Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2022 Welsh Open (snooker)/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 19 September 2022 [1].


Nominator(s): Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:01, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It may surprise you to learn that I don't get to see a lot of professional snooker live. This was the second event I managed to get to in the last five years. A superb week in a great venue - with some images taken during the event in the article. The Welsh Open is often a good but minor event, but for two years straight has had a great narrative. The previous year's winner Jordan Brown won his first event, ranked 80th in the world. This year, perennial journeyman Joe Perry won the event, defeating the majorly in-form Ricky Walden in the quarter-finals, Jack Lisowski (who had won a match of the season contender against Ali Carter in the round prior), a serial winner Judd Trump in the final to win his second ranking event, the first being a minor 2015 Players Tour Championship Grand Final win. Perry's win was at age 47, the second oldest winner of a ranking event (at the time). A great event, and hopefully a well written and researched article. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:01, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Z1720

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Prose review:

  • "True Sport in Thailand;" Wikilink to True Sport?
  • "won the fifth on the colours after potting a difficult yellow ball" I am unsure what "on the colours" means, and I can't find the term at Glossary of cue sports terms Perhaps this should be explained in the article or a different term used.
  • "the 31st edition of the Welsh Open," This is mentioned in the lede but not cited in the article

Those are my comments. Please ping when the above are addressed. Z1720 (talk) 20:16, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Z1720, I have made the above changes. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 09:37, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from ChrisTheDude

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Comments from BennyOnTheLoose

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Sources (not a full source review)

I had a look at the Snooker Scene refs:

  • "in the fifth frame, potting single reds and then playing safe or attempting to snooker his opponent" seems to go beyond the source - unless you can point me to a part I'm missing.
  • The Snooker Scene ref after "stated Vafaei afterward." can be removed as it's redundant (and unlike the Eurosport source, doesn't include the "It was unbelievable" part of the quote).
  • "Perry cited a match he won over Lee Walker at the Turkish Masters qualifying event as a catalyst for his change in form during the event" - maybe add a bit more about what he said? (improved his confidence because he played well, according to him)
  • "The win took him from 42nd to 23rd in the world rankings" - the Snooker Scene ref is redundant. (You could use the WST source there to add in that the trophy is named after Reardon, maybe.)

Format

Final

Infobox and Lead

@Lee Vilenski: that's all I could see; unsurprisingly not very much as I had reviewed this for GA. Thanks for your work on the article. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:42, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've covered the above, BennyOnTheLoose Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 21:47, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Those responses are fine, thanks. Three more small points below. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:21, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Not all of the images have alt text/refer to caption.
Added, I think I got them all. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:20, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think the caption that has "one of my biggest buzzes since I've been a pro". should have the full stop inside the quotation mark per MOS:INOROUT
I disagree, although I'm sure it's not all that important. If the quotation is a single word or a sentence fragment, place the terminal punctuation outside the closing quotation mark. The quote is only a fragment of the full sentence in the quote. I might be wrong though. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
In Century breaks, I'd prefer "There were 58 century breaks made.. " to "There was a total of 58 century breaks made".
No problem. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Source Review by Amakuru - Passed

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(ref numbers refer to this version)

Have to head off now, will continue looking later. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 12:40, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's about it for now... quite a lot of issues identified, although in fairness many of them are repetitions of the same issue throughout, e.g. BBC Sport articles consistently missing author and date. I will come back for another pass once these are addressed. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 09:26, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Lee Vilenski: Sorry for the delay returning to this. I'm satisfied with formatting etc. now. Will move on to spot checks: This version checked.

I might check one or two more when you've responded to these points, but no major concerns. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 15:38, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have covered the above points Amakuru. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 08:25, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Lee Vilenski: great, I think that's good enough then. You're a seasoned contributor here so I think that's enough spot checks. Passing on sourcing. Also, (and to quote a great Wikipedian) - if you liked this review, or are looking for items to review, I am awaiting a source check of my own at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Coventry ring road/archive1... 😀 Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 09:51, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

I have done so - not sure what else I can add. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 07:58, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Notice to co-ords

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Hi Gog the Mild, I'm just awaiting Amakuru's response for the source review - any chance I can push another one into the fire when I get a support? Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 10:43, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes; but only if and when Amakuru gives an unambiguous pass on the sourcing. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:10, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]


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