Talk:Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

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Oldest and youngest competitors

Why we can't add this information to article? See here Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's floor
We should add ISU Seasons Best Scores to article. See here Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres (Records-World Leading)
We should remove Qualification section. We already have a page for country qualification. Other sports didn't add that information in their individual events article again. This should be in the main article only. For example Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle, Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's singles or Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 3 metre springboard. Some sports has this section but of course its should be because they have a olympic event. See Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's sprint--Berfu (talk) 08:46, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is an encyclopedia. The qualification is directly related to the athletes competing so hence needs to be included. Also this age this trivial which we are not allowed to include.

Sorry but other articles from other sports I listed above and Figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's singles or Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's singles doesn't have qualification section. I'm removing them because we have main article. If there is a rule about that please write there. --Berfu (talk) 21:57, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am new here so I'm not aware of any rules. I added the qualification section because it has directly to do with who is competing. Without it how would the reader know why a specific athlete participated? I'm okay with shortening the section if needed. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 23:07, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Consistency of language/format

We are currently inconsistent with the other olympic figure skating pages (see Pairs Skating & Team Skating). All the other figure skating articles use American English exclusively (program vs. programme), and use a specific consistent layout for their record holding tables. This article has both been changed multiple times from American to British English, and has had the table re-arranged from the consistent layout into a different layout (skater-based, not program-based.) I propose that we need to stick to the same standard layout and language usage that is consistent across all figure skating articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.104.244.6 (talk) 20:44, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. North American English should be used as the Sochi 2014 and ISU websites use it. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 00:57, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree as well. It is spelled "program" by the ISU and the Sochi 2014 official website. I'm editing it. ErisDysnomia (talk) 12:51, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deductions and music

Isn't the minus sign next to the deduction points kind of unnecessary? I've checked some articles of other skating competitions and the deductions are just marked as 2.00 or 2. A deduction seems clear enough to me without the added sign.

The inclusion of the music chosen by the skaters also seems unnecessary to me since the information isn’t mentioned in the official results and if you include that where do you stop? Do you also include the name of their coach and their age? Furthermore, the information is available on each skater's personal articles. ErisDysnomia (talk) 11:27, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]