Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket

Summary of Cricket WikiProject open tasks
watch · edit · full list

News and announcements

The newsletter is slated for a December 2024 launch.
We are looking for Bengali/Hindi/Pashtun/Punjabi/Sinhala speakers to find and translate non-English language sources.

Current discussions

Merger of child WikiProjects

Featured article candidates: No candidates at present
Featured article review: No candidates at present
Featured list candidates: 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup statistics
Featured list removal candidates: No candidates at present
Featured picture candidates: No candidates at present
Other featured content candidates: No candidates at present

Peer reviews: No candidates at present
Good article nominees: 2024 Indian Premier League • 2024 ICC Men's T20 Worl Cup • Suryakumar Yadav • India at the Cricket World Cup • Chennai Super Kings • John Holder (umpire)
Good article reassessments: No candidates at present
Recent deaths: Frank Misson (11 September) • Graham Thorpe (4 August) • Anshuman Gaekwad (31 July) • Ken Palmer (23 July) • Billy Ibadulla (12 July) • David Johnson (20 June) • Raman Subba Row (17 April) • Derek Underwood (15 April) • Jack Alabaster (9 April) • Saeed Ahmed (20 March) • Robin Hobbs (17 March) • Duncan Fearnley (8 March) • Mike Procter (17 February) • Datta Gaekwad (13 February) • Keith Booth (25 January) • Doug Padgett (20 January)

Articles that need... quality assessment (45) • imporatnce assessment (184) • taskforce assigned (0) • project tags fixed (0) • limited improvement (817) • significant improvement (14,191) • significant expansion (32,125)

Cricket
WikiProject

Lead article	talk
Portal	talk
Root category	talk
Main project page	talk
→ Featured material
→ Notability guidelines (List of notable competitions & matches)
→ Style guide
→ Quiz

Announcements and open tasks
→ Articles needing attention	talk
→ To-do list	talk
→ Nominations for deletion	talk
→ New articles	talk
Article assessment	talk
Reviews	talk
Media	talk
Images	talk

Project organisation
Members	talk
Awards	talk
Project banner	talk
Project category	talk

Templates
Infoboxes
→ Cricketer biography infobox	talk
→ Cricket team infobox	talk

Studies
General topics
→ Administration	talk
→ Awards and rankings	talk
→ Competitions	talk
→ Controversies	talk
→ Culture	talk
→ Equipment	talk
→ Forms of cricket	talk
→ Grounds	talk
→ Laws of cricket	talk
→ Records and statistics	talk
→ Scoring	talk
→ Skills	talk
→ Terminology	talk
→ Women's cricket	talk
→ Cricket by year	talk
Biographies
→ Don Bradman	talk
→ W. G. Grace	talk
Cricket teams
→ England	talk
→ Hambledon Club	talk
→ West Indies	talk
→ Yorkshire CCC	talk
Cricket by country
→ Australia	talk
→ Bangladesh	talk
→ England	talk
→ India	talk
→ New Zealand	talk
→ Pakistan	talk
→ Nepal	talk
→ South Africa	talk
→ Sri Lanka	talk
→ United States	talk
→ West Indies	talk
History of cricket
→ Australia	talk
→ Bangladesh	talk
→ England	talk
→ India	talk
→ New Zealand	talk
→ Pakistan	talk
→ South Africa	talk
→ Sri Lanka	talk
→ United States	talk
→ West Indies	talk

edit · changes

Archives

Index 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70
71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
91, 92, 93, 94

This page has archives. Sections older than 20 days may be automatically archived by .

This WikiProject was featured in the WikiProject report in the Signpost on 17 January 2011.

Shortcut

WT:CRIC

Merge WikiProjects back into this project

There are a number of cricket-related WikiProjects that I believe would be best suited as taskforces of this project, which would enable collaboration whilst also understanding that articles on these tournaments need to follow guidelines of WP:CRIC. This was previously mentioned in 2021: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 90#Creation of task forces. Would be good to get a firm consensus on whether or not to implement this. These breakaway WikiProjects have caused numerous problems over the years including:

Frequent MOS:COLOR violations on articles and templates
Misunderstanding of how article ratings work, by rating categories as "high importance"
Violation of the WP:CRIC standard to only add teams to a player's infobox once they make an appearance (Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar being an example who was in IPL and LPL squads but did not play)
Creating clutter on article talkpages as if someone plays one match in one of these tournaments, they get added to the WikiProject
IPL project created templates for every match (60 per season), which led to a massive template clean up project a few years ago

All of these WikiProjects are for franchise T20 tournaments that run for 1-3 months a year, and their WikiProjects are dormant for the rest of the year, or are permanently inactive. They are as follows:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League - looks permanently inactive
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lanka Premier League - been inactive for around 2 years, despite only being created in 2021
Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian Premier League - looks to be inactive
Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan Super League - looks to be inactive

