Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2022 Tour Championship/archive2

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The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 30 August 2023 [1].


Nominator(s): Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 06:37, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the 2022 edition of the Tour Championship snooker event. First FAC failed as I ran out of time! Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 06:37, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Media review - pass

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  • Images are all appropriately licensed as I had identified during the first nomination. Will try to dip back in for a prose review later :) NØ 09:00, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source review by BennyOnTheLoose

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Feel free to challenge. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 01:08, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General comments

Thanks. I'll take a proper look in the next couple of days, but a couple of items caught my eye. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:21, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi BennyOnTheLoose, how is it looking now? Gog the Mild (talk) 14:24, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hi Gog the Mild, I'm waiting on a further response from Lee Vilenski about the livesnooker.com point, then will have another look, but I can't envisage there being much more to say. The article is lacking anything from Snooker Scene, which is probably the go-to reliable source for snooker tournaments, but it's likely that their coverage would cover largely the same ground as the reports from BBC, Eurosport etc. There's also quite a reliance on World Snooker Tour's own sites, but I didn't see anything controversial that would benefit from an independent reference. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:52, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
      Hi, I've gone ahead and removed that ref, and replaced with a ref that covers that item. Will eventually find that discussion and we can talk about the site in general. As much as I love snooker scene, I would just be adding it to back up existing sources at this stage. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 15:48, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Lee Vilenski - just a couple more. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:24, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General comments from BennyOnTheLoose

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Don't think I'll have much more to add. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 10:05, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Format: Qualification

Final

  • I note that the Snooker Scene tournament report starts with "There has never been a recovery from the brink of defeat in a major final like Neil Robertson's over John Higgins in the Cazoo Tour Championship...". Of course, they aren't constrained by having to write in an encyclopedic tone, but I wonder if something to this effect, or a bit more highlighting of the scale of the recovery is worth including? (I haven't specifically checked other sources to see if they emphasise this.)

Tournament draw

Tables

Support from NØ

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I'll review this article soon. Please ping me when the above review has been completely addressed.--NØ 20:03, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • I would suggest making sure that all ” are converted to " and all ’ are converted to ' per MOS:CURLY
  • "It is probably the best he has ever played against me and the best I’ve ever played against him”, stated O’Sullivan." - I would invert this sentence since it is a bit jarring to start directly with the quote, so something like "O'Sullivan stated: "It is probably the best he has ever played against me and the best I've ever played against him".
  • These sentences should not have a comma:
    • "Williams fell 47 points behind in the penultimate frame, but won it on the colours to force a decider"
    • "Williams responded that he enjoyed the quality of the match, but said "I could and should have won"
    • "Robertson attempted a maximum break, but missed the final blue ball."

The article looks tremendously well-researched and the prose is interesting and high quality. Just a few nitpicks from me.--NØ 16:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Gog the Mild

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Recusing to review.

  • Caption: "with his opponent describing his long potting as "frightening"." The double use of "his" leaves me with no clue as to who is speaking and who is "frightening.
  • "made his debut against John Higgins". Does this mean that it was the first time he had played Higgins? Or that this was the first match of the tournament? Or something else?
  • "who also made his debut in the event." "also" - as well as whom? (Trump?)
  • "and four other half-century breaks". Delete "other".
    • I would, but I'd argue it makes slightly different meaning. Saying someone makes two century and four half-century breaks, technically means they made four breaks of 50+, with two of them being 100+. This is clarifying that they made four additional 50+ breaks to the ones already mentioned. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 13:58, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not convinced that the image captions adhere to "Most captions are not complete sentences but merely sentence fragments ... Captions should be succinct; more information can be included on its description page, or in the main text."
    • Sure, but generally when we have images they are to show things about the specifics of the subject. In cases such as these they are used to break up prose. If I'm honest, image captions that are super short are not really all that helpful to readers as they are the same as alttext. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 13:58, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's all I have. Very smooth prose that. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:45, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

MyCatIsAChonk

Support - I have no other comments, and the above two are minor; very nice job! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 12:26, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking a look MyCatIsAChonk - just a note, I have a thread open about making a script for putting refs in order at WP:SCRIPTREQ, which had some pushback. I'd appreciate your input. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 12:32, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@MyCatIsAChonk: FYI "References need not be moved solely to maintain the chronological order of footnotes" per WP:TSI. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:06, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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