Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Indian national cricket captains/archive2

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The list was removed by User:Matthewedwards 22:36, 24 August 2008 [1].

Indian national cricket captains

previous FLC (17:29, 24 November 2005)

There are mostly minor issues here, but the number of them is quite big.

Too many single years are linked
Too many links to India national cricket team
The note about " a dagger (†)" should be placed better
In sub-section Test match captains, the table heading is "Indian Test match captains", which is redundant. This goes to most subsections.
The column "played" needs an explanation. Why teams play each other more than once in one year?
Do we really need "total" row for captains, who played only one team?
"Includes one Tied Test Match" needs an explanation. What's the difference between a tied match and a drawn match?
The "Asian Test Championship" note shows that India played first in India, then in Sri Lanka, but the Championship was held in Bangladesh.
In Records and highlights subsections, there is uncited information throughout the page.
Footnotes should be separated from the citations in the References section.

--Crzy cheetah 07:40, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These are all very easy to correct. For deletion review see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Alternatives_to_deletion Lihaas (talk) 05:27, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't a deletion process. Your link is irrelevant. --Crzy cheetah 06:15, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Remove unless improved.

"this list"—The list, please, which is grammatically better and avoids iss iss.
"of Men's cricket, Women's cricket and Youth cricket"—why the caps? MoS breach. Please remove two instances of "cricket".
MoS breach in "1960/1" and numerous others: the closing year must be two or four digits. En dashes required for year ranges at the bottom. Single years shouldn't be linked: I'll fix the last issue now.
Remove the thousands of percentage signs in the final column, since the key at the top clearly announces "%". Easier to read, then.
Remove "percentage": "the highest percentage win rate (56%)".

Look, the text needs a thorough audit. It's worth saving. Can we gather together a team of people to call on when Indian sports lists come up for review? Is there an appropriate WikiProject we can lean on? Tony (talk) 06:52, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS Can someone inform me soon if the date script I've run has caused any problems? And revert if so. Looks OK to me. Tony (talk) 06:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The intro is very skewed.

Why two lines about the "seven Tests before 1947", and the 1947 tour, which are irrelevant/unimportant for the article.
Putting 1983 and 1999-U19 in the same line is a bit of a joke (there was also another U-19 win in 2007 and a U-15 in 1996, by the way)
You can't unhesitatingly call 1983 the greatest success because there are Test wins, for eg, 1971 and 2001 which are extremely important. Tintin 06:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Closing comments - Despite the concerns being addressed, the list still fails to meet our criteria in certain areas. Opening sentences that contain "This is a list of..." are no longer in favour, and prose still needs tightening (bolded for effect): "They played only seven tests", "On 25 June 1932 it became the Test nation", "Their first game against other opposition came in", "Also,". Proes also contains hyphens in place of n/m-dashes. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 22:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

previous FLR (22:36, 24 August 2008)

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