Talk:2018 Winter Olympics/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Russia on participation map

Strictly speaking, Russia is not a participant in these Games due to the IOC ban. Russian OAR athletes are technically competing for themselves and not Russia. The map has Russia colored Green as a participant; it should either be not colored at all or colored differently to indicate the ban. 331dot (talk)•

Any other opinions on this? 331dot (talk) 20:44, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Dates up front on all Records in section 3.8?

This is honestly not just a case of WP:JDLI
I think it looks bad having the date at the beginning of all bullet points, call it boring, rigid, repetitive, whatever, it's bad practice because it bores the reader, focuses too much attention on the date rather than the main message inside the bullet point, and doesn't provide a good informal narrative in the context of wowing the reader with these amazing facts!
Out of interest, cf. equivalent records list for 2014 winter games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_and_Olympic_records_set_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics#Other_records
Here no dates are quoted at all... To be consistent we should perhaps remove the dates altogether in the current article!?
I'm open to suggestions and if there's serious opposition then I'll drop it.
I already made the change at 15:17 today (25 Feb) but someone reverted it. @Davey2010 that was you!
Rodney Baggins (talk) 21:49, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

If we have it as "X got a medal in x" the reader won't really know it's in chronilogical order whereas having the dates first the reader will obviously know it's in order, It's a case of preference here me thinks, I don't really see an issue with the way it is. –Davey2010^Talk 22:42, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

As long as each record has a link through to the related wiki page, then the interested reader can easily find out the date that it happened by following up the link if they can be bothered. So unless there are any strong objections I will probably remove the dates here altogether (at some point) but we will aim to keep them in chronological order anyway! Rodney Baggins (talk) 09:42, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

OK seeing as no-one else seems to have an opinion on this after several days I've decided to go ahead and remove all the explicit date references in the Records entries and make the section a bit more readable and less like a catalog. Watch this space! Rodney Baggins (talk) 07:08, 2 March 2018 (UTC)