Talk:A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959)

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Games: A bunch of high-priority game redlinks, e.g. American four-ball billiards (redirs to Four-ball billiards but not specifically covered there)
"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]
Male pool bios: Hsia Hui-kai
Female pool bios:
Male three-cushion bios: Dion Nelin & Jozef Bel Philipoom
Female carom bios: Aygen Berk Saygıner
Aristic pool bios: Nick Nikolaidis, Mark Dimick,Sebastian Giumelli, Eric Yow
Unranked in current pool but notable: Mike Eufemia, Shannon Daulton, Jimmy Reid (pool player) [speed pool champ], var. Mosconi Cup players
Non-player figures: Mitch Laurance, George Fels
Five-pins bios: Gustavo Zito
Organizations: Joss Tour
Events: WPA World Nine-ball Championships (pre-1997), BCA Open Nine-ball Championship, World 14.1 Continuous Championship, International Challenge of Champions (pool)
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).
Meta: Outline of cue sports (OoK; cf. [1], etc.) – presently redirects to Cue sports, but this is not an OoK page.
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]).

Cleanup : Thomas Engert, Marlon Manalo
Copyedit : Jonni Fulcher
Expand : Cue sports techniques#Carom shots (section needs to exist), Straight pool, Alfredo de Oro,Jeanette Lee (pool player)
NPOV : Andy Segal (major WP:COI and WP:V issues, too), Jose Parica (it's bad!); Efren Reyes, Thomas Engert, Dennis Orcollo, Dick Jaspers
Photo : Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of cue sports and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of cue sports people
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Update : Arcade game (link to bagatelle, bar billiards, etc.)
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- 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).
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- Plunder: the French article; it does have some interesting tidbits, structure and images. Check out de.wikipedia, etc., as well.
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Opinion

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– Just noise.

The Orginial episode was a classic!! The alterative episode was lame!!!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.53.145.164 (talk) 00:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree Dancemotron (talk) 06:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am not noise, sir! I am a human being! I AM A MAN! ~ Dancemotron (talk) 03:49, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are also not a number, you are a free man! — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 07:50, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cthulhu mythos reference?

If i remember correctly there was a reference to the cthulhu mythos with the name of the location let me check —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.29.79.107 (talk) 05:10, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Shub-Internet ate the soul of the anon before they could get back to us about that. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 12:58, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Query

"This is the last original Twilight Zone episode where the only characters visibly seen (Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters) are still alive in real life (as of February 2010)."

What about episode The Last Night of a Jockey? Mickey Rooney is still alive as of April 2010 and is the only character / actor visible in the whole episode.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.139.186.34 (talk) 21:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So is Ann Blyth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.83.72.154 (talk) 15:21, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 12 December 2017

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Moved to A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959) and A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1985). Consensus is clear, and the need to reference the specific series rather than the episode year is well said. "(The Twilight Zone, 1959 series)" might also have worked for this purpose. I have also applied this outcome to the "Shadow Play" episodes. bd2412 T 15:18, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A Game of Pool (1961 The Twilight Zone) → ?
A Game of Pool (1989 The Twilight Zone) → ?

– Awkward and weird; there must be a better way to do this, but I don't spend enough time on TV articles to be sure what the proper disambiguation pattern is for such a case. My initial guess is "(The Twilight Zone, 1961)". I hope it's not something even worse like "(The Twilight Zone (1961) episode)". — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 12:57, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Should the two pages be moved to something like "(19XX episode)"? Possibly even "(The Twilight Zone, 19XX)"? This one's kinda challenging. Paintspot Infez (talk) 14:18, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's a conflict between WP:CONCISE and WP:CONSISTENT. The consistent pattern seems to be to disambiguate by show, so just date would be an inconsistent DAB. But we have two shows with the same name and episodes with same name in each show, so the consistent DAB will not be very concise. The current names are just awful, since the DAB order is reversed, there is no punctuation, and a capital-T is used in mid-phrase. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 15:47, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'd support A Game of Pool (1961 episode) and A Game of Pool (1989 episode), per WP:CONCISE. And whatever the outcome of that, then the same can be applied to Shadow Play (1961 The Twilight Zone episode) and Shadow Play (1986 The Twilight Zone episode) too. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 19:10, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:NCTV, we'd normally only use (... episode) if there is a conflict within a series between an episode and some other thing/character/etc - doesn't really help in this situation, just adds wordiness. So barring anything else, these would simply be titled A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone). Also anytime we distinguish between two series of the same name, we need to incorporated the year of the series start (NOT the air date of the particular episode) - see handling of such in the List articles section of WP:NCTV. I suggest A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959) and A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1985). I'd rather err on the side of consistent, since concise can be handled by redirects. I'll certainly add the result of this to the NCTV page as an example - any way it ends up. -- Netoholic @ 21:01, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed with Paintspot Infez and Netoholic. That solution sounds reasonable and clear. It's not the most concise possible but is more WP:PRECISE and WP:RECOGNIZABLE than the "(19xx episode)" approach. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 22:41, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959) and A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1985) per Netoholic and Paintspot Infez. Such form should also provide an analogous model for episode remakes of other revival series such as Alfred Hitchcock. An immediate example is Twilight Zone's "Shadow Play", submitted by Lugnuts, above. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 07:41, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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