Talk:Virat Kohli

Changes on the article

I was an active contributor to this article between 2021 and 2023. Upon returning after a considerable gap, I noticed significant changes that have unfortunately introduced several issues, particularly in the International career section, which now includes content largely copied from the "Career of Virat Kohli" article. To maintain structure and relevance, I’ve restored the Franchise career section from that article, as it aligns with current interest due to the ongoing IPL season and is appropriate for the main page.

In the long run, I believe it may be worth considering a split of both International and Franchise careers into their own standalone articles. This would allow for better depth of content and help bring the main article within the ideal word limit for a potential FA (Featured Article) nomination. For now, I’ve cleaned up the structure to improve clarity after a series of uncoordinated edits. If anyone has concerns or suggestions about these changes, please feel free to raise them here on the talk page.

(As for the medal box — I’ve retained only medals from each ICC tournament format, both the Champions Trophy and Asia Cup alongside the main ODI World Cup medal would be redundant. Their recognition is already embedded within the International career narrative). Ashish 09:50, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure that this will every be a candidate for GA, let alone FA. There's simply too much scope for vandalism, fancruft and edit warring to create a suitably stable article. The article was delisted as a GA in 2020 and is worse now than it was then. Dee, who did most of the work on the article to get it to GA, hasn't edited in three years. There's just too much fandom at work here.

It's worth noting that the Tendulkar article has bene proposed for GA four times and failed each time. That might be a better candidate for your time as it appears to have a more stable base. It needs a lot of work and cutting substantially, but there's more scope there imo Blue Square Thing (talk) 15:41, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

I'll definitely give your suggestion some thought. Ashish 05:55, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

infobox

shouldn't relations in the infobox be changed to spouse DataCrusade1999 (talk) 10:06, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

The infobox for cricketers only has that one field for familial info. But I did add a clearer note about what the relationship is. DMacks (talk) 11:48, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

User:OCDD pointed out that there is already some evidence of this detail. DMacks (talk) 14:22, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Tables removed

Hello. I've just removed some very colourful tables that seemed to make the article almost impossible to follow. I've also done some work to simplify the syntax of the many, many stats tables and to remove quite a lot of the column centring which made the tables harder to read. I would think there's a lot more to be done.

In terms of the colourful tables at the head of each of the main career sections, I genuinely don't understand what they are trying to achieve. If they're supposed to be summary, why are they being places on the left without any text wrapping? The impact of this placement is to mean that the prose doesn't start until the table is finished. I'm willing to be persuaded that these have a place, but have significant concerns just now.

I also have significant concerns that colour us being used inappropriately in a number of places – MOS:COLOUR needs to be consulted and non-colour alternative provided in every case please Blue Square Thing (talk) 15:31, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

As I said above, I might be able to be convinced, but they are causing significant readability issues as they stand just now Blue Square Thing (talk) 15:53, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Colors are to highlight the position the team finished at. It makes it visually easy instead of difficult. Colors are very commonly used in sports pages for the same reason. OCDD (talk) 15:59, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Also yes the tables are clearly summarising. Prose is not the only way. Visual elements are equally important. Majority of the viewers would look at the table to get clear info instead of read the full prose. OCDD (talk) 16:02, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Host naming in Title Section

Why is OCDD unilaterally altering the naming convention in the title section, specifically by removing Pakistan's name from tournaments it officially hosted, such as the 2023 Asia Cup and the upcoming 2025 Champions Trophy? Despite Pakistan being designated as the host, OCDD includes only Sri Lanka and UAE — which contradicts official records and precedent. I’ve already presented a detailed rationale, yet my edits are repeatedly reverted without proper engagement. Their sole explanation is that the naming should reflect the country that hosted the final, but this logic is inconsistently applied — examples like West Indies/USA (2024), India/Sri Lanka/Bangladesh (2011), and England/Wales (2013 & 2017) include co-hosts even when the finals were held in just one country. Furthermore, OCDD keeps altering Cricinfo to Cric Info, despite the platform’s official stylization being Cricinfo. Instead of continued edit-warring, I ask OCDD to clearly explain why Pakistan’s name is being excluded, and to engage in constructive discussion so we can establish a consistent, fact-based standard in line with existing precedents. Saimcheeda (talk) 09:03, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Redirecting "Virat" and "Kohli" to this article

The pages of "Virat" and "Kohli" should be redirected to this article. For Virat the original article is unnecessary as there's only one other link, with the most prominent being Kohli. No other article except for "Virat Singh", which is lesser known and irrelevant has Virat in theit name so in my opinion this should be a no brainer. As for Kohli, it is by far the most prominent page on the article, and there is also precedent for this, as seen with "Messi", "Celtics", "Barrack" etc. YeedyYaada (talk) 05:43, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

YeedyYaada If you want to change it, you will need an open requested move discussion. Not just move it without discussion. The result of you doing that will be me asking another user with page moving rights to revert it. I can happily open the RM for you. Thank you Servite et contribuere (talk) 06:05, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

That would be greatly appreciated. YeedyYaada (talk) 06:23, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 June 2025

Currently in the early life section:

Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi into a Punjabi Hindu family. His mother Saroj Kohli is as a housewife while his father Prem Nath Kohli worked as a criminal lawyer.

This has a typo and is worded confusingly, it would be more concise to be reworded to:

Kohli was born in Delhi on 5 November 1988 into a Punjabi Hindu family to his mother Saroj Kohli, a housewife, and his father Prem Nath Kohli, who worked as a criminal lawyer. Wikiptdia (talk) 02:42, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

 Done Day Creature (talk) 06:14, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:CRIC

There is an active discussion about this article at WT:CRIC. Spike 'em (talk) 11:40, 26 June 2025 (UTC)