Talk:Winter Olympics medal count

message: NOTE: Please do not add any medals from the 2006 Torino games until after the official tally of medals from those games has been made. This will make it easier to add these medals later! Thanks —Jared 17:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing this page

message: I think it's better to remove the "Ranks" because the different states are not comparable. For example USSR and East Germany will go down in time and maybe in 30 years they are no more in the Top 10. But both states were between the best all time they existet. Ranking means rating and so the US will in the near future be on top beside Norway and Rusia for example has no real chance to come close. But this don't show the fact that over all years the Rusian/USSR and US  sport is at least on the same level in winter sports. But thats for sure only my opinion and only a suggestion. - Frank from (East)Germany
There's two Slovenias? The other one is also blank for Silver and Croatia is blank for Bronze. 80.222.254.10 00:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion

message: Why doesn't this use the IOC's official "Gold first method" used in the rankings of individual games? 128.230.233.30 02:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IOC "Gold first method" 

message: Could someone please take the time to add flags before the name of each country. Also, the same thing needs to be done to the Summer Olympics medal count page. You can use this page as an example if you don't know what I am talking about! Thank you very much! --Jared 20:15, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Flags!! 

message: I made up a spreadsheet which sorts them as per the gold first method and updated this and the summer page.  I'd be happy to share the spreadsheet if anyone else cares...  --SFoskett 22:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There was an error in my data regarding North Korea, Romania, and some others.  This has been repaired.  The source spreadsheet may be found at Commons:Image:Olympic_medal_counts.xls.  --SFoskett 15:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redo 

message: This page needs flags badly, as this page is the model for all of the others! Please also add the medal icons instead of the names "Gold", etc. See 2006 Winter Olympics medal count as a guide. The Summer Olympics page also needs this revision! --Jared 00:01, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Flags added. Sam Vimes 21:49, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Added medal icons. —bbatsell ¿? 00:43, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update! 

message: It must be mentioned that the IOC "does not officially recognize national medal totals, nor recommend using one way of assigning medals by country over another. The original Olympic charter forbade a medal count that included a ranking per country". All medal counts published by the media are unofficial; so is the one above. (I have an article to prove)
we should point this out.
Which means the claim at the beggining of this article is FALSE. IOC does not use any system.
A MAJOR editing in every olympic medal count is needed. particularly this one,
"These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee). The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically. This follows the system used by the IOC???, IAAF and BBC.
:Sorry, but you're wrong.  Check this page out:  http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/MDL/MDL_Big.html
:That's the offical site for the 2006 Olympics.  Now, read the bottom of that page.  It says the following:  "The Olympic rules lay out that the Final Rank should be based on the overall number of gold medals won."  King nothing 2 09:29, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The IOC does not officially recognoze any medal tallies or standings.