Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar


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List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar
Self nomination I've based this article on the same lines of List of Test cricket triple centuries, an FL in itself. I've checked for factual accuracy and feel that it is a nicely-written article. However, if there are any minor errors, please do elaborate so that I can promptly address them. Thank you, reviewers! Regards, Mspraveen (talk) 12:37, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment I made some amends. Hope you agree they improve the Lead. I think there's a problem of editorialising in the footnotes. The footnotes are entirely unreferenced and for the standards of FLC smack of WP:OR, which is a big negative. I'm not sure how you'd fix this; you could just remove them and leave people to find out what happened in the match from the link to the scorecard. I would suggest, however, that you restrict yourself to pertinent facts - just note any large partnerships in a dry, statistical manner. And add a column to the table, showing the match result as W/D/L (so it's sortable) and add the size of win/losing margin in the footnote. --Dweller (talk) 11:05, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, the lead is much better now. Thank you! The footnotes contain statistics - as is. I hope this would resolve the WP:OR issue. What say? Mspraveen (talk) 10:49, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, one other idea. Sometimes players make a substantial innings that is a very high proportion of the team score. Might be nice to have a column showing the % of India's total that ST contributed, for each of his hundreds. --Dweller (talk) 11:07, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Since a substantial score by a batsman is not that frequent, I felt adding a column for the same would not really be appropriate. It could, very well, be suitable for a list of scores with high % contributions to the team totals. Thoughts? Mspraveen (talk) 10:47, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Strong Support - A well developed, informative list, that meets FL criteria. I have made several updates and tweaks; and some changes per talk page discussion. - KNM Talk 18:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * In response to the above suggestions, I've setup a results column and the references in the same column as this would be most appropriate. Thank you KNM, Dweller and others in lending me a helping hand in improving this further. I hope that I was able to address all the main issues. There still is not # column as the references will serve the numbering in case of other column-sorts. Mspraveen (talk) 18:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Weak support - still not keen on the in-line links for the test scorecards, and would prefer to see centrally aligned innings and score columns... but it's a lot, lot better than when I first reviewed so good work! The Rambling Man (talk) 10:45, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment Looks nice but if you build a list of his ODI tons then the articles could be combined for "List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar" I think; two articles detailing one player's centuries seems wasteful. Anyway, looking at the article as it is,
 * Remove overlinks of the countries and stadiums in the table.✅
 * Why not "not out" instead of the potentially ambiguous "unbeaten" (below the table).✅
 * Consider the possibility of additional columns like method of dismissal, bowler dismissed by, or something like "c. Gilchrist b. McGrath".
 * Not sure how much of value add would this bring in. In the list, I think sufficient stats have already been provided. IMO, mode of dismissal is not so relevant and would add to clutter, in an already constrained space. Thanks -- ¿Amar៛ Talk to me / My edits 17:41, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The "Test" column heading is potentially ambiguous; it took me a while to realise that you mean the #th test of that particular series.✅
 * indopug (talk) 07:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Since 11/39 centuries of his remained unbeaten/not out, I felt adding a column for the mode of dismissal might not be suitable. However, now that you pointed it out, I will be doing this soon.
 * On the hindsight, I'd rather not want to do this because as I began doing this, the setup appeared clumsy to me. Thoughts? Mspraveen (talk) 08:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Since both forms of the game, that is, Test cricket and ODI, are quite different in their approach, it seemed appropriate to me that there be two articles for his centuries in both these forms. If insisted based on a common achieved consensus, I am willing to put the ODI tons along in a separate table in this page, which will be renamed as per your suggestion.
 * Thanks for your comments. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 07:44, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You forgot to delink the countries. Fine about the dismissals. indopug (talk) 09:41, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The countries and their flags come directly from the respective templates. For example, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england. I am not sure of any ideas on how to unlink the countries. Would you be able to suggest me of any? Mspraveen (talk) 10:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh ok; I didn't know that. Is there any pattern to the additional information listed under "Notes" for each match? Do you think there is scope for additional information like a table for number of centuries against each country? Maybe also a mention in the lead about how he has most no of 90s too (correct me if I'm wrong about this). indopug (talk) 15:03, 14 February 2008 (UTC) ✅ added in the lead section Mspraveen (talk) 15:44, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, the pattern is chronological and the section shows the key statistics from the match. Mspraveen (talk) 15:44, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thoughts / suggestions / issues:
 * I would prefer without the external link under "Test #", but with the link reformatted as a reference using cite web in a new "refs" column. It looks odd to me to have an external link in that location, and it's not obvious that that's the link that verifies not just the number of the test match in that series but also the other information in the row.
 * I'm not that keen on the detailed notes, even though they are less detailed than previously. Many add little value to this list (e.g. names of others who scored centuries, margin of victory): even if there are interesting comments in there from a cricket fan's point of view, they distract from the main point of the list. Anyone clicking through the scorecard will see that information anyway.
 * I would prefer another table on this page with a list of ODI centuries to there being a separate page for an ODI list. The combined result isn't going to be too long and I think it makes sense to have the two together together.
 * Were any of his centuries scored during his periods as captain? If so, it would be good to highlight these - if not, worth a sentence somewhere?
 * Image:Sachin tendulkar.jpg / Image:Tendulkar closup.jpg are Commons images showing Tendulkar celebrating one of his centuries against Australia (Jan 2007) - might be worth adding.
 * So it's a  weak oppose  at present, with the points in descending order of importance. BencherliteTalk 01:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. I'm presently working on the highlighted points and will revert with an update within 3-4 hours. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 14:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, now the list has both ODI and Test cricket tables. The references format have been altered in both these tables as per the suggestions. Comments are welcome. The lead section will be re-written within 24 hours. Mspraveen (talk) 18:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The name of the list has been updated and the previous FLC discussion has been shifted to this one. Thanks to User:Amarrg, things have been speeded up and the lead section has been setup nicely. Sensible additions and changes to the tables make it look more complete now.
 * Further thoughts from reviewers are welcome. Cheers! Mspraveen (talk) 15:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Excellent work, much improved. I took the liberty of replacing four references for the no of centuries scored by Ponting, Lara, Gavaskar and Tendulkar with just one, added an "accessdate" to another reference, and added one of the photos I mentioned above. Switching to support: excellent work. (Oh, and I fixed the cut-and-paste move of this discussion free of charge!) BencherliteTalk 21:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you wanted something else to do to make it even better, then you could add in the batting position to the test match list for consistency, as it's there in the ODI list. I don't think S/R would be needed for the test list, though. BencherliteTalk 22:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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