Talk:List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Kapil Dev

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Featured listList of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Kapil Dev is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Kapil Dev is the only player in the history of Test cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets and scored more than 5,000 runs?
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Formatting errors[edit]

Some of the run/wicket columns are inversed from where they should be, and at lest one date is missing a last digit. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 16:11, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Thanks for pointing out! --—Vensatry (Ping me) 16:39, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Informal review[edit]

Article looks good to me, just a few points:

  • Ref2 is a dead link.
  • Why 15 is a special number? not 20, 25 or 30? I may like 20 or 30, let's say.
    • 15 is the figure used in the template and that's the minimum number for the bowling lists. —Vensatry (Ping me) 15:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "at international level", make clear whether it's Test or ODI. Or, the five-wicket haul is defined by an accumulative sum of all the formats? for clarification. —Vensatry (Ping me) 08:16, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • by 'the' Wisden.
  • Ref12 says "One of the best all-rounders of all time" not "greatest". This type of comparison is subjective, so I'd suggest to not use it in this sense.
  • Link "India's tour" with Indian cricket team in England in 1979.
  • Facts should be presented in continuation. Article, in second para, says "Dev held the world record for the most wickets taken in Test cricket" during his retirement. And, in last para it says "he was the leading wicket taker in ODIs at the time of his retirement". So, I think both of these should be presented in a same para. Is chronological ordering is not usual for these kind of articles?
    — Bill william comptonTalk 14:24, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • His ODI record as the leading wicket taker was not notable as the Test one, as it was overhauled by Akram just with in two years. I'm confused so as how to represent both in the same para.—Vensatry (Ping me) 15:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

I've had a quick look, but other than check the prose, I'm not at all familiar with how lists should work. I've copy-edited the lead only and have not touched the list part. Anything you are not happy with, please just revert me. Sarastro1 (talk) 12:23, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Given that the article is about Kapil Dev, would it not be better if the first paragraph began by talking about him, rather than cricket?
  • In fact, none of the cricket FLs I checked with include a separate paragraph on five-fors; compare this to the articles on Warne or Waqar Younis. I think these offer a better opening structure.
  • Is it correct to call him "Dev"? I've always seen him referred to as "Kapil Dev".
    • I earlier used "Kapil Dev", (even I've seen media referring him as Kapil Dev)but it was the suggestion of a reviewer to use the last name alone. —Vensatry (Ping me) 16:39, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • This is a strange one. The Kapil Dev article is very inconsistent, while most sources, doing a fairly random check seem to use "Kapil" rather than "Dev". Personally, I would have thought that "Kapil Dev" was most accurate, but I am a long way from an expert! Sarastro1 (talk) 17:10, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Who named him as Indian cricketer of the century?
  •  Done —Vensatry (Ping me) 16:39, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "making him one of the best all-rounders to have played the game": This needs in-text attribution. Who says that he was one of the best? And I suspect, given the stats cited, it may be less controversial to state "placing him statistically one of the best all-rounders to have played the game".
  • Is it not worth mentioning that he was the first to 400 wickets? Sarastro1 (talk) 12:23, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for copy-editing the article. It looks good to me, with the few things to be discussed:

  • You have used "As of 2012" in a few places. Isn't it better to add a foot note stating "As of June 2012". —Vensatry (Ping me) 16:39, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "His first five-wicket haul came a year later against England in the first Test of India's 1979 tour of England". Is there a need to mention "India's 1979 tour of England", since it's obvious from the first part of the sentence itself. —Vensatry (Ping me) 16:39, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • No, but if the tour is to be mentioned at all, it should be specified which one; otherwise it could actually be an England tour of India. Best way might to be remove any mention of an actual tour, but I'll leave that up to you. Sarastro1 (talk) 17:10, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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