# Talk:Alan Davidson (cricketer, born 1929)

In the References section, the first time Benaud's book is referred to its title needs to be given. JH (talk page) 20:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

A relatively good article.

GA review (see here for criteria)
It is reasonably well written.
a (prose):  b (MoS): 
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It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects):  b (focused): 
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It is stable.
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Pass/Fail: 
Suggestions:-

"He was an allrounder: a lower order hard hitting left handed batsman, and an outstanding left-arm fast-medium opening bowler" - the semi-colon seems out-of-place, and batsman, bowler, fast-medium etc. could do with links (given this is the lead).
Yup. Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 02:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
On second reading, the semi-colon isn't too bad. 03:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
He was considered along Wasim Akram as the two greatest left arm fast bowlers in history - two references would be good, given the nature of the statement.
Added a book. Will look up page number wehn I get to a library.
Yep, that's fine. 03:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it worth splitting up the lead into two paragraphs?
Too short imho. Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 02:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Try and change one of the "he"/"his" in the lead (there's three or four in a row) to his last name.
Yep. Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 02:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Link Central Coast.
Yep. Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 02:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
"managed match figures of only 2/86" - the "only" is a little out-of-place and redundant.
Ok, Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 02:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Should the graph be right-aligned?
Normally I go L-R-L-R, so that's how it is usually.
Hrm, OK. Daniel 03:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Splitting up the "Australia's leading bowler" section into two or three sections could be beneficial.
Yup.
The entire first paragraph of "Farewell and legacy" is unreferenced.
Heh. Pahnto282 split the paras. ok sourced.
Please provide the book details for Benaud's often-cited book in the "References" section, and move the Pollard and Cashman references to the References section of consistency.
Yes, but I normally do not move the book into refs unless different parts of the book are cited over and over. Here it is just one section of the book and there is only a need for one ref. Bendua given,
OK, fair enough. 03:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
Format the http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BOWLING/TEST_BOWL_BEST_AVS.html reference.
Yup
Daniel 02:17, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Passed GA - well done. Daniel 03:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Alan Davidson (cricketer)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ow":
From Ian Meckiff: "Player Oracle I Meckiff". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
From Ernie Toshack: "Player Oracle ERH Toshack". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-05-14.

Reference named "o":
From Ian Craig: "Player Oracle ID Craig". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
From Ernie Toshack: "Player Oracle ERH Toshack". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
From Don Tallon: "Player Oracle D Tallon". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
From Bill Brown (cricketer): "Player Oracle WA Brown". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
From Ian Meckiff: "Player Oracle I Meckiff". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-05-14.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 01:04, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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