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Welcome to the Cricket WikiProject on the English Wikipedia!

We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to cricket. Do join us and contribute to the project's development. If you are interested, please add your name to the list of project members.

If you have any questions about the project, or about any aspect of cricket in general, please use our project talk page and someone will try to give you an answer as soon as possible.

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[edit] Scope

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This WikiProject is about the sport of cricket and it aims to:

  • create and maintain articles about all people and subjects that are notable in cricketing terms
  • maintain an efficient and navigable category system to ensure that all cricket-related articles can easily be found by interested readers
  • create and maintain templates useful for editing and standardising cricket-related articles
  • update and maintain Category:Cricket templates as the root of a comprehensive, well-structured and navigable category system for all cricket-related templates
  • increase the number of well-written cricket-related articles by expanding all stubs to start-class and improving all start-class articles to B-class at least
  • accurately classify the status and importance of all cricket-related articles
  • co-ordinate team efforts and peer review cricket-related articles
  • keep Portal:Cricket and Current sports events up-to-date, particularly when international matches take place and the major domestic titles are decided
  • keep Recent deaths and Current sports events up to date when a notable cricketer dies (in addition, sad though it is, a newspaper obituary presents an opportunity to improve the cricketer's biography)
  • expand the biographies of everyone who has played major cricket with distinction; this includes all cricketers who were famous before Test cricket began and all cricketers who have played in at least one Test or at least one ODI


Our current Featured Topic drive is The Invincibles
WikiProject Cricket

[edit] Assistance needed

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We would particularly like to enrol:

[edit] Recently updated articles

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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).


[edit] Awards

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


[edit] Members

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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.


[edit] Quiz

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


[edit] Deletion sorting

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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.

[edit] Featured material

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Portal

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

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.

Sydney Riot of 1879 and The Ashes are former featured articles, having been featured on the main page on 8 February 2006 and 21 July 2005 (respectively).

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:


[edit] CricketWatch

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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.


[edit] Recent deaths

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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.

[edit] Images, Templates, Infoboxes

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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)

[edit] Notability criteria guideline for article inclusion

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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.

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.

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.

[edit] Cricket article style guide

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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.
  • 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 with the same two digits, 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 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%.

[edit] Assessment

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Cricket
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 14 12 27 54
Featured list FL 1 1 2
Good article GA 4 15 6 2 27
B 2 32 70 32 136
Start 7 199 525 713 596 2040
Stub 49 616 866 3938 5469
Assessed 11 298 1238 1645 4536 7728
Unassessed 1 33 3291 3325
Total 11 298 1239 1678 7827 11053