Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100-metre backstroke

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Review: April 17, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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GA review

Passed. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:59, 17 April 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.

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Nominator: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 23:43, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk · contribs) 19:19, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! As usual, well done for the article - it is well written and I can't see any major issues and earwig does not show any violations. Here are my comments:

1.) Please do the same thing to "heats" as the other articles.

All done, and I finally did it to all the other articles in the topic along with two other copyedits. It took me over half an hour... I gained a new respect for WikiGnomes... It's gruelling.

2.) "which had stood since" - What does this mean?

Changed to "which hadn't been broken since"

3.) "Hunter Armstrong of the USA placed on the podium" - What does this mean?

Changed to "placed in the top three"

4.) "won the event at the 2024 Championships in Ceccon and Murphy's absence" - Were they not there?

Yes, they weren't there. That World Championships was very sparsely attended due to reasons explained in the footnote just after the sentence you quoted :)

5.) "predicted Murphy would take it" - I think changing this to "predicted Murphy would win instead" would be better

Done :)

6.) "Defending Olympic champion Evgeny Rylov and defending Olympic silver medallist Kliment Kolesnikov, both from Russia, did not return to compete.[6][b]" - I think the footnote should be part of the actual prose rather than a footnote as it is quite interesting and relevant

Done

7.) If you could please link National Olympic Committee and other terms that would be great :D

Done, this was one of the copyedits I did to all the articles also :)

8.) "Jiayu's swim was on pace with Ceccon's world record at the turn" - What does "on pace" mean?

Changed to "Jiayu's swim was swimming at the same speed as Ceccon's world record at the turn, but it extended ahead of him on the final 50 metres".

9.) "Jiayu swam the fastest opening 50 metre split of 24.88" - Does this need a comma in the middle? I am unsure of how the sentence is meant to go.

10.) "which was the only sub-25 second split of the field" - What does this meaN?

To address both 9 and 10, I changed this section to ": Changed to "Jiayu swam the fastest opening half of the race in 24.88 seconds, and he was the only swimmer to swim the first half in under 25 seconds"".

11.) "and that his swim was "proof that sometimes you can lose, but you can learn from that"." - Can you clarify whether he is referring to his 2023 or 2024 swim?

He was absent at the 2024 World Championships, and I think the first half of the sentence makes it sufficiently clear we are talking about 2023?

12.) I am a bit confused what "AF" means in the table - is this meant to mean that the result achieved an African record? If it could be clarified that would help readers I believe.

Yes it's an African Record. I'm not sure about clarifying this because this layout is used in pretty much every event article across the wiki, and it does link to "list of African Records in swimming".

13.) "The final took place at 21:32" - The source says 21:27

Ah, very good catch. I must have had the read it from the semifinals results pdf which started at 21:32.

I have spotchecked Sources #8, #9, #15 and #19. Hence, when the changes above are addressed, I will pass the article. Please let me know if you need any help or anything :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 19:19, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @DaniloDaysOfOurLives, thank you so much for yet another review. Between us, we have reviewed like 10 GAs in the last two days! I have been trying to focus on newer nominators, but I must get around to reviewing one of yours at some point. I think I know even less about acting than you do about swimming! I have addressed your comments above. Let me know if there is any issues :) IAWW (talk) 23:51, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome! I like helping the backlog and your articles are nice to review and you are very nice when responding to feedback. I am content with your changes so I am going to pass it. Well done! And thank you so much - would love it if you reviewed one or more of my GANs, but please no pressure! :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:59, 17 April 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.

Overly basic info in lead

Lede previously mentioned pool is 50m and it takes two laps to complete a 100m race. That is filler and per MOS:LEDE, I trimmed it. Previous discussion here have already discussed same issues: Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle#top. Also an essay helps further explains the why to avoid fillers like these and hope we don't need to repeat another long discussion: User:IP49XX/Why MOS Matters. IP49XX (talk) 01:35, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]