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Agree with the person below. This article is a poor article, a really poor article. Just by reformatting a couple of things in the space of ten minutes, the Introduction is far more polished and looks like the beginning of a well written article. With everyones help, this article could be one of the best on Wikipedia- thoroughly deserving to a ground of this stature. Let's pick up the slack, guys. WikiNerd91 01.40, 1 October 2011 (ACST) —Preceding undated comment added 16:11, 30 September 2011 (UTC).
This article is in need of some proper structure and research. The majority of the article is a laundry list and the final section, which isn't, appears to be a political pov. Much of the current History section is trivial statistics and there is really very little information about the actual ground or its features, such as the iconic scoreboard. The article has excellent photos of this and other aspects, but they are largely wasted. The current work at the ground will not only change its seating capacity and facilities, but the very size and shape of the playing field, so if there is enough history to be added, then it should be structured so that obsolete information is not deleted as new developments occur. MrAngy ( talk) 13:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Right, I created the little layout dealio but was wondering if someone has/could make a diagram to show the location of the stands around the oval (or maybe an aerial picture from straight above would do). Please fix formatting ... Cheers Maelgwn 09:57, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Surely this doesn't need to be there. Do we include a list of murders/abductions/robberies that have occurred in a suburb in that suburb's article? -- Yeti Hunter ( talk) 07:07, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
The abduction of 2 children by stranger is an extraordinary crime. It is a relatively rare type of crime when there only a single child victim. Due to the brazenness of the crime,the fact the event is part of Adelaide Mythology it should be included. One key fact is that the ground admin would not broadcast an announcement of the missing children until after the game , and thus extinguished the possibility of the abductionbeing halted should beconsidered 115.128.63.71 ( talk) 10:00, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
The section has been restored. Current consensus (per above) is to exclude. In the absence of any further discussion, I'm reverting it out again.-- Yeti Hunter ( talk) 23:44, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand what the problem is. It has a great deal of relevance, and is a fact of Adelaide Oval's HISTORY. Again, its part of the ovals HISTORY and should be mentioned. You could say that the mention and photo of the Sir Donald Bradman statue should be removed then, because it's not even in the ground. Oz Juice24 ( talk) 02:27, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
It is mentioned in the history article that in the 92/93 season vs. West Indies that Courntney Walsh's delivery brushed Craig McDermott's glove. I would debate that. The umpire ruled that Craig McDermott was out caught behind, but in fact the delievery brushed the peak McDermott's of his helmet and was incorrectly given out. I remember this very clearly, and the video replay proved this. Oz Juice24 ( talk) 00:02, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
From the layout discussion above, it appears as though this section has been formatted such since 2006. I'm not sure about anyone else but I find this technique of image formatting highly untidy and you'd be hard pressed to find a layout like that anywhere else on Wikipedia. I think an image gallery is of higher priority than a layout of the oval, so I will go about placing the images in one and possibly looking into a layout diagram as suggested in an above discussion. We should probably be looking to model this article on something like the Melbourne Cricket Ground or the Lord's Cricket Ground articles. -- timsdad (talk) 12:54, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Can someone put some detail in about the stand above the grass hill(Clem Hill Stand)? ie in between the Chappell and Bradman stands
This is one of the best features of Adelaide Oval but doesn't get a mention 144.132.241.6 ( talk) 07:23, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
There's a noticeable lack of pictures of the new stand - I have taken several (at England V South Australia, and the 2nd 2010 Ashes test) that I am happy to allow the use of. I have no idea how wikipedia works in regards to images but here's an imageshack link to them http://img29.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img0786rc.jpg - I don't mind if they are re-hosted 203.132.83.80 ( talk) 04:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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I'm happy to surrender all relevant rights to allow use of the files on wikipedia, regarding the imageshack copyright thing, that just refers to the page design AFAIK, their TOS says that by uploading it I give them and any other users the rights to use the pics, but not ownership. 203.132.83.80 ( talk) 09:19, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Distinct lack of pictures of the new stands. But plenty of irrelevant images of cricketers in the commons page??? Lokster ( talk) 02:25, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
The state government redevelopment section at the bottom of this article has issues in all three areas for what should be fairly obvious reasons. If I can find some time for it I may work toward improving it, but if others can step in that would be great. Timeshift ( talk) 01:39, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 09:38, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Being a multi-purpose sport venue, it doesn't seem right to have the AFL records written (probably written by a Port Adelaide supporter?) with an entire section by itself, when the SANFL records and other cricket records are not mentioned at all. It should be noted that even the bodyline series has only rated a mention in a bullet point.
