Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/England Cricket Batting Stats


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Davewild (talk) 13:54, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

England Cricket Batting Stats

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Not needed. CricInfo is a place to correlate stats, and the statistics of each player are covered in far more depth on their individual pages, and we already have easily navigable squad lists on the England national cricket team pages to assist this. Bit of a odd selection of less than half of the main statistics available. Will get easily lost and go out of date very quickly, unnecessary content. S.G.(GH) ping! 10:26, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Cannot see the point of trying to maintain current player stats here as they change so frequently.  I think it breaches WP:NOT too as this is not what we are about: i.e., there is no narrative.  Adds no value to cricket project.  It looks like post-Ashes euphoria (so we know he's not an Aussie, anyway) that will quickly fade.  Jack | talk page 11:09, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That isn't what WP:STATS is about either; it's about the actual statistics of Wikipedia (btw, I'm neutral here).  Erpert  Who is this guy? 18:46, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Apologies. I meant WP:NOT. Have amended previous entry.  Jack | talk page 20:56, 8 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Why Delete? Maybe I didn't make myself clear but this is the squad from 2010 onwards if anyone retires I will not remove them. Besides it gives people an easier way to check who has most career runs, centuries, wickets etc. Say if Morgan played the test against India I would include him and keep Collingwood if you know what I mean. Migitgem2009 (talk) 17:39, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * And Jack I started this before/after the first test -_-. So it's not post ashes euphoria. I was going to do one for every test coutry but it would have taken me too long so I just did my own country.
 * Comment. I think it needs narrative to justify its being kept.  Can you do anything with it in that regard?  BTW, I'm not sure if we will bring Morgan in.  I think we'll move Bell and Prior up the order to restore Broad when fit so as to play 5 bowlers.  Jack | talk page 21:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. What would suggest I put for narrative? And I agree with Broad coming in I was just using Morgan as an example as he is not on my page but Broad is. Migitgem2009 (talk) 22:59, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * My point is why do we need this page in particular? CricInfo can provide such information, and all the player's individual pages have their up-to-date stats. Why collate this particular team from this particular time onwards? The information already exists and to collect it under such particular criteria seems a bit unnecessary. --S.G.(GH) ping! 23:53, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - I don't think we need this. If it is a selection of stats about the current squad, a) it will get out of date, we have a tough enough job maintaining the stats in the biography articles, but b) we have information on the current squad at the main team page England cricket team so if it was decided that a snapshot view of their stats was merited that would seem the logical place for it. If it is for all players, not just the current squad, it should be for all players, not those post-2010 as the creator was suggesting [by advocating adding new players, but not removing retired ones]. In that case, the information plus more is already available at List of England Test cricketers.&mdash;User:MDCollins (talk) 00:17, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:26, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete: I don't think the list is needed. We already have List of England Test cricket records for comprehensive coverage on England Test batting records. To have a list of solely players from 2010 onwards seems bizarre anyway. The stats which I tend to update at the end of every international and after every 5 domestic matches are on the players pages. AssociateAffiliate (talk) 22:44, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.