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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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2020 European Masters

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5x expanded by Lee Vilenski (talk). Self-nominated at 17:58, 28 January 2020 (UTC).

  • The article was created about 6 weeks ago, before the tournament started, as normal for snooker tournament articles; I have counted expansion as starting with this edit on 21 January (i.e. 7 days earlier), although the bulk of the work was obviously undertaken from 26 January when the tournament ended. Seven-day expansion of prose size is of the order of 7x.
  • There are no concerns over the use of SnookerHQ.com as a reference. Although bloggish in appearance, it is written by an expert and has been used in many GA-class and other "audited" snooker articles on Wikipedia. Just in case other editors/readers take a different view, the facts for both hooks (and certain other info about the final) can also be supported by this BBC Sport article, although as ever with non-BBC tournaments the coverage is not in-depth.
  • Writing is neutral, free of copyvio/close paraphrasing and suitably engaging.
  • I can't see any factual errors, formatting issues, score errors etc.
  • QPQ review has been done.
  • No image included in the nomination template, although DerHexer's headshot of Neil would make a good lead image if required when this is promoted.
  • Just a couple of issues in the text:
    • Check spelling (Messe Dornbirn in infobox vs Messe Dornbirne in Tournament format para)
    • The second sentence in the Tournament format para has gone awry. I think it's meant to say "This was the 21st edition of the European Masters tournament, the first having been held in 1989 as the 1989 European Open".
  • Both hooks need a little tweaking:
    • Wording of the original is awkward: something like this may be better: ...that Neil Robertson won the 2020 European Masters 9–0, the first two-session snooker final since 1989 to end in a whitewash?
    • ALT1: weirdly the SnookerHQ and BBC refs are slightly misleading, because what they mean is that Neil has won a tournament every year since 2006 inclusive, so the claim about 15 straight years is correct, but the wording of the refs makes it look like 2006 is excluded. He did however win the Grand Prix in 2006, so 15 straight years is accurate. Perhaps reword as ...that by winning the 2020 European Masters, Neil Robertson has won snooker tournaments for fifteen straight [or consecutive] years?
Hassocks5489 I am quite happy with both of your rewordings, they seem better than my originals. I've got this one nominated for GOCE for a GAN next month, but I'll go through the article myself now. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:58, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
  • Minor textual issues resolved; now ready to go. Promoters: see my note about hook tweaks. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 23:11, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
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