Talk:The Players Championship
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Title
The title of this article should really reflect the fact that it is THE PLAYERS Championship, and not The Players Championship. But I don't know how to change that. I encourage someone more experienced than me to do so. -- AppleFan84 00:09, 26 April 2005
Winners list.
Should I change this winners list to standardize it with all of the other PGA TOUR events? (Though I doubt anyone reads this)--
- Change it to the format other majors use, ie with score, country, golf course played on (at least before the current course) excetera. Do it regardless of whether anyone is reading it as of now, but they will in the future!--Nick Dillinger 02:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I meant, nobody's reading the talk page. :) I've been trying to standardize all PGA TOUR tournament pages, so with this suggestion I will make a template for Majors (pretty much how they are now), and keep the regular tournaments the same. Unless anyone else has any suggestions. :) Talk) 13:56, 31 May 2006 (UTC)]
- Can you treat the Player's Championship like a major? It really is the 5th most important event in golf, and any treatment that makes it seem significantly less than a major would look like systematic bias.--Nick Dillinger 15:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with you, it's just tough knowing where to draw that line. Should WGC events be the same way? THE TOUR Championship? I think I'll just leave it here. :) Talk) 01:43, 2 June 2006 (UTC)]
- aslong as the Players is treated like a major, I have no other problems treating the rest as regular tourny's.--Nick Dillinger 03:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with you, it's just tough knowing where to draw that line. Should WGC events be the same way? THE TOUR Championship? I think I'll just leave it here. :)
- Can you treat the Player's Championship like a major? It really is the 5th most important event in golf, and any treatment that makes it seem significantly less than a major would look like systematic bias.--Nick Dillinger 15:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I meant, nobody's reading the talk page. :) I've been trying to standardize all PGA TOUR tournament pages, so with this suggestion I will make a template for Majors (pretty much how they are now), and keep the regular tournaments the same. Unless anyone else has any suggestions. :)
Requested move
Move to The Players Championship, as we don't write article titles in all caps unless they are acronyms or initialisms. See for example PGA Tour, which is written as "PGA TOUR" by them PGA's marketing department, but as "PGA Tour" by the rest of the world. — sjorford++ 13:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- See also ]
Survey
- Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
- Support as the ALL CAPS is intended for logo use only, not in real sentences.--Nick Dillinger 22:57, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Support - discussions appear to take place in conventional lower case. SilkTork 16:34, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - The TOUR and the PLAYERS are written just as they are, as in any golf magazine or website. – ]
- Oppose PGA TOUR and THE TOUR Championship article titles should be written in all caps too. We don't get to pick how the owner of the trademark chooses to render it; we should, however, honor their decision.
- No we shouldn't. Find the section on trademarks in our Manual of Style. ed g2s • talk 23:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Discussion
- Add any additional comments
Result:done
I just moved it, makes sense. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 20:10, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Need a Photo
Anyone have a photo of the 17th for the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.136.15.130 (talk) 15:07, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
2013 Championship
The 2013 Championship has now began and the page still links to 2013 as there is not yet an article for 2013. [1] 86.152.153.164 (talk) 00:33, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
- There is a separate article, now, about the 2013 tournament. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:06, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Date of the tournament
THe article says this:
With the rearrangement of 2007, the final round of The Players Championship is scheduled for the second Sunday of May, Mother's Day.
But this year, the final round of the tournament is scheduled for the third Sunday of May (a week after Mother's Day). The article should be updated to reflect this change. 173.176.89.18 (talk) 15:16, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
Requested move 23 November 2017
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: not moved. There is a consensus that "the" is part of the proper name of this event. (closed by page mover) Bradv 04:43, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
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- Question: is this not an exception to WP:THE (similar to The New York Times)?... also, I think this is overwhelmingly the primary topic for Players Championship... so even if we drop the “The”, I don’t see the need for parenthetical disambiguation. Blueboar (talk) 22:21, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
- Players Championship (golf) is standard practice. If it were the primary topic, and given that this article has existed since 2005, why doesn't Players Championship already come to this article? I think people who are not golf players/fans are apt to contest making this the primary topic, but I don't care either way, as long as the leading "The" is removed.]
