Talk:2006 UK Championship

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A fact from 2006 UK Championship appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in the 2006 UK Championship snooker tournament, Ronnie O'Sullivan conceded his quarter-final match against Stephen Hendry while 4–1 frames behind in a best of 17 frames match?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2006 UK Championship.

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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

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:2006 UK Championship/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: BennyOnTheLoose (talk · contribs) 11:31, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 (references): 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, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Happy to discuss, or be challenged on, any of my review comments. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 11:31, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio check - reviewed all matches over 5% found on Earwig's Copyvio Detector, no concerns.

Images - both CC, appropriate, placement and captions are fine, although on my desktop view the first image causes the intro text of the prize fund section to be somewhat indented.

Background/ Prize fund

"in last year's final" - should be "the previous year's final"
"Sponsored by the electronics retailer Maplin for the first time,[4] it had a total prize fund of £552,500.." as the 2005 final has just been mentioned, cinsider something like "the 2006 tournament had" instead of "it had"
"All matches held between 4 and 16 December were the best-of-17-frames until the final on 17 December" - slight reword needed. The earlier matches remained best-of-17 after the final too.

Tournament summary

I amended what looked like a typo in "Denbighshire"
"The qualifying rounds were played between players on the main tour ranked 33 and lower for one of 32 places in the final stage at Pontin's Snooker Centre, in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales, from 14 to 19 November." doesn't all seem to be supported by sources cited there.
"the likes of" could be removed.
"opponent world number 27 Marco Fu withdrew" to "opponent, world number 27 Marco Fu, withdrew" (I think)
"Scots" can be removed in the couple of instances where it occurs, unless there's a reason to retain it, but I dont think that two Scottish players meeting is particularly notable.
"Another world champion John Higgins" - I think needs commas around "John Higgins"
"an incorrect potting position" - I think this is a bit different from the source which mentions him losing position.
"Ebdon won four successive frames lead Ding" - probably missing a word
"docked 900 ranking points" - consider adding some context (e.g. how, if at all, did it affect his ranking?)
- - Could not anymore information on this point MWright96 (talk) 14:29, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"but it was narrowed by one frame" - reword, along the lines of "his lead was narrowed..."
"Hendry's 22 clearance" - looks from the source like it was an attempt at a clearance, that failed.
"only century break of the match, a 116 clearance to be two frames" - I think needs a comma after "116"
"After the game a tearful Ebdon" - I think needs a comma after "game"
"his relief to complete the task" - looks like a wording chosed to avoid close paraphrasing, doesn't seem very natural. Consider re-wording.
"potting", "red" is not wikilinked at the first instance.
Not necessary to link "£" but not a blocker to GA IMO.

Main draw/Final

No issues.

Qualifying

"at Pontins, Prestatyn, Wales." - source only has "Pontins"

Century breaks

No issues.

Notes

quarterfinal should be hyphenated, I believe.

References

Suitable range of sources used. No concerns from me about reliability. I thought the links via Infotrac Newsstand might be missing page numbers, but none are stated.

Breadth/Depth/Neutrality - no issues. NPOV maintained, level of coverage is appropriate.

Infobox and Lead

"30th edition of the tournament" - not explict in article body, possibly justified by WP:CALC
"10–6" - could be "10 frames to 6" with wikilink for frames.

Thanks for your work on the article, MWright96. I've made some suggestions above. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 13:11, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@BennyOnTheLoose: Have made changes based on the points that are raised above and replied to just one query MWright96 (talk) 14:29, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, MWright96. Looking at Snooker world rankings 2007/2008 it seems that the 900 ranking point penalty didn't even affect O'Sullivan's ranking position, so no need to expand on it in the article. Happy to pass for GA now. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:15, 13 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]