Talk:Tom Reece/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 19:47, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Am reviewing this for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 19:47, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

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 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):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Infobox

• Add where Oldham is in England for those who do not know
• 6-times should be "Six-times"
• Don't think runner-up needs to begin with a capital letter when it is not the first word in a sentence

• Done. Although Oldham is now in Greater Manchester, it looks like it was in Lancashire in 1873. I've wiki-linked Oldham and Lancing as these are perhaps not well-known places internationally. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Lead

• "and three times to Tom Newman in finals in 1921, 1924 and 1925." - in the 1921, 1924 and 1925 finals.
• "His highest officially-recognised break was 901." - add the year in which this break was compiled

• Both done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:54, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Early life

• "Reece was born in Oldham on 12 August 1873}" - the closed curly bracket should be replaced by a comma
• "and worked in a cotton mill. He used to visit a gymnasium to train for swimming and at the age of 16 started playing billiards on the gymnasium's table." - think all this text needs to be cited to a reliable source

• Both done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:08, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Early billiards career and record break

• "In a cradle cannon sequence, the two object balls are played into a position" - the "s" in "object ball" should also be part of the wikilink

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:16, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "Chapman didn't get to play any shots during this time." - the word in bold should be written as did not to avoid violating MOS:CONTRACTION

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:16, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "the responsibility to determine whether a player was in breach was passed to match referees." - breach of what exactly?

• Amended. In the absence of an agreed written description, the responsibility was thrown over to referees to judge whether a player was playing cradle cannons in breach of the rules - seems highly unsatisfactory. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:16, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "The world record break under the current rules, as of July 2020," - think the text in bold can be deleted since it might become a dated statement

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:16, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "who has been declared the Control Club champion in February 1909." - had

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:16, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Later professional career

• "He recounted that here had been a tradition that the company that manufactured the billiard table that a record break was made on would pay £100 to the player making the break." = on which a record break was complied on

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "Following the spread of the cradle cannon following Lovejoy's employment of the method in 1907," - don't think "spread" is the right word to use here

• Amended - let me know if you have a better wording. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "the record was frequently increasing, which meant more expense for the table manufacturers." - for table manufacturers.

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "he was careful about not using too much chalk," - overusing

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "He played one professional snooker match, at the 1946 World Snooker Championship, retiring from the match when 2–8 behind to Kingsley Kennerley." - repetition of "match"

• Amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "Reese claimed in the latter book to have sometimes played billiards with Guglielmo Marconi, before 'Marconi became well known." - repetition of "Marconi"

• Amended - let me know if you have a better wording. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• "Reece married Laura Lydia Williams on the morning of 6 June 1908," - who was subject highlighted in bold?

• Williams is mentioned in 14 sources from June 1908 available in the British Newspaper Archive about the wedding, but is only described as either "the daughter of a retired Army officer" or "a gifted young London lady". BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Professional Championship Finals

• Think you will need to reformat the final eight citations to read as not as for consistency

• Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:22, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Billiards Association and Control Club Championship finals

• "After the 1919 Championship," - change the text in bold to event to avoid the repetition later on

• Amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:57, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

References

• Reference 5 is dead and needs archiving

• RolledOut34 had kindly updated the url. I've added an archive. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:51, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Shall put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 11:03, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks for taking on this review, and for your helpful comments, MWright96. Let me know about any further work required on the article. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:00, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
  • @BennyOnTheLoose: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 08:33, 25 October 2020 (UTC)