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Why is there a cyclingbio-stub tag on this article? Is there some reason I don't know about? JFPerry 01:27, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes there was a pro class during Cheri Elliott's career. She retired after the 1985 season. During the 1985 season the Pro Girls class was established in the NBL and as I mentioned before, Cheri did race in NBL events prior to her retirement in early 1986. Kathy Schachel was the first NBL No.1 Pro girl in 1985 (and the first girl to hold a pro title in any BMX organization). She repeated in 1986 and Gaby Bayhi won the title in 1987. Then the NBL ended it due to lack of participation until the 1997 season and Michelle Cairns won the title. You can verify the existence of a girls pro class in the October 1985 issue of BMX Plus! on page 41 in the race results of the coverage of the 1985 Team Murry World Cup of BMX IV. Tammy Willever won and received $90 Jennie Zeuner came in second and got $45 and Jeannie Robertson got third place money at $16. I am sure there are earlier mentions in BMX Plus! and other publications but this is the best I can come up with on short notice.
The point is that while Cheri did not race in the pro class and probably couldn't due to her age-I think you had to be at least 16 years old to become a pro girl and she was about to turn 16 when she retired in early 1986-there was a girls pro class during her career. If she wanted to she could had stuck around another year and raced pro.
Also, you can't site a E-mail source you have to cite a source independent of that. I know, that may sound odd if it is really you Ms. Elliott editing your own entry in wiki, but those are the rules since an independent user of Wiki cannot verify that it is you despite the e-mail address. That could or could not be your E-mail address. You have to cite a source independent of yourself like a hard copy publication or a website other than your own. Again, I know it seems strange if it is really you contributing to your own write up, but I and other editors have to maintain the standard of using sources other than the editor. Otherwise, anybody can say anything in Wiki and there has been a few scandals involving Wikipedia for just that. One has to cite independent sources For instance I cannot use any of my own research as a cite in wiki. By my own research is me conducting my own interviews or experiments. Such things are by nature unverifiable in a reasonably convenient way, hence the rules on Citing sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
Again, you must cite a source independent of yourself, just like you cited the November 1989 issue ofAmerican BMXer about Cheri's-perhaps your-reason for racing the 1989 ABA Grand National. I will check my own copy. You see, I was a racer in the ABA myself from 1982 to 1989. I started racing when I was 19. I wasn't much good since I never made it out of 17 & over intermediate, but I got a few wins. I was forced to retire too when my track Braddock Raceway in North Bergen, New Jersey shut down after the 1989 season. Didn't have a ride to any other track since I didn't have a car and no one else was into BMX. I previously rode my race bike from the Bronx, New York where I lived to the track and back! After hoping for three years that Braddock would reopen or a new track would open up close to my home and it didn't happen, I officially retired in 1992. :-(
Anyway, any MTB publications the equivalent of BMX Action, BMX Plus!, Super BMX & Freestyle et. al. that you can cite the mention of Cheri's (your?)injuries? Perhaps those MTB publications you list in the BMX & MTB press section?
If it is really Cheri Elliott editing the page, the BMX world lost a lot when you quit!
Hunter2005 20:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Hunter! Cheri Elliott, here! Thanks so much for all your beautiful writing. I just now figured out how to talk to you in this "disscussion board." Thanks for referring to that in your last HISTORY entry. Truly, I'm so incredibly impressed with all the information. Heck, a lot of it I had even forgot about. Let me know if you need anything from me... photos, other articles, or copies of them. Just know I'm here for you if you need more stuff. Also, your last revision is very nice. Thanks. ; o ) I'm very honored to be a part of Wikipedia. April 30, 2006.
Oct. 5, 2008. Hi Hunter! Cheri here. = ) It's amazing how you have built this page over these years. I'm so honored, truly. You really have done some great work. I wanted to help a little on some accuracies so the page stays true. Today, someone let me know that the Wikipedia page had me racing BMX after 1989??? Those sole two 1989 races (Fall Nationals & Grand Nationals) that I came back for 'for fun' for the Hall of Fame Induction were the only two BMX races I ever raced during my retirement.. ever. Just so you know first hand from me, I never raced BMX again after the 1989 Grands. For some reason there is a reference of my having BMX points in Feb of 1990? If that is the case, someone unethically used my name for points (or maybe for some sort of prank?) Nonetheless, to keep your Wikipedia page as accurage as possible, I retired in January of 1986. I came back 'for fun' in 1989 for the Fall Nationals & the Grand Nationals solely because I was being inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Grand Nationals. So, why not race as well since I was required to be at the Grands to receive the award? The Fall Nationals were just a practice fot the Grands. I couldn't just show up at the Grands to race after 4 years of not touching a BMX bike. There was no 'coming out of retirement.' Those two races were for fun only, and those were the only two races I ever raced in retirement. These are the facts.
Thanks again, Hunter! Amazing job. Huge honor. = ) ... Yours truly, Cheri Elliott. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbird77 (talk • contribs) 22:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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JFPerry 22:07, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Let's not get into the same disscussions as before (re. Shanaze Reade). It was agreed by several administrators that the format was not suitable for Reade, the same rules of thumb should be applied to other pages. I did not "remove" infomation as you put it, but simply merged the bullets into prose and slit the article into sensible sections. Obviously, more work was needed but it was a start. Thaf (talk) 13:35, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This entire article needs to be rewritten to comply WP:NPOV.--Woland (talk) 21:20, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I performed the long-requested copy edit of this article. Among the changes made:
The article still has some places where it could use citations. As this is a BLP, it is very important that any quotation be sourced, and that any potentially contentious information be sourced. I would also recommend that the injury data be converted to prose form and put into the body of the article.// ⌘macwhiz (talk) 04:14, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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