Talk:Hedley Verity

message: NB: I believe that the new DNB gives Verity's date of death erroneously, as 31st August! Loganberry 16:44, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it. It was added in Feb 2005. It has no relevance now. Tintin (talk) 05:04, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates and links

message: The article is exceptionally pro Verity with 0 citations to explain these statements. I have removed some of the most rediculous, like the uncited statement that leaving him out was "the selecting mistake of the century" and so on. There are numerous others which need to be removed if they can't be cited. SGGH speak! 14:17, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: I have removed this section because it does not comply with WP:MOS and it presents a personal point of view (i.e., WP:NPOV), rather than documenting a verifiable stated opinion within a secondary source.  You cannot just say that you have watched British Pathe, or a match on TV for that matter, and then express views like "Verity bowled off a trotted ten yard run, essentially straight to the wicket, and pivoted in his bowling stride" or "he is shown as closer to Derek Underwood in pace than Bishen Bedi" or "slip often stood quite deep".  Does the source actually say these things?  If comments like these about the player's style are to be included, they must be verified to written statements in a secondary source.
Furthermore, the person who introduced the section has been told several times about following site guidelines and especially about the need for verifiable sources.  ----Jack | talk page 04:53, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I should add that it breaches WP:PRIMARY as it is one person's interpretation of a movie clip he has seen.  The statements used cannot be verified in any secondary source and, as such, they constitute original research: see WP:OR.  ----Jack | talk page 20:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed section about "bowling action"

message: 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 :Hedley Verity'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 "tbat":
From Len Hutton: 
From George Hirst: 
From Douglas Jardine: 
From Norman Yardley: 
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⚡ 00:30, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Hedley Verity]] 

message: The BBC have published a good article Hedley Verity: Ashes legend who died for his country --Racklever (talk) 18:29, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: BBC article

message: Fascinating bio. Really well written and interesting. I have learnt something. Congratulations to the writers, particularly Sarastro1.  Giano  11:14, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Main Page

message: Having been away for a while, I just looked at the recent changes to this article. The edit history mentions "links consolidated". In actual fact, this has taken very specific references, where facts are cited to a page where they can be verified, and replaced them with the form "pp. 13–31", which is not much help if verifying a single fact found for example on p. 18. Perhaps the links could be merged in places, but doing it this way is not good practice for any article. Certainly not for a FA. While I'm not particularly one who thinks "Keep your hands of the FAs!!!", this seems to have gone much too far. Therefore, I've reverted to the previous form (Sorry if anything got lost in the process), but feel free to discuss here further. Sarastro1 (talk) 20:49, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert of 7 October 

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thread_title:  External links modified