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Cricket (insect) has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: May 29, 2015. (Reviewed version).

Several the relevant page naming guideline and these discussions: Move: "Cricket" → "Cricket (sport)", August 2005: No consensus. (Poll, Discussion archive) Move: "Cricket" → "Cricket (sport)", October 2005: Opposed. (Discussion archive) Move: "Cricket" → "Cricket (sport)", Late 2006: Opposed. (Discussion archive) Move: "Cricket (disambiguation)" → "Cricket", February 2007: Opposed. (Discussion archive) Move: "Cricket" → "Cricket (sport)", August 2007: Opposed. (Discussion archive) Move: "Cricket" → "Cricket (sport)", December 2008: Opposed. (Discussion archive) Move: "Cricket (disambiguation)" → "Cricket" and "Cricket" → "Cricket (sport)", September 2019: Not moved. (Discussion archive) Move: "Cricket (disambiguation)" → "Cricket" and "Cricket" → "Cricket (sport)", July 2023: Not moved. (Discussion) The current primary topic .

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A fact from Cricket (insect) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 June 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that deep-fried crickets (pictured) are eaten in southeast Asia? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cricket (insect).

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Some rather disappointing comments above, but see no major objections here to the restoration of content at Gryllidae (done): in order to be taxonomically correct and avoid systemic bias. Personally, I am agnostic as to whether "crickets" should be placed at Gryllidea or Grylloidea – but suggest the latter to be consistent with the modern text quoted on this page … Roy Bateman (talk) 04:18, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In the Portuguese wiki, Grilo links to the taxonomic name rather than the common name Cricket (insect). I tried to change this but found that there seem to be links already created to other articles for Cricket (insect). I am not sufficiently familiar with the process to figure out how to fix this. Can someone walk me through the process? Vivafelis (talk) 17:29, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The "silent nature" sound effect commonly referred to is not actually crickets, but the sound of

The redirect A cricket has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 14 § A human until a consensus is reached. Skynxnex (talk) 13:02, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]