Talk:2004 World Snooker Championship/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Alavense (talk · contribs) 06:00, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: It is a wonderful world (talk · contribs) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Alavense, nice work on these snooker tournament articles. Also pinging co-nominator @Lee Vilenski I'll review this. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Prose (Criteria 1a, 1b, 4) clock

Sources clock

Spot check (Criteria 2b, 2c, 2d) clock

Spot check numbers based on this version. The checks will not be entirely random – I will check the texts which I think will most likely have source-text integrity issues.

[17a]: N doesn't support "higher-ranked players being seeded and given byes to the later rounds" and "The event featured a 32-player main draw". Ideally a secondary source would be used IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[18a]: N primary source containing the results of the tournament, which doesn't support several of the statements. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[22a]: N doesn't support "The first stage, for amateurs and non-Tour professionals" IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[29a]: Y, though "clinched" is editorializing IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[33a]: Y

[40]: N doesn't support "Day and Maguire were the only debutants at the Crucible and both lost in the opening round". The statement gives WP:SYNTH vibes. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[42a]: N doesn't support "he had won his first ranking tournament defeating White in the European Open final" IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

[49a]: Y

[78]: Y

[79]: N doesn't support "and then won two more to put himself only two behind at the end of the first session". It also doesn't support the WP:EDITORIALised "only" in "only needed two frames". IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately this spot check highlighted several issues. With more than half the checks having issues, I think this will need a full source-text integrity check before we can be confident no issues remain. As this article contains a lot of refs, that will take quite a long time, so it would be best done outside of the GA review. It's unfortunate because this article on first glace appears to be pretty much there on all the other criteria. I won't fail this yet as I would like to give the nominators a chance to respond and possibly discuss a path forward for this article. I will happily review if the TSI issues get fixed and this gets renominated. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Copyvio (Criterion 2d) clock

Earwig finds nothing. I'll check further on the spot check.

Scope (Criteria 3a, 3b) clock

I think the "Background" section should be cut in half or even more. Most the information is only tangentially related to the subject of this article (relating to the World Snooker Championship generally rather than the 2004 edition). Only information that is important to understand the information on the 2004 edition, and information specifically about the 2004 edition, should remain, or the section is going into unnecessary detail.

Information can be moved to World Snooker Championship if it isn't there already, and a section hatnote (Template:Further information), linking to World Snooker Championship#History can be added. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Media clock

It's unfortunate that there's no images of this specific event. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Tags (Criterion 6a) Y

All the images are own works published by experienced contributors on Commons. It's unlikely any are copyvios.

Captions (Criterion 6b) clock

Barry Pinches (pictured in 2016), who had never played in the second round before, led seven-time champion Stephen Hendry 11‍–‍9, but ended up losing 12‍–‍13.: The connective "but" does not separate independent clauses, so it should not have a comma before it. Alter the sentence by removing the comma or adding a "he" after the "but" for correct grammar. WP:CINS is a good essay explaining this. I'll fix any further instances of this issue myself. IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Suggestions (not needed for GA promotion)

Suggest archiving all links to prevent link rot IAWW (talk) 13:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, It is a wonderful world. Thank you very much for taking the time to review the article. All the suggestions are noted and I will work on them. I also think, however, that it would be best to work on these outside the GA review, so please feel free to close it. Thanks again, Alavense (talk) 08:05, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

No worries @Alavense. I would love to see this article get to GA, so let me know if you renominate and I'll try to give it a prompt review. IAWW (talk) 08:12, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

GA

Hi Alavense, sorry for the delay, but I've gone ahead and made changes to address the comments in the GAN above. Would you be up for a re-nom? Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:56, 31 December 2025 (UTC)