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Paul Samson (water polo)

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If someone has time, this article is rather an embarrassment because Samson was a prominent thoracic and cardiac surgeon with a medical society named after him. He was chief of surgery at the hospital at Samuel Merritt University and also was on the faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1946 he founded the thoracic and cardiac surgery training program at Highland Hospital. One of the problems with all of these Olympics sports stubs is that editors often don't look to see if the person was more notable in something else besides being an Olympic athlete. There's a decent obituary on him in Dr. Paul C. Samson, Oakland Tribune, February 12, 1982, page 4 viewable in newspapers.com. I suggest a re-naming of the title because he certainly was better known as a doctor than an athlete. I'm going to leave similar messages at a few other WikiProjects. Best.4meter4 (talk) 16:06, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI, User:Klbrain did move the page to Paul Samson (born 1905). MSG17 (talk) 11:10, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Czech Republic or Czechia

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If the IOC is now using "Czechia". Shouldn't we be doing so too, post-2022 Olympics articles? GoodDay (talk) 00:20, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Probably, but it'll definitely need an RM if this discussion is any indication. I'll also note it took almost six years to do the same for Timor-Leste at the Olympics. Primefac (talk) 19:19, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

List of Olympic teams by medals won - better title?

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List of Olympic teams by medals won seems like a slightly vague title - when I chanced upon it, it felt like the title could also be used for the All-time Olympic Games medal table. I'm not sure what a better title would be though to emphasize that this is the three highest medal-winning teams per Olympics Games. MSG17 (talk) 11:18, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Agree the title is a bit too vague (and/or inaccurate) to correctly represent the content, but no idea what the better title would be (without it being clunky/verbose). Primefac (talk) 11:21, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@MSG17@Primefac I agree with you both. Here are my suggestions:
  • (a) List of top three teams by Olympic Games
  • (b) List of Olympic Games top three teams
  • (c) List of Olympic podium teams by Games
  • (d) List of top three medal-winning teams by Olympic Games
Miria~01 (talk) 16:07, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The top teams are listed at All-time Olympic Games medal table § Medal leaders by year so maybe a slight variation on d to make (e) List of Olympic medal leaders by year? Primefac (talk) 21:44, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
No objections to this wording. It's short and clear for the reader to understand. I also prefer this option to my examples with top three, etc.. The only question is whether "List of Olympic medal leaders by year" is sufficient or if it should be more precise with "List of Olympic medal table leaders by year", even though I personally do not consider the latter (more precise) necessary, Miria~01 (talk) 22:14, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be okay with that. Primefac (talk) 22:18, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
ok, if there are no objections by other Users, I will rename these page by the end of the week. For your information, I have also addressed this topic on the Talk page of the article (with a link to the discussion here) so that potentially interested users can participate. Miria~01 (talk) 22:46, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good to me as well, but wouldn't something like "by Games" be more accurate? MSG17 (talk) 14:35, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
"by year" would be consistent with these template names;
But "by Games" would of course also be fine. Miria~01 (talk) 15:31, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Moved the page to List of Olympic medal leaders by year.
Reason for "by year" instead of "by Games":
  • "by Games" would probably have to be "by Olympic Games" in full and would be much longer than "by year," which is concise and clear.
Miria~01 (talk) 14:57, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Anky van Grunsven

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Anky van Grunsven 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) 15:56, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

National Paralympic Games

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This article has been unsourced since 2005. If anyone is able to add sources it would be appreciated. Thanks.4meter4 (talk) 18:34, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Multisport race

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This article has been unsourced since 2004. If anyone is able to add sources it would be appreciated. Thanks.4meter4 (talk) 22:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Templates disrupting article intros

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I've deleted templates like {2026 Winter Olympics} from the Year Summer/Winter Olympic pages & Year Summer/Winter Paralympic pages. They were placed directly under the Infobox of these articles & were thus disrupting the intros. GoodDay (talk) 04:17, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Epluribusunumyall and IndigoManedWolf:, I recommend those templates be placed somewhere else in the articles, other than directly underneath the infobox. Either that or (somehow) greatly reduce the width of those templates. GoodDay (talk) 21:27, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@GoodDay Thanks, I think this should probably be brought up as an RfC across the WikiProject, given how prominent main Olympics articles are. - Epluribusunumyall (talk) 21:33, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The same problem occurred over at the Commonwealth Games & Pan American Games articles too. Perhaps WP:SPORTS would be the best location for an RFC? GoodDay (talk) 21:39, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@GoodDay in those cases, I believe WP:MSE might be a better venue, I've started the conversation here for now, and will add a note on the WP:MSE talk page as well. Given that the olympics are right around the corner, we might get better participation here. - Epluribusunumyall (talk) 21:42, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on the placement of 2026 Winter Olympics and similar templates

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Starting an RfC on the placement of Template:2026 Winter Olympics and Template:2024 Summer Olympics (and all similar templates) across main Olympic Games articles such as 2026 Winter Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics.

