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Happy New Year, Lee Vilenski!


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GAN Backlog Drive – January 2022
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boldavoid query
Hiya Lee, Happy New Year! I noticed you removed the link bolding on the 2022 Masters page, and just wondered what Boldavoid is? The reason I ask is because I proceeded to update numerous Masters articles to use that format, making the assumption that such formatting was agreed upon a while back but not consistently applied on future wiki articles and I had not been aware of the Boldavoid rule. Part of my premise to doing that is that we had a number of older Masters articles doing this (2005 to 2013) and thought that having the format like that would be consistent. I noticed that our Good Articles don't do tthis, but also use what seems to be an unfavoured "formatting" for referring to the sponsor (ie "the XXXX Masters (officially the XXXX sponsor Masters)"), but I'm not sure how we should proceed on that? Do we want to update everything to the format used from 2005 to 2013 (sans unnecessary link bolding) for consistency reasons, or is this something you'll want me to raise on the Project talkpage? --CitroenLover (talk) 16:02, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi! See WP:BOLDAVOID. We should never really place links in bold. The ones that we use on GAs are the correct way to deal with this. I'm not sure where you got the idea that it was unfavoured though. The bolding of links in the titles is used in the majority of our articles, but that doesn't make it right. I change them when I work on an article, but I'm not making a pass through several thousand events to make it unilaterally. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 17:48, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah I see, gotcha. My reasoning for "it was unfavoured" was precisely due to the GA's not using that format. Going forward, if I see bolded links in the lead, I'll correct that [also I'll probably look at making the format used on Masters articles more standard with the "XXXX sponsor tournamentname", instead of "XXXX tournament (referred to as XXXX sponsor tournament for sponsorship reasons)" stuff. --CitroenLover (talk) 21:43, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I would say the later is probably the one that is most in keeping with the policy. The links is the bit that annoys me most. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:49, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Could you link the policy so I can better understand how leads are meant to be written on snooker articles (regarding the sponsorship stuff) and not make any mistakes when updating articles? I've read through most but I wasn't able to find this specific one. Only reason I comment on it is because I think it was talked about vaguely on the Project talkpage recently, where I might've seen the comment about it? --CitroenLover (talk) 21:51, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * It was discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Snooker/Archives/2020/August. My understanding is that XXXX Masters (also known as XXXX Sponsor Masters) is the best solution and the one suggested by the discussion. By all means open at topic to get it clarified. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 22:06, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that link. I'll take a read through that, and I'll certainly open a topic for clarification. Those edits I've made to the Masters articles, I've mostly reverted to a similar format that was used on a couple of GA's, so shouldn't cause any issues now. Thanks again!! --CitroenLover (talk) 22:08, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * No issues. I'm happy if there is a consensus. Just don't want those FA articles to get played around with too much unless we get one. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 22:12, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

GAN
Hello. I saw that you undid my reviews for Good Article status. I know I wasn't perfect and that it would be undone. Anyways, I want to go over one with someone so that I can do other reviews with ease. Can you please teach me one so I know what to do? Thanks. BubbaDaAmogus (talk) 20:13, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

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DYK for 2021 UK Championship
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New voting tables
I think we should just leave the way they are They look good They are easy to read And the new one leave out information about the castaway’s previous tribes I’m sure any person who goes on this would learn how the tables work They have been like this for years and it has been fine We you getting complaints or something I get changing the jury table but the voting table now looks ugly and has very little information 173.76.253.196 (talk) 14:15, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, IP user. The information is already explained elsewhere in the article, including the colours in the table. This falls foul of many Wikipedia policies, especially MOS:COLOUR. Something being wrong for many years is not a reason to have it remain so. Please do not revert this. There is already consensus in the form of policy against this tabling, so reverting is a type of vandalism at this stage. We are also WP:NOT an encyclopedia of all information on a subject. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 14:34, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

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Quarter Million Award
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Regarding the WST Pro Series
Heya Lee. Given that the WST Pro Series will not be making a return, and was simply a one-off tournament to fill a hole in the 2020-21 season, I feel that we should probably just move 2021 WST Pro Series to its redirect title of WST Pro Series and simply specify that the tournament was a one-off addition to provide additional earning opportunities. Granted, I don't think we will find a source for much of this tournament or the future of it, since many consider it to be a non-event (best of 3's aren't going to count in head-to-head stats from the broadcasters) with no real meaning for anything, but is it worth doing? --CitroenLover (talk) 17:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't see we need to change the title. This isn't the only event that's ever been held just once. So long as it meets GNG, there's no issue.Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:03, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah fair enough. Thanks for the insight! --CitroenLover (talk) 20:00, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hello,

can you take a look at my contributions to give me advice for me to become an administrator? I noticed that you were on the list at and so I just wanted to ask you. Thanks. Severe storm  28  04:12, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi! - I'd be happy too. Could you give me a couple days to check your contributions out? I'll then send you an email, if that's ok? Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski  (talk • contribs) 08:28, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's fine. Thanks! Severe  storm  28  12:29, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Just checking, is it going okay so far? It has been a few days... Severe  storm  28  12:37, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

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