Talk:Bob Simpson (cricketer)

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This article was previously at Bob Simpson. An anon IP did a copy-paste of the article to a new article inappropriately named Bob Simpson (Cricketer), then overwrote the Bob Simpson article with a disambig notice. This caused two problems:

1. it destroyed the edit history of the cricketer article;
2. the article title incorrectly capitalises "Cricketer".

I have fixed the problems by

1. reverting Bob Simpson to the cricketer article;
2. moving it to Bob Simpson (cricketer);
3. converting Bob Simpson back into a disambig page;
4. converting Bob Simpson (Cricketer) into a redirect to Bob Simpson (cricketer).

This has saved the edit history of the cricketer article, but the edit history to the disambig page has been lost. A lesser evil. Sam, your recent edit to Bob Simpson (Cricketer) has been lost, but you flagged it with a comment that you were only making the edit for the opportunity to alert people to the copy-paste. I don't know if you want to put it in Bob Simpson (cricketer).

Snottygobble | Talk 00:07, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 17:06, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Bob Simpson (cricketer)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Bob Simpson (cricketer)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auslist":

• From Steve Waugh: "Statsguru - Australia - Tests - Results list". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-12-21.
• From Mark Taylor (cricketer): "Statsguru - Australia - Tests - Results list". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2007-12-21.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 06:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Mark Taylor Info is incorrect

Mark Taylor didn't make his debut in the 1989 Ashes series, he actually made his debut in the 4th Test against the West Indies of the 88/89 series. He didn't really start scoring heavily until England, but he was already capped before he arrived there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.177.218.51 (talk) 00:32, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

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Missing references

This article is riddled with references to books not included in the reference section. All it says is Author Surname and page number, with no further info. Either the editor responsable needs to add the info for the references, or most of the citations need to be removed.

I do not know which is best15:44, 14 July 2016 (UTC)John meffen (talk)

The editor responsible left wikipedia many years ago. Most of the books are fairly obvious, Roland Perry would either be 'The Don' or 'Bold Warnie', I'd guess, depending on whether it was about his playing or coaching career. I may have some of them, otherwise google books might be of use. Please do not remove them. The-Pope (talk) 16:47, 14 July 2016 (UTC)