Until earlier this month, these templates have been located directly below the infobox, usually within the introduction. As their recent removal, appears to impact navigability to other related articles such as 2024 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations. Open to suggestions on if they should be re-added as before, relocated elsewhere within the main article, or completely removed. - Epluribusunumyall (talk) 21:39, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Ronald Joseph (figure skater)#Requested move 21 January 2026

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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ronald Joseph (figure skater)#Requested move 21 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Thanks, 1isall (talk | contribs) 17:32, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

New FA review on Ian Thorpe

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I have nominated Ian Thorpe for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. 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 regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. George Ho (talk) 05:24, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Dealing of medals to a team where one of the players has said no and died?

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I'm thinking in particular of the 1972 U.S. basketball team. What happens if a person who has rejected his/her medal in a team has died? Can the rest of the team still get their medals? ~2026-72371-4 (talk) 13:26, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I understand your question; the entire team did (and repeatedly has) reject the medals. Primefac (talk) 14:02, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I think the user is referring to the unlikely scenario that the rest of the team changes their mind and decides to accept the medals. --~2025-40522-38 (talk) 20:02, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Then... we update the article? Primefac (talk) 11:17, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I think the editor wants to know either if they can request and receive the medals even if with one deceased member or if they could request the medals, who would receive the medal of the deceased member? Haddad Maia fan (talk) 21:37, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
This is turning into speculation. If one or more of the surviving team members decide to accept the medals, and that gets reported by independent reliable sources, we may describe what those sources have recorded. If not, we don't. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:02, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can the 1972 U.S. men's basketball team theoretically still get their medals?

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The reason I'm asking is because one of the players in that team has died. I wonder what "the whole team" means - if it refers to every member of that team or only those that are currently alive. ~2026-88134-7 (talk) 11:06, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@~2026-88134-7: Please see the Dealing of medals to a team where one of the players has said no and died? section above. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:04, 6 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I've made it a subsection. If it keeps going I'll just start hatting things. Primefac (talk) 00:39, 7 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Summer Olympic Coins (2000–present)

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Hello everyone,

I’d like to bring up the issue of missing photos and incomplete information for some Olympic commemorative coins on the Summer Olympic Coins (2000–present) article.

At the moment, all the images available on Wikimedia Commons are already included there. The coins that I personally own were already documented, and despite searching further (including on Flickr), I wasn’t able to find much additional material, and what I did find has already been uploaded and used by me.

Since many editors following this project are Olympics enthusiasts, and quite possibly collectors as well, I thought this would be a good place to ask for help. Some of you may own Olympic coins that are not yet illustrated or fully documented, and if so, photographs taken by yourselves would be incredibly valuable for improving the article.

Any contributions, such as photos, reliable information, or even leads on lesser-known issues would be very welcome and would help make this coverage more complete.

Thanks in advance Haddad Maia fan (talk) 11:47, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Pep Guardiola

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Pep Guardiola 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) 04:25, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox linking

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There is a discussion at Template talk:Infobox Olympic event § wlink for Games parameter that could use input from this project. Thanks! Primefac (talk) 12:20, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Olympic Games

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There is a slow-burning edit war at the above template which needs a consensus discussion to resolve. Please join in the discussion at Template talk:Olympic Games § Branding vs city name. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 12:51, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Rafael Polinario

