Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports (WP:CUE)

Welcome to WikiProject Cue sports.  Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of cue 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, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.  GoalsClean organization of all relevant articles and categories, including their relationships to each other Fostering of cue sports article creation and improvement Promotion of spelling conventions (within articles) Promotion of notability guidelines for cue sports articles Creation of useful Wikipedia templates for use in cue sports articles - navigation boxes, stub tags, infoboxes, etc. Promulgation of base article layouts that are consistent and clean, with formatting conventions, for all cue sports articles (via article "templates")ScopeThe 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.  Pocket billiards (pool) games, such as straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball and one-pocket Snooker and English billiards Carom billiards games, such as cushion caroms, straight rail and five-pins Obscure or historical billiards-family games such as bagatelle and bar billiards Recently invented billiards-family games such as bumper pool Related non-billiards cue games, such as bocce pool Related non-cue billiards games, such as finger pool/hand billiards and boccette Tabletop non-ball (puck-based) cue games, such as novuss, descended from cueless disk-flicking boardgames like carrom Possibly also non-billiards, non-cue games that are ancestrally related and which are not (unlike golf) already covered by an extant WikiProject. Examples could include croquet, lawn bowling, bocce and other non-team lawn games, and their indoor progeny, such as shuffleboard, curling, bowling, pachinko, non-cued variants of carrom, etc.  Definitely lowest-priority, however.  Cue sports portal Popular pages: A bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles. Quality operations: A bot-generated detail log for "Cue sports" articles. All WP:CUE project participants should watchlist this alerts page. Today's featured article requests  01 May 2023 – 2022 World Snooker Championship (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Lee Vilenski (t · c); see discussionRedirects for discussion  25 Mar 2023 – Pool (sports) (talk · edit · hist) →Pool (cue sports) was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion 25 Mar 2023 – Pool (sport) (talk · edit · hist) →Pool (cue sports) was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussionFeatured article candidates  12 Mar 2023 – 2007 World Cup of Pool (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); see discussion   === Authoring & editing ===   ==== Style and naming conventions ==== All articles and categories within the scope of this WikiProject should adhere to WP:Manual of Style (cue sports) style and naming convention guideline. The super-short version:  The game is "nine-ball" (likewise eight-ball, one-pocket, etc.) — not "9-ball". (Exception: "blackball" is fully compounded, almost universally)Non-compound-noun game names are not hyphenated (bank pool, carom billiards, English billiards, straight rail)The ball is "the 9 ball" (likewise the 15 ball, the cue ball, the solid balls, etc.) — not "the 9-ball" or "the nine ball". Scores and rankings are given as numbers, per long-standing sports statistics tradition — "1st place", "3–2 victory", "ranked number 45". Other numbers should be spelled out: "a six ball game-ending run on the 9 ball in the fourth round of the match, to finish for a 5th place finish", or "the number twelve shakebottle pill was right next to the 9 ball, and I don't know why it was there because we were playing nine-ball; maybe it's because we'd already had seven beers each and had been playing for four hours".Don't use (gramatically optional) compound adjective hyphenation with numbers, as it is too easily confused with a game name — not "a nine-ball run", even if you would write "a highly-skilled player".Please see the 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.   ==== Notability ==== Please read and follow the WikiProject Cue sports notability recommendations and advice on compliance with Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines (This is not an Official Wikipedia Notability Guideline, but following it may well save your article from deletion.)  The super-short version:  If he/she/it isn't important, don't make an article (or section) on that topic. Don't pollute articles with games you and your friends made up, rules variants peculiar to your home town, novelty games, gimmick equipment, spam or non-neutral statements. There's no need to split out into an article everything that possibly could be an article; no one needs a four sentence "article" about cue tip chalk.   ==== Use the Glossary to make links ==== Articles within the scope of this Wikiproject will inevitably be using terms of art specific to the cue sports. A good resource for making links to words that are not self-explanatory for the uninitiated is the Glossary 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 not have to use the glossary several times per paragraph to understand an article.   ==== Naming and disambiguation conventions ====  When it is necessary to disambiguate 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 was mostly 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 was most 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)"; per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people), a player is a person (a player) 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 article merge. Prefer natural disambiguation when practical, e.g. Cue stick, not Cue (billiards), though the latter redirects to the former.   ==== Article "templates" ==== To the extent possible, all cue sports articles should be based on the WikiProject Cue sports basic article template or a more specific 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 conceptual hierarchy === 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.  Key: [Bracketed] items show relationships to other sports probably not within the scope of this WikiProject. Italics indicate a relationship that may be relevant to articles (e.g., History sections), but are not be represented in categoryspace. Bold indicates the five main divisions of cue sports for Wikipedia article & category purposes (plus a bolded entry for the overarching topic itself).  [Ancient non-team lawn games][Modern non-team lawn games (lawn bowling, horseshoes, golf, bocce, croquet, etc.)][Non-cued indoor adaptations of non-team lawn games (bowling, shuffleboard, curling, etc.)]*1Cue sports (i.e. cued indoor adaptations of non-team lawn games)Ancestral early variants using a mace instead of a modern cue*2Obstacle billiardsBar billiards Bumper pool Bagatelle (other variants) Carom (carambole, pocketless) billiards*3 Pocket billiards*4 [Non-cue tabletop ball(s)-and-obstacles games (pachinko, pinball, etc.)]Carom (carambole, pocketless) billiards*3Straight railBalkline gamesThree-cushion English billiards*5 (other variants)Pocket billiards*4Pool*6Nine-ballSeven-ball Ten-ballEight-ballBlackballOne-pocket Bank pool Finger pool*1 (?? or is this actually a carom game ??) (other variants)English billiards*5 Snooker*7 (other variants)Snooker*7[Ancient board games][Non-cued disk-flicking games]Table-top cue gamesCarrom (cued variants) Novuss Crokinole (cued variants)*1 Finger pool, though technically a non-cue game is a direct descendant of billiards, and uses otherwise identical equipment.*2  To be covered in Cue 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 for Cowboy (billiards) and Bottle 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.   === Avoid creating unnecessary articles === For instance, unless someone has a wealth of reliably sourced information about the composition, history, importance, differences between different kinds, alternatives to, etc., etc., of cue chalk, then we almost certainly do not need to create a Chalk (cue sports) article.   === Do split articles that are getting unwieldy === The entire topic of cue sports aside from snooker was once represented mostly by a single long article at Billiards (now Cue sports).  It was sensibly broken up into sub-articles and that work is still ongoing.  So, for example if the eight-ball article becomes unwieldy and there is enough sourced material available about blackball, consider splitting the article into two.  Note: This was actually done in March 2007, making the example particularly salient.   === Don't unnecessarily duplicate lots of informaton === Articles about games or specific classes of games, for example, do not need to reiterate the entire history of cue sports, just the history of 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.)  See "Cue sports conceptual hierarchy", above, for organizing principles.  ‡ = Principally the work of someone not connected with the project, usually someone from WikiProject Snooker more specifically.   === Major articles === 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 the cue sports categories.  Cue sportsCarom billiardsArtistic billiards Balkline (and straight rail) One-cushion billiards (cushion caroms) Five-pin billiards Three-cushion billiardsPool (cue sports) (pocket billiards)Bank pool Blackball (pool) Eight-ball English billiards Nine-ball One-pocket Straight poolSnooker‡Important supporting articles  Glossary of cue sports terms Cue sports techniques Billiard ball Billiard table Pool hall Cue stick World Pool-Billiard Association Billiard Congress of America Women's Professional Billiard Association International Pool Tour Union Mondiale de Billard   === "Featured Article" status ===   ==== Main Page "Today's Featured Articles" ==== Masako Katsura (2011-01-31)   ==== Featured Articles (current) ==== Masako Katsura (nom) 2018 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2019 Champion of Champions (nom) 2019 Tour Championship (nom) 2019 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2017 World Snooker Championship (nom) 1985 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2020 Masters (snooker) (nom) 1986 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2020 