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 03:10, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
- Note: the stylized name of the tournament is THE PLAYERS Championship, or THE PLAYERS for short. So the PGA Tour clearly considers "The" to be an integral part of the title. ]
- Support move per nom. The PGA may consider "The" to be part of the title, but reliable sources often use lowercase "the", indicating that the common name is "Players Championship". I have no opinion as to whether disambiguation is necessary. ]
- Oppose: "The" is an integral part of the name. We have others, including The Open Championship, The Amateur Championship. Calling the Open article "Open Championship" wouldn't make any sense, the whole point of the "The" is to stress that its The Open Championship, not any old Open Championship but the first, the original. Similarly here it's The Players Championship, not any old Players Championship. The fact that we often use "the Open Championship" in the text (lower case "the") is simply that when it's clear that we're talking about this event we don't need to use "The" pedantically but use "the" which reads better. Nigej (talk) 09:40, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Players Championship (golf), Players Championship (snooker), Masters (darts), Masters (snooker), and a zillion other ambiguous tournament and tour names. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 07:53, 26 November 2017 (UTC)]
- You say the article describing The Open Championship is overcapitalized and is "other crap"? Lord have mercy. The Open Championship is, well, The Open Championship, possibly and historically the most honored name in sports. Nothing like it in the world, nor should there be. And you say in an edit summary that "its next on the list" after this RM. Nope, its page, and this page, are already perfectly named. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:33, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- To me a title like The Masters. I can see you're keen on WP:whatevers but surely we just need some common sense sometimes and to me the current title is perfectly ok. Nigej (talk) 18:18, 26 November 2017 (UTC)]
- This book explains that "The Open" and "The Open Championship" are short for "The Open Championship of the British Isles". And this one explains it with only "Open" being capped. Lots of sources don't cap "the" in this context. There's not much support in sources for the idea that "The" is an essential part of the name. Dicklyon (talk) 06:02, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- @
- This is completely untrue. I have never heard it called "The Open Championship of the British Isles". There is no "of the British Isles" in its title. It is "The Open Championship". It is often referred to as the British Open but this is not an official title. Nigej (talk) 08:13, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose this good faith nom, per Nigej. The name of this unofficial fifth major tournament contains the well-known 'The' (and is even stylized by its logo and other examples as 'The Players'), so in this case 'the' is an important part of its common name. And per The Beatles, where the 'the' isn't usually used in sentence case, but is an integral part of the article title. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:46, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
- @WP:THE, while sport events are not. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 07:53, 26 November 2017 (UTC)]
- The name of this tournament, as every golf fan recognizes, is The Players Championship. Just as every Beatles fan knows that the full name of the Beatles is The Beatles. We are an encyclopedia, an encyclopedia which is not quite trusted by much of the public because "anyone can edit", thus "Crazy Joe down the street might be putting nonsense into it as we speak". Changing the name of the unofficial fifth-major of golf could cause further mistrust of Wikipedia, on a conscious or unconscious level, of every golf fan who sees the page. There is a policy or guideline somewhere (yes?) that we should think of the reader on every edit. That's what some of us do when considering names of articles, that if the real name, the familiar name, is available and easily read and rendered, we go with that, for the good of Wikipedia and its readers. @SMcCandlish:, a tweak and a qualifier is surely not needed in this case, for as the real name of a well-known event the name is already encyclopedicly perfect. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:26, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- Except even golf publications do not treat the name this way, as the evidence provided in the nomination proves. You can keep recycling the disproven same fannish assertions over and over, but it will not change the fact of what the sources show; sorry. