Wiki143:WikiProject Snooker

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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.

Goals and scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to:

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

Guidelines

• 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.

Article list

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1. 2018 in cue sports
2. 2019 in cue sports
3. 2020 in cue sports
4. List of snooker Triple Crown finals
5. List of World Snooker Championship winners
6. List of world number one snooker players
7. 1976–77 snooker world rankings
8. 1977–78 snooker world rankings
9. 1978–79 snooker world rankings
10. 1979–80 snooker world rankings
11. 1980–81 snooker world rankings
12. 1981–82 snooker world rankings
13. 1982–83 snooker world rankings
14. 1983–84 snooker world rankings
15. 1984–85 snooker world rankings
16. 1985–86 snooker world rankings
17. 1986–87 snooker world rankings
18. 1987–88 snooker world rankings
19. 1988–89 snooker world rankings
20. 1989–90 snooker world rankings
21. 1990–91 snooker world rankings
22. 1991–92 snooker world rankings
23. 2018–19 snooker world rankings
24. 2019–20 snooker world rankings
25. 2020–21 snooker world rankings
26. Women's Professional Snooker Championship

Good articles

1. Aditya Mehta
2. Amee Kamani
3. Billiards and Snooker Control Council
4. Charles Chambers (referee)
5. Cliff Wilson
6. Clive Everton
7. Daryl Peach
8. Dennis Taylor
9. Ding Junhui
10. Doug Mountjoy
11. Frank Callan
12. Fred Davis
13. Jackie Rea
14. James Cahill
15. Jimmy White's 2: Cueball
16. Joe Davis
17. Joe Johnson
18. John Williams (snooker referee)
19. Kingsley Kennerley
20. Kyren Wilson
21. Len Ganley
22. Liang Wenbo
23. Luca Brecel
24. Marco Fu
25. Mark Selby
26. Maximum break
27. Neville Chamberlain (police officer)
28. Michaela Tabb
29. Mink Nutcharut
30. Ng On-yee
31. Paddy Morgan
32. Patsy Fagan
33. Peter Ebdon
34. Pot Black
35. Reanne Evans
36. Rex Williams
37. Ronnie O'Sullivan
38. Shaun Murphy
39. Si Jiahui
40. Stephen Maguire
41. Steve Davis
42. Stuart Bingham
43. Tessa Davidson
44. Thelma Carpenter
45. Tony Knowles
46. Tony Meo
47. Tour Championship (snooker)
48. Triple Crown (snooker)
49. Women's Billiards Association
50. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
51. World Professional Match-play Championship
52. World Women's Snooker Championship
53. 1928 World Snooker Championship
54. 1929 World Snooker Championship
55. 1930 World Snooker Championship
56. 1931 World Snooker Championship
57. 1932 World Snooker Championship
58. 1933 World Snooker Championship
59. 1934 World Snooker Championship
60. 1935 World Snooker Championship
61. 1936 World Snooker Championship
62. 1937 World Snooker Championship
63. 1938 World Snooker Championship
64. 1939 World Snooker Championship
65. 1940 World Snooker Championship
66. 1946 World Snooker Championship
67. 1947 World Snooker Championship
68. 1948 World Snooker Championship
69. 1949 World Snooker Championship
70. 1950 World Snooker Championship
71. 1951 World Snooker Championship
72. 1952 World Snooker Championship
73. 1952 World Professional Match-play Championship
74. 1953 World Professional Match-play Championship
75. 1954 World Professional Match-play Championship
76. 1955 World Professional Match-play Championship
77. 1956 World Professional Match-play Championship
78. 1957 World Professional Match-play Championship
79. 1964–68 World Snooker Championships
80. 1969 World Snooker Championship
81. 1970 World Snooker Championship
82. 1971 World Snooker Championship
83. 1972 World Snooker Championship
84. 1973 World Snooker Championship
85. 1974 World Snooker Championship
86. 1975 World Snooker Championship
87. 1976 World Snooker Championship
88. 1976 World Professional Match-play Championship
89. 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup
90. 1977 World Snooker Championship
91. 1978 World Snooker Championship
92. 1979 World Snooker Championship
93. 1979 UK Championship
94. 1985 British Open
95. 1987 World Cup (snooker)
96. 1991 World Seniors Championship
97. 2000 Champions Cup
98. 2001 Champions Cup
99. 2001 Irish Masters
100. 2001 Malta Grand Prix
101. 2001 Masters (snooker)
102. 2001 Nations Cup (snooker)
103. 2001 Scottish Masters
104. 2002 Irish Masters
105. 2002 LG Cup (snooker)
106. 2002 Masters (snooker)
107. 2002 Scottish Masters
108. 2003 World Snooker Championship
109. 2004 British Open
110. 2004 European Open (snooker)
111. 2004 Grand Prix (snooker)
112. 2004 Masters (snooker)
113. 2005 Masters (snooker)
114. 2005 UK Championship
115. 2005 World Snooker Championship
116. 2006 UK Championship
117. 2006 World Snooker Championship
118. 2007 Malta Cup
119. 2007 Welsh Open (snooker)
120. 2008 World Snooker Championship
121. 2011 World Snooker Championship
122. 2013 World Snooker Championship
123. 2017 Masters (snooker)
124. 2017 UK Championship
125. 2018 Masters (snooker)
126. 2018 UK Championship
127. 2019 China Championship
128. 2019 English Open (snooker)
129. 2019 International Championship
130. 2019 Masters (snooker)
131. 2019 Northern Ireland Open
132. 2019 Paul Hunter Classic
133. 2019 Q School
134. 2019 Riga Masters
135. 2019 Scottish Open (snooker)
136. 2019 Shanghai Masters
137. 2019 Six-red World Championship
138. 2019 UK Championship
139. 2019 UK Seniors Championship
140. 2019 World Cup (snooker)
141. 2019 World Open (snooker)
142. 2019 World Seniors Championship‎
143. 2019–20 Challenge Tour
144. 2019–20 Championship League
145. 2019–20 snooker season
146. 2020 Championship League (2019–20 season)
147. 2020 European Masters (2019–20 season)
148. 2020 European Masters (2020–21 season)
149. 2020 German Masters
150. 2020 Gibraltar Open
151. 2020 Players Championship (snooker)
152. 2020 Snooker Shoot Out
153. 2020 Welsh Open (snooker)
154. 2020 World Grand Prix (2019–20 season)
155. 2020 World Seniors Championship
156. 2021 Championship League (ranking)
157. 2021 UK Championship
158. 2021 Welsh Open (snooker)
159. 2022 Turkish Masters
160. 2023 UK Championship
161. 2023 World Seniors Championship
162. 2024 Masters
163. 2024 World Snooker Championship

