Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Olympic athletes

Category:Olympic athletes

• Four people agreed that Category:Olympic competitors was an acceptable compromise (five, including Beland, see User talk:Aranel), and it was the only suggestion that was not in some way problematic. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 00:53, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Noting that "athletes" means "track and field athletes" in British English, should we rename this Category:Olympians or Category:Olympic_sportspeople?

Subcategories would also need re-treatment. We currently have two styles:

* Athletes at the 1900 Summer Olympics
* Olympians at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Could I interest you in one of these instead?

* 2004 Summer Olympians
* Sportspeople at the 1900 Summer Olympics

These renames could be done by a bot. -- Beland 05:33, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sportspersons at the 1960 Winter Olympics seems like a nice pattern, or Sportspeople. Atheletes at the xxx Summer Olympics also needs to be changed to the Track and Field Atheletes at the ... 132.205.15.42 00:49, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In this context, in British English 'Olympic athletes' is synonymous with 'Olympians', so I don't see a need to change from 'Olympic athletes'. Using the word 'sportspeople' is distinctly American, and should therefore be avoided if at all possible in an International encyclopaedic. It can be avoided here, so it should be. jguk 20:10, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Possibly "Olympic competitors" as an alternative? MisfitToys 23:25, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

I like Category:Olympic competitors. Completely unambiguous. Also makes it clear that this category inclues all who compete the in the Olympics, whether or not they win anything. Could theoretically also contain teams. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 02:05, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I like Olympic competitors for exactly the same reasons as stated by all of the editors above. this wording seems to satisfy the requirements.KeepPedant 01:12, 2004 Nov 9 (UTC)

I hate making "me too" posts, but... me too. Competitors covers all the bases nicely and, as noted above, it could cover teams as well. It also avoids the argument about "sportspersons or sportspeople". Perhaps for the individual years the style Competitors at the 1996 Summer Olympics +c is the least ambiguous. It would also allow partner categories for Officials at..., if needed. Grutness 04:31, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)