Talk:Craig McDermott

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 17:13, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Bankruptcy section

While I make no comment on the factual content of this section, it is full of sly, weasel language. The best example is the following: "It was revealed McDermott's second wife intended to sue him for allegedly refusing to pay child support". Revealed means to make something known, which was previously meant to be kept secret, and it implies there is some truth (indeed, unpleasant truth) to the allegation. Yet what is revealed is that an ex-wife intended to sue him: well, did she or didn't she? If she did, what is the current status of the case? What's particularly weaselly about this is that although the word revealed actually applies to a statement about someone's intentions, its connotations carry-over to the remainder of the sentence, implying that there's some truth to the allegation about refusing to pay child support. And did he refuse, or was he simply unable to pay? I don't know. But if the writer does know, then he (or she) should either say so or shut up. (Anyone who has ever been around a dispute between spouses, current or ex, knows that all sorts of allegations get made, often in order to "raise the temperature", and that is not something a Wikipedia article ought to be engaged in.) And no, I am not a defender of Craig McDermott. Never met the bloke. I simply came here looking for some factual information on his cricket career and noticed this stuff.

Finally: does he really live in a house that is 1092 cubic metres? If my shaky math is correct, and we assume that the ceilings are 3m high, that would mean a floor area of about 364 square metres, which in turn would mean an area roughly 19m by 19m. That's about 50% larger than the average house in the area where I live, but I don't think it qualifies as mansion-size. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlistairLW (talk • contribs) 14:53, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Craig McDermott

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Craig McDermott's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "firsttest":

• From West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1984–85: "Wisden: First Test Australia v West Indies 1984-85 Match Report". Retrieved 26 January 2013.
• From List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Shane Warne: "The Frank Worrell Trophy – 2nd Test Australia v West Indies (1993)". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
• From List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Glenn McGrath: "The Frank Worrell Trophy – 1st Test". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
• From List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Wasim Akram: "Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series – 3rd Test". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
• From List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Stuart Broad: "England tour of West Indies, 1st Test: West Indies v England at Kingston, Feb 4–7, 2009". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 2015-08-25. Retrieved 9 August 2015.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 11:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Public life

Articles cited as sources in public life were deemed “not tabloids” by the user “Nthep” and yet the definition of a tabloid is “ a newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories.” - the very nature of all articles cited as sources in this section. Cricketlegends01 (talk) 04:58, 13 March 2022 (UTC)