Talk:Upul Tharanga

Lead section
It is my believe that Tharanga's three month suspension for doping violations should be included in the lead section. It has been argued that "if every banned a player receives in his career were to be listed it will make a poor summary". But most players don't receive bans for doping violations. Category:Doping cases in cricket has only 17 articles. Category:Cricketers by nationality shows there are approximately 14,000 cricketers articles on Wikipedia. So bans for doping violations in cricket are very, very, very rare (0.1%). It has also been argued that other players who have been banned, such as Ian Botham, don't have their bans in the lead. But this flies in the face of WP:OTHERSTUFF.-- obi2canibe talk contr 22:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)


 * This argument is a contradiction in its self. Please clarify, you are saying that WP:OTHERSTUFF should mean that we should not compare Ian Botham drug violation and yet you use statistics of other doping cases in wikipedia cats to support a argument "doping violations in cricket are very, very, very rare (0.1%)". The later is not only WP:OTHERSTUFF but Original Research. Therefore there is no argument there only pure contradiction.
 * As to reason that this dose not deserve to be in the lead section is that, first it did not cause a major controversial or gather media headlines as the Armstrong case. Secondly the tribunal " found that Tharanga had no intention to enhance his sporting performance or to mask the use of another performance enhancing substance, but that he had failed to satisfy the high levels of personal responsibility implicit upon him as an international cricketer subject to anti-doping rules." Sportsmen, Cricketers any other receive suspensions for various reasons yet are not included in the lead sections as their careers are not defined by them. Therefore addition of this would be blowing it out of proportion. Cossde (talk) 13:36, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * We're not going to agree so I've taken the matter to WP:DRN.-- obi2canibe talk contr 17:17, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Doping violation
I reworded the section on doping violation as per the refs cited there, including quoting the judgment. Cossde (talk) 13:43, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I have re-worded to tell the story in chronological order: he failed the test -> a tribunal was held -> he was found guilty -> he was banned.

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