Talk:Jack Russell (cricketer and artist)

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No mention of his innings to help save the Johannesburg Test against South Africa in 1995/6

[edit] Rewrite needed

I've put in a {{rewrite}} tag, because I think this article needs to be completely overhauled rather than just tweaked. As implied by the {{tone}} tag added by another editor some time ago, the tone is wrong: the article as it stands reads more like a newspaper article than anything else, and is somewhat POV in places. The section about 1989 is a case in point: it's good reading, but not really encyclopedic. Trivia sections are increasingly frowned on in Wikipedia, and I'm sure we don't need to list all Russell's idiosyncrasies, or this article would be about 50K! But I think the article needs stripping right down and rebuilding by someone who knows their stuff much better than I do. Loganberry (Talk) 03:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I've done what I can... Rothorpe 22:21, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks; I think that's a significant improvement. Loganberry (Talk) 22:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I have thrashed my way through and sprinkled fact tags where they are sorely needed. Despite the valiant efforts of the editors above the article was still a fansite/newspaper article/flamboyantly written blog page in a number of places. Hopefully I have culled most of this now, and left another tone tag to bring in other editors to do the final work. SGGH ^speak! 10:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)