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Latest comment: 3 days ago by NicheSports in topic GA review

Proposed Name Change

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I propose that the name of this article be changed to Lexi Thompson to reflect the more common use of her name as seen on her official web site -- http://lexithompson.com/ --Crunch (talk) 01:25, 13 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

There has been no comment for three weeks. The change will be made. --Crunch (talk) 10:57, 5 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Discuss including table of professional results while not affiliated with a Tour

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Please give your opinion on this table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lexi_Thompson&oldid=451662818#Professional_record_and_earnings_outside_of_Tour_membership

I believe it provides a useful way to summarize the career of the handful of professional golfers who play for a year or more not affiliated with any tour. These include Thompson, Michelle Wie and Tadd Fujikawa. Because they are not affiliated with a major tour, the information can't be found easily anywhere else. --Crunch (talk) 21:24, 22 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Question - To those editors that oppose inclusion of this table: what is the objection? Is the problem that the table contains "minor" tournaments? Or that the table is too large? --Noleander (talk) 22:21, 22 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Comment - I'm not sure what the question is either. I don't have a problem with the table per se, however the information still needs to be referenced. If the table is felt to be too long, it could always be spun out to a separate article. --Deadlyssassin 23:41, 22 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • Keep table - Most other articles on golfers to have similar tables, so I see no harm in including this table. If her career goes on, and the table gets too large, the minor/amateur events can be moved to a subarticle, or whatever. But that is way off in the future. So, unless someone points out a strong reason to delete the table, I think it should stay. --Noleander (talk) 23:45, 22 September 2011 (UTC)Reply


  • Delete table:::The table in question is either trivia or already covered in other parts of the article.
1 Approximately half the results are minor league golf tournaments. Minor league sports results aren't notable with the exception of Thompson's one victory which is listed in her professional wins section.
2 Thompson's LPGA Tournament results are included in her LPGA Summary box or her win box. Active pro golfers have a box where there results are summarized, plus boxes for wins and playoff results(A playoff loss is notable). Golfers from Tiger Woods down to the journeyman pro with one career PGA Tour win don't have their results listed from week to week event to event etc etc. A win and playoff box and a yearly summary is considered sufficient by golf editors not just myself. The narrative parts of the article can be used for pointing out other noteworthy happenings that the other boxes don't sufficiently provide for. I add things to golfer articles all the time things like- He was the 18 and 36 hole leader at the 19?? PGA Championship before going on finish tied for 19th. See Gary Hallberg and Jeff Mitchell for examples
Crunch will raise the point that this kind of table is present in articles on Michelle Wie and Todd Fujiawra. I'll argue they shouldn't be there either. Is a golfer missing the cut notable? 70 or so golfers have this happen to them at most PGA Tour and LPGA Tour events. Is a golfer finishing T31st or 10 shots back notable? It's all WP:recentism or sports results which I'll get to in a moment. Ms. Thompson is a celebrity because of the golf talent she has at her age. She has one major league professional win, there are hundreds of golfers with just as many or more and some of them are quite young also Do they all warrant coverage in such minutaie?
Thompson's overall results are covered in the other sections of the article and in the long narrative, mostly written by Crunch.
2 The strongest argument against the table is WP:What wikipedia is not or namely the section on an indiscriminate collection of information. A table of all golf results fits the build. Where do we say enough is enough? When Ms. Thompson retires?- William 13:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
William: Why do you call sports results of an athlete "trivia"? Her childhood spelling bee results might be trivia, but not golf results. Why do you say the contents of the table are "not notable"? The WP notability requirement applies only to entire articles, not to individual sentences or paragraphs within an article (see WP:NNC for details). --Noleander (talk) 00:10, 23 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • Keep table, on the condition that it is sourced. I don't think her professional golf results can reasonably be said to be trivia, and I support the inclusion of the table. I was going to say that it could be collapsed to improve readability, but actually I see this is discouraged as per WP:COLLAPSE. I agree with Noleander, if it gets too big in the future, the thing to do might be to move it to a sub-article. However, it really needs better sourcing, and I will note that any results not sourced can be challenged and removed per Wikipedia:Verifiability. Regards — Mr. Stradivarius 05:18, 26 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • Comment - The table's info should absolutely be sourced if it is to stay. A lighter background color for the 2011 records would be really helpful on the eyes, I might add. I am reluctant to outright oppose the exclusion of minor league scores for golfers of note, but it most certainly shouldn't be a requirement (not that anyone's advocating that). Enderandpeter (talk) 22:42, 18 October 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • Keep if verifiable - the details are significant to the subject of the article. Rich Farmbrough, 15:14, 22 October 2011 (UTC).Reply
  • Conclusion. After two months of discussion, the consensus seems to be Keep. The section has been re-added and I am working to add complete citations. Please be patient while we complete the citations. To Enderandpeter's point, each year is in a separate color. Is this what you had in mind or something else? --Crunch (talk) 04:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Also, to William who asked, "Where do we say enough is enough? When Ms. Thompson retires?" This table specifically documents results in tournaments played outside of Tour membership. Results as an LPGA, or other Tour, member are listed separately and as a result, this table will have few additions fro this point onward. --Crunch (talk) 05:12, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Where are all those vital results now, @Crunch:...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:28, 27 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Preposterous

