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Welcome to WikiProject Snooker. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of snooker and the organisation of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

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[edit] Goals and scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to:

  • Improve coverage of snooker on Wikipedia.
  • Improve the quality of articles.

[edit] Article list

B-class possible Good Article candidates:

[edit] To-do list

Feel free to add your own suggestions below.

See also: the general cue sports to-do list.

[edit] Crucial missing articles (non-bio)

  • Snooker season 1991/1992 and earlier
  • IBSF World Snooker Championship, World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association, European Billiards and Snooker Association
  • IBSF World Championship (there is one for 2007 in particular, but it just covers the stats).
  • World Seniors Masters; redlinked at Willie Thorne, probably others.
  • World Snooker Academy

[edit] Player biographies

  • Check all player biographies to verify content. Look at tournament wins to see if all tournaments won by the player are listed.

[edit] Major improvements needed

Hendry has been revised; O'Sullivan revised and toned down; Williams substantially revised for style and detail bigpad (talk) 22:08, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
I've added an infobox and generally tidied up the Marcus Campbell article, and like bigpad has said above the Hendry, O'Sullivan and Williams articles have been improved. Samasnookerfan (talk) 18:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Have removed Campbell and David Gilbert - they are both reasonably good now. Samasnookerfan (talk) 14:56, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Needed biographies

This list is transcluded from Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker/Wanted snooker bios.
High priority for internal reasons
  • Mark Williams (English snooker player) (or Mark X. Williams where "X" is his middle initial; needed to disambuate between the two Mark Williamses of snooker, even if this one's not tremendously notable; just a stub with stats and middle initial would do; see Mark J. Williams for evidence that they get confused even within the industry)
Players in the 2007/2008 rankings
Recent notables
Is Mifsud not Australian? Alex Holowczak (talk) 12:49, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Historical notables
  • Fred Lawrence (snooker player) (1928 World Championship runner-up)
  • Sidney Smith (snooker player) (1938 & 1939 World Championship runner-up)
  • Fred Van Rensburg (1965 World Championship runner-up)
Other


[edit] Bios missing infoboxes

No infobox at all
There are probably others.

[edit] Women

[edit] Professional

[edit] Amateur

[edit] Men

[edit] Amateur

[edit] Former professionals

[edit] Other things to do

[edit] Article cleanup

  • Main article Snooker needs some tidying up, especially if it is to get Good Article status
  • Improve the International Billiards and Snooker Federation article.
  • Make much more use of Snooker world rankings - every (first in main article text) mention of rankings or ranking events in snooker articles needs to be linked here. Readers who are not already major fans do not understand the rather complicated ranking system, much less the difference between ranking, minor ranking & non-ranking events, and are liable to be confused about an event being called ranking in one article but not in another (due to its status changing from one year to another).
  • Identify and add stub stags to stub articles using the templates below.
  • Expand the stubs in Cat:Snooker stubs and Cat:Snooker biography stubs.
  • Add content to World Championship pages.
  • Create illustrative and detailed article section at Cue stick on snooker cues, which differ (typically) in a number of ways from cues used in pool and carom billiards (length, flat area on the butt, where the joint is, metal ferrule, and most importantly the smaller tip).
  • Clean up 2007 Malta Cup (snooker) — see its talk page for details; short version: No intro, no flags (please use {{flag|ENG}}, etc. - at least a country abbreviation is important), and the Polish version of the article is better! :-0
  • Snooker season 2000/2001 is missing some basic data.
  • 1981 UK Snooker Championship seems to be hosed. The finals chart does not appear to agree with the "Competition proper" list; meanwhile, some basic data is missing (marked with {{TBD}}), and it needs more tables instead of messy lists. (the latter is true of many other articles in that series)

[edit] Project tasks

[edit] Templates

[edit] Talk page banners

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On talk pages of snooker articles.
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On talk pages of snooker non-articles (categories, templates, WikiProject snooker resources, etc.)

[edit] Stub

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On stub articles about people related to snooker, namely snooker players.
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[edit] Userboxes

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Thanks to TheMightyMariner for creating the last two!

