Talk:Cody Snyder/GA1

Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (historically Canadian Rodeo Cowboys Association, website RodeoCanada.com sometimes Pro Rodeo Canada, magazine Canadian Rodeo News or Canadian Pro Rodeo News.)

• "High Ride" "Canadian Pro Rodeo Records" – part of the 2014 CPRA Media Guide. Page 144.
  • He holds the highest-scored [bull] ride in Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA) history, scoring 95 points in 1983.
  • That same year, [1983] Snyder made history by scoring the highest-scored bull ride in CPRA history. The historic 95-point ride on Northcott's #96 Confusion at the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) in Edmonton, Alberta, still stands to this day. Okay except for the underlined parts. The CRHA source has #96 if you think that's important; otherwise suggest omitting the underlined points.
    • Note that this source is only good for the record standing until 2014. See notes under Neutrality.
• "CPRAchampions" "Canadian Professional Rodeo Association Champions 1945–2018". There was a duplicate of this reference; I named it and removed the redundant citation template.
  • In 1986, Snyder won the CPRA bull riding championship to conclude another successful rodeo season.
  • 1986 Canadian Professional Rodeo Association bull riding champion

Canadian Rodeo Historical Association. Looks to be an independent association though working closely with CPRA.

• "2005 Inductees". This also appeared as the named references "CS CRHA" and "CPR HOF". I put these all together as "CRHA 2005 Inductees".
  • He is an inductee of the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame
  • Snyder ended his career with four National Finals Rodeo qualifications in 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1987, and held the record at the time for the most Canadian Finals Rodeo qualifications for a bull rider with nine. Not found in source. I'm pretty sure this is in another of the article's references if you could check for it.
  • Snyder now resides on a ranch west of
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    ). Since his wife is also his business partner, that should be okay.
  • 2005 Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame inductee
• unnamed reference 2016 inductees.
  • That same year, Snyder made history by scoring the highest-scored bull ride in CPRA history. The historic 95-point ride on Northcott's #96 Confusion at the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) This is good for #96 Confusion and shows the record still holds as of 2016. Some other parts still unsourced per above.

Professional Bull Riders (PBR, PBR.com)

• "PBR Ring" PBR Heroes & Legends
  • [He is an inductee of the] Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Ring of Honor
  • 2006 Professional Bull Riders Ring of Honor inductee

Alberta Sports Hall of Fame

• "AB HOF"
  • [He is an inductee of] Alberta Sports Hall of Fame
  • 2002 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame inductee

Bull Riding Hall of Fame, non-profit

• "HOF" BRHOF Inductees
  • and most recently the Bull Riding Hall of Fame.
  • 2023 Bull Riding Hall of Fame inductee

Everything Cowboy – online source for rodeo news but also does event production/promotion.

• "Cowboy of the Year" Top 10: The Greatest Bull Riders in Canadian History – written by the website's founder/owner/chief editor
  • Since his retirement in 1993, Snyder has produced over 400 bull riding events across North America under his company Bullbustin' Inc. He has also appeared as a color commentator for rodeo events on ESPN, OLN, Sportsnet, TSN, and CBC. This is good for the sports commentary. The underlined parts aren't in the source, but this is for the lead which doesn't need to be sourced so long as it is sourced in the body.
  • 1994 Awarded Cowboy of the Year
    • The source says this was awarded "by his peers" but do you know specifically how he was awarded this title? Which association bestowed it on him? Found in the Global News source that this was through a vote by fellow world champion bull riders. Please add something to indicate this; it can be in a footnote if you think it'd be too long for the list. (If you don't know how to do footnotes, just put it in parenthesis and I can take care of the coding.)

