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History of Test cricket (1890 to 1900) edit

Self nom (though others have also contributed), jguk 15:10, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I did a rather massive edit and combined a lot of those ultra-short paragraphs. I think that part of it is close to FA standard now, however there are still some minor grammer & pov issues that need work, and there are still some short paragraphs there. Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 20:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Object. The images Image:Lord Hawke.jpg and Image:Joe Darling.jpg have no source or copyright information. In case you missed it, that's grounds for speedy deletion of the image these days. --Carnildo 06:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the image copyrights. Stephen Turner 14:24, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Object—Prose needs work. Lots of broken links. More pictures, PLEASE.

'Stoddart's tour of Australia in 1897/8 ended in an emphatic victory for Australia by 4 tests to 1.' What, they played five tests right at the end of the tour?

'The first Test was delayed, at the instigation of the SCG to allow time for Ranjitsinhji to recover from tonsillitis and because Andrew Stoddart's mother had died.' Just one example of poor punctuation in the article.

'The tour matches before the tests were well attended, with 69,195 attending the game against New South Wales, of whom 32,253 attended on the Saturday, but attendances tailed off later.' Clumsy: 'with' + '-ing' is poor style; 'but' as a contrastive is not entirely transparent, and the last clause is a bit stubby. 'Tailed off'—is this the correct expression?

Where possible, spell out numbers less than 10.

Jones'—two syllables, so I'd make it s's.

'day 2'—'Day 2' or 'Day Two', even? Tony 14:42, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Object, prose isn't up to par; too much like sensationalist journalism. --Spangineer (háblame) 00:03, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]