Talk:Keith Johnson (cricket administrator)/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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best known for being the manager of the Australian Services cricket team and the Australian tour of England in 1948

On what do you base this statement? Unless you can find a ref (several refs, actually), then this statement is OR.

Despite the Australians' repeated annihilation of the local teams

I think a more neutral word could be found than "annihilation".

Record gate takings were the norm,

I think "norm" is slang.

During the 1948 tour, he had been cutting a multitude of business deals while not playing

Again, I think "cutting" is slang.

and avoided paying customs duties on the enormous amount of goods he acquired by disembarking at Melbourne instead of Sydney.

He acquired an enormous amount of goods by disembarking at Melbourne? This is what the sentence seems to say.

Also, do you really need such a long transcript from the court interview? Couldn't you summarize and paraphrase? Noble Story (talk • contributions) 10:52, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Noble Story (talk • contributions) 10:48, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

done all except the last part, which is already summarised. The reason why I kept it was that Johnson fumbled basically everything he said and fell into each of the traps. YellowMonkey (cricket calendar poll!) 06:31, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it looks OK from here. Noble Story (talk • contributions) 08:28, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]