Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Paralympics

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Welcome to the Paralympics Task Force, a task force working under WikiProject Olympics to organize, expand, clean up, and improve articles related to the Paralympic Games. If you would like to participate, you can start by joining the project below and/or contribute to the discussion on the talk page.

To indicate that an article falls within the scope of this task force, please add "|Paralympics=yes" to the {{WikiProject Olympics}} talk page template. For example, {{WikiProject Olympics|Paralympics=yes}}. This will automatically place it into Category:Paralympics task force articles.

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October

27: Event results for the 2004 Summer Paralympics completed by Keith Edkins. A lot of detail is no longer available online for these games.
12: Event results for the 2006 Winter Paralympics completed by Keith Edkins.
6: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Women's team – Class 6–10, last of 261 outstanding 2008 events, created by Keith Edkins. Believed 2008 is now complete. Also uploaded four missing 2012 Wheelchair fencing events

September

20: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley SM13, believed at the time to be the last outstanding 2012 event, created by Keith Edkins
1: Summer Mortimer created by Zanimum

August

30: Lorraine Dodd, Leroi Court, Lachlan Jones, Jamie Romaguera, John Lindsay (athletics) and Darren Thrupp created by LauraHale
29: Ali Mohammad Yari, Reginald Benade, Roman Musil, Martin Zvolánek, Atsushi Yamamoto, Ivan Kytsenko and Zeynidin Bilalov created by Waacstats
27: Leonardo Diaz (Paralympian), Drazenko Mitrovic, Mehrdad Karam Zadeh, Mykola Zhabnyak, Joze Flere, Sebastian Baldassarri, Tanto Campbell and Toshi Ol created by Waacstats
26: Sharon Rackham created by John Vandenberg
25: Bill Mather-Brown, Bruno Moretti (table tennis), Daphne Ceeney, Ross Sutton, Elaine Schreiber, Marion O'Brien, Allan McLucas, Elizabeth Edmondson, Michael Dow, Trevor French, Roy Fowler and Gary Leslie Hooper created by LauraHale; Vladimir Zayets created by Waacstats
23: 74 articles created by LauraHale
21: Gao Changlong, Mohamed Krid, Rostislav Pohlmann, Javad Hardani, Nicholas Newman (athlete) and Jean-Pierre Talatini created by Waacstats
20: Mohammad Reza Mirzaei, Faouzi Rzig, Zhu Pengkai, Mahmoud Ramadan Ellatar, Abdolreza Jokar, Evengy Gudkov, Zhang Xuelong, Yaser Abdelaziz El Sayed, Oleksandr Iasynovyi and Jan Vaněk created by Waacstats
16: London Prepares series created by user:Globalwheels

12 August: Amanda Fraser (created by Waacstats; expanded by Steven Zhang)
25 July: Priya Cooper and Australia at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
20 July: 70 images of the 1996 Paralympics have been uploaded to commons:Category:Australia at the 1996 Summer Paralympics by user:Tony.naar
13 July: 1972 Summer Paralympics medal table was promoted as a featured list
17 June: Simon Laurens (created by user:Basement12)
6 June: 1968 Summer Paralympics medal table was promoted as a featured list; 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships was created by user:Bib
6 May: Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics was promoted as a good article.

