Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1968 Winter Olympics medal table/archive1

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:Nominator(s): Hey man im josh (talk) 12:53, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

This is the second last Winter Olympic medal table that is not featured status, and it's a relatively short one. What's interesting about this one is that Morocco competed for the first time, and East and West Germany entered separate teams for the time. This will be Olympic medal table #12 and Winter medal table #4 for me and I aimed to match the formatting of the other previously promoted lists. As always, I'll do my best to respond promptly and to address any and all feedback that is brought up. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:53, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Just one general comment to start. This article seems awfully short. Are the others in this series as short as this one? The only other article I've seen is another one you put forward recently – 1972 Summer Olympics medal table – and it looks like it has more meat. Maybe the 1968 Winter Olympics were just relatively uneventful?

More specific comments:

1. "The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event..." "was" should be "were".
2. "This included first-time entrants Morocco" "entrants" should be "entrant".
3. "including the team relay event in biathlon" I would say "in the biathlon".
4. "Norway won the most medals overall, with 14, and the most gold medals, with six." This may be personal style preference, but I would put the "with x" in parentheses (ie. Norway won the most medals overall (with 14), and the most gold medals (with six).) But either way is probably fine.
5. "French alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy had the most gold medals with three." I would use "won" instead of "had".
6. In the infobox: "Swedish cross-country skier Toini Gustafsson (pictured) won three medals (two gold, one silver) at the 1968 Winter Olympics..." I don't think the "(pictured)" is needed, and I would use the phrase "two gold and one silver" rather than just separating them with a comma. Ditto with that same scenario in the second paragraph.

Just a personal note: I never liked the purple shading of the host nation on these tables, but this is most definitely not the forum for that discussion. :)

Please let me know if you have any questions. Bgsu98 (Talk) 19:43, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for the review @Bgsu98! I implemented your feedback, with the exception of 4 and the a part of number 6 (the medals in brackets). I feel these are stylistic choices and I wanted to remain consistent with other lists that have been done already. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:38, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

::I agree they are personal preferences and I also understand wanting to maintain consistency among articles that are in a series. I'm happy to support. Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:42, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

:::Thanks! Hey man im josh (talk) 16:46, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

• I have nothing to add to the above. I will be happy to support once those points have been addressed -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:11, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
• :Noting that they've been addressed to Bgsu98's satisfaction, and hopefully to yours as well @ChrisTheDude. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:47, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
• Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:31, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

• Refs 18, 19, and 20 all spell the name of the host city as "Gronoble" in stead of "Grenoble."

:* I went ahead and fixed those; those were obvious typos. Bgsu98 (Talk) 18:47, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

::Fine... ;) MikeVitale 18:55, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

• All references have archive links, and spot-checked archive links go to the same place as the original article.
• Date formats are consistent.
• Spot-checked references (both original and archived) support the material in the article they purport to support.

That's all from me. --MikeVitale 18:22, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

:Since the Gronoble typos have been fixed... Support. --MikeVitale 18:56, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

::Woops, those are embarrassing typos! Thanks for the source review and fixing those @MikeVitale! Hey man im josh (talk) 12:07, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

:::While I'd love to take credit, I only pointed out the typos. It was @Bgsu98 who actually fixed "Gronoble". :) --MikeVitale 02:49, 6 May 2025 (UTC)