Cody Snyder's Bullbustin', Inc. – primary source. There are eight citations to three Bullbustin webpages; it would be preferable to replace these or support them with

• "Bullbustin About" This source had the highest Earwig score for copyright violation in the article. Some paraphrasing should be done.
  • Cody Snyder was born on March 28, 1963, in Redcliff, Alberta. At five years old, he rode a calf in a local rodeo competition and has been involved in the sport ever since. He began riding junior steers when he was eight years old, rode his first bull at the age of 12, and at 15 earned the Canadian Amateur bull riding title. Verifies everything except his birthdate; need a source for that. The other underlined passage is too close to the source. Suggest: He took part in a calf-riding competition when he was five.
  • In 1987, he sustained a severe wrist injury, breaking his scaphoid bone at the CFR. The injury went undetected for the next five years, and in February 1992, Dr. J. Pat Evans diagnosed what would be Snyder's career-ending injury. After requiring three screws and a partial wrist fusion, Snyder took the rest of the 1992 rodeo season off to recover from surgery. Not in source, all I saw was "and a career-ending wrist injury". If it's in one of the nine videos on that page, need a {{cite AV media}} with the time.
  • Snyder returned after his year long hiatus and started the 1993 season off at the
    Denver, Colorado, competing post-wrist surgery. After dislocating his shoulder in February at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo
    , Snyder officially announced his retirement. Not found.
  • Bullbustin' Inc. also produces various charity and private events that have been televised on
    CBS, and Fox
    . Found list of channels for "Bullbustin' world-class events". Used in conjunction with an unnamed reference, see National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum below.
  • Snyder has been seen as a rodeo color commentator on
    CBC covering rodeo and bull riding events across the world. Snyder was chosen as a color commentator for the exclusive 11-event PRCA ProRodeo Winter Tour featured on OLN in 2003 and 2004, and was the voice of the Calgary Stampede
    from 1997 to 2020. Has that he began in 1997. Don't have 2020, but that seems to be the year it stopped due to COVID. Need something better than a primary source for this.
• "Bullbustin Events"
  • Bullbustin' Inc. has produced over 400 events across North America since 1993. This includes over 250 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) sanctioned events, the first ever Canadian PBR event in 1993, the PBR Bud Light Cup Series events that were held in Canada, and the first ever PBR Canadian National Finals at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary in 2006. Did not find the underlined parts. It says the first Bud Light event, not all the ones in Canada. At the end is says 2003, not 2006.
    • The first underlined sentence came up as a copyvio, taken from "Bullbustin About". In lieu of an independent source, suggest citing it at the end of the sentence and paraphrase: According to the company's website, it has produced more than 400 events
  • They have also produced over 30 events for the PRCA Xtreme Bulls tour, including the largest one-day bull riding event in history at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, in 2003, with over 70,000 people in attendance. Doesn't have the year.
• unnamed reference "Giving Back"
  • Most notably, the Cody Snyder Charity Bullbustin' held in Calgary, Alberta, has raised over $3 million for local charities and has been a landmark event in the city since 1999. It says $2.5 million and doesn't say when it started. There are some other sources noted below that could be used in place of this.

Canadian Cowboys Association

• "Past Champions" used together with:

Richard Beal's Blog – there seems to be no editorial oversight, though a substantial author biography here includes some self-published non-fiction books which are used as sources in other Wikipedia articles.

• unnamed reference "PBR Ring Of Honor".
  • One year later at the age of 16, he won the Canadian Cowboys Association bull riding championship and obtained his official competitor cards to compete as a member of the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA) and the Canadian Rodeo Cowboys Association (CRCA). In the first source, enlarging the Canadian Cowboys Finals Champions graphic it has Cody Snyder under 1979 Bull Riding. The second source says he won this title "by 15" [years of age]. T�he underlined parts need to be better sourced.

SaskToday

• "Looking Back" interview with Snyder from July 1983
  • In 1982, when he was 19 years old, Snyder led the CPRA national bull riding standings and finished in 19th place in the PRCA bull riding world standings. Intending to build on his CPRA success the prior year, Snyder began the 1983 season with his sights set on making the National Finals Rodeo (NFR). Underlined portion not found in source.

Calgary Herald

• "Herald" via newspapers.com. I cleaned it up using {{
  cite newspaper
  }}.
  • In May 1993, just three months after his retirement, Snyder alongside his wife Rhonda co-founded Bullbustin' Inc., a professional bull riding production company. Together they produced the first standalone bull riding event in Canada at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Alberta. Didn't find any of this in the source, which is from May 1994.

