March 2006 (UTC)
Comment to anyone reading The above distinction is now moot, since it was decided to remove automatic Olympic medal categorization via Template:MedalGold, Template:MedalSilver, and Template:MedalBronze, due to undesirable lack of sort key in those additions.  So now all 3 pairs of "Medal" templates are equivalent  all they do is format the row of the medal table, and nothing else.  So it goes.   Of course, who knows what the Olympic Wiki project people may think up to do retroactively to any page that uses Template:MedalGold etc., so it's still safest to use Template:MedalGoldGeneric for non-Olympic medal tables.   talk 21:51, 31