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Steve Davis
OBE
	<img alt="Photo of Davis holding a microphone" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Steve_Davis_at_German_Masters_Snooker_Final_%28DerHexer%29_2012-02-05_16.jpg/220px-Steve_Davis_at_German_Masters_Snooker_Final_%28DerHexer%29_2012-02-05_16.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="233" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2275" data-file-height="2405"> Davis at the 2012 German Masters
Born	22 August 1957 (age 67); Plumstead, London, England
Sport country	<img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480"> England
Nickname	The Nugget; Romford Slim; Interesting;
Professional	1978–2016
Highest ranking	1 (1983/84–1989/90)
Maximum breaks	1
Century breaks	338
Tournament wins
Ranking	28
World Champion	1981; 1983; 1984; 1987; 1988; 1989;

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131 edits	2024 UK Championship
12 edits	2024 International Championship
10 edits	Mark Wildman
8 edits	Bai Yulu
6 edits	2024 Champion of Champions
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3 edits	2024 World Snooker Championship
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Welcome to WikiProject Snooker. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of snooker and the organisation of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Goals and scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to:

Improve coverage of snooker on Wikipedia.
Improve the quality of articles.

Guidelines

Consider the notability guidelines, before creating an article.
Adhere to the cue sports style guide [draft], especially with regard to numbers.
Name articles according to the naming and disambiguation conventions.
Use Template:Cuegloss to link to the glossary of cue sports terms, to provide definitions and context for snooker jargon, and avoid redundantly defining terms as they occur in articles.
Refer to the snooker style guide for clarification on the use of nationalities and flags, recording scores and results, terminology, referencing and external links.

Article alerts

All project participants should watchlist this alerts page. Articles for deletion

09 Nov 2024 – Naveen Perwani (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Lee Vilenski (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 16 Nov 2024; see discussion (14 participants)

Article list

Snooker articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	27	3	9			41
FL	1		17	7			25
GA	3	62	24	74			163
B	2	2	1	3			8
C	5	28	36	112			181
Start		64	282	834		6	1,186
Stub			15	534		49	598
List		2	29	47	1		79
Category					401		401
Disambig					5		5
File					10		10
Project					25		25
Redirect				7	228		235
Template					141		141
NA					4		4
Other					3		3
Assessed	13	185	407	1,627	818	55	3,105
Unassessed						3	3
Total	13	185	407	1,627	818	58	3,108
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,592			Ω = 4.87

Featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

To-do list

Feel free to add your own suggestions below. The list of popular snooker pages might provide some ideas for articles to work on.

Improve more snooker-related articles to be good enough for nominatation at WP:Good article nominations and WP:Featured article candidates. (See the lists above for examples of current Good and Featured snooker articles).

Missing articles (non-bio)

Season articles from 1962–63 snooker season backwards, where appropriate.
Pan-American Snooker Championship; joint IBSF and World Snooker event launched in 2013 (mostly Latin American; the USSF only began participating in 2015 [1]). Needs redirs from Pan American Snooker Championship, Pan-American Snooker Championships, Pan American Snooker Championships (sources vary on spelling).
European Billiards and Snooker Association
EBSA Masters Championship; redlinked at Darren Morgan.
Under-21 Series (plus redirs from alternative spellings and from Pontin's Under-21 Series, etc.)
Pro-Am Series (plus redir from Pontin's Pro-Am Series).
Pontin's Snooker Centre (plus redirects(s) from any other name(s) for it; one of the only venues in the world purpose-built for cue sports tournaments of any kind, it was at the Prestatyn Pontin's, and hosted all of these Pontin's event series)

Player biographies

Check all player biographies to verify content. Look at tournament wins to see if all tournaments won by the player are listed. Make sure information is current for this year/season (often it is not).

