User:MDCollins/cricketcats

Proposal

Cricketers by nationality

• All cricketers should be placed in a category of nationality. The format of which is Category Fooian cricketers. If there is any claim that a cricketer can be legitimately argued to be in more than one category, WP:COMMON should apply and the article be placed in more than one category.
  • Examples of these categories are: Category:Australian cricketers, Category:Irish cricketers, Category:Barbadian cricketers, Category:Pakistani cricketers.
  • Each of these categories have the parent categories: Category:Cricketers by nationality and Category:Fooian sportspeople and Category:Cricket in Foo.

Cricketers by domestic team

• Each cricketer can be a category for any team they have played for at domestic level. For domestic teams, the category name should be explicitly obvious that it is a county/state team, and not a "Cricketers from Essex" category. This will need to be decided for each country, but I propose for example that for English counties, Category:County CCC cricketers is used instead of Category:County cricketers; Australian state teams should be Category:State state crickteters (Category:New South Wales state cricketers).
  • These categories have the parent categories: Category:Players in Country domestic cricket by team.

Cricketers by international team

• Any international cricketers should be placed in Category:Foo cricketers or one or more specific sub-categories where one applies. Such sub-categories are Category:India Test cricketers, Category:Pakistan ODI cricketers, Category:Scotland Twenty20 International cricketers. For affliate ICC members, the category Category:Foo cricketers will apply for those which have FC/List A status (not necessarily full-internationals). Category:Barbados cricketers is one such example.
  • Sub-categories such as Category:Foo Test cricketers are placed in Category:Foo cricketers and [[Category:Test cricketers|Foo]] or Category:Twenty20 International cricketers...etc.
  • Category:Foo cricketers is placed in [[Category:Cricketers by national team|Foo]].

Proposed category tree

• Cricketers
  • Cricketers by nationality
    • Category:Fooian cricketers
  • Cricketers by team
    • Cricketers by national team
      • Category:Foo cricketers. (Category:Australia cricketers, Category:Barbados cricketers)
        • Category:Foo Test cricketers, Category:Foo ODI cricketers, Category:Foo Twenty20 International cricketers.
    • Cricketers by domestic team
      • [[Category:Players in Foo domestic cricket by team]]. (Category:Players in Pakistan domestic cricket by team)
        • [[Category:Domestic team cricketers]]. (Category:Yorkshire CCC cricketers, Category:New South Wales state cricketers, Category:Auckland state cricketers(?)

Work to be done if the proposal is accepted

• Sort out the category tree.
• Check that each cricketer is in Category:Fooian cricketers and not necessarily Category:Foo cricketers.
• Domestic team categories need to be made more explicit.