Talk:List of snooker players

Latest comment: 13 years ago by Якушев Илья in topic This article

Needs more info, and formatting

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A list of snooker players is useful, but I'd like to see a bit more info in the list. At least the countries the players are coming and their days of birth (and death). And perhaps the years they were professional. Perhaps something like this:

Snooker players
Name Country Born Died Professional
Fred Davis England August 13, 1913 1937 1992
Joe Davis England April 15, 1901 1978 1927 1964
Steve Davis England August 22, 1957 1978

Abigail 14:00, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

I agree, some basic details would be handy. Professional dates are very useful, birth/death dates less so. It would be nice to have some sort of indication of how good players are. Best world ranking, maybe? --Auximines 08:14, 12 May 2004 (UTC)Reply
Something like this?
Snooker players
Name Country Professional Best rank
Fred Davis England 1937 1992 4 19761977
Joe Davis England 1927 1964 1 19271946
Steve Davis England 1978 1 19831990
I also have a question about the rankings. The page for Fred Davis says there were no rankings available before 1976, but Joe Davis has rankings going back all the way to 1927. Abigail 10:00, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
The new table looks good. I have to say, I don't like the way all the years are links to the year pages. I find this very distracting and rather pointless. It seems to be common practise throughout Wikipedia, however, so I suspect my view is in a minority.
Ok, let me write a script tonight or tomorrow that turns the existing list into a table. As for linking years, that's common practise on Wikipedia (and for dates, it's almost a must as that allows formatting to users taste). Abigail 11:02, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
Regarding the rankings, I think I must have got rankings confused with world championship wins. I've amended Joe Davis to put ranking n/a. At some point, I hope to write an article on rankings.
BTW check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker if you're interested, it's just been set up. --Auximines 10:52, 12 May 2004 (UTC)Reply

Table

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If I turn the list of players into a table, I get the table below. It doesn't make me very happy. Main reason for that is that it seems to be impossible to make internal anchors (that is, a box of letters on the top allowing you to jump to players whose name start with that letter). No matter what I try, Wikipedia seems to instead on rendering <a name = "foo">bar</a> as is - instead of turning bar into an anchor, it looks as if we had typed &lt;a name = "foo"&gt;bar&lt;/a&gt;. Abigail 22:29, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Have you tried creating the table using standard HTML rather than Wiki shorthand? I could live without an alphabetic index; the way you don't get lines between empty boxes annoys me more. --Auximines 11:52, 13 May 2004 (UTC)Reply
Oh, yes, tried that as well. Didn't make one bit of difference. You can't even make an anchor in plain text. (Can't make a <span>) element either). Abigail 23:05, May 13, 2004 (UTC)

This is a list of professional snooker players:

List of Snooker Players
Name Country Professional Best rank
Allister Carter
Eddie Charlton
Dominic Dale
Anthony Davies
Fred Davis England 1937 1992 4 19761977
Joe Davis England 1927 1964
Steve Davis England 1978 1 19831990
Tom Dennis
Ken Doherty Ireland 1990 3 19971998
Graeme Dott Scotland 1994 12 20022003
Tony Drago Malta 1985 10 1998
Peter Ebdon England 1991 3 19961997
Patsy Fagan
Neal Foulds
Marco Fu Hong Kong 1998 15 20002001
David Gray England 1996 12 20032004
Gerard Greene
Terry Griffiths Wales 1978 1996 3 19811982
Anthony Hamilton
Quinten Hann Australia 1995 14 20022004
David Harold
Stephen Hendry Scotland 1985 1 19901998
Drew Henry
Alex Higgins Northern Ireland 1961 2 19761977,19821983
John Higgins Scotland 1992 1 19982000
Robin Hull
Paul Hunter England 1995 4 20042005
Ding Junhui China
Joe Johnson England 1979 5 19871988
Michael Judge
Tony Knowles
Mark King
Stephen Lee England 1992 5 20002001,20032004
Stephen Maguire
Ian McCulloch
Alan McManus Scotland 1990 6 19931994,19961997
Graham Miles England 1969 1992 5 19771978
Robert Milkins
Brian Morgan
Darren Morgan
Doug Mountjoy Wales
Terry Murphy
Fergal O'Brien
Ronnie O'Sullivan England 1992 1 20022003,20042005
John Parrott England 1983 2 19891993
Joe Perry England 1991 13 20022003
Barry Pinches
John Pulman England 1946 1982
Ray Reardon Wales 1967 1992 1 19761981,19821983
Dean Reynolds
Alain Robidoux
Mark Selby
Warren Simpson
Chris Small Scotland 1991 12 20042005
Billy Snaddon
John Spencer England 2 19771978
Kirk Stevens
Matthew Stevens Wales 1994 6 20002002,20042005
Joe Swail
Dennis Taylor Northern Ireland 1972 2 19791980
Cliff Thorburn Canada 1996 1 19811982
Willie Thorne England
John Virgo England 1976 1994 10 19791980
James Wattana Thailand
Bill Werbeniuk Canada 1973 1990 8 19831984
Jimmy White England 1980 2 19871989
Mark Williams Wales 1992 1 20002002,20032004
Rex Williams

Ding Junhui

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Shouldn't Ding Junhui appear under "D" rather than "J"? -- Arwel 21:22, 28 May 2004 (UTC)Reply

I wondered about that, but one reference explicitly said his first name was Ding, so now I'm not so sure. To further confuse things, some references write Junhui as Jun Hui. Perhaps he should be listed under both D and J. --Auximines 07:50, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Regarding Ding Junhui's name, Ding is his lastname (surname), Junhui is his first name, acutually his name should be Junhui Ding if we are considering First name - last name order. -?

Chinese family names always come before the given name, so I think Ding Jun Hui should be written. -??
Ding Jun-hui is the typical form for such names, but Ding himself seems to actually prefer Ding Junhui. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] 07:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)Reply
Agreed, however it should still be moved to the "D" category -?
It should definitely be under Ding in the "D" section. Ding IS the family name. In some pool stats he even shows up as "Jun-hui Ding", and all the other Asian players get listed family-name-last as well. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] 07:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Top players

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I've added to the list all players who have ever been in the top 32 in the world rankings, and all players who have ever been in a ranking final. That should be enough to keep us going for a while! --Auximines 15:44, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Only listing players with articles?

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What does does everyone think about only having professional players listed who have articles on them and steadily increasing the list as people write more articles. Of course, you could go the other way and list all the professional players - but it is very incomplete at the moment. Samasnookerfan (talk)

There's some side-band discussion (including from Samasnookerfan) on whether this is a good idea, or a broader merge is called for, at User talk:SMcCandlish#List of professional snooker players. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 08:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Strip it down and make it consistent with such articles in other major sports

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This entire list needs to be redone like List of baseball players and many others. The other, topical lists of snooker players should be in this article (and perhaps more of them), with descriptions, meanwhile the article needs to stop being a duplication of Category:Snooker players or it will simply be deleted at WP:AFD (hell, I'll probably take it there myself), as there is a large pile of precedent for deleting lists that serve the same function as their corresponding categories. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 09:30, 8 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

This article

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Many of these players may have never been professional. I have deleted some names from the article, but it still very needs for cleanup--Якушев Илья (talk) 14:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)Reply