User talk:Violasport

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Hello, Violasport, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Graham 87 15:45, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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Daniel Bell
Hello, I noticed that you changed Daniel Bell's classification in the 2004 butterfly from S10 to S9. However, he's listed in the S10 events in the IPC database. Did you perhaps get mixed up there? Graham 87 15:45, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Graham, I'm checking the list of APC silver medallists and I see that a search for Daniel Bell's results in the IPC database shows that in 2004 he won silvers for 100m breaststroke SB9 and 100m butterfly S10. The table and text in Daniel's Wikipedia page both show S10 for breaststroke and butterfly. Of course, the error may be in the IPC database record. I'll note the discrepancy on the spreadsheet and I won't edit the page any further (at this point anyway!). Violasport (talk) 04:57, 18 September 2012 (UTC)Violasport.


 * Aha; you simply changed the classification for the wrong event. I've fixed it now, so the Wikipedia page lines up with the IPC database; they both now say that Daniel won a silver medal in the SB9 classification. Graham 87 10:41, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Mystery solved then - between us we have it right! Sorry about my glitch. Checking all the details is very intensive work and staying focused is a must - there is plenty of scope for slips of this kind if not totally on the ball. We may meet again in this way!! Violasport (talk) 03:13, 19 September 2012 (UTC)Violasport.

Thanks
For your typo corrections. I can't believe I wrote that Rosemary Eames often served as a spokesman! Just a small tip that might save you some time: there's no need to write either your username or your signature in edit summaries, because Wikipedia's software already displays the relevant information in page histories and user contribution pages. Graham 87 14:42, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * However I've changed your edit at Christie Dawes to bring it back into line with Wikipedia standards for biographies. Graham 87 14:55, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tips Graham - as a newbie I'm learning the ropes as I go along and all your gentle guidance is gratefully received. For the record, my real name is Chris and for quite a few years Greg (Sportslibrarian)was my boss when we worked in the National Sport Information Centre at the AIS - we've both retired within the last year. I'm currently checking the list of all the silver medals won by Australian Paralympians and making little touch-ups to athlete biography pages as I pass them. I've noticed several variations on how women's maiden names are handled - I'll follow the way Christie Dawes is set up now. Violasport (talk) 10:43, 22 September 2012 (UTC)Violasport.