Major improvements needed

Tom Dennis (snooker player) (one of the most incomplete snooker bio stubs)
Terry Murphy (snooker player) (is a real stub at the moment)
Neal Foulds
Rod Lawler
Ian Burns

Needed biographies

Historical notables

Leo Taelman - nl:Leo Taelman exists.
Murt O'Donoghue - first player to make a maximum break.
Clare O'Donnell (Rough draft)
T.B. Leng (Rough draft)

Other

Gold medalists at the Southeast Asian Games
More IBSF champs: Lots of players are redlinked at IBSF World Snooker Championship

Bios missing infoboxes

None reported currently. You can list any snooker-related pages with missing infoboxes here.

Other things to do

Article improvement

Improve the International Billiards and Snooker Federation article.
Improve Rules of snooker - cites different versions of the rules without any explanation why; lots of unreferenced material; not much about when rules were codified and significant changes; and the Maximum break section seems to veer a bit off-topic.
Make much more use of Snooker world rankings - every (first in main article text) mention of rankings or ranking events in snooker articles needs to be linked here. Readers who are not already major fans do not understand the rather complicated ranking system, much less the difference between ranking, minor ranking & non-ranking events, and are liable to be confused about an event being called ranking in one article but not in another (due to its status changing from one year to another).
Identify and add stub tags to stub articles using the templates below.
Expand the stubs in Category:Snooker stubs and Category:Snooker biography stubs.
Add content to World Championship pages.
Create illustrative and detailed article section at Cue stick on snooker cues, which differ (typically) in a number of ways from cues used in pool and carom billiards (length, flat area on the butt, where the joint is, metal ferrule, and most importantly the smaller tip).
Add timelines, general and specific, as appropriate (e.g. a timeline of snooker history, vs. a timeline of Ronnie O'Sullivan's career), and textual or graphical, as appropriate. See WP:Timeline for details, guidelines and examples.
Update {{World Snooker}}, where it's necessary.
Century break needs updating. Any updates should observe the consensus at WT:SNOOKER#RfC: Does the use of self-published sources in snooker articles violate BLPSPS and SPS? and avoid using self-published sources since they have many inconsistencies. Suitable WP:SOURCES include dedicated magazines/journals with editorial oversight such as Snooker Scene, mainstream news and sport outlets (such as BBC News or Eurosport) and the professional governing body, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, and its commercial arm, World Snooker.
Sort out World Series of Snooker - list of tournaments included there doesn't match up with the article text.

Bot-generated list of articles needing cleanup

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Cleanup listing results

Project tasks

Develop assessment criteria FAQ for snooker articles and create a new talk page template to accompany the ratings, like the Template:WikiProject Tennis and Template:Football templates.
Watch over Maximum break and List of snooker players.
Update snooker player infoboxes after every season (and relevant events), and tournament pages after event has finished.

Templates

These are the major templates used by the project.

Talk page banners

Code {{WikiProject Snooker|class=Stub|importance=Low|needs-image=yes}} [other banners] {{DEFAULTSORT:{{PAGENAME}} }} {{Find sources|{{PAGENAME}}|snooker}}

Appearance

Snooker Stub‑class Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Snooker, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of snooker on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SnookerWikipedia:WikiProject SnookerTemplate:WikiProject SnookerSnooker articles
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

[other banners]
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Usage On talk pages of non-bio snooker articles The values shown are defaults for typical new articles. In some cases, another project's banner should be above ours. E.g., if it's a film, the {{WikiProject Films}} banner should be first. The DEFAULTSORT must come after all project banners and such (but before any cleanup categories) or it won't work. Please do include it, as it helps sort articles in our internal categories, instead of having them all under "T" for "Talk:..."

