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Hi Tara, thanks for contributing to Australian Paralympic articles. However, when adding images, there's no need to put part of the image filename after the "thumb" parameter. For example, at the Ellie Cole article, you wrote <bnowiki>"[[[[File:120411 - Ellie Cole - 3b - 2012 Team processing.jpg|thumb|120411 - Ellie Cole - 3b - 2012 Team processing|right ...", but you could have just written "[[File:120411 - Ellie Cole - 3b - 2012 Team processing.jpg|thumb|right ...". If you have any further questions about images, I'm not actually the best person to ask, as I'm totally blind as it says on my user page; instead go to the help desk. I can answer questions about just about any other Wikipedia-related topic, however. :-) Graham 87 15:11, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Graham, thanks for your help! Much appreciated :) I will go and edit those now.-- TaraMacphail ( talk) 00:07, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
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ZOMG! How many more Australian Paralympians and coaches needing articles about 2012 are there going to be? Last night, I was doing a mini dance with YAY! FIVE MORE! and then I woke up and ZOMG! seven more! Got one done and was like yay! SIX MORE! and now I see a coach so ZOMG! SEVEN AGAIN! :) Not that I mind, and very happy to see a very complete list but at the same time... I want to get it done. ;) Anyway, also very good work at adding pictures and making the list complete and fixing broken links to people. :) -- LauraHale ( talk) 06:05, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
I've started moving some of them to the main name space. They aren't particularly pretty and my writing is poor... but mostly cited. I wanted them moved over before the start of the Paralympics and me leaving for London in 2 days. The articles should all be linked to eachother on the bottom on the main space. The rest are still on my user space. Anyway, just thought I would let you know in case you are wondering where things are going. -- LauraHale ( talk) 13:14, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
I've moved the text you wrote at Greg Smith's article to Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Devoting an entire section of Greg Smith's article to the announcement about him becoming the flag bearer is a bit too recentist for my taste, and I think the information is far more suitable at the article about Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. However I have fairly strong (and some might say extreme) opinions on how Wikipedia should cover recent events in proportion to older ones, so keep that in mind. Graham 87 14:54, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your work on the articles about Australia at the Paralympics! Graham 87 15:35, 24 August 2012 (UTC) |
Great work on cleaning up the Paralympic medal tables! However, just one minor thing: at Kieran Modra, you changed "B&VI 1–3" to "B&VI 1-3". I've undid that hyphen change, because in Wikipedia, we use an en dash rather than a hyphen to denote ranges of numbers like "1 to 3"; see the section in the Manual of Style about that topic, which also talks about other uses of dashes. Graham 87 02:04, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 8 September 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kayla Clarke, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kayla Clarke (pictured) has a scholarship from the Queensland Academy of Sport and receives athlete support grants from the Australian government? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kayla Clarke. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 08:02, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Tara, thanks for adding images from the 2000 Paralympics! Just one minor thing about the captions: Wikipedia prefers to use the term "Paralympics" rather than "Paralympic Games" (contrary to the APC and IPC's usage), so I've changed all instances of "Paralympic Games" to "Paralympics" in the captions you added today. While going through your contributions I found an article that I plan to expand soon ... stay tuned! Graham 87 15:00, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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We have nice mug shots of all the Gliders except Amber Merritt and Sarah Vinci, but for ny article on the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, it would be nice to have matching shots. Do they exist? Hawkeye7 ( talk) 18:57, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
I've had Maddison Elliott's article promoted to GA. An overseas user was so impressed with the APC team images that he nominated the one of Maddison for featured picture. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 12:35, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
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