Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international cricket centuries by Kumar Sangakkara/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Dabomb87 03:26, 6 July 2012.

List of international cricket centuries by Kumar Sangakkara

 * Nominator(s): A STRONOMYINERTI A  ( TALK ) 17:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because, I've been working on this article for a while, and feel that it now meets all the FL criteria. It is based on several existing FLs such as List of international cricket centuries by Mahela Jayawardene and List of international cricket centuries by Rahul Dravid. Looking forward for your comments and suggestions. A STRONOMYINERTI A ( TALK ) 17:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Quick comment - Any special reason for having this article? The "list of centuries" is already presented in the main article. &mdash; Vensatry (Ping me)  17:22, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 41 centuries (8th highest among all the cricketers) is quite significant to warrant a separate article I think. Therefore the list on the main article has to go. I will replace it with a link to this article. A STRONOMYINERTI A  ( TALK ) 17:43, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * My concern is with the main article. It looks too small and for the given 41 centuries, I think it can very well be accommodated in the main article itself. &mdash; Vensatry (Ping me)  18:25, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Whatever your concern, see few examples: List of international cricket centuries by Jacques Kallis, which is a FL, and the article Jacques Kallis is also small. It really doesn't matter, tons of cricket centuries lists has been promoted to FL when the original article is small. Dipankan  ( Have a chat? ) 06:12, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * We are discussing about this list right now and I think there is absolutely no need of discussing others. I faced a similar problem when I nominated VVS Laxman's article. See the Next-to-last comment here. &mdash; Vensatry (Ping me)  06:30, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I will try to keep myself cool. You are turning the matter again, and the article I pointed to was example, not to be compared with this article. Judge this article's quality and then decide whether to promote it or not. Dipankan  ( Have a chat? ) 06:36, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

I have added an "Awards" section to the main article, in-line with a number of similar pages. Don't think the main article can accommodate another set of tables—a list of centuries—in this case. I hope this addresses the Vensatry's concern. A STRONOMYINERTI A ( TALK ) 07:10, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * You are not trying to understand my point. This list is a classic example of content forking. When I did a prose check of the main article it doesn't even come close to 7.5 KB. I see no other articles smaller than this one (including Kallis). In this case, it violates criterion 3b of WP:FLCR. Anyway, I leave it to other editors to decide upon this. &mdash; Vensatry  (Ping me)  08:03, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I did some work on the prose section and the article size hovers around 60 KB. Prose size is also in-par with several FLs I've looked at. A STRONOMYINERTI A  ( TALK ) 17:28, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The expanded article has a prose size comparable to the parent articles of other FLs, but I'm still not sure about the minimum prose size. So I leave it to other editors to decide upon. &mdash; Vensatry (Ping me)  18:53, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Support– Meets the criteria. ZiaKhan 07:01, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Support NapHit (talk) 21:52, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose – Even with the prose-work that has been done already, the writing still resembles a bunch of facts thrown together in a list-like fashion, and I don't believe it meets FL standards. I also see glitches such as "making it fifth such instance in Test cricket" and "he is only behind to Donald Bradman and Brian Lara", which don't make me feel any more confident in the lead. A copy-edit by an editor new to the list is needed. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:12, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * My oppose is now struck; great job of copy-editing by Bencherlite again. I made one further change to the prose, but otherwise am satisfied with the work done. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:12, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

I've been asked to have a look at the prose, and I'll try to get to it ASAP in the light of the length of time this nomination has been running. BencherliteTalk 08:21, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I've done what I can. Further comments and suggestions welcome. BencherliteTalk 11:31, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Support subject to the disclaimer that I've done some work on the prose; apart from that, the list looks FL-worthy. I don't think that it's a 3(b) violation, given the current size of the Kumar Sangakkara article. BencherliteTalk 23:12, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
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