Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 17

message: There's a tour going on which seems to have completely slipped under our radar: Kenya are touring Zimbabwe for five ODIs (and are currently leading 2-1). I've created Kenyan cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2005-06 more as a placeholder than anything. Has anyone got time to do it better? Also, to add the tour to International cricket in 2005-06? Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And Kenya are winning :) -- ALoan (Talk) 13:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The series ends up as 2-2!  DaGizzaChat © 01:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Completed linking to International cricket in 2005-06 and added infobox to the article. - Ganeshk (talk) 11:05, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, thanks. Stephen Turner (Talk) 11:14, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zim vs Ken 

message: There is an anon who is stealthily inflating Akram's statistics - unfortunately the vandal tools don't pick this up so we have to be vigilant with this stuff by looking up the manual list of recent edits to Test cricketers.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wasim Akram]]

message: It's a bit off what the project is aiming to achieve, but I've added a full list of ODI playing country's userboxes at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Sports#Cricket. Have fun using them. mdmanser 12:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userboxes 

message: Whew!! that was hard work!! Well its finally over! I have completed the ODI Bios of South Africa, West Indies & UAE. I have only created stubs, so it will be much appreciated if someone expands them & corrects whatever mistakes I might have made. They can be found at theRecent changespage.
Cheers
Srikeit 07:51, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completed ODI Bios of SA, WI & UAE! 

message: Does this mean we need to rework the Zimbabwean cricket team article and  template?  And anything else? -- Ian ≡ talk 00:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand it, the Zimbabwean national governing body has decided that the team will not play any Tests this year, but the team still has Test status per se, in the sense that it could play Tests if it wanted to, Zimbabwe remains a full member of the ICC, etc.  On that basis, I don't think the template needs to change (it would be difficult to explain the situation easily) but the team article (and Test cricket) should explain what is going on.  But I could be persuaded that my understanding is not correct... -- ALoan (Talk) 21:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Zimbabwe

message: I have come up with a simple way to create articles for each of the Ranji Trophy teams, this will allow experts on the subject to expand them more easily. An example for my method can be seen on the Railways cricket team and Baroda cricket team which I've recently created.
It consists of
* Introductory Paragraph
* Competition History
* Famous Players
* Current Squad
* See Also
The intro paragraph needs some thinking about to create. But the rest are simple.
Competition history can be found at Cricinfo's history of Indian Domestic Cricket. What is needed is a re-worded summary of the team's successes and failures in the three tournaments it participates in (Ranji Trophy, Ranji Trophy ODI and Irani Trophy).
Famous players also requires some knowledge about cricket and the players that went through each team, but this part can be expanded through the work of many different users.
Current Squads can be seen here
See Also consists of:
And enter it into : Category:Indian first class cricket teams
Which means all the pages can be created easily, thanks to the information provided on cricinfo.
Nobleeagle 02:45, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ranji Trophy]] teams 

message: I've noticed that national team pages for soccer have the team's history in international tournaments as part of the article. It could be a good idea to do something like this for cricket. Andrew
:I've added these to the pages of the ICC full members (to the separate History page for the West Indies)Andrew nixon 12:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tournament Histories 

message: The world record is sure to bring some anti-Aussie anons vandalising their pages while the South Africans will probably be edited by strong POV. Can someone keep an eye on them? GizzaChat © 19:41, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you shouldn't waste too much time for one day, let the ecstacy and disappointment die down a little bit, you must admit, the match was something truly special. Nobleeagle 02:30, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keeping an eye on Aussie and Proteas related pages 

message: Can an admin delete Cotah Ramaswami. I am planning to move Cotar Ramaswami to Cotah. Tintin (talk) 08:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cotah is gone. -- Ian ≡ talk 09:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Tintin (talk) 10:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Cota Ramaswami]] 

message: ...is edited by its founder, Simon King - ? -- ALoan (Talk) 02:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cricinfo]]...

message: Well Im seriously considering renaming myself stubmaster! Ive once again replaced the redlinks with stubs. Any corrections to mistakes made by me or expansion of the stubs will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 05:54, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice, I must have done close to a thousand Test stubs, was intending to fill in the ODIs, but got a bad case of wikifatigue.  --Paul 06:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can understand. You're just creating a stub & like suddenly strikes you "What the holy heck am I doing creating an article for some godforsaken player who played only one lousy ODI & didnt even score any runs it!!" But what keeps me going is the satisfaction of adding that strikeout before a teams name!
Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 07:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completed ODI Bios for Kenya & NZ! 

message: As I've now created a page for the French national team, I've added a link to page for French cricket, so people can find information about the French national team if they search for French cricket. Andrew nixon 15:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Cricket 

message: I've created a page for the German cricket team, but could do with knowing if there is any useful information on the official site. If anyone speaks German, or knows someone who does, I'd appreciate a translation. Thanks! Andrew nixon 21:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Babelfish version suggests not.  Sam Korn (smoddy) 21:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It didn't look like it would, ah well, worth a try! Andrew nixon 22:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Sam Vimes has a German userbox.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 01:15, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aye. Still, that site's complete rubbish as far as an encyclopedia article is concerned. Sam Vimes 08:32, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone speak German? 