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 11:29, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- Your one and only example is of a single article on PGAtour.com which says, quote, "He hasn’t won since his 2016 PLAYERS Championship triumph...". That's your reason for wanting to change this "fannish" (?) title? That the great god "Consistency" can take away common and proper names from major events because one guy on a website paraphrased its name? Randy Kryn (talk) 12:36, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- There are other examples from websites which paraphrase the name, but, like when "the Beatles" is used and not the actual name of the band, those website writers are paraphrasing the name of the topic. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:48, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- Your one and only example is of a single article on PGAtour.com which says, quote, "He hasn’t won since his 2016 PLAYERS Championship triumph...". That's your reason for wanting to change this "fannish" (?) title? That the great god "Consistency" can take away common and proper names from major events because one guy on a website paraphrased its name? Randy Kryn (talk) 12:36, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- Except even golf publications do not treat the name this way, as the evidence provided in the nomination proves. You can keep recycling the disproven same fannish assertions over and over, but it will not change the fact of what the sources show; sorry. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 11:29, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- The name of this tournament, as every golf fan recognizes, is The Players Championship. Just as every Beatles fan knows that the full name of the Beatles is The Beatles. We are an encyclopedia, an encyclopedia which is not quite trusted by much of the public because "anyone can edit", thus "Crazy Joe down the street might be putting nonsense into it as we speak". Changing the name of the unofficial fifth-major of golf could cause further mistrust of Wikipedia, on a conscious or unconscious level, of every golf fan who sees the page. There is a policy or guideline somewhere (yes?) that we should think of the reader on every edit. That's what some of us do when considering names of articles, that if the real name, the familiar name, is available and easily read and rendered, we go with that, for the good of Wikipedia and its readers. @SMcCandlish:, a tweak and a qualifier is surely not needed in this case, for as the real name of a well-known event the name is already encyclopedicly perfect. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:26, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- @
- Oppose per Randy. The Beatles were exactly the analogy I was thinking of as well. Yes, the "the" might be lowercased in running prose, and left off when the name is used as an attributive noun phrase, but we would never title our article as "Beatles" without the "the". Also, the vast majority of results on Google books for the search "player's championship" are for the golf tournament, which indicates to me that it is the primary topic (Google news shows similar results, though the darts tournament is presenting a bit higher at the moment as the event just passed.) oknazevad (talk) 11:43, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
- See above; Players Championship (golf) or at Players Championship with the DAB page moved to Players Championship (disambiguation). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 07:53, 26 November 2017 (UTC)]
- See above;
- Check this out..., the nominator, along with other wholesale changes, just went into the text of the WP:WTF? If I went in, removed a guideline example about an exception, and then threatened to change its name, I'd be hog-tied and given some kind of ban. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:13, 26 November 2017 (UTC)]
- Seems he's set his heart on winning this one, despite our opposition. Nigej (talk) 18:21, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- As per WP:BRD, SMcC having been bold, it's open to another editor to revert, and then we can have yet another discussion... Peter coxhead (talk) 19:38, 26 November 2017 (UTC)]
- You're right, and I was too harsh in my comment. I'm glad I found that deletion though. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:53, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- As per
- Seems the "rent-a-vote" has come in to push it through. Nigej (talk) 08:15, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- @]
- I did until the proposer started changing the rules. Now I'm in my cynical phase. Nigej (talk) 10:53, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- BRD works both ways. When someone goes to MoS and inserts a pet "rule" without any discussion that serves no purpose but to carve out a one-topic alleged exception – which isn't actually reflected in the sources, or this RM would not be happening – anyone can revert it, even if the addition has gone undetected for a while. It's standard operating procedure to revert additions to guidelines and policies that are attempts at nit-picky exception making, unless there's a demonstrable consensus (e.g. an RfC) to include them. Most such things have been stripped from all such pages long ago. I have no issue with my revert of that addition being re-reverted in turn, but the material is marked as disputed in the interim.
