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This has been a great effort - well done. I've tightened up the text a little to improve the English and remove an American term 'pocketed'. I notice that Ted Lowe's quote about Taylor 'chancing his arm' pn the final black has been removed, however. I trust my edit has been useful.Regards,
Billsmith60 (
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21:46, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
"Taylor then won six of the seven frames to trail only 7–9 overnight..........Going into the final session, he won two of the first three frames to trail 8–11"
If he'd won two of the first three it would've been 9-10 surely? I can't find a record of the exact order of frames won from the sources given. — Preceding
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Happy to be challenged on, or discuss, any of my review comments. I'll make what I consider to be uncontroversial minor edits as I got through. (Note: I've made one edit to the article previously - to disambiguate a link.) Regards,
BennyOnTheLoose (
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19:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Copyvio and plagiarism?
Earwig's Copyvio Detector shows 6.5%. I checked through all matches of 1% or above and have no concerns.
Looking at
WP:CAPLENGTH I believe that adding captions showing when the pictures were taken is optional, but as these pictures are 19 and 25 years after the final, it could be considered (e.g. "Davis in 2010").
Consider adding something to the box to show that the stats are as at the time of the final. Whilst this will be obvious for ages, it's not so obvious for world rankings, and as we know (it's covered under "Legacy" here), Davis went on to win a further three world titles as well as being runner-up in 1986.
Some of the info in the pic boxes is not exactly sourced in the article.(e.g. championships/finals (not quite sourced in the match report section, which is less specific); ages; Taylor's seeding.)
"Davis was strong favourite going into the tournament .." - doesn't this belong in "Road to the final"?
I've spaced this as the Road being for the preceding rounds, whilst the match report covers the prior meetings to this match in particular (which is what this sentence leads into.) Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski(
talk •
contribs)18:28, 7 September 2020 (UTC)reply
The final frame
Might be worth mentioning what happened on the blue and pink - article currently goes from Taylor potting brown to it being decided on the black.
I'm not sure that it would be obvious to a reader not familiar with snooker that the numbers in brackets next to the frame scores are breaks. (I had a go at a final table for
1981 World Snooker Championship, but that probably has its own issues.)
Note: I was expecting a bit more under legacy, but actually having looked at a few snooker books, this section covers it as is. (The books basically all refer to it as "the greatest" snooker match, but not linked to any info about effects on participation in the sport, prize money, international appeal etc.)
References
22 and 23 (ESPN) seem to be the same source so could be combined.
The first BBC link requires registration, and I guess may not be available outside the UK. I'm not sure whether it passes
WP:ELREG. Should this be kept?
For me, the second BBC link causes a .ram file to download rather than opening a site.
The claim that "Until the final frame, Taylor was never ahead" is not completely true. After the 15–15, Taylor went on to lead in frame 31 with 6–0, before finally losing the frame with 6–66. This can be seen in
this recording, 10:43:08. So, for a short time and a tiny edge, he was ahead of Davis, even before the final frame. The wording should be corrected in this regard. --
KnightMove (
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06:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)reply