Talk:1912 Summer Olympics

A fact from 1912 Summer Olympics appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 August 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the wrestling match between Alfred Asikainen and Martin Klein at the 1912 Summer Olympics lasted eleven hours and forty minutes?

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On 24 April 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to 1912 Olympics. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

On 9 February 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to 1912 Olympics. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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Date of opening/closing ceremonies[edit]

German Wikipedia has April 27 to July 27, This says May 5 to July 22. Which one is right? -- 80.171.243.92 (talk) 17:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to The official report The games started on May 5, but the opening ceremony wasn't until July 6. I've tried to change the date, but for some reason it won't stick. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.100.91.51 (talk) 23:31, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Few GAN comments[edit]

I'm unable to complete a full GAN review, so I'll just post a few comments here rather than start a review page. Feel free to move these over.

Comments:

Maybe add a few more images for the individual events, esp. as these are so readily available.
Maybe section on the closing ceremonies.
Article could use more 'color', such as notable individuals involved, or specific situations that are interesting. This may mean reaching further beyond the Olympic Record doc more than has already been done. Note the New York Times has a number of articles about this Olympics in their archives. "1912 Olympics" didn't pull up much, but "Swedish Olympics" found many. For example, nytimes article dated July 16, 1912 mentions that the death of Lazaro cast a pall over the closing ceremonies. Another nytimes article describes a kerfuffle in the Scandinavian media regarding unsportsmanlike play by the British water polo team.

In general, heavy reliance on the large official report is probably unavoidable, and I don't think should deter from the GAN eval.LaTeeDa (talk) 16:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Possible source[edit]

archive.org have a copy of James Edward Sullivan's book on the 1912 Olympics here. I haven't had a chance to go through it in detail, but it looks like it might be useful to offset the use of the offical report mentioned above. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:55, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistency with infobox & navbox[edit]

The infobox has the 1920 games as the successor, while the navbox has the cancelled 1916 games as the successor. GoodDay (talk) 08:31, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:1896 Summer Olympics which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 18:47, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:1896 Summer Olympics which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 15:46, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]