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2022 World Figure Skating Championships (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

As of 31 October 2025, 12:12 (UTC), this page is active and open for discussion. An FAC coordinator will be responsible for closing the nomination.

Nominator(s): Bgsu98 (Talk) 08:14, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2021 World Figure Skating Championships was already promoted to Featured Article. This is the next year’s installment and was the first to take place after athletes from Russia were banned from all international competitions. The competition results are all sourced and documented, the tables are properly formatted, the background and history have been extensively re-written, the sources are properly formatted and archived where possible, and relevant photographs are used. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments, and I look forward to any constructive input. Bgsu98 (Talk) 08:14, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• I will take a look at this one — ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:27, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• One thing that jumps out is that the dates of the event are only mentioned in the lead, not the body, and the fact that the event was held in Montpellier is not mentioned in the body other than in the sentence “….flying into neighboring countries and traveling to Montpellier by road” — ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:27, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  The standard in these event-specific articles appears to be that the time and place are specified in the lead, sourced to the event announcement, with the information also provided in the infobox. There doesn’t appear to be anywhere else to repeat it without being redundant. Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:17, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  It could be mentioned at the start of the “background” section. I would suggest just repeating the first two sentences of the lead. This info absolutely shouldn’t not be in the body

  Would you suggest the same edit to 2021 World Figure Skating Championships?

  Yes, I would — ChrisTheDude (talk) 14:07, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• “there were discussions with Russian figure skaters, including those representing other countries, trying to attend the World Championships” => “there were discussions about Russian figure skaters, including those representing other countries, trying to attend the World Championships….”
• “Knierim and Frazier were only the third American pairs team to ever win gold at the World Championships” => “Knierim and Frazier were only the third American pairs team to win gold at the World Championships”
• “featuring only the music, and like Ivan Shmuratko, they also wore the colors” => “featuring only the music and, like Ivan Shmuratko, they wore the colors”
• That’s all I got! — ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:28, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:ChrisTheDude: I have implemented all of these changes,: and will make that recommended edit to my previous FAs as well. Bgsu98 (Talk) 14:12, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Figureskatingfan

• Another good figure skating competition article from Bgsu. The prose is, as always, good; as is the citations to scores and placements.

Sources spot-check (as I tend to do for these reviews)

Ref5: Source doesn’t state that China chose not to send skaters to Worlds without an explanation; it just states that they chose to not send skaters. I suggest that you end the sentence with the word “skaters”.

Ref8: Doesn’t mention the deadline of December 16, 2022.

Ref10: Doesn’t mention the alternative flag; just the complete and immediate ban on Russian and Belarusian skaters and officials.

I’m not checking the refs that support the record of statistics, standings, and scores, and your description of the elements in programs, since you always do a stellar job with it. I also didn’t check every reference in the Background section. The ones I checked, though, gives me reason to pause because there are several instances when the refs don’t fully support your claims, which I listed above. I would like you to go through each of the refs in the Background section and make sure that they do. (I also think that you could mine more information from your sources, but that’s another issue that I don’t think would affect this article’s promotion to FA.) In spite of that, though, I think the theme of the 2022 Worlds is clear: the Worlds after the Olympics is usually slim, with many skaters (like Nathan Chen) bowing out, but this one was even more slim due to the ban. Despite this, though, it was a successful competition. That’s clear, without you having to state it. So nice job. Take care of your sourcing issues, and I’ll happy support this article. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 23:52, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oof, I don’t know where that source no. 10 came from. That clearly didn’t support that sentence. It supported the ban one paragraph down. I have substituted the source from the 2021 article that references the terms of the Russians’ limited participation. I also made the first two adjustments you recommended. Weird that we never did get a reason for China not sending anyone. 🤷‍♂️ Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:11, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I’m good with the ref changes you made. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 21:03, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This has been open for a month now and has just the single general support. Unless this nomination makes significant further progress towards a consensus to promote over the next two or three days I am afraid that it is liable to be archived. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:19, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Figureskatingfan: Let me know if you have any other suggestions or concerns about this article. I would hate to see another figure skating article not promoted to FA due to lack of reviewer interest. Bgsu98 (Talk) 19:28, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oof, sorry for the oversight, been traveling. With the changes above, I’d like to change to enthusiastic SUPPORT. Nice work as always, looking forward to seeing more. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 21:06, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

File:2022 World Figure Skating Championships logo.jpeg – source link is dead but otherwise fair-use claim for official logo of event is OKink

File:Shoma Uno at 2016-2017 GP Final.jpg – VRT ticket; OK

File:Kaori Sakamoto performing her free skate at the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships.jpg – uploaded under cc-by-4.0 license, source indicates photographs there are published under cc-by-4.0; OK

File:2018 Winter Olympics – Gala Exhibition – Photo 195.jpg – another VRT ticket; OK

Fix the dead source link and this should be OK for the image review. Hog Farm _Talk 03:27, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated File:2022 World Figure Skating Championships logo.jpeg. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:06, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Source review

Check me on this: Who decides which music Russian athletes would have played at the championships? If it’s the Russian government, then TASS is an appropriate source. What makes Sports.kz, oasport.it, https://europeonice.com/, https://ufsf.com.ua, https://www.therinks.com/, https://bleacherreport.com/ and https://www.goldenskate.com/ reliable sources? Details on the editorial process for https://skatingscores.com would also be nice. Did some mild spotchecking. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:54, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is a placeholder, I will add some comments hopefully by tonight Crystal Drawers (talk) 12:08, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]