Talk:2009 World Snooker Championship

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Mid-session scores

Is there any reason why scores may not be posted until the session is complete? Other sports pages have scores updated when matches are in progress. ZoeL (talk) 09:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Snooker#Match scores.

Highest break

Should we put the highest break up now as 140 Ronnie O'Sullivan and update if there is a higher break or should we leave it until the end of the tournament? ZoeL (talk) 11:45, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should wait until the tournament ends. Armbrust (talk) 11:51, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Honours

Including people's honours (MBE, OBE) against their names in these results summaries is, in my view, not merely unnecessary but downright strange. I took them out but this was reverted on the grounds that it was "disrespectful", a claim that I have to say I find ludicrous. What say you? 86.134.55.144 (talk) 13:07, 21 April 2009 (UTC).[reply]

The honours are used on all snooker tournament pages, so why not here too. Armbrust (talk) 14:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Armbrust, they should be kept. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:41, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at the other tournament pages they don't include the honours, actually; don't know where you're looking Armbrust. Regardless, why include them here? Flowerparty^☀ 15:57, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I looked in several places* and I couldn't find a single example that included the honours. I don't think I have ever seen people's honours included in any context resembling this. It's just not normal. 86.161.41.18 (talk) 18:01, 21 April 2009 (UTC). * I mean places outside Wikipedia.[reply]

I agree with you anonymous, I've taken them out. Flowerparty^☀ 22:59, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Flowerparty. I wondered if I was going daft here, seeing two people saying they should be kept. So I asked several people independently, and they all thought it was inappropriate. "Peculiar" and "bizarre" were two of the words used. So, my sanity is restored! 81.151.231.242 (talk) 20:28, 22 April 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Notable happenings

Seeing as we had a nice section about this last year shall we create one again? I thought it gave the page a bit more substance and something extra to look at rather than just the scores and century breaks which any sports page usually has. Oliwestham (talk) 23:46, 21 April 2009 (BST)

Go nuts. Try and include a reference for each happening if you can; last year's article is a bit crap in that respect. Flowerparty^☀ 22:59, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Century breaks

...or maybe it meant that there's been 1 century, and 1 century by Murphy? It will be irrelevant soon, anyway. --Nyelvmark (talk) 17:55, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was exactly meant this way. Armbrust (talk) 18:23, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Final Referee

I think this article needs a mention of Michaela Tabb, who is the first woman to referee a snooker final. It would be hard to argue that this isn't notable. Sidefall (talk) 15:27, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just added it. Next time, feel free to do it yourself; this is a wiki, after all! Oliphaunt (talk) 23:47, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'm not a snooker expert and didn't want to risk getting it wrong. If you look at the talk history you'll see I even confused her with someone else!! Sidefall (talk) 07:20, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is Snooker?

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Might seem like a rather simple question, but the article doesn't once link to what exactly Snooker is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.121.121.25 (talk) 02:18, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Maybe a short, one sentence blurb on exactly what snooker is or a link at the bottom pointing to the snooker page.69.27.229.11 (talk) 14:26, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but this is not a page to say what snooker is. If somebody wants to know what snooker is, the he/she should see it on this page: Snooker. Armbrust (talk) 16:06, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think the point was that the page didn't actually link to our snooker article. I've slightly modified the lede sentence to include a link to the sport. Feel free to improve the wording. Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 22:57, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I too provided a link to the snooker article but it was immediately removed by Armbrust. Apparently if you don't already know what snooker is you're out of luck, we can't even give them a helpful link. What is the procedure to follow when someone has appointed themselves the mother superior of an article and go through many times a day reversing any contributions they don't happen to like? - Mark Dixon (talk) 03:25, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it because:

The other snooker tournament pages doesn't have this link either.
I think if someone don't know what snooker is, then he would not search for the "World Snooker Championship 2009". And if he find it at random, and find it interestin then he/she should search on the wikipedia.

I put the link back because even..."if someone don't know what snooker is (sic)" the link gives them the necessary information to find that out. Maybe the other snooker tournament pages should have the link too. It's probably more important than knowing User:Armbrust's height and weight. Dr. Dan (talk) 05:07, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those informations are on a user page, and this is wikipedia article. Two different matter. And if you look, on the "World Snooker Championship" main page, there is a "Snooker" link. Armbrust (talk) 08:36, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

this really is a bit of nonsence. I too wondered about this when reading the article during the tournament and felt sure someone would place an early link to the sport snooker. I suggest desenters take a look at articles for our most popular sport, soccer. Both the articles FA Cup Final 2008 and FA Cup 2008-09 contain a link in the first sentence to the main article football. Enough said. The reference applied by Dr. Dan is correct and I have reinstated it. leaky_caldron (talk) 09:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(outdent) Links are cheap. There is no reason not to link to Snooker. I routinely link to the main game article at every article that applies, e.g. "Eleven-ball is a pool (pocket billiards) game played in the Kingdom of Tonga..." and "Ndele X. Mbebe is a professional carom billiards (especially three-cushion) player from Madagascar", etc. In my 4+ year Wikipeding, no one has ever complained about this even once. :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 08:47, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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