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WikiProject Cricket To-do list:

Article assessment

Check Category:Unassessed cricket articles for class and Category:Unknown-importance cricket articles for importance: see Assessment Department for details

Verifiability

Update fair and unfair play, fast bowling, first-class cricket, googly, innings, leg break, limited overs cricket, not out, Pakistan Cricket Board, spin bowling, underarm bowling, wicket, and other fundamental articles classified by the WikiProject as high-importance so that they meet WP:Verifiability policy standards

Cleanup

There is a toolserver based WikiProject Cricket cleanup list that automatically updates weekly to show all articles covered by this project which are marked with cleanup tags. (also available in one big list and in CSV format)

Infoboxes

Add infoboxes to the player articles found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/requested infoboxes

Cricket people

Create articles about 19th century players who are listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/19th century players
Create biographies about Bangladeshi players from the task force redlink list
Check the listing of key bios at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Key biographies and improve these to at least B-class.
Create batting/bowling graphs for cricketers who have excelled in international cricket.
Create articles for redlinks present here and here

Cricket teams & countries

Domestic cricket coverage is needed for Bangladesh, Canada, Kenya, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe;
Create articles from redlinks and improve existing articles in List of current first-class cricket teams; National cricket teams; Under-19 national cricket teams
Create articles about cricket in these missing countries
Create or expand articles on international tours from items in Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/summary of international tour articles
Create a link as such on Template:Cr-Aus/doc for Cricket Australia XI

Images

Add pictures (and remove template from address requests) in these Category:Wikipedia requested images of cricket people
Add pictures for grounds missing photos from here

On this day in cricket

Expand the anniversary coverage for Portal:Cricket at Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries

Umpires

Expand ICC International umpire panel; ICC Elite referee panel; ICC Associates and Affiliates umpire panel

Women

Expand Women's cricket, Women's Test cricket and articles about women's cricket generally especially biographies and tours

Update

A number of lists need to be updated, can be found in Template:International cricketers and Template:National cricket captains
Regularly updating cricketers' career stats.

Other

Export all cricket terms present in List of cricket terms to Wiktionary

Sports

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

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63.9% Stub-Class
30.1% Start-Class
1.9% C-Class
0.7% B-Class
0.3% GA-Class
0.6% FA-Class
0.1% remaining

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Changes to the project banner

Hi! I have made some changes to the project banner in its sandbox version:

I have changed the image to this, which is similar to logo I added here.
I have also added a few new notes;
1. Cricket articles with no associated task force - Now that there are new task forces, this category would be helpful to keep track of articles.
2. Former FA-Class cricket articles - already exists; but added a visible note to it.
3. Former FL-Class cricket articles - already exists; but added a visible note to it.
4. Former GA-Class cricket articles - would be useful to keep track of former GA pages as well.
5. Current cricket articles - would be useful to keep track of current competitions.
Cricket Collaboration - planning to begin it from February 2025.

Others, please let me know what your thoughts about this are... Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:44, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, why is the to do list on a talk page, instead of a project page...? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AssociateAffiliate, Bearian, Jhall1, Joseph2302, Jpeeling, ReturnDuane, and Spike 'em: or anyone else: what are your thoughts about this... Vestrian24Bio 02:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have no opinion. Bearian (talk) 02:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Synth between cricketing disciplines

One thing that's popped into my mind recently - a long time ago I had an edit war with an editor after I moved a cricketer (I forget who) between categories on one of their team pages on the grounds that his own article listed him accordingly (which are more often than not backed up by a source for each player specifically). However, for team articles a link-to-the-team page seems to be overriding it all? For example, Ollie Pope is listed as a batter on his own page, Surrey, and London Spirit, but as a wicket-keeper on Adelaide Strikers. Spa-Franks (talk) 21:02, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I hasn't been paying any attention to BBL, but it does seem that Pope is 1st choice keeper for Adelaide, but does not fulfil this role for any other domestic team. Spike 'em (talk) 21:19, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's as maybe, but doesn't actually answer my query, only one example. Spa-Franks (talk) 17:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I realised after I replied that it wasn't too helpful to the overall question. If teams release a squad list, or maintain one on their website, that mention player roles then I'd go with that. Many players seem to be classified differently in different sources, particularly all-rounders and occasional keepers like Pope. Spike 'em (talk) 19:37, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Where was this image originally published?

Where was this image of James Lillywhite's 1876-77 touring team originally published? I can't seem to find where it originally came from, anyone have any ideas? Taking Southerton to FA and will inevitably be quizzed who the original publisher was! AA (talk) 00:49, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's a difficult one but I would guess it was taken at Lord's, and so it may have been commissioned by MCC. I see it was uploaded to WP from Reddit, but there's no certainty it was ever published in print. Reddit might have obtained it as part of a collection. It is definitely public domain, though. Good luck. ReturnDuane (talk) 01:31, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @AssociateAffiliate: by chance, I've seen the photo on page 13 of David Frith's England versus Australia compendium (published 2007 by Penguin). The caption gives the names of the players, plus A. Hogben (described as "tour financier", and looking decidedly shifty with the camera on him!). There are over 1,300 images in the book and David acknowledges a vast list of sources on page 4. A few exceptions apart, none of the 19th Century images including this one can be acknowledged, and David provides a caveat about them, saying: "All other illustrations are from the author's private collection of photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, cigarette cards, prints, books, and relics".

Which leaves us none the wiser, except that David obviously found, or even purchased, the photo somewhere and, as there was no copyright on it by 2007, decided to use it in his book. It does facilitate things for you, though, should anyone ask about it, because you can cite it as public domain and published by David in 2007. ReturnDuane (talk) 15:21, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 23:48, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Move

Hello everyone. I just wanted to ask if I should move English cricket team in India in 2024–25 to English cricket team in India in 2025. All the matches are in 2025, so it seems weird for 2024 to be there. I just wanted to ask if it's supposed to be like this TNM101 (chat) 14:54, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is taking place during the 2024-25 cricket season, which has long been the convention in naming such articles. Spike 'em (talk) 15:38, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, never knew of this TNM101 (chat) 16:04, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cricket seasons for tours, years for tournaments. Vestrian24Bio 16:10, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Got it TNM101 (chat) 16:11, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csknp

(sock deserving ban) 93.140.145.117 (talk) 11:21, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Bob Willis

Hi - Can any one find books or offline coverage where Bob Willis's five-wicket hauls are covered, even partially? Gheus (talk) 20:39, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CricketArchive workaround

As well as the escape key trick, it is possible to view pages on CricketArchive by other means. It seems any player / match / stats list is available via another domain (in basic form). If you have a link of the format cricketarchive.com/Archive/* then you can see the same page by going to stats.acscricket/Archive/*.

As an example if you wanted to view this random match (which may involve a member of this project!) https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/436/436049.html you can instead go to https://stats.acscricket.com/Archive/Scorecards/436/436049.html

It's particulary useful if you need / want to navigate aroud a player's stats / matches, removing the need for constant escaping.

We could also look into replacing any such links on pages, which would be a lot easier than trying to find alternative sources, as was suggested recently

Disclaimer : You could also just pay for a subscription! Spike 'em (talk) 10:00, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's useful, but would it work for all links... Vestrian24Bio 10:18, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has worked for everything I've checked, and it uses the same database. From ACS page : The Records Section draws on the unmatched database held by CricketArchive, and clicking on the name of a player or match will take you directly to the relevant page on CricketArchive. The ACS is pleased to acknowledge the support of CricketArchive for the Records Section. Spike 'em (talk) 10:59, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's really good. Vestrian24Bio 11:02, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]