To-do list

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). Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker/projects has lists for world championships, world champions, world number ones etc.

Missing articles (non-bio)

• 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).
• 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)

Player biographies

• 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).

Major improvements needed

• 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

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Bios missing infoboxes

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

Other things to do

Article improvement

• 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. Current rankings should also be included in the article.
• Identify and add stub tags to stub articles using the templates below.
• Expand the stubs in Template:Cl and Template:Cl.
• 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.
• 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.

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• Cleanup listing results

Project tasks

• 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.

Templates

These are the major templates used by the project.

User invite template

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
Template:Tl		On the talk page of users, who actively contribute to snooker-related articles but are not members of the project.

Stub

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
Template:Tl		On stub articles about people related to snooker, namely snooker players.
Template:Tl		On stub articles about people related to snooker out of the UK, namely snooker players out of the UK.
Template:Tl		On stub articles related to Snooker.

Navigation

• Template:Tl
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• Template:Tl - Shows results of World Snooker Championships, appears on every World Championship page.
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• Template:Tl
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• Template:Tl - Appears on every Snooker World Rankings page
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See Category:Snooker navigational boxes for several more.

Userboxes

Project

You might like to add a userbox to your userpage:

Code	Result
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Other

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Template:Tlu	User:UBX/ROS
Template:Tl	Template:User Crucible Curse

Infoboxes

Players

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.

