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September 17, 2014: Did you know ... that
the founder of Little Athletics once turned away three young boys from an athletics meet, citing their youth as the reason?
September 17, 2014: Did you know ... that
the founder of Little Athletics once turned away three young boys from an athletics meet, citing their youth as the reason?
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It's too much like an ad. 3 paragraphs dedicated in explaining how great "Little Athletics" is? You should also consider including a brief history of it. Done
The body doesn't mention anything about "Little A's or Little Aths" Removed
Little Athletics Events
Change heading to "Events" Done
What do all those abbreviations stand for? (VIC) (NSW) (QLD) (SA) (WA) (TAS) (ACT) Linked
Consider merging the two paragraphs together. Merged
History
There are a lot of short sub sections in section 3.2.1. Perhaps merging the short ones together would help. Merged
The sub section titles contain peacock phrases. It sounds more like an essay. You should just include the year. Changed title
Section 3.2.2 contains a lot of in line citations to the same ref. Consider only adding it at the end of the paragraph. Done
Same thing with section "3.2.3", "3.2.4", and "3.2.5" Done
"Geelong brach" - is this a typo? Fixed
"However Billingham still could not get support for Little Athletics from VAAA instead they suggested to drop the junior competition and focus on the rapidly expanding senior one." - no punctuation in between? Rephrased
"VAAA and they accepted both" - should be "VAAA and both were accepted" Rephrased
"200 boys and girls more than 200 boys and girls" - doesn't make sense Fixed
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History
The cited article (reference 25) seems inconsistent with the Summarized Timeline and Detailed History sections of the article.
In the Summarized timeline, "200 children turned-up regularly with a total of 500 athletes competing" has been changed to "200 children turned up regularly, and more than 500 had tried out".
In the Detailed History, "more than 200 boys and girls were competing regular across eight clubs and 500 had tried out at least once" has been changed to "more than 200 boys and girls were competing regularly across nine clubs, and more than 500 had tried out at least once".
Result: Delisted. Legitimate concerns, no opposition or improvements made; Matters raised in the reassessment were not addressed. These matters will remain valid until the next GA Review, whereupon they must be addressed first. --
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Observations
GA review (see
here for what the criteria are, and
here for what they are not)
There are significant issues with this article as it is out of date with Coles sponsoring Little Athletics.
On social media (Youtube) there are recent videos (16 September 2020 up to March 2021)
The Twitter account has been suspended for some reason
The Instagram link is a dead link
The Facebook page is being maintained with regular updates
The Coles Community Round needs to be covered
Little Athletics in Australia has been suspended due Covid 19. See
here.
This article needs significant updating (there are many years missing, and records are incomplete, and the events table needs to be modified to reflect the events table given
here (Coles National Challenge).
Research into other sources will be needed as
https://littleathletics.com.au/ is not comprehensively maintained nor updated. It has non functioning internal links.