Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Olympic Games

Olympic Games

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 20, 2022 by Gog the Mild (talk) 11:23, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Olympic rings

The modern Olympic Games are leading international sporting events in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in various competitions. The Summer and Winter Games are held in a different city every four years, offset from each other by two. Inspired by the ancient Greek Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, leading to the first modern Games in 1896. The abuse of amateur rules by the Eastern Bloc nations in the latter 20th century prompted the IOC to begin allowing participation by professional athletes. The growth of the Games has created challenges and controversies, including political boycotts, doping, and commercialisation. Olympic rituals and symbols include the Olympic flag and torch, the opening and closing ceremonies, and medals given to the top three finishers in each event. The contemporary Olympic movement includes related competitions, such as the Paralympic Games for athletes with physical disabilities. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): Nodar Kumaritashvili, an Olympic athlete, is scheduled for February 4, the opening day of the games. This article last ran on August 12, 2012.
Main editors: H1nkles
Promoted: 2009
Reasons for nomination: Date relevance is closing date of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
I have no strong connection to this article, and from a quick glance it looks like it'd need some tune-ups before it'd be fit to run, but Gog the Mild recently encouraged more nominations of older FAs, so here's one for us to consider. It's certainly an important subject that will be highly topical on this date.
Conditional support as nominator, contingent on the article being updated, tags addressed, and other outstanding issues resolved. As a technical note, if the rings could be made a little smaller, that'd be nice, as the image doesn't need to be that big. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:13, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Notified: WT:OLYMPICS. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:51, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is late for a nomination for February, although not impossibly so. I note that two winter olympic articles have already been scheduled for February, both requests. That said, this would certainly be an appropriate TFA for the day of the winter olympics closing ceremony. Also, the blurb would need heavily copy editing to reduce it to between 925 and 1,025 characters including spaces. There would also need to be clarification that the proposed image is free use, which seems to be disputed from my reading of the tags. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:35, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It was at 1040 characters by my counter, so I just made a tweak to get it down to 1,024. Re copyright, I'm not a specialist in that area, but I'd assume that it doesn't meet the threshold of originality, making the first tag here valid; I can't speak to the others. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:47, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, now down to 1,024. Buidhe, do you have an opinion on whether the image would be considered free use? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The logo is clearly below TOO, at least in the US (where our servers are based). So I think it's fine. (t · c) buidhe 23:30, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]