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 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