Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker - Wikipedia

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.

This WikiProject aims primarily to:

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

• Consider the notability guidelines, before creating an article.
• Adhere to the cue sports style guide [draft], especially with regard to numbers.
• Name articles according to the naming and disambiguation conventions.
• Use Template:Cuegloss to link to the glossary of cue sports terms, to provide definitions and context for snooker jargon, and avoid redundantly defining terms as they occur in articles.
• Refer to the snooker style guide for clarification on the use of nationalities and flags, recording scores and results, terminology, referencing and external links.

All project participants should watchlist this alerts page. Featured list candidates

• 30 Aug 2024 – 1989–90 snooker world rankings (talk · edit · hist) FL nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c) was ; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 25 Sep 2024 – Mink Nutcharut (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
• 11 Sep 2024 – Jackie Rea (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
• 30 Aug 2024 – Thelma Carpenter (billiards player) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c); start discussion
• 08 Jun 2024 – 2024 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); start discussion
• 07 Jun 2024 – 2024 Tour Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); start discussion
• 09 May 2024 – 2006 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); start discussion
• 28 Sep 2024 – Frank Callan (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by BennyOnTheLoose (t · c) was promoted by EnthusiastWorld37 (t · c), see discussion

Articles for creation

• 03 Nov 2023 – Draft:Vladislav Gradinari (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hildreth gazzard (t · c)

Feel free to add your own suggestions below. The list of popular snooker pages might provide some ideas for articles to work on.

• Improve more snooker-related articles to be good enough for nominatation at WP:Good article nominations and WP:Featured article candidates. (See the lists above for examples of current Good and Featured snooker articles).

• Season articles from 1962–63 snooker season backwards, where appropriate.
• Pan-American Snooker Championship; joint IBSF and World Snooker event launched in 2013 (mostly Latin American; the USSF only began participating in 2015 [1]). Needs redirs from Pan American Snooker Championship, Pan-American Snooker Championships, Pan American Snooker Championships (sources vary on spelling).
• European Billiards and Snooker Association
• EBSA Masters Championship; redlinked at Darren Morgan.
• Under-21 Series (plus redirs from alternative spellings and from Pontin's Under-21 Series, etc.)
• Pro-Am Series (plus redir from Pontin's Pro-Am Series).
• Pontin's Snooker Centre (plus redirects(s) from any other name(s) for it; one of the only venues in the world purpose-built for cue sports tournaments of any kind, it was at the Prestatyn Pontin's, and hosted all of these Pontin's event series)

• Check all player biographies to verify content. Look at tournament wins to see if all tournaments won by the player are listed. Make sure information is current for this year/season (often it is not).

• Tom Dennis (snooker player) (one of the most incomplete snooker bio stubs)
• Terry Murphy (snooker player) (is a real stub at the moment)
• Neal Foulds
• Rod Lawler
• Ian Burns

Historical notables

• Leo Taelman - nl:Leo Taelman exists.
• Murt O'Donoghue - first player to make a maximum break.
• Clare O'Donnell (Rough draft)
• T.B. Leng (Rough draft)

Other

• Gold medalists at the Southeast Asian Games
• More IBSF champs: Lots of players are redlinked at IBSF World Snooker Championship

None reported currently. You can list any snooker-related pages with missing infoboxes here.

• Improve the International Billiards and Snooker Federation article.
• Improve Rules of snooker - cites different versions of the rules without any explanation why; lots of unreferenced material; not much about when rules were codified and significant changes; and the Maximum break section seems to veer a bit off-topic.
• 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 tags to stub articles using the templates below.
• Expand the stubs in Category:Snooker stubs and Category: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).
• Add timelines, general and specific, as appropriate (e.g. a timeline of snooker history, vs. a timeline of Ronnie O'Sullivan's career), and textual or graphical, as appropriate. See WP:Timeline for details, guidelines and examples.
• Update {{World Snooker}}, where it's necessary.
• Century break needs updating. Any updates should observe the consensus at WT:SNOOKER#RfC: Does the use of self-published sources in snooker articles violate BLPSPS and SPS? and avoid using self-published sources since they have many inconsistencies. Suitable WP:SOURCES include dedicated magazines/journals with editorial oversight such as Snooker Scene, mainstream news and sport outlets (such as BBC News or Eurosport) and the professional governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, and its commercial arm, World Snooker.
• Sort out World Series of Snooker - list of tournaments included there doesn't match up with the article text.

• Cleanup listing results

• Develop assessment criteria FAQ for snooker articles and create a new talk page template to accompany the ratings, like the Template:WikiProject Tennis and Template:Football templates.
• Watch over Maximum break and List of snooker players.
• Update snooker player infoboxes after every season (and relevant events), and tournament pages after event has finished.

These are the major templates used by the project.

• {{Snooker tournaments}}
• {{Snooker seasons nav}}
• {{World Snooker Championship}} - Shows results of World Snooker Championships, appears on every World Championship page.
• {{UK Championship (snooker)}}
• {{Masters (snooker)}}
• {{World Open (snooker)}}
• {{Welsh Open (snooker)}}
• {{China Open (snooker)}}
• {{Shanghai Masters}}
• {{Premier Snooker League}}
• {{World Series of Snooker}}
• {{Snooker world rankings}} - Appears on every Snooker World Rankings page
• {{Snooker world number ones}}

See Category:Snooker navigational boxes for several more.

