Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major cricket (2nd nomination)
or '''Merge'''. The problem with this article is not its content, which provides useful background to the cricket world's classification of matches and which is duly referenced; it's the title, which indicates a currency for a phrase which really isn't used with any precision or frequency in wider cricket. If the article was renamed as, say, "Status of cricket matches", I suspect we wouldn't see any great difficulty with it. However, rather than re-create as a different standalone article, it is probably better to incorporate it as a section within an existing article, and I think it sits in History of cricket better than in Forms of cricket, since it is essentially about the historiography of cricket and the points at which different forms of the game were considered – for want of a better word – notable, sometimes retrospectively. I think deletion is the worst option: the information that's in this article is essential background for discussion on notability in cricket for matches, teams and individuals, and it should be somewhere within WP for reference. Discussion on  and  in other places has tended to focus on individuals, but I think we need somewhere in our history of cricket to plant the idea that our definitions of notability are rooted in the written history of the game, its matches and teams, where there is a very substantial measure of agreement between authorities from the present-day ACS going back through time to early chroniclers and reports. That's where this article is important: but not under this title
— User:Johnlp, 15:50, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NCRIC||WP:CRIN (Wikipedia:Notability)