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Tournament Final: 50+ Breaks in Frame Scores
Recently I have spotted some differences in the treatment of 50+ break scores in frames during finals of tournaments: namely putting the break on the right of the frame score, which I will call it "the old way" (example: 2019 Tour Championship); and putting the break on the side of the player who made the break (example: 2024 German Masters), which I will call it "the new way".

From what I have seen, past tournament articles all used the old format, possibly due to relying websites such as snooker.org or cuetracker.net as unofficial sources for frame scores. The new format has only emerged for this season. Unfortunately, this has caused some inconsistencies between old and new articles.

Personally I would favour the old format because I don't think the new format is much of an improvement, and more importantly, changing the formats for the old articles to match the new format would be a hassle. However, I would like some consensus on this issue. Ui56k (talk) 16:17, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * As ever, we shouldn't worry too much about what we did in the past. The question is which is better? If equal then it's generally best to use the old style. Changing a few hundred "finals" with WP:AWB is not a big job, honestly. I'm happy to do it if that's the consensus. Personally I'm in the "no big deal" category with this one. It does save a little space when there's an ambiguity about which player made the break(s): now it's (56) before and (51) after, whereas previously it was (O'Sullivan 56, Trump 51) afterwards. Nigej (talk) 16:30, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think what you're calling the "new way" is clearer for readers and saves space. Also, it lines up with the way the breaks and scores are displayed by WST on their live scoring pages. compare the update I just did for the Welsh Open with this.  Alan   (talk) 17:18, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * However snooker.org uses the old style https://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?event=1456 and cuetracker uses something else. So "(98) 98–1, (52) 74–44, (55) 102–0" or "98-1 (98), 74-44 (52), 102-0 (55)" or "98(98)-1, 74(52)-44, 102(55)-0" Can't really the space saving aspect or any of these, except as noted above. Nigej (talk) 17:36, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * In this particular case there is no space saving, but in many cases there is. Anyway, my preference is for the "new way". I'm interested to know what others think, and am happy to go with the consensus.  Alan   (talk) 18:08, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ... and I've noticed that User:Ui56k has today been changing some articles back to the "old way", before any consensus has been reached.  Alan   (talk) 18:30, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Why exactly do we count "50+ breaks". Do sources also do this?  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:18, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * WST, snooker.org and cuetracker all report 50+ breaks. Whether we need the "count" below is a good question. Personally I can do without it. Does anyone talk about x making n 50 breaks in the final? Nigej (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Good point! I'd be happy to see them left out altogether.  Alan   (talk) 19:36, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ... so this afternoon's score would just be: 98–1, 74–44, 102–0, 106–5, 23–73, 67–4, 59–45, 1–92 Tidier!  Alan   (talk) 19:42, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * What about century breaks? Nigej (talk) 19:44, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Well they're noted in the row below, and of course in the centuries section.  Alan   (talk) 19:59, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * But you wouldn't know in which frame they made the century breaks, though. I'm neutral towards removing the 50+ break count row, but I'd say keep the century break row and 50+ breaks in parentheses in frame scores. AmethystZhou (talk) 21:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * But which style do you prefer?  Alan   (talk) 21:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Definitely the "new style" as it was me that started writing them this way.. AmethystZhou (talk) 21:29, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * WST does, snooker.org does and CueTracker does.  Alan   (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The question asked above by Nigej: "Does anyone talk about x making n 50 breaks in the final?" is a valid one. I don't think that 50+ breaks are of any interest to most readers, but centuries probably are. So why not just include centuries, and since there can only be one century per frame, then the left/right argument becomes moot. So the final for the Welsh Open would look like this:
