Talk:Balkline and straight rail
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[edit] Nice job
Wow, this is impressively thorough and well-referenced. Nice job. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 21:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you:-)--Fuhghettaboutit 23:09, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GA candidate: advice
- The introduction paragraphs have sentences that are too long I think. Because this is a pretty complicated topic for a newcomer (such as myself), it bombards the reader with too much information too quickly.
- put a footnote reference after the punctuation, where possible
- could you put more sub-headings into the article, to desribe what you are referring to? For example, headings like "chuck nurse," "controversy over nursing". It seems at times like you are doubling back on yourself, or talking about two different aspects of the game.
- Perhaps you should consider giving namespaces to the extraordinary players of the past, such as Jacob Schaefer, Sr.
- A diagram for the layout of the champions game would be very helpful
- Perhaps mention what (if any) connection the balk line has to do with the balk line in the game of Snooker, or pool.
I hope this feedback has been helpful to you. I would appreciate it if you could help me in my GA candidate, Peter Canavan. The only feedback I have got is from bots. Thank you. --Macca7174 02:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Great feedback. One note: in snooker there is no balkline; it is a baulk line (which isn't a term generally applied at all to pool tables). However, I would be suprised if they aren't etymologically related.--Fuhghettaboutit 15:56, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- On a second note, all footnotes are placed after punctuation. Do you mean placing all footnotes at the end of the paragraph they appear in? The problem with that is certain sections use one source up to a point in the text, and the rest of the paragraph uses another source. The footnotes have been placed so that they show which source is used for which statements (and I believe each and every statement in this article is sourced).--Fuhghettaboutit 16:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Removing it from consideration for the moment. I see no way to split up the introducution explaining statements more fully without making it much longer which would not be in keeping with WP:LEAD (and not sure I agree it needs simplfying). In any event, I'm not going to get around to splitting the article into subheadings any time soon, etc.--Fuhghettaboutit 13:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- On a second note, all footnotes are placed after punctuation. Do you mean placing all footnotes at the end of the paragraph they appear in? The problem with that is certain sections use one source up to a point in the text, and the rest of the paragraph uses another source. The footnotes have been placed so that they show which source is used for which statements (and I believe each and every statement in this article is sourced).--Fuhghettaboutit 16:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
