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Amber Merritt has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Amber Merritt is part of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Date	Process	Result
September 26, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
December 8, 2013	Good topic candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 9, 2012. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Amber Merritt* was named the MVP at the 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge?*
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Sources

Because of the potential for over sourcing... These have been moved off the article and to here: ^[1]

^[2] ^[3]

^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

^ "Brad Ness ready to Compete". Melbourne, Australia: Herald Sun. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
^ "BASK:Team named for Women's Wheelchair Worlds". AAP News. Financial Times Ltd. 2010-06-16. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
^ "Games wheelchair basketball squads named". Australia: Nine MSN. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
^ Foreman, Glen (2012-07-08). "Brad Ness ready to compete in fourth Paralympics". News.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
^ "Games wheelchair basketball squads named". local today. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
^ "PARA:Games wheelchair basketball squads named". AAP News. Financial Times Ltd. 2012-07-05. Retrieved 27 July 2012.

--LauraHale (talk) 02:23, 28 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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. --LauraHale (talk) 10:50, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 08:06, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Lead is too short per WP:LEAD, it needs to summarise the whole article.
- Y Expanded the lead. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:25, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Too many photos.
- Y Removed one. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
" British-born Merritt was originally a swimmer" you mention her place of birth again, is this relevant to her being a swimmer?
- Y Removed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Not much point in abbreviating DAS when you don't use it.
- Y Removed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Don't forget, new paragraphs mean you should re-introduce the subject, i.e. "gave her a A$20,000 grant as" ->" gave Merritt a A$20,000 grant as"
- Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure why you'd start a para with which number jersey she wears.
- It's just to avoid having lots of paragraphs start with her name. A common problem with biographical articles. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"In the second round of the 2008 season, the Western Stars defeated the Hills Hornets 52–44. Playing for the Stars..." probably need to say she played for the Stars, then introduce the result.
- Y Good idea. Also added a bit about the 2013 season.
"she scored 8 points, had 5 rebounds, and 2 assists" -> "she scored eight points, made five rebounds and two assists".
- Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"She also played in" -> "Merritt also.."
- Y Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Season statistics [35]" remove space.
- Y Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
M isn't in key.
- Y Added to the key. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
MIN isn't in key.
- Y Added to the key. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ensure col headings comply with WP:DASH.
- Y Done. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
PF is PFS?
- Y Average per game. Added to the key. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
ABC is Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- Y Corrected. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Be consistent on works/publishers that are linked/unlinked.
- Y That bot again. Corrected. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll put it on hold for a week (seeing the same old problems again and again...) The Rambling Man (talk) 16:23, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

All points addressed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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[fromaa1-1] "Brad Ness ready to Compete". Melbourne, Australia: Herald Sun. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.

[seomthing2010-2] "BASK:Team named for Women's Wheelchair Worlds". AAP News. Financial Times Ltd. 2010-06-16. Retrieved 27 July 2012.

[snamedteam-3] "Games wheelchair basketball squads named". Australia: Nine MSN. Retrieved 13 July 2012.

[playined2012wa-4] Foreman, Glen (2012-07-08). "Brad Ness ready to compete in fourth Paralympics". News.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-27.

[anotehrouneya-5] "Games wheelchair basketball squads named". local today. Retrieved 2012-07-27.

[somethingsourcesyes-6] "PARA:Games wheelchair basketball squads named". AAP News. Financial Times Ltd. 2012-07-05. Retrieved 27 July 2012.

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