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Good article reassessment for London

London has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:55, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:List of diving facilities#Requested move 12 March 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of diving facilities#Requested move 12 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:45, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Kevin O'Halloran at FAR

I have nominated Kevin O'Halloran for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria, or help improve the article. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regard to the article's featured status (see review instructions). Z1720 (talk) 17:04, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Infobox title at Foo at the Olympics articles; is it Foo at the Olympics or Foo at the Olympic Games?

Mkess300 has been changing these today, and has already been reverted twice in Philippines at the Olympics. Is this what the editors here want? Howard the Duck (talk) 20:06, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Hey, it doesn’t really matter how it should look like in the information table, but in my opinion “Olympic Games” sounds more right to me than “Olympics”. Mkess300 (talk) 20:14, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

I see the term Olympics being used most times on Wikipedia rather than Olympic Games and I tend to use Olympics because of that, but if we would change to Olympic Games, I would be in favor Haddad Maia fan (talk) 21:02, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

FWIW, I don't particularly care what the infobox title is, as long as it is identical with the article title. If people want to change the infobox title, I'd argue a mass WP:RM is in order. Howard the Duck (talk) 23:02, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Comment "Olympic Games" is less concise, "Olympics" is understood to be referring to the multi-sport tournament already. So i don't see the need to change the status quo. "Olympics" convey the same information just fine.Hariboneagle927 (talk) 05:04, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm keeping tabs on the discussion, but just noting that if the consensus is to move away from having |games=Olypmics I'll need to update the infobox to accommodate that. Primefac (talk) 11:50, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Have we even have a consensus even? @Mkess300 has unilaterally keep on removing "Games" and more recently adding a table of "timeline of participation" (more accurately flag changes) across the articles. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 14:36, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

From the few I've seen, the timeline tables are unnecessary and should probably go. From a template perspective the infobox changes are breaking things. In other words, Mkess300, stop making these changes until there is consensus to do so. Primefac (talk) 12:07, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Country at the Year Summer/Winter Olympics with missing sections

I've compiled a list of these articles here and thought that this Wikiproject might find the list helpful. BilledMammal (talk) 05:58, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Source question

I understand that this is a fraught topic, and that there have been several complicated discussions on it, but I'm new to this area and I'd appreciate a little clarity. How reliable is Olympedia for facts? I glanced through the RSN discussion and it seems probably good for stats and maybe not good for bios, but what about something like this: "The 1896 wrestling competition consisted of a single event. It was contested basically in the Greco-Roman style, although some legholds were allowed. No weight limit was placed. The matches took place in the infield of the Panathinaiko Stadio, on a sand-covered circle near the Splendone end of the stadium. There was no time limit, with a wrestler losing if he was thrown onto his back."? Would Olympedia be a reliable source for something like that? Ladtrack (talk) 20:50, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Olympedia is a collaboration of the most respected Olympic historians in the world, members of the International Society of Olympic Historians, including some who have been honored by the IOC. In fact, a few years ago the IOC came to an agreement to use the Olympedia data for its own online history website. That is according to Olympedia founder, Bill Mallon. See also for recent update: Denn, Adam (2025-11-03). "The Return of Olympedia: Heartbeat of Olympic Stats and Information Restored". Swimming World. Retrieved 2026-03-08.. Jeff in CA (talk) 18:24, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Deleted medal templates

Many medal templates have been deleted, including {{OG1}}, {{OG2}} & {{OG3}}, and others have been listed for discussion, which may result in the templates being merged or deleted by consensus. You are invited to comment on the proposed action at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. CLalgo (talk) 08:30, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikilympians - New Toolforge project

Made this today, site link hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge here:

https://olympians.toolforge.org/

It's a real-time display (well, synced every 5 minutes) of all 153,412 known Olympians (defined as those who competed in at least one medal-winning event) along with Wikipedia and Wikidata metadata. You can filter them by name, sport, country, gender, medals, and -- most importantly -- whether or not the subject has an article or redirect on enwiki along with the size of the article.

