Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Olympic Bids

Welcome to the Olympic Bids Task Force, a task force working under WikiProject Olympics to organize, expand, clean up, and improve articles related to the Bids for Olympic Games. If you would like to participate, you can start by joining the project beside and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page.

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It is a theme that involves a large number of articles; a period exceeding a century. To organize and standardize articles, two periods were grouped according to the amount of information and bidding system: 1896-2000 and 2002-present. During the bidding phase for the 2002 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) modified the process, creating the short-list system. This new system comprises two phases of campaign: the Applicant phase and the Candidate phase. It is from this date, this new type of election, that this task force will focus to work.

Since then we had eight bidding processes (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016) and 67 campaigns. These 67 campaigns are divided in three categories: 8 host cities, 24 candidate cities and 35 applicant cities. Each category represents the article's text scheme according to the length of the campaign. Those schemas can be found below, as well as the working groups for each bidding process.

1. Felipe Menegaz (talk · contribs)
2. Presidentman (talk · contribs)
3. SecretName101 (talk · contribs)
4. Gazamp (talk · contribs)