Talk:Islamabad United

Grammar + Setup
Whoever is making edits to the PSL Teams wiki pages seems like he or she has NO grasp of the English language. "Representing the city Lahore"? Who in the hell writes like this? The introduction should read:

''Islamabad United (Urdu: ) is a Pakistani professional cricket club based in Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan that competes in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Islamabad United is one of the original 5 PSL clubs. The team is coached by (Coach Name) and owned by (Company name). The team plays their home matches at Pindi Stadium in neighbouring Rawalpindi.''

Is that really hard?

Short article sections
Please don't. MOS:BODY says "Very short or very long sections and subsections in an article look cluttered and inhibit the flow of the prose." That's the MOS. Please keep things together (and references) until there is actually something to write about. When they actually play some cricket there might be. Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:03, 27 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Really - please read that. The continual resubmission of the same stuff from anon ip users is really boring - not withstanding the issues with what's written it's really disrupting what has the potential to grow into a good article. At the minute it's a major pita. Blue Square Thing (talk) 16:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I requested the page protection.  Anjana Larka SEND WIKILOVE 💗 09:33, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 15 February 2016

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The result of the move request was: moved. Number   5  7  11:56, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Islamabad United (cricket) → Islamabad United – Islamabad United (the cricket team/franchise) is the primary and notable topic by far, therefore the article title does not need disambiguation and it should just be Islamabad United for ease of navigation and use. A header note can be added to the top of the article indicating readers to the (lesser known) Islamabad United (football) club if necessary. Previously Islamabd United redirected to Islamabad United (cricket) before someone made it disambiguation page, but the disambiguation is unnecessary and overkill. – PSL Fan (talk) 01:37, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Better get this discussed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:06, 15 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Support Islamabad United (cricket) is more notable then Islamabad United (football). A move to Islamabad United will make it easy to use - Anjana Larka SEND WIKILOVE 💗 11:32, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Support the article title move as the proposer of the move. PSL Fan (talk) 00:55, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose the distinction will be lost on non-cricket fans. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:35, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Support Just move the page Islamabad United (football) to Islamabad United F.C.  Green Cricket   TALK  17:37, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Support Per above, this is the primary topic, and Islamabad United (football) should move to Islamabad United F.C., with a hatnote on here. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:50, 23 February 2016 (UTC)


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Possible merge with Islamabad United in 2016?
Whilst doing a search for typos in articles I noticed that the article "Islamabad United in 2016" contains a large portion of text that is identical to a previous version of the subsection 2016 Pakistan Super League from the Islamabad United article. While the other article has some unique content, I am wondering if it would be sensible to merge the two, as this unique information could also be incorporated into the Islamabad United article, as its own section. I am by no means an expert on this topic (all I know about cricket is that people hit balls with sticks), but to me it seems redundant to have a separate article on this team just for a specific year, when this content is already in the main article. I won't request a merge for this page as I could very well be wrong, but I'll put up a template on the Islamabad United in 2016 article, and a  template on this article. Thanks! The preceding post was a special message from Her Majesty, the Queen of   Awesome  08:02, 1 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure whether to merge this or not. The problem is that if it is merged then the base article will get ore bloated - once more than one edition of the competition takes place there' probably a need to have separate articles for each season. While that's not certain to happen yet it's likely to I imagine. I've cut massive amounts of cruft and wittage from both articles and tried to make the written English a little more readable. They do remain largely the same - but after one more season the base article about the team will have the 2016 season cut to no more than a paragraph (OK, they won it - maybe two short ones). This one might be extended a little more if necessary.


 * Open to ideas though. This could be recreated later - thanks for making the suggestion, although I imagine the IP editors who will come along and replace all the bs text in a bit won't even think about engaging in any discussion - it seems to be beyond/below them as far as I can tell. Blue Square Thing (talk) 21:26, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in Islamabad United
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 Islamabad United'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 "mostwickets": From Karachi Kings in 2020:  From Islamabad United in 2019:  From Quetta Gladiators in 2020:  

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 ⚡ 01:50, 21 January 2023 (UTC)