Introduction edit
Citius altius fortius is my formal project to create a featured topic for the Olympic Games. The idea is to create a topic with the Olympic Games as the flag article. The Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics, and Ancient Olympics articles would all be key featured articles. The Paralympics and Youth Olympics would need to be at least GA, hopefully FA. I would then add every year at Olympic Games starting with the 1896 Summer Olympics. I could also see adding List of participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games and List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games as they are generic enough lists to qualify for the topic. Given the new Featured topic threshold of 50% featured articles there would need to be a minimum 29 featured articles/lists by my estimation. I would like to blow past that minimum requirement though. That's a tall order, especially given the state many of the articles are currently in. Some of the articles cannot be expanded past GA quality. This is usually due to a lack of quality sources. I don't have time to assess where I think each one will end up right now so I'll make the goal that all of them reach FA and then downgrade the goal as I work through the articles. The assessments of where the articles are currently at are completely my own with very little investigation. Really it isn't that important where they are at now so I'm not going to spend a lot of time assessing their current status.
Ok, major changes are being made to the project after a discussion here. I think the project will be broken up into three featured topics. The first will be the general topic (Citius) on the Olympic Games. The other two featured topics will actually be subtopics. The main articles will be the Summer Olympics (Altius) and Winter Olympics (Fortius) with each YEAR at Summer/Winter Olympics under their respective main article. I will probably include the lists of participating countries in each subtopic though this could be changed. I will add a plethora of articles to the general topic. Below I have broken the table into the three Featured Topics. Since my energy and momentum has been moving in the Winter Olympics direction I'll keep going in that area. If anyone would care to join me in this effort please contact me on my talk page. I would appreciate the help because it will be an Olympic task.
Citius edit
| Citius: 12.1% complete | ||
* These articles could be summarized in an article on this history or revival of the Modern Games.
† These articles could be summarized in an article on the costs of hosting an Olympic Games, perhaps the list would suffice with information on costs of bidding and then hosting the Games.
‡ These articles could be summarized in an article on Olympic culture or the Olympic movement. Some sort of summary article on the various projects and events that are sponsored by the IOC but that are beyond the Winter and Summer Olympic Games themselves.
- Summarizing some of these articles will reduce the overall number, probably down to around 26 to 28 articles.
Altius edit
| Altius: 7.1% complete | ||
| Article | Current status | Goal | Status towards GA | Nom'd GA | Passed GA | Nom'd FA | Passed FA |
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| Summer Olympic Games | C |  FA |
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| List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games | FL |
Finished | 25 February 2008 | 15 March 2008 | |||
| 1896 Summer Olympics | FA |
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| 1900 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1904 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1908 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1912 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1920 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1924 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1928 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1932 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1936 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1948 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1952 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1956 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1960 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1964 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1968 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1972 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1976 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1980 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1984 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1988 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1992 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 1996 Summer Olympics | C | FA |
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| 2000 Summer Olympics | B | FA |
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| 2004 Summer Olympics | B | FA |
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| 2008 Summer Olympics |  GA |
FA |
7 November 2012 | 5 January 2013 | |||
| 2012 Summer Olympics | B | FA |
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| 2016 Summer Olympics* | C | FA |
* As of January 2013, the 2016 Games have obviously not happened and so they can't be included in the topic. I fully expect that the Games will be celebrated before the topic is completed, which means more articles to add. For now I will keep them on the table but not include them in the total articles left to do.
Fortius edit
| Fortius: 17.4% complete | ||
* As of January 2013, the 2014 Games have obviously not happened and so they can't be included in the topic. I fully expect that the Games will be celebrated before the topic is completed, which means more articles to add. For now I will keep them on the table but not include them in the total articles left to do.
This project was initiated in March 2010.