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This is a new experimental approach. On searching for "cricket" users will find a reader-friendly portal to cricket pages. Please leave the page like this for at least a fortnight, though do feel free to comment on the new approach (and to improve the presentation of the portal). Thanks, jguk 21:31, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
It's difficult to navigate to domestic cricket from the portal page, I think another box would remedy this. What thoughts?Smockdotcom 22:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
This page survived VfD. The issues on the VfD were not really surrounding whether this page should exist, but rather whether it should exist in the normal articlespace or not. The flavour of the comments suggested that the page might benefit from being in a new Portalspace, with the page remaining here (ie at Portal:Cricket) until such a Portalspace was formally created. If you wish to contribute to the discussion on whether there should be a separate Portalspace, please go to Wikipedia:Portalspace. Kind regards, jguk 17:05, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
I have made some changes as the portal is in namespace and is picked up by mirror sites. I have therefore got rid of all the links to Wikipediaspace. The categories are also not picked up by the mirrors, so I have relegated them and made them external links to WP (well - advertising doesn't hurt, does it!). I also think we should list all ODI status countries: we're in desperate need of something on Ireland! jguk 9 July 2005 17:05 (UTC)
Is there a page dedicated to covering the 2005 Ashes, much like the 2005 Tour de France is covered at 2005 Tour de France? Commander Keane 08:54, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
The Australians in England in 2005 article is too long (currently 113kB), especially since it goes into detail about the Tests. I'm writing a summary of the matches and propose that when it's finished, the expansive match reports are either moved or (if replicated in The Ashes in England in 2005) deleted. Paddyohale 17:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I realise that the people who read this page are devotees of cricket rather than necessarily being interested in politics, but you are probably aware of the controversy around the New Zealand tour of Zimbabwe scheduled for next month. I've created a stub on the politics of the situation; would someone like to check what I've said for bias, and convert to whatever format is appropriate for a cricket match? Feel free to add more detail if it's warranted. I think we should cover both the politics of the situation and the cricket played (if it happens) in this article.-gadfium 05:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
After reading about the series in the Herald Sun, I created the Victory Tests article for this often-overlooked series of matches. However, I was unable to find much information about the English side that played, so anyone who can contribute to the article would be most appreciated. plattopustalk 10:48, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
I see that List of Hong Kong ODI cricketers is now a featured list candidate. For the record, I have no problem with that and will support it, but just a thought: are we going to do ourselves any favours if we start nominating every List of (countryname) (Test/ODI/Twenty20) cricketers article? I sense that there may already be a bit of discontent from outside the cricket editing area that we are a bit over-exposed (refer: comment in DYK recently, cricket disambig debate). On the other hand perhaps we should promote ourselves in every way we can. I'm interested in what others think. -- Ian ≡ talk 05:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
I nominated the Hong Kong one as it has no redlinks, and I thought it would be useful to see how it goes. The Asian XI and World XI ODI pages also have no redlinks, so if the HK one goes well, I'll nominate them soon too. However, the other lists are a long way off having no redlinks - whilst I hope they will all become blue, the time it takes to achieve that will mean WP:Cricket is not bombarding WP:FLC, jguk 14:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
This article, which is a bit unglamorous but rather important, could use a bit of cleanup from one of the more knowledgeable members. (It didn't even have a category link to anywhere until 10 mins ago!) --Peripatetic 16:51, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
The Ashes trophy was named "after" the ashes, and the stumps or bail were burnt in Australia, not The Oval. This is all urban myth. http://www.abcofcricket.com/A_Legend_Is_Born/a_legend_is_born.htm has a much more accurate take on the history of the ashes urn (it isn't a trophy, either)
--128.243.21.225 10:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
I think there used to be (and hopefully still exists) a template that you can put on a cricket page to link to the cricket portal. Where is it? --Commander Keane 15:47, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
Portal:Cricket is the most difficult aticle to edit on Wikiedia that I have come across. Contributing to this problem are three things:
Does anyone have a problem with me simplfiyng the article with respect to the above three points? --Commander Keane 13:05, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
To be honest, I don't care that it's difficult to edit - indeed, I think it's better this way. The portal is meant as a guide for readers - it is a central repository put together by the most experienced WikiProject Cricket members. Comments from non-WikiProject Cricket members on how it can be improved are always going to be welcome; edits from those unfamiliar with Wikipedia or with what is on offer about cricket on Wikipedia are always likely to require amendment, jguk 19:45, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
If –es are a problem, how about · ("·" or "·") or • ("•" or "•") or pipe ("|") (the last is already used in some places on this page; the first is used for the lists of other langauges on the main page and in WP:FA, for example). -- ALoan (Talk) 11:27, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
