Talk:2001 Malta Grand Prix

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A fact from 2001 Malta Grand Prix appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a group-stage match at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix snooker tournament was disrupted when electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig snapped and swung across the table?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2001 Malta Grand Prix.

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Cue sports Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cue sports, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of pool, carom billiards and other cue sports on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Cue sportsWikipedia:WikiProject Cue sportsTemplate:WikiProject Cue sportscue sports articles

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WikiProject Cue sports to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Lots of high-priority articles need to be created:

List of wanted articles...

Games: A bunch of high-priority game redlinks, e.g. American four-ball billiards (redirs to Four-ball billiards but not specifically covered there)
"Legends": Edwin Kelly, Charlie Peterson (pool player) (all BCA Hall of Famers); George Franklin Slosson, Maurice Daly (billiards player), Frank Ives, George Butler Sutton [not George H. Sutton, the one with no hands]
Male pool bios: Hsia Hui-kai
Female pool bios:
Male three-cushion bios: Dion Nelin & Jozef Bel Philipoom
Female carom bios: Aygen Berk Saygıner
Aristic pool bios: Nick Nikolaidis, Mark Dimick,Sebastian Giumelli, Eric Yow
Unranked in current pool but notable: Mike Eufemia, Shannon Daulton, Jimmy Reid (pool player) [speed pool champ], var. Mosconi Cup players
Non-player figures: Mitch Laurance, George Fels
Five-pins bios: Gustavo Zito
Organizations: Joss Tour
Events: WPA World Nine-ball Championships (pre-1997), BCA Open Nine-ball Championship, World 14.1 Continuous Championship, International Challenge of Champions (pool)
Media and misc.: Iwan Simonis (leading billiard cloth maker), Joss Cues (major cue mfr.), The Baron and the Kid [Johnny Cash film], Ultimate Pool Party [TV show]
And: everyone/thing listed at WP:CUEGAMES, WP:CUEEVENTS, WP:CUEORGS, WP:CUEBIOS, & WP:CUEMISC. Also a Cue sports world records article (many can be pulled from bio articles like Geet Sethi, Guinness Book will provide others, and so will BCA and other orgs., websites and books like Shamos 1999).
Meta: Outline of cue sports (OoK; cf. [1], etc.) – presently redirects to Cue sports, but this is not an OoK page.
Internal pages: Something like: [2][3]). Such pages are not fluff, but can be good places to find recruits for the project, possibly including subject-matter experts, especially if cross-referenced to the project. Also, Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Cue sports (cf. [4][5][6]).

Cleanup : Thomas Engert, Marlon Manalo
Copyedit : Jonni Fulcher
Expand : Cue sports techniques#Carom shots (section needs to exist), Straight pool, Alfredo de Oro,Jeanette Lee (pool player)
NPOV : Andy Segal (major WP:COI and WP:V issues, too), Jose Parica (it's bad!); Efren Reyes, Thomas Engert, Dennis Orcollo, Dick Jaspers
Photo : Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of cue sports and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of cue sports people
Split : List of World Eight-ball Champions - blackball stuff needs own article {draft split from real eight-ball one (draft).
Stubs : loads of players in Category:Cue sports stubs
Update : Arcade game (link to bagatelle, bar billiards, etc.)
Verify : Cue stick (mostly WP:OR!), Frank Taberski (has major fact conflict between BCA & NYT sourcing), Russian pyramid, add sources to Unreferenced BLPs
Wikify : Chicago (pool), Jonni Fulcher
Other :
- Create timelines, both textual and graphical. See link for various guidelines and examples. We need an overall one for cue sports generally, and more specific ones as we drill down into more specific topics (timeline of nine-ball, timeline of Willie Mosconi's career, etc.).
- Form sections: Exhibition game needs section on cue sports; could later form a new article with "Main article..." xref to it. What other general articles need cue sports sections?
- CopyVio rewrite:
- Clarify: What is the "continuous pool" listed above "14.1 continuous" at Alfredo DeOro?
- Delete or defend:
- Move/Rename (and Redirect):
- Redirect:
- Unorphan:
- Ensure: that rules discussions in game articles & the Billiard techniques article do not violate WP:NOT#IINFO.
- Help fix: WP:CUEBIOS#Pool players (women) is nearly empty!
- Help develop: the lists of WP:CUEORGS and WP:CUEEVENTS
- Images: improve articles with images from commons; create pics and add them to commons as GFDL/CC-by/PD.
- Add: {{Sport overview}} to main articles of cue games that are real sports; medal table tags where they apply (see Ding Junhui for example).
- Insert: Cue sports events (tournament results, etc.) into the "year in sports" categories (e.g. 1965 in sports), using {{subst:Cue sports heading}} if that year doesn't have one yet.
- Change:
- Replace:
- Some day: Seek Featured Topic status.
- Plunder: the French article; it does have some interesting tidbits, structure and images. Check out de.wikipedia, etc., as well.
- Inter-wiki: Improve simple:Billiards and foreign-language key articles.