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A table half consisting of minor league golf results. Can anyone besides myself see how truly insignificant this is? A table on Tiger Woods making over 140 straight cuts, Jane Blalock's 299(!) tournament streak, Byron Nelson's 11 consecutive tournament winning streak, golfers who won 10 or more tournaments in a year. Now those would be worthwhile for what was done was momentous unlike finishing 10 shots back in a minor league golf tournament. If someone would step back and weigh what the Thompson chart denotes and look at golf historically instead of being focused on recentism, well they'd see how absurd the chronicling is.- William 19:12, 26 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Inclusion of Professional record and earnings outside of Tour membership

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I am a little bit skeptical about the inclusion of the Professional record and earnings outside of Tour membership section near the bottom of the article. Charts at the base of the article are largely used for excellence and key information, tournament wins, solheim cup and major results etc. In this chart there are two wins that are already included in other charts, the rest is just finished 27th in Jupiter Winter Classic etc. Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia of everything and I feel it's inclusion falsely implies a special significance of the tournament's standing. This has been discussed before, but 14 years ago when the subject had only just turned pro and the amount of results/achievements for her would have been considerably smaller. Any feedback appreciated, thanks. Canary757 (talk) 06:11, 21 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

I'd delete the entire section. Tewapack (talk) 16:00, 21 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the reply. No objections after a week so it's now gone. Canary757 (talk) 06:53, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

GA review

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The following discussion 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.


This review is transcluded from Talk:Lexi Thompson/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Canary757 (talk · contribs) 13:15, 8 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Reviewer: NicheSports (talk · contribs) 23:34, 13 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi Canary757, the article looks in good shape. I will start this later this week and do the majority over the weekend NicheSports (talk) 00:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi again NicheSports. Thank you for reviewing another one of my nominations. Canary757 (talk) 05:35, 14 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Canary757 I am at a good break point. I finished my minor copy editing pass except for the lead and only have a few requests in the Professional career section below. Also note the comment in the Scope section below about the missing 2012 season summary. If you could take a look at those, I'll proceed with the remainder of the review (spot check, images, etc.). Thank you for another great article that is easy to review NicheSports (talk) 22:09, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Cool. Thank you for copyediting the article. I'll work through your suggestions and will ping you when done. Canary757 (talk) 12:12, 20 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Early life

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Amateur career

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  • ...overcoming Karen Chung five and four to seal the title... I am only a casual golf fan. I read the source and am still not sure what "five and four" means in a golf match/tournament (sorry). May not need to change the article, I'm mostly curious NicheSports (talk) 04:31, 14 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
    Two players compete head-to-head. Each hole is scored separately. Player one wins the first hole and goes 1up, then 2up etc. Player one is five holes up wth only four remaining so the match ends. Canary757 (talk) 06:20, 14 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Professional career

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  • Is there any way to reorganize the 2011–2013 section? It's not clear why these years are grouped together, as in 2011 she was playing on sponsor's exemptions and trying to earn her tour card, while in 2012 and 2013 she was playing a full tour schedule like in all subsequent years until 2025. I could imagine doing this in a few ways, the simplest would just be to split out 2012 and 2013 each as their own sections. If there are too many career sections with one per year, they could be consolidated as in Paula Creamer, but up to you NicheSports (talk) 21:43, 19 July 2026 (UTC) Each has its own section nowReply
  • From 2024. On May 28, 2024, Thompson, 29, announced that she would step back from full time golf at the end of the 2024 LPGA season after 14 years as a professional golfer, but that she would continue to play at a small number of events. This sentence is on the long side. You could remove "after 14 years as a professional golfer" or just delete "but that she would continue to play at a small number of events" (the latter is clear from context of the sentence and paragraph). NicheSports (talk) 22:03, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
     Done Second part removed Canary757 (talk) 06:55, 20 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
  • Other suggestion in 2024: She won one of her four matches, securing a victory in the foursomes with Lauren Coughlin against Georgia Hall and Maja Stark. The United States secured the overall victory and Thompson finished with a 1–3–0 record in the tournament. "securing victory" is used in back to back sentences. Also these two sentences are mixed chronologically/logically; the first sentence is about Thompson's performance, then the next sentence describes the overall team result, before ending with a summary of Thompson's performance. NicheSports (talk) 22:03, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
     Done Re-jigged, clinched Canary757 (talk) 06:57, 20 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Personal life

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Sourcing

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relies on high quality sources: ESPN, Golf Magazine, BBC Sport, etc. NicheSports (talk) 21:27, 25 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Spot check

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pass, checks collapsed below for readability

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Earwig was clean, any similarities were due to quotes (mostly) and some sporting event boilerplate NicheSports (talk) 04:35, 21 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

sorted NicheSports (talk) 04:35, 21 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Illustration

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All five images are relevant and appropriately licensed NicheSports (talk) 17:14, 20 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

General comments

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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.