(clear indentation) Sounds like you (N88I) have a greater vested interests in the subject than I ever will; any help with the article would be appreciated.  As you noted I'm of the school that considers technical rock or ice climbing to be "climbing" while anything less than fifth class to be hiking/alpine even if its roped glacier travel.  Every record listed so far is a technical climbing record, which includes the Grand Traverse (even though much of it is hiking it can't be done without technical climbing).  But since its a blurry definition I don't usually hold myself to strict standards.  After all there is no official definition for the word "climbing" that everyone in the climbing/hiking community agrees upon.  Regardless it would be worth expanding this article to include both technical and non-technical/alpine meanings of "climbing".  It appears you have the familiarity and many of the requite citations to add the non-technical speed climbing details, so please feel free to add the material. 

 This article doesn't deal with X-games style speed climbing competitions which I know next to nothing about and won't research anytime soon.  As for making outdoor technical speed climbing an officiated sport; I think there will be prohibitive legal and insurance issues.  Anyone setting up a competition to see who can climb El Cap the fast will probably be shut down before the competition starts; at the very least it will be stopped after the first rescue.  That is just my speculation, good luck if you are working in the field.