Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker

This Wikiproject aims to improve coverage of snooker on Wikipedia.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to:

• Improve coverage of snooker on Wikipedia.
• Improve the quality of articles.

Participants

Active or semi-active

• Nick C (Since 23 April 2006)
• SFC9394 (Since 24 April 2006)
• Flowerparty☀ 00:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Patrick McWilliams (officially since 28 April 2006 but editing snooker for some time)
• TheMightyMariner (Since 1 May 2006)
• cfcrule1 (Since 1 May 2006 - edited snooker for some time though)
• Cs-wolves (Since May 21 2006, but edited for a little period of time)
• Mitsuko (Since June 7 2006)
• SteveO (Since 20th June 2006)
• Werdnak""(Since August 14th 2006)"
• Poolkris (Some time late August)
• bobo6balde66 (Since 9th September)
• SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ ("Since Nov. 2006; I am a major editor of the general cue sports articles)
• Rvwedd(Since December 2006)
• Cream147 (since January 2007. To see what I have done for this Wikiproject, see my user page)

Inactive

• ChicXulub (Inactive since 1 July 2004)
• Auximines Inactive since 11 June 2005)
• GL3N (Inactive since 6 August 2005)

Article List

Possible Good Article, B Grade candidates:

• Steve Davis
• Paul Hunter
• Walter Lindrum
• Snooker

To Do list

Feel free to add your own suggestions below.

Player biographies to do

Major improvements needed to the following articles:

• Stephen Hendry
• Ronnie O'Sullivan
• Jimmy White

Biographies have been done for all players who have ever won a ranking tournament. It would be nice to have biographies for all players that have ever been in the top 16. These are as follows:

top 16

• John Dunning

Other biographies to do:

• Fred Lawrence - 1928 World Championship runner-up
• Sidney Smith - 1938 & 1939 World Championship runner-up
• Fred Van Rensburg - 1965 World Championship runner-up
• Jamie Jones - Competitor at the 2006 Grand Prix
• Paul Davison - Competitor at the 2006 Grand Prix
• Ben Woollaston - Competitor at the 2006 Grand Prix
• Tom Ford - Competitor at the 2006 Grand Prix
• Andrew Norman - Competitor at the 2006 Grand Prix
• Joven Alba and Leonardo Andam - redlinks from Alex Pagulayan; Snooker Team Gold Medalists at the 2005 SEA Games
• David Gilbert - Qualifier for 2007 World Snooker Championship
• Joe Delaney - Qualifier for 2007 World Snooker Championship

To add infobox to:

• Michael Judge
• Issara Kachaiwong
• Judd Trump
• Liang Wenbo
• Gerard Greene
• Stuart Bingham
• Mark Allen

Things to do

• Develop assessment criteria FAQ for snooker articles and create a new talk page template to accompany the ratings, like the Template:WP-Tennis and Template:Football templates.
• Update biography articles to use {{Infobox Snooker player}}
• Check all player biographies to verify content. Look at tournament wins to see if all tournaments won by the player are listed.
• Main article snooker needs some tidying up.
• Watch over Highest snooker break and List of snooker players.
• Improve the International Billiards and Snooker Federation article.
• Create World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, World Snooker, Trick shot, List of snooker articles, Maximum snooker break (Different form highest snooker break), IBSF World Snooker Championship IBSF World Billards Championship and Premier League Snooker articles.
• Keep Portal:Snooker up to date.
• Create a template to link all the snooker season articles together.
• Sort out the Category:Snooker and all sub-categories.
• Expand and add stubs to Category:Snooker stubs using the templates below.
• Add tournament trees to World Snooker Championship articles (All tournaments before 1982, and 1993).
• Add content to World Championship pages.
• Update Snooker player infoboxes after every season, and tournament pages after event has finished.
• Get a snooker related article nominated as a Good Article
• See also: the general cue sports to-do list

Templates

Talk page banners

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
{{Snooker project}}		On talk pages of snooker articles.
{{Snooker project2}}		On talk pages of snooker non-articles (categories, templates, WikiProject snooker resources, etc.)

Stub

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
{{Snooker-bio-stub}}		On stub articles about people related to snooker, namely snooker players.
{{Snooker-stub}}		On stub articles related to Snooker.

Navigation

• {{UK Championship (snooker)}}
• {{World Snooker Championship}} - Shows results of World Snooker Championships, appears on every World Championship page.
• {{Snooker world rankings}} - Appears on every Snooker World Rankings page.

Userboxes

You might like to add a userbox to your userpage:

Code	Result
{{User WikiProject Snooker3}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Snooker
{{User WikiProject Snooker}}	WPSNThis user is a member of WikiProject Snooker
{{User WikiProject Snooker2}}	File:81988991 7198d280be.jpgThis user is a member of WikiProject Snooker

Thanks to TheMightyMariner for creating the last two!

Infoboxes

Players

WikiProject Snooker

Professional	1978–
Highest ranking	1 (7 years)
Tournament wins
Ranking	28
World Champion	1981, 1983, 1984, 1987–1989

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.

Tournaments

• {{Snooker tournaments}} - On every snooker tournament main page.

Other

• {{World Snooker Championship Rounds}} - For showing results for tournaments with 32 competitors in knock out format in a tree diagram.
• {{Snooker World Number Ones}}

Resources

• World Snooker - Good for player profiles.
• Snooker.org - Results for tournaments in recent times.
• World of Snooker
• Global Snooker Centre