Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes series/archive1


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The article was promoted by Karanacs 19:38, 27 October 2009.

Fifth Test, 1948 Ashes series

 * Nominator(s):  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 04:21, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

This article is about the last Test match of Donald Bradman, widely regarded as the best batsman of all time. He only needed 4 to end with a career average of 100, but was out for duck (0)  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 04:21, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support chiefly reviewed for 1c Fifelfoo (talk) 06:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC) Add all material referred to in notes to references section, at least at the publication level (ie, the almanac referred to, collection for collected works, information service for information snippets). Fifelfoo (talk) 04:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Evertyhing in shorthand in the notes is accounted for in full in the references  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 06:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Happy to accept that as a style difference between sports articles and my key editing area. Fifelfoo (talk) 06:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

''The match saw Lindwall at his best. The damp conditions meant that sawdust had to be added in large amounts to allow the players to keep their footing. The humidity, along with the rain, assisted the bowlers; Lindwall in particular managed to make the ball bounce at variable heights''

Second sentence is a non sequitur. Is the paragraph about Lindwall or about the bowling conditions? I think this paragraph needs to be rethought. Gatoclass (talk) 10:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 23:55, 12 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:15, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment – Haven't read this closely yet, but the last sentence of the lead seems off in its meaning. The fact that the team went unbeaten in their tour matches after this is not why they were given the name, as far as I can tell from the numerous other articles I've read on the topic. If I'm not mistaken, they gained the name by going unbeaten for the entire tour, as the body indicates. Should be a simple enough tweak to make, and I made a few simpler fixes to save the effort.  Giants2008  ( 17–14 ) 22:17, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket '') 00:04, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose on criterion 3 - File:Bradman 1937.JPG - This photo needs more specific information on the source (what issue of the The Age was it published in?) and an author. Awadewit (talk) 18:27, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Switched photos.  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 01:52, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Ideally, we try to fix the images so that they can be used. The new image also has a problem. File:Bradman&Bat.jpg - As this is hosted on Commons, it needs to be PD in both Australia and the US. Please ascertain if it is PD in the US or not. Awadewit (talk) 19:17, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Jappalang says that because of some free trade implications and teh Uruguay round? anything taken before 1946, PD in Austtralia before 1996 works. This was taken in 1932  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 04:39, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Then please add the PD-1996 template to the article as the requisite publication information. Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 20:48, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * done. Wasn't aware of that template existing as Jappalang didn't use it before when he tweaked teh pic  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 23:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * PD-1996 template is still missing. Awadewit (talk) 20:40, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? File:Bradman%26Bat.jpg now has both, including one mentioning the URAA  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 00:12, 26 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Apologies, I clicked on the wrong image. Striking oppose.Awadewit (talk) 01:56, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, no problem  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket! ) 01:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Comments Support My issues seem resolved. I'm sure nothing else remains that won't get picked up. SGGH ping! 09:09, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure why the citation to the Don's CricInfo page contains a long quote, if it is just citing the bowled-for-a-duck incident, as the quote doesn't contain that information. Why not just the link? SGGH ping! 12:42, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * It was for the greatest player claim. Moving  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 23:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * English players cheering for an Australian? Surely not :P
 * Reference [9] after Washbrook's broken thumb, could be more to the end of the sentence to avoid having a dash coming out of a citation.
 * Single figure scores and wickets should be in words, not numbers (five, not 5) presumably?
 * That's true but if there is a succession of numbers, there's a rule about either spelling them all out or using all numbers, thus "5 and 18" instead of "five and eighteen"  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 01:16, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah right. Of this, I was not aware. SGGH ping! 08:20, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


 * "Bradman said" and "Yardley said" seem a bit abrupt and clumsy. Perhaps merge the first into the above sentence and then follow it with the block quote?
 * Morris' century was his 6th in Ashes matches and 3rd of the series, but how many was his tally overall? Or had he only played England?
 * I recall a quote attributed to Bradman about the difficulty of playing "with tears in your eyes". Is this an ubran legend or something he actually said? If so it would make a useful addition to the article. SGGH ping! 10:30, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Did the rest  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket ) 01:16, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Support – Reads pretty solidly, even though I still don't understand all of the cricket terminology and probably never will. The one part I didn't like was this from Day 2: "quickly displayed the exuberance of youth." Not sure how formal that is, but it's not enough to prevent me from supporting.  Giants2008  ( 17–14 ) 22:37, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
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