march 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 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