Talk:2020 World Seniors Championship

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Good article2020 World Seniors Championship has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic star2020 World Seniors Championship 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
July 11, 2022Good article nomineeListed
October 13, 2022Good topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 26, 2022.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that live broadcasts of the deciding frame of the 2020 World Seniors Championship were replaced by golf highlights?
Current status: Good article

Did you know nomination[edit]

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: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:07, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

5x expanded by Lee Vilenski (talk). Self-nominated at 08:25, 2 June 2022 (UTC).[reply]

  • Article is a 5x expansion and is sourced throughout. Hook fact is interesting enough and cited inline. I have a question about it though, Lee Vilenski. The article says earlier that the championship was aired on BBC, then the sentence supporting the hook says BBC Red Button. Can you clarify that for me as a yankee? BBC is more than one channel, I know. Was that the only BBC channel that was airing it? – Muboshgu (talk) 03:16, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Muboshgu: Red Button is a complementary data/TV service — there indeed is no real comparison stateside, think something sort of like NHK's Hybridcast with a dedicated "pop-up" channel for secondary sports events. It would be an ancillary or secondary channel and I believe it would be the only carrier (besides the BBC's own streams, say in iPlayer). Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 04:20, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the explanation Sammi Brie. I'm taking out the dead external link though. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:04, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:2020 World Seniors Championship/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 16:26, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]


  • Why isn't 2020–21 snooker season linked in the lead?
    • It's a bit of an odd one, because it was the first event of the 2020-21 world seniors tour, which is a part of the snooker season. It being an amateur/Pro-Am event makes it difficult to place. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:20, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • "pandemic, being broadcast" perhaps "pandemic and was broadcast" (and you might even need to say whether that was UK exclusive?)
    • I don't have a source saying that it was UK exclusive. The BBC Red Button stuff is available elsewhere in the world, but only for certain content.
  • Online too?
    • Everything is online, so I think it's a bit moot. When we talk about "broadcasting", we do tend to mean that they have the coverage, rather than the media they use to portray that - otherwise we would say "stream" or whatever. If it was online only, that might be worth mentioning. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:20, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Could add a little more in the lead as to the format of the contest.
  • "place in 1991" could link 1991 season?
  • "The event consists of" probably more accurate to say "The event is contested by..."
  • "at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, " for non-experts, it might be nice to note that this is also the venue of the World Snooker Championship rather than some deadbeat theatre in north England just picked to give these veterans a good time.
  • "11th edition of the World Seniors Championship" overlinked.
  • "The event was... The event featured... " repetitive. Indeed, "event" is used ten times in that paragraph.
  • "best-of-7 " etc, seven/nine.
  • "The event was held ..." image caption needs a full stop.
  • "White, defending the championship" comma after championship.
  • Cuegloss link for break.
  • "–3.[16][5] The second" ref order.
  • "against Hendry, however, Hendry" jarringly repetitive.
  • "win 4-1." en-dash, and others, fix 'em all.
  • No need to link common terms like "golf".
    • Considering there is a type of pool called "golf" I prefer to retain the link as it makes it very clear. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 14:01, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The field was made up of eight selected ranking event winners..." shouldn't this be in the overview?
  • Only four seeds, this needs explaining in the prose. Especially as it played out perfectly and all four seeds made it to the semifinals.
  • Might be worth noting that Tabb was referee for the final in the prose.
  • Why are century/50+ breaks in italics in the table?
    • It's something people do to show that both players had the same amount - but it's not explained anywhere, so I've removed. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 08:06, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • "made during the event, Jimmy White made a 130 at the semi-final stage.[26]" made/made repeat. I would rephrase entirely, something like "Jimmy White made the only century break of the tournament with a 130 ..."
  • Shouldn't ref 1 have the same publisher as ref 2?
  • Same for other WPBSA sources?
  • Ref 5, pp. not p.
  • Check websites aren't mentioned in ref titles, e.g. refs 6, 7 etc.
    • I think I got all these.
  • Ref 8 publisher etc?
  • Ref 9 publication date?
  • Ref 12, link Sporting Life like you did with WPBSA in ref 2?
  • Ref 14 is a bare URL.
  • Ref 19 publication date.
  • Ref 23, author etc, make it consistent with the other similar refs.
  • Ref 24 publisher?
  • Ref 25 spaced hyphen should be en-dash.

That's it. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 17:53, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lee Vilenski ping. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 18:52, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]