Talk:2006 Commonwealth Games medal table

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Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
To tell the truth, I don't think there's much of a future for the Comm. Games, are we the only country that takes them seriously?
I'll predict now, 2022 will be the last edition of the Comm. Games - Prince Charles' ascension will ensure an inevitable decline. jkm 15:21, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Click here That article tell you why the Canadian media has ignored the CWG's...
- Many of our top athletes didn't make the trip
- NHL playoff hunt
- It isn't televised live here
- World figure skating championships
- World curling championships
- World Baseball Classic
- Couldn't send a competitive basketball team (Due to NBA/NCAA/CIS etc.)
- Melbourne is six months out of sync with our normal competitive year etc.
:Its a bit of a circular argument, the media are ignoring the games because no one is interested because the media is ignoring the games. The truth is the Canadian media is hooked on American professional sports and doesn't care about amateur sports except, perhaps, once every two years at the Olympics for a couple of weeks. If the general public don't hear about other sports then they can't develop an interest. Dabbler 11:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian media ignoring the games 

message: Don't assume every Australian is interested in the games. When there's no world standard competition, what's the point of crowing over the medal count? 203.49.165.47 22:54, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a bore 

message: This is a technical question on creating and sorting tables of data on Wiki.
Seems like there is not an easy way, because the tables and sub-sets of the tables are not always, if ever, correctly sorted according to this criteria:
Total medal count, then alphabeticly by country where ties occur on total medal count..?
Gregorydavid 08:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing and sorting medal table 

message: Someone may want to note why there is one more gold medal than silver. I don't know myself, so if anyone does, please tell me and I'll add the note. Also I'm guessing there are more bronze because in some events (like boxing) 2 bronze are given out. If this is not the case, iut may be a good idea to note that too. → J@red talk+ ubx  15:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There wern't more golds - someone just couldn't add up. Robdurbar 16:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah ha! Well I was just too lazy to do it myself, but I had good reason to believe what I said because it's been like that for a week or so. Thanks. → J@red talk+ ubx  16:31, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I triple checked it and had the computer add it for me. There's one more gold than silver. → J@red talk+ ubx  21:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

text: bloody maths ;) Robdurbar 21:52, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some events didn't give out medals at all, because there were too few finalists (one of the early shooting finals, for example). Likewise, some events only gave out a gold, some just a gold and silver. If there were dead heats for places, there would be two medals given out (this happened in at least one swimming event). Not many events affected, but enough to throw out the totals. --bainer (talk) 23:10, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes 

message: I suggest that these pages follow the criteria for Olympics pages, in that there should be only a "type" ranking. (The one that has been there the whole time.) If anything, though, get rid of the "Rank by gold" because ranks like this are useless and ties are easliy broken by checking silver and bronze. Comments? → J@red talk+ ubx  21:19, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I definitely agree. Remy B 08:12, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You should join in the existing discussion at Talk:2006 Commonwealth Games#Medal table. --bainer (talk) 21:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rankings 

message: What is the purpose of the progressive medal counts? (See here for the template with a full list.) I mean, I'm not sure I've ever looked at them, and plus, who cares how many medals New Zealand had as of 1974? All there should be is a total medal count (all-time) and per-year counts. In my opinion, while the progressive counts may be somewhat interesting, they have no true encyclopedia value. (See the Olympic medal count template for reference.) → J@red  12:14, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progressive medal counts? 

message: Having prepared a table for each games, I think it is useful to keep the “running total” for each past games. I have copied the New Zealand totals for each Games with the idea of writing some early New Zealand at the xxx Games pages. Well NZ got 3 medals in 1934, shouldn’t take too long! 
But the running total got by adding the totals for each games for New Zealand (124 gold, 168 silver & 238 bronze) is higher (by 1 gold & 4 bronze) than the running total given in the table for after 2006 (123 gold, 168 silver & 234 bronze). I think the difference occurs between 1978 & 1998, but as the running totals are not given for those years I can't say where. Has someone got a vast spreadsheet with every country included?  Hugo999 (talk) 13:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reconciling the Counts for New Zealand

message: I have added a Notable competitors para, with two who have competed at 6 & 7 games. Any idea which competitors got the most gold medals and most medals in total? Hugo999 (talk) 13:18, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Individual Competitors 

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