On format, there is a new "box" style for portals which simplifies the source greatly - see the source for Portal:Astronomy. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
News section is missing :) --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 02:02, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Agreed, we could include a link to current sports events, jguk 18:06, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
The introductory section of the Portal doesn't tell me anything essential about cricket. Someone who doesn't know what cricket is (read:me) won't find that helpful at all.--Fito 22:19, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
Hello cricket fans. I don't know much about cricket myself, but I am a frequent contributor to Wikipedia's television pages. I was just adding the following note to the 1938 in television article:
...when it occurred to me that perhaps it might be worthwhile adding it to a relevant cricketing article too. However, there doesn't seem to be an article on this particular test series yet, so I was wondering if anyone thought there was a relevant cricketing article it could go in, if it's not already covered? Angmering 20:03, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
Maybe there should be some info on different services offering TV coverage of cricket? Particularly internet services that offer live cricket to people in places where cricket is not covered. One such site is willow.tv, who offer the same matches as directv's new "cricketticket" pay-per-view service for US satellite TV. However, they don't have a very complete slate of matches. This is of interest to me because I'm a cricket fan living in the US, where cricket is almost completely unknown. If anyone knows of any other internet services that offer live cricket, it would be of great help to me and lots of other devout cricket fans who live in non-cricket playing countries. rvinall 16:03, 20 Sep 2005 (UTC)
The Sport in Australia article is the current Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight - just wondering if anyone here would be interested in adding to the Cricket section? thanks --- Astrokey44 04:32, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Currently on the reference desk:
--Commander Keane 16:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/hamedog I am going to SA vs Australia at the WACA this Friday and will be taking my camera. Are any photos required. Reply either here, thru my talk page or the link above. Hamedog 04:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Could there be a section here for matches being played currently? For intstance it would link to South African cricket team in Australia in 2005-06 at the moment Cfitzart 02:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Consider ((National cricket teams)) and Category:National cricket teams. Should these be ((International cricket teams)) and Category:International cricket teams respectively?--Commander Keane 19:44, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
The Beeb is looking for a recorded use of the term "jaffa" prior to 1993. Go here if you think you can help: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/wordhunt/word_appeal.shtml#jaffa
I have suggested on the ITN Candidates page - Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates that Chris Cairns final game should be included in the ITN section. Please comment. --HamedogTalk|@ 14:39, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I think that there should be a news section like most other portals. There is a recent fixtures list, but I think a specific news thing is necessary. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I know this isn't directly related to the portals, but just wanted to tell you that I've brought two of my projects together to create Cricket Related Userboxes, you can get them on your userpage by copying the following:
Was wondering on your comments and whether you had any wishes for new userboxes...Nobleeagle 06:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Some pages about cricket have a reference to this portal. Is there any convention of which ones direct to the portal? Only the detailed bios like Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting? or any and all?Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I've added 2005-06 Australian cricket season to Wikipedia's list of articles needing an update. There is nothing on that page covering Pura Cup and ING Cup cricket after January. QazPlm 06:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
(Mentioned on the talk page discussing should this be deleted or not - Here)
Someone was saying that this portal has no "Picture Of The Day" feature. As cricket isn't really about that (what would you do - have pictures of grounds or something?), why not have "Cricketer Of The Day" for weekdays and something else (like featured grounds or famous matches) at weekends? It would also be an incentive for people to improve these articles. Paddyohale 19:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Please ensure that there are no red links in this portal, as they are contrary to the standards. Theremoval attempt has failed regardless.--cj | talk 07:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I've been thinking for some time that the portal needs a new look. The idea of a general list of showcase articles was okay while the project was developing but now we really need to split out the categories it contained into separate boxes: venues, players, glossary, tournaments and history. This provides a more itemised and readable view for the newcomer.
I've also changed the list of players to provide a historical balance. As nearly always happens with lists like this, it was overburdened with current and recent players, including a couple of the predictable "personalities".
I've done enough with it for the moment but I think some of the recent event boxes need looking at also as there is too much content in them and there are hints of duplication. Again, it is about keeping a historical balance.--Jack 19:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
This has become something like Topsy that has "just growed".
