15, 8 March 2012 (UTC) Well fine if someone at some point wants to do a whole article on him, just leave it as a redlink at the medal summary... —JmaJeremy talk contribs 01:19, 9 March 2012 (UTC) I'm still not seeing any reason to have it as a red link. The person is notable. A stub can be expanded at any time. Having a stub page makes it easier for new people to contribute than a red link. If nominated for AFD, guidelines would support it being kept. Why should it be be deleted and left as a red link again? --LauraHale (talk) 03:50, 9 March 2012 (UTC) Well, I'm not planning on bringing this particular article to WP:AFD. I was just curious as to what the general consensus on this type of person is, in case a similar article does turn up in AfD or AfC. It seems like were it not for the very specific sentence at WP:OLYMPICS, someone like this wouldn't meet general notability requirements for a person or athlete. —JmaJeremy talk contribs 05:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC) The notability policy for Olympic athletes is set because so many cases have shown there is enough to pass WP:GNG that they should be treated that was as the default. Speaking for Australian Olympic competitors, which is my editing area, this is very much true and the sources exist that just making the training squad (not even competing at the games) generally means they have enough information to pass WP:GNG. If an article came up for deletion for an Olympian, I'd vote keep because of this. --LauraHale (talk) 05:48, 9 March 2012 (UTC) OK, thanks for the insight, LauraHale. —JmaJeremy talk contribs 06:26, 9 March 2012 (UTC)