Cricket Wiki:Community portal

General discussion about the wiki
Since this wiki has just begun (practically), I think we should best discuss how it should work, i.e., its native policies and rules (besides the ones set up by Orain), before we even begin adding articles.

Firstly, I would like to point out that most of the "notable" information about cricket has already been covered in Wikipedia and in fact in great detail. This makes me think that we should just copy some articles from Wikipedia as they are with a notice template saying that the content has been taken directly from Wikipedia, which itself says that its text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. I've seen some wikia wikis do this. If, by any chance, we're able to add more, significant content to such articles that was not originally present on Wikipedia, we can remove this notice.

Also, I'm not sure how the templates should work. I don't think we should copy all of them directly from Wikipedia, but it takes some time and skill to create decent ones from scratch. I think we should best copy the complex ones from Wikipedia and then customise them according to our needs and create the other, easier ones from scratch.

Another thing is, many links in Wikipedia articles about, say, cricketers, link to articles that are quite irrelevant to what this wiki is about. Of course we don't need to use all of those links, but I think it'd be best if we just used interwiki links to Wikimedia projects for the important ones.

Any comments are appreciated. Smtchahal (talk) 07:49, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Any cricket article that is okay in Wikipedia is notable here. Just cricket article. Barrak Obama will not be notable but, Monty Panesar will be notable. But I think if we reduce some notability policy then it'll be slightly better.-- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 07:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I was talking about the long, detailed articles on Wikipedia related to cricket, not just anything. Let's say we're talking about Sachin Tendulkar. I just copied the article directly from Wikipedia (removing some templates) because I don't there's a point in starting it from scratch as Wikipedia has already covered a lot on him. But then, if we're doing that, I think we should better add a notice template on the top saying that the content has been directly taken from Wikipedia as, I've noticed, some Wikia wikis do. For the articles that are not on Wikipedia but which still are about cricket and are "notable" enough (according to whichever definition we're going to follow), we obviously have to create them from scratch. What is you opinion on this? Smtchahal (talk) 08:09, 31 December 2013 (UTC)