I was looking at the scorecard at Cricketarchive of the 1909 Philadelphia v Ireland match (following the link from the King article), and was surprised to see the name of HV Hordern in the Philadelphia eleven. Hordern played Test cricket for Australia, so the quiz question would be: "Which Test cricketer played for Philadelphia?" His profile on Cricinfo revealed that in 1907 (and the following years?) he was studying in Pennsylvania, as part of his training as a doctor, which presumably explains how he came to be playing for the Philadelphians. It would make a good DYK, but the Wiki article on Hordern would need to be expanded first. JH (talk page) 20:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've now expanded the article. I had the idea of perhaps submitting it for DYK myself, but having now seen the requirements for an article to be a valid DYK article I've dropped the idea. (But by all means go ahead yourself if you'd like to.) JH (talk page) 21:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have seen it now :) It would be OK for DYK if you can add another paragraph or two. Is there nothing more in Cricinfo or CricketArchive? -- ALoan(Talk)21:57, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
When a conversation becomes three or four way, it becomes hard to know where to respond. I've done so on Tintin's talk page. JH (talk page) 18:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Glad to be of help. Feel free to change or copyedit anything that I add because the quality of my English prose isn't exactly "compelling, even brilliant" :-) Tintin04:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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In case you are wondering where it has gone, your DYK article was included in an update earlier today, but I replaced it with another entry to avoid all of them being US-related. It should appear in the next update at about 6 hours after the message above. -- ALoan(Talk)15:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Evadb/Archive27August2007, thank you for the recent support in my recent RFA. However, even with your generous support the RFA did not succeed. I still hope to become a sysop in the future and have compiled a list of things to do before having another RFA.
I don't know if there's a problem with the reflist template, but I can only see the first item in the Notes section. I think the categories box is possibly superimposed over the remainder. This may be related to the fact that I use 800x600 screen resolution, because I'm short-sighted. Would you be willing to replace the template by <references/> - which hopefully would be equivalent but without the glitch? JH (talk page) 21:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Rather reminds me of the 'Great Chatham with his sabre drawn' poem. Hardly a surprise but HDG is an agnatic descendant of the Earls Gower. Alci1215:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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 nixon08:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The eligibility for players born in the USVI is a thorny one. The way I read the rules, they'd be eligible for both the West Indies and the USA, but it seems strange that you could be eligible by birth for two different national teams! The same problem applies to St Maarten and the Netherlands. Andrew nixon14:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey there. I just wanted to congratulate you on the top work you are doing on US related cricket articles. No doubt you are already aware of it but the book The Tented Field by Tom Melville covers the history of US cricket quite well. Cheers, --Roisterer03:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I passed the GA, but there is one glaring issue that needs addressing. It's on the article's talk page. Since it's very easy to fix and should only take a second I passed it. Please address it however, as I said it should only take a second. Quadzilla9912:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I looked over George Patterson as well. Rather than put it on hold I figured I'd ask you a couple of questions because the issues I have might not be addressable. I assume because he played so long ago it would be very hard to find any info about his early life, is that correct? Even if you could only find enough to write 2-3 sentences such as "George Patterson was born to Ethel and James Patterson, middle class owners of a [x] business in city, state" (or whatever). If you can't find info then it's a non-actionable objection so don't worry. This sentence could be polished: "In America Patterson played many big innings." See here, if it's not possible to use an exact number then just use more formal language or quote someone. Quadzilla9906:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
To be clear I didn't review Patterson yet. I was hoping you could get some info on his early life (maybe his personal life as well). I was just asking you if that was possible because if it isn't I'm leaning toward passing it. Quadzilla9908:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi. Unless I'm mistaken you nominated Laurence Dalton for DYK and were responsible for the wording now appearing there. I'm curious to know why the incredibly specific claim that Dalton was embezzling tabards found its way into the DYK blurb without being mentioned anywhere in the present article or any of its past historical revisions. This is a little backwards, no? (To be perfectly frank, too, I'm rather skeptical regarding this point, too -- surely one doesn't "embezzle" a physical thing like a tabard, one "steals" it; and if some source says (like the article does) that he was planning to "embezzle from the Great Wardrobe" surely the most logical construction we can put upon this is that he was planning to embezzle money from what today we'd call the budget of that office.) Thanks very much, Doops | talk22:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Evadb, I've turned the entry into a comment for now. When this matter is cleared please do find an admin to re-add it, but this is just to shaky for me right now.--Carabinieri22:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't sure about the sentence which tailed off "...when he was..." so I added "there" as a guess (it was that or chop it out completely), but you may want to fix it if it is wrong. I guess you got distracted halfway through typing, I'm always doing that. Cheers, Yomanganitalk14:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I also did an article on John Thayer (cricketer) who was an American cricketer who died on the titanic. Funnily enough his 17 year old son already had an article on wikipedia, having given an account of how he survived. Nick mallory08:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well the gallery was getting larger than the article itself, with everything from national to family coats of arms, with red links, etc. I chose a few with different designs of shields, but the selection can certainly be improved. What I would like to avoid is an indiscriminate ever-expanding collection of images. Cheers. --Qyd14:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for asking me! I certainly can make one for Bart King. I probably won't have the time to make it today, but I should certainly have it done sometime tomorrow. Raven4x4x23:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are some rough edges (heling -- sp?) I saw some weasel and peacock terms in the text (commented on one too intext) See WP:AWT, WP:APT. After you finish, you can put it up on FAC where grammar hawks might tear it up further. Regards, =Nichalp«Talk»=17:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This relates the the Bart King picture on the PPR. I am the seconder for that picture and uploaded an edit that adresses quality issues with that picture. I belive the original has a great chance at being featured and if you get around to nominating it please feel free to add this edit as an alternative. Edit -Fcb98106:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
