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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 25 August 2024 [1].


Nominator(s): BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the unlikely winner of the 1986 World Snooker Championship, who was known for his carefree attacking play and his shoes. After a largely unsuccessful year as champion, he reached the final again in 1987. He did win further, lesser, titles as a professional and retired in 2005. A survivor of seven heart attacks, he is still playing on the seniors snooker circuit. Thanks in advance for your improvement suggestions. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Due to lack of participation so far, I'm pinging HurricaneHiggins, Rodney Baggins, Amakuru, Sammi Brie and SchroCat (as contributors to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/John Pulman/archive1) to see if they would like to comments here. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@FAC coordinators: the article is further from meeting the FA criteria than I had expected. I'd like to withdraw the nomination - what do I need to do, please? Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:14, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

Comments from Rodney Baggins

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I've just started looking at this article and will carry out a thorough review over next few days. For now, I'd just like to point out the following:

  • I've added a [fv] tag in the Other activities section which needs attention.
  • I notice that three of the section headings have {{anchor}} templates against them. Is that intentional and what's the reason? Surely incoming links should just point directly at the section heading and no invisible anchors are required.
  • The citations all look good, apart from the duplicated ESPN source (refs. 1 & 33, "Joe Johnson: The man who stunned the Crucible"). I understand this is probably unavoidable because ref.1 is inside the nickname file, BUT the link is dead so it needs tagging with url-status=dead in said file.
  • I don't think it's necessary to link ALL the work params, e.g. every Snooker Scene citation has its magazine param linked (magazine=Snooker Scene), which looks a bit odd considering that the articles themselves are not linked – maybe just link the first one?

More later. Rodney Baggins (talk) 11:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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