In addition, I have separately nominated the recently created Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Premier League (cricket) for deletion, but would be okay with this becoming a task force here too (but no merge is required as there is no history to keep). This post aims to satisfy Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Merging WikiProjects#Establish consensus for a merger by getting a consensus for or against this. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 02:00, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

These seem sensible. I had hoped when I revamped the project page, that these would be started by new recruits from r/cricket and other cricket platforms, but I never really found the time. AA (talk) 22:19, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment would be good to get a few more thoughts on this proposal, as only 3 unique editors have posted opinions. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:46, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I get the feeling there aren't many of us left... AA (talk) 17:55, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@AssociateAffiliate not at all, there are editors; I feel like no one is aware about the existence of this talk page. I'll try tagging some editors from the above WikiProjects. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 12:53, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@CptViraj, Fade258, Kirubar, ClogWolf, CRICKETMANIAC303, MNWiki845, Vestrian24Bio, Kpddg, Wowlastic10, and Spinin: from WP IPL.

@Human, Wiki.0hlic, Hamza Ali Shah, Badsaad10, CreativeNorth, Tahaaleem, Fade258, Shah Fahad️, USaamo, and Wallu2: from WP PSL.

@CAPTAINRAJU, ASimpleHuman, ANKAN, MahirM, ShahidulHasanRoman, Imtiazahmedrifat, Fade258, ACricketPremi, and Spinin: from WP BPL.

@DTTruth, Randeepa, Fade258, Abishe, Tahaaleem, Kirubar, RishikaPrabashana, ClogWolf, Cricketsudda21, Janeesh22, Spinin, and KjjjKjjj: from WP LPL.

Forgive me if I had mentioned anyone more than once. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 13:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed per nom. Task forces are a much better option in my opinion. Easier to manage and work within. As already said if people aren't interested than why have four-five different projects and leave them dormant. Wikibear47 (talk) 08:17, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree per nom. I think task forces are much better than having a single WikiProject. For example, WikiProject Japan has many task forces under a single project which makes it easier to handle.

KjjjKjjj (talk) 13:32, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree per nom. task forces are much better than having a single WikiProject. For example, WikiProject Japan has many task forces under a single project which makes it easier to handle.

Spinin (talk) 03:09, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree per nom. Task forces would probably work out better than the inactive Wikiprojects currently, and it might become easier to manage the never ending increase in T20 leagues. Hamza Ali Shah ^Talk 23:19, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WPCRIC Announcements

In the template {{WPCRIC Announcements}}, the sub-sections say they are Bot generated; but, it doesn't looks like it's been updated in a while, what's with it? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 14:32, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't look like a bot has ever updated this template. It might be a left over from when this was created from a copy/paste of the 'Military History' project template as the first edit has them listed as bit-generated. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:05, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like we'll have to manually update it; Should I go ahead...? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:48, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A bot does update Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Article alerts daily, so it may be worth adding that to your watchlist. Don't know how you can integrate that into header though. JP (Talk) 16:57, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Already have that on my watchlist; The thing is I have seen announcement templates of some other WikiProjects being used in more than just the project talk page, which is easier to give an one-look overview of the ongoing things. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 17:47, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the Announcements template, along with some changes to Announcements Shell and Open tasks page. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 03:10, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Review request!

Would anyone be kind enough to review the following articles? Copy edit and additions welcome:

Aiming for FA

Aiming for GA

Any contributions appreciated :) AA (talk) 09:11, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did spot the other day that there is a piece in an old ACS The Cricket Statistician here on Poore/Wynyard's record partnership if you did want to expand on that. Lonsdale did another piece on Poore here, not sure if there is anything useful in that either. --JP (Talk) 15:01, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding these JP, they are super helpful. There was some info on his early life I was missing, so the Lonsdale one will definitely help full those blanks. AA (talk) 14:31, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The project newsletter

I have started working on the project newsletter, currently titled "The Stump Sapient". I am expecting it to be published in December 2024. Progress can be seen here. I would need an editor-in-charge to go with me; anyone willing to contribute? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 05:28, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if we could have a 'Photo of the Year' section and maybe a list of deaths? Of course, the competition parts are dependent on how many active members we have, and I really have no idea how many we do! I wouldn't mind trying to get more members from say the Cricket Reddit, but do worry that could attract some of the editors who seem to be populating the AfD list these days :/ AA (talk) 11:29, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, List of deaths can be put with the article news; and if we could hold a "Photo of the Year" contest and get a winner, we'll include that as well. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:53, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if there is a way to gauge how many active members we have? AA (talk) 14:31, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We could use {{User:Yapperbot/Pruner/use}}, which would if configured in the members page remove the inactive users for a given time every Monday. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 14:55, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]