Talk:Mark Wildman

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First Televised Century Break?

There seem to be two competing claims for the first televised century break, and some inconsistencies in sources about which year Wildman made his contender for the first televised one.

Claims for Mark Wildman:

  • Clive Everton (in Snooker: The Records, p.61) says "Two amateurs, Mark Wildman (1962) and Jonathan Barron (1963) made century breaks on television before any professional did." In Snooker Scene for September 2001 he writes "in 1961 [Wildman] became the first player to make a televised century, 108, in an amateur tournament on ITV"
  • Ian Morrison (Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Snooker) also says it was Wildman who made the first televised century, and also has 1962, possibly copying a typo from Everton.

Claims for Joe Davis:

  • The Shields Daily News (Thursday 21 February 1957, page 11): "In Joe Davis' recent television contest he made a break of 111."
  • The Sports Argus, 12 November 1960 (p.3) says "Markham Wildman notched a century break ... He was the first ever amateur to perform this feat on television, and the second player - Joe Davis being, of course, the first - to have ever done so."

Any comments or further sources? Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 20:42, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a potential that Joe's was filmed, whilst the Amateur ones were broadcast? Otherwise, I have no idea. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:43, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 14:23, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion 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.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Mark Wildman/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: BennyOnTheLoose (talk · contribs) 15:42, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: LastJabberwocky (talk · contribs) 07:03, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I made most of the edits myself (small formatting and minor rephrasings). —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 07:03, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your work, closing my review! —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 14:22, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • To improve WP:Verifiability, I think you should add links to some of the analogue sources. I tried to find some of them with Wiki library, ProQuest, and Google, but couldn't find them. For example: "Karnehm Wind World Title" and "Everything in the Garden Lovely for Edmonds".
  • I'm not sure how this can be done as they are not online. Billiards and Snooker magazine closed down in 1972 and although Snooker Scene had a website, it does not have the articles from the print edition. Or did you mean linking to, for example, Snooker Scene? There is no article for Billiards and Snooker as it doesn't seem to be notable. I added some publisher details. There might be some more newspaper sources where I can add a clipping, I'll check them. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 11:04, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • My thought was: you probably used the digital sources, but forgot to link them, but it turns out you used analogue sources and it seems unlikely we can link them to a digital scan. I'll double check Newspapers.com and afterwards I'll promote the article. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 12:45, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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