Talk:Mark Williams (snooker player)

message: There are many people called Mark Williams - it's one of the most common first-last name combinations in Western society.  I'd like to create another page for a different Mark Willams, and I think there's a good case for a disambiguation page here.  Any objections?
Obviously there will need to be a lot of redirections on other pages but I'm up for sorting that out I think.
[The previous unsigned comment was added by , 06:50, 18 October 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:DAB. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]   ‹(-¿-)› 16:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: Although I found the comments about Mark's driving amusing, I don't think they are really suitable unless we can have some proof, e.g. how many points he has on his license!  What does anyone else think?
[The previous unsigned comment was added by , 11:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Such material should simply be removed, per WP:BLP. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]   ‹(-¿-)› 16:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced material about him being a bad driver

message: Can we have an image please, I'm not an expert on image collecting
[The previous unsigned comment was added by , 07:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: They've got another one now, or are expecting one or something. I think she's had it. Look into it.
[The previous unsigned comment was added by , 13:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, find a source and add the information with a source citation. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]   ‹(-¿-)› 16:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Get to it, then. It's about time you did something non-disruptive at Wikipedia for a change. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 00:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Children

message: The other M.W. mentioned in the article needs a middle initial and at least a stub article so that the two can be told apart in the stats.  Both were active in 1990s, overlappingly. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]   ‹(-¿-)› 15:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The other Mark Williams of snooker

message: This article is really bad, I'd recommend deleting everything but the infobox and starting again. Mglovesfun 14:45, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a bit better now but more work to be done to tidy it up and keep folks from over-complicating the introduction with facts that can come further down. bigpad (talk) 19:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This article is pretty poor

message: I've removed this reference because, although i'm pretty certain i've heard it mentioned in commentary on matches, i can't find any reference to it online.
Due to an eyesight problem he is unable to distinguish between the red and brown balls, which has occasionally required him to request clarification from referees.
Paul 1978 23:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Colourblindness

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message: Is this source reliable for century breaks? Who updates it? Why are you monitoring it so closely, 89.230.231.3? Perhaps you're watching Williams play live, racking them up, over in Poland? Do let us know. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:20, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Century breaks 

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message: The infobox states that Williams is from Cwm in Ebbw Vale, which I think is geographically inaccurate because Cwm is a little village in the Ebbw valley, while Ebbw Vale is a town a few miles north of Cwm and a completely separate place. It might be loosely OK to say that Cwm is in the "Ebbw Vale" (i.e. the valley of the Ebbw River) but for the purposes of the infobox it's probably safer just to say that Cwm is in (the county of) Blaenau Gwent. Same thing applies to Early career section. Rodney Baggins (talk) 11:57, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Could be "Cwm, near Ebbw Vale". Same applies for Victor Spinetti,but John Quantick seems to have escaped so far. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:13, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't think Cwm is in Ebbw Vale 

message: "In addition, he is the first player (and to date, the only player) to win all three versions of the professional World Championship – the World Snooker Championship, the Six-red World Championship and the World Seniors Championship."
This comment is absurd, it should not be anywhere, let alone the led paragraph. There is only one version of the world championship. In particular, the six red championship is not a snooker world championship at all, it is a two-bit variation of snooker; anyone who thinks it carries equivalent prestige to the World Championship of snooker has a very strange outlook.
:I kind of agree it shouldn't be in the lead. However, these are billed as world championships. If there is a source out there that says this, then we should include it. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:10, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  I could stage a four red World Championship tomorrow, I would be the only entrant so I would be World Champion. So what?
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As for the current Talk item, I have nothing in particular to add to the discussion, but I have done some work on Mark Williams' article, so I'd be happy to work on a compromise if that seems more appropriate. As Lee said above, maybe that info shouldn't be in the lead? Rodney Baggins (talk) 19:42, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Your event wouldn't be recognised by the WPBSA or independent sources, and thus, not by Wikipedia. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three world championships ?? 

message: Hi there, people who are watching this page. 
I don't really know how dilligent the niche sport Wiki community is these days, but just in case nobody's really working on these kinds of details, I'm mostly putting this here as a reminder to myself to come back and fix it up a bit when I have some more time. The introduction to the Mark Williams article makes it sound like he fizzled out and was never relevant ever again after his second world championship--with no mention of this THIRD world championship, an event I traveled across the ocean to witness in 2018. Plus, he's also, as of this writing, in the semi-final of the 2022 world championship, so I rather think the article's introduction needs at least a little bit of revision. 
Anyway, I'll try and do it myself eventually...I'll at least wait to see how this semi-final turns out....wouldn't want to have to edit in his present-day exceptional achievements TWICE. =)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randall00 (talk • contribs) 00:09, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Uhhh...maybe some sort of update to the intro, tho?