According to Flint – podcast hosted by Flint Rasmussen, former barrelman

• "Podcast" Youtube video. Interview with Snyder. 27:30. Aside from a little commentary by Flint, all primary source. We should be cautious for anything that's promotional.
  • Bullbustin' Inc. was also the first production company to incorporate pyrotechnics into their bull riding events, a feature that is widespread across rodeo today. There's a lot in the interview, but it's a primary source and a lot of it is too promotional to use. What we can use: Dislocating his shoulder in February 1993 at Fort Worth and retiring. Married Rhonda in 1990, moved from Medicine Hat to Calgary in 1993. Did their first show 6–7 May 93, began the Calgary Stampede in 1997. Their pyrotechnics were done by company Unreal Effects (spelling?). What we can't use: The first bullriding-only show in Canada, with all the top riders. The first use of pyrotechnics in rodeo. Raised $3M for charity. So need something else for first use of pyrotechnics in rodeo.

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

• unnamed reference PBR HOF Ring of Honor – Cody Snyder. Used with Bullbustin' About for:
  • Bullbustin' Inc. also produces various charity and private events that have been televised on
    WP:SYNTH
    ) and that's something we shouldn't do. With the present sources, you might write something like: Bullbustin' Inc. also produces various charity and private events.[ref1] Some of the events it has produced have been televised on major US networks and cable specialty channels.[ref2]

BanderasNEWS – news site in Puerto Vallarta

• unnamed reference 2008, originally published in rodeoattitude.com used with

Global News – Canadian news channel, good RSS (reliable secondary source)

• unnamed reference "Alberta's Snyder first Canadian named to Bull Riding Hall of Fame". 2023.and with

Canadian Cowboy Country Magazine

• unnamed reference "In the Corral" 2009
  • Snyder was also selected as the team Canada coach for the PBR World Cup Series in 2007 (Gold Coast, Australia), 2008 (Chihuahua, Mexico), 2009 (Barretos, Brazil), and 2010 (Las Vegas, United States). According to PBR World Cup these were the only four events of the series. BanderasNews covers 2008, Chihuahua. Global News says five times including Australia, Brazil, Mexico [Chihuahua], and Las Vegas. CCC mag is good for Barretos, Brazil, and mentions two previous PBR World Cups in Mexico and Australia. All three describe Snyder as the "team captain", only CCC mag also describes him as the "coach", so might change that.
    • This appears to have originally been taken from "Bullbustin About", verbatim. It should be restructured and rewritten. Suggest: Snyder served as captain of the Canadian team for all four years of the PBR World Cup series (2007–2010) contested between Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Breadth & focus

SaskToday interview says he quit school in grade 11, got his pro card and went to work. I feel that his quitting school is probably important enough to mention.

The Global News piece could be cited for lots of additional information (just be sure that anything in quotes is from Snyder): the dislocated shoulder from his final ride in Fort Worth, Bull Riding Hall of Fame voted in by peers = world champion bull riders, trained with Dale Rose [whose practice pen was in the Medicine Hat area], the point in his early career where he started winning, the 95-point run still holding the record (January 2023), he competed in handmade shirts from this mother (perhaps not encyclopedic), parade in Medicine Hat after he won the world championship, met three US presidents, $3M raised for charities, halls of fame.

Additional sources (these are available via the Wikipedia Library for editors whose accounts have 6 months/500 edits, so you probably don't have access yet.):