See also
WP:FAITACCOMPLI; Randy Kryn's argument ("According to our own guidelines the present name is fine", below) is that this RM should be rejected because MoS has a line-item permitting the exception; but the line-item was added without consensus specifically to try to make it permissible, to exempt this and two other golf tournament articles from a big pile of guidelines by putting them in a magic bubble. Consensus doesn't work that way.]
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 23:13, 27 November 2017 (UTC)- A magic bubble isn't needed (and remember readers and closer, the nominator has already said that the next on the list is WP:CRITERIA asked for by our style-guideline on the RM template, which are what article titles and moves are supposed to be based on. The present title is fine, no need to fix what certainly is not broken. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:33, 28 November 2017 (UTC)]
- A magic bubble isn't needed (and remember readers and closer, the nominator has already said that the next on the list is
- BRD works both ways. When someone goes to MoS and inserts a pet "rule" without any discussion that serves no purpose but to carve out a one-topic alleged exception – which isn't actually reflected in the sources, or this RM would not be happening – anyone can revert it, even if the addition has gone undetected for a while. It's standard operating procedure to revert additions to guidelines and policies that are attempts at nit-picky exception making, unless there's a demonstrable consensus (e.g. an RfC) to include them. Most such things have been stripped from all such pages long ago. I have no issue with my revert of that addition being re-reverted in turn, but the material is marked as disputed in the interim.
- I did until the proposer started changing the rules. Now I'm in my cynical phase. Nigej (talk) 10:53, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- @]
- Seems he's set his heart on winning this one, despite our opposition. Nigej (talk) 18:21, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- Support – though many sources copy the styling with all-caps "THE PLAYERS", and lots do cap the "The", quite a few also do like WP style and drop or downcase to "the", since it's not an essential part of the title. Even books by golfers use lowercase "the" quite often: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. Dicklyon (talk) 20:55, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- So what? That some author's paraphrase the name has nothing to do with what a Wikipedia RM is based on according to the RM template itself. The template says that the multiple points presented at the WP:Article titles page determine the title. The present name is recognizable, precise, concise enough to differentiate from other sports' championships, and is the accepted common and familiar name. There is no problem here. According to our own guidelines the present name is fine. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:20, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- The "so what" is that neither golf nor non-golf sources consistently do "The Players Championship", but often "the Players Championship", "Players Championship" (and stuff like "The PLAYERS Championship", etc.). There is no case to make that "The" is a required part of the name – in our writing or anyone else's, not even in the specialist material. Ergo, both MOS:CAPS apply. Golf fans inserting a pet "golf tournament rule" into MOS:CAPS without consensus doesn't magically undo the applicability of the guidelines' general rules. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 23:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)]
- Question: in these examples, are the ones omitting the definite article before "Players" followed by another noun, such as "Players Championship victory" or other such phrases? Because then it is standard English rules to leave off a leading article, but doesn't mean it's not part of the name. Again, just as I could say "Magical Mystery Tour is my favorite Beatles album" doesn't mean we leave off the "the" when using the name of the band standalone (because in the above sentence it's being used in the role of an adjective). Such uses have no bearing on whether the name of the tournament has a leading "the". oknazevad (talk) 15:01, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- The Magical Mystery Tour is a title of a work, subject to MOS:TITLES. And the comparison doesn't make sense anyway, since "The Magical Mystery Tour' is my favorite" is the normal way to say that; leaving the "The" off is slangish informality, and thus not relevant to formal writing. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 11:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)]
