Talk:Micronesia left behind by the Paralympic movement

Journalist notes

Sir Philip Craven

• "International Paralympic Committee holds first press conference‎" — Wikinews, August 28, 2012 and notes for that generally support. The OGG file can verify this more. --LauraHale (talk) 21:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Micronesia comments

• "Wikinews interviews Oceania Paralympic Commitee President Paul Bird" — Wikinews, August 28, 2012 and notes for that generally support. My own notes separate that for clarification:

I, LauraHale, lived on Tinian for a while and feel a connection to the region. I asked Bird about the lack of teams from Micronesia, citing Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. He said that the IPC rules were way more restrictive than the IOC rules and that they do not recognize countries where independence is questioned. As the Micronesian region is filled with countries that are USA territories, they are not eligible and no efforts have been made to reach out to them. It is not a major priority for the OPC because they have an extremely limited budget of about a 5,000 euro grant from the IPC. Bird also said no efforts have been made to change this. It was obviously one of several sore points Bird had with the IPC. --LauraHale (talk) 21:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Also according to Bird, these competitors are not eligible to compete as independent represenatives like the guy from South Sudan competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. --LauraHale (talk) 22:00, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Team USA composition

I cannot get my hands on a team USA media guide as they do not have one in print. Verifying not a single hometown outside the USA required looking through the team list and this list and this list. Alaska and DC are represented but no one from outside the 50.--LauraHale (talk) 21:43, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Heh. Your link to the team list is actually pointing to page 7 rather than page 1. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 12:13, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Review of revision 1602761 [Not ready]

Revision 1602761 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 12:16, 29 August 2012 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Verifiability: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. NPOV: Not ready: See below. Style: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Comments by reviewer: The lede is blatantly non-neutral, editorial assessment presented as fact. I might well be inclined to let the headline use this as a catchy brief phrase, but only because the actual objective reality would then be clearly stated by the lede. I almost changed "Despite" to "Notwithstanding" or "Although", but really that's trivial compared to what happens in the second half of the sentence, and there's no telling what the structure of the sentence might be once that is fixed, so I didn't bother. "left behind" is a metaphor and, when presented as fact, a biased one, and — btw — certainly doesn't answer any basic questions. Anyone who wants to know what the headline refers to will be none the wiser after reading the current lede. To be clear: No source-checking at all was done. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Revision 1602761 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 12:16, 29 August 2012 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Verifiability: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. NPOV: Not ready: See below. Style: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Comments by reviewer: The lede is blatantly non-neutral, editorial assessment presented as fact. I might well be inclined to let the headline use this as a catchy brief phrase, but only because the actual objective reality would then be clearly stated by the lede. I almost changed "Despite" to "Notwithstanding" or "Although", but really that's trivial compared to what happens in the second half of the sentence, and there's no telling what the structure of the sentence might be once that is fixed, so I didn't bother. "left behind" is a metaphor and, when presented as fact, a biased one, and — btw — certainly doesn't answer any basic questions. Anyone who wants to know what the headline refers to will be none the wiser after reading the current lede. To be clear: No source-checking at all was done. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

I think I neutralized the lede. --LauraHale (talk) 16:35, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Review of revision 1603953 [Passed]

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Revision 1603953 of this article has been reviewed by Pi zero (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 12:38, 30 August 2012 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: Must work out what's going on with Category:Micronesia — if that's the Federated States of, needs clarifying. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.