Code	`{{WikiProject banner shell\|blp=yes\|1= {{WikiProject Snooker\|class=Stub\|importance=Low\|needs-photo=yes}} {{WPBiography\|listas=FamilyName, GivenName \|sports-work-group=yes \|living=yes \|class=Stub \|priority=Low \|sports-priority=Low \|needs-photo=yes }} [other banners] }} {{Photo requested\|cue sports people}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Familyname, GivenName}} {DEFAULTSORT:{{PAGENAME}} }} {{Find sources\|FirstName LastName\|snooker}}`
Appearance	As above, but with additional features. A demo of it is on the project sandbox talk page; (It cannot be displayed here because some of the templates involved will not display properly on a non-talk page.)
Usage	*On talk pages of biographical* snooker articles** The values shown are defaults for typical new articles. Remove `\|blp=yes` and change `\|living=yes` to read `no` if deceased. The DEFAULTSORT must come after all project banners and such (but before any cleanup categories) or it won't work. Please do include it, as it helps sort articles in our internal categories, instead of having them all under "T" for "Talk:..." Please also use the DEFAULTSORT in the article too, immediately above the first category, and then you won't need to do any "`\|Familyname, Givenname`" stuff after the category names. Note that `\|needs-photo-yes=` is added to our banner; the special `{{Photo requested}}` uses and different category (and it is also used with `{{WPBiography}}`). Additional instances of `{{Find sources}}` can be used for alternative names.

User invite template

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What it looks like

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Hello WikiProject Snooker.

Given your interest in snooker related articles, you are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Snooker, a project dedicated on improving Wikipedia's coverage and detail regarding snooker articles.

If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see to-do list section that you can help with..

On the talk page of users, who actively contribute to snooker-related articles but are not members of the project.

Stub

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What it looks like

Where to use

This biographical article related to snooker is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

On stub articles about people related to snooker, namely snooker players.

This biographical article relating to United Kingdom Snooker is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

On stub articles about people related to snooker out of the UK, namely snooker players out of the UK.

This snooker related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

On stub articles related to Snooker.

{{Snooker tournaments}}
{{Snooker seasons nav}}
{{World Snooker Championship}} - Shows results of World Snooker Championships, appears on every World Championship page.
{{UK Championship (snooker)}}
{{Masters (snooker)}}
{{World Open (snooker)}}
{{Welsh Open (snooker)}}
{{China Open (snooker)}}
{{Shanghai Masters}}
{{Premier Snooker League}}
{{World Series of Snooker}}
{{Snooker world rankings}} - Appears on every Snooker World Rankings page
{{Snooker world number ones}}

See Category:Snooker navigational boxes for several more.

Userboxes

Project

You might like to add a userbox to your userpage:

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{{User WikiProject Snooker}}

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{{User WikiProject Snooker|style=chalk}}

This user is a participant in WikiProject Snooker

{{User WikiProject Snooker|style=balls}}

This user is a participant in WikiProject Snooker

{{User WikiProject Snooker|style=text}}

WPS

This user is a participant in WikiProject Snooker

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147

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Result

This user is a fan of Ronnie O'Sullivan

This user thinks that the Crucible curse will never be broken.

Infoboxes

Players

An example of a standard infobox for a player biography is shown on the right. For details and usage instructions, see Template:Infobox Snooker player.

Note that citations do NOT belong in the infobox. Details listed in the infobox should be mentioned in the article and cited there.

Tournaments

{{Snooker tournaments}} - On every snooker tournament main page.
{{Infobox individual snooker tournament}}

Tournament brackets

{{Round4}} or {{4TeamBracket}} - 4 players
{{Round8}} or {{8TeamBracket}} - 8 players
{{Round16}} or {{16TeamBracket}} - 16 players
{{32TeamBracket}} - 32 players
{{48TeamBracket}} - 48 players
{{64TeamBracket}} - 64 players
{{32TeamX3RoundBracket}} - qualifying bracket (32 players in every 3 round)
{{64Teamx3RoundAnd32TeamX1RoundBracket}} - qualifying bracket (64 players in the first three rounds, and 32 players in the last round) used for 2020 World Snooker Championship (and onwards)

Current events

These warn readers that article may be updated frequently as results come in:

{{Current sport|sport=snooker|event=World Snooker ranking tournament}} - a hatnote for the article on an ongoing tournaments or the like, using "World Snooker ranking tournament" as an example:

{{Current sport-related|sport=snooker|2024 World Snooker Championship}} – a message box for other articles (e.g. competitor bios) that may be affected by what happens at the ongoing event; second parameter is the name of the event article, using 2024 World Snooker Championship as an example:

As the links in these templates suggest, any such event should be added to Portal:Current events/Sports.

