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Would appreciate any feedback on the way this article is progressing, particularly on its length and readability.
Is it alright to go ahead with the current format of descriptive writing ? 1970s is set to become longer than any of the previous decades, though the next three should be comparatively smaller. Tintin 07:44, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
The decades are through. Some sections are still quite long despite deliberate attempts to trim them down. Feel free to edit, delete or anything that you think is appropriate to make it more readable. All the stuff that was originally here is in the talk page.
So what's next here ? I can think only of a records section at the end Tintin 14:49, 20 August 2005 (UTC) (With thanks to Jguk and Sam)
Hello, the project page said I must inquire here about becoming a member. I am a South African cricket fan/player and am eager to help out if I am needed. Please let me know if I ought to join this project. Thanks. Banes 17:28, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
May I echo Sam's comments -we'd more than welcome more coverage on South African cricket - just pick your favourite area and go for it. If you want to publicise some of the areas you're working on to see if others are interested in helping you, just drop a note either here or on the main WP:Cricket project page, jguk 18:16, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
The proposal for a {{ cricketbio-stub}} category has gone its week on WP:WSS/P without objection, so I've now created it. Lots of stubs to be moved, as soon as the servers wake up again! Loganberry ( Talk) 19:44, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I am currently on a project to write up the national cricket team articles a bit better. It occured to me as I was in bed last night (yes, really) that the naming of these articles is a bit stupid. For example: "Australian cricket team". This is an encyclopedia article about an Australian cricket team. As such, it could describe what we think of as "Australia", but it could also refer to the New South Wales cricket team, or even Midland-Guildford. The same convention applies to all the other national cricket team articles.
I can see two ways to resolve this horrible ambiguity:
I much prefer the former, although I can see merits for the latter. What do other people prefer? Perhaps you even prefer the conciseness of the current form? [[smoddy]] 20:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
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Hi guys. Just to let you know I have made a template Template:CricketWikiProject-Member, in case any of you want to advertise the WikiProject on your userpages. -- Ngb 08:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
On 17 July Angela put a note on Template_talk:Cricket-stub that the cricket ball image was possibly unfree and should not be used on every single page. I answered her, but didn't do anything with the pics, since I'm not very good with Photoshop and things. Now there's been almost exactly a month - could someone crop a picture and replace it in the template? Sam Vimes 11:57, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Just added my name to the list. I'll see what I can do about some of the work that's highlighted on the discussion page over the next few days/weeks.
In the meantime, I came up with a few ideas about restructuring some of the articles while I was doing a bunch of cricket edits recently. These are just my suggestions, I'd be interested to know what other people think.
Firstly, I'm wondering whether the articles on bowling are perhaps a bit more disparate than they should be. We've got seperate articles (some of them very short) on swing bowling, seam bowling, leg cutter, off cutter, indipper and many many more. Wouldn't these be better integrated in a single article about fast bowling? The various articles on the art of spin seem to be similarly divided up.
Second, is it really worthwhile having the career infoboxes on individual bio pages when they contain a link to cricinfo which would give the user the exact same data?
I hope my edits prove of use. I should warn you that I have a rather verbose writing style which sometimes isn't really up to the sort of standards that are required on wikipedia so I won't be offended if any overlong paragraphs get trimmed in the name of clarity! :) MattDP 08:40, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I just add my name to the list and I'm kinda new to the whole WikiProject thing, but I'll help out alot with the articles pertaining to New Zealand cricket. Any suggestions, or advice? - Mysticflame
There is currently a debate about whether cricket should be about the sport or a disambiguation page (triggered largely, it would seem, by the claim that US people would identify the word "cricket" with the insect). Please see the discussion and "poll" at Talk:cricket. -- ALoan (Talk) 18:14, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
What's happened to it? It doesn't seem to be working on any page that I've looked at. Is this a bug, or has there been a change or decision that I don't know about? Raven4x4x 10:09, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
What format is best to use for referring to non-English seasons? I've been using (eg) 1971/72 in the articles I've written, since that's the format that Wisden and Cricinfo use (okay, actually it's 1971-72), but jguk has written (eg) Category:1971/2 South African cricket season. So, 1971/72 or 1971/2 - or either, or neither? Guidance please! Loganberry ( Talk) 22:58, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I'm a traveller from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Football and started an article on the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (of Kolkata, India). One of the external pages I found, in the Telegraph here, claims that 1780 rather 1792 would be the actual date for the founding of the club. This would apparently be a major claim to make, esp. in a cricketing context. I was wondering if anyone here had more insight into this? With Thanks - Master Of Ninja 20:36, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on the Canberra article and the only cricket team we have is the ACT Coments who play in the Cricket Australia Cup. I was wondering if this project was planning on writng an article on this junior repsesentative competition- or is it not really notable enough for an encyclopedia article?-- nixie 03:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Something has gone wrong with cricket-bio stubs. Some silly stuff about NZ cricket appears everywhere. I don't know where to fix it. Tintin 09:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
I saw that on some articles and I think it might be vandalism.
DaGizza 09:16, 24 Aug 2005
All of the sub-categories of Category:Test cricketers have lowercase "test", reflecting the categories used on the underlying articles. However, the Wikipedia standard usage (as discussed here previously) is for uppercase. Do we need some sort of bot to change all of the underlying articles? -- ALoan (Talk) 11:33, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
What is that metal ringed object that umpires have which are used to find out if the ball is in shape? =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:53, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 |
Would appreciate any feedback on the way this article is progressing, particularly on its length and readability.
