Talk:William O'Rourke (cricketer)

William O'Rourke (cricketer) has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation 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: April 4, 2024. (Reviewed version).

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Nominator: RoboCric (talk · contribs) 19:19, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Axjuo (talk · contribs) 16:45, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Successful good article nomination

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If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to have it Good article reassessed. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations. MPLS SUD JIT (talk) 20:01, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Successful good article nomination

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"Personal life" and "Playing style" section description is fine. If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to have it Good article reassessed. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations.— Axjuo (talk) 20:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've just rewritten this, mainly for copy editing, a little factual accuracy, and written English style. Partly it avoids some very short sentences and repetitive elements (in particular in respect to the various debuts), partly it's avoiding quite so many colloquialisms and non-standard English. I've also moved the style section to the bottom which is where it would usually be. I've re-used some references and been able to remove the odd CricketArchive one. We could probably find prose sources to replace some of the scorecard ones without too many problems.

I suspect that we could merge the early life and early career sections without losing anything very much as well.

I will admit at this point to being a little surprised that this was elevated with Good Article status with at least one obvious written English error and with a number of obvious other issues - for example, I find no evidence that he is "popularly known" as anything other than Will; one journalist doesn't make something popular at all. Blue Square Thing (talk) 13:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]