See also: Snooker to-do list

Note: To watchlist this to-do list, click on "watch" at top right of this table. Watching the page it is transcluded on won't watch the to-do list.

Malta Low‑importance

	Malta portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Malta, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Malta on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MaltaWikipedia:WikiProject MaltaTemplate:WikiProject MaltaMalta articles
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Snooker Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Snooker, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of snooker on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SnookerWikipedia:WikiProject SnookerTemplate:WikiProject SnookerSnooker articles
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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:2001 Malta Grand Prix/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 13:57, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful.

If nominators or editors could refrain from updating the particular section that I am updating until it is complete, I would appreciate it to remove a edit conflict. Please address concerns in the section that has been completed above (If I've raised concerns up to references, feel free to comment on things like the lede.)

I generally provide an overview of things I read through the article on a first glance. Then do a thorough sweep of the article after the feedback is addressed. After this, I will present the pass/failure. I may use strikethrough tags when concerns are met. Even if something is obvious why my concern is met, please leave a message as courtesy.

Best of luck! you can also use the {{done}} tag to state when something is addressed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)}

Please let me know after the review is done, if you were happy with the review! Obviously this is regarding the article's quality, however, I want to be happy and civil to all, so let me know if I have done a good job, regardless of the article's outcome.

Immediate Failures

It is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria -
It contains copyright infringements -
It has, or needs, cleanup banners that are unquestionably still valid. These include{{cleanup}}, {{POV}}, {{unreferenced}} or large numbers of {{citation needed}}, {{clarify}}, or similar tags. (See also {{QF-tags}}). -
It is not stable due to edit warring on the page. -

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Lede

Not going to lie, when I picked this up, I thought it was a motorsport event. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:01, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Hehehe MWright96 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Is it worth mentioning who Ken beat the prior year? Or at least mentioning what the event was? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:01, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The event having a round-robin element is worth mentioning in lede. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:01, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

General

Snooker Promotions (Malta) - was this the name of the company, should be italics? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- No that's correct MWright96 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Malta seems large enough not to link. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The 2001 tournament was the fourth of the five World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association invitational events in the 2000–01 snooker season,[3] the seventh Malta Grand Prix,[1] and was held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, between 21 and 25 February 2001. It preceded the 2001 Masters. - masssive sentence followed by a tiny one. Probably could split/merge Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No defined prize fund? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- No MWright96 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The field was composed of Alex Borg, Ken Doherty, Tony Drago, Joe Grech, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins, Paul Hunter, Stephen Lee, Fergal O'Brien, Matthew Stevens, Joe Swail and Mark Williams - probably worth splitting into those from Malta and those not. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Could we have group stages and knockout rounds as subsection of "Tournament summary"? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Done this differently MWright96 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The 12 best-of-9 frame group stage, due to how this is written, I prefer "the twelve best-of-nine frame..." Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
O'Brien in the quarter-finals of the Masters - worth saying this was the 2000 Masters, as we've spoken mostly about the 2001 event. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
During the eighth frame, the electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig some 50 ft (15 m) above the players snapped and swung across the table, causing Stevens, who was about to strike the pink ball, to seek cover - some prime WP:DYK stuff right there. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- That was at DYK last month :) MWright96 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Williams changed his playing style midway through the match because he was unsteady - can we expand on that? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
from a possible 90 qualified finals - we've already mentioned this. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
We got a referee for the final? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- That information is unavailable MWright96 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Review meta comments

I'll begin the review as soon as I can! If you fancy returning the favour, I have a list of nominations for review at WP:GAN and WP:FAC, respectively. I'd be very grateful if you were to complete one of these if you get time. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:57, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Lee Vilenski: Have made changes where appropriate MWright96 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]