Talk:Norm O'Neill

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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 22, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
January 29, 2024	Good article reassessment	Kept

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 7, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Norm O'Neill's maiden Test century helped the Australian cricket team win its only Test on Pakistani soil for 39 years?

Current status: Good article

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Review[edit]

Have hardly done any but noticed this : O'Neill toured England in 1961, scoring 1981 runs at 60.03, narrowly missing becoming only the fourth player after Don Bradman, Neil Harvey and Bill Lawry to make 2000 runs in an Ashes tour. - Are you talking only about those who played after the second world war. There are many otherwise. Tintin 07:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I forgot to put that qualifier in there. Thanks Tintin. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:50, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA review comments[edit]

" Early in his career, O'Neill was one of the foremost batsmen in the Australian team, scoring three Test centuries and topping the run scoring aggregates on a 1959-60 tour of the Indian subcontinent which helped Australia win its last Test and series on Pakistani soil for 39 years, as well as another series in India." - needs copyedit. too much data into one sentence
25. his performances" - capitalize "his"
"O'Neill was recalled made 63 not out " - correct to O'Neill was recalled AND made 63 not out
"AT thte time" - correct. on a lighter note, you require some strong coffee!
"These performances lead O'Reilly to compare him to Bradman.[1]" - the sentence make no sense in the current location. did his 1000 runs season lead to comparison with bradman, if so - move the sentence.

other than these minor things, i find nothing unacceptable for a GA level article and hence the promo. --Kalyan 21:18, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Obits[edit]

To how many obituaries does this article need to link? I think this is now a little bit of overkill. -- Mattinbgn\^talk 22:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment[edit]

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Norm O'Neill/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article is very good, currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards,--Jackyd101 (talk) 12:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):

The prose is very good, a 9/10.

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): 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.
a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
It is stable.
It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
a (tagged and captioned): b (lack of images does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):

Of course an image would be nice.

Overall:
a Pass/Fail:

Name[edit]

Both CricketArchive CricketArchive and Cricinfo give his name as Norman Clifford Louis O'Neill. I would normally add this to the article, but I hesitate to, as almost every other source omits "Louis" from the name. Not really sure what to do on this one. Ignorant Armies 10:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]