Talk:1969 World Snooker Championship/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 09:08, 14 July 2021 (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 1969 World Snooker Championship (also known as the Player's No.6 World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the first World Snooker Championship in a knock-out format since 1957," - should also mention it was a professional snooker tournament to be in line with all other articles
"Spencer had earlier eliminated defending champion John Pulman from the competition." - in which round?
"Eight players entered the championship, including four competition debutants." - try not to start a sentence with a number either written or not
"The quarter-finals and semi-finals were staged at several venues from 18 November 1968 until 22 February 1969," - at several venues in England from

"The 1969 championship is regarded as the start of the modern snooker era." - regarded by whom?

Amended to "The 1969 championship is regarded as the first of the modern snooker era." The start of Pot Black around the same time is sometimes identified as the start of the modern era. Also added another newspaper and book to citations in the body. Let me know what you think. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 19:53, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"after which there were no world championship matched" - spelling error
"featuring in the first match.[11][12][10]" - refs in numerical order please
"The 1969 championship is regarded as the start of the modern snooker era." - same issue as the second point in the lead section

All addressed. (See comment under "Lead" about the third point. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 19:54, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"saw the end of Pulman's reign as champion, at the hands of Spencer" - text in bold can be reworded to something shorter

Amended to "when he was defeated by Spencer." BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 19:58, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"and clinched the match by winning the first frame in the evening with a "magnificent 97 break"" - according to whom?

"until Reardon won the 27th frame to lead 15–12, after which Davis won six successive frames" - repetition of "won"

"held from at the Co-op Hall, Bolton, from 10 to 15 February." - word in bold is not needed
"after he won ten of the twelve frames on day 3." - three}
"The fourth day saw Davis reduce the deficit twelve frames" - a word is missing from this sentence

"before Spencer won the next four frames to lead 11–7 by the interval, after which he added four of the subsequent six frames to increase his lead to 15–9." - repetition of "lead"
"and finished the day at 27–21 six frames ahead again." - finished the day six frames ahead again at 27–21.
"With this he became the first player to win the World Championship at his first attempt since Joe Davis won the inaugural championship in 1927." - repetition of "wi(o)n"

Reference 44 "On this Week: Irish hat-trick success" is missing the publication date
All those references that are clippings from newspapers.com should be identified as such by the via= field

Am putting the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query each of the points raised above MWright96 (talk) 16:36, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the review, MWright96. I've replied to everything above. Let me know if any more work is required. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 20:06, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]