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Former featured articleNeil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 25, 2014.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 16, 2009Good article nomineeListed
September 1, 2009Featured article candidatePromoted
September 11, 2009Articles for deletionKept
January 6, 2010Featured topic candidatePromoted
May 19, 2022Articles for deletionNo consensus
March 7, 2023Articles for deletionMerged
March 16, 2023Featured article reviewDemoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 18, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Harvey, Barnes, Brown, Johnson, Loxton and Hassett were members of Bradman's Invincibles who won the First, Second and Fourth Ashes series Test matches of 1948 and drew the Third?
Current status: Former featured article

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "times":

  • From Bill Johnston (cricketer): "Bill Johnston". The Times. 2007-05-26. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
  • From Jack Fingleton: Hodgson, Derek (2008-03-18). "Bill Brown: Accomplished batsman who scored handsomely for Australia before and after the war". The Times. Retrieved 2008-06-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  • From Bill Brown (cricketer): Hodgson, Derek (2008-03-18). "Bill Brown: Accomplished batsman who scored handsomely for Australia before and after the war". The Times. Retrieved 2008-06-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

Reference named "p176":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT 01:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fairly conspicuous copying from a book

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Some parts of this article appear to be lifted directly from one or more books. A glaring example is the third paragraph of the "Fourth Test", from the sentence that starts with 'Upon arriving in the middle'. It appears to be a mixture of what was said between Miller and Harvey at the time, plus Harvey's later recollection of the event. Only someone with access to the book can fix it though. Athomeinkobe (talk) 01:01, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Photo?

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This article is perfect... only problem is it lacks a photo! :) Do we have a photo of him? Are there any public domain photos etc? Where or how could we find a photo to add here? Sofia Lucifairy (talk) 01:48, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a few public-domain photos from commons:Category:Neil Harvey. I think FA standards were a bit less strict when this article was promoted. IgnorantArmies 07:34, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Notability?

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Hi guys

I'm probably missing something here, and this looks like it is a well written article, but in what way is this subject notable? It looks like Harvey had a good tour, yes, but not particularly a record breaking one, and given that I wouldn't have thought we'd want to include an article for every single player on every single tour in Test history, there must be factors over and beyond that to justify inclusion... Thanks!  — Amakuru (talk) 16:12, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The similar article Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 was recently nominated for deletion for the same concerns but failed. I agree that these raise notability concerns. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
PS This thread is about Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948, which is the featured article for today. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:34, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]