Tournaments

• Template:Tl - On every snooker tournament main page.
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Tournament brackets

• Template:Tl or Template:Tl - 4 players
• Template:Tl or Template:Tl - 8 players
• Template:Tl or Template:Tl - 16 players
• Template:Tl - 32 players
• Template:Tl - 48 players
• Template:Tl - 64 players
• Template:Tl - qualifying bracket (32 players in every 3 round)
• Template:Tl - qualifying bracket (64 players in the first three rounds, and 32 players in the last round) used for 2020 World Snooker Championship (and onwards)

Current events

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

• Template:Tlx - a hatnote for the article on an ongoing tournaments or the like, using "World Snooker ranking tournament" as an example:
• Template:Tlx – 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 2025 World Snooker Championship as an example: Template:Current sport-related

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

Inline time-savers

• Template:Tl for convenient wikilinking of terms in articles to their definitions in the glossary: Template:Tlx is the equivalent of [[Glossary of cue sports terms#Black ball|the Black]]. This template is never subst'd.
• Template:Tl for rapid entry of citations of official WorldSnooker.com WPBSA player bios. This template is never subst'd.

• Template:Tl an even more rapid-entry version for cases where the accessdate is today. This template should always subst'd.

Resources

• 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

Participants

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.

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
• 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.

List of participants

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.
• Canary757 Expanding prose and referencing.
• Alavense

Inactive

• Werdnak (Inactive since 26 August 2006; original message: "Since August 14th 2006")
• Mitsuko (Inactive since 10 January 2007; original message: "Since June 7 2006")
• Rvwedd(Inactive since 18 August 2007; original message: "Since December 2006")
• Crazychip (Inactive since 22 December 2007; original message: "Since May 2007. Fixing citations, finding citations where required")
• Watford147 (Inactive since 21 May 2008; original message: "From May 2008. Hope to help with areas like Cue Makers that are very lacking")
• D-Weaving (Inactive since 2 June 2008; original message: "since circa 31 January 2007")
• Kevo-723 (Inactive since 13 February 2009; original message: "Since 9 December 2007, making articles on players")
• HandGrenadePins (Inactive since 15 February 2009; original message: "From August 2008")
• Oliwestham (Inactive since 21 April 2009; original message: "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")
• Flowerparty☀ (Inactive since 11 September 2009; original message: "00:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)")
• Abc183 (Inactive since 9 Augustus 2010)
• Jambornik (Inactive since 29 May 2011, original message: "Since November 2008, creating and editing articles on tournaments.")
• Poolkris (Inactive since 20 February 2012, original message: "Since 1 September 2006")
• Kabrada (Inactive since 4 June 2012, original message: "Since November 2008; mostly updating articles on current tournaments, interested in player bios as well, if time allows")
• Samasnookerfan (Inactive since 25 July 2012; original message: "Since November 2007, creating and editing articles on players, tournements and correcting results.")
• Alzarian16 (Inactive since 24 August 2012; original message: "Since April 2011, mostly working obscure player articles")
• ChicXulub (Inactive since 23 September 2012, joined on 11 May 2004)
• Betelgeuse11 (Inactive since 25 November 2012, original message: "Since November 2008, mostly creating and editing articles on rating. Interested in snooker history.")
• Andy4226uk (Inactive since 20 December 2012, original message: "Since October 2007, have updated tournaments on a daily basis")
• Cream147 (Inactive since 11 May 2013, original message: "since January 2007. To see what I have done for this Wikiproject, see my user page")
• DeMoN2009 (Inactive since 25 May 2013; original message: "Since January 2009; will try to do what I can")
• GL3N (Inactive since 29 June 2013, original message: "since 5 August 2005")
• Mikeo34 (Inactive since 3 June 2013; original message: "joined on 1 December 2012")
• DerbyCountyFan1994 (Inactive since 18 August 2013; original message: "Since 27 July 2013")
• TheMightyMariner (Inactive since 18 October 2013; original message: "Since 1 May 2006")

Relationships to other WikiProjects

Parent WikiProjects

• WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Games

• WikiProject Cue sports

Related WikiProjects

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