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The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 30 May 2020 [1].


Nominator(s): Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 15:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the 2017 edition of the World Snooker Championship. Qualifying for the event featured both a maximum break, and the longest frame in snooker history (over two hours!). Mark Selby won his third world title, defeating four-time champion John Higgins in the final 18-15 winning £375,000. Selby was six frames behind at 10-4; the biggest deficit for a champion since the 1985 World Snooker Championship.Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 15:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately licensed. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:55, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments from TRM

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I'll review this in due course, placeholder at the moment. The Rambling Man (Staying alive since 2005!) 09:44, 25 March 2020 (UTC) Here we go (and this will be submitted to my WikiCup account):[reply]

This takes me to the Tournament summary. I will continue (hopefully) tomorrow! The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 20:42, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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That's it for the remainder. The Rambling Man (Stay indoors, stay safe!!!!) 16:49, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Games of the world

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Comment I dislike the seeds in the first 2 rounds being in brackets. I think it is a little redundant and should be without. I think the footnote where if the defending champ is outside of the top 16 for seeding purposes is redundant in this case and should be removed. 15-minute tip replacement break. Probably reads better as a 15 minute break to replace the tip. Also think TV coverage (should be near where your setting everything up with prize money etc) and the prose of qualifying could be above the main draw stuff as it kind of gets lost. Games of the world (talk) 10:28, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with all of the above, apart from the qualifying, which is always in this location. The prose in front of the qualifying section is for who could take part, whereas the summary of the qualifying is in the tournament summary section. See MOS:SNOOKER for more info. I have addressed the points in the article otherwise, thanks for taking a look Games of the world. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 10:42, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The only thing I can see is this "The top 16 players in the latest world rankings automatically qualified for the main draw as seeded players.[5] Mark Selby was seeded first overall as the defending champion, while the remaining 15 seeds were allocated based on the latest world rankings, released after the penultimate event of the season, the China Open.[5]" Suggest a rephrase of this little section as latest is not specific to a time. Suggest either saying seeds set on x date or after the china open, with Mark Selby.... Games of the world (talk) 17:22, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Games of the world I have reworded this. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 19:26, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Games of the world - could I consider this a support/oppose for this FAC? Thanks for taking a look for me. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 10:40, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, was having a mini break. Support Decent clean article, well written, even before the copy editing below. Games of the world (talk) 20:12, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support from BennyOnTheLoose

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The article seems to me to be comprehensive, neutral, well-written and suitably referenced. I've got a couple of suggestions.

  • Format: "at the amateur championship." Link is to 2018 WSF Championship which is all good, but any reason not to use the WSF title in the article? There's a long-established English Amateur Championship that used to be seen as a stepping stone to the professional ranks.
  • Prize fund: might be worth a few words spelling out what the "rolling 147 prize" was about.
  • Quarter-finals: "predicted that he was now the favourite": You can't predict the present. I think the right phrasing would be something more like "opined that Selby was now the favourite"; "offered his assessment that Selby was now..."; or maybe "predicted that Selby was the most likely player to win."
  • Quarter-finals:"his subsequent clearance of 146" - only part of the break was subsequent to running out of position. Consider either omitting "subsequent" or saying something like "his consequent clearance of 146"
  • Quarter-finals: I know I tend to over-link, but consider linking "clearance" to the Cue Sports Glossary.
  • Semi-finals: "which was effectively a rematch of the previous year's final" - I think the word "effectively" could be deleted.
  • Semi-finals: " Higgins took leads of 5–3, 10–6, and 16–8 after each of the first three sessions,". How about "Higgins held the lead after the end of each of the first three sessions, at 5–3, 10–6, and at 16–8"? (There is undoubtedly a better was to phrase this, but he didn't have those three leads after each session.)
  • Final: "a repeat" - maybe "a rematch"? (Outcome was different.)

Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 18:54, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Rodney Baggins

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Overview intro section
First round

I've made quite a few changes to this section (hope you don't mind), but here are some outstanding points:

