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Welcome toWikiProject Cue sports. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage ofcue sports (pool, snooker and billiards) and the organization 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, pleasejoin the project, inquire on thetalk page and see theto-do list below.
The scope of this WikiProject may be relatively hands-off in the case of cue sports subtopics that already have their own "child" WikiProjects (e.g.,WikiProject Snooker), whom this WikiProject will work closely with.
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All articles and categories within the scope of this WikiProject should adhere toWP:Manual of Style (cue sports) style and naming convention guideline. The super-short version:
Please seethe actual guideline for more details and the rationale for this level of consistency control; it genuinely is important for article intelligibility, especially for non-native English speakers.
Please read and follow theWikiProject Cue sports notability recommendations and advice on compliance with Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines(This is not an Official WikipediaNotability Guideline, but following it may well save your article from deletion.) The super-short version:
Articles within the scope of this Wikiproject will inevitably be usingterms of art specific to the cue sports. A good resource for making links to words that are not self-explanatory for the uninitiated is theGlossary of cue sports terms. In order to make such links, a special template is used, as follows:
{{Cuegloss|Word or phrase you are linking, exactly as its heading appears in glossary|word or phrase you want to display}}
Thus, if one wanted to wikify "apex ball", the following markup would be employed:{{Cuegloss|Apex|apex ball}} (because the entry for "apex ball" in the Glossary is "Apex"), which when saved would look like this:apex ball.
Using the glossary to define terms will greatly reduce redundant "definitionitis" in article after article, enable newcomers to the topic to find consensus-edited definitions in a central location, and keep old hands from becoming bored to tears reading things they already know. However, try to avoid overloading articles with specialized terms; people should nothave to use the glossary several times per paragraph to understand an article.
When it is necessary todisambiguate player names, use "John Q. Public (pool player)" or "John Q. Public (snooker player)" for either of those particular disciplines, or "John Q. Public (billiards player)" for all others. If the player is notable for more than one discipline, use "John Q. Public (billiards player)", unless the player wasmostly notable for either pool or snooker. If the person was notable both as a player and for some other role in the field, use the "player" disambiguation unless the subject wasmost notable for a non-player role, e.g. "John Q. Public (pool referee)" or "John Q. Public (billiards promoter)". If the subject was more notable for something else than a cue sport but was also at least marginally notable as a cue sports personage, use the field he or she was more notable for, e.g.John Hennigan (poker player). Regardless, do not use truncated forms such as "John Q. Public (billiards)", "John Q. Public (pool)" or "John Q. Public (snooker)"; perWikipedia:Naming conventions (people), a player is a person (aplayer) not a billiard, a pool or a snooker.
For non-biographical articles, use "(billiards)" (e.g.Pocket (billiards)), as a disambiguator unless something more specific is warranted, in which case use "(snooker)" or "(pool)". There will be no need to disambiguate further, as in "(carom billiards)", except under the most unusual of circumstances, which should probably be revisited for some other solution anyway, such as an articlemerge. Prefernatural disambiguation when practical, e.g.Cue stick, notCue (billiards), though the latter redirects to the former.
To the extent possible, all cue sports articles should be based on theWikiProject Cue sports basic article template or a morespecific one [forthcoming](That said, these templates are only suggestions, not an official Wikipedia Guidelines. The templates are [will be] here to help you focus and to get you going, especially if you aren't yet certain what to write or in what order, or where to begin. But mainly, we just want you to write articles!)
Cue sports articles and categories are arranged in relation to each other by way of the following hierarchy. This hierarchy is not perfect in every way for every conceptual purpose, but is entirely adequate for our purposes here. Note that some items appear more than once; see in-section footnotes for explanations. See"Major articles" and"Major categories" for extant actual major articles and categories.
*1 Finger pool, though technically a non-cue game is a direct descendant of billiards, and uses otherwise identical equipment.
