Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket

Assistance needed

We would particularly like to enrol:

• graphic artists who can provide cricket-related artworks or diagrams to expand our media collection
• anyone involved in or who follows women's cricket
• cricket historians who can develop our coverage of 19th century cricket

Recently updated articles

The following cricket-related articles have been recently updated or created (note: this is not a complete list, just a list of articles which WikiProject Cricket participants wish to bring to the attention of other participants):

• created Rex Hooton - November 18
• created List of Australia Test cricket records against New Zealand – 18 November
• introduced Richard Mitchell, Villiers Smith, Robert T. King, Robert Lang, Robert Broughton, Reginald Hankey, Joseph McCormick, Joseph Makinson, Herbert Marshall and Henry Moberly – 17 November
• introduced Charles Coleridge‎, Arthur Daniel‎, Charlton Lane‎, Gerald Yonge, George Boudier, George B. Lee, Edward Sayres and Edward Blore – 17 November
• created List of Twenty20 International cricketers, List of women Test cricketers, List of women ODI cricketers and List of women Twenty20 International cricketers – 17 November
• introduced twin brothers Arthur and Alfred Payne – 16 November
• expanded Justin Ontong – 14 November
• completed List of Australia Test cricket records against India – 14 November
• created Sebastian Kohlhase – 13 November
• created Terry Barwell – 13 November
• created Lionel Baker – 12 November
• created a few Somerset players: Charles Bowring, Bert Hunt, Bruce Hylton-Stewart, George Rowdon, Ernest Shorrocks, Alfred Trestrail – 11 November
• expanded Ryan Harris – 11 November
• introduced George Tarrant – 11 November
• expanded Victor Mpitsang – 10 November
• introduced Six Giants of the Wisden Century based on a Cardus gem in the 1963 Wisden – 8 November
• introduced the noted early fast bowler John Kirwan (cricketer) plus William Meyrick, Charles Town (cricketer), Gustavus T. Smith, Charles Mitford, Thomas Lord junior, Henry J. Lloyd, William Borradaile, John Barnard (cricketer) and his brother Henry W. Barnard – 6 November
• introduced brothers Ravenor Nicholson, Christopher Robert Nicholson, Andrew Graeme Pollock (relatives of the Pollock family) – 5 November
• introduced Herbert Jenner – 4 November
• introduced brothers Harvey and Walter Fellows – 3 November
• rewrote Zambia national cricket team – 1 November

HERE is a bot generated list of new possible cricket related articles. (rules, log).

Awards

Cricket barnstar

The oldest cricket bat is awarded in recognition of sterling contributions to WikiProject Cricket. This award was introduced by jguk on 14 August 2005 but may be awarded by any WikiProject Cricket participant.

Cricket cash is awarded for starting quality new articles/ templates/ categories/ lists/ images.

Members

Project members are listed at WP:CRICMEM. Feel free to add your name and join us. You may use the {{WikiProject Cricket/Welcome}} template to invite other users to join the project.

Quiz

A quiz to test and improve your general knowledge of cricket is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Quiz. Feel free to join in.

Deletion sorting

Cricket related articles up for deletion are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Cricket. If you see any new AfD's please add them to this list so participants can be made aware.

Featured material

Portal

The 1 following cricket-related portal is a Featured portal:

• Portal:Cricket — 1 January to 10 January 2006

Articles

The 27 following cricket-related articles are Featured articles; the ones in bold have appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on the date given alongside.

• Bodyline — 7 February 2005
• A. E. J. Collins — 23 August 2005
• West Indian cricket team in England in 1988 — 7 May 2008
• Cricket World Cup — 13 March 2007
• Paul Collingwood
• Harbhajan Singh
• Adam Gilchrist — 28 April 2007
• Bart King
• Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)
• Kevin Pietersen
• Charlie Macartney
• Ian Chappell
• Marcus Trescothick
• Arthur Morris
• Sid Barnes
• Archie Jackson
• Clem Hill
• Ernie Toshack
• Don Tallon
• Ian Craig
• Hugh Trumble
• Jack Marsh
• Harry Trott
• Donald Bradman — 27 August 2008
• Ian Johnson (cricketer)
• Bill Brown (cricketer)
• Samuel Beckett — 13 April 2006

Brian Close, Cricket, History of Test cricket from 1884 to 1889, Sydney Riot of 1879 and The Ashes are former featured articles, having been featured on the main page on 12 May 2005, 19 September 2004, 22 January 2006, 8 February 2006, and 21 July 2005 (respectively). History of Test cricket (to 1883) is also a former featured article, however it never appeared on the front page.