  • "Prior to the tournament Trump had proclaimed"... not sure about the word "proclaimed" – can you think of a better word, maybe "declared" or "announced"?
  • "Seven former world champions progressed to the second round:" – using just surnames in this list looks odd, especially as Shaun Murphy not yet been mentioned
  • "Xiao Guodong was the only first-round winner who had not previously won a match at the Crucible" – not sure about this sentence as it's not backed up by ref.38 and I think it might be original research!? It also has no context: maybe mention that he defeated 16th seed Ryan Day in his first round match 10–4? Mention that he made the first round in 2014 but lost to Ali Carter?
  • Mark Selby / Shaun Murphy / John Higgins matches are not mentioned – is it worth including who they defeated to progress to second round?
  • Kyren Wilson / Barry Hawkins / Mark Allen matches are not mentioned at all – is this because their matches were not notable?
Second round
  • "...with Stephen Maguire the only unseeded player to progress to the quarter-finals." I think this information is prematurely placed at the top of the section. It's also mentioned in the QF section ("Stephen Maguire, the only qualifier to reach the quarter-finals...") so are we maybe overstating it a bit? Suggest you could move it into the image caption: "Stephen Maguire was the only unseeded player to progress to the quarter-finals." as the caption is currently just repeating info word for word from body text (about him reaching his first World Championship quarter-final since 2012.)
Final
  • "In reaching the final, Higgins moved to second in the world rankings, behind Selby." – Would Higgins have been ranked second in any eventuality (whether he'd won OR lost the final)? If not, this should read: "As runner-up in the championship, Higgins moved to second in the world rankings, behind Selby."
Dates
  • Ref.33 (Calendar 2016/2017) doesn't confirm the first round took place between 15 and 20 April 2017. It just confirms the start date of the main competition, but individual stages are not specified in the list.
  • Do we need to source the dates of each round? First round 15 to 20 April 2017; Second round 20 & 24 April 2017; Quarter-finals 25 & 26 April 2017; Semi-finals 27 to 29 April 2017; Final 30 April & 1 May 2017.
References
  • Ref.1 just puts me through to British Newspaper Archive registration page
    • The article does mention the "professional snooker championship" but not that it is annual or even that 1927 was the first event. I'm sure a better online source is available. As a reserve option, the Billiards Association and Control Council Handbook for 1927-28 says "the Control Council is responsible for the promotion of the Professional Championship of English Billiards and has this year instituted a competition for the Professional Championship of Snooker which promises to become an annual event of the first importance." (p.51) BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:46, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ref.26. is pointing to Eleven Sports main page and the archive version provided doesn't mention 2017 WSC final at all
  • Ref.38 has wrong title, should be "World Snooker Championship 2017: Frame scores, complete results & highest break"
  • Ref.66 has no work alias, e.g. website=espn.co.uk
  • Ref.77. has title "Matches – World Snooker Live Scores" but it might be best to change to "Betfred World Championship Qualifiers" as it's not a live score page any more

Rodney Baggins (talk) 14:39, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rodney, anything further? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 12:16, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Lee, I've had a good look through and these are my outstanding queries following on from previous comments:
  • In Overview, you've changed sentence to "the sport was played by those in the United Kingdom" which I'm not keen on. I quite like the wording used in the 2019 World Snooker Championship article: "the sport was popular in the British Isles", however we also need to be careful about the exact location – are we talking about the UK, Great Britain or maybe just England? What do the sources say about that? Maybe "the sport was popular in Great Britain" is the safest bet here?
  • I know you've changed things around a bit concerning the Stephen Maguire info in Second round section, but I actually have an issue with putting this clause in the first paragraph: "with Stephen Maguire the only unseeded player to progress to the quarter-finals" as it seems out of place chronologically and I see no reason to mention it until a bit later. Maybe lower down, try: "Stephen Maguire defeated Rory McLeod 13–3 with a session to spare, to reach his first World Championship quarter-final since 2012. Maguire was the only unseeded player to progress to the quarter-finals." — Then maybe you could combine the two mini-facts into the caption, something like: "Stephen Maguire reached the last eight for the first time since 2012, the only unseeded player to progress to the quarter-finals."
Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 13:20, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I've made some further edits, Rodney Baggins Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 10:46, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Lee, looks good to me. Happy to support now! Rodney Baggins (talk) 16:13, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Rodney, tks for checking refs above -- can I check if you're signing off on the reliability of the sources used? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:47, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ian, yes I'm satisfied that these are all reliable sources. The only one we had issues with was the first citation, which has now been changed to a Sheffield Star article; whilst it does back up the information presented, I'm aware that it's a daily tabloid so you might want to check its reputability. Other than that, everything's fine source-wise. Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 08:18, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Can I ask (Lee or Rodney, I don't mind) where I'd find the sourcing for all the tables in the Qualifying section? It's not obvious to me... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:09, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Full qualifying round results are given in this Sporting Life source: [2] I've added a couple of ref tags into the article for now, but the tables probably need a brief intro sentence to accommodate the tags so they're not just hanging there. Rodney Baggins (talk) 10:35, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That'd be a good idea, tks. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:44, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like Rodney's already covered it Ian Rose. I'll do a slight bit of cleanup. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 13:02, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Mike Christie

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I'll copyedit as I go through; please revert anything you don't like.

  • I think "Highest televised break" is more logical than "Televised highest break".
  • I tried looking in the reference for the "Prize fund" section to see if the source used "Televised highest break", and as far as I can tell it doesn't give any information about the breaks, so I think another source is needed there.
  • There's some repetition between the "Format" section and the "Seeding and qualifying rounds" section. For example, do we need to be told twice that qualifiers had to win three best-of-19 matches?
    • Isn't it a little important to denote how many they would need to win when describing the rounds.
  • Up to you, but it might be worth mentioning that O'Sullivan's last-16 streak went one more year, so he passed Griffiths' record.
  • None of the five debutants, David Grace, Noppon Saengkham, Gary Wilson, Yan Bingtao, and Zhou Yuelong, made it to the second round. I don't think we need to name them; they were listed at the end of the previous section.
  • and predicted that he was now the favourite to win the championship: redundant: either "and said that he was now the favourite to win the championship" or "and predicted that he would win the championship".
  • The "modern era" is considered to be after the 1968–69 snooker season. Suggest making this "considered to begin with"; as written I read it as saying the modern era began the following season.
    • Done. 17:27, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Not much wrong here; once these minor points are fixed I expect to support. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:00, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Your changes look good. I took out the mention of the televised break of 146 in the lead too, assuming you just overlooked it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:33, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, the bit about the prize money is the non-cited bit; winning the highest break is important, so I returned this. Thanks again for taking a look at this one. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 17:39, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I should have thought of that. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:43, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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