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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
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to-do list below.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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As above, but with additional features. A demo of it is on
the project sandbox talk page; (It cannot be displayed here because some of the templates involved will not display properly on a non-talk page.)
Usage
On talk pages of biographical snooker articles The values shown are defaults for typical new articles. Remove |blp=yes and change |living=yes to read no if deceased. The
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Given your interest in
snooker related articles, you are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Snooker, a project dedicated on improving Wikipedia's coverage and detail regarding snooker articles.
If you would like to participate, you can visit the
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to-do list section that you can help with..
On the talk page of users, who actively contribute to snooker-related articles but are not members of the project.
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.
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:
{{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.
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 )
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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.
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
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
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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)
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.
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)")reply
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")