Talk:Charles Dennis Fisher

Infobox Cricketer

Do we really want the large "infobox cricketer" on an article about an eminent classical scholar and Oxford academic? It seems to imply that cricket played a much more important part in his life than was actually the case. — Hebrides (talk) 07:30, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

This is about notability, not about "what was important to him" (in any case, I don't know how you might judge that when he's not around to ask). As a first-class cricketer, he is notable in WP terms under WP:CRIN and WP:ATH, so it's perfectly right and proper for him to have his cricketing career recorded as other cricketers are in the pages of WP. As he played for three different teams and won a Blue for cricket, it may well have been that cricket was quite important to him anyway. Johnlp (talk) 18:42, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm. It's more about balance. In his obituary in The Times (London), cricket is mentioned in a short 4-line section out of the 80-line piece. And this authoritative 500-word article about him has only eight words about cricket. It is my understanding that Wikipedia aims to reflect the same balance as is displayed in high quality sources which give an overall summary of his life, such as these. Would you concur?

I might add that I have no connection with cricket, Tacitus, the University of Oxford nor with military service. — Hebrides (talk) 12:09, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Ah well, the obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack here mentions nothing but cricket (apart from giving his height!). You'd expect that, of course, in the same way that I would expect his Christ Church obit to stress his Oxford and classics connections. I think the balance as we have it is fine, and that anyone looking him up as a classical scholar will find material and anyone looking him up as a cricketer will also get information in the form they expect from the way other first-class cricketers are treated. Johnlp (talk) 12:22, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey, it appears he stopped playing when he was elected Christ Church Tutor in 1903. Added responsibility. Wisden says he was in the Westminster team for four years so he played at a high level for ten years in all. Must have been keen as a child to have become so good. So, cool, he loved his cricket. Big thing in his life. --Bill (talk) 13:48, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Sure he should have infobox military person rather than infobox person anyway? S.G.^(GH) _ping! 14:21, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

No. He's not a military person (except in that during the first world war, everyone was). It's fine as it is. Johnlp (talk) 12:11, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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