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-- 15:01, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
A few points on this:
- Eleven sources seems excessive; you're asking any potential reviewer to read an awful lot.
- BCCI has to be inferred; for non-cricket following people, this should be clarified far earlier.
- The length of the quote down the left seems excessive.
- Ideally, the country should be part of the title.
Other than that, at-a-glance it looks pretty good. Any images that can be added? BCCI logo/crest under FU? --Brian McNeil / talk 17:48, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- {{QuoteLeft}} and {{QuoteRight}} are for pull-quotes, i.e., quotes that actually appear in the article text. That quote doesn't appear in the article text. (This is, so I hear, the opposite of the way such side-boxes are used on Wikipedia.) --Pi zero (talk) 18:11, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Can you find an image of the minister on her, or a government, website that could be used locally under Fair Use?
What we can't use are ones from competing news agencies.
It'd also be good if you can use the cable search tool to find the exact cables on this! --Brian McNeil / talk 14:15, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Published, but there were, indeed, substantial problems on the copyright check (as well as some on verifcation). Please see both the review comments and the detailed edit history. --Pi zero (talk) 04:13, 11 October 2011 (UTC)