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 Pocket billards 

The term pocket billiards is used inconsistently in the article. Does it mean:
""Pool or pocket billiards, generally played on a table with six pockets ..."" where pocket billiards links to pool (cue sports)
or is it a generic name for all billiard [type] games played on a table with pockets as in its is used in the section Cue sports#Major games (carom and pocket). Because if the latter then the former is confusing and is further confused by the hatnote:

(Where ""Pocket billiards"" links to Pool (cue sports)).

In a similar way the section Cue sports#List of cue sports says that ""English billiards (another hybrid)"" of  ""Carom billiards games"", but in the previous talk section we have established that it is not a hybrid (as it is at least as old as all modern billiard games and modern pocket-less Carom games), and if ""Snooker (see below; popularly regarded as its own sport, not a pool variant)"" is its own sport so is English billiards.

If it can not be decided what ""Pocket billiards"" means in American English and Commonwealth English then we should avoid using the term, or define what we mean by it before it is used in the article. Also I do not think that sources over 30 years old, should be used to define a term like ""Pocket billiards"" as language changes and usage of such phrases does as well. Eg if the American professional organisations  have been pressing for it to mean pool type games, and snooker professional organisations tend not to use the term, then it is probably better to define it that American way and stick with that American usage in an article such as this.

If ""Pocket billiards"" turns out not to have one meaning, and a definition can not be agreed upon then perhaps we should alter the section Cue sports#List of cue sports so that the list is either by table type sections, or by section based on the governing bodies of the various sports. 

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