Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Indian national cricket captains/archive2


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list removal 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 removed by User:Matthewedwards 22:36, 24 August 2008.

Indian national cricket captains
previous FLC (17:29, 24 November 2005)

There are mostly minor issues here, but the number of them is quite big. -- Crzycheetah 07:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Too many single years are linked
 * Too many links to India national cricket team
 * The note about " a dagger (†)" should be placed better
 * In sub-section Test match captains, the table heading is "Indian Test match captains", which is redundant. This goes to most subsections.
 * The column "played" needs an explanation. Why teams play each other more than once in one year?
 * Do we really need "total" row for captains, who played only one team?
 * "Includes one Tied Test Match" needs an explanation. What's the difference between a tied match and a drawn match?
 * The "Asian Test Championship" note shows that India played first in India, then in Sri Lanka, but the Championship was held in Bangladesh.
 * In Records and highlights subsections, there is uncited information throughout the page.
 * Footnotes should be separated from the citations in the References section.


 * These are all very easy to correct. For deletion review see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Alternatives_to_deletion Lihaas (talk) 05:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This isn't a deletion process. Your link is irrelevant. -- Crzycheetah 06:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Remove unless improved.
 * "this list"—The list, please, which is grammatically better and avoids iss iss.
 * "of Men's cricket, Women's cricket and Youth cricket"—why the caps? MoS breach. Please remove two instances of "cricket".
 * MoS breach in "1960/1" and numerous others: the closing year must be two or four digits. En dashes required for year ranges at the bottom. Single years shouldn't be linked: I'll fix the last issue now.
 * Remove the thousands of percentage signs in the final column, since the key at the top clearly announces "%". Easier to read, then.
 * Remove "percentage": "the highest percentage win rate (56%)".

Look, the text needs a thorough audit. It's worth saving. Can we gather together a team of people to call on when Indian sports lists come up for review? Is there an appropriate WikiProject we can lean on? Tony  (talk)  06:52, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

PS Can someone inform me soon if the date script I've run has caused any problems? And revert if so. Looks OK to me. Tony  (talk)  06:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

The intro is very skewed.
 * Why two lines about the "seven Tests before 1947", and the 1947 tour, which are irrelevant/unimportant for the article.
 * Putting 1983 and 1999-U19 in the same line is a bit of a joke (there was also another U-19 win in 2007 and a U-15 in 1996, by the way)
 * You can't unhesitatingly call 1983 the greatest success because there are Test wins, for eg, 1971 and 2001 which are extremely important. Tintin 06:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Closing comments - Despite the concerns being addressed, the list still fails to meet our criteria in certain areas. Opening sentences that contain "This is a list of..." are no longer in favour, and prose still needs tightening (bolded for effect): "They played only seven tests", "On 25 June 1932 it became the Test nation", "Their first game against other opposition came in", "Also,". Proes also contains hyphens in place of n/m-dashes. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 22:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

previous FLR (22:36, 24 August 2008)
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