Talk:List of participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games

message: The table shows H under “00” (2000) for Australia.  Note H is about 1904, not 2000, so I’m wondering if this is a mistake.  --  JackofOz (talk) 02:07, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there isn't, you misread (or didn't read) the legend for these tables. H means host nation (as Australia was in 2000), but [H] refers to the wikilinked footnote H.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 04:48, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I did indeed fail to read the fine print.  --  JackofOz (talk) 03:03, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia with note H under "00"

message: I’ve been reading about Teddy Flack, the first person to represent Australia at the Olympics (Athens 1896), and also the first Australian Olympic gold medal winner.  Australia at the Olympics also makes reference to these achievements.  
However, one of the external links for Flack’s article, the Australian Dictionary of Biography article on Flack, says: Nevertheless newspaper reports of his presence in Athens for the revived Olympic Games in 1896, at which Australia was not officially represented, came as a surprise to his family who learned that he had taken a months holiday.  
Is this an error?  Or does it mean that there was no official Australian team at Athens 1896 but that Flack turned up as an individual competitor and, being an Australian, his medals were attributed to Australia?  --  JackofOz (talk) 03:03, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the first few Olympic Games were much different than now, of course.  One huge difference is that athletes didn't really compete for their nations, as they do now.  The 1908 Games were really the first to adhere to teams that were sent by their respective National Olympic Committees.  There were even several events from 1896–1904 in which teams composed of athletes from different nations competed (and won medals) together. The IOC has retroactively called them "mixed teams" so that medal tables add up evenly.  As for Flack, there was no Australian team per se, but on the other hand, no nation was really "officially represented".  The official report mentions the nationality of most medalists, but these weren't organized delegations as we know them now. Nevertheless, most Olympic historians—and the IOC's medal database and 1896 medal table—attribute Flack's medals individual athletics events to Australia and his tennis doubles medal to a mixed team. Hope this helps — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 04:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that very clear explanation, Andrwsc.  I guess this means the ADB statement is technically true, but its baldness could mislead by allowing readers to assume that certain other countries were officially represented in 1896.  I might get in touch with them and suggest a rewording.   --  JackofOz (talk) 05:10, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Teddy Flack and Australia at Athens 1896

message: Currently Bohemia is represented by a footnote in the Czech Republic entry, but shouldn't Bohemia be a separate entry (under the Czech Republic)? The Austro-Hungarian province of Bohemia was just one of the Austro-Hungarian provinces that eventually became the Czech Republic.
Likewise Saar ought to have a separate entry (under Germany) as they competed under their own flag in 1952?
Jostein N 129.177.91.79 (talk) 14:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are several more obsolete NOCs like this, but the list description clearly states This list includes all 205 current NOCs and A select number of obsolete nations are also included in the table to more clearly illustrate past Olympic appearances for their successor nations.  While the article was under development, I had a version that listed every NOC that ever was, but it was more confusing than what ended up becoming the featured list, in my opinion.  I'd prefer not to expand that "select number of obsolete nations" to every single one, if possible.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Andrwsc on this issue. It would be confusing. Not to mention that Bohemia is just a part of the Czechia (the other part being Moravia). -- Imbris (talk) 23:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A separate entry for Bohemia and Saar?

message: For Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Kyrgyzstan etc on cells 1896-1912 "See Russia" is shown despite Russia did not participate in 1896 and 1904 Olympic Games and no Turkmenistan or Moldovan athlete participate in thistime. But in case of West Indies only Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are mentioned because athletes only from these islands formed the team of West Indies. Here must be some kind unified approach.Xadrezista (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 22:49, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russia in 1896-1912 and West Indies 1960 

message: Is it an idea to make of every dot on the page a wikilink? So for instance:
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Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 11:55, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree.  "Easter egg" links like this are discouraged by the manual of style, and the size of the resultant page would be huge if we added ~3000 links.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:39, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
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