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Reviewer: BennyOnTheLoose (talk · contribs) 15:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]


GA review
(see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose, spelling, and grammar):
    b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references):
    b (citations to reliable sources):
    c (OR):
    d (copyvio and plagiarism):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects):
    b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. 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) 15:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio and plagiarism check

  • Earwig's Copyvio Detector threw up some 90%+ matches but these look like dodgy backwards-copy sites. I looked at the other matches above 5.7% and had no concerns. (There are a couple of phrases in the article that occur elsewhere, but these look like common wordings.)

Images

  • No issues.

Infobox

  • What's the source for date of birth? (It's not in the article body.)
  • Is there a source for career earnings?
  • Is there a source for century breaks?
    • Added. If the source is no good, snooker scene has him down at 630 from October. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 17:45, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • That website is a little too honest according to machine translation: "The website is completely amateur, made by people with little knowledge of snooker...so there may be mistakes" As number of centuries will be an issue with many articles, I think a consensus should be sought amongst interested parties about how to include this going forward. In the meantime (if the template allows) I suggest that the 630 with the Snooker Scene citation and an additional note like "(as of October 2020)", similar to how the current ranking is annotated. I'm open to other ideas here, or to being pointed to policy or past consensus if one exists. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:16, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't think it's necessary to wikilink "£" but that's an optional change.

Lead

  • Looks fine now the unsourced info has been removed.

Early life

  • Seems fine.

Snooker Career

  • 2016–17 season:Looks like the RKG source is a copyvio of this - amend to WPBSA source, and reword "Selby made seven breaks over 50 while Ding managed a top run of just 47" which is a borrowed phrase.
  • 2016–17 season:"followed by a more routine 6–2 semi-final victory over Shaun Murphy" not verified by source; remove "more routine" if applicable
  • 2016–17 season:"No one came close to beating Selby as he progressed through to the semi-finals of the World Championship. In his quarter-final match, he heavily defeated Marco Fu 13–3 with a session to spare." is uncited

Personal life

  • "His 2014 World Championship victory happened on the day that Leicester City celebrated their promotion to the Premier League with an open-top bus parade." is uncited
  • Ref 169 - Leicester Mercury url seems to be problematic (I get a security warning). Archived link verifies the content.
  • ("former Irish international pool player" - nationality was not mentioned in source cited, so I added another source in.)
  • "24 May 2011" - source says "earlier this month" (May 2011) but does not mention the date.

Performance and rankings timeline

  • Probably better to have only a live link as the source, rather than an archived one, as this will likely continue to be updated. Or re-archive with a more recent date.
  • (I checked a sample, no issues found.)

Career finals

Pro-am finals

Variant finals

Pool career

General

Thanks for your work on the article, and the responses so far, Lee Vilenski and Rodney Baggins. I'll put this on hold for now, and will take another look once you've been through the comments above. I don't see any immediate problems with the lead, I'm just leaving it 'til after other changes are implemented. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:47, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Lee Vilenski and Rodney Baggins for the further improvements. I think the last pending issue is a reliable source for century breaks. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 19:23, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Now that everything I found has been addressed, I'm happy to pass this for GA. Good work, Lee Vilenski and Rodney Baggins. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 19:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, that's great, thanks Benny. I'll of course carry on making further improvements, including those changes to the lead section that we were discussing the other day. I am well chuffed. Thanks also to Lee for pushing this forward as it would probably have sat in my to do list for another few months otherwise! Let me know if there are any more BLPs you would like to get promoted and I will do what I can to help. Rodney Baggins (talk) 21:12, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a big Henry fan,so I'd like to workon that, but there is a lot that is required there. I think the talk page lede is very good, but give it a day or two before placing into the article to see what other users might thing. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:16, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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