*2 To be covered inCue sports#History; not enough can be said (and cited) about this to warrant a separate article. On the slim chance that this does spawn enough articles for a category, that category should be at the same level as carom, obstacle, pocket and snooker under cue sports.
*3 Carambole games evolved from pre-bagatelle, croquet-like tabletop obstacle games. Within categoryspace and for most purposes in articlespace it is treated as one of the four main divisions of cuesports.
*4 Pocket billiards began as a variant of obstacle billiards.
*5 English billiards is a hybrid carom/pocket game, and we treat it as a variant of both equally. Same goes forCowboy (billiards) andBottle pool.
*6 Though not one of the four main subcategorizations of cue sports for our purposes, pool is obviously one of the top subjects and will likely represent the bulk of the articles in the cue sports articlespace. It is not ranked with snooker at the top level under cue sports, because it does not have the consistency and monolithic subculture that snooker does, it is a blanket term for a class of games played with pool equipment (eight-ball, nine-ball, etc.), and the terms "pocket billiards" and "pool" are used as synonyms in the industry.
*7 Historically and technically, snooker is a variant of pocket billiards. However, as an organized sport and subculture it has a life of its own and does not significantly overlap with any other form of cuesports, even the closely-related pool and English billiards.
For instance, unless someone has a wealth ofreliablysourced information about the composition, history, importance, differences between different kinds, alternatives to, etc., etc., ofcue chalk, then we almost certainly do not need to create aChalk (cue sports) article.
The entire topic of cue sports aside fromsnooker was once represented mostly by a single long article atBilliards (nowCue sports). It was sensiblybroken up into sub-articles and that work is still ongoing. So, for example if theeight-ball article becomes unwieldy and there is enoughsourced material available aboutblackball, consider splitting the article into two.Note: This was actuallydone in March 2007, making the example particularly salient.
Articles about games or specific classes of games, for example, do not need to reiterate the entire history of cue sports, just the historyof that particular variant. Likewise, we do not need wholesale reiterations of basic concepts, such as racking, lagging, etc. Use the{{Cuegloss}} template as much as possible (without creating redundant wikilinks in the same article; only the original introduction of a term needs such a wikilink in most cases.)
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Other | ??? | Total | |
 FA | 1 | 2 | 18 | 23 | 44 | |||
| FL | 11 | 1 | 12 | |||||
 GA | 5 | 16 | 25 | 105 | 4 | 155 | ||
| B | 4 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 20 | |||
| C | 2 | 10 | 29 | 75 | 2 | 118 | ||
| Start | 9 | 32 | 47 | 574 | 31 | 693 | ||
| Stub | 11 | 25 | 292 | 1 | 28 | 357 | ||
| List | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 21 | ||
| Category | 506 | 506 | ||||||
| Disambig | 17 | 17 | ||||||
| File | 198 | 198 | ||||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Project | 30 | 1 | 31 | |||||
| Redirect | 4 | 19 | 49 | 72 | ||||
| Template | 108 | 108 | ||||||
| NA | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| Other | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Assessed | 23 | 81 | 150 | 1,121 | 925 | 1 | 66 | 2,367 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 6 | 7 | |||||
| Total | 23 | 81 | 150 | 1,122 | 925 | 1 | 72 | 2,374 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω =6,434 | Ω = 4.65 | ||||||
See"Cue sports conceptual hierarchy", above, for organizing principles.
These are the largest of the cue sports "master" articles, from which many other articles descend. Not surprisingly, the list bears a strong resemblance to the organization of thecue sports categories.
