Talk:World Series of Poker bracelet

GA review comments
I've reviewed this article against the GA criteria, and have the following comments: There are too many issues here to even keep the article GA nomination on hold at this time, so I'm failing it. Feel free to attend to some or all of the above and re-nominate for GA at a later time. The Rambling Man 15:48, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * "At first the bracelet was not highly regarded. Over time the term bracelet became synonymous with winning a championship event and the number of events a person has won is counted in bracelets. This is true even if the event was won prior to 1976 when the first bracelets were presented." this needs an overhaul, it's pretty ugly English and has tense and grammar issues.fixed
 * "...bracelet's..." - no apostrophe required. fixed
 * "...didn't even pick up two of them." - this needs rephrasing, and avoid the use of "didn't" - this should be more encyclopaedic, i.e. use "did not". Problematic throughout the article. fixed
 * "Professional tournament pokers believe that there are two types of poker players those who have won a bracelet and those who have not." - first, I assume it is supposed to read "..poker players.." and not simply "..pokers.." but more significantly, unless this is cited, it is decidedly original research. fixed
 * "The one he won..." is awkward. fixed
 * What was the "corny prize"? unknown, no sources that I could find describe or discuss it.
 * "The following year,..." sentence is followed by another "The following year, ..." sentence. Reads poorly. fixed
 * Turn the list in the "Bracelet description" section into prose.fixed
 * "excusive"? Spell check required. fixed
 * "...it is considered to be valuable..." some understatement! It needs quantifying really.fixed
 * "Typical Corum watches sell in the 10's of thousands." - so? I expect Casio, Timex, TAG Heuer could claim this.  And citation? changed, but no casio/timex/sell for 50-200 dollars a piece... Corum is a high end manufacturer that caters to millionaires!  But I changed this.
 * Numbers below ten ought to be written in English, i.e. five, not 5.fixed
 * "...that he gave his daughter one..." - could be mis-interpreted and isn't nice English anyway.fixed

Becky
"...according to Becky Benion..." I've changed to Becky Behnen. If someone thinks it should be Becky Binion, fine. Benion is no good. Thegov2k2 03:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I double checked this... and you are correct.Balloonman 03:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I know it would not be NPOV to describe it as really tacky, but it is very hard to resist!! --ukexpat 15:22, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Describe what as really tacky?Balloonman 15:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

GA review

 * GA review (see here for criteria)


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 * As opposed to the current title sentence, I think it would be more encyclopedic to use "The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet is the most coveted prize in gaming." <- Reference to current ref 6. Done
 * "At first, the bracelets did not have much prestige." - Why? This lacks context. There needs to be some explanation of what the bracelets were like before. I recommend switching the Prestige and Bracelet description sections to remedy this. Done
 * "The bracelet in 1976 cost approximately $500 and was manufactured by Las Vegas jeweler Mordechai Yerushalmi, the exclusive manufacturer of WSOP bracelets until Harrah's Entertainment bought the rights to the WSOP in 2004." - How do you know this? Reworded and fixed.
 * Rather than quote the references, reword the information. Reserve quotations for actual quotes.Done
 * References need to be consistently formatted and include all information available. See WP:CITE for further details. I have formatted some of them. Basically, Author. "[url Title]". Date. Work. Retrieved on date. Done if it doesn't have a piece of info, it's because the data wasn't there.
 * Ref 9 is currently 4 references combined into one. This needs to be separated to be individual references. Done
 * Ref 10 doesn't seem to be working. Removed looks like a dead link.

The article is on hold while these changes are made. Regards, Lara  ♥Love  21:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 days left on the hold. If issues remain unaddressed, the nomination will be failed. Lara  ♥Love  18:07, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll work on it this evening... my keyboard crashed on me over the weekend and it curtailed my editing---particularly on Sunday....Balloonman 18:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * FinishedBalloonman 04:06, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

The article has been listed as a Good Article. Thank you for your hard work. In improving this article, you have improved Wikipedia. Regards, Lara  ♥Love  05:18, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

List of WSOP Events
I think this article is missing a list of events for which a bracelet is awarded. NinjaKid (talk) 16:22, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The list changes from year to year.--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 16:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * How many a year are awarded on average then? They're obviously well-respected in the poker community, but I have no clue based on this article if they award just one or two or a dozen or so a year. RPH (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Added a short summary of growth--- I'm Spartacus!  The artist formerly known as Balloonman 18:31, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Template
I have created 2009 World Series of Poker. I am trying to determine if enough of these articles exist for this to be a useful template. Please comment at Template talk:2009 World Series of Poker.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:56, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

most coveted?
They give out 57 61 of these things a year and they're still highly coveted? How many players are in serious contention for them? I got to this article after seeing these bracelets mentioned in a few other articles as if they were quite rare, i.e. given once a year to the championship winner that year, so if someone had five bracelets that meant s/he had won the WSOP championship 5 times. But while it may have been like that once, it sounds like the braclets have now proliferated to the point where they don't mean much. Unless there's some independent sourcing dating from after the number of bracelets increased to current levels, saying the bracelets are still a big deal, I think the description should be toned down, in this article and also in other articles (such as player biographies) that mention the bracelets. 69.228.171.150 (talk) 23:55, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * While they give out a lot more today than they did a decade ago, it is still the primary prize in poker. Virtually every poker play still wants to win one.  The WSOP is still THE poker event of the year and the WPT, while once gaining on the WSOP, has lost steam.--- Balloonman  NO! I'm Spartacus! 03:21, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

So do you have to win the tournament to get the bracelet?
If so these numbers make no sense. 184.96.220.150 (talk) 03:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * care to elaborate?--- Balloonman  NO! I'm Spartacus! 03:17, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Why and how is more than one bracelet awarded a year? 184.96.219.82 (talk) 01:57, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * You have to win tournaments, it is called the World Series of Poker because it is a series of about 55-60 high dollar tournaments. Each of those tournaments has a bracelet.  (3 of them are of partiicular interest---the 50K Players Championship, the 10K Main Event, and the WSOPE Main Event.)--- Balloonman  NO! I'm Spartacus! 03:16, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Multiple bracelet winners
The Multiple bracelet winners section has been tagged as unreferenced for a while now. Is there a source that could be used to verify this information. Otherwise it could potentially be delisted as a Good article. AIR corn (talk) 02:13, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Second paragraph; Main event winners with multiple bracelets?
I'm having difficulties understanding what exactly this paragraph is trying to say. If it's Main Event winners who have multiple bracelets then players such as Johnny Moss, Stu Ungar and Chris Ferguson are missing from the list, as well as many on the list having their Main Event win as their only bracelet. The same applies if it's listing those who have only won bracelets after their Main Event win.

I'm more than happy to fix it all but I'd like to make sure I know what it's actually wanting to say! JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 09:54, 26 January 2015 (UTC)