Talk:2011 Pan American Games

2011 Pan American Games was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 9, 2011	Good article nominee	Not listed
November 27, 2011	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Redlinks on nations at World Games and Universiade.
Assess : Rate each tagged article by quality and importance to the WikiProject if it has not been done. (Overview at Category:Unassessed Multi-sport events articles)
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Multi-sport_events
Expand : 2009 Beach South American Games. All article related to preview Asian Games, such as 1962 Asian Games, 1958 Asian Games, etc. - Also Papua New Guinea at the 2015 Pacific Games and Fiji at the 2015 Pacific Games: athletes for most sports still to be added. -- Other articles that need expansion are the nations and events of the 2019 African Games. Help appreciated.
Other : Articles on multi-sport events, less the Olympic and Paralympic Games, need to be tagged on their talk pages with {{WikiProject Multi-sport events}}.

List of editors that want to help during the Games

If you are interested in helping with the results during the games please list your name below and the sports you want to help with.

User:Intoronto1125 - Any sports
User:Philipmj24 - Athletics & swimming mostly but will try others.
User:Sellyme - Find me a live text feed on results, and I'll stay awake as long as I can to edit them in.
User:Prayerfortheworld - Anything that I can do.
User:Robmck3898 - I'm up for any sport.

Why splitting them up, everyone can edit what they want. Kante4 (talk) 04:25, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If we have a general idea of what everyone is doing, we can avoid redundancy and edit conflicts. Sellyme^Talk 04:56, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, not into that idea. Kante4 (talk) 05:02, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's not like we're restricting them into doing that, it's just if there's say, 8 people working on Athletics, and some guy who really likes Athletics and Judo wants to help, he'd know that we need help with Judo more. This is for information, not suppression. Sellyme^Talk 05:17, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kante4, this is a huge event (in terms of sports) and if we have a more general idea of who wants to edit what the whole process can be organized. How about if all of use were to edit athletics at one time? It would make the other sports blank, this way we have a general idea of who wants to do what. Intoronto1125 (talk) 13:53, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure it can be a good idea but what about the IP Editors causing edit conflicts at times? Splitting up is not bad but from those 4 editors listed, 3 said they are editing all and i would make it 4 out of 5... Kante4 (talk) 14:26, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And how is the alternative any better? As I said, there's no restrictions at all. Sellyme^Talk 14:44, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don´t know, just wanted to point it out. Kante4 (talk) 14:49, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I guess we need more advertising of this everyone ask people you know that would want to help! Intoronto1125 (talk) 11:48, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Swimming pools and the FIFA World Cups

"As a sub-site for the 1975 Pan American Games, the 1968 Summer Olympics and soccer FIFA World Cups in 1970 and 1986, Guadalajara already has 10 Olympic-size pools."

I must confess -- the relationship between hosting two soccer World Cups and having Olympic-size swimming pools eludes me. Can someone clarify or rewrite this to make sense? - PhilipR (talk) 06:15, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Fair use rationale for image of medal

The articles the image is being used on is taking about the medals being awarded and the image helps the reader visualize the medals being awarded if they have no chance to watch the games. Intoronto1125 TalkContributions 16:00, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Qualifying events

should it be mentioned that some events are also olympic qualfying events Equestrian,field hockey,handball,modern penthalon,shooting,water polo,Ranul (talk) 16:31, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but they are listed under each sport section. Intoronto1125 TalkContributions 17:03, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

US Swim Team Listings

It looks like the three members listed on the US Swim Team are all on the Mexican Swim Team. Is it ok to just go in and delete any information like that or does that need to be handled by someone more experienced?Robmck3898 (talk) 19:01, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source? And you can go right ahead if it is right. Intoronto1125 TalkContributions 19:04, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.kbtx.com/sports/headlines/Medrano_Ibanez_Will_Represent_Mexico_at_2011_Pan_American_Games_122205314.html It's actually only Medrano and Ibanez, Vavra is on the US team. Robmck3898 (talk) 19:23, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay go ahead and remove it. Intoronto1125 TalkContributions 19:30, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Probably a dumb question, but.....

Do I need to tag everything I do to the 2011 US Pan American team page? I've been adding some material and realize I haven't been doing that at all. Thanks!Robmck3898 (talk) 21:13, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Only on talk pages. Intoronto1125 TalkContributions 21:16, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's ambitious

Not sure if I should say anything like this in this area, but it looks like they completely rebuilt the main website today.Robmck3898 (talk) 00:59, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes they did, and its for the better. BTW you are right if it doesn't have to do with Wikipedia chatter should be kept at a minimum. Intoronto1125 TalkContributions 01:37, 13 October 2011 :: Well it's not like if he or she is vandalizing... just wanting to confirm something... i'm guessing it's not bothering anyone. XOXO

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Terrible sentence

As I was copyediting this article, I came across this sentence:

"The Pan American Torch Relay is the transfer of the Pan American Games flame from the Ancient Teotihuacan pyramids in Mexico first in the Sierra de la Estrella and after in the Temple of the Sun God — where it was selected by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) as the place where the Pan American flame is to be lit and then transferred [22] to the stadium of the city hosting the current Pan American Games Games."

Maybe it's only because it's late at night (early in the morning...) where I live, but I can't make head nor tail of this sentence. I tried to look in the source to clarify, but the source was a dead link. (A relatively common problem for this article, by the way.) Can someone either fix this, or enlighten me so I can fix it? Host ager 09:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and also, I'm not sure whether it should be was or were in the first sentence. I changed it to was, because that sounded better to me. Any grammarphiles out there? Host ager 09:06, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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