Talk:International Mathematical Olympiad

message: I'd like to remind everyone that small numbers, up to ten or twelve, are normally spelt out: it is considered correct.  Because this article concerns the workings of the IMO, not any mathematical proof or explanation, this case does not qualify as (anywhere even kind of close to) an exception.  So, I'd like to ask why my changes were reverted.  (Without objection on or before 31 January, I will restore those changes.)  Neonumbers 03:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have restored those changes.  Neonumbers 10:05, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers below ten (a grammatical point) 

message: The section "Notable past participants" looks redundant with the "hall of fame" section.
--84 kg 16:11, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable past participants 

message: The 23 June 2007 88.17.131.183 changed "The 49th IMO will be held in Granada, Spain in 2008" to "The 49th IMO will be held in Madrid, Spain in 2008", but both the official IMO site http://www.imo-official.org/host_list.asp and the 2007 IMO site http://www.imo2007.edu.vn/index.php?module=ViewNewDetail&NewId=41 say that it will be held in Granada.  
Do anyone know where it will be held? SuneJ 15:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  IMO 2008 

message: Should the lists be siphoned off into another article? They clutter up the article. I propose "List of previous winners of the International Mathematical Olympiad". Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 22:43, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, I just did. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 02:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists 

message: This article failed good article nomination. This is how the article, as of February 14, 2008, compares against the  six good article criteria:
:1. Well written?: I feel that the article should have contained more information on the subject. Granted, there was some information on the subject, however, not enough information was given.
:2. Factually accurate?: The article passes this criteria
:3. Broad in coverage?: I felt that the article, again, should have contained more information on the subject area.
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:6. Images?: The article fails this criteria, as it has one small logo on the subject, and has no other images to enhance the article
When these issues are addressed, the article can be renominated.  If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it have it reassessed.  Thank you for your work so far.</div> Happy Editing, Dustitalk 20:01, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed "good article" nomination

message: This article is quite good in places but it has some missing gaps problems.
*The lead needs to recap what is in the main body in a comprehensive manner. It should not introduce new information that is not in the main body.
** Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 02:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: * Australian Mathematics Trust and look in the IMO archive. Blnguyen  (vote in the photo straw poll) 00:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I think it should mention that the shortlist is selected by the host country and if the country's team is strong in a topic, they put hard problems in the shortlist; and conversely if their team is weak in a topic, they choose easy problems. 
Good Luck, --Be happy!! (talk) 03:06, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is indeed the case because the 40 problems are chosen by the host team in an arbitrary manner. If say all the combinatorics problems in the shortlist are easy, then the obviously the hardest among them would be easy as well. They may not officially say it but everybody knows this. --Be happy!! (talk) 05:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Everybody knows this" is not enough to clear the verifiability threshold. In fact, Joseph is questioning the statement and I also would like to see some evidence for it. Such accusations need some kind of proof. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 11:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now explicitly tagged the statement in question .  The discussion I pointed to has Imre Leader saying something very different about 2002: "we just eliminated the unsuitable questions, and what was left was the shortlist". Joseph Myers (talk) 11:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Mongolia didn't manage to hold it, see e.g.  (sorry, not a good source for citing in the article). Joseph Myers (talk) 13:05, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. I found a pretty good source for that on JSTOR; I'm going to insert it into the article now. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 22:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll only put it in the main text, actually, since the lead should be concise. Nousernamesleftcopper, not wood 22:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA reivew 

