Talk:2017 World Snooker Championship

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In 2009 when Higgins played Murphy both were alredy champions. Under tournament summary it says this year is the first time champions meet in the final. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.241.92.133 (talk) 21:05, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

The text currently says "The final marks the first time in Crucible history that multiple champions have met in the final of the World Championship." Note the words "Crucible" and "multiple". Nigej (talk) 21:32, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Dubious tag

"Reanne Evans became the first female player to win a match at the World Snooker Championships"

Anyone got a source one way or the other on this? If not, we should be removing the statement. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:16, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

She only won a qualifying match. Allison Fisher had done that several times, Kelly Fisher and probably others too. Cuetracker is my only source though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.249.137.45 (talk) 12:03, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

If that is true, the statement should be redacted, and removed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:01, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Done.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:25, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Someone posted the results of the 1995 World Snooker Championship qualifying on the talk page (Talk:1995 World Snooker Championship), a long time ago, unsourced though. Clear there to see Allison Fisher winning. Nigej (talk) 16:54, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Participant summary

Sorry to have to do this, but I've removed the new section added yesterday by User:Repet93. It appears to have been copied from the 2018 article, and altered to suit the 2017 event, which is fine but it's introduced a citation error presumably because the field_set citation for the 2018 tournament has just been copied in by mistake. If you want to try again (please do), a good source to use here (and to check facts against) is probably https://www.wpbsa.com/betfred-world-championship-2017-tournament-preview/ Also, if there's to be an Overview section, it really needs to include both the Format and Participant summary subsections to be in keeping with the later articles. As this is currently a GA nominee, we need to keep an error-free stable version. Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 09:32, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:2017 World Snooker Championship/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Kosack (talk · contribs) 09:29, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this one, will post review as soon as possible. Kosack (talk) 09:29, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Intial review

Lead

• Should we be using a dash for the date ranges rather than simply to?
  • I was recently told this was more acceptable. I'm ok with either. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:23, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• "win this third world championship", this is only the second title of Selby's mentioned unless I'm missing something? Or is it meant to be "his third"?
  • He also won the title in 2014, but I don't think we need to list this in the lede, particularly.
    • I think our wires are crossed here. What I mean is this doesn't particularly make sense in its current form. Should it be "to win his third world championship" or "to win this world championship"? Kosack (talk) 19:33, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
      • Ha, I see! Yes, supposed to say "his". Changed. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:35, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• "winning the highest break prize of £10,000", specify the televised prize otherwise it reads a bit odd when Gary Wilson is mentioned in the following section.
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:23, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Overview

• United Kingdom is probably an WP:OVERLINK.
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Seeding and qualifying rounds

• The last paragraph is pretty short and could probably be added to the previous one given that Wilson is in both. Along the lines of, "Wilson was one of five debuting players, along with..."? No need to link him twice either way.
  •  Done - I'd already fixed the duplinks issue whilst you were reviewing. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:25, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

First round

• "played from 15–20 April 2017", hyphen rather than wording issue again?
  • As per above. I think it's more that it's read as from X-Y. Similar to how BLPs are written Born X, but when they die, it's written birthdate – deathdate. I'll change if required though Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:35, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• "O'Sullivan reached the second round in 18 out of 20 events since 1997", this sentence seems a little off, a mix of present and past tense. Look at rewording to something like, "O'Sullivan's victory was the 18th time he had reached the second round in the previous 20 events since 1997"?
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:35, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• "Peter Ebdon, 2002 champion, appeared at the Crucible for the 24th time since first qualifying in 1992 played Stuart Bingham", again tense seems slightly off. Appearing rather than appeared and a comma after 1992?
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:35, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Quarter-finals

• Last sentence of the first paragraph is seemingly unsourced.
  • sourced Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:38, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

References

• Would Michael Emons be considered the author of ref 18?
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• Quite a few of the BBC Sport refs have available authors that aren't listed. Refs 25, 28, 29, 32 all have them, I'll leave the rest up to you to go through.
  •  Done - Not all have an author, but I got the ones that do. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• Ref 52 needs a date of publication.
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• Ref 70 needs a publisher.
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• Ref 75 falls foul of WP:ALLCAPS.
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• Some of the BBC refs are formatted differently, most use BBC Sport while others use BBC or the Web address. Not a GA requirement but may be an issue at FA if you wish to take this further.
  •  Done - pretty sure I got them all. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
• A few refs have odd bits of site titles included, 61 for example.
  •  Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

