User talk:YellowMonkey/ArchiveInvincibles

ALH
''I trust you'll enjoy yourself and tell us about his ice-cream pant-less performance....and all the other stuff as well.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 07:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thx for your msg. I did a little work on Ian Johnson a while back, don't know if you saw it. I feel there's enough for a FA on him as well. Same for Sam Loxton; I reckon I can get him there too. I've been doing a little prelim research on both and located some imgaes etc. So are we drawing short straws for Hamence and Saggers??!! I'm not sure what is the minimum for FT, is it each article has to have at least GA status? Sooner or later we have to deal with the Bradman conundrum - I saw the article on Sir Isaac Newton and like that design. That would work well, say splitting his life into two articles, then we can bring the daughter articles back in and lose some of the periphal stuff. With a bit of hard work the Don could be done in a week or so....thoughts?

Phanto282 (talk) 08:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * According to the criteria, WP:FTC, the core article (the tour article) must be FA and 2/3rds of the articles need to be FA and the rest need to be GA. For FA, length is not really an issue - some really short articles have become FA if their is a paucity of documentation. Keith Johnson is long enough as it is if nothing more is known about him. Ian Johnson would make it easily. I did notice that you expanded it a month or so ago, and I think early this year I reverted a large addition by your IP because I thought it was a copyvio....Johnson can easily be made to the same length and longer than the current version of Bill Brown, using "Captain Australia" at least. For Saggers and Hamence we might not have so much though....But the main guys who played in 3-5 Tests in the series all would have a lot of info for FA.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 01:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Brown the Invincible
Good work! --Dweller (talk) 08:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Tallon tidbit
According to the new Haigh/Frith book, Tallon was also banned due to "reasons other than cricket ability", along with Barnes in 1951-52. Apparently, the ban was a unilateral decision made by Aubrey Oxlade (who supported Barnes and lost the chairmanship of the Board beacuse of it) due to some comments made by Tallon to the press. Obviously, it was not effective as Tallon was injured for the season & replaced by Langley, but it may explain why Tallon never regained a permanent place in the Test team, although he did make the 53 tour. If you want to include it in the bio of Tallon, let me know & I'll give you refs, etc. Meanwhile, we're back to the ice cream on Hassett's pants and how he got Richie out of bed in the middle of the night to talk about his golf swing.....BTW, would the Don really go into a match with Tallon batting at 6???

Phanto282 (talk) 16:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh interesting, sounds like something to liven things up. You could have just added it, since I don't have a right to a monoply on the article. Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I wouldn't bat Tallon at 6. The Bradman team has an awfully long tail....oh and I got stuck into Hassett. Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Lindwall
I believe I do. Stand by. &mdash;Moondyne 08:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Image:Lindwall.jpg Email with more to follow shortly. &mdash;Moondyne 08:23, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Pic
Image:LindwallFollowthrough.jpg

How's this? Taken in the 1950-51 Ashes series. I've got a request in to use a 1961 pic of Lindwall with Hassett, Menzies & Worrell. The NAA hold a few more shots of Lindwall, but you need permission to use them as they are post-1955; however, the NAA seem ok with it if you send a request by email.

Phanto282 (talk) 01:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Colin McCool
Hi, I have expanded the above article. Is there anything noticeably lacking and do you have any ideas where we may be able to get a freely licenced head shot for the infobox? Cheers and best wishes for the season Mattinbgn\talk 01:09, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is anything notably missing, but we could probably add some more I think, with the details and such. Oh, he was also known for his partneship with Tallon.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 08:25, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the Christmas greetings and the Barnstar, both much appreciated. On McCool, there is plenty more to add, if we can find reliable sources.  I would love to add more on his time at Somerset, but I can't seem to find any online sources other than CricketArchive and I find it very hard going to write interesting prose based on a list of matches and averages.  I will keep looking.  Cheers, Mattinbgn\talk 05:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Keith Miller
Hello! Two things:
 * 1) Any chance of a rescan of Image:Miller on drive.jpg? Lovely image, just not the best scan.
 * 2) Any chance of you lending your very helpful hands to filling the enormous gaps in the article?

Cheers! --Dweller (talk) 17:20, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


 * In the first instance, unfortunately no. The library which had that book does not allow borrowing and the only way I managed to get a picture of it was to bring in a dig camera and take a photograph of it. Not the most effective way. There are better pictures around though. I forgot to bring in the photos, but I have a few more Miller pics ready, about 6-7 of them, including some football pictures.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:47, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * In the second instance I will be away most of January. However, I have just gotten Miller's autobio so I can do a bit over the weekend. I think I'll take 1946-47 - his first full Test series. Please don't double up on that :).  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:47, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, could you keep an eye on Ian Meckiff, Ray Lindwall and Don Tallon since I might not be here and it might be picked up by the GAC reviewer while I'm away. There shouldn't be any major holes that need filling in at all!  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 06:47, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Re Miller - that's great. If you could make a Commons cat for him and bung the appropriate thingy on the article, I'll take a peek. I'll try and leave you the 46-47 series. Finally, if you'd like to turn this redlink blue with any articles or project pages you'd like monitored, I'll do my best. Let me know when you go and return. --Dweller (talk) 12:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Blnguyen/Contributions - my quick mini-watchlist. It is not the articles being vandalised or messed up so much, I just meant that the GAC for Ian Meckiff, Don Tallon and Ray Lindwall may get a request for small tweaks and such. If the reviewer spots a black hole then just don't worry about looking things up and fixing it, I'll get back to it when I am back. I've added my pics into the Miller article. Also, I probably have more materials on Miller than you do, so just nominate whatever part you want to work on and I'll work around it.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 09:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)