Talk:World Scholar's Cup

I don't think that Western US was 2nd in scholar's quiz...as i recall, we got fifth. however, i do not remember who 2nd place was. perhaps '06 all-stars?

Academic decathlete 21:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)Academic decathlete

Lead
The lead kind of sounds like some sort of ad...Correctron (talk) 06:54, 6 August 2014 (UTC)


 * I was thinking about trimming the list on there too, since it's unsourced. What do you think? Boomer VialHolla! We gonna ball! 01:58, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

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Tone/Style
The tone of this article seems overall to be unencyclopedic. Some passages that I believe evidence this:

"Often used as an interjection or a response to a statement, this onomatopoeia has become a sensation among World Scholar's Cup participants. It may also be used in a call-and-response format, as demonstrated by staff members at many competitions. Often, staff members will call out the word and find themselves echoed by hundreds of students. The word has also made appearances in Facebook statuses, and at the 2011 Global Round in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Deputy Prime Minister of Higher Education in Malaysia Dr. Hou Kok Chung Saifuddin Abdullah used it during his closing remarks. The word "Pwaa" is used as a pun in various places during the contest. Examples of usage: Pwaasome (Awesome), Pwaala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur), Singapwaa (Singapore), Pwaalified (qualified), Live long and pwaasper (live long and prosper) or just "Pwaa"."

No citations; use of the emotive word "sensation"; arguably shouldn't be in the article at all (not notable enough).

"In 2014, during the Global Round, Director of Social Stuff Burch Wang revealed that he felt that the competition needed a song to capture the never-ending feeling of the event. Just after the opening ceremony, he played his song, "Endless", for the first time. It was an instant hit with the scholars, as it was constantly asked to be sung by Burch during the course of the Global Round."

My impression is that Wang should be referred to by his last, not first, name (I could misunderstand how that name works, though); "Director of Social Stuff" is clearly a jocular title and should arguably be put in quotation marks (as is "Benevolent dictator for life" on Guido van Rossum's page); "scholar" does not mean "participant in the World Scholar's Cup", whether or not the term is used that way by the Cup.

In my view these issues pervade the entire article. The whole thing reads like an ad. Extensive rewriting may be needed: thoughts?

Yours sincerely, "spectreoflieftism". 04:30, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Agree: This is probably because of the extensive use of sources from the organization's own website; I'll see what else I can do to clean up stuff here Honest-sophistry (talk) 22:03, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Agree: As a participant of the program, I can admit, our program uses so many emotive words, the original article writer probably struggles to write it in an encyclopedic way. Let me try neutralize and 'encyclopeed' it. Gerald Waldo Luis (talk) 06:40, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 pandemic
Should I add an info about the cancellation of 2020 rounds due to the COVID-19 pandemic? And where? Cause I'm confused where to put it.  Gerald WL  10:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)