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I just created the article for Rafael Polinario. One of the main things repeated about him across sources is that he came 11th in the 100m freestyle swimming at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Except, Cuba didn’t have a single swimmer at the 1980 Olympics. I did discover that he was listed as Fidel Polinario for pretty much his entire swimming career, but it can’t exactly be a different name issue when there aren’t any names at all. Polinario did play waterpolo, too, and Cuba sent a waterpolo team in 1980, but he doesn’t seem to be on the team list. Normally I’d just write it off as didn’t happen (like, possibly in this case he may have received asylum more easily for being an elite athlete so it may have been exaggerated for a reason) - but then in an interview he gave about 2006, he quite evidently mixes up which competitions were which back in the 80s (his description/results matching a different event to that he named). So is it possible that he may have been to some qualifying event or similar, that he went to Moscow but not the final Games, and mis-relayed that information at some point? Anyone know more about the swimming qualifiers for 1980? Kingsif (talk) 18:27, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  • I am extremely unimpresssed by the accuracy of anything Polinario might have said. In this interview cited in the article, he claims to have finished 11th at in the 100m freestyle at the 1980 Olympics (which is not borne out by the official Olympic report, in which no Cubans are listed as competing in that event). However, in the previous two sentences, he also says, "However, because of the boycott of the Moscow Games, there was a lot of uncertainty politically. We didn't know if we would be participating in the Games as a country." Apparently, growing up in Cuba, he failed to notice that the Soviet Union was Cuba's most powerful ally and thus Cuba would not boycott an Olympics held in Moscow. Or maybe the reporter failed to understand Polinario and thus wound up misquoting him. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:09, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Note that I, based on context, don’t think Polinario was lying in that interview or was profoundly mistaken. There’s a big difference between the boycott potentially affecting participation, which is what he said, and the idea of Cuba boycotting the Games (which is what you’ve extrapolated). I don’t think the latter is the correct reading. Remember, Cuba sucked at swimming and didn’t like being shown up. They scheduled events just to measure their athletes against other American nations and weren’t impressed. If Polinario would’ve been disappointed to not swim against the top-class boycotting nations, consider that Cuba’s reluctance to send a swimming team was likely based more on who the potential competition was than politics. Based on the times we know Polinario was swimming confirmed in third party sources, and times of swimmers who did compete, he would’ve been able to qualify … unless he came 11th in some qualifying event out in Moscow. That’s what I’m asking for. Obviously we don’t include false or even doubtful info, that’s why the interview is mostly used for sourcing personal and later life information. Just wanna know what analogue has been mis-reported as the actual Games. Kingsif (talk) 19:57, 24 February 2026 (UTC) (Or, that the politics in reluctance wasn't Cuba v Moscow, but possibly more likely that if Venezuela was participating in the swimming and Cuba did, that could have a negative political impact. For Venezuela, Vidal and Mestre was swimming beasts. Cuba, as mentioned, sucked. It would look especially bad for USSR/Cuba/communism if the then-US-aligned Caribbean petro state of Venezuela embarrassed the then-USSR-aligned Caribbean petro state of Cuba.) Kingsif (talk) 22:55, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, with regard to the boycott affecting Cuba's interest in competing when they would not be facing certain rivals, okay ... but that still doesn't explain why he said he came in 11th in the 100m freestyle in the Olympics if he didn't even compete. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:25, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, you may have noticed the question I came here with was does anyone know of some qualifying or pre-Olympic event that he could have likely come 11th in and that was miscommunicated... Kingsif (talk) 19:55, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    But yeah, it's quite fascinating. A lot of American swimmers didn't bother with the PanAm Games, and Cuba slowly but surely improved in the swimming rankings, but still weren't good. In 1975 Fidel Castro literally said they need to do better because they won't be able to avoid going up against the Americans forever... and then they get a chance to and don't take it. Kingsif (talk) 20:25, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reserve athletes

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The number of participating athletes is reported differently on the wiki-articles depending on the country, particularly regarding whether reserve athletes are included., e.g in 2026 Winter Olympics#Participating National Olympic Committees (using probably source from olympedia)[1], Germany has 189 athletes and in Germany at the 2026 Winter Olympics 185 athletes, which is correct as the squad supplemented by four reserve athletes,[2] according to the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB).

I have observed these discrepancies in other countries as well (see AUT 2026 or USA 2026 with 232 instead of 235 according to Olympedia and olympics.com[3]).

Therefore, the question is whether the information for the "country at the YYY Olympics" should always be displayed without the reserve athletes, and whether the opposite should be done on the respective page of the Olympic Games. Miria~01 (talk) 02:18, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In accordance with previous discussions on this subject. Delegation athletes are counted without reserve/alternate athletes. Unless that athlete actually participated in the games. Those reserve/alternate athletes are also not considered Olympians since they didn't compete in the Games. Nimrodbr (talk) 09:14, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the clarification, I've corrected this for GER to 185 in 2026 Winter Olympics (diff:[4]) Miria~01 (talk) 12:01, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

1896 Summer Olympics at FAR

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I have nominated 1896 Summer Olympics 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) 04:22, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Deaflympics

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Hello, The Deaflympics is a major international event with its own history, athletes, and editions. It is similar to the Olympics and Paralympics. However, there doesn’t seem to be a dedicated WikiProject focused on Deaflympics topics. The Deaflympics (1924) is even older than the Paralympics (1960).

So, I request that the existing task-force on the Deaflympics should be started again. But, It can't be restored until we have a group of editors that are willing to work on the task-force. I would like to invite interested editors to express their support here if they are willing to:

  • Improvement of articles on previous and upcoming Deaflympic games
  • Expand biographies of Deaflympic athletes
  • Standardization of infoboxes, medal tables, and navigation templates
  • Improve sourcing and article quality to meet Wikipedia standards
  • Coordinating assessment and cleaning of articles

If enough contributors are interested, we can formally request the revival of the task force under WikiProject Olympics. TheGreatEditor024 (talk) 16:16, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Interested contributors can join here TheGreatEditor024 (talk) 15:29, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Template talk:2026 Winter Olympics venues#Requested move 16 February 2026

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There is a requested move discussion at Template talk:2026 Winter Olympics venues#Requested move 16 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. CNC (talk) 17:25, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

"Medals by sport" & "Medals by day" tables revisited

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This is ridiculous, multiple anonymous accounts keep reverting back the extra tables in Brazil at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Like come on, the information is already in the first table. The first table already has the date, the sport, and even the gender ("Men's giant slalom"), To be blunt the extra tables are useless for countries that win only a single (or few medals)

Apparently this has been tackled before at "Medals by sport" & "Medals by day" tables

It would be convenient if some manual of style guideline could be used as reference rather than some old discussion.Hariboneagle927 (talk) 07:13, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There's a unanimous consensus at that discussion to remove the tables in situations like this. I've semiprotected the page in the short term to mitigate the edit war. Primefac (talk) 12:41, 5 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]