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"Legends": Edwin Kelly, Charlie Peterson (pool player) (all BCA Hall of Famers); George Franklin Slosson, Maurice Daly (billiards player), Frank Ives, George Butler Sutton [not George H. Sutton, the one with no hands]
Media and misc.: Iwan Simonis (leading billiard cloth maker), Joss Cues (major cue mfr.), The Baron and the Kid [Johnny Cash film], Ultimate Pool Party [TV show]
And: everyone/thing listed at WP:CUEGAMES, WP:CUEEVENTS, WP:CUEORGS, WP:CUEBIOS, & WP:CUEMISC. Also a Cue sports world records article (many can be pulled from bio articles like Geet Sethi, Guinness Book will provide others, and so will BCA and other orgs., websites and books like Shamos 1999).
Internal pages: Something like: [2][3]). Such pages are not fluff, but can be good places to find recruits for the project, possibly including subject-matter experts, especially if cross-referenced to the project. Also, Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Cue sports (cf. [4][5][6]).
Create timelines, both textual and graphical. See link for various guidelines and examples. We need an overall one for cue sports generally, and more specific ones as we drill down into more specific topics (timeline of nine-ball, timeline of Willie Mosconi's career, etc.).
Form sections: Exhibition game needs section on cue sports; could later form a new article with "Main article..." xref to it. What other general articles need cue sports sections?
Images: improve articles with images from commons; create pics and add them to commons as GFDL/CC-by/PD.
Add: ((Sport overview)) to main articles of cue games that are real sports; medal table tags where they apply (see Ding Junhui for example).
Insert: Cue sports events (tournament results, etc.) into the "year in sports" categories (e.g. 1965 in sports), using ((subst:Cue sports heading)) if that year doesn't have one yet.
I've left the full title in red (for now), expecting that, in time, the independent WP article will emerge. Please do feel free to expand on this first line or - better still - create the independent article.
The article is seriously out of date, could anyone add something about what has happened after Barry Hearn took over? MathHisSci (talk) 17:48, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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An anon radically changed the article, allegedly to clear up confusion between the commercial entity World Snooker Ltd, and the WPBSA organization, but also deleting all controversy-related information and sources, and making other undiscussed changes. I've reverted that [7]. However, the anon may have a point worth looking into. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 07:45, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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The WPBSA and IBSF are having a quarell once again as WPBSA is trying to build an amateur division with the 2017 newly founded World Snooker Federation (WSF) that aims to take away all the (usually amateur) national associations from the amateur IBSF; the European EBSA already joined WSF and left IBSF in October 2017. The original 2013 aggreement within the World Confederation of Billiards Sports had been that WPBSA and IBSF would revive the original WSF from 1992, which had failed and had to be dissolved in 2004, as a joint cooperation, but in the following years nothing happened, and in 2017 WPBSA decided for disruption and took matters in its own hands by forming a new WSF and ignoring the ISBF. The WSF is not recognized by the WCBS and thus also has no IOC recognition. Negotiations in 2018 obviously failed, and instead the WPBSA reacted by discarding the professional wildcards of ISBF players. See:
The percentage symbol should be spelt out per MOS:PERCENT
Done.
"which organises the professional Snooker" - the word in bold does not need to begin with a capital letter
Done.
"and English billiards through World Billiards" - a full stop is missing to end this sentence
Done.
Overview
"The governing body for the non-professional games" - aspect of snooker
amended to "aspect of snooker and billiards" (could delete the "and billiards" though)
"Barry Hearn's Matchroom Sport owns 51% of World Snooker, and the WPBSA is the next largest shareholder with 26%." - the two sources attached to this do not mention shareholders. ANother source is needed for this particular claim
Reworded more in line with the archive for source 4.
Also, another violation of MOS:PERCENT in the sentence above
Amended.
"In January 2020, World Snooker rebranded as World Snooker Tour." - World Snooker was rebranded
Amended.
When was Archer president of the WPBSA?
Added.
History
"rather than the challenge system that had been in place from 1964[20] and in" - there is a comma missing inbetween "1964" and the citation
Done.
"The PBPA disaffiliated from the BA&CC from 1 October 1970[22] and was renamed the WPBSA" - a comma is missing between "1970" and the citation
Done.
Promotional activities
"a major growth area for the sport[25] and in other territories including Germany." - a comma is between inbetween "sport" and the citation
Done.
"Amnesty International criticised the announcement, due to concerns about the human rights in the country." - the word in bold isn't needed
Done.
"and 2013 it initiated the "Cue Zone into Schools" programme," - and in 2013 initiated
Done.
"the WPBSA announced the creation of an All-party parliamentary group for Snooker," - the words in bold don't need to begin with a capital letter
Done.
Explain who Conor Burns is to the uninitated
Amended; let me know if it needs further change.
Change made is acceptable. 17:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Criticism and controversy
"The body has received criticism in the late 2000s." - the word in bold is not needed
Amended.
"John Higgins has been particularly vocal in his opinion that World Snooker has not done enough to promote the game in new territories," - the words in bold need to be replaced by their past tense equalivents
IABot seems to have worked a lot better today than when I tried in July, looks like this and a couple of others now link to archived copies.
Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to respond or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 11:35, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks for your review, MWright96. I've tried to address all of your points, as noted above, but let me know about anything else that needs to be done. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:18, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@BennyOnTheLoose: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 17:08, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]