Talk:2019 Riga Masters

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2019 Riga Masters is part of the 2019–20 snooker season series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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September 19, 2019	Good article nominee	Listed
October 13, 2022	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 7, 2019.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that several entrants in the 2019 Riga Masters professional snooker event—including the defending champion—missed the tournament because their flights were cancelled?

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Games: A bunch of high-priority game redlinks, e.g. American four-ball billiards (redirs to Four-ball billiards but not specifically covered there)
"Legends": Edwin Kelly, Charlie Peterson (pool player) (all BCA Hall of Famers); George Franklin Slosson, Maurice Daly (billiards player), Frank Ives, George Butler Sutton [not George H. Sutton, the one with no hands]
Male pool bios: Hsia Hui-kai
Female pool bios:
Male three-cushion bios: Dion Nelin & Jozef Bel Philipoom
Female carom bios: Aygen Berk Saygıner
Aristic pool bios: Nick Nikolaidis, Mark Dimick,Sebastian Giumelli, Eric Yow
Unranked in current pool but notable: Mike Eufemia, Shannon Daulton, Jimmy Reid (pool player) [speed pool champ], var. Mosconi Cup players
Non-player figures: Mitch Laurance, George Fels
Five-pins bios: Gustavo Zito
Organizations: Joss Tour
Events: WPA World Nine-ball Championships (pre-1997), BCA Open Nine-ball Championship, World 14.1 Continuous Championship, International Challenge of Champions (pool)
Media and misc.: Iwan Simonis (leading billiard cloth maker), Joss Cues (major cue mfr.), The Baron and the Kid [Johnny Cash film], Ultimate Pool Party [TV show]
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Meta: Outline of cue sports (OoK; cf. [1], etc.) – presently redirects to Cue sports, but this is not an OoK page.
Internal pages: Something like: [2][3]). Such pages are not fluff, but can be good places to find recruits for the project, possibly including subject-matter experts, especially if cross-referenced to the project. Also, Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Cue sports (cf. [4][5][6]).

Cleanup : Thomas Engert, Marlon Manalo
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Expand : Cue sports techniques#Carom shots (section needs to exist), Straight pool, Alfredo de Oro,Jeanette Lee (pool player)
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- Plunder: the French article; it does have some interesting tidbits, structure and images. Check out de.wikipedia, etc., as well.
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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 13:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that at the professional snooker event 2019 Riga Masters several players including the defending champion missed the event due to a cancelled flight? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/49125626
- ALT1:... that the quarter-finals of the 2019 Riga Masters comprised of players all outside of the top 20? Source: http://www.worldsnooker.com/joyce-lisowski/

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final
Comment: current sporting event. May have updating prose.

5x expanded by Lee Vilenski (talk) and Piotras18 (talk). Nominated by Lee Vilenski (talk) at 15:14, 28 July 2019 (UTC).[reply]

@Lee Vilenski: This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and either could be used, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. So we are just waiting for the QPQ to be done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:41, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cwmhiraeth, I knew I had missed one - done. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:30, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Good to go (I like the original hook best). Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:2019 Riga Masters/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 16:23, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"2019 Riga Masters" vs "2019 Kaspersky Riga Masters" vs "2019 Kaspersky Lab"... needs alignment and consistency (and explanation).
- done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"withdraw from qualifying round matches " well, I guess it's worth noting they therefore could participate at all.
- done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
" Arēna Rīga " is not mentioned outside the lead/infobox.
- added to prose. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
WPBSA as organisers isn't mentioned outside the infobox.
- Added Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Mention highest break in the lead per other such articles.
- done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Check other recent GAs, lead is a little light, do we include prize money? Definitely need to include Kaspersky (Lab) explanation there too.
- done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
" The event had no top-20 players reach the quarter-finals." -> "No players from the top 20 in the world reached the quarter-finals"?
- done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Reverse first two sentences of Format.
- done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"where matches played " were.
- reworded Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No need to relink Joyce in the second image caption (or even repeat his first name I suppose).
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Link World Snooker. And if it was organised by WPBSA, what does World Snooker have to do with it?
- Question: WPBSA are the governing body, whilst World Snooker are the administrative arm for snooker. I have no idea which of these would be considered the official "organiser". I actually thought it was just a re-branding to be honest, but they are two legally different companies. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ok, fair enough, just curious. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 07:41, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"The round of 64 match" -> "The round-of-64 match"
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"was not held due to both players" replace "due to" with "as"
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"a second-round bye." I've always preferred to reduce ambiguity, do you mean "a bye into the second round" or "a bye into the third round"?
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"2018 runner-up Jack..." avoid starting with a number.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"before losing to Mark Joyce." ref?
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"After the round of 16, all eight players remaining had world rankings below 20." weird phrasing. "No player qualifying for the quarter-finals was ranked in the top 20 in the world" or similar?
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
", the final day of the event." self-explanatory if the final was played that day.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
" thus reaching " no need for thus.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"missed a routine yellow," somewhat POV to describe a yellow as "routine", if it's a quote, quote it.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Neither played made " player.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"awarding Yan enough penalty points to win the frame." what new rule is this??
- reworded Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"with breaks of 50 or higher" no break was made of 50...
- reworded Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Certain players had " just say how many!
- Not done I can't. There's some ambiguity as to if Duane Jones and Harvey Chandler missed the event due to flight issues, or other reasons. [7] Sources just say "certain players" or, because of the "amount of players". There were 15 withdrawals in the competition, but I can't say how many were due to the flight complications. Robertson said "about 10". Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - No worries, I had thought that might be the case after I finished the review...! The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 07:41, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Probably need w/d and w/o explained.
- indeed. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Flags in the Main draw section!!
- Not done Question: Not sure what the issue is, this has the regular fix. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Forget it, my brain mis-firing. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 07:41, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Referee Tatiana should be mentioned in the prose, not just the summary table.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Arēna Rīga" in the summary table is redirect, the other versions in the article aren't redirects (it's the diacritics).
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Qualifying in England should be mentioned in the lead.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Replace spaced hyphens in the ref titles with spaced en-dashes.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's it from me, on hold. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 17:06, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Three things outstanding, rest is done. Thanks for your help TRM. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 08:16, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All good, happy to promote now. I made a minor change (the sponsorship was covered twice in consecutive sentences with different names!), but otherwise I'm happy with all the above. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 07:43, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]