• Cartwright, Keith Ryan (July 2009). "World Cup!!!". Pro Bull Rider. pp. 36–40.(Full-text access provided to Wikipedia editors via
  EBSCO. link
  ..) – This talks a bit about the PBR World Cup going into Brazil.
• Bullbustin' fundraiser enters its 24th year. Heinen, Laurence.  Calgary Herald; Calgary, Alta. 05 July 2023: NP.9.
  ProQuest 2833432194
  notes the charity events started in 1999 and had it's 24th edition right ahead of the Calgary Stampede in 2023.
• Hall-of-famer Cody Snyder proud of Bullbustin' success in Calgary. Saelhof, Todd.  The Calgary Sun (Online), Calgary: Postmedia Network Inc. Jul 5, 2023.
  ProQuest 2833421001
  – more on the charity shows. Corporate sponsorship provides $50,000 in prize money, attracting top bull riders just ahead of the Calgary Stampede. PBR sanctioned (points count toward the PBR Canada Finals and PBR World Finals). Confirms his awards at the end.
• SNYDER IS TOUGH AS EVER IN NEW BULL-RIDING CAREER: Gyle Konotopetz.  Calgary Herald; Calgary, Alta. [Calgary, Alta]. 05 May 1993: D6.
  ProQuest 244232134
  A bit on his injury: "The scaphoid bone in the [left] hand, shattered when he was jerked over his hand by a bull named Catfish at the `87 Canadian finals, has been reconstructed with bone transplanted from his hip. He has three screws in the hand to reinforce the bone. // Otherwise, Snyder has enjoyed an injury-free career, except for a back injury, a few separated shoulders, the occasional busted rib, a couple pulled groins, some torn knee ligaments, torn rib cartilage, broken collarbone, dislocated fingers, a gored mug that required plastic surgery . . ."
• Cody likes his beef real mean. Johnson, Bryan.  The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]. 11 Aug 1984: P.10.
  ProQuest 386400342
  – The previous year (1983) he won over $110,000 to lead the circuit. His father and uncle were both rodeo riders, and his parents' house in Redcliff has been described by visitors as a shrine to rodeo, "Awards, photos and trophies cram the farmhouse, spilling from the parlor into the other rooms." including Synder's world championship trophy (he says "My mom won't let me take the trophy"). As a child, Cody spent his weekends and evenings training 15 miles away at a local rancher's indoor arena stocked with bucking bulls and steers. By age 14 he was riding a half-dozen bulls a night. Also notes that he was a "highly regarded amateur boxer" before turning pro cowboy. Also a bit on his dissatisfaction at the time with the way rodeo cowboys were treated "like ranch hands" (with no dressing rooms or showers at medium-sized events) and that he wished for that to be different and the cowboys to be respected as athletes.
• Athletic Snyder is bullish on his sport. Maki, Allan.  The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]. 15 July 2000: S.4.
  MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE
  ) but you could include this with a footnote to the year. This also has him as a colour commentator for ESPN2's Calgary Stampede coverage.
• A couple brief mentions in local papers (not really article-worthy, but FYI):
  • JSTOR 34478473
    1978, page 10, "Daychief Wins Again": "Chinook finals rodeo ... Championship winners ... Cody Snyder, Boy's steer riding."
  • JSTOR 34478916
    5 April 1990, an ad on page 8 shows a Cody Snyder as an instructor in Bull Riding at a rodeo school. It could be someone else with the same name, though.

• Born and Raised: "AB HOF", "Cowboy of the Year" and Richard Beal's Blog say he was born and raised in Medicine Hat, AB. Redcliff is an adjacent town, what might be considered a suburb to a larger city.
• Home after 'retirement': Canadian Cowboy Country Magazine (2010) says that Snyder is from Okotoks, AB, which is a suburb of Calgary. I found two stories – King of the bulldoggers. By: Verburg, Peter, Alberta Report / Newsmagazine, United Western Communications, 02250519, 12/26/94, Vol. 22, Issue 2 –and– Faceoff with death. By: Eisler, Dale, Maclean's, 00249262, 07/21/97, Vol. 110, Issue 29 – which say Snyder lives in High River, which is just south of Okotoks. According to Flint (interview) he says he moved to Calgary in 1993. Perhaps it would be best to say he lives in the Calgary area (or Okotoks) and footnote the rest? (It's possible that he moved around the city a bit, at least initially.)
• Regarding Snyder's 95-point CPRA bullriding score holding the record "today". As noted above, the Global News source verifies this (as of January 2023). However, the 1994 Calgary Herald piece says Montana's Scott Breding beat Snyder's record with 97 points at Cody Snyder's World Champion Bullbustin', which "set a Canadian high-point bull riding record". According to the Herald, Snyder acknowledged his record had been broken: Snyder said he was happy Breding broke his record, and he was even more pleased it happened at his own bull-only rodeo. I don't know if there's some technicality here, if the Bullbustin' event that Breding won was not CPRA-sanctioned, or if the record Snyder holds is for a Canadian citizen, or something else. I feel that this needs to be investigated a little further to find out the truth behind it, or otherwise to include both views in the article and let the reader decide.

