Talk:Figure skating at the Olympic Games/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs) 01:30, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Bgsu98 (talk · contribs) 01:38, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Hey, what do you know... I'm not technically a major contributor to this article, so it is perfectly acceptable for me to review it. 😃 Bgsu98 (Talk) 01:38, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it well written?

   A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:

   B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:

2. Is it verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check?

   A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

   B. Reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose):

   C. It contains no original research:

   D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:

   B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):

4. Is it neutral?

   It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:

5. Is it stable?

   It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:

6. Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?

   A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content:

   B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

Source review

This table checks 12 passages from throughout the article (15.0% of 80 total passages). These passages contain 16 inline citations (16.2% of 99 in the article). Generated with the Veracity user script. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:37, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Reference #	Letter	Source	Archive	Status	Notes
The 1908 Olympics, the fourth modern Olympics, were originally to be held in Rome, but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 and Italy's rebuilding efforts prohibited it from hosting the Olympics. William Grenfell, the British member of the IOC, was approached with an offer to host the Games in England.
6	b	Hines 2015, p. 59.			This information is actually on p. 59–60, so I corrected the citation. Thanks, appreciate both the catch and the fix.
was also involved in the proposal to include figure skating at the London Olympics.
8		Hines 2015, p. 34.			This statement is not found on p. 34 of the 2015 book. Is it perhaps a different book? Fixed.
The first Olympic champions in pair skating were Anna Hübler and Heinrich Burger from Germany.
15		Hines 2015, p. 55.			This information is actually on p. 57, so I corrected the citation.
16		olympics.com	web.archive.org
Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden, who won three times; Sonja Henie of Norway, who won three times; Karl Schäfer of Austria, who won twice; and pair skaters Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet of France, who won twice.
23		Hines 2011, p. 7.			I'm looking for the Brunets since they are the only names left unaccounted for and they are not on this page. Fixed.
24		olympics.com	web.archive.org		Confirms "Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden, who won three times"
25		"Sonja Henie, Skating Star, Dies". The New York Times. 13 October 1969. Archived from the original …	archive.nytimes.com		Confirms "Sonja Henie of Norway, who won three times"
26		Hines 2006, p. 107.			Confirms "Karl Schäfer of Austria, who won twice"
The 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games were the first to have all figure skating events televised.
30		Hines 2011, p. xxv.
The first time the new scoring system was used at the Olympics was at the 2006 Turin Winter Games.
46		tampabay.com	web.archive.org
There are five figure skating events at the Winter Olympics: one men's event (men's single skating), one women's event (women's single skating), and three mixed events, which consist of pair skating, ice dance, and the team event.
51		Qualification 2025, p. 1.
The IOC also publishes the confirmation and entry procedure for the Olympics prior to the Olympics.
58	a	Qualification 2025, p. 10.
Skaters of ISU-member countries who have participated in the World senior championships that have taken place the year before the Winter Games are eligible to accumulate points to qualify to compete at the Olympics.
56	d	S&P/ID 2024, p. 30.
If the IOC includes, in the program of the Olympics, in addition to the existing number of events, a team event with single skaters, pair skaters, and ice dancers, the ISU, in consultation with the IOC, will set all relevant conditions for the event.
59	e	S&P/ID 2024, p. 31.
As of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games, "athletes must be born on or before July 1, 2008".
1	d	Qualification 2025, p. 2.
As of the 2024–25 season, all technical elements completed in all figure skating competitions, including the Olympics, are assigned a predetermined base point value and then scored by a panel of seven or nine judges on a scale from -5 to 5 based on their quality of execution.
63		S&P/ID 2024, pp. 83–84.

User:Figureskatingfan: There are a few issues with the sources as shown on the above table. Bgsu98 (Talk) 19:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Fixed both issues above. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 05:09, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Image review (12/2/25)

All images have appropriate licenses and captions. Recommend adding alt-text to the images per MOS:ALTTEXT.

Done. I also added a gallery of the reigning Olympic champions, using your articles about the general competitions as a model. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 06:14, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Comments (12/2/25)

Lead

• "The first time the ISU Judging System has used since the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a judging scandal during the pair skating event." – This sentence is both awkward and incomplete.
• I would move reference to the ISU to earlier in the lead, probably in the first paragraph, and combine those first two paragraphs into one.
  • Eww. Fixed.

Early history

• The very last sentence in this section: I recommend placing each citation after the particular statement that it supports rather than lumping them at the end.
  • Personally, I don't like doing that, 'cause I believe it's ugly. But I also believe in following the requests of my reviewers, so done.

Later years

• You could mention that ice dance was held as an exhibition event prior to being added as a permanent event in 1976.
  • Despite the statement I just made above, I disagree with adding this information. I don't think it's important enough to add. It's not even in the Ice dance article. But if you insist, I'll go ahead and add it.

• No, of course I wouldn't insist on it.

• In the last paragraph, you mention a switch from three components to two in ice dance with no context.
  • Done, please let me know if what I did was adequate.

Summary

• What is the source for these numbers?
• Also, what is this a summary of?
• What is the number shown after the country in parentheses?
• I'm not sure the first or third columns are necessary.
• If this table identifies the nation who won the most medals in FS, why not include the number won?
  • This chart was already there when I got to it, so I have no idea where it came from. I assumed it was a culmination of the medal counts. I'm fine with eliminating it all together.

• Personally, I think it should go.

Events

• I re-formatted the table. I would include a short blurb above the table explaining what the table shows.
  • Thanks for the reformatting, I should've asked you to help with it before I submitted this for GAN. You know how abysmal I am with tables. Done. Is it adequate? I have a question about this table: Should we rename the first heading title from "Events" to "Disciplines"? That's what they're called in figure skating, you know, although I'm not sure if the ISU considers the team event a discipline. Please advise.

Medal table

• Is the "Russian Empire" really not the same entity as Russia?
  • No, the Russian Empire was one of the iterations of Russia pre-Soviet Union.

Participating nations

• What is the source for these numbers?
  • Again, dunno, for the same reason as above, with the same assumption made. Same question: should we delete it, too?

User:Figureskatingfan: Please examine the comments above and let me know if you have any feedback. This review is not complete; I have not examined the prose section entitled "Qualifying" yet. Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Okay, looking forward to it. Thanks for what you've done so far, it's been very helpful. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 06:01, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

User:Figureskatingfan: Take another look through this article to make any prose edits that you might see, and then I will take another look, and then we'll wrap this up. Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:33, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98, sorry it's taken me so long to get to this; it's been a busy couple of weeks. I've done as you asked and made another copyedit of the prose. I think that I've addressed all your feedback and this GAN is ready to close. Please let me know if there's anything else left to do and thanks for the review. Best and happy holidays, Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 19:37, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.