Inline time-savers

{{Cuegloss}} for convenient wikilinking of terms in articles to their definitions in the glossary: {{Cuegloss|Black ball|the black}} is the equivalent of [[Glossary of cue sports terms#Black ball|the Black]]. This template is never subst'd.
{{World Snooker}} for rapid entry of citations of official WorldSnooker.com WPBSA player bios. This template is never subst'd.

{{WSfast}} an even more rapid-entry version for cases where the accessdate is today. This template should always subst'd.

Resources

World Snooker - Good for player profiles.
BBC Sport: Snooker – Good for results/news, especially for the tournaments the BBC broadcast.
Snooker.org - Results for main tour tournaments after the 1993/1994 season.
WPBSA Tournament Manager - Results from recent years, and upcoming tournament details, for World Disability Billiards and Snooker, Seniors Snooker, World Snooker Federation, World Women's Snooker, English Partnership for Snooker and Billiards
Global Snooker - Results for tournaments and player profiles. (At archive.org )
Chris Turner's Snooker Archive – An excellent resource for stats, records and snooker history. (At archive.org )
News Now - Snooker

Participants

Recent editors to wp:snooker project pages and wp:snooker pages can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Snooker

To sign on as a project member, simply add your name to the list below, and feel free to tell us about your interests, focus, snooker editing so far, etc.

Getting started

As a member of WikiProject Snooker, it is requested that you watchlist at least the following pages:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker – if the project members do not pay attention to changes at the project page, especially its talk page, effective collaboration will be nearly impossible and the project would eventually fail.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker/Wanted snooker bios – this is an important part of the project's to-do list.
Snooker – our main article, frequently subject to vandalism and nonsense edits that (historically) have sometimes taken hours or even an entire day to be fixed
2022–23 snooker season – another important article
Snooker world rankings 2022/2023 – another important article
One or more player articles of your choice that you'd like to "adopt" as a guardian against vandalism, PoV-pushing, etc.

Keeping in touch with the rest of the team via the project pages, and keeping an occasional eye on core articles will go a long way to strengthening the project and protecting the articles. Thank you for your collaboration!

Please also either put one of the project's userboxes or "[[Category:WikiProject Snooker participants]] on your user page or one of its subpages.

PS: You can save typing time and get here via a shortcut, WP:SNOOKER, and to the talk page here via another one, WT:SNOOKER.

