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When asked about pressure leading up to a cricket test match he was known to have replied
"Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your ass"
I would add it in, but i do not have a source for it. Great Quotation none the less.
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Peter Cox's book Sixty Summers, about English postwar cricket, has the Indian rioter saying to Compton, "You very good man Mr Compton but you must go," in reference to the Indian desire for the British to leave. This would make better sense as the comment that Miller repeated to Compton. - AG, Stockport.
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@
YellowMonkey: as the
Early life of Keith Miller FAC nominator: I propose merging
Early life of Keith Miller into
Keith Miller. I do not think there are enough sources independently discussing the early life of this person to justify its own article, and thus I think the early life article should merge into this one.
Z1720 (
talk) 02:41, 30 April 2023 (UTC)reply
The main article is 14252 words. Thus, I cannot support adding any content to it. Unlike some editors, I think "early life" articles don't need to be deleted as long as they meet GNG, which seems to be the case here. (
t ·
c) buidhe 14:07, 10 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I think my concern with meeting GNG is that the sources in Early life do not specifically talk about the early life of Keith Miller, but rather his whole biography. I am not sure what is specifically notable about Miller's early life that it warrants its own article. For the concern about length, my opinion is that the early life does not need as much focus as the Early life article gives it and it should be reduced and summarised.
Z1720 (
talk) 14:39, 10 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I agree that there's no evidence the early life of Miller is a noteworthy topic in and of itself, which leaves the question of whether or not it should exist an article size issue; 20KB on the unremarkable early life of an otherwise-notable individual seems padded, and at first blush I would definitely say the parent article isn't adequately summarizing content. (This was a perennial issue with excessively detailed cricket articles back in the day, and the problem remains—see the fact that there are already subpages for just this individual in single years of his career.) It should absolutely be merged back here, and this article made less breathless.
Der Wohltemperierte Fuchstalk 19:51, 10 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I would not object to a BLAR or highly selective merge, provided this article isn't made even longer. (
t ·
c) buidhe 04:31, 11 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Opposebuidhe put it very well. If someone wants to discuss deleting the early life article, open an AfD, but this isn't the forum for it. --
Dweller (
talk)
Old fashioned is the new thing! 17:26, 15 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Support very selective merge or anything else that removes the Early life article from mainspace. The parent article is in desperate need of trimming as well. Most of the details belong in a fandom wiki, not a general encyclopedia.
JoelleJay (
talk) 18:50, 22 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Don't merge it, delete it This is an absurdity that never should have been created. I'd have AfD'd this long ago had I known of its existence. The Australian cricket obsession has gone way too far.
Trainsandotherthings (
talk) 15:50, 25 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Or just merged into the Keith Miller article itself! We don't have "career" articles for other high-profile athletes despite more than enough detailed IRS coverage existing on them for individual games and seasons. The closest I've seen is
List of career achievements by Michael Jordan and
List of international goals scored by Pelé. I think it's very telling that both
category:Michael Jordan and
category:Pelé contain notable books, movies, albums, etc. about them, as well as subcategories like "cultural depictions of [x]"--i.e. evidence of lasting cultural impact--while
category:Keith Miller contains only a single medal co-named for him, with all the other category members being the hagiographic "early life", "Keith Miller with...", and
Military career of Keith Miller articles.
JoelleJay (
talk) 22:39, 29 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Support merge seems like we have a Keith Miller fandom going on here with so many separate articles on bits of his life. Nobody else on Wikipedia has an early life article, because they simply aren't needed. Would also merge all the Keith Miller in season X articles too whilst we're at it.
Joseph2302 (
talk) 08:09, 6 June 2023 (UTC)reply
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In the honourable tradition of early-Wikipedia articles on mid-century Australian cricketers, this 2009 listing is detailed to the point of insanity, with exhaustive statistics on pretty much every international match Miller ever played.
This leads to a total word count of 14000+ (not counting quotes, image captions, or tables) and a pretty certain failing of
GA criterion 3b ("it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail").
Relevant non-GA guidelines include
WP:TOOBIG. Shouldn't be that hard for a cricket expert to trim down to a better length.
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (
talk) 16:19, 15 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Noting here that there is a merge proposal on the article's talk page, which involves a featured article. This can quickly get messy, so I suggest that the merge proposal be dealt with first, then this GAR can be discussed.
Z1720 (
talk) 17:23, 15 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I think that the issues with the article are regardless any change from merge. (
t ·
c) buidhe 02:26, 18 May 2023 (UTC)reply
Oh my god, the Australian cricket obsession went deeper than I thought.
Early life of Keith Miller, really? Regardless, the issues with this article are palpable and I don't think we should put this on hold while waiting for that merge to happen.
Trainsandotherthings (
talk) 15:48, 25 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I agree with buidhe and TaOT, there's no way this article is going to get better following a merge so the GA reassessment will be needed regardless. Might as well address it now.
JoelleJay (
talk) 22:42, 29 May 2023 (UTC)reply
I think that there is a possibility that the article could get better after a merge, so I would rather evaluate the article for GAR after the merge vote is closed. If editors want to proceed with the GAR now, I'm not too bothered.
Z1720 (
talk) 13:40, 30 May 2023 (UTC)reply
This has been open for a month now, and buidhe actioned the proposed merge on June 20th. Has anyone's opinion changed?
Trainsandotherthings (
talk) 02:26, 27 June 2023 (UTC)reply
At this point I think we're approaching a consensus to delist. I generally refrain from personally closing GARs where I've weighed in with a delist or keep.
Trainsandotherthings (
talk) 20:56, 27 June 2023 (UTC)reply
Delist: The length of the article has not been addressed yet.
Z1720 (
talk) 15:59, 30 June 2023 (UTC)reply
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While it is a Featured Article, I recall when it was created (as part of a 1948 Invincibles Featured Topic) that it really didn't provide anything new that was already included in
Keith Miller. I'm too lazy to check but over the years other Featured Articles in the 1948 Invincibles Topic have also been deleted. So, yes I would be in favour of a merger. --
Roisterer (
talk) 13:47, 10 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Everything in that topic except for the actual people and the 5 test matches is baseless; and how that got to fa status is beyond me.
Pharaoh496 (
talk) 05:23, 11 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I fully support a selective merge into the Keith Miller article. Basically only the role section is of any worth.
Trainsandotherthings (
talk) 03:32, 11 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Would you kind editors be okay if I keep pinging you on hordes of more such pages which need to go? The Anglo-Australian cricket obsession is worse than Ive thought, with there being atleast 20 fa/gas full of cruft like this
If you look at my past comments, I've called this phenomenon the cricket insanity. It truly is wild just how much cruft people got away with back in the day.
Trainsandotherthings (
talk) 01:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge this isn't 1940s cricket fandom, it's an encyclopedia. And that article isn't encyclopedic and isn't a necessary
WP:SPLIT, since most of the content is general content about the series, and the important details on that series are already in this article, and can be expanded on when merging.
Joseph2302 (
talk) 16:22, 23 April 2024 (UTC)reply
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