Talk:Don Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948/Archive 1

Orphaned references in Donald Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
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Reference named "times": From Bill Johnston (cricketer):  From Jack Fingleton:  From Bill Brown (cricketer):  

Reference named "o": From Don Tallon with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948:  From Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948:  

Reference named "p224": From Keith Miller: Perry, p. 224.</li> <li>From Third Test, 1948 Ashes series: Perry (2001), p. 224.</li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:21, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Donald Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Donald Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "glam":<ul> <li>From Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: </li> <li>From Don Tallon with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:09, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

GA Review
GA review starting. Comments can be found here: Talk:Don Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948/GA1  SilkTork  *YES! 00:56, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Excellent article. On hold for 7 days for some suggestions to be looked at.  SilkTork  *YES! 13:43, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Suggestions attended to. Passed as a Good Article.  SilkTork  *YES! 17:45, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

F&f's comments about lead sentences (for Giants2008)
I am not suggesting that "the" always needs to be used twice in A and B type constructions. Certainly, in stock phrases or in words of closely related meaning, we don't repeat the "the." So, "the moaning and groaning that marked ..." or "the green and yellow pattern so characteristic of ..." are perfectly reasonable constructions. In the latter sense, we could say, "he was the captain and dominant figure of the '48 season," but we are combining three entities here, and the "the" can't be applied to all three ("one of three selectors" already has a numeral pronoun), besides "selectors" is not as closely related to "captain" as "dominant figure" is. You could say, "he was the captain and dominant figure, and one of three selectors," but, in my view, "he was (the) captain, the dominant figure, and one of three selectors of the ..." best captures both the intended meaning and the rhythm of the language. Fowler&amp;fowler «Talk»  22:20, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I actually like the one without a comma between "captain and dominant figure", but why don't we see what YellowMonkey thinks? He's the nominator, not me, and neither of us knows what he prefers. My opinion isn't the important one here.  Giants2008  ( 17-14 ) 01:28, 13 February 2009 (UTC)