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It's Torino not Turin. Ardenn 03:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have asked you to read Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), which is fairly self-explanatory. I quote: American newspapers generally refer to the Olympics in Torino even though most English texts still call the city Turin. However newspapers in other parts of the English speaking world still use Turin. Since Beckie Scott is a Canadian athlete, I maintain that the use of Turin is most appropriate. It is highly inconstent for English language Wikipedia pages to refer to Torino for these games, but not "Roma" for 1960, not "München" for 1972, etc. Even the root 2006 Olympic page at 2006 Winter Olympics uses "Turin" (with an explanatory note about "Torino" in the logo etc.), so it makes most sense for other Olympic pages to follow suit. Andrwsc 04:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't a purely American encyclopedia, and this article is about a Canadian. CTV refers to it as Torino. Ardenn 04:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the Canadian Press and Associated Press use Turin. And more importantly, Wikipedia uses Turin (as noted above). Are you prepared to change all those other pages? Andrwsc 04:24, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Ardenn 04:25, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand your position. Why are you being so stubborn about this? Don't you see the logic in the existing Wikipedia usage? Andrwsc 04:32, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's offensive to use the term Turin and not Torino. Ardenn 04:34, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Offensive to who? Hundreds (thousands?) of cities in the world have different names in different languages. Do the people of New York get upset when Spanish speakers call it "Nuevo York"? Do Londoners take offense when they see "Londres" listed in French airports - or see fr:Londres on Wikipedia? I think you think the citizens of Turin are far too fragile, ignorant, or egotistical. Even if not, surely Beckie Scott's web page is not the place to make your point! Andrwsc 04:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since both terms are being used interchangeably by the press, I don't think that a trivial spelling difference is worthy of a dispute. --Madchester 17:14, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the local dialect of the people who actually live in the city, it's Turin. User:Zoe|^(talk) 23:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New medal table

Why is everyone so hostile towards changing over to the new and much nicer looking individual medals table? --142.59.101.81 16:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The new table looks terrible in my browser (Mozilla Firefox-Fedora Core 2). It is absolutely messed up. MrMo 05:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update Notable Placings

The Notable Placings section should be updated to include more items. Are there any guidelines for which placings should be noted? For example, podium finishes in World Cups and top 20 finishes in the Olympics. -- LindenMC 22:15, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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