Because all of the sync operations use Wikidata and Wikipedia SQL replica databases only, they can refresh the data quite fast so you can see your edits reflected on the list in real time. I imagine it could be helpful to see which Olympian articles need the most work (either need to be created or destubbed), and there's also a systemic bias tracking page highlighting which cross-categorizations need the most work.

The code is freely licensed as well on Toolforge Gitlab. Let me know if there's anything you'd want added or if this is helpful -- if others find it a useful resource maybe we could add a link on the main WikiProject page.

Thanks all, --Habst (talk) 01:34, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for creating this, because it pretty much solves the issue we had some time ago with those alphabetical order lists of Olympic athletes that generated a very long discussion here Haddad Maia fan (talk) 02:38, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

@Haddad Maia fan, thank you. As I created many of those list pages, I view this as a continuation of that effort. --Habst (talk) 21:37, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Timeline table

There is a discussion about whether this section of India's Olympics article is suitable for inclusion. Please join the discussion at Talk:India at the Olympics § Timeline of parcipitation. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 23:48, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Chae Hong-nak

I finally got around to adding the sources Habst found to Chae Hong-nak's article, however I know very, very little about marathons and can't read Korean. I feel that what i've added is better than nothing, but I'd appreciate if someone could take a look over it and fix it up :) RossEvans19 (talk) 03:01, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

@RossEvans19, thank you, I agree your contribution was constructive and I admit I had forgotten about that subject. How did you translate the Naver News Library sources? As I don't know Korean and the site only shows non-copyable images of text, I had to use an image-to-text tool to get the Korean and then machine translation, which is difficult when trying to sort through hundreds of search matches. --Habst (talk) 21:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Ah, um, I didn't, I just took what you'd translated and added that lmao - thank you tho :) RossEvans19 (talk) 00:17, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Notability for "nation at the Olympics"-type articles?

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports#Notability for "nation at the (year) Olympics"-type articles? ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 19:07, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Colors of the continents according to the rings of the Olympic flag

In the page National Olympic Committee I have just noticed in this image that Europe and Oceania are swapped with their colors. Europe is supposed to be blue and Oceania is supposed to be green just like the Olympic rings. Please change the image accordingly. Mkess300 (talk) 11:03, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Where in the article or the image does it say that the colour scheme directly matches the rings? Seems more like a stylistic choice to use the five ring colours to highlight the five map areas. Primefac (talk) 14:20, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

@Mkess300: See Olympic symbols#Olympic Rings, where we find Although the colors of the rings were later said to be representations of individual continents, Coubertin originally only meant the number of rings to "represent the five parts of the world now won over to Olympism." According to Coubertin, the colours of the rings, along with the white background, represented the colours of every competing country's flag at the time. also Olympic Charter#Chapter 1: The Olympic Movement and its Action which states Article 8: The Olympic symbol consists of five interlocking rings which, from left to right are blue, yellow, black, green and red. No mention of any meaning for the colours, or even for the number of rings. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:31, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

And either way, the Asian parts of Russia and Turkey, plus the Caucasus countries, are shown colored green as Europe is. Jeff in CA (talk) 21:25, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Commons files of sportspeople with Olympic medals by sport

Hi everyone, I am working on categorising Wikimedia Commons files that show Olympic medalists together with their Olympic medals, organised by sport. The aim is to group files where athletes are depicted with their medals, separated by their respective disciplines. For example, I have started building a structure for tennis players:

Tennis players with Olympic medals (Commons category)

The goal is to extend this system across all Olympic sports.

I have also created a parent category:Category:Sportspeople with Olympic medals by sport (Commons category)

Feedback or suggestions on the category structure would be very welcome. If anyone is also interested in helping expand and maintain the remaining categories and files, it would be appreciated. Haddad Maia fan (talk) 16:43, 12 May 2026 (UTC)