Talk:Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics

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This article was nominated for deletion on 15 Sept. 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Contents 1 Discussion 2 Costa Rica's debut in Winter Olympics 3 Taiwan 4 Removing GA nom

[edit] Discussion

Australia only has a tropical climate in the north. In the centre it is arid, and in the south it is temperate. Rintrah 01:35, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I took it out. The article should be better now. Admittedly much of Mexico is north of the Tropics, as is a good deal of India, but I think counting them as tropical is reasonable. If I had gotten totally strict I couldn't have even put in Brazil and that seems silly to me.--T. Anthony 05:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

There is snow in India. In fact the world's highest mountains; the Himalayas are located in India. Meursault2004 17:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

And there's snow (or was) on Kilimanjiro. That doesn't stop India being a tropical nation, because tropical refers to latitude, not altitude.--MacRusgail 19:26, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, India is mostly subtropical (which actually is a sub-category of temperate climates), but it can be classified as both a tropical or a non-tropical nation. I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations 00:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

True, true... the main aim of the article is really its novelty value, i.e. "the Winter Olympics is all about snowsports, but some countries have competed which aren't reknowned for their cold climate." --MacRusgail 11:03, 5 November 2007 (UTC) p.s. That's one of the coolest User names I've seen! LOL!

Thanks MacRusgail. And you are right, the parts of India which receive snowfall are sparsely populated (compared to the rest of the country). Most of the population either lives in the plains which have cool winters or in the peninsula which has warm winters or no winters at all. When I think cold, I definitely dont think India at first!! Cheers. I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations 16:38, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

It's odd, although a good chunk of India is Himalayan, that's not how foreigners generally think of the country (at least not here). Is the snowsports industry there much developed yet? Is there an area of the Himalayas yet set up for tourist skiing? --MacRusgail 17:53, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually there are quite a few skiing 'resorts' in India, Auli, Narkanda and Gulmarg to name some. I am not a huge skiing enthusiast myself, so dont know how it compares skiing facilities elsewhere (probably not very well). I actually might go to one this December, so I'll let you know what I find .... I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations 21:39, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Costa Rica's debut in Winter Olympics

Costa Rica made it's Winter Olympic debut in 1980, not 2006!

(JethroOlympiad (talk) 20:40, 30 January 2008 (UTC))

No problem, if you can find a reference to this all the better. --MacRusgail (talk) 15:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Taiwan

I have included Taiwan, because although it considers itself to be a successor state of pre-Communist China, it is right on the border of the tropics. --MacRusgail (talk) 16:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removing GA nom

Hi. I noticed this was listed at WP:GAN. I regret to inform you that because this is not an article, but a list, it cannot reach Good Article status. However, if you wish to pursue a higher classification for this article, you can nominate it as a Featured List at WP:FLC. Because of this, I am removing your nomination. Thanks. Nikki311 23:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Six paragraphs = a list?! --MacRusgail (talk) 17:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was a bit surprised at that too. I don't think this could ever be a featured article, but I thought it would be cool to bring an article nominated for deletion 18 months ago all the way back to "good" status. Oh well. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Seemingly it's a bit controversial for GA status, and it was really written as a novelty item, about a little known subject. However, I think it has gone well beyond a list.--MacRusgail (talk) 18:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Lots of lists on the Featured List category have plenty of paragraph text. For example: List_of_Chicago_Landmarks. I think a good list has to be more than being just a list. There has to be a well written paragraph explaining why the subject is significant, inclusion criteria etc. I would also suggest a picture of a tropical athelete at the winter olympics as the token poster boy/girl for the article. --Kvasir (talk) 22:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I've looked on flickr for Creative Commons licensed photos for all the obvious poster children (Anne Abernathy, Arturo Kinch, Philip Boit, Judd Bankert, etc.) but did not find any. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:20, 2 April 2008 (UTC)