Is it alright to go ahead with the current format of descriptive writing ? 1970s is set to become longer than any of the previous decades, though the next three should be comparatively smaller. Tintin 07:44, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
The decades are through. Some sections are still quite long despite deliberate attempts to trim them down. Feel free to edit, delete or anything that you think is appropriate to make it more readable. All the stuff that was originally here is in the talk page.
So what's next here ? I can think only of a records section at the end Tintin 14:49, 20 August 2005 (UTC) (With thanks to Jguk and Sam)
Hello, the project page said I must inquire here about becoming a member. I am a South African cricket fan/player and am eager to help out if I am needed. Please let me know if I ought to join this project. Thanks. Banes 17:28, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
May I echo Sam's comments -we'd more than welcome more coverage on South African cricket - just pick your favourite area and go for it. If you want to publicise some of the areas you're working on to see if others are interested in helping you, just drop a note either here or on the main WP:Cricket project page, jguk 18:16, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
The proposal for a {{ cricketbio-stub}} category has gone its week on WP:WSS/P without objection, so I've now created it. Lots of stubs to be moved, as soon as the servers wake up again! Loganberry ( Talk) 19:44, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I am currently on a project to write up the national cricket team articles a bit better. It occured to me as I was in bed last night (yes, really) that the naming of these articles is a bit stupid. For example: "Australian cricket team". This is an encyclopedia article about an Australian cricket team. As such, it could describe what we think of as "Australia", but it could also refer to the New South Wales cricket team, or even Midland-Guildford. The same convention applies to all the other national cricket team articles.
I can see two ways to resolve this horrible ambiguity:
I much prefer the former, although I can see merits for the latter. What do other people prefer? Perhaps you even prefer the conciseness of the current form? [[smoddy]] 20:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
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This user is a member of WikiProject Cricket, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of cricket. Please feel free to join us. |
Hi guys. Just to let you know I have made a template Template:CricketWikiProject-Member, in case any of you want to advertise the WikiProject on your userpages. -- Ngb 08:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
On 17 July Angela put a note on Template_talk:Cricket-stub that the cricket ball image was possibly unfree and should not be used on every single page. I answered her, but didn't do anything with the pics, since I'm not very good with Photoshop and things. Now there's been almost exactly a month - could someone crop a picture and replace it in the template? Sam Vimes 11:57, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Just added my name to the list. I'll see what I can do about some of the work that's highlighted on the discussion page over the next few days/weeks.
In the meantime, I came up with a few ideas about restructuring some of the articles while I was doing a bunch of cricket edits recently. These are just my suggestions, I'd be interested to know what other people think.
Firstly, I'm wondering whether the articles on bowling are perhaps a bit more disparate than they should be. We've got seperate articles (some of them very short) on swing bowling, seam bowling, leg cutter, off cutter, indipper and many many more. Wouldn't these be better integrated in a single article about fast bowling? The various articles on the art of spin seem to be similarly divided up.
Second, is it really worthwhile having the career infoboxes on individual bio pages when they contain a link to cricinfo which would give the user the exact same data?
I hope my edits prove of use. I should warn you that I have a rather verbose writing style which sometimes isn't really up to the sort of standards that are required on wikipedia so I won't be offended if any overlong paragraphs get trimmed in the name of clarity! :) MattDP 08:40, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I just add my name to the list and I'm kinda new to the whole WikiProject thing, but I'll help out alot with the articles pertaining to New Zealand cricket. Any suggestions, or advice? - Mysticflame
There is currently a debate about whether cricket should be about the sport or a disambiguation page (triggered largely, it would seem, by the claim that US people would identify the word "cricket" with the insect). Please see the discussion and "poll" at Talk:cricket. -- ALoan (Talk) 18:14, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
What's happened to it? It doesn't seem to be working on any page that I've looked at. Is this a bug, or has there been a change or decision that I don't know about? Raven4x4x 10:09, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
What format is best to use for referring to non-English seasons? I've been using (eg) 1971/72 in the articles I've written, since that's the format that Wisden and Cricinfo use (okay, actually it's 1971-72), but jguk has written (eg) Category:1971/2 South African cricket season. So, 1971/72 or 1971/2 - or either, or neither? Guidance please! Loganberry ( Talk) 22:58, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I'm a traveller from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Football and started an article on the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (of Kolkata, India). One of the external pages I found, in the Telegraph here, claims that 1780 rather 1792 would be the actual date for the founding of the club. This would apparently be a major claim to make, esp. in a cricketing context. I was wondering if anyone here had more insight into this? With Thanks - Master Of Ninja 20:36, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I'm working on the Canberra article and the only cricket team we have is the ACT Coments who play in the Cricket Australia Cup. I was wondering if this project was planning on writng an article on this junior repsesentative competition- or is it not really notable enough for an encyclopedia article?-- nixie 03:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Something has gone wrong with cricket-bio stubs. Some silly stuff about NZ cricket appears everywhere. I don't know where to fix it. Tintin 09:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
I saw that on some articles and I think it might be vandalism.
DaGizza 09:16, 24 Aug 2005
All of the sub-categories of Category:Test cricketers have lowercase "test", reflecting the categories used on the underlying articles. However, the Wikipedia standard usage (as discussed here previously) is for uppercase. Do we need some sort of bot to change all of the underlying articles? -- ALoan (Talk) 11:33, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
What is that metal ringed object that umpires have which are used to find out if the ball is in shape? =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:53, August 24, 2005 (UTC)