Featured lists

The 27 following cricket-related lists are Featured lists:

• 2006 ICC Champions Trophy squads
• 2007 Cricket World Cup squads
• 2007 Cricket World Cup statistics
• 2007 Cricket World Cup warm-up matches‎
• Ashes series
• African XI ODI cricketers
• Asian XI ODI cricketers
• Australian national cricket captains
• Australian ODI cricketers
• Australian Twenty20 International cricketers
• Cricket World Cup records
• First-class cricket quadruple centuries
• Hong Kong ODI cricketers
• Indian ODI cricketers
• International cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar
• Namibian ODI cricketers
• ODI hat-tricks
• One-day International records
• Scottish ODI cricketers
• Test cricket grounds by date
• Test hat-tricks
• Test cricket records
• Test cricket triple centuries
• World XI ODI cricketers
• Zimbabwean national cricket captains
• List of cricketers called for throwing in major cricket matches in Australia
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year

Version 1.0

Articles are being reviewed and classified for the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team as part of the push to Version 1.0:

• See /Version 1.0 articles

The Wikiproject Cricket department that assesses articles is currently working on categorising each article's quality and importance:

• See Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Assessment

CricketWatch

All cricket related categories are tagged with the {{CricketWatch}} template. From this, WatchlistBot generates a full list of cricket related articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Articles. The purpose is to be able to track the project history using related changes or related watchlist which only shows the last change for each article.

Recent deaths

Here is a centralised place to announce the recent deaths of cricketing people. Newspaper obituaries can be a good source of material for improving the articles. Consider updating Recent deaths.

• Hedley Howarth (8 November 2008)
• Zulfiqar Ahmed (4 October 2008)
• Wynne Bradburn (25 September 2008)
• Maurits van Nierop (24 September 2008)
• Col Egar (4 September 2008)
• Bob Cunis (9 August 2008)
• Butch White (1 August 2008)
• Ashok Mankad (1 August 2008)
• Nigel Harvie Bennett (26 July 2008)

Images, Templates, Infoboxes

Images

Cricket-related images can be browsed at:

• Category:Cricket images -- for fair-use and PD images
• Category:Unverified cricket images -- for images with missing or unsuitable copyright tags
• Category:Cricket diagrams

Templates

• See /Templates for example templates, including infoboxes
• See /Team templates for cricket team templates which include flags and team links

Infoboxes

• The new infobox Template:Infobox cricketer biography can now be used for all players, international or domestic, including female (and umpires), and is designed to replace the following infoboxes. For any help, post on the template talk page, or the project talk page.

Deprecated infoboxes

Template:Infobox Cricketer

Template:Cricketer Infobox

Template:Infobox Historic Cricketer

Template:Infobox Old Cricketer

• Template:Infobox Test team is used for national team pages.
• Template:Infobox Cricket series begin is a collection of infoboxes for test and one-day series articles. See Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 2005-06.
• Template:Infobox Cricket Tournaments is to summarize information in a general article of Tournaments/series such as Cricket World Cup, The Ashes, etc.
• Template:Infobox cricket tournament can be used to summarise a specific instance of a tournament, e.g. 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Notability criteria guideline for article inclusion

Individuals

See also: Wikipedia:Importance and Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies.

WikiProject Cricket participants have adopted the following guidelines for notability of a cricket person to qualify as the subject of an article in Wikipedia:

• has appeared in at least one major cricket match since 1697 as a player or umpire
• has appeared in at least one ICC Trophy match since 2005, or in an ICC Trophy final prior to 2005, as a player or umpire

The major cricket qualification includes any player or umpire who has appeared in a Test match since 1877; or in a limited overs international (including Twenty20 internationals) since 1971; or in any major domestic competition. Major domestic first-class competitions include the County Championship, the Ranji Trophy, the Sheffield Shield, etc. Major domestic limited overs competitions include all ListA matches and the Twenty20 Cup, Indian Premier League, etc.

Note that the term "first-class cricket" can be misleading because, officially, it did not begin until 1947 and should not be applied retrospectively according to the ICC definition. In practice the term is loosely applied to major cricket matches since the 17th century (i.e., to major matches played eleven-a-side with two innings each). But it is better to think of major cricket as an all-embracing term that includes modern limited overs cricket and historic single wicket cricket as well as first-class. Hence, a player who represented Kent in the inter-county match in 1709 is equally as notable as a player who represented Kent CCC's first team in any recent major tournament.

In addition, non-players who have made a notable contribution to cricket should have pages. These include umpires (as above), patrons, benefactors, administrators, coaches, writers, broadcasters, historians and so on. With these, it is important to ensure that the article's content outlines the person's notability in terms of his or her contribution to the sport. There is bound to be a more subjective view of such contributions whereas an appearance in a major cricket match enables a purely objective view to be taken.

Note especially that the person must have earned notability in their own right; they are not notable if they are only a member of a club, even if the club is notable.

