Talk:Little Athletics

Media References

Grinspoon mentioned this on their song "Melted Holiday" from Alibis & Other Lies, with the lyrics, "When you came first in Little Athletics, I was so jealous I had a tantrum". —Preceding unsigned comment added by A&MFan (talk • contribs) 05:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

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GA Review

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Reviewer: TheQ Editor (talk · contribs) 21:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

I'll take this. give me a couple of days to review this.  ΤheQ Editor  ^Talk? 21:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

@TheQ Editor:, just a friendly reminder about this GAN. It has been a couple of days. NickGibson3900 ^{Talk Sign my Guestbook Contributions} 07:55, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

@NickGibson3900: Sorry, my laptop's internet went down just as I clicked the submit button. I re wrote it. Cheers,  ΤheQ Editor  ^Talk? 18:22, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Lead

• It's too much like an ad. 3 paragraphs dedicated in explaining how great "Little Athletics" is? You should also consider including a brief history of it.  Done
• The body doesn't mention anything about "Little A's or Little Aths"  Removed

Little Athletics Events

• Change heading to "Events"  Done
• What do all those abbreviations stand for? (VIC) (NSW) (QLD) (SA) (WA) (TAS) (ACT)  Linked
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement.  Fixed

Structure and Governance

• Consider merging the two paragraphs together.  Merged

History

• There are a lot of short sub sections in section 3.2.1. Perhaps merging the short ones together would help.  Merged
• The sub section titles contain peacock phrases. It sounds more like an essay. You should just include the year.  Changed title
• Section 3.2.2 contains a lot of in line citations to the same ref. Consider only adding it at the end of the paragraph.  Done
• Same thing with section "3.2.3", "3.2.4", and "3.2.5"  Done
• "Geelong brach" - is this a typo?  Fixed
• "However Billingham still could not get support for Little Athletics from VAAA instead they suggested to drop the junior competition and focus on the rapidly expanding senior one." - no punctuation in between?  Rephrased
• "VAAA and they accepted both" - should be "VAAA and both were accepted"  Rephrased
• "200 boys and girls more than 200 boys and girls" - doesn't make sense  Fixed

Current

• "little athletes" - should just be athletes  Fixed

Other

• one dead link. See here  Fixed
• External Links go after the References  Moved

Reply

@TheQ Editor: Thanks for the review. I think I have fixed all the problems with this article. NickGibson3900 ^{Talk Sign my Guestbook Contributions} 07:31, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

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Copy editing

Please check the following changes.

History

The cited article (reference 25) seems inconsistent with the Summarized Timeline and Detailed History sections of the article.

• In the Summarized timeline, "200 children turned-up regularly with a total of 500 athletes competing" has been changed to "200 children turned up regularly, and more than 500 had tried out".
• In the Detailed History, "more than 200 boys and girls were competing regular across eight clubs and 500 had tried out at least once" has been changed to "more than 200 boys and girls were competing regularly across nine clubs, and more than 500 had tried out at least once".

Regards, Valfury (talk) 07:44, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

@Valfury: Thanks for the c/e. I checked the source and your changes were correct. Thanks for picking it up. NickGibson3900 ^Talk 09:09, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

 

GA Reassessment

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Starts GA Reassessment. The reassessment will follow the same sections of the Article. --Whiteguru (talk) 12:01, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

 

Instructions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment

 

Result: Delisted. Legitimate concerns, no opposition or improvements made; Matters raised in the reassessment were not addressed. These matters will remain valid until the next GA Review, whereupon they must be addressed first. --Whiteguru (talk) 07:07, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

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Observations

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

1. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

• The link in the infobox (is defective) and goes to a security risk.
• Reference 1 is a dead link. Coles now sponsor Little Aths. Edit to https://littleathletics.com.au/
• Reference 2 goes to a security risk. Use archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210303204803/https://littleathletics.com.au/about-us/history/
• The Events table, all references in the table header are all 404 and/or security risks. References need updating.

1. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

• The history section of this article is reliant on one document.
• Coles now auspice Little Athletics. The Lede needs to be rewritten to reflect this.
• Logo needs updating
• Covid 19 has impacted these events. There are now virtual events.

1. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

• The history section of this article is reliant on one document.

1. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

• Page created on 10 October 2004 by anonymous editor (IP address)
• Page has 278 edits by 106 editors
• 90 day page views = 251 views with a daily average of 3 views.
• most significant contributor / editor blanked and quit November 2014 ...
• this page has not been significantly maintained since early 2015...
• Page is considered stable, the IA Bot has been on the page several times.

1. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

• Little Athletics Australia Logo 2.png = logo of an organization, fair use is claimed. Accepted.
• Jetstar launches Little Athetics partnership.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

1. Overall:

• There are significant issues with this article as it is out of date with Coles sponsoring Little Athletics.
• On social media (Youtube) there are recent videos (16 September 2020 up to March 2021)
• The Twitter account has been suspended for some reason
• The Instagram link is a dead link
• The Facebook page is being maintained with regular updates
• The Coles Community Round needs to be covered
• Little Athletics in Australia has been suspended due Covid 19. See here.
• This article needs significant updating (there are many years missing, and records are incomplete, and the events table needs to be modified to reflect the events table given here (Coles National Challenge).
• Research into other sources will be needed as https://littleathletics.com.au/ is not comprehensively maintained nor updated. It has non functioning internal links.
• Article placed on hold for editing and corrections. Seven days. --Whiteguru (talk) 07:29, 25 May 2021 (UTC)