From your /philly: "The following is a list of tours played overseas by the Philadelphians. These all included first-class matches..." A search on the CricketArchive site didn't throw up any f-c matches for the 1884 and 1889 tours of England. I searched on team names including "Philadelphia" (which would also pick up "Philadelphians", "Gentlemen of Philadelphia", etc), for years from 1880 to 1890 and with results limited to f-c matches. Of course, it's possible that the matches were played but that CricketArchive hasn't yet got around to adding them, though the site seems to have pretty comprehensive coverage. JH (talk page) 19:04, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Sorry, I'll upload the rest in a few days. My laptop has got messed up and been too lazy to repair it. Once that is done, I'll start scanning again. Tintin06:21, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I was listening to a cricket commentary on the radio and the story was told that founding father John Adams said he supported the title of 'President' for the nation's leader because if it was good enough for a cricket club it was good enough for a country. Is that true? I came across a few links, you've probably seen them but they might be of interest. Nick mallory11:32, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You can search the contents of lots of books at Amazon.com; if you pull up the McCullough book about Adams, search for "cricket" and "President," it says p. 389 (for some reason the excerpt shown has it on p. 405.): "... There were presidents of fire companies and cricket clubs, Adams observed. A committee appointed to consider the issue reported back with the suggested title "His Highness the President ..." HTH, Kaisershatner15:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Cricket Archive has today added a lot of old scorecards from USA and Canadian cricket that you may be interested in. It also includes a handful of Philadelphian matches from before (and one after) their first-class days. See the following:
Even more has been added today. It seems that some of it is being added into the Canadian section, so look out for that. Andrew nixon09:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. The old Dano-Norwegian arms was rather complicated, but beautiful. Interestingly, the Norwegian lion's blade is incorrectly coloured, it should have been silver. The image isn't completely aligned, since I almost tripped over a red cordon. :) When I get more time, I hope to to upload some examples of arms used by the Danish nobility. Danish heraldist Harald Storck made more than 1,500 black-and-white drawings and he died back in 1922. I've checked out a book with reproductions of his drawings so if you need the arms of a Danish noble family, by all means drop me a note. ValentinianT / C22:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Evadb and well done on this superbly crafted piece of work. Unfortunately I was not around to help the cause, but I have 180k of cricket article expansions on my hard drive to compensate :). Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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This article doesn't look to be in a good shape, I was looking to update about cricket being recognized as a varsity sport in New York but looking at the article, we need to clean it up a bit 1st. Is there any other article that it should be added in? Anyways, can you help me clean up the article?--THUGCHILDz16:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well I still think we should have an article on it even though we need to clear it out because I don't think it's appropriate to put current things into the history article.--THUGCHILDz02:47, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
"In the Senate, the issue of titles, and particularly the question of how the President was to be addressed, superceded all other business.... When Senator Ellsworth observed how very ordinary the mere appellation of President sounded, Adams immediately concurred from the Chair. There were presidents of fire companies and cricket clubs, Adams observed. A committee appointed to consider the issue reported back with the suggested title 'His Highness the President of the United States of America and Protector of the Rights of the Same.' But it was Adams who took the lead in advocating titles." -David McCullough, John Adams, p. 405
I saw your query on the talk page a while ago, and just recently got to this point in the book. I hope you can use it; if you would like more info, let me know. –Sarregouset(Talk)00:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I was just looking through my talk page and I realised that you asked me whether I could do one of my graphs for Bart King over a month ago. I'm sorry it's taken so long, but university has kept me extremely busy and I've had to almost totally stop editing altogether. This week is the final week of semester though, so I will be able to have the graph on Saturday or Sunday. Raven4x4x11:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I have just today seen my bio on wikipedia and have made some changes to correct some points and add some. You asked a question what was meant by Associate Knight - until 1999 all members received in the Priory in the US or in the American Society which preceded it were received as associates because the priory was in a country which had not been a territory over which HM the Queen had ruled since the foundation of the Order (unlike the Priory of South Africa, founded when it was a colony). In 1999 the statutes of the Order were changed and all those admitted as associates became full members. Thank you also for resisting the changes by mr de Sousa who is (as you will have seen) involved with Poidimani, who has been arrested with his associates and charged with several crimes and who lost his case against me.--Guy Sainty19:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I've checked my copy of The Chambers Dictionary (ISBN0-550-14000-X, published in Edinburgh) and there doesn't seem to be a spelling of honourary anywhere in the world.
Thanks for the notice on hono(u)rary. I'm not British myself, but have many colleagues that spell it with the "u." I suppose I'll have to start correcting them. Thanks.--Evabd20:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, thanks for your reply! Honorary appears to have come to the English language straight from Latin, which is probably why it doesn't have the u that shows honour’s route via French. umdrums22:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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