Clubs

Cricket clubs with first-class teams are automatically qualified under the conditions of WP:N and WP:ORG. Difficulty may arise with clubs that have not competed at first-class level. It is necessary to take an individual view about each country in terms of its own grassroots structure. WP:CRIC has decided that:

• for Great Britain, those clubs which have competed in the Minor Counties Championship or are included in the List of English cricket clubs do meet the notability requirements. The essence of the latter group is that the clubs belong to one of the Bradford Cricket League, the Lancashire League, the Central Lancashire League or one of the ECB Premier Leagues.
• for Australia, clubs that have played at Grade cricket level—the highest level below the state representative team—meet notability requirements. These clubs are the actual clubs that Australian international players belong to, state and national teams are representative selections.

General

Please note that the failure to meet these criteria does not mean an article must be deleted; conversely, the meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept. These are merely rules of thumb which some editors choose to keep in mind when deciding whether or not to keep an article that is on articles for deletion. But, the terms of WP:ATHLETE and WP:ORG are binding and these must be quoted if difficulty arises in an AfD discussion.

Finally, please keep in mind that the article in question must actually document that the criterion is true. It is not enough to make vague claims in the article or rant about a person's importance on a talk page or AfD page: the article itself must document notability, and preferably in the lead. For example, the introductory text of the article must make clear that the subject is a major, first-class or ListA cricketer.

Cricket article style guide

Whilst naming and editing cricket-related articles, editors often encounter recurring questions of style. Wikiproject Cricket participants have agreed to the following style guidelines to keep a consistent look and feel to cricket articles throughout Wikipedia. These styles also fall within the WP:MOS guidelines and WP:NC policies.

See also: Wikipedia:Manual of style

• In biographical articles, players are referred to as [[cricket]]er, and not [[cricketer]] (a redirect/disambig), or [[cricket]] player.
• Always use capital T when referring to Test cricket and in any situation where the definite article is part of a title: e.g., a match at The Oval, England won The Ashes. Note that in a phrase such as "an Oval record" or "an Ashes match", the definite article is inappropriate.
• If linking "Test" or "Test match", link to Test cricket, not to Test or Test match (which are just disambiguation pages).
• The first two words are hyphenated in first-class cricket and one-day cricket
• One Day International is unhyphenated and is fully capitalised.
• Tournaments are named with the year first, so 2007 Cricket World Cup not Cricket World Cup 2007; cricket tours are named "[visiting team] in [host nation] in [cricket season]": for example, New Zealand cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2005–06
• Where a person is best known by their initials and surname (as in W. G. Grace), use either W. G. Grace or WG Grace for the title of the article, depending on the article creator's personal preference, and always create a redirect to the other style. Avoid using W.G. Grace, W G Grace, W.G.Grace or William Gilbert Grace. (see unresolved debate & vote at WP:Naming conventions, and discussion)
• If using a form such as W G Grace in the body of an article, ensure that it is redirected to one of the acceptable title forms – e.g., WG Grace
• The title of a biography must reflect the person's used name and must NOT display a nickname unless it can be categorically proven that the nickname is the person's used name. For example, John Berry Hobbs was universally called Jack Hobbs; Ernest James Smith was universally known as Tiger Smith. Conversely, none of Ian Botham's many nicknames are his used name and his article must be entitled Ian Botham. It is fair comment to mention a nickname within the body of the article but it must never replace the subject's used name.
• When referring to a cricket season spanning two years, use an en dash and the last two digits of the second year as in International cricket in 2005–06 or New Zealand cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2005–06. However, if the years do not begin in the same century, write out the full year: 1899–1900.
• Bowling format: Use "5/100", which indicates that a bowler has captured 5 wickets while giving away 100 runs.
• Team score format: Adopt the consensus style of writing in the host country of the tournament, i.e. 1/141 or one for 141 for matches in Australia, and 141/1 or 141 for one for most other countries. Use slashes when shortening scores.
• When referring to national teams, link the name to the team page of that country, not the general article about that country; e.g., England not England. Similarly for domestic teams.
• When listing the national team of players, if they are from a country in the West Indies, West Indies (rather than e.g., Guyana) should be used. If a player is Welsh, England, rather than Wales, should be used. If a player has yet to play for a national team, the team they are eligible to play for (and in the case of multiple eligibility, where they primarily play their domestic cricket) should be used.
• The statistics given for players include all matches recognised by the ICC, such as the 2005 Super Series and the Tsunami ODI. The article can of course also mention statistics derived in different ways where relevant.
• Commonwealth English spellings are preferred in most cricket-related articles.
• Use the example templates in /Templates where appropriate.
• Templates for use on player articles should have a width of 80%.

Assessment

Cricket articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 12 9 6 27 FL 2 3 22 27 GA 9 11 8 28 B 2 37 117 35 191 C 5 9 29 5 48 Start 32 294 666 1312 69 2373 Stub 12 82 859 1366 4092 6411 Assessed 51 445 1694 2754 4161 9105 Unassessed 1 1 2971 2973 Total 51 446 1695 2754 7132 12078

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