General

• There are a few repeat links throughout, for example Marco Fu (Second round and Quarter-finals), Rory McLeod (First and Second round) and Kyren Wilson (Second round and Quarter-finals).
  •  Done - I had pre-empted that, and did it whilst you were reviewing. There were quite a few more than this, but all gone now. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:46, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Nothing too major I don't think. Placed on hold for now until the above issues are addressed. Kosack (talk) 15:31, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Kosack - Pretty sure I got it all. I don't mind changing the dates issue raised above, but I was recently told the current is better. I have no feelings either way. Hope that's enough. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:16, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Nothing I can really complain about apart from that, I notice you've undertaken a number of other changes based on previous GAs which have taken care of one or two other points I would have brought up so nice work. I'll defer to your judgement on the date issue if it's been discussed elsewhere. Nice piece of work, promoting. Kosack (talk) 19:13, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

FA Push

Hi, I'm looking to nominate this at some point towards FA (Maybe not until next year though), any issues that you can spot with the article, let me know.

- I know you are busy with other articles Rodney Baggins, but when you get some free time could you take a look at this one for me? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:39, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes of course, no problem. I'll go over it for you in a day or two. Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 17:17, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

@Lee Vilenski: You might want to deal with the ref.15 cite error. It looks as if you've copied in some material from another article and lost the citation along the way! Rodney Baggins (talk) 12:51, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Rodney Baggins - that's exactly what happened. I've replaced it with a cite that fits perfectly. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:59, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

@Lee Vilenski: Hi there, how's it going? Are you still interested in bringing this article to FA soon? I did some work on it before Christmas and I can take another look at it now if you like. I've already made a lot of notes and I can sort through them and let you see all relevant comments for your attention. Let me know. Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 18:51, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Source review

Hi Lee, I've been going through the refs and making a few corrections along the way. Anything you disagree with, just let me know. I notice that Ref.1 just puts you through to the British Newspaper Archive registration page and as such isn't much use, or should at least carry a registration icon.

The following refs. are all the same, as they all point to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/39592145

• Ref.28: <ref name="BBCS">
• Ref.39: <ref name="H4ZvD"> --- doesn't really back up the text about Xiao Guodong
• Ref.52: <ref name="W5sbL"> --- very tenuous link to text re. O'Sullivan/Ding match - you'd have to do the math yourself!
• Ref.61: <ref name="BZ8pl"> --- (I've moved the ref. tag because the source backs up all 3 of these sessions)
• Ref.67: <ref name="XQoGF">

Not sure what you want to do with these? Rodney Baggins (talk) 13:57, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for your hard work. I'll work my way through these now you have identified them and I'll make some alterations. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:15, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Another thing you might have noticed, I've been checking the citations all have a work (or alias) parameter, rather than just publisher. There's a good reason for that. Apparently the publisher param doesn't make it into the metadata for the CS1/2 template, but the work param does, so it's always necessary to provide a work alias for the citation to be fully defined (whether or not there's also publisher specified). I had a lengthy conversation about this with Trappist the monk recently and he explained it all to me. Read this if you want to have your mind blown! Rodney Baggins (talk) 16:49, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

And do you prefer the work parameter (e.g. BBC Sport) to be unlinked throughout? Rodney Baggins (talk) 16:51, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

You might not believe it, I did actually know the difference. I just don't really understand why we don't add metadata for the publisher field.

I'm not the biggest fan of linking work or other parameters in the refs. As far as I am aware, it simply needs to be consistent. Adding extra links causes more chance of accidently clicking a link to BBC Sport, rather than the link you were trying to read Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:09, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

yeah I am! I'm a little behind, there's a lot of articles I'm currently working on (and I have an FAC open right now.) Let me know what you've got, I'm sure we can make the appropriate edits! :) Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:59, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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