Talk:2011 European Pool Championships/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 05:10, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): 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):
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:

"The events were played between 23 March, and 3 April 2011" - I don't think the comma is necessary
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"was a part of the European Pool Championships; " - were part
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"and saw events for men, women and wheelchair players across four pool disciplines:" - featured
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"Austria was the most successful nation at the event, winning three events" - try to avoid close repetition of the word "event(s)
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
" Jouni Tähti won two of the three wheelchair events, losing just one match in the final of the nine-ball event to Henrik Larsson." - same issue as above
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 10:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Every event has a separate tournament for both men, and wheelchair competitors" - men, women and wheelchair competitors.
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:24, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"The eight and ten-ball events was played as a race–to–8 rack, with the women's and wheelchair events as race–to–6 racks" - none of this is mentioned in the source attached to it. Another source containing all of this information is required
- Added ref. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:24, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"The eight and ten-ball events was played as a race–to–8 rack, with the women's and wheelchair events as race–to–6 racks." - same issue as above
- Added ref. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:24, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"The eight and ten-ball events was played as a race–to–8 rack, with the women's and wheelchair events" - repetition of the word "events"
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:24, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"The nine-ball event was held as race–to–9 racks for the men's and juniors events, with women's and wheelchairs as race–to–7 racks." - same issue as above
- Added ref. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:24, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When the player is mentioned a second time, just using their surname will suffice
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"In the semi-finals, Tomasz Kapłan defeated Petri Makkonen and Fabio Petroni defeated Roman Pruchay." - what were the scores of both matches?
- Added Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"the eight-ball tournaments" - tournament
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)}
" Nick van den Berg defeated Huiji See in the first semi-final 9–7 in a match filled with mistakes," - this portion of text is not mentioned in the source attached to it. Please use another source that explictly mentions this information
- added ref. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"The nine-ball event was held between 28 and 31 March," - 1 April; also this portion of text needs verifying by a reliable source
"The all Austrian final" - all-Austrian
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"where Cohan won 8–6." - Cohen
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
" to Marika Poikkijoki in the quarter-finals of the eight-ball" - eight-ball competition
- done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:43, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The hyphens in the date(s) column need to be replaced by en dashes (–) per MOS:DASH
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:36, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
For all of the players' names in the results tables, they should be sorted in alphabetical order according to their surname with the Template:sortname template combined with the flagathlete template e.g. Tomasz Kapłan (POL)
- fixed Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:50, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The end dates for the women's nine-ball and wheelchair nine-ball events are 1 April not 31 March per the source of the information
"Roman Prutschai" - his surname is spelt as Pruchay in the source provided
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:36, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"Konstantin Stepanow" - his surname is Stepanov
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:36, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Marika Poikkijoki is Finnish not Dutch
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:36, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The dates for several of the references are missing
- Added missing dates. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:23, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
References 1 and 2 are duplicates; only one should be present
- removed. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 11:53, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Reference 24 is dead and requires archiving
- That's a kettle of worms. Removed unsourced material. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The review will be put on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 08:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MWright96, I've covered the above Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:44, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Lee Vilenski: Now promoting to GA class. I've made two edits to the article. MWright96 (talk) 13:08, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]