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The list was promoted by Dabomb87 23:51, 27 January 2011 [1].

List of 1948 Winter Olympics medal winners[edit]

List of 1948 Winter Olympics medal winners (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s):Arctic Night and Courcelles 11:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Haven't done one of these in a while, hope to get back into the swing of it with the new year. This is Arctic Night's first swing at FLC, after earning more DYK credits than I can count. This is 1948- the first Olympics of any kind since the 1936 Berlin Games, enjoy and comment. Courcelles 11:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Quick Comment Just found this one: Martin Lundström during the Men's 18km event. Lundström went on to win the gold medal in this event.]] two brackets too much.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 11:52, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Goodness me, how'd that happen? That text is supposed to be the image caption. Fixed now, thanks. Courcelles 11:57, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

  • Remove "to" from "but would not to make another appearance until 2002 in Salt Lake City."
  • Decapitalize first word in "Winter pentathlon".
  • No need for two National Olympic Committee links in the lead. You also have two links to an article on figure skating at the Games that year, which is probably one too many.
  • The second general reference could use a date of access. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 22:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
All taken care of, thanks. Courcelles 23:11, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Meets FL standards. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 01:09, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, going through things, File:Barbara Ann Scott portrait 1946.jpg needs to be deleted Commonsside, as it is not PD in the USA, so can only really be used under a claim of fair-use, which can't be made here. File:Erika Mahringer Are1954.jpg is very questionable- the uploader took the picture 56 years ago, really? (NB:This uploader has uploaded quite a few questionable pictures) And Nils Karlsson is another cross-country skier, and there is no logical place to insert another picture of one of those, the cross-country section already has a picture. Courcelles 18:37, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Notable absences from the 1948 Winter Olympics were defeated Axis Powers members Germany and Japan, who were not even invited in light of the recently-concluded World War II. Why? They were not invited only because of WWII? Maybe you could include more information about this. And a source would be fine. All in all a great list.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 16:27, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see if I can dig anything up, but what I've read in general terms, not in specifics about the Olympics, was that neither Germany or Occupied Japan were considered "nations" until 1949 (FRG) or 1951 (JPN), and therefore, weren't typically invited to anything that would be treating them as such. I've seen articles discussing the awarding of the 1948 Summer Games to London (in 1946) that simply said the IOC would have to decide to invite the defeated powers, and then in 1947, well, see for yourself at [2]. And even that is discussing London, with the Winter games not even meriting a mention. I'll rework this a bit, but from my reading, I don't think there's much more to say here than already is. Courcelles 11:22, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 17:09, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • The "officially known as" thing, would it not be prudent to have "V Olympic Winter Games" in quotes, or italics?
    • Italicised, though I'm not at all sure this is right.
  • You talk about the adjustment from the 1936 Games, but leave out the fact that (I assume) there were no 1940 or 1944 Games due to the Second World War. Worth a note?
    • Added one
  • You abbreviate NOC in the lead but don't use it subsequently ("... 28 competing National Olympic Committees, ...")
    • Done
  • Worth clarifying visibly that the London games were Summer Olympics I think.
    • Done
  • Was the Soviet Union NOC led by Stalin? It reads that way.
    • More relevant is that the CCCP didn't even have a NOC in 1948. Redid this.
  • Caption has "Ice Hockey team" but other mentions of ice hockey don't consider it to be a proper noun...
    • Done.
  • When I sort by "Gold", I'd still expect Oreiller to sort above Lundstrom because of his bronze...
    • It is for me in Firefox... I tried a total hack, making Oreiller's two sort as if it were a three, see if it works.
  • Same when sorting by total, Oreiller sorts last despite having two golds, suspect his entry is not quite sorted...
    • Again, this is working correctly to me, one click and it sorts in descending order, two in ascending, like it should...

The Rambling Man (talk) 21:02, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]


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