# Talk:Simona Halep

Note - this is a current continuation from an 8 1/2 year old dead thread located at Simona Halep Archive 1. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:19, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
And now I see that her breast reduction has been removed...again...from the article, because apparently the Daily Mail and obvious photographic evidence are apparently not reliable sources.  Whether or not the breast reduction is noteworthy enough to be mentioned could be a matter of debate, but whether or not it took place isn't a debate -- her breast reduction is a simple undeniable fact. 209.90.140.72 (talk) 22:23, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
It should be added again and the current state of mentioning her nose operation but not her breast reduction is almost comical. While it is fair to argue that such a topic shouldn't be sourced with the Daily Mail, it is hardly a good reason to remove the content as there are plenty of other sources available. Moreover the subject is directly related to her tennis career as she was suffering from back issues due to her relatively large breast (for a top athlete). Here are few other sources than the Daily Mail:

https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/Tennis_Interviews/55391/simona-halep-breast-reduction-was-her-biggest-sacrifice/
https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/sport/Tennis-Mit-kleineren-Bruesten-zum-groesseren-Erfolg-id8446271.html (German newspaper, "greater success due to smaller breasts")
https://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/breast-reduction-saved-tennis-star-simona-haleps-career/news-story/2fc3b32074b531ac4898cb1af3ba77e2
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/24/simona-halep-breast-reduction-coach-_n_5524624.html
https://abc7news.com/archive/9254622/
https://au.news.yahoo.com/simona-halep-breast-reduction-surgery-turned-tennis-career-around-24132622.html?guccounter=1
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/simona-halep-enjoys-rapid-rise-up-the-rankings-9449381.html
http://www.india.com/sports/tennis-ace-simona-halep-opted-to-reduce-boob-size-surgically-due-to-uncomfortable-weight-69159/
https://books.google.de/books?id=4OrlDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/frenchopen/10861164/French-Open-2014-How-a-breast-reduction-helped-Simona-Halep-unleash-her-full-potential.html
--Kmhkmh (talk) 11:34, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

P.S. I'm seeing right now that it is actually mentioned in the current version (with a source other tan the Dasily Mail), I must have overlooked that earlier or accidentally looked at a past version.--Kmhkmh (talk) 12:08, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Unmarried Fastiener (talk) 05:54, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Hello,
@Fyunck(click):, why do you still remove that info about Simona Halep? Can't we say she's also good at football? Like Djokovic? Christina (talk) 20:49, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

How are pictures chosen for this article? An editor said that there should be max. 10 pics, and removed several pics. Pics need to be selected carefully, and must be not only good quality, but also representative of the subject, and non-repetitive. Currently, of 9 pis, 4 are from the French Open, which is clearly not OK. It is true that this is her most successful grand slam tournament, but this doesn't justify that nearly half of all the pics are from it. I think 2 pics from the French Open (from the 2008 Junior, and from 2018 - because she won these two editions, are sufficient). If you really need a third one, than it should be from the 2014 edition, because it was her first final (and there are some good pics from that edition in commons). And certainly there should be pics from the 2019 Wimbledon, as that's her most important win - I think such a pic should be in the lede. But currently, there are no such pics in commons, more pics need to be uploaded. And there should be one pic from Madrid Open too, as she has been very successful there.2A02:2F01:52FF:FFFF:0:0:6465:52F2 (talk) 16:06, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

The usual things that are talked about with tennis articles are the following: A serve, a forehand, a backhand, a volley, and a return. After that it's nice to have a trophy, perhaps something other than tennis, etc... 10 is a good number for the max photos for any large player biography. It's not etched in stone but it's in our guidelines. Most articles will contain far less. Federer and Serena Williams have an exceptionally large amount of material, and each has 11 pics. What we want is very high quality pics not a high quantity of pics. I agree that we want a variety of surfaces and if you find one you think is better then replace a poorer quality pic with the new one. As far as a pic in the lead, usually that is taken care of with the pic in the infobox. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:14, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

The article currently has 7 links to www.wtatennis.club: Special:LinkSearch/https://www.wtatennis.club. My browser gives a security warning when I try to go to the site. No other Wikipedia pages link to it after I replaced 2 other links.[1][2] PrimeHunter (talk) 13:43, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

I'll replace them. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 18:28, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. It looks like a mirror of wtatennis.com but I haven't found the pages there. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:36, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Yeah, I was the one who had added them. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 21:49, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

The International Tennis Integrity Agency has today announced the provisional suspension of Simona Halep. I have linked a few sources including a response from the player that could come in useful for those seeking to update her page with this unfolding news. 

(3) International Tennis Integrity Agency on Twitter: "Simona Halep (Romania) has been issued with a provisional suspension under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme: https://t.co/HCrZDTMp6I" / Twitter
Simona Halep on Twitter: "https://t.co/bhS2B2ovzS" / Twitter
(3) Ben Rothenberg on Twitter: "BREAKING: Former #1 Simona Halep provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency for a positive test at this year's US Open. Halep had previously announced she was ending her season. https://t.co/BZND8VzyYf" / Twitter
https://www.eurosport.co.uk/tennis/simona-halep-provisionally-suspended-after-failing-drug-test-calls-it-hardest-match-of-my-life_sto9195864/story.shtml
Kxcii (talk) 13:56, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Additionally, consider using this statement from her former coach: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkDrPbNIsIf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Kxcii (talk) 16:50, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
Simona Halep has been charged with a second doping offense by ITIA. Should a new subsection be created about the doping allegations and a reference included in the introduction (similar to Sharapova's page)?  2A02:A46E:43D9:1:6C43:D3BF:4B52:7A1B (talk) 22:09, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

By looking at the contents, you wouldn't know she's been suspended for doping violations. This is due to the contents page being contracted and not showing subsections like it used to. This seems disingenous. What do other people think? MaskedSinger (talk) 15:02, 26 September 2023 (UTC)