message: Here we are again! I'm going to assume that most of Blnguyen's content stuff is dealt with and look at prose, since he probably knows more about this than me!
*Internet references are poorly formatted. Please utilise , or at least include a publisher and accessdate
*"Since then it has been held every year except 1980" --> "It has since been held annually, except in 1980" (or something like that...don't start sentence with "since then" is the main issue)
*The Past IMOs section should come first after the lead, and should probably be titled "History" or "Overview" since that's what it is
*"with each problem being worth seven points,"
*"and maybe observers as well" - just say "and observers" (and no brackets)
*"especially eastern Asian ones" --> "especially those in eastern Asia"
*You don't need to wlink the countries in the Selection process section
*Remove the 2006 mention from the bullet point in teh Awards section, since it's mentioned lower in prose
*Wlink dates (per WP:DATE) in Current and future IMOs section
*"a mention in TIME Magazine." - magazine titles should be in italics, and you need a citation for appearing in TIME
*Most of the unofficial external links aren't needed
Leave a note on my talk page when done. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 01:22, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Passed. Nice work! dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 00:06, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GAN on hold

message: I suggest that only these should be considered notable achievements:
- Fields medalists
- 4 gold medals
- 3 perfect scores
- Best female
- Youngest gold medalist
In my opinion contestants with 3 gold medals but not 3 perfect scores should not be mentioned in notable achievements. I suggest removing them from notable achievements.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathkingkong (talk • contribs) 03:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable achievements (suggestions) 

message: Added the recent news about google donating $1 million to IMO. I have currently put it in a section. Please dont remove it, shift it as you see fit. I think its relevant. GreenEdu (talk) 18:03, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Google funds for IMO

message: I just removed this poorly cited claim from the article:
:Recently there has been an uproar over the 2010 disqualification, with many team leaders, observers, students, etc. urging reinstatement of North Korea's scores.
Was there actually any uproar from reliable sources? This certainly needs to be cleaned up. Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 03:16, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Korean disqualification "uproar" 

message: *Comment 1: The team size was 8 in the early Olympiads, falling to 4 in 1982 and rising to 6 in 1983.
*Comment 2: The first Western hosts were Austria in 1976, then Great Britain in 1979.
*Comment 3: The early Olympiads had very few teams: there were 7 teams in 1959, only 5 in 1960, and then rising slowly to 14 teams in 1970, 23 teams in 1979 and 38 teams in 1985.
*Comment 4: The first non-European team was Mongolia in 1964; the first team from a non-Communist country was Finland in 1965 (followed by Great Britain, Sweden, Italy and France in 1967; the USA first appeared in 1974).
*Comment 5: The questions were originally given marks according to their difficulty (usually from 5 to 8 marks, although there was a 9-mark question in 1967).  Certainly in 1977 and 1978 the marks varied between 5 and 8 per question.  The perfect score was 40 for six questions (it went up to 42 in 1967, back to 40 the following year, then up to 42 in 1981).
*Comment 6: In 1960 and in 1962 there were seven questions.  This raised the perfect score to 45 in 1960 and to 46 in 1962.
Sources: (1) International Mathematical Olympiads 1959-1977, Samuel L. Greitzer, Mathematical Association of America,  (1978)
(2) International Mathematical Olympiads 1978-1985, Murray S. Klamkin, Mathematical Association of America,  (1986) [particularly Appendix B]
(3) Personal recollection [I was a member of the UK team in 1977 and 1978].
86.4.253.180 (talk) 15:39, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Accuracy 

message: Prompri (talk) 10:01, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need verification of the Facebook Group for IMO,otherwise it'll be removed 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :International Mathematical Olympiad's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "timeline":
From List of International Mathematical Olympiads: 
From Warsaw: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 16:15, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:International Mathematical Olympiad]] 

message: I can't see any point of making a top 40 and team ranking. It's too bulky and makes some repetition of info. This way of editing doesn't sounds compatible with WP:IINFO Ams&CVA (talk) 02:04, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's quite fit the WP:IINFO. First, there's no reason why it has to be top 20? On which basis? Why is it not 10, or not 30, 40, 50, or 100? Second, the team ranking section is quite odd, because it repeats about which team ranks the 1st. Also, again you've not explain why it's only from 2000 but not earlier. Ams&CVA (talk) 01:25, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  not necessary 

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