Talk:1976 World Professional Match-play Championship

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1976 World Professional Match-play Championship is part of the World Professional Match-play Championship (snooker) series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 8, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
October 25, 2022	Good topic candidate	Promoted

Current status: Good article

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:1976 World Professional Match-play Championship/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 21:46, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful.

If nominators or editors could refrain from updating the particular section that I am updating until it is complete, I would appreciate it to remove a edit conflict. Please address concerns in the section that has been completed above (If I've raised concerns up to references, feel free to comment on things like the lede.)

I generally provide an overview of things I read through the article on a first glance. Then do a thorough sweep of the article after the feedback is addressed. After this, I will present the pass/failure. I may use strikethrough tags when concerns are met. Even if something is obvious why my concern is met, please leave a message as courtesy.

Best of luck! you can also use the {{done}} tag to state when something is addressed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)}

Please let me know after the review is done, if you were happy with the review! Obviously this is regarding the article's quality, however, I want to be happy and civil to all, so let me know if I have done a good job, regardless of the article's outcome.

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Lede

third para could probably do with being merged with the first one. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That should probably cover a bit more about the events from 1952-57. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
non-ranking snooker - I don't really like the links together like this, can't we just say "invitational snooker competition"? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Can move ref from infobox to prize fund. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reworked lead to address the points above. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 13:45, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nunawading Basketball Centre is this notable? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:09, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the Google News and Google books results, I think not. Delinked. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 13:45, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

General

BACC - expand on first usage. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Expanded. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

as an alternative to the World Snooker Championship[3] now recognised as world championships - as an alternative to the World Professional Championship. Although at first not deemed a world championship, it was later recognised as having the same lineage of the event." Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reworded, but avoided "lineage" as I don't think that's quite appropriate. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Should probably mention that the World Snooker Championship was reinstated. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent point. Amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The tournament was staged from 28 November to 11 December 1976, at the Nunawading Basketball Centre in Burwood East, Melbourne, Australia, with 16 invited players participating - in here it's worth mentioning that this event didn't similarly have the lineage of the world snooker championship. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

editor of Snooker Scene, - needs "magazine" in there somewhere. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Added. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And the later World Matchplay events as distinct despite - distinct what? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Added a few words, which hopefully clarifies it. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
As we haven't mentioned it earlier, could we put the format into the summary (IE, when the matches were played, number of frames etc,) Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Took a while to get round dates. Overseas reports about "yesterday" and a syndicated article appearing on different days in different sources saying that a round was over "the next three" both confused me. There isn't enough in sources for individual match dates for all. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As there isn't that much info in the semi and quarter-finals, maybe we could merge the individual paragraphs for those sections Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. (Even Snooker Scene only had a single page reporting on all the tournament results.) BennyOnTheLoose (talk)

We could take out the subsections too, it would look a little less bare. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

pot the black - needs some cuegloss. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Review meta comments

I'll begin the review as soon as I can! If you fancy returning the favour, I have a list of nominations for review at WP:GAN and WP:FAC, respectively. I'd be very grateful if you were to complete one of these if you get time. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:46, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry it took so long to get to Benny! I've added some comments above. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 12:18, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, Lee Vilenski. I've addressed all of your points - please check to see if I've introduced any new issues by incorporating more history. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:53, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pathé footage

There's about a minute of footage relating to the tournament at this site. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:37, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]