Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major titles (snooker)


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:20, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Major titles (snooker)

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Article fails on "Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources, including neologisms, original theories and conclusions". The article is not adequately sourced and attempts to define a "major tournament" in Snooker, terminogy that carries no specific meaning in the game. The definition given here implies that the majors are the four BBC events (World Open/UK/Masters/World Championship). While the UK, Masters and World Championship are universally defined as the Triple Crown (snooker) within snooker, the term "major tournament" carries no such precise meaning. While it is used in some contexts to denote the BBC events this isn't the universal case; World Snooker considers the Shanghai Masters and the Welsh Open to be "major events" as described here:. The BBC on the otherhand defines all ranking tournaments to be "major tournaments", giving particular importance to the World Championship and the UK Championship as described here:. For this reason, "majors" or "major tournaments" denote different events in snooker determined by who is applying the terminology, and so therefore it is misleading to pick out a specific set of tournaments as "majors". The article is not adequately sourced and draws to POV conclusions so for this reason I believe it would be better to scrap the article. Betty Logan (talk) 09:14, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as article fails GNG. The concept of major tournaments in snooker is not clear. The system used in the article differs from what I can hear in the media today. With the so many minor-ranking tournaments, the tradininal ranking tournaments are now called majors (Like the Welsh Open). The article has no sources to explain what "major tournament" means anyway, and thus it is just a made up one day term. Armbrust public  Talk  Contribs  10:20, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete No reference explaining what a "Major title" is. Maybe an article covering the "Ranking tournaments" would've been a better idea. BUC (talk) 13:23, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:46, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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