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The purpose of this page is to determine the conventions to be used on Wikipedia for displaying Olympics medal count pages and tables. To do this, we are looking for you as the Wikipedia community to express your thoughts on various debatable issues, which will show us a consensus on the views of Wikipedians. When enough opinions have been expressed, a consensus will be drawn from each topic and this will become the acting Wikipedia policy, the standards to which all other pages in the mentioned category will have to follow.


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--Jared [T]/[+] 22:13, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Countries should be ranked according to the type of medal they have, not the quantity.

Support

  1. --Jared [T]/[+] 22:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Jugalator 23:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Emc² (Contact me ) 23:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Andrwsc 00:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --Omnieiunium 00:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. --John Anderson 01:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. — CJewell (talk to me) 01:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Caponer 02:06, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose


The cells of the host nation on the medals table should be highlighted in blue.

Support

  1. --Jugalator 23:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Emc² (Contact me ) 23:48, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Andrwsc 00:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Omnieiunium 00:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. — CJewell (talk to me) 01:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Caponer 02:06, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

  1. --John Anderson 01:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Medals of nations that have since split up (USSR) or united (West/East Germany) should be redistributed.

Support

Oppose

  1. --Jared [T]/[+] 22:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Jugalator 23:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Emc² (Contact me ) 23:48, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Andrwsc 00:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --Omnieiunium 00:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. --John Anderson 01:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. --Sue Anne 01:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  8. — CJewell (talk to me) 01:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Caponer 02:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The 1906 Intercalated Games should be excluded from all-time medal counts.

Support

  1. --Jared [T]/[+] 22:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Jugalator 23:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Andrwsc 00:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Omnieiunium 00:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --John Anderson 01:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. — CJewell (talk to me) 01:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Caponer 02:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose


Gender separated events should be refered to by using "Men's" and "Women's"

Support

  1. --Jared [T]/[+] 22:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Jugalator 23:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Andrwsc 00:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Omnieiunium 00:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. --John Anderson 01:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. --Sue Anne 01:15, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. — CJewell (talk to me) 01:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Caponer 02:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

  1. -- Emc² (Contact me ) 23:47, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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