bugcat: conversation on updating the article (2021-10-03 10:06) [#11877]

This article was last updated in May 2019, which is astounding to me considering that she's very likely the most famous professional under eighteen years old.

We're missing almost her entire career -- she only became a professional at the end of March of that year.

Admittedly, the article doesn't have a huge number of hits, about 850. But I don't know of a single article created since the start of 2019 that has as many as Sumire's has. For all I know, Sumire's article might be the most popular made in the last three years.

Here's a list of resources. Instead of just dumping them at the bottom of the article and sending the reader on their way, let's try to fold in the content if we can.

• Nihon Ki-in profile
• Wikipedia article, also available in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Indonesian
• OGS forum thread which links to some Power Report articles
• and finally the most comprehensive source, L19's Following Nakamura Sumire

One important change that needs to be made is to show that she was promoted to 2p. Sure, we could just add that, but it might as well be done as part of a proper program of maintenance that would set up the article for next year.

bugcat: continuing conversation (2021-10-03 22:20) [#11879]

It turns out, btw, that I was wrong about Sumire's article being the most popular since the start of 2019 / in the last three years.

Yeonwoo's page was created in December 2019 and has just under 3,400 views.

Also, Covid19 and Go (est. August 2020) has a very similar amount to the Sumire article.

The page on Lizzie was also started in May 2019 and has about 5,300.

So fair enough, 850 views is not quite as much as I presented it as.

bugcat: ((no subject)) (2021-11-17 17:03) [#11950]

Sumire beat Ueno Asami a few days ago, in the Fumakiller event, an exhibition tournament of four female Japanese professionals. L19 post

This was apparently the first time she had beaten Ueno, although it was "only an exhibition game".

2603:9001:6e0b:2694: More on tardy promotion (2024-10-14 04:09) [#12524]

Sumire keeps winning games and improving her rating. But Japan and Korea seem to be leaving it it to the other federation to promote her. Several Korean players have been promoted by a fan rank, but not Sumire. E.g. Kim Minseo was promoted from 3p to 4p despite having a lower rating, winning fewer games, and losing the only game with Sumire. There might be promotion rules that I am not aware of, but it seems that Sumire is long overdue. She is now the 5th highest female player in Korea and often beats much higher dan players.