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I'm calling it a day there as I think it's pretty clear this meets at least one of the GA quickfail criteria. The major issue here is sourcing, there are large chunks of the article that are seemingly completely unsourced. The article needs going through to ensure that any significant claims or facts are backed up by reliable sources. The prose also needs streamlining to avoid very short, single sentence paragraphs.
I would also say there are too many tables included. We have tables for literally everything here. For example, I'm not sure we need tables for "Most career games at the ground" or "Lowest score by a team". There's no reason some of these tables can't be converted into prose instead. Unfortunately, due to the points noted above, this is some way off becoming a GA. Kosack ( talk) 12:23, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Based on the just added very long tag and the GA review, I think it's clear that a lot of the stats in the article just need to be excised. We don't need five different tables of attendance records. We don't need a list of every international soccer match. We don't highest scores by quarter in the SANFL. I feel like the stats could pretty much all be removed, and some of them replaced with prose if they're actually important. I wanted to mention it here before going ahead and doing it. Does anyone object to this idea? OliveYouBean ( talk) 04:15, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
The caption to the photo of Kapil Dev says: "Kapil Dev took 19 wickets in ten innings; the most of any non-Australian."
The table immediately to the left of the photo says:
- Kapil Dev took 19 wickets in 6 innings
- JM Anderson (ENG) took 19 wickets in 10 innings
:( Pdfpdf ( talk) 14:02, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
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Agree with the person below. This article is a poor article, a really poor article. Just by reformatting a couple of things in the space of ten minutes, the Introduction is far more polished and looks like the beginning of a well written article. With everyones help, this article could be one of the best on Wikipedia- thoroughly deserving to a ground of this stature. Let's pick up the slack, guys. WikiNerd91 01.40, 1 October 2011 (ACST) —Preceding undated comment added 16:11, 30 September 2011 (UTC).
This article is in need of some proper structure and research. The majority of the article is a laundry list and the final section, which isn't, appears to be a political pov. Much of the current History section is trivial statistics and there is really very little information about the actual ground or its features, such as the iconic scoreboard. The article has excellent photos of this and other aspects, but they are largely wasted. The current work at the ground will not only change its seating capacity and facilities, but the very size and shape of the playing field, so if there is enough history to be added, then it should be structured so that obsolete information is not deleted as new developments occur. MrAngy ( talk) 13:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Right, I created the little layout dealio but was wondering if someone has/could make a diagram to show the location of the stands around the oval (or maybe an aerial picture from straight above would do). Please fix formatting ... Cheers Maelgwn 09:57, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Surely this doesn't need to be there. Do we include a list of murders/abductions/robberies that have occurred in a suburb in that suburb's article? -- Yeti Hunter ( talk) 07:07, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
The abduction of 2 children by stranger is an extraordinary crime. It is a relatively rare type of crime when there only a single child victim. Due to the brazenness of the crime,the fact the event is part of Adelaide Mythology it should be included. One key fact is that the ground admin would not broadcast an announcement of the missing children until after the game , and thus extinguished the possibility of the abductionbeing halted should beconsidered 115.128.63.71 ( talk) 10:00, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
The section has been restored. Current consensus (per above) is to exclude. In the absence of any further discussion, I'm reverting it out again.-- Yeti Hunter ( talk) 23:44, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't understand what the problem is. It has a great deal of relevance, and is a fact of Adelaide Oval's HISTORY. Again, its part of the ovals HISTORY and should be mentioned. You could say that the mention and photo of the Sir Donald Bradman statue should be removed then, because it's not even in the ground. Oz Juice24 ( talk) 02:27, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
