Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Test cricket grounds/archive1

List of Test cricket grounds
I've tarted this up in the past few weeks and think it is quite nice. -- ALoan (Talk) 19:01, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - Do you think the lists really need an "Official Name" column? It makes it very wordy as probably 95% of the grounds have basically the same name as the common name.  If a reader wants more detail they can click on a link.  Also, there are a lot of redlinks for a featured list. - Ian &equiv; talk 01:37, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I have merged "Official name" and "Name". Redlinks - well, the list is comprehensive.  I could always delink, but it would seem a bit odd to link the some grounds and not others.  Most grounds in Australia, England and New Zealand - come on India/Pakistan/etc! -- ALoan (Talk) 11:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - Ian &equiv; talk 28 June 2005 06:12 (UTC)
 * Support – I wonder what will be the outcome once we put up the List of ODI grounds here. Some points abt this list: 1) The columns are badly spaced out. There's too much spacing on the right; the left cols are badly squeezed (800x600 resolution). 2) Is it neccessary to label all sections as Province, Region or Country? Instead use county for Eng, States for India, Countries for WI and so on. 4) The Lucknow venues, and the two earlier Bombay venues are not used for TC anymore. Infact the Bombay Gynmkhana Ground is not used for official cricket matches anymore (though it hosts international rugby matches). Sector 16 stadium and the Jalandhar stad. are out of action AFAIK. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:54, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Is there a list of One-day International cricket grounds? (1) I've tweaked the columns, but please let me know what widths look best for you.  (2) State, etc, corrected (it used to be one list, rather than one per country).  (what happened to (3) ?) (4) Please add a footnote, if you have any information on disused grounds to hand.  If not, I'll check what cricinfo says. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I've tweaked the England and Wales table. It looks good on my resolution now, though I had to cut back on font size. 2) I don't have any data on when the stadiums were last used, but these are the ones which are currently "dead". =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:59, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comments: I'd like a longer lead. Also, could we find some pictures (presumably just by searching the blue links in the list)? And a "See Also" section would help navigation. And could there be a good "External links" section (I only say this because I have a feeling many of those Test cricket grounds have their own websites, or there are ones for bigger organizations). And finally, the red links are not that bad, but ugly. Perhaps those don't all need to be linked, especially in "common name" and "official name" where most are red, since most have little likelihood of creation. None of these are important enough to object, but all of them together make me want to suspend my support vote until there's been a response. --Dmcdevit 07:41, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * What would you like the lead to say? I've added the one image I like (MCG) - all of the rest show, at best, one stand and a small part of the ground, which is next to useless, IMHO.  If you know of external links, please add (perhaps these should be in the table itself?  (the link to the cricinfo list provides, indirectly, links to the cricinfo pages on each ground).  Not sure what to do about redlinks - which grounds do not deserve to be linked? -- ALoan (Talk) 11:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comments (1) There are at least 10 pictures of cricket grounds if you follow the links. These should be added. (2) I don't think the "Province, Region or Country" column offers much, I'd rather have "Domestic home team". (3) Some more info - such as capacity and details of the first match (ie who between) might be useful. (4) The numerical order in which the grounds were used for Test matches should be added. (5) Number of Test matches played in each venue would give an indication of how important a ground each of them is for cricket. (6) Could be augmented by listing Supertest grounds (6) I agree with the comments above, that we don't need two "name" columns, SmokeDog 08:05, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * (1) I've added the one image I like - which others should I add? (2) Done. (3) Hmm - capacity may be a good idea, if I can find the information; I can certainly research details of the first match, but does that add very much? (4) Again, I can add numerical order, but that is really another list (List of Test cricket grounds by date - this list would become List of Test cricket grounds by country) (5) I deliberately left off the number of Tests to avoid having to add an "as of" and the need to update every time another Test is played.  However, I have tried to notie disused venues .  (6) Supertest? (6b) Done. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks all for your comments (I realised that this was not quite there, but thought I'd have a better response here than on WP:PR ;). I'll try to action them in the next few days.  Further comments welcome, though. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:35, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Phew - please see replies above. Let me know what more needs to be done. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Sadly, the list doesn't have details of all the "Ends" (which were helpfully added recently) so I'm not sure this is good enought yet. OTOH, I hope the format is looking a bit better.  -- ALoan (Talk) 30 June 2005 18:59 (UTC)
 * There are only a couple of "supports" above and its 10 days are up: the article has changed a bit since the votes were cast - can I ask people to look at it again. Thanks. -- ALoan (Talk) 1 July 2005 13:04 (UTC)