It has been evident to me for some time that there is no structure to the categories; that there are stray articles all over the place; that categories that were designed for generic items and as "holding categories" for relevant sub-categories are simply being used as additional bases for specific articles; and that what we have here is another fine mess.
What makes it worse is that I have been trying to get other cricket people interested in using WP for cricket reference and their feedback has been critical to say the least.
We MUST have a top-down structure to categories and we must stop piling things ad hoc into useless lists. If we have a structured categorisation, the lists will be redundant (they are anyway) and readers will easily be able to navigate.
I have identified 28 categories under Cricket and there should only be 10! As a rule of thumb, I would say that the number of sub-cats in one category should be a cricket team (plus perhaps an umpire) and that an XI (or a dozen) is the limit.
Here are my proposed level 2 categories under the level 1 Cricket "root":
Apart from the two in bold, all the above are existing categories. Apart from the generic article Cricket, the portal and the WikiProject, there should be no articles or pages held under the root category.
Level 3 should be the main sub-categories. For example, under skills at level 2 the level 3 cats would be batting, bowling, umpiring, etc. as above. Generally, there should be no pages at level 2 except for the standalone categories like culture, images and stubs. A couple of the level 2 cats like country and people should not have pages on level 3 either as level 3 is where they split up into countries and occupations respectively.
The worst categories of all are history, teams and Tests which frankly need completely restructuring or demolishing. They are a disgrace and I am especially embarrassed by history as I started it and put most of the original effort into it. History is carrying surplus articles that should be reassigned or else have sufficient specific categories already and should not be in a generic category like history. History had eight sub-cats and six of them were cross-cats that were already adequately located elsewhere, especially under the country or competition headings. The other two history cats were small specific items that should both be elsewhere: Olympics under competitions and Years under first-class cricket.
I have already started sorting out much of this mess but I will not change the root category's sub-cats until members have had chance to read this and respond to it. Pending any feedback, I will change the root cat on Sat 1 July. --Jack 05:39, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I have put up List of cricketers for discussion under AfD. Thought it would be relevant to notify the portal members. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:40, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
From a recent edit of the Portal, adding Wasim Akram to the list of "Iconic cricketers" is the edit comment: "Anyone who thinks Wasim Akram is not a iconic cricketer needs help." While arguably true, I could also name Ian Botham, Dennis Lillee, Viv Richards, Arjuna Ranatunga, Brian Lara, Bert Sutcliffe, Kapil Dev, Greg Chappell, ... We have to draw a line somewhere, or people will always be arguing to include their favourite. Perhaps if we change the section title to "Selected cricketers"? -dmmaus 23:44, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
These are sadly out of date. Can anyone edit the Portal page? --Dweller 11:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
There is a section on the main page for "Events in 2005"; however that primarily refers to the English domestic season. For the preceding Australian domestic season, can we create a category for "Events in 2005-6", which will cover the following:
Currently those pieces of info can only be found on Australian_cricket_team#vs_West_Indies, which is nowhere near the details achieved by editors here (eg. Pakistani cricket team in England in 2006). If such a category exists, we can co-ordinate events during teh Australian season far better.--Alexio 12:04, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
In the "History of the Test cricket (up to 1883)", Jguk wrote: "Epsom stockbroker called Arthur Courcy, is said to have bitten through his brother-in-law's umbrella handle." I've heard about a spectator biting through his umbrella handle, but I have never heard the name of Arthur Courcy mentioned in this regard, and I certainly wasn't aware of it being his brother-in-law's umbrella. Would Jguk care to provide and quote his sources? Cheers, Robertson-Glasgow 08:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
As I've cruised through several articles, I've noticed the conflict of scoring notation being used, with the Australian method (wickets/runs) and the "everyone else" method (runs/wickets) appearing.
Despite being Australian myself, I think we should use the "Everyone else" method, as it is (as far as I know) used by everyone except Australians.
I might be reinventing the wheel, so if there is a page for formatting guidelines somewhere, please let me know. Otherwise, we need to create one, so that all aspects of scoring (team totals, bowling figures, not-out designations, etc) are consistent across the 'pedia. Manning 02:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Batting and Bowling Strike Rate Data is missing from the crickets page in their corresponding Infobox can this data be made available on all the cricketers and be also made a guideline for future pages. Vjdchauhan 14:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC).