Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 8

message: So that writers are given due recognition for their considerable achievements on cricket's behalf, I've created :category:Cricket historians and writers and :category:Cricket commentators and moved everyone from the former "writers and broadcasters" category into one or the other (some like Arlott, Johnners, Richie, CMJ, etc. go into both).
I've also started List of works by cricket historians and writers to summarise the important books.
Fiction If it doesn't exist already, I'd like to start a stub-article on cricket in fiction. Off the top of my head, I can only think of three fiction books that I've read that deal a lot with cricket - but I'm sure there's many more (Wodehouse I remember was an avid fan) and from Google, I can see that there's even a chap called Leslie Frewin who's brought out TWO anthologies on cricket fiction alone! (Anyone have any access to the book?) At any rate, please feel free to help out! -- Peripatetic 00:49, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cricket writers 

message: I've created this template to see how many more bios of Test cricketers we have left to write. The number of Test cricketers by nation is taken directly from our Lists of Test cricketers. The number of bios we have by nation is taken from the categories, eg :Category:Australian test cricketers. Some of the articles, particularly the Bangladeshi ones are no more than sub-stubs, but most of them are longer than that. If you update it, please make sure you update for each nation and put the date on it. If you're writing a new bio, try to add an infobox, links to CricketArchive and Cricinfo, and fully categorise it, jguk 14:49, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Very good idea; thanks. I keep wavering on the question of new bios: usually I think that having some sort of article for every Test player is the most important thing, but then when I actually write an article it tends to get longer than I was expecting! Having said that, Infoboxes don't take long to do. I need to remember to put in the CA links, though. Loganberry (Talk) 20:14, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Template:WP Cricket Test bios]] 

message: I'm sure it's a coincidence and probably shouldn't mention it - but it does seem rather ironic. Sam posts an article on the game where the Aussie Women lost the Ashes for the first time since 1963, within 12 minutes an Aussie woman opposes his RfA claiming it's POV. Ho-hum, jguk 15:43, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor Sam 

message: Found a new source for cricket images. Has anyone tried http://flickr.com/ ? They have quite a few free cricket images. Here's one of The Oval: http://flickr.com/photos/nedrichards/20671484/ . =Nichalp «Talk»= 19:16, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
:We need to be just a little bit careful of taking photos from flickr as the source isn't always obvious -- http://flickr.com/photos/sweeney/31690741/, for instance, is listed as being licensed under CC by-sa but is actually pinched from the BBC News site. --Ngb 19:21, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flickr 

message: YYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!, jguk 19:36, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, maybe it should have been smaller - but what a series. The top two teams in the world battling away at each other - and all of the last three Tests have been absolute classics. Yours truly has tickets for all five days at the Oval - can hardly wait:) jguk 23:42, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulations and well done. I'm looking forward to the Oval too. :) -- Ian ≡ talk 00:53, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

text: We'd better see some photos, alright?  I know I can hardly talk, having been to six days of cricket this season and not contributed a single picture, but I was thirty rows back...  smoddy 11:08, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Lordy, what a game. What a series. But if you're going to reclaim the Ashes at the Oval, can you please do it on the morning of day 4? I don't think I can handle another 4am nailbiter followed by having to show up at work 4 hours later on Monday morning... Oh, and I think Geraint owes Hoggard Beer For Life. ;-) -dmmaus 01:44, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See what it is?  All the Australians lose their heads, while the Yorkshireman (Hoggard is as English as they get) keeps his.  A microcosm for the whole series, methinks.  smoddy 11:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

text: I'd settle for a completely non-classic game in which England won by an innings and 200 runs! Loganberry (Talk) 15:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  3 wickets 

message: Should players who have only been selectors be included in Cricket Administrators ? My guess would be no, but wanted to see if anyone has any strong opinions to the contrary. There are one or two of those listed in that pageTintin 01:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Administrators

message: How can I know when new cricket articles are added ? What I do now is occasionally look through the contributions of Ian, Sam, jguk etc. As far I as can find, no 'watches' work and there seems to be no decent option. Tintin 05:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We could create a category such as :Category:Cricket articles created in August 2005, which we'd then delete after a month (ie in October 2005). It would be the easiest one to maintain - particularly if someone had a bot to delete the category when its time had come, jguk 05:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure I see the need for it, tho? Sam Vimes 06:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Back in the day, I created List of cricket topics with the idea that anyone who added a new article would add it to that page, so we could just watch that page for new activity. That has fallen by the wayside, though, and we can hardly expect new editors to know about that page, so it's not a good solution. -dmmaus 10:49, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A practical problem

message: (kicking topic alive again - see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cricket/archive7#National_cricket_teams for the earlier debate). We debated this a couple of weeks ago, all agreed, and then nothing came of it (this seems to happen a lot, btw). Anyone want to be bold and move them? I think an admin has to do it, as I'm sure most people would like to keep the edit histories of the respective pages. Sam Vimes 06:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh geez... I think I was the one who moved them to their current names, thinking the "national" bit was redundant. Sorry! That was ages ago, before I knew any better. -dmmaus 10:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  National cricket teams 

message: Don't know if anyone's seen http://www.soyouthinkyouknowcricket.com ?
If you send me your email I'll invite you to a WikiProject Cricket leaderboard, jguk 21:24, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  So you think you know cricket? 

message: Nothing all that special, and no pictures of current players, but a text search for "cricket" at Geograph threw up these results. A useful source of pictures for other articles too, I'd say, since all the photos I loked at (and I think all photos on the site) are released as , which should be fine for Wikipedia since it does not exclude commercial use. Loganberry (Talk) 23:11, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Further to the above: this discussion on the UK Wikipedians' notice board has a message from the site owner confirming that images can be freely used if their licence is compatible. It also seems that although all current images are , images uploaded in the future may not always be, so checking each picture before use is advised. Loganberry (Talk) 23:32, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useable cricket photos 

message: http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvaus/content/story/217764.html
:(((((
--Ngb ?!? 06:48, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely not marvellous. Sam Vimes 06:52, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nooooooooooooo! 

message: I found this page: Wikipedia:Wikipedians by favorite sport#Cricket. I'm the first to list my name. Some more names would be nice. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:00, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
:Hmmm; a tough one for me between cricket and hillclimbing (which comes under motorsport). Mind you, Sam has two entries, so maybe I'll put both down! Loganberry (Talk) 11:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It does say favourite sport(s) Sam Vimes 12:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Signatures needed 

message: Does anyone know enough to expand the article Catchy Shubby Cricket?
:No. I think it's probably more suitable for linking from Forms of cricket than from the main page, which is always in danger of bloat. -dmmaus 04:29, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catchy Shubby Cricket?