Talk:Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 470

Latest comment: 7 years ago by Smartyllama in topic Gold Medal being prematurely declared

Introduction edit

The Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling forms the basis/template of all Class pages of the "Sailing at the xxxx Summer Olympic games" articles.

This article is standardized to this standard!

Naming convention edit

The name of a Class page is as follows: Sailing at the xxxx Summer Olympics – classname.

Good examples of a Class page name are:

  • Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling
  • Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Woman's 470

NON-examples are:

  • Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Soling class
  • Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Three persons keelboat
  • Sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics - 470 Female

Class page structure edit

A class page for the series of the Olympic regatta's of one special year have the following structure:

  1. Infobox Olympic event template
  2. Classes used for Sailing at the Summer Olympics|year = xxxx template
  3. General introduction
  4. Race schedule section (actual racing days)
  5. Course area's and course configurations section
  6. Weather conditions section
  7. Final results section (using the Sailing result block template). Most of the results will be from fleetracing. In case of matchracing a sub section must be added for the matchracing part.
  8. Daily standings section
  9. Notes section (for documented further information)
  10. Other information section (for "less" documented info)
  11. Further reading section (for pointers to other sources related to, but mostly besides this page relevance)
  12. Reference section (please use reflist|refs construction
  13. Categories and other Wikipedia metadata

In case a section does not have the suitable content yet the following template will be used as placeholder:

example use of placehoder template: edit

Example of Class page edit

Please check when in doubt the content of this article

Thanks in advance NED33 (talk) 23:15, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Reply


In compliance with the standard edit

The following Class pages are in compliance with this standard:


Gold Medal being prematurely declared edit

Team Great Britain is being prematurely awarded the gold medal. If team Great Britain gets a DNS, OCS or any other finish that awards them 22 point and team New Zeland gets a first they will be tied at 50 point each, which then would award team New Zeland the Gold since they will have 5 first places to Great Britains 3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.39.11.64 (talk) 13:29, 17 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

I thought the tiebreaker was higher finish in the medal race. But either way New Zealand would get it, so you're correct. Smartyllama (talk) 16:10, 18 August 2016 (UTC)Reply