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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the
Gliders at the
2012 Summer Paralympics, and the only one who had participated in 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics?
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The Pinnacle, The Victorian Institute of Sport Newsletter. Issue no. 11. June 1992. VIS Olympians. Page 3. Lists Brian McNicholl, Kelly Barnes, Sandy Blythe, Julie Barr, Amanda Carter, Paula Coghlan, Darren Collins, Anne Currie, Brad Evans, Stuart Ewin, John Lindsey, Craig Sayers, Greg Smith, Danielle Di Toro, Michael Walker and Jodi Willis as being scholarship holders that made the 1992 Paralympic Games squad. --LauraHale (talk) 6:24 pm, Today (UTC+11)
Article improvement efforts
Efforts are being made to add content to this article to get it improved enough to nominate for
Good Article. Efforts to improve the article are nominally being based on the article about
Lauren Jackson given the sheer amount of information available about female wheelchair basketball players when compared to other sports like
goalball. Hence, the article could really use a good copy edit, maintaining as much information as possible for the short term until all the content is in to determine what belongs and does not. The goal is to nominate the article for
Good Article by the end of September. In the mean time, the article has also been nominated for
Did You Know. --
LauraHale (
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10:49, 17 September 2012 (UTC)reply
I'm sorry about that :( Some of the deletions are very contentious. I currently trying to upgrade the article too. I really need the article to stay the way it is for a few days. Can you please hold off editing it, just for a few days? We can then discuss changes you wish to make.
Hawkeye7 (
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06:33, 20 September 2012 (UTC)reply
It is not absolutely essential that
this article meet arbitrary criteria just so it can appear on the Main Page for six hours. In a choice between leaving trivial content in an article just so it can satisfy some arbitrary hoops and removing it, I would always favour the latter option, but that's just me. However, there are two statements that you put back that I would really like to ask about *now*, because they complicate the narrative somewhat and I have good reason to believe that at least one of them was mistaken:
Amanda's supposed appearance in the 1990 Gold Cup is contradicted by her
APC profile and isn't mentioned in either her
SportingPulse profile or her
2000 Paralympics profile. As far as I can determine, the
passage cited just appears to be a photo caption; it is entirely possible for people to be misidentified.
Fantastic, I'm glad we cleared that up. Could you ask her about the 1990 Gold Cup? I'm more inclined to believe that one because of the nature of the cited source. Graham8705:46, 25 September 2012 (UTC)reply
OK, thanks. I've removed it, if only because it's inconceivable that someone would completely forget about their *first ever* international tournament. I've also re-incorporated some of my copyediting and flow changes, without removing any other content this time. Graham8713:02, 25 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Substandard
She spent her childhood living in Banyule. As a youngster, she played netball. She went to Olympic Village Primary School. She attended Latrobe High School from years 7 to 10 and Thornbury High School in years 11 and 12. She then attended LaTrobe University where she obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science and a Masters in occupational therapy. She works as an occupational therapist and has a son, Alex. As of 2012, she lives in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg West.
Tony(talk) 10:01, 20 September 2012 (UTC)reply
WP:SOFIXIT. :) Glad to see you're assisting in improving this article Tony1. It isn't substandard. Rather, you just haven't improved it yet. :) Wikipedia is a collaborative effort where we work together to improve articles. The first step with improving this article was to find the sources of information, get the information into the article, and then improve the article with the goal of taking it to GA. :) I've been busy doing follow up to London Paralympic things, including a workshop and a conference, and working on an academic paper. I haven't had as much opportunity to work on the wheelchair basketball articles as I could. :D But I am absolutely ecstatic that you've taken an interest and will be editing to improve the article for a GA nomination. :D --
LauraHale (
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10:10, 20 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Ok, I'm now reviewing. The article is in good shape and I don't see it being very far at all from being a fairly straight forward GA pass. I'll do the minor copyedits myself as they're rather niggily and so far just seem to be to avoid the repetition of words.
National team: "The Canadian player who knocked her down tried to block the way for Australian officials to help her up." Two things - can we specify which Canadian player it was, and also, if we can - you will want to put a direct citation after the sentence due to the BIO issues.
The only other thing, is that I'd suggest you create an external links section and move the commons link box down to that. It looks rather odd sitting in the statistics section.
Images are all present and correct, everything is cited. I only ended up making a couple of edits for repetitive words (but then again, how many different ways can you say Paralympic Games anyway?). So all good. Once those two points are addressed, I think this one will be fit for a upgrade to GA status.
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