User talk:Andrew nixon

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Contents 1 Welcome to Wikipedia! 2 Sections 3 Barnstar 4 Userpage 5 Welcome 6 Rugby League WikiProject 7 Japanese cricket team 8 John Beyer 9 WCL Division Three 10 ☆ 11 World Cricket League 12 DYK 13 Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can 14 Dougie Brown 15 Irish cricketers 16 Re: Darn Good Work 17 US Cricket Sandbox

[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Feel Free to Directly contact me!!! I Love helping you guys out!! After all I was new here about 3 months ago!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 22:17, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sections

Andrew, Great work on the national cricket teams. A very minor tip: we generally don't use single ='s in sections names. Use doubles or more. See Wikipedia:Section#Creation_of_sections. Regards -- Ian ≡ talk 14:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant! You deserve this!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For contributing valuable articles about the lesser known national teams in cricket, I, hereby award you this Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 15:16, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

Hi Andrew! As you have noticed your work here is much appreciated. Why dont you create your own User Page? It will let us know you better. You already seem to be quite comfortable with Wikipedia, so I guess making the page wouldnt be much of a problem. Also why dont you become a WikiProject Cricket participant?

Keep up the good work!

Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 15:29, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Indeed, welcome, and thanks for the new pages. I take it you are working through the redlinks on International Cricket Council? When you have done all of the national teams, there are lots of governing bodies to do too ;) -- ALoan (Talk) 17:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm doing the national team pages first, then I'm going to work on pages for the various non-test tournaments I mention in the tournament histories plus one on the Austral-Asia Cup, then some work on the qualification for the 2011 World Cup (which is mainly covered by the non-test tournaments anyway). Then I'll have a look at the governing bodies :)

Very ambitious - well, good luck. (You can sign posts on talk pages with four tildes, by the way - thus ~~~~) -- ALoan (Talk) 11:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rugby League WikiProject

You may consider joining. You are doing a great job of creating cricket team pages for the weaker nations. Thanks Gizza^{Chat ©} 06:27, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese cricket team

I was waiting for someone to make that page :) But, you have made a slight oversight: Japan has qualified for the Cricket World Cup, and played a number of full One Day Internationals, although suffering some stinging defeats in the process. In a similar vein, the USA and China are probably the world's top "soccer" sides... and the world's highest individual ODI score isn't Saeed Anwar's 194, but the 229* of Belinda Clark. For reasons that I can not begin to imagine, in Japan, cricket is something of a women's game! The men's team is a long way behind in comparison. (I think the BBC covered this some time ago, but the vast majority of coverage is for men's cricket so it is hard to track it down). IIRC, the Japanese women's team is about on a par with Bangladesh; while this is hardly a signal of top class quality, the gulf between the men's team and even a lowly side like Oman or Gibraltar is pretty wide. TheGrappler 12:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Beyer

Please excercise due regard for references in your editing of this article, c.f. WP:LIVING. Speculative content is inappropriate here, especially so in biographies. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 23:33, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WCL Division Three

Hey, just a question; how did you come to know the Division Three event is supposed to be held in the United States? Sam Vimes | Address me 14:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ☆

A WP:CRIC barnstar for your sterling efforts on filling the redlinks on List of International Cricket Council members and working towards a completed {{National cricket teams}}. Keep up the good work! -- ALoan (Talk) 21:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Cricket League

I'd argue that we don't need articles for each individual division - everything that can be said about those divisions could, I think be merged into the main article (which is rather short if you take out the teams, which one should do when treating the tournament). So I'd like to move the current articles ICC World Cricket League Division One and Division Two to 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division One, as each individual tournament should be treated separately. Sam Vimes | Address me 13:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 20 September 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Slovenian cricket team, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Magnificent work! Thanks! --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 18:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Well done, but your thanks are mis-directed, I am afraid - it wasn't me who nominated it, but rather Johnlp (see this diff). -- ALoan (Talk) 09:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

My mistake, I'm getting myself confused! Andrew nixon 10:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The thanks are all due to you: I think the work you've been doing on these unsung bits of the cricket project is first rate. And I just thought the Slovenian story was too good not to be shared. Well done. Johnlp 09:42, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

[edit] Dougie Brown

Thank you for reviewing the situation as per Dougie Brown. I knew I was being a tad bold in adding the category, but since it was removed, I suppose there's no harm done. Bobo. 23:18, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish cricketers

Hi, Andrew. Further to your entry on the Project Cricket talk page, I'm not sure if I can commit to an concerted joint effort towards the expansion of Irish first-class cricketers, but I'll do my level best. I plan to expand (and where necessary, create) articles relating to major figures in the history of the Irish game, some historical, some contemporary. I shall certainly ensure that all recent Irish internationals are included. I just completed an expansion of your excellent Lucius Gwynn article, maybe we can work out a more concrete basis for co-operation in the near future.

Keep up the good work on associate and affiliate nations! DublinDilettante 03:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for creating a page about Ham Lambert, a man I knew well and admired greatly. I have added to and somewhat altered it to include information about his life outside of sport, plus a little more about his sporting activities outside of cricket. Abbeyvet 00:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Darn Good Work

You Wrote: Just congratulating you on your work on Bart King. I'm a fan of King's and it is good to see him get such a comprehensive write up. I plan on getting articles up on all first-class cricketers from Philadelphia's cricketing golden age by the end of the year and any help you can provide would be much appreciated! I created the Philadelphian cricket team and Christie Morris articles, so any help you can give on them would also be appreciated. Keep up the good work! Andrew nixon 15:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll start with King and try to get that at least to GA or A and then try moving onto the others. I'm still new to Cricket, so I may move a bit slow. Thanks for the encouragement.--Eva ^bd 19:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the new infobox, as well. Great work!--Eva ^bd 19:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] US Cricket Sandbox

You Wrote: I've just made a slight edit on the US cricket sandbox. Whilst the games in 1913 were the last in the USA until 2004, games were played on US soil in the interim, in the US Virgin Islands which are part of the West Indies for cricket purposes. Don't get me started on which national side players born there are eligible for! Andrew nixon 08:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I did not realize that the USVI were considered part of the West Indies for cricket purposes. Are there any current players from the USVI on the Windies team. I can understand that they'd rather play for the West Indies if they have a choice between them and our block-headed administration. Thanks again.--Eva ^bd 14:14, 10 March 2007 (UTC)