Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/India national cricket team/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 01:09, 3 April 2007.

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India national cricket team

Has just had a PR. Made a few minor tweaks. With the world cup going on this seemed like as go a time as any. Buc 17:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose - there is quite a lot of POV there and the history section, among others is not up to scratch. There is an extreme inbalance towards post 2000, and the 1960-1970s are hardly covered. All the politics etc, is also not covered properly. Indian cricket is quite hard to do properly, because there is so much political stuff going on, apart from just the cruicket. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment India and the World Cup aren't the best of friends at the moment. I think Indian cricket team being featured during the World Cup might rekindle the anger of numerous Indian supporters. :P 58.178.193.108 07:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  • LOL, well put xC | ☎ 07:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Featuring a team which was kicked out at the first level doesn't make sense. Perhaps some other team, which played better? Also, the article isn't well balanced, and I agree with Blnguyen, post 2000 is overflowing (ironic,considering they havent done that well) while the politics aspect hasn't been looked at. Strong oppose, the article doesn't merit FA. xC | ☎ 07:29, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose—1a. Idiomatic nuances are often wrong. Needs an audit throughout for redundant wording and commas. Please find a WPian who's unfamiliar with the text to go through the entire article; here are random examples of problems.
  • Title needs to be "IndiaN". See text within the article ...
  • "has continued to be highly ranked since then"—make it "has been highly ..."
  • "and was runners-up in 2003"—singular or plural?
  • "The current team contains many of the world's leading players"—Plainer is better: "has many.
  • "The team was ousted from the 2007 Cricket World Cup tournament in the group stages following an abysmal performance by the team."—Can the repetition at start and finish be avoided?
  • "After slow beginnings, the Parsis were eventually invited by the Europeans to play a match in 1877."—Plural beginnings is unidiomatic here. Remove "eventually"? Does "the Europeans" refer to the previously mentioned British, or do you need to fill us in on other Europeans who were present?
  • "Some of these, such as Ranjitsinhji and KS Duleepsinhji were greatly appreciated by"—second comma needed for nested phrase. Check commas throughout, please.
  • "in 1952[12] and later in the year"—the idiom is "later that year"; comma after [12].
  • "They continued their improvement throughout the early"—"to improve" would be idiomatic.
  • "India was not considerably strong"—unidiomatic; remove "considerably"?
  • "India suffered from lack of form and fitness from its older players"—not "from", but "in". Tony 00:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.