1927 World Snooker Championship –1980 World Snooker Championship –1981 World Snooker Championship –1982 World Snooker Championship –1983 World Snooker Championship –1984 World Snooker Championship –1985 World Snooker Championship –1985 World Snooker Championship final –1986 World Snooker Championship –1987 World Snooker Championship –1988 World Snooker Championship –1989 World Snooker Championship –2002 World Snooker Championship –2007 World Cup of Pool –2014 World Snooker Championship –2015 World Snooker Championship –2016 World Snooker Championship –2017 World Snooker Championship –2018 World Snooker Championship –2019 World Snooker Championship –2019 Champion of Champions –2019 Tour Championship –2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship –2020 World Snooker Championship –2020 Masters (snooker) –2020 Tour Championship –2021 British Open –2021 Masters (snooker) –2021 Tour Championship –2021 World Snooker Championship –2022 Hong Kong Masters –2022 Masters (snooker) –2022 Tour Championship –2022 Welsh Open (snooker) –2022 World Snooker Championship –2023 World Snooker Championship –Snooker (37 articles)
Biographies:Donaldson, Walter (snooker player)‡ –Griffiths, Terry‡ –Katsura, Masako –Reardon, Ray‡ –Thorburn, Cliff‡
Snooker world rankings:
Other:
All were previously included inVer. 0.7 unless otherwise noted.
♣First included in Ver. 0.8.
Please feel free to list your newcue sports-related articles here (newer articles at thetop, please). Listings will be removed as they age,unless they still need serious cleanup.
Any articles created (or existing and expanded at least five-fold) within the previous seven days that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, have a minimum of 1,500 characters of prose (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references, lists, tables etc.), don't have any dispute templates on them,and cite their sources, should be suggested for theDid you know? box on the WikipediaMain Page. Note that articles developed in asubpage and later moved to themainspace are considered new as of the date of the move.
This list was generated fromthese rules. Questions and feedbackare always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results.Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
Rules |Match log |Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-11-27 19:34 (UTC)
Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. SeeList display personalization for details.
It is thehighest priority to add at least two reliable, independent non-trivial sources to any articles that appear here (updated daily by a bot):
There are no unreferenced BLPs tagged byTemplate:WikiProject Cue sports.
There are no unreferenced BLPs tagged byTemplate:WikiProject Snooker.
Consider it a high priority to add at least one reliable source to each of these articles (properly – use<ref name="something-unique">{{Cite web| DETAILS HERE}}</ref> to provide source details and provide references for specific facts, inline in the article) and then remove it from the list.See "Newly discovered articles" list above for more.
and general article alerts
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See alsothe tool's wiki page andthe index of WikiProjects.
These are the largest of the cue sports "master" categories, from which many other categories descend. Not surprisingly, it bears a strong resemblance to the organization of thehierarchy.
![[icon]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aWiki_letter_w_cropped.svg) | This sectionneeds expansion. You can help byadding to it.(May 2010) |
The project banner,{{WikiProject Cue sports}}, should be placed above any less specific ones (e.g. forWikiProject Biography,WikiProject Japan, etc.).The best way to use it is to just copy-paste the appropriate code block below, and modify the parts initalics.
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| Usage | On talk pages ofnon-bio cue sports articles (other than snooker articles — for those, use{{WikiProject Snooker}} instead). The values shown are defaults for typical new articles. In some cases, another project's banner should beabove ours. E.g., if it's a film, the{{WikiProject Films}} banner should be first. TheDEFAULTSORT must comeafter all project banners and such (but before any cleanup categories) or it won't work. Please do include it, as it helps sort articles in our internal categories, instead of having them all under "T" for "Talk:..." | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Code | {{WikiProject banner shell|blp=yes|1= |
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| Appearance | As above, but with additional features. A demo of it is onthe 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 ofbiographical cue sports articles (other than snooker articles — use{{WikiProject Snooker}} for those instead). The values shown are defaults for typical new articles. Remove|blp=yes and change|living=yes to readno if deceased. TheDEFAULTSORT must comeafter all project banners and such (but before any cleanup categories) or it won't work. Please do include it, as it helps sort articles in our internal categories, instead of having them all under "T" for "Talk:..." Please also use the DEFAULTSORT in the article too, immediately above the first category, and then you won't need to do any "|Familyname, Givenname" stuff after the category names. Note that|needs-photo-yes= isnot added to our banner; the special{{Photo requested}} call will take care of this for us (but it is still used with{{WPBiography}}). The{{Find sources}} template works best with a singular keyword, such as "billiard" or "pool", and there can be more than one:{{Find sources|FirstName(s)LastName|billiard}}<br />{{Find sources|FirstNameLastName|pool}}Additional instances of {{Find sources}} can be used for alternative names. |
Put stub tags atvery end of page, after categories and language transwikis, with two blank lines before them; this will prevent them running up against the nav box when the page renders.
