Talk:Amanda Carter

Source
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 (talk) 10:49, 17 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm trying to improve the article, but all I'm getting are [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amanda_Carter&diff=513627460&oldid=513527551 specious blocking threats]. It would be better to discuss the substance of my edits. Graham 87 05:42, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 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 (talk) 06:33, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 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.
 * Her supposed selection for the 2002 test series in Canberra is contradicted by this 2004 interview, where she unequivocally says that she did not play wheelchair basketball after the Sydney Paralympics. The source for this information is a local newspaper from another state that highlights Kylie Gauci's selection on the team, and is not a definitive source for the lineup of the team at that time. Why would somebody select a person to a wheelchair basketball team who hasn't played in over a year? Exceptional claims like that require exceptional sources. Graham 87  09:54, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm working on it!!!!! Hawkeye7 (talk) 10:39, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I wonder if the APC Media Guide for 1992 can shed any light on the first point? Graham 87 06:02, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I've spoken to Amanda, and this is correct. She was selected for the 2002 test series, but did not play. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:40, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 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. Graham 87 05:46, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, she did not recall playing in that tournament. She recalled the next one, in 1994 at Stoke Mandeville. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:02, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 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. Graham 87 13:02, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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)


 * 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 (talk) 10:10, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

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