Talk:UK Championship

Article name
Considering that snooker isn't the only sport with a UK championship, wouldn't this page be better named "UK Championship (snooker)". For now, "UK Championship" can be redirected to the snooker tournament, and if more sports add pages about a UK championship, the "UK Championship" link can be made into a disambiguation page. Abigail 14:18, May 18, 2004 (UTC)


 * I wondered about that. I decided that, since there wasn't already a "UK Championship" in Wikipedia, I might as well use it without the "(snooker)" prefix. However, if you want to change it, please go ahead. --Auximines 14:42, 18 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Done. Individual snooker player pages already had links to 'UK Championship (snooker)', and other snooker tournament link to 'Tournament name (snooker)' as well. Abigail 16:00, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * That actually was not a proper disambiguation. Article moved to UK Snooker Championship, the actual name of the event. The article has been stable at this name for some time now. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 02:58, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Do we need two separate winners lists for the UK Championship?
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Snooker — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betty Logan (talk • contribs) 11:15, 9 May 2009

Possible additions/organization
As it stands everything is in the one giant "History" paragraph and it is hard to pull out the information you want. A section about format would be useful: qualifiers, number of frames per match/session, prize money for various finishes. Also perhaps a separate section about the venue: various moves, seating, number of tables, etc). Separating the founding and advance to ranking title, etc then a subsection for the memorable matches.  Television info could also be interesting, which channel, viewership (if available) maybe this could be added to the chart?    I am relatively new to the sport and don't feel expert enough to take it on myself.  Thanks.  -- InspectorTiger (talk) 16:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)


 * just another thought, the article for Wimbledon Championships or other large tournament-format sporting events could be a good general model. -- InspectorTiger (talk) 16:33, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Most of the info you (like seating and number of tables) isn't available at all. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:05, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

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Sponsors in the table
At the start of 2015 the table of results looked like this The table was nicely designed and it was easy to visually scan the rows and read off the results. At some point since then the sponsors were added in and the venues were converted to rowspans, leaving the table looking like this. IMO opinion it looked like a dog's dinner. I don't think the sponsors are pertinent information for a historical overview of the tournament, and adding in the rowspans has turned the table into an ugly mess. It makes it much harder to read, and I suspect all the rowspans could well cause access issues for screenreaders. I reverted the table to its old format last month, but this edit has since been undone by. A similar thing has happened at Masters (snooker) too. I would like to get further input from the community. Do editors think that the sponsors are essential information for an overview, and do they really think the new version is an improvement over the old version? Betty Logan (talk) 19:36, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 1 January 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the pages at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 19:27, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

– To fix the ambiguous name. There are many UK championships in different sports, for example: UK Championship (IFSA), UK Championships in Athletics. Note, all other season articles already have the correct format like 2014 UK Championship (snooker). 46.211.67.181 (talk) 13:20, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * UK Championship → UK Championship (snooker)
 * 1984 UK Championship → 1984 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2015 UK Championship → 2015 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2016 UK Championship → 2016 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2017 UK Championship → 2017 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2018 UK Championship → 2018 UK Championship (snooker)
 * Oppose per WP:PRIMARYUSAGE. One example given were the UK Athletics Championships (Plural), providing a WP:NATURALDIS with that event. We already have UK Championships and a hatnote link there from UK Championship. The other example is from the International Federation of Strength Athletes, a minor event in a very minor sport. A google search of "UK Championship" is dominated by the snooker event. An event run by the World Cube Association appears but again very minor event. My preference is to rename all the events before 2015 instead (removing the (snooker) bit), with hatnotes to other events should that be necessary. Also not satisfactory to use the word "correct" in the argument, when surely it is the point of this discussion is to decide what is "correct".. Nigej (talk) 13:50, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * oppose - this is clearly the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the UK championship. A move is irrelevant, as you would simply have UK Championship (disambiguation)  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:19, 1 January 2019 (UTC)


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