Talk:1975 Cricket World Cup/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 12:59, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Will review. MWright96 (talk) 12:59, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Lead

"was the first edition" - how about inagural to avoid close reptition of the word "first"
"plus leading Associate nations" - better and the two leading Associate nations
"The teams were divided into two groups of four, with each team playing the other teams" - too many mention of the word "teams"
"all were played during the day and hence started early." - played and ended in daylight.
"while the West Indies finished top of Group B" - top of the Group B table
Wikilink runs and wickets to the appropriate articles for those unfamiliar with cricket

Background

"The first multilateral competition at international level" - Should it not be made clear that it was a cricket tournament to set the scene?
"But the weather and public antipathy saw the concept of the tournament scrapped after only one edition." - better; The concept was later dropped because of inclement weather and a lack of public interest.
"The first instance of a one-day match to occur was in 1962" - more concise; The first one-day match occurred in 1962
Wikilink wicket, over, deliveries and balls to their appropriate articles to help non-cricket readers
"This was due to the deluge of rain" - a deluge
"Australia chased down the target" - I believe the text in bold is somewhat informal
"Two years later at Lord's during the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup, plans were made for a men's tournament to take place in 1975 which involved all the test nations at the time in two group stages with the top two in each group qualifying for the semi-final before the final at Lord's." - Think that this section of text could be made into two sentences

Format

"The format of the 1975 Cricket World Cup had the eight teams split into two groups of four teams, with each team playing all the other teams in their group." - too many uses of the word "team" in close proximity in one sentence. Can it be reworked a little?

Venues

"The rest of the venues were revealed on 5 November 1974 with the scheduling for the 1975 Prudential Cup" - wouldn't event suffice in place of the text in bold?

Preparations

"Heading into the first Cricket World Cup, Ladbrokes betting agency" - the Ladbrokes betting agency
"Before the tournament, the teams played in a few warm-up matches" - How many matches specially?
"to get used to the conditions" - more formal; acquaint themselves with
"East Africa,[9] Sri Lanka[10] and" - a comma is missing after "Lanka" and "[10]"
Wikilink wide to Wide (cricket) for non-cricket readers
- This issue has not been addressed as of now. MWright96 (talk) 20:18, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"the ICC declared in a unanimous decision that any of the balls that went over a batsman's head to be a called a wide" - would be called wide

Group stage: Summary

Wikilink innings for readers unfamiliar with cricket
"The West Indies took a nine-wicket victory over Sri Lanka as the Sri Lankans became the first team" - try to avoid reptition of Sri Lankans as a similar word
"as The Daily Telegraph stated that they might not have many new admirers with their short ball stuff" - It would be benefical to include the author of The Daily Telegraph in this sentence
"The other match in Group A saw only 720 people pay to see India" - more formal; saw 720 specators observe
Keith Fletcher does not need to be linked twice in this section
"and going top of the group" - either top of the group table or to the lead of the group table would suffice
"as the West Indies finished top" - top of the table
"the West Indies took on Australia to see who would go top of Group B." - either who would take the lead of the Group B table. or would go to the top of the Group B table. would be better
"The other match in Group A saw England clench an overwhelming victory" - the word "overwhelming" is not neutral and will have to be replaced or removed

Semi-finals

"as they chased the remaining runs to book Australia's spot." - more formal; earn Australia a berth in the final.
"produce hostility for New Zealand" - I believe there is a better method to write this portion of text but am not able to conjure it up.

Final

"The 1975 final saw the match sold out three days before the 21 June event." - better; The final match on 21 June was sold out three days beforehand.
"would go on to score 291 for eight wickets from their 60 overs" - "their" is redundant
"After being given a life from a Ross Edwards dropped chance at mid-wicket" - not sure what is meant my a life in this regard
"brought hope. But it was not to be." - I don't believe this portion of text is encyclopedic in the slighest. Please reword to make it formal
"The West Indies won by 17 runs as they claimed their first title on what was the longest day of the year." - Am unsure as to why that it was the longest day of the year had any affect on the final

Statistics

"Glenn Turner ended the tournament as the leading run scorer for the 1975 edition" - "for the 1975 edition" is redundant because you're already refering to the tournament earlier in this portion of text
"Australian player, Gary Gilmour" - Gary Gilmour of Australia
"In second place was English player, Dennis Amiss" - the comma highlighted in bold is unecessary here
"Bernard Julien and Keith Boyce (both from the West Indies)" - better; The West Indies duo of Bernard Julien and Keith Boyce
- Haven't seen any action taken to address these issues after my previous inspection. MWright96 (talk) 20:04, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

Reference 2 should be ESPNcricinfo not Cricinfo
Reference 6 should have ESPNcricinfo as the publisher not the work
Reference 15 is missing the author who wrote the article and the page number it is located on

Overall the main issues concerning this article is the way that some of the prose is presented to the general reader and the tone that it is written in. There are other issues with the formatting of referencing. Will put on hold for the time being. MWright96 (talk) 15:44, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MWright96: I have gone through the list that has been set, I will need to add a little bit about the Canadian trip that Australia had before the tournament as they were the only team that didn't have any warm-ups in England with their warm-up being in Canada. HawkAussie (talk) 11:22, 23 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And they have been added, HawkAussie (talk) 11:18, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MWright96: Any update on this review? HawkAussie (talk) 03:28, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@HawkAussie: Now promoting to GA class. I have made changes to the prose of the article and added wikilinks for non-Cricket readers. MWright96 (talk) 06:21, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]