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WikiEdits2003 (talk · contribs)
Aridd (talk · contribs) (I'm adding myself here because I've started and/or edited quite a number of articles related to the Paralympic Games. I'll continue to do so if and when I have time, although I can't fully commit to it. But this task force is a very good idea.)
Basement12 (talk · contribs)
Bib (talk · contribs)
Black Orchid (talk · contribs)
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Ferraridude100 (talk · contribs) I have added myself because I have edited many pages and articles related to the Paralympics. I will continue to do so (same as Aridd) on my spare time.
Fmountford (talk · contribs) Huge Olympics and paralympics fan, i intend to contribute broadly where i can.
H1nkles _{citius altius fortius} (talk · contribs) I'm working on the Paralympic Games as part of a larger goal of a Featured Topic on the Olympic Games.
jwillbur (talk · contribs)
Phoenix (talk · contribs) thanks for the invite
RG104 (talk · contribs)
Roger (talk · contribs)
Yboy83 (talk · contribs)
waacstats (talk · contribs)
Rohith goura (talk · contribs)
Leighblackall (talk · contribs) I'm working with the Australian Paralympic Committee, where they want to assist the Wikipedia volunteers in their coverage of Australia at the Paralympics. Please see our project space on Wikiversity for more info. See you all soon.
FingersLily (talk · contribs) I'm new to all this but I am willing to help out in any way I can. I am passionate about all sport & have a particular interest in Paralympics.
Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs)
John Vandenberg (talk · contribs)
Swimmer 1964 (talk · contribs)
Senator2029 (talk · contribs) Working on assessments, cleanup, standardization, etc.
Keith Edkins (talk · contribs) Ready to create results pages for 2012.
Lucky102 (talk · contribs) I want to help this project because I like updating paralympic articles.
Melissa Carlton (talk · contribs)
Stigni (talk · contribs)
Psgola (talk · contribs) I basically edit the United States Paralympic 2012 page
Zanimum (talk · contribs)
Kasper2006 (talk · contribs)
Justie19 (talk · contribs) I'll help with anything asked of me
Wesley Mouse (talk · contribs)
Kwokng (talk · contribs) Specialist knowledge of sitting volleyball
Raymarcbadz (talk · contribs) I am more solely responsible on the nation pages with correct results, proper MoS format, documentation if necessary, and updated list of athletes and their results. I am willing to help out this project because of my particular interest to the Summer Olympics.
Sportygeek (talk · contribs) I've edited a number of articles related to the Paralympics, some under my name, some under IP before I got an account. Specialist knowledge of paratriathlon, which has been included in the program for Rio.
Lassirena6 (talk · contribs) I'm a Filipino Paralympic sailor who competed in the Beijing 2008 Paralympics, Sailing was held in Qingdao. So I have insider knowledge of Sailing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and specialist knowledge of rifle events under Paralympic Shooting.
Mishae (talk · contribs) I'm a Russian disabled individual who used to play adaptive association football, floor hockey, and softball for Robinsdale Robins, a school sponsored Olympics in which I won 2 bronze, 2 silver, and 1 gold. My job in this project is to write more articles on Russian, Ukrainian, and American disabled athletes who took part in sitting volleyball, swimming, or cycling events. I do however often do the other nations too.:)
LAHetherington (talk · contribs)My interest is in updating Canadian Paralympic athlete articles, particularly in Alpine skiing
TheQ Editor (talk · contribs)Working to creating more Paralympic Athlete PAges.
Mpjmcevoybeta (talk · contribs)
Bidgee (talk · contribs)
Matt294069 (talk · contribs)Adding all of the results from wheelchair basketball
Nimrodbr (talk · contribs)
Cojote (talk · contribs)
Abishe (talk · contribs)
Dcharma (talk · contribs)
MWright96 (talk · contribs)
SarahTHunter (talk · contribs)
Tony.naar (talk · contribs) I am the facilitator of the Australian Paralympic History Project. The project has seen the creation of 1K+ articles, most by people in the above list. We have made more than 3K photos available through Creative Commons. We also have a website which links to the Wikipedia articles - [Paralympic Stories|https://paralympichistory.org.au/].
Cardeville (talk · contribs) I've contributed a few pages and edits relating to Para sport, especially relating to New Zealand Paralympians. Keen to do more when I have time.
Madspalmer (talk · contribs)
Groetjes, Peter (talk · contribs) My focus is on the 1980 Summer Games in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
RavenRTC (talk · contribs)
Davidindia (talk · contribs) Indian paralympian BLPs
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Vincent's Land (talk · contribs)

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Mpjmcevoybeta (talk · contribs)

Red links - articles needed
Create various Sports at the 2012 Summer Paralympics articles
Add results for the earliest Paralympic Games. The IPC website paralympic.org does not have all the results in their database, so additional sources are needed

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