Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/The Nets/Writing a cricket biography

This page is part of the Cricket WikiProject's online Nets, and contains instructions, recommendations, or suggestions for editors working on cricket articles. While it is not one of the project's formal guidelines, editors are encouraged to consider the advice presented here in the course of their editing work.

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So you've stumbled across a cricket article which has perked your interest, or you've gone looking for the article on your favourite cricketer, or perhaps you've found a redlinked cricketer and want to create an article on them? So what next? Well let's begin from scratch...