 * Afternoon: 98–1, 74–44, 102–0, 106–5, 23–73, 67–4, 59–45, 1–92
 * Evening: 24–59, 101–19 (100), 21–101, 68–44, 82–0
 * Alan  (talk) 09:45, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree with this - I think 50+ breaks are not required for the 'casual' reader and anyone with a deeper interest in snooker will be able to find 50+ breaks elsewhere (whether that is at the World Snooker Tour, Snooker.org or Cuetracker sites) if they really want to know. Steveflan (talk) 10:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Also, Snooker Scene (Clive Everton era at least) recorded all breaks above 50 with the break in parenthesis after the frame score for the individual player. So the 2024 Welsh Open final would be:
 * Afternoon: 98(98)–1, 74(52)–44, 102(55)–0, 106–5, 23–73(66), 67(52)–4, 59–45, 1–92(92)
 * Evening: 24–59, 101(100)–19, 21–101(85), 68–44, 82–0
 * Of course, earlier editions of Snooker Scene used to record 30+ breaks (centuries were much rarer than recent) - but that would be taking things too far. However, the scoreboard in the commentators booth (known as a fruit machine) does also record 30+ breaks (see bottom right hand corner at https://amazon.clikpic.com/andychubb/images/commentary_box_3422_1.jpg) Steveflan (talk) 11:11, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Honestly it depends on how much information one wants to convey. The 50+ break count indicates how well a player is breakbuilding and hence playing. On the other hand, 50 is kind of an arbitrary cut-off point as one would usually need at least a 60+ break to clinch a frame in 1 visit. And I suppose non-casuals can just refer to cuetracker for such information.--Ui56k (talk) 10:33, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * All of these numbers are arbitrary. You actually need 74+ to secure (I don't like the word "clinch") a frame.  Alan   (talk) 11:12, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It may relate to cricket, where a half century (ie 50) was traditionally regarded as a good achievement and the number of those was reported in a player's career stats. Indeed, the crowd applauded the achievement. In modern snooker no one even notes when a break reaches 50. The only real target is the snookers required stage. As such I'd be quite keen on deleting all the stuff on 50+ breaks (at least in the last 50 years or so) from the "final" section. I'd be keen to retain the centuries. Of course, the text can mention significant breaks of any size. Nigej (talk) 12:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That makes perfect sense to me.  Alan   (talk) 13:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've removed the 50+ breaks from the Welsh Open final. See what you think and feel free to revert my edit if you like.  Alan   (talk) 08:44, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm still keen on this, if that's the consensus. Nigej (talk) 09:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Looks good! I made a minor edit to simplify the century break notes. AmethystZhou (talk) 09:12, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The template that we are using for the World Championship still has a "50+ breaks" row at the bottom, and I (and others) have been putting in the 50+ breaks as we have done in previous years. I don't mind this, since the World Championship is a one-off anyway. What do you (and others) think?  Alan   (talk) 07:22, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Not a big deal for me. As you say, the World Championship is a one-off in many ways. Personally I'd probably be inclined to get rid of the 50-99 breaks since they just add clutter to the table for little benefit. Seems to me there's not much talk about them anyway and this level of detail is perhaps best left to snooker.org/cuetracker. Nigej (talk) 07:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * But if you change the template, it might screw up all the previous tournaments that use it. Probably best left alone.  Alan   (talk) 07:55, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Actually, we only changed the template a few years back (2019 if I remember rightly when I tried to get the first FA for 2018 World Snooker Championship through). We could easily change the template to only include if the 50+ exists then show, or we could work out some sort of regex to change the template across all of our articles.