Tour Championship (nom) 2020 World Snooker Championship (nom) 1984 World Snooker Championship (nom) 1985 World Snooker Championship final (nom) 2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship (nom) 2021 Masters (snooker) (nom) 1987 World Snooker Championship (nom) 1989 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2014 World Snooker Championship (nom) 1983 World Snooker Championship (nom) Snooker (nom) 2021 Tour Championship (nom) 1988 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2015 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2002 World Snooker Championship (nom) Walter Donaldson (snooker player) (nom) 2021 World Snooker Championship (nom) 1982 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2016 World Snooker Championship (nom) 2022 Welsh Open (snooker) (nom) Ray Reardon (nom) 2022 Masters (snooker) (nom) 2021 British Open (nom) 2022 World Snooker Championship (nom)   ==== Featured Lists ==== 2018 in cue sports 2019 in cue sports 2020 in cue sports List of snooker Triple Crown finals List of World Snooker Championship winners List of world number one snooker players Snooker world rankings 1976/1977 Snooker world rankings 1977/1978 Snooker world rankings 2018/2019 Snooker world rankings 2019/2020 2020–21 snooker world rankings Women's Professional Billiards Championship   ==== Assessed/Peer-reviewed articles for Featured candidacy ==== Rudolf Wanderone   === Wikipedia Release Version articles ===   ==== Wikipedia Version 1.0 articles ==== Carom billiards   ==== Wikipedia Release Version (0.8) articles ====  All were previously included in Ver. 0.7 unless otherwise noted.  Cue sports Carom billiards Eight-ball Nine-ball Snooker‡ Steve Davis‡ Paul Hunter‡♣ Jimmy White‡♣ The Hustler (film)‡ "Adopted" by this project for their historical connections: Croquet‡♣ and Carrom‡♣♣First included in Ver. 0.8.   === Assessed/Peer-reviewed A-Class articles ===   === "Good Article" status ===   ==== Good Articles (current) ==== Check Wikipedia:Good articles/Sports and recreation#Billiards, pool, and snooker periodically to ensure we're in sync.   === Assessed/Peer-reviewed B-Class articles === Walter Lindrum‡   ==== "In the News" recurring items ====  WPA World Nine-ball Championship starting 2012 (i.e. 2012 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, etc.) World Snooker Championship‡ starting 2009 (i.e. 2011 World Snooker Championship, 2012 World Snooker Championship, etc.)   === "Did You Know?" articles === Artistic billiards 2006-12-06 ⇒ Balkline and straight rail (illustrated) 2007-01-01 ⇒ Baseball pocket billiards 2007-03-03 ⇒ Bottle pool 2007-12-26 ⇒ Carom billiards 2007-01-08 ⇒ Cowboy pool 2006-12-20 ⇒ Cribbage (pool) (top, illustrated) 2007-03-20 ⇒ Cushion caroms 2007-01-07 ⇒ Golden Cue 2010-06-02 ⇒ Honolulu (pool) 2006-12-04 ⇒ Irving Crane 2006-11-27 ⇒ Jean Balukas (illustrated) 2007-05-11 ⇒ Jimmy Moore 2008-01-24 ⇒ Kelly pool 2007-02-25 ⇒ Marcus Chamat 2019-02-08 Tom Jennings (pool player) 2007-10-02 ⇒ William A. Spinks (top, illustrated) 2007-03-02 ⇒ World Cup of Pool 2006-08-31 ⇒   === New articles === Please feel free to list your new cue sports-related articles here (newer articles at the top, 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 the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. Note that articles developed in a subpage and later moved to the mainspace are considered new as of the date of the move. This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are 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: 2023-03-27 20:16 (UTC) Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.  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(2018 TV series) episodes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by HungNguyen19181945 (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2023-03-13, score: 20   === Unsourced bios of living people, subject to deletion === It is the highest 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 by Template:WikiProject Cue sports. There are no unreferenced BLPs tagged by Template:WikiProject Snooker.   === Other unsourced stubs and articles in danger of deletion ===  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.  Bowlliards – stub; unreliable source Chinese eight-ball – start-class article, but probable made up one day material as to much of its detail; needs to be replaced with Reverse pool or Chinese billiards, and documented with {{Shamos 1999}} Cue stick – B-class article in scope, but mostly WP:OR and WP:NOT#HOWTO! IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship – stub John Roberts, Jr. (billiards player) – article is fine, but needs redirects from ", Jr.", "Jr", ", Jr", "Junior", ", Junior", "Jnr", ", Jnr", "Jnr." and ", Jnr." Killer (pool) – stub List of UMB World Three-cushion Champions – Start-class list Longoni – stub; cites only company's own materials as sources Moori – stub Pan Xiaoting – micro-stub Pedro Piedrabuena – micro-stub Russian pyramid – start-class article Skins Billiards Championship – stub Sudden Death Seven-ball – start-class article Takeshi Okumura – stub, no English-language sources Texas Hold 'Em Billiards Championship – start-class article World Eight-ball Pool Federation – stub   === Bot-generated lists of articles needing cleanup  and general article alerts ===  Cleanup listing results (long and detailed)  See cue sports conceptual hierarchy for organizing principles. See categorization map for an overview of all the categories.   === Major categories === 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 the hierarchy.    Category:Cue sportsCategory:Pool (cue sports) – many subcategories Category:Snooker – many subcategories Category:Carom billiards – several subcategories Category:English billiards Category:Obstacle billiards Category:Ground billiards Category:Tabletop cue games Category:Trick shots Category:Cue sports organizations – with a leagues subcategory, and also divided into pool, snooker, and carom subcategories Category:Cue sports people – subdivided into pool and snooker subcategories, with more specific ones for coaches/managers/promoters, cuemakers, inventors/innovators, referees/officials, writers/broadcastersCategory:Cue sports players – divided into pool, snooker, carom, English billiards, and trick shot artist subcategoriesCategory:Cue sports competitions – divided into pool, snooker, carom, English billiards subcategories Category:Cue sports equipment Category:Cue sports equipment manufacturers Category:Cue sports event promotion companies Category:Cue sports mass media – with subcategories for films & TV, literature, and video games Cue sports article spelling conventions (draft guideline) List of wanted cue sports game articles List of wanted cue sports bios — the biggest task on the To-do list. List of wanted cue sports organi[z|s]ation articles — needs to be fleshed out more fully. List of wanted cue sports tournaments and other events — needs to be fleshed out more fully. List of wanted cue sports miscellaneous articles — equipment, movies, etc.   === Fill-in-the-blanks default articles === Cue sports article template [forthcoming]   === Talk page banners === The project banner, {{WikiProject Cue sports}}, should be placed above any less specific ones (e.g. for WikiProject Biography, WikiProject Japan, etc.). The best way to use it is to just copy-paste the appropriate code block below, and modify the parts in italics.   === Stubs === Put stub tags at very 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.   === Navigation ===   === Infoboxes ===   === Userbox === You might like to add a userbox to your userpage:   === Barnstar === Awarded to users who've significantly improved Cue sports-related articles.   === Inline in article text ===   ==== Convenient time-savers ==== {{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 the Glossary of cue sports terms without having to type such a long wikilink name.  Please do not "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.Flag templates (with and without country names/abbreviations) for tournament results tables, champions lists, etc., are available from WikiProject Flag Template, and are much easier to use than [[image:Filename.svg|size|etc.]] [[Country Name]] manual coding. Please review MOS:FLAGS about avoiding overuse and abuse of these templates.   ==== Reference citation shortcuts ==== {{Shamos 1999}} – used inside <ref name="Shamos 1999"></ref> to cite Mike Shamos's The 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=2023-03-29|pp. 123–125}}</ref> There are a bunch more, for Stein & Rubino's encyclopedia, and for various pool/billiards periodicals, at Category:Cue sports source templates.   === Tournament charts ===   ==== Brackets ==== {{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.   ==== Results charts ==== See 2005 Mosconi Cup for code that can be copied and modified.   ==== Current 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: {{Current sport-related|sport=cue sports|2023 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 2023 WPA World Nine-ball Championship as an example: As the links in these templates suggest, any such event should be added to Portal:Current events/Sports.   === Admin === {{Category redirect}} – put at top of categories slated for rename, deletion or merging (subst and edit as needed, if target category does not exist yet). To sign on as a project member, simply add your name to the list below, and feel free to tell us about your relevant interests, focus, editing so far, etc.  You can see who's been active lately at this auto-generated report.   === Getting started === As a member of WikiProject Cue sports, it is requested that you watchlist at least the following pages:  Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports - 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 Cue sports/to do - the project's to-do list, one of our most vital pages Cue sport - 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 of the core sub-articles, such as Pocket billiards, Carom billiards, Billiard balls, Billiards table, Glossary of cue sports terms, etc. - these are sometimes subject to vandalism and vanity edits One or more specific game articles, such as Nine-ball, Eight-ball, Three-cushion billiards, etc. (see list toward end of Cue sport) - unsourced junk edits are often made to these articles 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! You may place {{User WikiProject Cue sports}} on your user page to display the following userbox:  This template will add your user page to:  Category:WikiProject Cue sports participantsIf you feel like creating a new, sourced article, please see our lists of needed articles: WP:CUEGAMES, WP:CUEBIOS, WP:CUEEVENTS, WP:CUEORGS and WP:CUEMISC. PS: You can save typing time and get to this project page via a shortcut, WP:CUE, and to the talk page here via another one, WT:CUE.   === List of participants === Active or semi-activeSMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ — originator of this WikiProject and one of its principal coordinators; a league eight-ball and nine-ball player Fuhghettaboutit (talk · contribs) 12:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC) -- Professional pool player (generally retired for a real career). Dabbler in three cushion (high run 13). Expert "Pool Teacher" at allexperts (Q&A column). Main contributor/creator of Carom billiards, Balkline and straight rail, Cushion caroms, Billiards, Rack (billiards) Glossary of cue sports terms (forked from billiards), Artistic billiards, Irving Crane, George Balabushka, Jean Balukas, Straight pool, cue sports techniques, cowboy pool, Honolulu (billiards), Kelly pool, Baseball pocket billiards and Bottle pool. I have quite a billiard library and can provide resources upon request. ChaChaFut (talk · contribs) 02:37, 27 November 2006 (UTC) -- cue sports enthusiast, some time ago winner of a couple of amateur rotation tournaments, and particularly attracted to 3-cushion carom. Frequent contributor of many sports-related Wikipedia articles. The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) - I've contributed quite a few of the Mosconi Cup bits and pieces and stubbed bios of players involved therein.  The Rambling Man 08:21, 17 January 2007 (UTC) Cocoaguy (talk · contribs) I always enjaoy being wikiprojects and i enjoy pool so them mixed is great. Cocoaguy 従って contribstalk 12:50, 27 January 2007 (UTC) FoxLad (talk · contribs) Practitioner in pool. Also a fanatic in some sports and animation. Samasnookerfan (talk · contribs) A big snooker fan, and I create and try to improve many snooker player and snooker related articles. 17:41, 16 August 2008 (UTC) Armbrust (talk · contribs) I create and try to improve many snooker tournament, rankings and season articles. I'm also interested in the Mosconi Cup, Cue sports at the World Games, the World Professional Billiards Championship and the Artistic Billiards World Championship. Howard the Duck (talk · contribs) — creating/updating tournament articles. 16:31, 23 February 2011 (UTC) Alexfromm44 (talk · contribs) - Avid Billiards Player and looking to help out in any way I can as a college student. 13:48, 8 February 2012 eengner (talk · contribs) - Billiards player who competes in pro-am leagues and who's wife is also an avid billiards player (and recent Amateur National Championship Finalist).  I was a Division Representative for APA and an official referee at the 2013 APA National Team Championships in Las Vegas, NV.  I am an engineer in the U.S. who uses a physics based approach to billiards and life. Created the page American rotation and am looking forward to contributing and advancing the sport. (Eengner (talk) 18:07, 30 September 2014 (UTC)) AbsconditumEtIncognitum (talk · contribs) - Amateur pool player and amateur Wikipedia contributor. At the moment I'm working/gathering sources for the eventual creation of the Fifteen-ball pool page. I hope to be a useful contributor to this project. AbsconditumEtIncognitum (talk) 22:14, 6 March 2017 (UTC) Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) - I edit all the cue sports up to GA/FA. Feel free to join me. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:16, 3 August 2020 (UTC) Countakeshi (talk · contribs) - A member of the board and table games project with interest in cue sports, especially its history. I've recently sorted out the Wikimedia Commons categories on billiards.   === Active WikiProject Editors ===   === Active Subject-Area Editors ===   === Parent WikiProjects === WikiProject Sports WikiProject Games   === Descendant WikiProjects === WikiProject Snooker WikiProject Carrom (only with regard to the variants played with cues)See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports#Cue sports   === Related WikiProjects === WikiProject Golf (golf is distantly related to the cue sports) WikiProject Bowling (bowling is distantly related to the cue sports) WikiProject Pinball (pinball ultimately derives from cue games like bagatelle and bar billiards) WikiProject Board and table games (for games played on tables rather than in them) WikiProject Flag Template (maintains flag icon templates for use in tournament charts, etc.) WikiProject Biography (provides guidance on bio articles, including of sportspeople)  Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Cue sports