Manual of Style

Layout: I feel that the subject has two clear careers: professional cowboy 1979–1993 and event producer 1993–2023. Given that the sections covering these two periods of his life are approximately the same size, I don't feel that we should overemphasize one career to the other. Suggest changing them appropriately, e.g.: Career → Cowboy career or Professional cowboy, and Retirement → Entrepreneur, Event producer or Rodeo producer.

Lead: I'm going to note that for the infobox, which is part of the lead, it should only have the defining characteristics and not try to fill every parameter (

Prose

• He holds the highest-scored ride in Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA) history, scoring 95 points in 1983. If you don't feel it's too repetitive, I'd like that to be "bull ride" to avoid any question of ambiguity. I'd like to omit the word "history" which just seems to be there for emphasis. Suggest: He holds the highest-scored bull ride in the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA), scoring 95 points in 1983.
• and most recently the Bull Riding Hall of Fame. I feel that the underlined part could be removed as unnecessary, to keep the lead concise.
• He has also appeared as a color commentator Use Canadian spelling and link
  colour commentator
  .
• At five years old, he rode a calf in a local rodeo competition and has been involved in the sport ever since. Remove the underlined part as commentary. This and the sentence which follows it may have to be restructured if more material is added.
• One year later at the age of 16, he won the Canadian Cowboys Association bull riding championship and obtained his official competitor cards to compete as a member of the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA) and the Canadian Rodeo Cowboys Association (CRCA).^[9] Both organizations would be renamed as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) in 1975, and the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association (CPRA) in 1980. Snyder turned 16 in 1979, after the 1975 name change so the underlined part can be omitted. It's a bit of a long sentence and might be split, but again should check on any information to be added first.
• and finished in 19th place in the PRCA bull riding world standings Omit the underlined words for conciseness.
• Intending to build on his CPRA success the prior year, Snyder began the 1983 season with his sights set on making the
  MOS:SURNAME). The rest has some extra words that could be trimmed. Suggest: Snyder performed at a special Presidential Command Performance Rodeo in Landover, Maryland, after which he was invited to the White House and met then-US President Ronald Reagan
  .
• Snyder not only achieved his goal of qualifying for the 1983 NFR in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, but he ended up winning the PRCA bull riding world championship. Some unencylopedic langauge that could be trimmed. Suggest: Snyder qualified for the 1983 National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he won the PRCA bull riding world championship.
• That same year, Snyder made history by scoring the highest-scored bull ride in CPRA history. The historic 95-point ride on Northcott's #96 Confusion at the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) in Edmonton, Alberta, still stands to this day. Some repetitive or unencyclopedic language. Suggest: During that season, Snyder achieved a 95-point ride on Northcott's Confusion at the Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) in Edmonton, Alberta, a CPRA record which has not been broken as of 2023^[update]. You can render "as of 2023" with the template {{As of|2023}}, which will flag this with a hidden maintenance category if/when it needs to be updated. I would probably footnote Northcott's Confusion with some information about the bull, including its number 96.
• I suggested changes to the Willie Nelson Wranglers paragraph with referencing, above.
• In 1986, Snyder won the CPRA bull riding championship to conclude another successful rodeo season.^[16] In 1987, he sustained a severe wrist injury, breaking his scaphoid bone at the CFR. The injury went undetected for the next five years, and in February 1992, Dr. J. Pat Evans diagnosed what would be Snyder's career-ending injury. After requiring three screws and a partial wrist fusion, Snyder took the rest of the 1992 rodeo season off to recover from surgery. The content might be changing due to sourcing or additions, but I will note problems with the underlined portions. The first one is unnecessary, as it will be understood that he had a successful season if he won the championship. With the second, the reader might mistake CFR as having something to do with the scaphoid bone. I'd move it to the beginning: At the 1987 CFR. I would also suggest a piped link: "breaking his scaphoid bone" to scaphoid fracture.
• Snyder returned after his year long hiatus and started the 1993 season off at the
  Denver, Colorado
  , competing post-wrist surgery. Remove the underlined as redundant or unencyclopedic language.