You might like to add a userbox to your userpage:

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 mentioned in the article and cited there.

• {{Snooker tournaments}} - On every snooker tournament main page.
• {{Infobox individual snooker tournament}}

• {{Round4}} or {{4TeamBracket}} - 4 players
• {{Round8}} or {{8TeamBracket}} - 8 players
• {{Round16}} or {{16TeamBracket}} - 16 players
• {{32TeamBracket}} - 32 players
• {{48TeamBracket}} - 48 players
• {{64TeamBracket}} - 64 players
• {{32TeamX3RoundBracket}} - qualifying bracket (32 players in every 3 round)
• {{64Teamx3RoundAnd32TeamX1RoundBracket}} - qualifying bracket (64 players in the first three rounds, and 32 players in the last round) used for 2020 World Snooker Championship (and onwards)

These warn readers that article may be updated frequently as results come in:

• {{Current sport|sport=snooker|event=World Snooker ranking tournament}} - a hatnote for the article on an ongoing tournaments or the like, using "World Snooker ranking tournament" as an example:
• {{Current sport-related|sport=snooker|2024 World Snooker Championship}} – a message box for other articles (e.g. competitor bios) that may be affected by what happens at the ongoing event; second parameter is the name of the event article, using 2024 World Snooker Championship as an example:

As the links in these templates suggest, any such event should be added to Portal:Current events/Sports.

• {{Cuegloss}} for convenient wikilinking of terms in articles to their definitions 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.
• {{World Snooker}} for rapid entry of citations of official WorldSnooker.com WPBSA player bios. This template is never subst'd.

• {{WSfast}} an even more rapid-entry version for cases where the accessdate is today. This template should always subst'd.

• World Snooker - Good for player profiles.
• BBC Sport: Snooker – Good for results/news, especially for the tournaments the BBC broadcast.
• Snooker.org - Results for main tour tournaments after the 1993/1994 season.
• WPBSA Tournament Manager - Results from recent years, and upcoming tournament details, for World Disability Billiards and Snooker, Seniors Snooker, World Snooker Federation, World Women's Snooker, English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards
• Global Snooker - Results for tournaments and player profiles. (At archive.org )
• Chris Turner's Snooker Archive – An excellent resource for stats, records and snooker history. (At archive.org )
• News Now - Snooker

Recent editors to wp:snooker project pages and wp:snooker pages can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Snooker

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.

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
• 2022–23 snooker season – another important article
• Snooker world rankings 2022/2023 – 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.

Active or semi-active

• Auximines (joined on 12 May 2004)
• Nick C (Since 23 April 2006)
• SFC9394 (Since 24 April 2006)
• Bigpad (officially since 28 April 2006 but editing snooker for some time)
• Cs-wolves (Since May 21 2006, but edited for a little period of time)
• SteveO (Since 20th June 2006)
• 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.)
• MartinUK (mostly adding references and facts to player articles, but a bit of everything)
• Boddefan2009 (Since December 2008)
• Armbrust (Since December 2008)
• EJBH (Since March 2010)
• Kudpung (Since July 2010 Mainly copyediting, Wikilinking, redirecting, dab, referencing & sourcing.)
• Christopher Connor
• CFuller (Since April 2011)
• Betty Logan (probably about time I put my name here!)
• Fabregas0414 (Since July 2011, mostly updating articles on snooker player bios and tournaments)
• Douts (Since 6 December 2012, fixing anything I spot that needs fixing)
• Bodgey5 (Since 21 March 2013, working on lesser-known snooker player articles)
• Amstedrum (Since 23 July 2013, mostly updating lesser-know player articles)
• User:Gcjdavid(Since 20/10/2014)
• User:DUCKISJAMMMY (Officially since 24 October 2014, but have been editing snooker articles for some time)
• Montgomery15 (Since early August 2015, having edited snooker articles for around eighteen months. Bit of everything at the minute...)
• Per89 (since 4 March 2016, number cruncher, updating onging tournaments)
• Coradia175 (since 29 April 2016)
• Lee Vilenski (since 18/12/2017. Been cleaning up Snooker Video Game articles for a while).
• Andygray110 (officially since 19 December 2017, but have been editing on snooker for a good while. Focus on creating old tournament articles)
• Rodney Baggins (since 9 December 2018, copyediting player bios and tournament articles, etc.)
• Ui56k (Since 12 August 2019)
• BennyOnTheLoose (since 20 September 2019) Main interests - women's snooker, mid-1980's tournaments. List of Articles I've created Let me know if there's something a bit obscure I might be able to help with getting sources for, as I've got pretty good access to resources including: British Newspaper Archive - until 5 October 2019; The Guardian/Observer (1791-2003), Times (1785-2010), and Telegraph (1855-2000) digital archives; PressReader; NewsBank; British Library (largest library in the world as of 2008).
• HurricaneHiggins (since 10 May 2021) General interest in snooker, player bios, improving quality of writing across snooker sections.

• WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Games

• WikiProject Cue sports

• WikiProject Flag Template (maintains flag icon templates for use in tournament charts, etc.)
• WikiProject Biography (provides guidelines on bio articles, including of sportspeople)