Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international cricket centuries by Hashim Amla/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 Hahc21 00:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]
List of international cricket centuries by Hashim Amla (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
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- Nominator(s): The Rambling Man (talk), Zia Khan 21:46, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
One of the finest batsman in the recent cricket, Hashim Amla has played some memorable innings during his career. I worked on his centurys' list and now I think the list is ready to enter the FL status. Pleasure having a co-nominator like The Rambling Man. Looking forward to comments and suggeations Zia Khan 21:46, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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In the first sentence there should be a "the" before South Africa.In the lead photo's alt text, should "beard man" be "bearded man"?Giants2008 (Talk) 21:15, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed both, thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:20, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from —Vensatry (Ping me) 05:00, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply] |
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—Vensatry (Ping me) 17:16, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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- Support —Vensatry (Ping me) 05:00, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from Crisco 1492
- Images look fine (no action required).
Former England captain Geoffrey Boycott - Three blue links together? You may confuse the readers. I suggest delinking "captain".- I've copyedited. Be sure to check. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:15, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Done, thank you. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Support on prose and images. Good job, both of you. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:24, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- "As of April 2013, Amla is thirtieth in the list of century-makers in international cricket, all formats of the game combined" - Stats like this will go out of date very quickly.Tintin 13:46, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Hence the {{as of}} template. Such statements are standard for lists of centuries and the editors seem to keep the articles fairly up to date. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:48, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, if people keep it up to date, fine. Otherwise, little point in still saying in Jan 2015 that Amla was No.30 in April 2013. Tintin 13:51, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, it'll be kept up to date. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- RM, on looking around some other similar articles, this one seems to be more volatile than everything else. For eg, KP's article lists only the runs and number of Tests; Kallis' has his rank among South Africans. They won't change as quickly as this one. Amla is on 30 with Clarke, Cook and de Villiers. Until Amla reach 40+ centuries, this rank is probably going to change every month. Can you please consider a more stable variation. Tintin 02:35, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Well I'm not fussed. If you wish to remove "April" then please feel free to do so. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from The-Pope
- I know it's "the standard" style on most of these sporting lists, but I still think that the giant Key table shouldn't be as big, or before the table of actual data. Surely we can find a variation so that you don't need to scroll down so far to see the actual list? The-Pope (talk) 14:41, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Happy to consider suggestions, but as you say, it's "standard" across most, if not all of these featured lists. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Standard doesn't mean best. How about moving it below the tables, not before it, (above the notes/refs) and making it 2 column (4 column) like this:
Symbol | Meaning | Symbol | Meaning |
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* | Remained not out | H/A/N | Venue was at home (South Africa), away or neutral |
† | Man of the match | Date | Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches |
Balls | Balls faced | Lost | The match was lost by South Africa. |
Pos. | Position in the batting order | Won | The match was won by South Africa. |
Inn. | The innings of the match | Drawn | The match was drawn. |
Test | The number of the Test match played in that series | (D/L) | The match was decided using the Duckworth–Lewis method. |
S/R | Strike rate during the innings |
Sorry I don't understand how scope= works, so I've converted it to standard tables, but sure this or smaller is better? The-Pope (talk) 08:44, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Not bad, but really don't like the blank cell at the bottom right of the table. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- By which I mean it's not an improvement (in my opinion) on what we already have. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:33, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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