 * I wouldn't be worried about breaking things, I'd rather we had a specific guideline on what we do and don't promote and stick to it.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Proposal
Before this discussion peters out, I'd like to propose that we adopt the idea above that we remove the 50-99 breaks from the frame-by-frame scores in the "final" section and also remove the "50+ breaks" line in that section. The logic behind this is that the 50-99 breaks are not very important to our readers and just clutter-up the section. Under this proposal, information on 100+ breaks would remain as it is now. Nigej (talk) 15:48, 25 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I think that's a very sensible proposal, already adopted in the previous and current tournaments.  Alan   (talk) 15:59, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree, the 50+ breaks just adds clutter in most cases and makes the frame score hard to read. However, it perhaps is ironically useful for the 2024 Players Championship to illustrate the poor play from both players, with Allen only making two 50+ breaks in the whole match. How about if we don't include 50+ breaks in parentheses, but keep the tally for both 50+ and 100+? AmethystZhou (talk) 00:11, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Surely that can be dealt with in prose.  Alan   (talk) 06:38, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree. If it's notable, put it in prose. I think this is sensible. Let me know if I can help with cleanup (I have AWB downloaded somewhere)  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:56, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've removed these for the ranking events for the current season, to see if I get any complaints. Slight glitch with someone using a tab instead of a space. Also some centuries are before and some after the frame scores, but I've left those for now, won't affect earlier seasons. Nigej (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Brilliant! I've just sorted out the before and after centuries, and added frames for highest breaks. All events for this season are now done.  Alan   (talk) 13:28, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Redirect didn't work
Earlier today I replaced the "curly" quotes with "dumb" quotes in the 2024 World Snooker Championship article. This then caused the image of Fergal O'Brien to disappear, because the file name contains a curly quote. So I then created a redirect but it doesn't work. What did I do wrong? Alan  (talk) 11:12, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * The answer is that I don't know. Since the image is presumably stored in commons rather than the English wikipedia, it's perhaps a double redirect issue WP:2R. These don't generally work. Nigej (talk) 12:09, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah, redirects don't work like that when the item isn't held on Wikipedia. I've requested a name change on Commons, which is what will need to happen.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 12:39, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a good solution. How do I delete the redirect I created?  Alan   (talk) 12:44, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've deleted it as non-commercial cleanup  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:01, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you.  Alan   (talk) 13:11, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * just a note, it was denied. They linked to  Lee Vilenski  (talk • contribs) 22:02, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * That's a shame. We just need to be careful not to paste in any "curlies" from quotations in sources, in case somebody does a search/replace. Alternatively, we could get a different image of Fergal.  Alan   (talk) 06:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Good Topics/working list
Hi! This probably won't be of interest to everyone, but if you weren't aware, I keep a track of certain topics of articles to eventually do a push towards the Good and Featured Topics status.

At User:Lee Vilenski/Working List, I've been working on lists for things like the World Snooker Championship (which is almost 75% done now!), the world champions, world number ones, etc. We've finished projects (with a lot of help) on things like the World Professional Match-play Championship, the Tour Championship and the 2018-19 snooker season.

Would anyone be interested if I moved parts of this page out of my userspace (specifically the tables and the like) and into the project space to keep track of how we are getting on? I know not everyone cares about the quality assessment (which I get), but the more I think about it, the more selfish I seem keeping a project based table in my own userspace. I would still update it and the like though, unless you wanted to help.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:51, 6 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Per WP:SILENCE, I've moved and reimagined it at WikiProject Snooker/projects  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:57, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Dark mode support for performance and ranking timelines
These tables have two main issues when shown in dark mode: Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:03, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) The explicitly defined background color for the tournament column can't be changed by darkmode. This is easily fixed by removing the color, setting the boxes as row headers, and setting the  class for the table (example). This causes the background color to change in day theme from #EFEFEF to #EAECF0, but this is not a noticeable difference.
 * 2) The explicitly defined text color #555 can't be changed either. This problem is a little more difficult to fix. I see three possible approaches:
 * 3) Remove it, rendering that text in standard black instead (and standard white in night theme). This is easy, but loses the styling this project prefers.
 * 4) Convert the tables to a template and set the night mode color with TemplateStyles. This keeps the styling but is some work.
 * 5) Throw the   class at the problem (which uses a CSS filter to invert the colors) This fixes the issue and keeps (a form of) the styling in dark mode, but causes the table to appear slightly different from most tables and would take some effort (and a massive increase in page size) to prevent the other colors (green, orange, etc.) from looking weird. This is slightly easier than #2.


 * Oh, better idea: We can change the text color to the CSS variable . This has a value of #54595D. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 17:22, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, so let me make a clear proposal. I would like to use AWB to make this edit to all of your biographies. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 12:37, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have AWB access, but I'm not super up on what the regex would be to make that sort of change (all in one go at least). I can take a look, but might take me a bit.
