Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Sri Lankan Test cricket records/archive1

List of Sri Lankan Test cricket records
This peer review discussion has been closed. I'm planning to take this to Featured list candidates. The format of this list is different from the previous FL's I've done, so I'd like to have some feedback on this before I do that. The article is based on the FL List of Test cricket records. I'm still working on it, and I believe the prose particularly needs a bit of improvement. Any and all suggestions, comments would be most welcome. ≈ Chamal talk ¤ 07:15, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Finetooth comments: This looks good to me, although I know little about cricket. My suggestions mainly have to do with sports jargon that might baffle outsiders. If the jargon can be linked or briefly explained, the article will be more accessible to a wide audience. Otherwise the article is well-written and clear, and the tables look very nice indeed.

Lead
 * "The highest partnership... ". - Wikilink partnership?
 * "Sri Lankan players also hold the highest partnerships for the second, third, fourth, and sixth wickets." - Perhaps "highest partnership scores"?
 * "Sri Lankan players also hold the highest partnerships for the second, third, fourth, and sixth wickets." - Would it be helpful to link wicket on first use?
 * "dominates the bowling records for Sri Lanka" - Link bowling on first use?
 * "the most number of five-wicket hauls" - Link or briefly explain "five-wicket haul"?
 * Link or briefly explain "innings" on first use?

Key
 * The second link (highest wicket partnerships) does not seem to work.
 * "In the case of tied records for the fifth place, they will be listed as well." - Tighten to "Tied records for the fifth place are listed as well"?
 * "Explanations of the general symbols and cricketing terms used in the list to present various information are given below." - Tighten to "Explanations of the general symbols and cricketing terms used in the list are given below"?
 * "Specific details will be provided in each category where appropriate." - "Are" rather than "will be"?
 * "Player is currently active in Test cricket" - Since "currently" might mean 2009 or 2010 or something else, it's usually better to use a specific date; e.g., Player is active in Test cricket in 2010.
 * "Player remained not out/ partnership remained unbroken" - "Or" rather than front slash? The front slash is ambiguous.
 * "Innings was declared (eg: 952–6d)" - Not knowing much about cricket, I don't what 952-6d means. I'm guessing 952 runs, but what does the "6d" stand for? Also, "eg" should be "e.g.".

Team wins, losses and draws
 * "Only two matches have ended in a tie in Test cricket history, and no game played by Sri Lanka has been tied." - This is interesting. Could you add a sentence explaining what unusual conditions might cause a match to end in a tie?

Greatest win margins by innings
 * Should "Innings" have a number associated with it in each entry? I'm not sure how win margins by innings differs from win margins by runs.

Fastest Test half centuries
 * What is the meaning of "Strike rate"? It's a ratio, I see, but a ratio of what to what?

Most ducks in career
 * What is a duck?

Best career average
 * How is the average computed? It's a ratio of what to what?

Most catches in a career
 * Does this mean catches of a batted ball or catches of a batted ball before it hits the ground?

Most dismissals
 * What is a dismissal?

Most stumpings
 * What is a stumping?

Highest wicket partnerships
 * The first date in the date column is missing its month.
 * "Sri Lanka holds the most number of partnership records in Test cricket, with the records for the second, third, fourth, and sixth wickets." - Suggestion: Sri Lanka, the record-holder for the second, third, fourth, and sixth wickets, has highest number of partnership records in Test cricket.

Highest partnerships
 * The last entry is missing its month.

I hope these suggestions prove helpful. If so, please consider reviewing another article, especially one from the PR backlog at WP:PR. That is where I found this one. Finetooth (talk) 00:10, 14 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your detailed review. I think I have addressed all of the issues. ≈ Chamal talk ¤ 11:37, 20 March 2010 (UTC)