Talk:John Schmidt (pool player)

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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:
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- 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!
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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).
- 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

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:34, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

John Schmidt (pool player)

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John Schmidt at the 2004 US Open 9-Ball Championship

... that American pool player John Schmidt holds the record for the longest straight pool run at 626? "After Much Effort, an 'Unbreakable' Record in Straight Pool Is Topped". nytimes.com. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Afsarwala Tomb Complex
Comment: Unsure of copyright on picture. Can be removed.

5x expanded by Lee Vilenski (talk) and RailbirdJAM (talk). Nominated by Lee Vilenski (talk) at 08:05, 29 May 2019 (UTC).[reply]

QPQ done, 5x expanded, written neutrally. hook cited and true to source. no copyvio. good to go. I'll AGF on the photo (strikes me as too obscure to fake...?) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:54, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A fact from John Schmidt (pool player) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that American pool player John Schmidt holds the record for the longest straight pool run at 626?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Schmidt (pool player).

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Miss or Quit

After Schmidt ran 626, did he miss or quit? 2605:E000:2E52:FA00:2D5F:996E:9230:AFF6 (talk) 22:57, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'd assume he missed. I haven't found a source saying either way. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:49, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The video was never released so who knows. His high run videos on youtube contain numerous breaks which disqualify them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.86.0.78 (talk) 21:49, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Video was never released

This must be in the Wikipedia article until Schmidt ever might release the video which he has still never done. 47.202.49.36 (talk) 13:37, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any reliable sources that discuss that him not releasing the video is notable? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:30, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is obviously important to this Wikipedia article. He claims he has a video as proof but he won't show it. This should be mentioned here in Wikipedia. His extraordinary claim should require proof be shown. 47.202.49.36 (talk) 01:36, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Critics have argued that Mosconi's record was made in competition while Schmidt simply set up break shots for himself, and that his video was never released.^[1]^[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.202.49.36 (talk) 02:01, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Panazzo, Mike. "For the record..." Billiards Digest. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
^ https://www.billiardsdigest.com/new_current_issue/aug_19/bb_index.php

Jayson Shaw beat it

I have tried to edit this to reflect this but an administrator returns it saying there are no rs! John Schmidt , himself , has congratulated Jayson on breaking it? Surely that is enough? Montievans1 (talk) 14:30, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's not an reliable source. We summarise what these sources say about a subject. It has now been a week, and there is not one news article about this. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:32, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Panazzo, Mike. "For the record..." Billiards Digest. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.

[2] ttps://www.billiardsdigest.com/new_current_issue/aug_19/bb_index.php

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