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Is that the paralympics logo? If not should we be using the bid logo?
I have assessed this as a Start Class, as it contains enough detail and organization to be above a Stub Class. I have assessed this as low importance, as it is a highly specific event within Canada. Cheers, CP 23:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
This is the source which this article provides for the participation of China, Belgium, Ghana, Denmark, India, Iran and Latvia. It's a shopping directory website, not an official source. I would say it's not an acceptable source. I've been able to confirm the participation of Belgium through another source (and created Belgium's article). But currently, I can't find any confirmation on the participation of China, Ghana, Denmark, India, Iran or Latvia. Nor can I find any list of participating NPCs, except on that shopping website, which I don't think we can use as a source.
The problem is that we have a list here of supposedly participating countries, but it's unsourced. What I'm going to do for now is remove the countries I've just mentioned. They can be restored if sources are found. When I have time, I'll look through the other countries which are red-linked at present, and if I can find no source, I would recommend them being removed as well, until there's a credible source confirming their participation. Wikipedia is used by many people as a reference point, and we shouldn't be providing unsourced, dubious "information".
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For Greece, someone has provided this source, and indicated that Greece will have two representatives. It's clearly an official source, but the link is simply to the main page (in Greek). Browsing through the pages in the English language, I can find nothing about Greece's participation in the 2010 Paralympics. I'm going to contact the editor who edited the article, but it's an unregistered user. Aridd ( talk) 12:26, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
During the just finished Olympics, there were many times when the medal table was just plain wrong. This was because it was being updated far too frequently in real time by a multitude of editors, very often incorrectly. Some of the problems were from genuine mistakes (it's a complex bit of coding), but more were caused by biased, parochial editors more interested in showing the power of their own nation or favourite athlete than in producing encyclopedic material.
I don't know the solution. I would personally prefer to not include a medal table at all. Since it seems that we must in order to satisfy often unhealthy, nationalistic tendencies, I believe it should wait until the Games are over for inclusion. There is NO encyclopedic benefit in updating it after (or even during) every event, as happened with the Olympic Games. The order medals are won is more a result of the order of events than an encyclopedic fact. Wikipedia is NOT a news service. If medals are important, the ONLY long term interest is going to be in totals, not how many have been won at 3:17pm on the afternoon of the fifth day. The article would gain considerably in stability and being encyclopedic by NOT updating the medal table while the Games are on. I see no benefit in doing it at all. HiLo48 ( talk) 19:48, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
I agree with you. The article does become unstable with people trying to update it immediately after a medal is awarded. However, I think that the medal table should be included in the article and should be updated at the end of each day (but not after every event). This is because many people do rely on Wikipedia being quick with current events. RG104 ( talk) 00:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Again, I agree with you about over-enthusiastic editors. They will probably not look at the talk page. Is there a message that we can put above the medal table describing the rules and guidelines of editing the medal table? It might stop people from updating the medal table after every event. RG104 ( talk) 00:27, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Unless there is a better way, we should do that. We should create an Olympic Medal Table committee or something like that so that the right editors are monitoring the medal tables during every Olympic. We could also semi-protect the section the medal table is in so that unregistered people can't edit it. RG104 ( talk) 00:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
OK, it appears that there is going to be a progressive medal table regardless of what is mentioned in this page.. It has always been by opinion that the medals table should be arranged (default) by number of gold medals and then silver rather than sorting the table by total number of medals.. Bevstarrunner ( talk) 23:27, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Please feel free to come edit and or join the new Paralympics task force: Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Paralympics. Bib ( talk) 15:21, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
The claim that Viviane Forest became the first Paralympian to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games in Vancouver is erroneous. This was achieved in 1980 by Cato Zahl Pedersen of Norway who won four golds in athletics in Arnhem, having already won 3 gold medals in Geilo six months earlier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.32.16 ( talk) 15:48, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
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