Talk:Australian cricket team in South Africa in 1993–94

message: Before you condemn this (Australia in South Africa, 93-94) as a stub that can be deleted, compare with the same year with the same sides (South Africa in Australia, 93-94) which I have not touched: South African cricket team in Australia in 1993–94
They are of about the same calibre; the answer is to improve both, not delete one. Marplesmustgo (talk) 23:21, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  For comparison 

message: I think this is now worked up about as far as I'm going to get it without either getting in to some newspaper archives (unlikely) or getting hold of one of the books written on the tour (quite unlikely on the whole). I've never used the draft process before so I have no idea what to do now. I assume someone needs to press the button at the top of the page and then wait?
I'm not around at all now for a couple of days - off watching cricket as it happens - so if someone could do that (assuming it's the the thing to do) then that'd be great (,  perhaps?). The page it needs to link from, History of cricket in South Africa from 1990–91 to 2000, is fully locked so it won't be possible to link it for a few days yet - unless someone could do us a favour and either unblock it for auto confirmed editors or arrange for suitable text to be inserted ( perhaps? - the offending user is blocked for five days and if we protect it for IPs then surely we should be OK?).
I appreciate that there is a problem with many, many cricket articles - including tour articles. This is an example of what can be done with a tour article - even without having access to decent sourcing. Of the ones on the History of cricket in South Africa from 1990–91 to 2000 page I would suggest that almost all can be developed in a similar way - the New Zealand tour (for drugs related reasons...) and the West Indies tour are probably the most notable of all - I"m actually slightly surprised that the West Indies one has never been worked up properly before considering the political aspects behind the apartheid boycott and the role WI played in it. Some of the smaller tours may be less notable, but I think it would be possible to do at least a reasonable job on them given time. Blue Square Thing (talk) 22:51, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I'm going to let the protection run its course, and then I'll push this through. It's a lot better than what was originally placed there and it has multiple secondary sources, not just the single archive. Feel free to work on the other ones. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 22:55, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I may try the Zimbabwe one and try and track down the Kenyan one - just to see if they're possible to develop or not. To be honest, I'm not a fan of the History of cricket in South Africa from 1990–91 to 2000 article at all - the end cut off is kinda arbitrary. I may have to have a think about that - if I ever get the time to do so. Blue Square Thing (talk) 23:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft done? 

message: I was banned from this site for a week for insisting this page should be created, and yet, here it is, created and expanded. Those who insisted otherwise, I daresay, know sod all about cricket and are ignorant swine who then objected to me characterising them as ignorant swine. Marplesmustgo (talk) 18:03, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I seem to recall you were banned for edit warring and following a number of unnecessary personal attacks. If you've learned from that ban then fine, but comments such as the above really don't suggest you have. As the relevant pages show, I tend to agree that tours such as this probably deserve a page. As my work on this article demonstrates, it's reasonably easy to find decent sources for this sort of tour in this sort of time frame. The difference is that I used them to work up an article that actually deals with the tour rather than simply create a statistical page. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:34, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  How curious