Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Collaboration of the fortnight

This page is for discussion on what the WikiProject Cricket Collaboration of the Fortnight should be. Anyone is free to contribute, but please don't nominate or support an option unless you are willing to help it improve if it is elected as the fortnight's collaboration. Only positive support votes will be counted, except in the case of a tie. Please also only vote for a collaboration if you are willing to take part.

The current Collaboration of the fortnight is Donald Bradman.

Purpose of the collaboration

Personally, I think the purpose of the collaboration should be to work up a cricket-related article to featured article status. The articles should either be in a key cricket area (eg pages on the Test nations) or alternatively close enough to featured article status already such that a collaboration is likely to bring it up to FA quality, jguk 12:19, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Previous collaborations

The following articles were previously collaborations of the fortnight:

• From 22 May 2005: The Ashes (before, after)
• From 5 June 2005: Laws of cricket (before, after)
• From 26 June 2005: History of Test cricket (1890 to 1900) (before, after)
• From 10 July 2005: West Indies cricket team (before, after)

Nominations

International cricket in South Africa (1971 to 1981)

1. Supportjguk 12:19, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
2. Support Very important in the history of cricket. The start of the comeback of the South-african team. Gaurav Arora 07:09, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

World Cricket Tsunami Appeal

1. Support, jguk 12:20, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
2. Support, Spawn Man 01:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

History of cricket

1. Support an overview page that needs improvement, jguk 12:19, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
   • Comment I think this may be a bit to all-encompassing for a fortnight. Would it be better to have it in smaller chunks? Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 15:46, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
2. No Not mature enough. Too many gaps. Tintin1107 18:20, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Shane Warne

1. Propose One of the all-time great cricketers, so deserves a great article! Also about to play in the Ashes. Article is currently mediocre-to-adequate, but would be a good candidate to make really good. Stephen Turner 30 June 2005 13:59 (UTC)
2. Support =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:43, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. If this is chosen, someone please leave a note on my talk page and I'll be happy to help. Luvya Warnie! Harro5 10:27, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Bangladeshi cricket team

1. Propose The newest test playing country, lost too many games, but yet from time to time, staged some of the biggest upsets in history (defeated Australia, India, Pakistan over extreme odds). The article is not in a good shape now, it would be a good candidate for improvement. --Ragib 10:32, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
2. Conditional support. I can add limited stuff only & make a map or two. Don't have too much knowledge of Ban. cricket, but will help in whatever way I can. =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:27, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
3. Support Spawn Man 01:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

oppose

Sachin Tendulkar

• He too deserves FA status =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:27, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

1. Support. Agree - Ian ≡ talk 13:13, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
2. Support DevanJedi 01:00, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
3. Support and will be able to help. Nobleeagle 22:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
4. Support This Article should become of FA status. Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 07:39, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
5. Oppose. He's a worthy subject, of course, but it's too difficult to get NPOV for current and recent Indian and Pakistani players. I feel that the article is likely to deteriorate quickly as supporters and detractors add their own opinions, so I feel that effort would be better spent elsewhere. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:22, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Lord's cricket ground

• Home of cricket. Venue for 2012 Olympics. Needs to be FA'd before then. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:27, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Melbourne cricket ground

• My favourite ground, the largest. =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:27, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

1. Support. Hosted 1st intercolonial & 1st Test - Ian ≡ talk 13:13, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. It is indeed a shame that it is so short compared to the Sydney Cricket Ground entry. --J L C Leung 04:35, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

International Cricket Council

• Some improvements could see it one day being on the Main Page. =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:27, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

World Cup scorecards

• More in-depth, will be more useful to reader eg. who got top score, most wickets etc.User:Avi September 6, 2005