User:Habst/sandbox2
Standardizing "Country at the YYYY Summer Olympics" articles
[edit]There are currently 3,165 "Country at the YYYY Summer Olympics" articles, and I plan to update them to conform to the post-WP:NSPORTS2022 era by including relevant biographical details of athletes listed that may not have enough SIGCOV found yet to have their own articles.
No information will be removed; brief biographical sections will be added based on the structure of e.g. Category:Lists of minor league baseball players articles. To avoid duplication for multiple-time Olympians, selective transclusion will be used with the source of truth being the earliest article. Most redirected Olympian stubs already link to their "Country at the YYYY Summer Olympics" articles, but for the few that don't exist or target elsewhere I'll create or retarget them to their earliest Olympic participation.
I plan on first doing this for athletics Olympians, which I created a list of in full here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Tasks/Olympians. (AFAIK, this is the first ever complete listing of all athletics Olympians on one page.) There are "only" 366 athletes that would need to have sections created in total for this initial task.
A similar format could be applied to Winter Olympics or non-athletics articles once this initial task is done. --Habst (talk) 20:13, 14 June 2025 (UTC)