Melissa Carlton
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The article Dominic Monypenny has been proposed for deletion because, under Wikipedia policy, all newly created biographies of living persons must have at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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Your article, categories, and other things edit
Hi Melissa, great to read about your attendance at the Wikipedia workshop in Hobart! I'm one of the Wikipedians who works with articles about the Australian Paralympic movement. You may have heard about me there; I expanded the Wikipedia article about you. Re: your birthdate: I'd written it as the 8th of June because that's what your 1996 Paralympic profile says. After your edit, I hunted for a source to confirm your correction, and found your 2000 APC profile, which I used. I'm looking for a usable source about your disability and how it came to be. Anything that you wrote, including text that you want to put on your official website, is fair game. I can't really use this primary school report, however, but that's the kind of info I'd like to add, if you don't mind.
Re: Category:Paralympic athletes of Tasmania, I think that that category is too deep and specific to be created at the moment. Really deep subcategorisation like that should only be done as part of a series like Category:Lawn bowls players at the 1984 Summer Paralympics. Therefore I've deleted that category and removed it from the articles that you added it to. I wouldn't mess with categories until you've gained a bit more editing experience ... they can get very very messy! Graham87 10:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
- I've just added Template:Nospam to the email address on your user page so it doesn't get processed by spambots. Graham87 12:31, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Julie Van Keulen edit
Hi again, thanks for the info about Julie van Keulen/Dowling ... I created her article under the name Julie Dowling and couldn't find much information about her! In general, we place articles for Paralympians under the name in which they competed. So I've merged the text you wrote at Julie Van Keulen to Julie Dowling, but I didn't add the part about her being the first Tasmanian Paralympian because I couldn't find a reliable source (unfortunately this doesn't count because it's a personal website), but a newspaper or something will do. For more information about referencing, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. Graham87 12:13, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Re: Paul Wiggins - Paralympian edit
Hi Melissa, the article should be created at Paul Wiggins (athlete). Then you can place the text {{about|the American NFL player|the Australian Paralympic athlete|Paul Wiggins (athlete)}} on top of the page about the NFL player, to link to the page about the Paralympian. See the cryptic documentation at Template:About for more info. Graham87 03:09, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- The use of references multiple times is explained at WP:REFNAME. Graham87 10:01, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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Your article has been moved to AfC space edit
Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Melissa Carlton/Australian Paralympic Swim Team has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Australian Paralympic Swim Team, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 12:24, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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Re: Australian Paralympic Swim Team edit
Hi Melissa, I'm not really sure what the problem is with your new article either! You can access it for now here, but the wording of the first sentence isn't exactly the same as the IPC website ... unless I'm missing something? Graham87 09:18, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- It seems that the reviewer has been very busy in the last day, since he's only made two edits since declining your submission. I'd give it a day or two before doing anything else (and I don't think it'd be a good idea to create an entirely new submission as you'd lose all of your previous edits). Perhaps you could also ask for a second opinion at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation (which you could do now, naturally)? I *could* move the article to the main namespace myself but (a) that would be a bit rude of me and (b) I'm afraid I'd mess something up with AFC. Graham87 09:49, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
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Image at Judith Young edit
Hi Melissa, I've put the image that you added to Judith Young into the standard format in the infobox. I hope it looks OK now. Graham87 15:15, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Another Tasmanian Paralympian edit
Hi Melissa, it was great to meet you in Brisbane a few weeks ago!
I've found another Tasmanian Paralympian, Donald Dann, who competed before Julie Dowling. Therefore Julie wasn't the first Tasmanian Paralympian after all. See my HOPAU post for more details. Graham87 10:35, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
2012 Australian Summer Paralympians article help request edit
Hey. In honour of Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, I'm trying to get articles created about members of the team who don't have articles yet. This is a fairly big job and I could use a bit of assistance. If you have time, can you add information and sources to articles, add pictures to articles (Flickr? Commons?), fix prose on articles where sources have been included now (mostly men's athletics) and otherwise help prep them for DYK? I'd be happy to give you credit at DYK for all the articles you help improve. Thanks in advance. --LauraHale (talk) 05:55, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
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