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The book "The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Snooker" has much more detail than this on the event, e.g. Jimmy Whit'es qualifying round winds, and indeed all of the qualifying rounds, would the info get deleted if it was included as not coming from an internet source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.203.254.2 (talk) 18:42, 19 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

No, the source doesn't have to be online. If you use a book, than you should add the page numbers too. Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 20:01, 19 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Qualifying for the 1981 Embassy World Snooker Championship

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W Thorne beat M Morra 9-5; D Greaves beat M Parkin 9-5; W Thorne beat D Greaves 9-3

J White beat B Mikkelsen 9-4; J White beat J Meadowcroft 9-8

R Edmonds beat M Wildman 9-3; R Williams beat S Hood 9-4; R Edmonds beat R Williams 9-7

T Meo beat J Johnson 9-8; M Hallett beat F Jonik 9-1; T Meo beat M Hallett 9-4

J Dunning beat B Bennett 9-6; J Dunning beat P Fagan 9-7

D Martin beat I Anderson 9-3; D Martin beat J Pulman 9-2

C Wilson beat R Andrewartha 9-4; E Sinclair beat P Morgan 9-8; C Wilson beat E Sinclair 9-4

T Knowles beat C Ross 7-0 (retired); T Knowles beat J Wych 9-3

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GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 13:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Shall review for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 13:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

  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

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  • The players names should be put into the flagathlete template

Lead

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  • Don't think the pound sign should be linked
  • "The defending champion was Cliff Thorburn, who lost 10–16 in the semi-final to Steve Davis. Davis went on to win his first world title," - try not to start the beginning of the following sentence like this
  • Think the second paragraph of the lead could do with some expanding with relevant details

Overview

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  • "The World Snooker Championship is an annual snooker tournament the official world championship of the game of snooker." - there are a few words missing from this sentence
  • "The 1981 tournament featured 24 professional for the second year." - 24 professional players for the second year running.
  • Wikilink seeded on the first mention to Seed (sports)
  • "Ray Reardon was regarded as the bookmaker's favourite to win at that time," - typo in the text in bold; should be written bookmakers
  • "Mountjoy's odds of winning were assessed as 20–1." - Mountjoy should be written out in full and wikilinked since this is the first time he is mentioned in the prose

Qualifying

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  • "All qualifying matches were the best of seventeen frames." - best-of-seventeen
  • Wikilink frame to the relevant article for non-Snooker readers

First round

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  • "and were the best of nineteen frames." - best-of-nineteen
  • "all made their World Championship debuts." - needs to be explicitly verified
  • Wikilink century break and break on the first mention
  • "and then defeated White at 10–8." - the word in bold is not needed IMO
  • "Knowles compiled a 101 break in his match against Graham Miles. Miles won the match after having earlier been tied at 5–6, 6–6, and 8–8." - Try not to have the last word of a sentence start the next one like this.
  • Black, yellow and penalty points should be wikilinked to the appropriate articles to help non-Snooker readers
  • "The 1968 World Amateur Champion David Taylor won the first three frames against the 1978 World Amateur Champion Cliff Wilson. Wilson then won four consecutive frames," - similar issue to the fifth point
  • "The two-times World Amateur Champion Ray Edmonds had never beaten John Spencer in a match," - two-time
  • Briefly explain who Jack Karnehm is to those who do not know

Second round

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  • "and were the best of nineteen frames." - best-of-nineteen
  • "Davis won the match 13–9." - think this sentence can be expanded somewhat with relevant details
  • "and won 13–7 to reach his first world championship final since 1977" - quarter-final
  • "Stevens had been unable to use the practice table at the venue before the match because it was being used to record a programme for television broadcast." - I believe the text in bold should be written to a television broadcast or television

Quarter-finals

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  • "and were the best of 25 frames." - best-of-25

Semi-finals

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  • Wikilink Romford and blue ball to the appropriate articles
  • "According to Karnehm, Thorburn "was still seething at this result and the remarks of the gloating Romford fans in their own stronghold" - sentence needs to be ended with a full stop
  • "It was level at 9-9," - en dash please as per MOS:DASH
  • "Davis was 80–23 ahead with only pink and black remaining," - only the pink
  • "However, when David offered Thorburn a handshake," - Davis

Final

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  • The image caption of Steve Davis is incomplete
  • "as a best of 35 frames match." - best-of-35
  • Black ball and blue ball do not need to be linked here
  • Wikilink pocket to the relevant article
  • "leaving Davis 8-5 ahead at the mid-session interval." - en dash please
  • "Mountjoy won the last frame of the second to finish 8–10 behind." - of the second session
  • "and they then each won two of the session's last four frames to leave Davis 14–12 ahead" - subsequently
  • Mention that this was Davis' first World Championship win out of six and verify this with a reliable source

Main draw

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  • "Numbers in (parentheses) indicate seedings." - Numbers in brackets to the right of players' names indicate the top 16 seeds.
  • State that the bolding in the tables denote the match winners for the uninitiated and for compliance with MOS:ACCESS
  • As with other snooker tournaments at GA and FA level, the players in the first row should be formatted with the flagathlete template

Qualifying

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  • Please mention the bolding of players names is not denote that they won their matches

Century breaks

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  • "His record would last until the 1983 tournament." - state it was Thorburn who broke the record with a maximum break

References

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  • Reference 2 "Why Sheffield truly is the 'home of snooker' as World Championship gets underway" is missing the date it was published

Putting the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 17:06, 26 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

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