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CricketBot is a bot run by me, Stephen Turner, to help correct some common errors in cricket articles. It doesn't make any edits itself: it just identifies possible errors, and then I approve or discard each one. But if there are any problems, leave a message on User talk:CricketBot or User talk:Stephen Turner.

• Task in progress:

  None at the moment

• Completed (although I tend to re-run them from time to time where appropriate):
  1. Turn "test" into "Test".
  2. Link "Test" and "Test match" to Test cricket, not to Test or Test match.
  3. Find very short articles (see list at /stubs).
  4. Find all links in the lists of players pointing to disambiguation pages (none found!).
  5. Find all links in the lists of players pointing to redirects (see list at /redirects).
  6. Make sure all short biographies have {{cricketbio-stub}} (done up to length 700; beyond that I was having to think too hard about whether it was a stub or not).
  7. Spider Category:Cricketers and find articles not already in List of cricketers (see list at /missing cricketers; suggested by Ianbrown).
  8. Spider all the cricket subcategories to find articles not already in List of cricketers or List of cricket topics (see list at /missing articles; suggested by Ianbrown).
  9. Make a list of longest biographies, to help identify candidate Wikipedia 1.0 cricket articles (see list at /longarticles).
  10. Find all links to CricketArchive scorecards, because the format has just changed (see list at /CricketArchive; requested by Tintin1107).
  11. Populate new stub categories Zimbabwe-cricketbio-stub and Bangladesh-cricketbio-stub.
  12. Change syntax in infobox from oversORballs=balls to balls=true. Delete oversORballs=overs.

• Possible future tasks:
  1. Add country-specific bio-stub to all cricket bio stubs (ask on country page first, because this could generate a lot of new stubs in their lists).
  2. Find articles entitled "N (cricketer)" but not linked from "N".
  3. Link "country" to "nationality cricket team" instead of to "country".
  4. When a cricketer has initials in his usual name (e.g. W. G. Grace), format properly and make redirects from the other common systems (suggested by Tintin1107).
  5. Standardise season names, once we've agreed on them (suggested by Ianbrown).
  6. Standardise links to Cricinfo (use {{cricinfo}} template and/or don't link to national mirrors).
  7. Find all cricket articles that don't mention that they're about cricket in the text.
  8. Make sure all Test and ODI players are in the corresponding categories (I've found a few without recently).
  9. Statistics on which articles have the most edits per day (suggested by Tintin1107).
  10. A list of cricketers without articles with the most other articles linking to them.
  11. Add [[Category:Living people]] to all people without a date of death.
  12. Find any international cricketers without an infobox.
  13. No-one should be in both Category:English cricketers and Category:English Test cricketers etc. per consensus at this discussion.
  14. Make sure all Wisden Cricketers of the Year have that fact mentioned, and are in the corresponding category.
  15. Remove squad templates, and replace them with categories.
  16. Make a list of all articles marked as stubs that are rather long (suggested by Dweller).
  17. Change all Image:Replace this image1.svg back to Image:cricket no pic.png.

For the purpose of calculating the length of an article (so as to decide whether it's a stub), CricketBot does the following:

1. Remove all text in templates, including players' infoboxes.
2. Remove all external links.
3. Count the number of letters and digits.

This is meant to be a more accurate measure of the true amount of content in the article than just counting the amount of text shown on the page.