message: I've just joined the project so apologies if this is the wrong place to post this. I made a reasonably big addition to the career story section in Andrew Flintoff's article last night, and I'd be interested to know if people think I've written it in the right style, in keeping with other articles, and if you have any other comments. I've only been following cricket for about 2 or 3 years and I don't know a huge amount about cricketing history so I figured I may as well contribute to an article I know something about! Jimbow25 12:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry - that looks fine.  I am very impressed with you having added <ref>s. Well done. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello 

message: Please add as you seem fit.  Created a small stub for Gibbs and Kapil.  Will add more later.  Memorable ODI batting performance.
+10 000 thundering typhoons 18:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New page

message: Just to let you all know that I have now created/expanded articles for the associate nations from Argentina through to Kenya. Feel free to have a quick look at them and see if there is anything that needs improving.Andrew nixon 21:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non test nations - an update 

message: See Template talk:Cricket-bio-stub (sic - which is my point, as I'll explain).
I've been out of the loop here for a while, so apologies if this is nothing new, but putting the hyphen in seems to break things a bit. For example, we have  (no hyphen between "cricket" and "bio"). In fact, when I proposed the creation of this stub , this very issue came up, and I pointed out that we have, for example, , so "cricket-bio-stub" would not follow precedent.
Personally I'm not very happy with this change, especially as it seems to have been made unilaterally by User:Freakofnurture without any discussion here, but as I say I've been away for a bit and so may well have missed something. Comments? Loganberry (Talk) 01:22, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it was moved only yesterday. I'm not quite sure what to do with it - there are precedents for both things - but I suppose this is Stub sorting department, not ours? Sam Vimes 08:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although cricket-bio-stub makes more sense to me, I think it should be moved back for now as there was no discussion of it. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't object to that usage, so long as we were consistent - which would mean having, for example, england-cricket-bio-stub. As things stand, the national stubs don't have a hyphen between cricket and bio, whereas the general one does. That seems about the least logical solution of all! Loganberry (Talk) 14:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why has template cricketbio-stub been moved to cricket-bio-stub? 

message: Bios of the Netherlands just completed, although some of the spellings of names can be a bit dicey. Anyone who is Dutch or is familiar with Dutch names please check it out.
Thanks
Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 06:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completed ODI Bios of The Netherlands! 

message: :Category:Papua New Guinean ODI cricketers is simply wrong (as everyone who knows who's played a one-day international should know). I've suggested a rename at CFD Sam Vimes 08:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Category for renaming

message: WCOTF (Wikipedia Cricket/Collaboration of the fortnight) is a Wiki-collaboration where WikiProject Cricket participants or cricket contributors vote an article to become the Collaboration of the week & then raise the level of the article ideally to featured status. But basically it consists of improving the articles of inportance to cricket to a level of respectability. WCOTF has been inactive for some time now. I think the time is ripe to restart it as now we have many new participants who are good contributers. So I would like to know what you people think about it.
Thanks
Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 12:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be happy to help if it were to restart.Nobleeagle  (Talk) 22:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Collaboration of the fortnight|WCOTF]] 

message: Due to Nichalp's request on my talk page, :Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.svg has been created by me and sent to the Public Domain. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) Fair use policy  04:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image request 

message: Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've reorganised the whole Wikipedians interested in sports category, I'm sure you'll be impressed at the neatness and organisation in it all. I've also decided to add another category, Domestic Cricket supporters, where all the users a part of this project can add themselves to categories of the team they support. Cheers, Rogerthat Talk 05:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Created Sub-Category for Punjab cricket team. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 05:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't that be :Category:Wikipedians supporting domestic cricket? Just to avoid self-referencing (i.e. that people might put the category in some articles)? Sam Vimes 07:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not too sure about the convention, since there was an existing category called "International Cricket supporters". I would argue that it should be "International cricket supporters" as well, but I kept the capital C for consistency. Any thoughts? Rogerthat Talk 08:34, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Domestic Cricket supporters

message: I've listed three pages, Sourav Ganguly, Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar on the to-do table as POV disputes (They were tagged by otherss). Please put other POV disputes there so we know about it and can try to fix them up. Regards,Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:45, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV disputes 

message: Well I was busy with my exams for a while, so could not add any more bios, but i'll be free in a few more days. Anyway the end is in sight!! Aim to complete entire ODI Bios list by April 1. ( & this is no April Fools Joke!)
Thanks
Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 07:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completed ODI Bios for Canada! 

message: A note to the project that I've just nominated a cricket article for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Memorable ODI batting performance. Stephen Turner (Talk) 12:23, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD 

message: This is mainly for those that have been filling in the Indian Test and ODI bios. If you know the teams in which any famous players belonged to, please put them on the particular team's page. Some teams have got very few famous players on their page despite having a 70 or 80 year history. In particular the Hyderabad cricket team and Saurashtra cricket team. If anyone has a list of the winners of the Plate Championship, it would be much appreciated if you helped edit the pages for the Plate Teams. Nobleeagle  (Talk) 23:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ranji Trophy]] famous players