- However it remains the case that it's a perfectly good name, the golf community seem quite happy with it, guidelines are only guidelines and it seems pure pedantry to change it. And I can still be happy to write "I went to see the Beatles" and have their article called "The Beatles". Nigej (talk) 09:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- WP isn't written by or for "the golf community", and doesn't care what they're perfectly happy with under their style guides in their publications. But as proven right at the start, golf publications are not in fact consistent about this at all. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 11:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- WP is an encyclopedia, and any title which seems incorrect by the very people who know and care about an event lessens the respect for Wikipedia as a reliable tool and increases the viewpoint of Wikipedia being an inadequate source. You want to lessen the title of this event and then, as proclaimed, use the result here to lessen and incorrectly label what is arguably the most honored name in sports, The Open Championship. You don't agree, but in my opinion these type of actions hurt the overall Wikipedia project and lends credence to the "anyone can edit Wikipedia so it's not reliable" meme. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:11, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- WP is there to help people find stuff. However my experience in life is that it's better for the stuff to be written by those who know something about the topic, rather than those who don't, hence the part of my comment about the golf community. Nigej (talk) 12:34, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- WP isn't written by or for "the golf community", and doesn't care what they're perfectly happy with under their style guides in their publications. But as proven right at the start, golf publications are not in fact consistent about this at all. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 11:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- The "so what" is that neither golf nor non-golf sources consistently do "The Players Championship", but often "the Players Championship", "Players Championship" (and stuff like "The PLAYERS Championship", etc.). There is no case to make that "The" is a required part of the name – in our writing or anyone else's, not even in the specialist material. Ergo, both
- Oppose per Randy, Nigej and others. Calidum 05:10, 1 December 2017 (UTC)]
- Oppose - The Support rationale appears to have two main components: secondary sources, and guidelines.
1. Secondary sources are very often less attentive to such minor details, and the COMMONNAME principle can be over-applied like any p&g. We are not slaves to the secondaries on something like this, any more than we would misspell a word because a majority of secondary sources misspell it. Besides, have the Supports even shown such a majority, or are they cherry-picking? Unlike with the comma-before-Jr issue, the "official" name is clear enough here, and I don't think anybody would claim that this is merely an arbitrary style element.
2. Guidelines are not set in stone and are themselves a work in progress. The guidelines applicable here already include exceptions determined by consensus. "There is no exception for this" is not a viable Support argument unless the community has already thoroughly considered this case and decided that it should not be an exception. I don't see a link to that consensus. I don't even need to invokeWP:IAR, although I reasonably could do so.]
I don't play or care about golf. ―Mandruss ☎ 16:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Discussion
Concern has been raised above about edits to guidelines affecting this RM. I have raised the matter on the relevant talk page. Andrewa (talk) 02:47, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
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Winner ranking
The table shows the World Rankings of the winners of each Players championship in the week before their victory (since 1987)
Year | Player | Rank |
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2019 | Rory McIlroy | 6 |
2018 | Webb Simpson | 41 |
2017 | Kim Si-woo | 75 |
2016 | Jason Day | 1 |
2015 | Rickie Fowler | 13 |
2014 | Martin Kaymer | 61 |
2013 | Tiger Woods | 1 |
2012 | Matt Kuchar | 16 |
2011 | K. J. Choi | 34 |
2010 | Tim Clark | 40 |
2009 | Henrik Stenson | 9 |
2008 | Sergio García | 18 |
2007 | Phil Mickelson | 3 |
2006 | Stephen Ames | 64 |
2005 | Fred Funk | 59 |
2004 | Adam Scott | 18 |
2003 | Davis Love III | 7 |
2002 | Craig Perks | 203 |
2001 | Tiger Woods | 1 |
2000 | Hal Sutton | 11 |
1999 | David Duval | 2 |
1998 | Justin Leonard | 11 |
1997 | Steve Elkington | 11 |
1996 | Fred Couples | 11 |
1995 | Lee Janzen | 41 |
1994 | Greg Norman | 1 |
1993 | Nick Price | 5 |
1992 | Davis Love III | 17 |
1991 | Steve Elkington | 68 |
1990 | Jodie Mudd | 41 |
1989 | Tom Kite | 7 |
1988 | Mark McCumber | 47 |
1987 | Sandy Lyle | 11 |