Talk:Wu Yize

GA review

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Nominator: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 17:17, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: BennyOnTheLoose (talk · contribs) 12:53, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Copyvio check: for the material supported by Ref 4, wording is rather close to the original source:

• Article: "was given a wildcard entry to the professional 2019 International Championship… made the last 32 of the 2019 Six-red World Championship, after progressing through the group stage. He again faced Higgins, this time losing 4–6. At the 2019 World Open, he faced Luca Brecel"
• Source: "was given a wildcard entry to the 2019 International Championship … made the last 32 of the 2019 Six Red World Championship in Bangkok, after progressing through the group stage. He then faced Higgins once again, this time losing out 6-4...the 2019 World Open, where he faced Belgium's Luca Brecel."

I didn't find any other copyvio issues.

I've reworded this to avoid the close paraphrasing. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:58, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

Images - relevant, no licensing issues.

No edit-warring. No issues with neutrality.

Lead

• Date of birth is not referenced
  • Cited Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:01, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
    • Needs a proper citation, not a link to the WST homepage. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:30, 22 June 2026 (UTC)
    • that's so weird, Refill decided it didn't like the player page. I've done it manually. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:58, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
• "He became the second World Champion from Asia, following his compatriot Zhao Xintong the previous year" - not mentioned in body and is uncited
  • removed. I don't think it's all that relevant to me. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:28, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
• "after Stephen Hendry in 1990." - not mentioned in body and is uncited
  • Added. It was in the cite. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:28, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

Other referencing issues

• Ref 3 – source does not verify "when he was just 14 years old" and calculation would require DOB to be cited.
  • I've cited the DOB now. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:28, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
• Ref 8: "he defeated Luca Brecel, Rory McLeod"; "to progress to the quarter-finals for the first time" not supported by source
  • Added a source that states this. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:09, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
    • Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any mention of McLeod ot that this was Wu's first quarter final. The WST homepage ref can be removed. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:30, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

      Same issue as above. It's on his player bio and ReFill wasn't happy. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:59, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• Ref 9: "Wu defeated Allan Taylor and compatriot Tian Pengfei, before facing the 2023 Snooker Shoot-Out champion Chris Wakelin. He came back from 1–5 and 4–7 down to beat Wakelin 10–8 in the final qualifying round to reach the main stage of the World Snooker Championship for the first time" – none of this is in the cited source"
  • Added some citations. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:52, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
    • Refs 10 and 11 are bare urls and need to be better-formatted. Ref 12 is dead. I'm not seeing the support for "the 2023 Snooker Shoot-Out champion" or for "He came back from 1–5 and 4–7 down to beat Wakelin" BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:30, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

      I've removed the bits not fully cited. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• Ref 47 – badly formatted, goes to WST homepage which does not verify the info
  • Replaced Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:03, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
• Ref 48 – failed verification. Result is from 2018, source only goes to 2010.
  • Took a while, but found a source. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:03, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
    • Archive only goes up to 2013 and the live page is dead. Try https://www.ibsf.info/champion/6/world-u21-men-snooker BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:30, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

      What was wrong with https://www.ibsf.info/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=793:wu-yize-wins-world-under-21-snooker-championship&Itemid=382? Seems like a much better source. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:01, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

      • Yes that's fine; it's a duplicate of ref 4 but that's not a blocker. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:15, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

• The Performance and rankings timeline is unreferenced but others have not found this a barrier to GA status for similar articles. Most likely snooker.org could be used to reference this.

Content

• His 2024 Scottish Open final result is not even mentioned in the body.
  • Agreed, I've expanded and given it a quote. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:45, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• The 2025-26 section seems a bit of a hotch-potch:

• "He topped his round-robin group at the 2025 Championship League in July 2025, going unbeaten against Craig Steadman, Wang Yuchen and Kreishh Gurbaxani" – and then what?

• • Added what happened next Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:45, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• "in September 2025, he reached the last-16 of the English Open before losing to Mark Selby." – why is this interesting compared to results from other omitted tournaments?

• • Removed Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:45, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• "He won his first ranking title beating John Higgins 10–6 in the final." – there must be something more to say about this.

• • Expanded. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:45, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
• The summary for the 2026 the Masters is adequate, I think; I'd like to see something more like this for significant tournaments like the 2024 Scottish Open,
• The detail of the 2025 world final is literally only "winning 18–17 in a deciding frame".
  • Expanded. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:45, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

• Overall, The article feels rather perfunctory, and quite a lot of it is a list of results. There is no comment on his playing style. No quotes or reflection from him. Could become GA in this style but I'd really like to see a bit of added colour. I'll have another look at the text once the referencing issues have been resolved. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:53, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
  • I've added a couple pieces on his personal life and playing style. might need a copyedit. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:48, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
    • Looking at WP:XINHUA, that source seems fine for this. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 21:04, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
• I ran my AI inconsistency checker - no issues on the page from that but it found that the WPBSA page about him has (incorrectly), "His maiden ranking title came at the 2026 International Championship, where he defeated John Higgins 10-6 in the final." BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:13, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

After another look

• I think the expansions on relevant points have realy helped the article.
• Tables sorted by flag order not name order. I converted flagicon to flagathlete but they still sort by forename order. See tables at Ray Reardon for one way to address this, but it's not a requirement for GA status.
• Duplicate links not required in "he faced Neil Robertson, recovering", "drew with Matthew Stevens but", "beating John Higgins 10–6", "compatriot Lei Peifan in the first round", "Wu relocated to Sheffield, England", and "After winning the 2026 World Snooker Championship, Wu" Done
• There are still bare urls used as references. Done
• Optionally, consider "won the 2026 World Snooker Championship" rather than "who is the reigning World Snooker Champion" in the lead to avoid it being something that will change. Done
• Lead: " he reached a career high of fourth in the world rankings." - not in body text, no citation. (Or could add a citation to rankings in the performance table) Done
• Consider adding something brief about playing style to the lead. Done
• Please check my minor edits and revert any that are objectionable; we can discuss if required. There are some ref inconsistencies but, apart from the bare urls, nothing too bad.

Thanks Canary757 for polishing this off. I'm satisfied that the article meets the GA criteria. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 20:36, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

References

@Lee Vilenski There seems to be some mix up with Ref 3 and Ref 50, just letting you know. Greenflipper (talk) 21:07, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done Canary757 (talk) 07:41, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Greenflipper (talk) 12:23, 28 July 2026 (UTC)