Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket
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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.
Contents
- 1 Scope
- 2 Article alerts
- 3 Assessment
- 4 Recent deaths
- 5 Recently updated articles
- 6 Assistance needed
- 7 Images, Templates, Infoboxes
- 8 Quiz
- 9 Deletion sorting
- 10 Members
- 11 Major cricket
- 12 Awards
- 13 Featured material
- 14 Notability criteria guideline for article inclusion
- 15 Cricket article style guide
Scope[edit]
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.
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Article alerts[edit]
Assessment[edit]
Recent deaths[edit]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.
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Recently updated articles[edit]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). Assistance needed[edit]We would particularly like to enrol:
Images, Templates, Infoboxes[edit]
Cricket-related images can be browsed at:
Quiz[edit]
A quiz to test and improve your general knowledge of cricket is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Quiz. Feel free to join in. A thousand questions set and answered already! Deletion sorting[edit]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. Members[edit]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. Major cricket[edit]Major cricket is a loose term with no official definition in cricket, unlike other sports which have "major" events or variations. In Wikipedia, "major cricket" is used to encompass all forms of the sport that are played at the highest international and domestic levels in which players and/or teams of a recognised high standard are taking part. In modern domestic cricket, it includes first-class cricket, List A cricket and major Twenty20 competitions. Test cricket, Limited Overs Internationals (LOI) and Twenty20 internationals are variations of those forms within the international sphere. Historically, "major cricket" refers to matches which are held by reputable sources to have historical significance including single wicket and those eleven-a-side matches outside the statistical remit of first-class (i.e., lacking scorecards and other statistical data). The key, in any judgment of a match's status for WP:Notability purposes, is the reliability of the secondary source. |
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Awards[edit]
Featured material[edit]
Notability criteria guideline for article inclusion[edit]
WikiProject Cricket participants have adopted the following guidelines for notability of a cricket person to qualify as the subject of an article in Wikipedia:
The substantial source 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 or match. Major domestic first-class competitions include the County Championship, the Ranji Trophy, the Sheffield Shield, etc. Major domestic limited overs competitions include all List A matches and the Twenty20 Cup, Indian Premier League, etc. Major individual matches (i.e., played outside organised competitions) are those shown to be significant, especially if historically significant, by substantial sources as outlined in Historical sources. For expedience, editors often rely on CricketArchive and ESPNcricinfo to source information, although more substantial sources exist in books such as Wisden Cricketers' Almanack that may not be readily available. Note that the term "first-class cricket" is misleading. First, it is largely a subjective term as, officially, the classification did not begin until 1947 and will not be applied retrospectively according to the ICC definition. Second, it is essentially about statistics which ignore the more important historical aspect if statistical information is missing. In practice the term is loosely applied to major cricket matches since the 17th century (i.e., specifically to major matches played eleven-a-side with two innings each). 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 11-a-side double innings matches. Hence, a player who represented Kent in the earliest known inter-county match in 1709 is as notable as a player who represented Kent's first team in any recent County Championship season. N.B.: Judge notability by reference to a substantial source that makes clear it is discussing a major player or match in historical rather than statistical terms. In practice, this project has de facto always used CricketArchive as the default for determining first-class status before 1947. This is largely because of online convenience. It must be noted that other substantial sources (e.g., Arthur Haygarth, F. S. Ashley-Cooper, Roy Webber, Bill Frindall, the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS), etc.) sometimes held different opinions about match status and these sources have at least equal credibility: indeed, they are to a large extent CricketArchive's own sources. It must be remembered that CricketArchive is not always correct and some matches may not even be found there. The point is that an editor should if possible use substantial sources other than CricketArchive for the purpose of WP:Verify re the notability of a given match or player, though it is always worth pointing out that a different view of the said notability is expressed by other sources (including CricketArchive) if appropriate. The ICC World Cup Qualifier and the World Cricket League are international competitions officially recognised by the ICC in which the participants are teams representing the Associate and Affiliate membership of the ICC. In addition, non-players who have made a notable contribution to cricket should have articles. 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.
Following on from the above, all clubs and teams taking part in major cricket matches are automatically qualified under the conditions of WP:N and WP:ORG; as are venues used in such matches. Difficulty may arise with clubs that have not competed at major level and, similarly, with venues that have not staged first-class or List A matches. "Minor cricket" is a specific term in the sport that does not necessarily imply a lack of notability; in parallel with sports like association football and baseball, many cricket clubs in "minor leagues" are professionally run and do employ professional players. It is necessary to take an individual view about each country in terms of its own grassroots structure. WP:CRIC has decided that:
Re a venue (aka ground), WP:CRIC has agreed that its regular usage by a notable club ensures its own notability per se. Beyond a purely cricketing outlook, a venue is a recognised named site with a fixed geographic location and established community associations of a permanent nature.
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. But, the terms of WP:ATHLETE and WP:ORG are binding and these must be quoted if difficulty arises in an AfD discussion. Finally, 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. For example, the introductory text of the article must make clear that the subject is a major, first-class or ListA cricketer. |
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Cricket article style guide[edit]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
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