Talk:Zimbabwe at the 2014 Winter Olympics

GA Review

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Nominator: Yue (talk · contribs) 03:45, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: LunaEatsTuna (talk · contribs) 06:20, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Will review between 8–10 February. :3 ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), proudly editing since 2018 (and just editing since 2017) – posted at 06:20, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for the wait! My comments are below. ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), proudly editing since 2018 (and just editing since 2017) – posted at 09:06, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Review

• I think it is worth briefly adding a sentence on when Zimbabwe gained independence.
• I would wikilink Summer Olympics separately, and link "first appearance" to the Zimbabwe at the 1980 Summer Olympics article. Also:
• Note what city and country the 1980 games place in.
• Wikilink and name Luke Steyn in full the first time he is mentioned in the body.
  • @LunaEatsTuna: Does this edit suffice? Yue💌 09:43, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
    • It does! I am now happy to pass this article for GA status. Congrats! ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), proudly editing since 2018 (and just editing since 2017) – posted at 07:37, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Spotchecks

Passes on refs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 13.

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Did you know nomination

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• ... that although Zimbabwe does not experience snowfall, it participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics?

• Source: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/01/27/from-us-university-student-to-zimbabwes-first-winter-olympian-a31483

• Reviewed: n/a
• Comment: FYI, I might not reply fast on this nomination.

Improved to Good Article status by Yue (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

🐝 B33net 🐝 15:40, 12 February 2025 (UTC).

• General eligibility:
• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - n
• Interesting: - n
• Other problems: - ?

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Drive-by nomination. The issue is that the hook is not particularly interesting, many tropical nations that do not snow have participated in the Winter Olympics. Also, the source does state that Zimbabwe had not had snowfall in 40 years... except it's the skier who said that, "I don't think there has been any recorded snowfall in Zimbabwe in something like the last 40 years," the 20-year-old skier said in a telephone interview., I would not consider this quote to be reliable. @B33net: jolielover♥talk 14:13, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

Not only that, but the claim is contradicted by a quick search: apparently it may have snowed in Zimbabwe in the 1930s, but more importantly, there have been reports of snow in more recent years (which may or may not be accurate, but at the very least it makes the claim questionable). I don't know if the following would be considered interesting, but the article is rather sparse on hooky material, thus:

ALT1 ... that Luke Steyn, Zimbabwe's only athlete during its Winter Olympics debut in 2014, moved to Switzerland when he was two years old and grew up in Europe?

Otherwise, the nomination may sadly have to be rejected for lack of a hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:26, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

• @Narutolovehinata5: I did think of that, but most reports (that I saw) about snow in Zimbabwe concluded that it was a country that does not snow, and its last recorded snowfall was 70+ years ago. The reports of snow in Zimbabwe in recent times, though debated, reportedly all happened after his participation. That's what I remember of when I searched info about snow in Zimbabwe when reviewing this hook. I do like your rewording of the hook, though not sure if I should pass it since the nominator has been AWOL from this nom since. Alternatively:

ALT2 ... that Luke Steyn was Zimbabwe's only athlete during its Winter Olympics debut in 2014?

@B33net:, what do you think about the new hooks? jolielover♥talk 16:44, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

• @Jolielover: I agree with the new hooks. I’m trying to make them more intriguing. I feel like the Luke Steyn moving to Switzerland would be a good DYK 🐝 B33net 🐝 11:57, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
• New reviewer needed for ALT hooks, since prior reviewer Jolielover has not returned in over a month. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:39, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
• ALT2a: ... that at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Zimbabwe batted precisely one athlete?--Launchballer 15:41, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
  • Note: striking ALT2a. I have no idea what "batted" means in this context (not in American English, at least), and it isn't used in the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:27, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
  • I was under the impression that ALT2a meant exactly the same as ALT2 in fewer words, although I can't find a dictionary that defines it that way. ALT2b: ... that at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Zimbabwe fielded precisely one athlete?--Launchballer 05:44, 6 April 2025 (UTC)