It is mentioned in the history article that in the 92/93 season vs. West Indies that Courntney Walsh's delivery brushed Craig McDermott's glove. I would debate that. The umpire ruled that Craig McDermott was out caught behind, but in fact the delievery brushed the peak McDermott's of his helmet and was incorrectly given out. I remember this very clearly, and the video replay proved this. Oz Juice24 ( talk) 00:02, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
From the layout discussion above, it appears as though this section has been formatted such since 2006. I'm not sure about anyone else but I find this technique of image formatting highly untidy and you'd be hard pressed to find a layout like that anywhere else on Wikipedia. I think an image gallery is of higher priority than a layout of the oval, so I will go about placing the images in one and possibly looking into a layout diagram as suggested in an above discussion. We should probably be looking to model this article on something like the Melbourne Cricket Ground or the Lord's Cricket Ground articles. -- timsdad (talk) 12:54, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Can someone put some detail in about the stand above the grass hill(Clem Hill Stand)? ie in between the Chappell and Bradman stands
This is one of the best features of Adelaide Oval but doesn't get a mention 144.132.241.6 ( talk) 07:23, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
There's a noticeable lack of pictures of the new stand - I have taken several (at England V South Australia, and the 2nd 2010 Ashes test) that I am happy to allow the use of. I have no idea how wikipedia works in regards to images but here's an imageshack link to them http://img29.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img0786rc.jpg - I don't mind if they are re-hosted 203.132.83.80 ( talk) 04:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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I'm happy to surrender all relevant rights to allow use of the files on wikipedia, regarding the imageshack copyright thing, that just refers to the page design AFAIK, their TOS says that by uploading it I give them and any other users the rights to use the pics, but not ownership. 203.132.83.80 ( talk) 09:19, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Distinct lack of pictures of the new stands. But plenty of irrelevant images of cricketers in the commons page??? Lokster ( talk) 02:25, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
The state government redevelopment section at the bottom of this article has issues in all three areas for what should be fairly obvious reasons. If I can find some time for it I may work toward improving it, but if others can step in that would be great. Timeshift ( talk) 01:39, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 09:38, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Being a multi-purpose sport venue, it doesn't seem right to have the AFL records written (probably written by a Port Adelaide supporter?) with an entire section by itself, when the SANFL records and other cricket records are not mentioned at all. It should be noted that even the bodyline series has only rated a mention in a bullet point.
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I'm calling it a day there as I think it's pretty clear this meets at least one of the GA quickfail criteria. The major issue here is sourcing, there are large chunks of the article that are seemingly completely unsourced. The article needs going through to ensure that any significant claims or facts are backed up by reliable sources. The prose also needs streamlining to avoid very short, single sentence paragraphs.
I would also say there are too many tables included. We have tables for literally everything here. For example, I'm not sure we need tables for "Most career games at the ground" or "Lowest score by a team". There's no reason some of these tables can't be converted into prose instead. Unfortunately, due to the points noted above, this is some way off becoming a GA. Kosack ( talk) 12:23, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Based on the just added very long tag and the GA review, I think it's clear that a lot of the stats in the article just need to be excised. We don't need five different tables of attendance records. We don't need a list of every international soccer match. We don't highest scores by quarter in the SANFL. I feel like the stats could pretty much all be removed, and some of them replaced with prose if they're actually important. I wanted to mention it here before going ahead and doing it. Does anyone object to this idea? OliveYouBean ( talk) 04:15, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
The caption to the photo of Kapil Dev says: "Kapil Dev took 19 wickets in ten innings; the most of any non-Australian."
The table immediately to the left of the photo says:
- Kapil Dev took 19 wickets in 6 innings
- JM Anderson (ENG) took 19 wickets in 10 innings
:( Pdfpdf ( talk) 14:02, 21 June 2023 (UTC)