| Code | What it looks like | Where to use |
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{{Cue-sports-stub}} | On stub articles related to cue sports (except if snooker-related — use{{Snooker-stub}} instead.) | |
{{Cue-sports-bio-stub}} | On stub articles related to cue sports players and non-player personalities (except if snooker-related — use{{Snooker-bio-stub}} instead or pool-related — use{{Pool-bio-stub}} ) | |
{{Pool-bio-stub}} | On stub articles related to pool (pocket billiards) players and non-player personalities |
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{{Cue sports nav}} | (Depending on your browser, this may look smaller than the real thing will) | On the bottom of all relevant article pages. |
| This sectionneeds expansion. You can help byadding to it.(May 2010) |
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{{Infobox pool player}}Use{{Infobox Snooker player}} for now. |
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{{Pool tournaments}} |
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You might like to add a userbox to youruserpage:
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{{User WikiProject Cue sports}} |
| On your user page (or your userbox subpage). |
Awarded to users who've significantly improvedCue sports-related articles.
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{{Cuegloss|Entry to link to|text to link from}} – Used for convenient wikilinking of a term in an article to the appropriate #-linkable entry in theGlossary of cue sports terms without having to type such a long wikilink name.Please donot "subst:" this template. Example usage:{{Cuegloss|Break|break shot}} is the equivalent of[[Glossary of cue sports terms#Break|break shot]].=={{subst:Cue sports heading}}== – Used to quickly create section headings for cue sports in the "year in sports" articles (e.g.1965 in sports).This template should be subst'd.[[image:Filename.svg|size|etc.]] [[Country Name]] manual coding.Please reviewMOS:FLAGS about avoiding overuse and abuse of these templates.{{Shamos 1999}} – used inside<ref name="Shamos 1999"></ref> to cite Mike Shamos'sThe New Illustrated Billiards Encyclopedia without having to manually fill in{{Cite book}}; takes page numbers (with "p." or "pp.") as semi-optional parameter. Example:Blah blah blah.<ref name="Shamos1999">{{Shamos1999|access-date=2025-11-27|pp. 123–125}}</ref>{{Round4}} or{{4TeamBracket}} – 4 players{{Round8}} or{{8TeamBracket}} – 8 players{{Round16}} or{{16TeamBracket}} – 16 players{{32TeamBracket}} – 32 players{{WPADoubleElimBracket}} –Double elimination tournament brackets for WPA and other events.These warn readers that article may be updated frequently as results come in:
{{Current sport|sport=cue sports|event=three-cushion tournament}} – a hatnote for the article on an ongoing tournaments or the like, using "three-cushion tournament" as an example: | This articledocuments acurrent three-cushion tournament. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. Initial news reports, scores, or statistics may beunreliable. Thelast updates to this articlemay not reflect the most current information. Please feel free toimprove this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on thetalk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
{{Current sport-related|sport=cue sports|2025 WPA World Nine-ball 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 2025 WPA World Nine-ball Championship as an example: | This articleis related to a currentsports-related event. For information on the topic, see2025 WPA World Nine-ball Championship. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may beunreliable. Thelast updates to these articlesmay not reflect the most current information. Please feel free toimprove this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on thetalk page. (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
As the links in these templates suggest, any such event should be added toPortal:Current events/Sports.
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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!
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