Talk:History of the West Indies cricket team

message: Comments made during nomination for COTF status were:
#Support Probably the team pages that is closest to FA status, jguk 12:19, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration of the fortnight 

message: --> NEED EVIDENCE FOR THIS In 1900 Arthur Austin led a touring side to England, but none of these matches was first-class <--
Aucher Warner - brother of PF. Short of books at the moment, so have to rely on the net :
Cozier : The first representative West Indies team to England toured in 1900 under the captaincy of Aucher Warner. 
 I don't know about this book but this passage is borrowed/copied from CLR James' Beyond a boundary. Jessop scored 157 in one hour !
Constantines : Lebrun's career was an inspiration to his son. At the turn of the century (1900) Lebrun, by public subscription, went on the first West Indies tour of England and scored the first West Indian century at Lords of 113. Tintin 14:01, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Early tours 

message: added Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.jpg to infobox.  Original image was Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png but I didn't know how to link to that as the infobox expects a jpg file.  Perhaps a clever person can fix. - Ian ≡ talk 03:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  flag 

message: WICB banned the players for life (which was later revoked), and some were refused entry back home. 
Some boards banned the players for life. Guyana definitely refused entry for Kallicharran. But the generic statement above is not accurate. Don't have a source to look up the exact details at the moment. Tintin 14:59, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: They certainly would have been banned by the WICB for life - though I admit I don't know about what the local island associations did, jguk 15:39, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebels to South Africa

message: I was asked to look at the article by Tintin, and already I have to correct many NPOV violations.  The style in which this article is wrote at times is unencyclopedic and is biased, and quite colloquial.  There is room for improvement certainly.--Knucmo2 22:30, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: N. B.
Please note that the reference to Hurricane Hugo on this page: 
under the sub-head "Fall From The Top" appears to be erroneous. I do not know which hurricane is actually referred to as there are so many storms each year, but it certainly was not Hugo as that storm was in 1989
Sgd.
Chesil Hamilton Box 557, New Road, St. Kitts, West Indies
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Copied from the article space to this page: Posted by 201.220.0.75. =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:59, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed article to Hurricane Ivan which badly damaged Queen's Park in 2004. -- Ian ≡ talk 15:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hurricane Hugo 

message: I intend to rework this article into two decent articles over the weekend. I'd be grateful for people's patience and ask them not to put through amendments until I remove the "in use" marker tomorrow. Many thanks, jguk 20:18, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: At the rate I'm going, it'll be in use all this week. If anyone wants to make a significant edit in the meantime, please let me know - but I'd appreciate the extra time, jguk 20:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, I didn't see the notice in time and made a minor edit (as CricketBot). Hope that doesn't cause trouble. Stephen Turner (Talk) 13:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  In use 

message: As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Good_articles/Project_quality_task_force/Sweeps, I am in the process of going through the GA cricket articles and checking them for quality. At the moment, I don't think the article is in conformity with current GA standards. The main issues are
*Lack of refs. From about the 1960s section onwards, the refs are dead or don't exist. Most of the refs are not in the correct format and some are simply comments, some of which do not back up the assertion in the text properly. Like the claim of being the best in the 1960s. Some of the attempted refs are other WP articles and most are only scorecards. Scorecards cannot substantiate not statistical things like bad pitch, good captaincy and so forth in the match
*MOS - things like "first Test" instead of "First Test". Some sentences starting with a number. Some things using numbers for single figure scores like "5 wickets" or "1 run".
*Prose - multiple instances of things like contractions, "windies" which is colloquial and other newspapery language, eg, "The bowlers to follow had big shoes to fill (quite literally) and ultimately have not responded close to the level that Ambrose and Walsh have set" and also unattributed POV/qualitative statements
Unfortunately the main author Jguk is no longer with us and this article has had little improvement in those two years, so I have delisted it, but if anyone wants to fix it up they can simply tap me on teh shoulder again. (Instead of waiting a long time in the WP:GAC queue). Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 05:10, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA removed 

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