Talk:British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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A fact from British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 February 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the delegation of the British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics was supported by a scholarship named after their chef de mission?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 03:09, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the delegation of the British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics was supported by a scholarship named after their chef de mission?

Source: [1] [2]

ALT1: ... that the delegation of the British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics was supported by a scholarship named after their chef de mission who was also an Olympian? Source: [3] [4]
ALT2: ... that a sailor graduated with a degree in real estate development, competed for the British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics, then retired to study real estate law, in that order? Source: [5]
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Smash Hit

5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

Arconning (talk) 13:40, 20 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Article was 5x expanded but is also now a GA. Well-sourced and neutral. Passes Earwig's. The hooks are interesting and sourced. QPQ done. Nice work. Riley1012 (talk) 16:56, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. IAWW (talk) 11:10, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:British Virgin Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Arconning (talk · contribs) 13:42, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 23:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do this one. I planned to finish it tonight, but I'm just a bit too tired! I should be able to complete it tomorrow. On a first read through it seems well researched and written. IAWW (talk) 23:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Arconning, review is below :) IAWW (talk) 20:16, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@It is a wonderful world Let me know if I'm missing anything. Arconning (talk) 10:22, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Arconning, thank you for addressing the points. There were some more edits I felt were necessary to make it well written, but I felt they were minor enough to go ahead and do myself. I'll pass now, but if you have any issues with the edits I made feel free to ping me on the talk page. IAWW (talk) 11:10, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prose (Criteria 1a, 1b, 4) clock

Lead

I think "flagbearer" is two words in British English. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's just the sources that contain these? Arconning (talk) 10:12, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is true. This means the ones in the infobox should be changed. I think that is beyond the GA criteria though, so I'll leave it as a suggestion. IAWW (talk) 11:05, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Background

Tahesia Harrigan-Scott Elite Athlete Scholarship (THSEAS): Is there any point in defining the acronym when it is not used again? IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delegation

Looks good :)

Opening and closing ceremonies

Looks good :)

Qualification and lead-up to the games

McMaster qualified for the games first after achieving a time within the entry standard of 48.70 seconds. He ran a time of 47.26 seconds in the men's 400 metres hurdles on 20 July 2023 at the P-T-S Meeting 2023 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, thus qualifying him for the games: This is very convoluted, could you make it a bit more concise? IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I restructured this sentence for clarity and flow. Let me know if you have any issues with it. IAWW (talk) 10:43, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brathwaite then qualified through the world rankings within his event, where he placed 35th out of the 56 athletes able to qualify for the men's 100 metres: This is quite vague, are these the 56 people that achieved the qualification time, or the 56 highest ranked people regardless of the time they achieved recently? IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also restructured this further, to make it clearer. Lmk if you have any issues. IAWW (talk) 10:55, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hodge presumably qualified for the games between 4 and 6 July 2024 after receiving a reallocated quota spot from World Athletics when the spots of other athletes in the event were rescinded by their National Olympic Committees despite qualifying beforehand: I think this is original research, and should be replaced with a footnote saying that no sources describe how she qualified. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Event

where he raced in the sixth heat and ran in a time of 10.13 seconds, placed third out of the nine people in his heat and qualified for the semifinals: I think this reads much better with "placing" rather than "placed", and "qualifying" rather than "qualified". IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The same point ^^ shows itself several times through the article. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you missed one of these, so fixed it myself, with the edit summary "parallel structure fix". IAWW (talk) 10:58, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

first ~~heat of his~~ semifinal IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

~~For~~ Hodge~~, she~~ competed: Conciseness IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

placed fifth out of the eight people in her round, and was relegated to the repechage round for a chance to qualify further: Cut the comma (WP:CINS) IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think "repechage" should be linked IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

~~At the semi-finals,~~ she raced in the first ~~round~~ semifinal against eight other competitors IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The winner of the event was Gabrielle Thomas of the United States: Suggest mentioning the finishing time for consistency with the paragraph above. This also applies to the paragraph below. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Qualification and lead-up to the games

Looks good :)

Event

Lettsome competed in his event from 1 to 5 August 2024: This makes it sound like Lettsome was the only one to compete at this time. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

scored 215 points and placed 38th overall[, he] though placed second in his fourth race: Added comma and "he" IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sources clock

Health/formatting (Criterion 2a) Y

No problems with link rot, and the formatting looks decent.

Reliability (Criterion 2b) Y

Almost all are reliable news sites or official sports governing bodies. I see no issues.

Spot check (Criteria 2b, 2c, 2d) clock

[1]: Y

[3]: Almost, I don't think it support the plural "individuals" IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[4]: I don't think it supports that the festival was hosted "to" celebrate the territory's first Olympic Games participation. The source implies that the festival would have happened even if this wasn't the case. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[5, 6]: Y

[11]: Y

[12]: Y

[20]: Y

[9b]: Y

[21]: Y

[31, 32]: Y

[36]: Y

Copyvio (Criterion 2d) Y

Earwig finds no issues.

Scope (Criteria 3a, 3b) Y

Seems to include all major points

Stable (Criterion 5) Y

Media Y

Tags (Criterion 6a) Y

Captions (Criterion 6b) Y

Suggestions (not needed for GA promotion)

You could improve your conciseness quite a bit. I mentioned some of the points above, but not everything since it is mostly concise enough for GA. I suggest WP:REDEX if you would like to improve this. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the URL statuses are wrong. IAWW (talk) 20:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.