Talk:Billiards and Snooker Control Council

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Review: August 26, 2020. (Reviewed version).

Cue sports Low‑importance

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WikiProject Cue sports to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Lots of high-priority articles need to be created:

List of wanted articles...

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
Split : List of World Eight-ball Champions - blackball stuff needs own article {draft split from real eight-ball one (draft).
Stubs : loads of players in Category:Cue sports stubs
Update : Arcade game (link to bagatelle, bar billiards, etc.)
Verify : Cue stick (mostly WP:OR!), Frank Taberski (has major fact conflict between BCA & NYT sourcing), Russian pyramid, add sources to Unreferenced BLPs
Wikify : Chicago (pool), Jonni Fulcher
Other :
- 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?
- CopyVio rewrite:
- Clarify: What is the "continuous pool" listed above "14.1 continuous" at Alfredo DeOro?
- Delete or defend:
- Move/Rename (and Redirect):
- Redirect:
- Unorphan:
- Ensure: that rules discussions in game articles & the Billiard techniques article do not violate WP:NOT#IINFO.
- Help fix: WP:CUEBIOS#Pool players (women) is nearly empty!
- Help develop: the lists of WP:CUEORGS and WP:CUEEVENTS
- 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.
- Change:
- Replace:
- Some day: Seek Featured Topic status.
- Plunder: the French article; it does have some interesting tidbits, structure and images. Check out de.wikipedia, etc., as well.
- Inter-wiki: Improve simple:Billiards and foreign-language key articles.

See also: Snooker to-do list

Note: To watchlist this to-do list, click on "watch" at top right of this table. Watching the page it is transcluded on won't watch the to-do list.

Snooker Low‑importance

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Billiards and Snooker Control Council/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 14:31, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

" Mr A. H. Collins-Orme" - I don't know about British English, but in American English at least, there should be a full stop after Mr. I'm not super familiar with the pecularities of BE, though.

Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"John Roberts Sr" - Full stop after Sr? There's full stops after Jr. and Sr. earlier in the list

Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"a staff member at The Sportsman - italicize The Sportsman, since it's the name of a publication

Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"The first snooker competition organised by the BA&CC was the English Amateur Championship" - What BA&CC stands for has never been directly introduced? Well actually it is, but in the next section. Move the acronym explanation up to here

this should have been "... the Billiards Association ..." - amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"shot at the oject ball after a foul" - You mean object ball, right?

Yes indeed. Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Loss of Control of the Professional Game" - Control isn't a proper noun, so it shouldn't be capitalized in the heading

Decapitalized heading. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Leslie Driffield, a member of the BA&CC Council was present at a meeting" - Comma after Council, see MOS:HEADCAPS

Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Loss of Control of the International Amateur Game - Why are some of these words capitalized? Headings are suppose to be in sentence case, I believe

Decapitalized heading. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"At the beginning of the 1990s, the B&SCC was struggling financially as a result of the removal of its Sports Council funding" - It's worth mentioning why the funding was cut

I've added the little that I could find. (No suitable results found in Newspaper databases.) BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 11:08, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Successor Organisations" - Organisations should be lowercase

Done. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ref 26 (Shamos) needs the page number

The Google Books pages are actually from a different book to the one that is shown at the link. (The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, not The Complete Book of Billiards.) Reference amended. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Be consistent with capitalization in references. Some are in sentence case, others are in title case. Pick one and stick with it.

Done (I think - let me know if not.) BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's all I've found. Placing on hold. Hog Farm _Bacon 02:06, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking on this review, and let me know if you notice anything further. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've hopefully addressed your points above, Hog Farm. Let me know if anything else needs to be done. Thanks and regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 11:08, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]