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Players

Steve Davis

If Steve Davis were a pelican...
Born 22 August 1957
Nationality English
Nickname(s) The Nugget,
Interesting,
Ginger Magician
Professional 1978–
Highest ranking #1 (7 years)
Tournament wins
Ranking 28
Non-ranking 24
World Champion 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987–1989

An example of a standard infobox for a player biography is shown on the right. For details and usage instructions, see Template:Infobox Snooker player.

  • Note that citations do NOT belong in the infobox. Details listed in the infobox should be metiond in the article and cited there.


[edit] Tournaments

[edit] Tournament brackets

[edit] Inline time-savers

  • {{Cuegloss}} for convenient wikilinking of terms in the glossary: {{Cuegloss|Black ball|the black}} is the equivalent of [[Glossary of cue sports terms#Black ball|the Black]]. This template is never subst'd.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Participants

To sign on as a project member, simply add your name to the list below, and feel free to tell us about your interests, focus, snooker editing so far, etc.

[edit] Getting started

As a member of WikiProject Snooker, it is requested that you watchlist at least the following pages:

  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker - if the project members do not pay attention to changes at the project page, especially its talk page, effective collaboration will be nearly impossible and the project would eventually fail.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker/Wanted snooker bios - this is an important part of the project's to-do list.
  • Snooker - our main article, frequently subject to vandalism and nonsense edits that (historically) have sometimes taken hours or even an entire day to be fixed
  • Snooker season 2007/2008 - another important article
  • Snooker world rankings 2007/2008 - another important article
  • One or more player articles of your choice that you'd like to "adopt" as a guardian against vandalism, PoV-pushing, etc.

Keeping in touch with the rest of the team via the project pages, and keeping an occasional eye on core articles will go a long way to strengthening the project and protecting the articles. Thank you for your collaboration!

Please also either put one of the project's userboxes or "[[Category:WikiProject Snooker participants]] on your user page or one of its subpages.

PS: You can save typing time and get here via a shortcut, WP:SNOOKER, and to the talk page here via another one, WT:SNOOKER.

[edit] List of participants

Active or semi-active
  • Nick C (Since 23 April 2006)
  • SFC9394 (Since 24 April 2006)
  • Flowerparty☀ 00:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Patrick McWilliams (officially since 28 April 2006 but editing snooker for some time)
  • TheMightyMariner (Since 1 May 2006)
  • Cs-wolves (Since May 21 2006, but edited for a little period of time)
  • Mitsuko (Since June 7 2006)
  • SteveO (Since 20th June 2006)
  • Werdnak""(Since August 14th 2006)"
  • Poolkris (Some time late August)
  • bobo6balde66 (Since 9th September)
  • SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ (Since Nov. 2006; I am a major editor of the cue sports articles in general, and do a lot of gnoming - formatting, templates, cleanup, etc.)
  • Rvwedd(Since December 2006)
  • Cream147 (since January 2007. To see what I have done for this Wikiproject, see my user page)
  • Christopher Connor
  • Crazychip (Since May 2007. Fixing citations, finding citations where required)
  • D-Weaving (since circa 31 January 2007)
  • Abc183
  • Andy4226uk (Since October 2007, have updated tournaments on a daily basis)
  • Kevo-723 (Since 9 December 2007, making articles on players)
  • Samasnookerfan (Since November 2007, creating and and editing articles on players, tournements and correcting results.)
  • MartinUK (mostly adding references and facts to player articles, but a bit of everything)
  • Oliwestham (Updating tournaments, correcting links to players shown in qualifying stages of tournaments. For example Alfie Burden is commonly not found and ends up as the redlinked Alfie Burden)
  • Watford147 (From May 2008. Hope to help with areas like Cue Makers that are very lacking)


Inactive
  • ChicXulub (Inactive since 1 July 2004)
  • Auximines (Inactive since 11 June 2005)
  • GL3N (Inactive since 6 August 2005)
  • Cfcrule1 (Inactive since 9 June 2007; original message: "Since 1 May 2006 - editing snooker for some time though"; may have left Wikipedia, as had own userpage speedily deleted)

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