Talk:Stephen Lee (snooker player)

Disambiguation
There should be a disambiguation page for Stephen Lee. The NYU chemist Stephen Lee, who won a MacArthur award in 1994, is better known in some circles.


 * Feel free to create one and write a stub on Stephen Lee (chemist)! All the best,  13:16, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Other Activities
I removed some stuff about opening an obscure snooker club. Professional sportsmen do this sort of think all the time. If you really think it's notable, create a new article for it. --Auximines 23:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * It doesn't really work that way. See WP:MERGE; it is specifically advised that things not notable enough for their own article be merged into or mentioned in other more notable articles.  In this particular case, however you are right - the snooker club in question isn't one that he owns or founded, all he did was do a celebrity opening ceremony for it, a local town council-built civic center.  It isn't even notable enough to be mentioned here.  Anyway, I just wanted to address the idea that nothing can be mentioned in an article unless it already has its own article. —  SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;   ‹(-¿-)› 19:41, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Tone
Speaking as a fat bastard the 'pie-faced potter' line cracked me up, but I'm not convinced that this is the right place for it.WombatDeath 23:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Tidy up
I've made some tidy-ups to this; got rid of some non-encyclopedic stuff (hairstyles anyone?) updated the references and specified where his high break came from. Ged UK (talk) 23:15, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Cheating?
"On 11 February 2010 Lee was arrested by West Midlands Police on suspicion of cheating, in relation to an investigation by the Gambling Commission over suspicious betting patterns.[9]"
 * You can't just end the story there! What happened?? KarlFrei (talk) 14:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Banned but oh what a lovely smooth cue action
Betty, you edit snooker articles much more than I do, and I was intending to unwatch this page anyway, but I have to say it reads a bit like "X is an imprisoned dictator whose charismatic speaking style has been described as among the most hypnotic of all time". Rothorpe (talk) 16:49, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I've restructured some of the lede but I don't agree we need to provide a timeframe in the opening sentence since we have a whole paragraph chronicling the match-fixing and ban. We just need a simple statement of fact for the opening sentence. Betty Logan (talk) 18:03, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * You've fixed it, thanks. Rothorpe (talk) 18:52, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

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Relevance of Stephen's weight
In the "Personal Life" section, there's a sentence about his weight and his attempts to control it. I don't see, even in a personal life section, how this is relevant to a page about a snooker professional. I suggest the objective test is whether there is significant presence in articles of good quality about other atheletes' appearance that have no relevance to their athletic performance. --Atkinson (talk) 16:26, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Physical fitness is important in sporting life. The fact is a prominent journalist (Clive Everton) has addressed the issue in a respectable newspaper and Lee himself has publicly discussed the issue, so I would suggest the subject carries enough, erm, WP:WEIGHT for inclusion. Betty Logan (talk) 16:55, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Per WP:NPOV: Removing the information about his weight would be an example of editorial bias because it would mean removing significant information that has been published by a reliable source on the topic. In any case, I'd say that the Guardian article broaches the subject sensibly and in a positive light, attesting that his snooker success (as of Jan 2008) "provided encouragement to those who believe that significant success at snooker is compatible with possessing a fuller figure". Rodney Baggins (talk) 17:20, 25 April 2019 (UTC)