Talk:Wheelchair rugby

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Wheelchair rugby was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: November 15, 2007

Wheelchair rugby already exists, and this seems no different. Is it? - DavidWBrooks 15:00, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tried to clean the mess that this article was up a bit. However, I think it needs some attention by somebody who actually knows about that sport. --Doco 15:30, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

i am James cullis

I know something about this sport, and I'll try to clean this page up. I'm new to Wikipedia, however, so please feel free to let me know if I go awry. Eron 20:04, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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It looks like this page has a lot of content quoted directly from quadrugby.com: http://www.quadrugby.com/qr-brief.htm --209.108.217.226 21:07, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

from http://www.paralympics.com/paralympic_sports/wheelchair_rugby.htm

"About Wheelchair Rugby - A relatively new sport which debuted in (the Paralympics held at) Sydney, but one which has got a lot of support worldwide over the last few years. - Also known as Quad Rugby it is played using a volleyball, on a standard basketball court, by 4 players per team (a squad of 12). Players are graded according to level of disability from 0.5 (approximately equal to a C5 tetraplegic) to 3.5 (least impaired) and the team fielded must total 8.0 points or less - similar idea to wheelchair basketball. The teams are not gender specific."

It would seem sesible to put this Paralympic sport above the power version.

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It looks like Wheelchair rugby is more closely related to Murder Ball/Murderball than Rugby, right? -- DLeonard 07:14, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

You could be right. Perhaps in should go in the 'ball sports' category.GordyB 11:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Category 2 GA review 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Murderball poster.jpg 4 Quadriplegic??

[edit] Category

I've returned this to Category:Rugby as it is neither a form of rugby union nor rugby league but related to both. Similar in my view to say Underwater rugby or Touch rugby.GordyB 14:19, 17 October 2005 (UTC) if you ever played it you would never put it in the category with "touch" rugby there is nothing gentil about it it is full contact chair to chair.

I don't doubt it but the Category:Rugby has got nothing to do with how rough a sport is.GordyB 14:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA review

The article has not one citation, the only one there is (in the "recent results" section) is not in the good format (<ref></ref> or other). You should check out WP:CITE. I'm obliged to quick fail the article. Thank you for your work so far. -Yamanbaiia 17:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, I figured it might get hung up on the references. I'm a bit unclear on what requires in-line citations. The GA criteria state "at minimum, provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons;" I'm not sure that there is any of that in the article. (Not that in-line citations wouldn't improve the article, but I'd like to know where to start.)

I'd also like to get an idea of how it stacks up against the other GA criteria. If there are other fatal flaws that need to be fixed, I'd like to get them sorted out before I put it up again. Thanks. - Eron^Talk 17:39, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Murderball poster.jpg

Image:Murderball poster.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:17, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quadriplegic??

From the opening paragraphs:

All wheelchair rugby players are quadriplegic, with a disability affecting both upper and lower limbs.

This does not jive with even the pictures in the article which show players actively using their arms. Somehow, this does not seem to jive. --Donovan Ravenhull (talk) 06:10, 20 May 2008 (UTC)