 * We will want a consensus that the changes are suitable.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I just did  -->   and   -->   for that page. This probably wouldn't be safe to run on a full page though, and I don't believe AWB has any easy way to edit a section. Thinking... Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Snooker world rankings 1976/1977 § Requested move 11 June 2024
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Snooker world rankings 1976/1977 § Requested move 11 June 2024. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:31, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Infoboxes
Does anyone know what has happened to all the infoboxes? They have all changed visually and (IMO) now look awful. Alan  (talk) 10:38, 14 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Short answer: Bug.
 * Long answer: Responsive Vector 2022 is out, the idea is to make Vector 2022 more usable on mobile... I think. Not sure. It's supposed to apply Minerva (i.e. mobile) styling at small resolutions but it's doing it at all resolutions instead. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 11:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * They seem to be back to the way they were now. What is going on?  Alan   (talk) 20:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It was a bug, and the bug got fixed. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:12, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The actual issue you saw was a bug as far as I can tell. It's not super uncommon. Looks like it's fixed now.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:24, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Task T367463 on phab if you are technical.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

2025 World Champs sponsor
For those unaware, Cazoo entered administration officially earlier this month. While WST still continues to list Cazoo as a principal partner of the tour, and as a sponsor of the World Championship, I doubt that this will remain, as I'm sure the administrators will be trying to make the business meaningful [even though the writing is on the wall, figuratively, for the brand as a whole]. Based on this, how do we want to approach this situation regards to how everything is written on the 2025 World Snooker Championship page? Do we remove all references to Cazoo being sponsor of this event, until we're given confirmation by WST that they are remaining as sponsor for this edition, or place a note somewhere to say that this is in doubt due to its administration? --CitroenLover (talk) 19:44, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Neither. If there are sources (especially the official ones) that say they are sponsoring the event, then we should also say that. We are not here to theory out what is happening.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:48, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The only source suggesting they are is a couple of static pages (ie the tickets and tournament pages on WST's website) which can have this label changed at any time and without warning. I don't think a piece of text on a very generic page about a tournament counts as a meaningful source that they are going to be a sponsor: remember that last years' UK Championship had no sponsor mentioned until the eleventh hour when it became MrQ, but if a piece of text on a generic page constitutes a meaningful source, I guess it needs to remain... despite the unlikeliness of Cazoo sponsoring anything lol. --CitroenLover (talk) 19:57, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Michael White
Michael White (snooker player) will need updating and all other parts of the wiki updated, as he has just been sentenced in a court of law in Swansea today. He has already been deleted from the players page on the wst website, despite starting the season in the Championship League. Since he’s technically a pro, being deleted from existence on the players pages is a massive red flag that he has just been banned from the sport, and we’re likely to get a statement from wst/wpbsa to confirm. This is confirmed through a Facebook post by his [presumably former] wife, which i won’t link here to avoid harassment of the individual. —CitroenLover (talk) 21:43, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Idle speculation at the moment, so nothing to do except reverting inappropriate edits. Nigej (talk) 06:51, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * No longer speculative; the statement has been posted https://wpbsa.com/wpbsa-statement-michael-white/ CitroenLover (talk) 09:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * @Nigej question to ask: should we bother having the column in the performance table for this season for White, considering he played just one tournament before being removed from the tour? It would make more sense to just migrate that information to a heading that says "he played in the 2024 championship league at the start of the season and succeeded in the first group stage, but lost in the second group stage. This would be the only snooker he would play in the season, as he was subsequently removed from the WPBSA and WST after being jailed for assault against his former partner.", rather than having a column containing just tons of "A", "WD" or "DNQ" --CitroenLover (talk) 19:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I take your point. Probably I'd be inclined to have a column for this season but not a big issue for me personally. Nigej (talk) 06:01, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
 * We might need to also take him off the current rankings, but until the WPBSA update them he's still going to be listed. Sad stuff.  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 10:15, 13 July 2024 (UTC)