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* created [[World Cricket League EAP region]] and [[2007 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy]] &ndash; 11 October

Revision as of 21:31, 11 October 2007

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WikiProject Cricket
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to expand and organise information better in articles related to the sport of cricket. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help but don't know what to do, see the Welcome page, or inquire on our talk page. You may sign up for the project on the Participants list, and add your name here and here if cricket is your favourite sport.

We are in search of graphic artists for cricket-related diagrams. Those who know something about women's cricket, please sign up.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

  • Increase the number of well-written cricket-related articles
  • Expand and improve other cricket-related articles
  • Ensure that all cricket-related articles can be easily found by interested readers
  • Keep Portal:Cricket and Current sports events up-to-date for international matches and when Championships and Trophies are decided in the Test playing nations
  • Keep Recent deaths and Current sports events up to date when notable cricketers die. (As usually there are newspaper obituaries written when a cricketer dies, it is also an opportunity to improve the Wikipedia article on that cricketer.)
  • Coordinate efforts and peer review articles
  • Expand the biographies on every man who has played Test and ODI (all cricketers who have played in at least one Test (Recent changes) or at least one ODI (Recent changes) have an article)


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):



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.
Portal

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

Articles

The 15 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.

Sydney Riot of 1879 is former featured article, it was featured on the main page on 8 February 2006.

Featured lists

The 30 following cricket-related lists are Featured lists:

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:

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


Participants

Project participants are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Participants. Feel free to add your name and join in the fun. You may use the {{WikiProject Cricket/Welcome}} template to invite other users to 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.


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.

Images, Templates, Infoboxes

Images

Cricket-related images can be browsed at:

Templates
  • See /Templates for example templates, including infoboxes
  • See /Team templates for cricket team templates which include flags and team links
Infoboxes
Deprecated infoboxes
Template:Infobox Cricketer
Template:Cricketer Infobox
Template:Infobox Historic Cricketer
Template:Infobox Old Cricketer
Template:Infobox Cricketer (Career)

Notability criteria guideline for article inclusion

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 for an article in Wikipedia:

  • has appeared in at least one Test, ODI, ICC Trophy match from 2005, or ICC Trophy final prior to 2005 as player, umpire, coach or administrator
  • has appeared in at least one major (i.e., first-class or List A) match as a player

The term "first-class cricket" can be misleading since, officially, it did not begin until 1947 and should not be applied retrospectively according to the MCC definition. Whereas in practice the term is loosely applied to major matches since the 17th century, it is better to think of major cricket as an all-embracing term that includes ListA as well as first-class. Hence, a player who represented Kent in the county match in 1709 is equally notable with a player who represented Kent CCC in the Twenty20 Cup in 2007.

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.

In addition, non-players who have made a notable contribution to cricket should have pages. These include benefactors, administrators, umpires, 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 first-class 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 a member of a club.

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 person's importance on a talk page or AfD page -- the article itself must document notability.

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

Parts of this section are disputed; see Talk for details.

Assessment