Talk:Nigel Richards (Scrabble player)

WGPO is not notable

Why is the 2012 WGPO Word Cup listed? It is not a notable tournament. In fact, if I were to create a tournament with an equal prize pool, it would be more notable than the WGPO Word Cup, because it would have official Hasbro sanctioning, and yet, it would still not be notable enough for inclusion in this project. Andy Saunders (talk) 05:05, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Why would the prize pool and Hasbro's sanctioning be the criteria of a tournament's notability? Number of entrants and quality of competition seem just as relevant or more. AlsoWukai (talk) 23:40, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

How do you define quality of competition, then? Hasbro owns the trademark in North America and licences that trademark to organizations who run tournaments. WGPO does not have any licence, therefore, because any rating system they may possibly use is inherently unofficial, there is literally no way to objectively define the quality of its competition. Therefore, the Hasbro sanctioning goes hand-in-hand with "quality of competition". Andy Saunders (talk) 04:43, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

What does an organization's possession of a license to use the trademark have to do with its ratings' objectivity? WGPO calculates ratings the same way NASPA does, and people who belong to both organizations have similar ratings in both. AlsoWukai (talk) 23:05, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

At the lest it needs a non-primary source. AIRcorn (talk) 00:06, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by BorgQueen (talk) 21:11, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Scrabble player, Nigel Richards, won two French Scrabble tournaments without speaking the language? Source: https://theworld.org/stories/2015-07-21/new-french-language-scrabble-champion-doesn-t-speak-french
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Created by Sandman1142 (talk). Nominated by Roastedbeanz1 (talk) at 08:35, 29 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Nigel Richards (Scrabble player); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Fact mentioned in opening paragraph of source. Good going! --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 16:44, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
  • @Roastedbeanz1: On the other hand, while the thought counts, I regret to inform you (and correct myself in hindsight) that this is unfortunately ineligible for DYK. Article was created back in mid-November 2007, and to satisfy DYK requirements at this writing, should have been either a recent GA or expanded fivefold to ~87.5 KB in the past few days alone. Pardon if I was rather optimistic beforehand, but I'm afraid a decline is in order for the time being. (There's a reason I recently added {{User oops}} among the several dozen UBXes already on my userpage.) Once/if this passes WP:GAN, I'll happily reconsider. Best of luck—I might keep an eye out!^{For starters, you might try sending this over to PR to find out what needs to be done first.} --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 19:13, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Malaysian citizen?

He's described as living in Malaysia the article, but I'm not seeing a ref anywhere to support the claim that he's a Malaysian citizen. I'm seeing in the French-language ref that he has retired in Malaysia, but that doesn't necessarily mean citizenship. Does anyone know/can anyone add info to the article? 104.232.119.107 (talk) 08:26, 22 May 2024 (UTC)