Talk:43rd Chess Olympiad

WP:TOOSOON

I removed the "toosoon" template. Although Batumi 2018 is indeed two years in the future, it's an event at which thousands of competitors from more than 180 countries will be playing. Useful for the encyclopedia to have a stub article. Billbrock (talk) 23:57, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

This is a micro-stub. And there is no realistic chance of expanding it beyond that before 2018. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:28, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Discussion and !votes about whether this article should be deleted should be posted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/43rd Chess Olympiad. Strawberry4Ever (talk) 17:55, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

South African bid

User:Greenman, I deliberately chose not to mention the cities involved in the bids since although South Africa originally proposed Cape Town (see also section 6.3 of ref. 6), it apparently changed its mind by the time of the vote, and I couldn't find more details on how that actually happened. Also the proposal involving Sun City could use a source. Cobblet (talk) 15:15, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

The source I added lists Sun City. It also mentions Cape Town, and then Durban in the results, but I left this as Durban as per the other sources. If there's a better source about the last-minute change of city, we can add that. Greenman (talk) 21:42, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Good article?

Does this article deserve the {{good article}} tag which was just added? It looks more like a stub. Strawberry4Ever (talk) 21:25, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

No, I removed the template. My guess is that it was accidentally pasted into the article when adding the infobox. Quale (talk) 03:22, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

FIDE politics

I think this stuff belongs somewhere else on wikipedia, rather than the olympiad coverage. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 11:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

That should more conveniently go to a separate article on the FIDE presidential election but it's a valid matter of discussion if it merits one. I don't know the exact nature of holding the election at the Chess Olympiads and would assume that FIDE want to make this event a central place for the development of chess. So, in case we consider the Chess Olympiad only as a two-section competition among national teams, then it'd definitely go in a new article; but if the Chess Olympiad is considered an event that integrates the competition among national teams with the FIDE congress and the other promotional events. then there's no strong reason to bring it elsewhere. Our long-standing practice is to simply report a one-sentence outcome of such elections in the section on the FIDE congress that took place during a specific Chess Olympiad. This time we have apparently much more than just a one-sentence update but it still doesn't convince me that there's more proper place to cover it.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 12:59, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sportsfan77777 (talk · contribs) 01:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I'll review this article. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 01:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Pinging Sportsfan77777. It's been a couple of months since your last comment. Were you still planning on reviewing this article? If not, I can delete it to reset the nom page. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:15, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Matt294069 (talk · contribs) 09:02, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Comments

So I will be happy to do a review of this article with this being a five month old nomination, it's properly a good time to attack this one. Not Homura (talk) 09:02, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Lead

• The only modification is properly the last sentence with "Georgia, and the Georgian Chess Federation has also hosted.. maybe making Georgia with the Georgian Chess Federation hosting the Chess World Cup 2017.

Bidding Process

Don't see an issue here.

Preparation

• It has with an open roof at about 25 m - Remove the an in this part of the sentence.
• "has a modern equipment" - Remove the a in this part of the sentence.
• "and big Spanish chandelier." - Is their meant to be a between the "and" and "big".
• "Some 1,6 million US dollars were allocated" - Meant to be a dot not a comma.
• "set aside is allocated for the travel fund for 80 Nations - Remove the "is allocated"

 Done The article has been accordingly modified.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:21, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

The event

• "Chairman of the Government of Adjara Tornike Rizhvadze" - Link for Tornike Rizhvadze
• "for a record twenty-three times in the 1970–2016 period" - Change "in the" to "between" and drop the period.
• "India strengthened with Vishwanathan Anand" - You could change this to "India was stregthened as Vishwanathan Anand" or something simliar.
• "who came on the fifth place at the end - Replace "on the" with "in".
• "Georgia finished solely on the third place" - Same as the previous comment with the on the to replace by in.
• "the podium on the fourth place after", "being only on the 24th place" - Much the same as the last two.

FIDE Congress

• "FIDE Congress is taking place during the Olympiad" - Change this tense to past tense,

Marketing

• If possible, could you maybe get a picture of either the mascot or the postage stamp that was part of the promotion for the Chess Olympiad.

 Done All changes have been made. The picture of the postage stamp in the infobox was formerly part of this section but it later replaced the non-free logo of the tournament. I think it's possible to get a picture of the mascot for fair use only.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 06:52, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Concerns and controversies

• Reading the anti-cheat measures in this section, I feel like their is way too much for that single reference that you put at the end of the sentence. Maybe you could try and shrink that section.
• "place at the Baku Chess Olympiad concerning the Bulgarian Chess Federation." This sentence is fine but you could maybe change the Bulgarian Chess Federation to the BCF and put the initals when that was mentioned the first time.
• "first case the for sanctioning Russian nationals" - Drop the "the" in this part of the sentence.
• "Russian businessman against Gennady Timchenko" - Remove the "against" in the sentence.
• "FIDE Executive Director Nigel Freeman the next day responded to Ilyumzhinov's statements that the information was untrue by saying that he actually threatened to resign and mentioned three times that he resigned at the end of the meeting." - This needs a reference from this statement.

 Done I have found a way to shorten the section on anti-cheating measures and providing a source with a scanned copy of Nigel Freeman's original statement was not a problem either.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:12, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Final thoughts

This was a good read, and I see you have been working on it while doing this good so at least I won't have to ping you that it has been completed. Just a few grammar errors here and there but other than that I think this is good enough for a GA. Matt294069 (talk) 09:27, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I hope the article now is up to scratch.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:14, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

That it is, Well done. Matt294069 (talk) 10:18, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

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