Talk:World Snooker Championship

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Contents 1 Expansion of Embassy page 2 1927 World tournament 3 1966 World tournament 4 Both sexes?

[edit] Expansion of Embassy page

This page is an expansion of the old "Embassy World Snooker Championship" page. I've also rewritten a fair amount of it.

If anyone can help, I'd like to know how to get a table of contents. Also, the list of winners could probably be improved. --Auximines 10:52, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Great work on the expansion. Just a heads up, even when you are going to expand an article under a new name, use the "move this page" button to move a page first rather than just copying and pasting the content. This preserves the edit history of the old material with their original authors, and the new stuff with you. If you run into any problems, give me or another admin a shout. You've been around about or month or so right? Give it another month or so and I will nominate you for adminship myself as I can see you are doing good things for Wikipedia. (I would nominate sooner, but there are some inflexible people at Requests for Adminship who care more about time served and number of edits rather than quality of edit or behaviour and an unsuccessful application has in the past jeopardized future re-applications). Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 11:43, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 1927 World tournament

Regarding this event, the article states that the highest break of the tournament was achieved by Albert Cope who scored 60. However, another website (The Global Snooker Centre) claims that the highest break was 57 by Joe Davis. Does anyone know which of these is correct? ChicXulub (talk) 14:38, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

Albert Cope's 60 comes from another page on the same site, [1]. I assumed that the 57 by Joe Davis really meant the highest break in the final, though it's not clear. --Auximines 08:16, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 1966 World tournament

Does anyone know why the 1966 world tournament ended with a score of just 5 - 2 ? ChicXulub (talk) 19:09, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

Just found out, it was a series of matches. Fred Davis won 5 matches to 2 matches. --Auximines 08:16, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Both sexes?

Is it open to both sexes or are only the men currently good enough to qualify? If only open to men, why? EdX20 20:53, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

The World Championship is not open for women as this is the mens league. There is a women snooker league but i don't know anything about it other then it's existence. Efforts should be made to find out more about this and metion it in the article. -- CrazyChip 13:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

A feature on the BBC coverage at this years championships would suggest that wasn't correct. It was on the women's leagues and how female snooker has suffered a lot in recent years. After they cut back to the studio Steve Davis made the point, in response to a question from Hazel, that there isn't anything to stop a female entrant to the WC, or any of the ranking tournaments - they simply have to get through the qualifying, and the problem is that the quality isn't there. Neither the WC or the ranking circuit are called the "Men's" anything. SFC9394 16:50, 1 June 2007 (UTC)