List of participants

Active or semi-active

Auximines (joined on 12 May 2004)
Nick C (Since 23 April 2006)
SFC9394 (Since 24 April 2006)
Bigpad (officially since 28 April 2006 but editing snooker for some time)
Cs-wolves (Since May 21 2006, but edited for a little period of time)
SteveO (Since 20th June 2006)
bobo6balde66 (Since 9th September)
SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ (Since Nov. 2006; I am a major editor of the cue sports articles in general, and do a lot of gnoming - formatting, templates, cleanup, etc.)
MartinUK (mostly adding references and facts to player articles, but a bit of everything)
Boddefan2009 (Since December 2008)
Armbrust (Since December 2008)
EJBH (Since March 2010)
Kudpung (Since July 2010 Mainly copyediting, Wikilinking, redirecting, dab, referencing & sourcing.)
Christopher Connor
CFuller (Since April 2011)
Betty Logan (probably about time I put my name here!)
Fabregas0414 (Since July 2011, mostly updating articles on snooker player bios and tournaments)
Douts (Since 6 December 2012, fixing anything I spot that needs fixing)
Bodgey5 (Since 21 March 2013, working on lesser-known snooker player articles)
Amstedrum (Since 23 July 2013, mostly updating lesser-know player articles)
User:Gcjdavid(Since 20/10/2014)
User:DUCKISJAMMMY (Officially since 24 October 2014, but have been editing snooker articles for some time)
Montgomery15 (Since early August 2015, having edited snooker articles for around eighteen months. Bit of everything at the minute...)
Per89 (since 4 March 2016, number cruncher, updating onging tournaments)
Coradia175 (since 29 April 2016)
Lee Vilenski (since 18/12/2017. Been cleaning up Snooker Video Game articles for a while).
Andygray110 (officially since 19 December 2017, but have been editing on snooker for a good while. Focus on creating old tournament articles)
Rodney Baggins (since 9 December 2018, copyediting player bios and tournament articles, etc.)
Ui56k (Since 12 August 2019)
BennyOnTheLoose (since 20 September 2019) Main interests - women's snooker, mid-1980's tournaments. List of Articles I've created Let me know if there's something a bit obscure I might be able to help with getting sources for, as I've got pretty good access to resources including: British Newspaper Archive - until 5 October 2019; The Guardian/Observer (1791-2003), Times (1785-2010), and Telegraph (1855-2000) digital archives; PressReader; NewsBank; British Library (largest library in the world as of 2008).
HurricaneHiggins (since 10 May 2021) General interest in snooker, player bios, improving quality of writing across snooker sections.

Inactive

Werdnak (Inactive since 26 August 2006; original message: "Since August 14th 2006")
Mitsuko (Inactive since 10 January 2007; original message: "Since June 7 2006")
Rvwedd(Inactive since 18 August 2007; original message: "Since December 2006")
Crazychip (Inactive since 22 December 2007; original message: "Since May 2007. Fixing citations, finding citations where required")
Watford147 (Inactive since 21 May 2008; original message: "From May 2008. Hope to help with areas like Cue Makers that are very lacking")
D-Weaving (Inactive since 2 June 2008; original message: "since circa 31 January 2007")
Kevo-723 (Inactive since 13 February 2009; original message: "Since 9 December 2007, making articles on players")
HandGrenadePins (Inactive since 15 February 2009; original message: "From August 2008")
Oliwestham (Inactive since 21 April 2009; original message: "Updating tournaments, correcting links to players shown in qualifying stages of tournaments. For example Alfie Burden is commonly not found and ends up as the redlinked Alfie Burden")
Flower party☀ (Inactive since 11 September 2009; original message: "00:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)")[reply]
Abc183 (Inactive since 9 Augustus 2010)
Jambornik (Inactive since 29 May 2011, original message: "Since November 2008, creating and editing articles on tournaments.")
Poolkris (Inactive since 20 February 2012, original message: "Since 1 September 2006")
Kabrada (Inactive since 4 June 2012, original message: "Since November 2008; mostly updating articles on current tournaments, interested in player bios as well, if time allows")
Samasnookerfan (Inactive since 25 July 2012; original message: "Since November 2007, creating and editing articles on players, tournements and correcting results.")
Alzarian16 (Inactive since 24 August 2012; original message: "Since April 2011, mostly working obscure player articles")
ChicXulub (Inactive since 23 September 2012, joined on 11 May 2004)
Betelgeuse11 (Inactive since 25 November 2012, original message: "Since November 2008, mostly creating and editing articles on rating. Interested in snooker history.")
Andy4226uk (Inactive since 20 December 2012, original message: "Since October 2007, have updated tournaments on a daily basis")
Cream147 (Inactive since 11 May 2013, original message: "since January 2007. To see what I have done for this Wikiproject, see my user page")
DeMoN2009 (Inactive since 25 May 2013; original message: "Since January 2009; will try to do what I can")
GL3N (Inactive since 29 June 2013, original message: "since 5 August 2005")
Mikeo34 (Inactive since 3 June 2013; original message: "joined on 1 December 2012")
DerbyCountyFan1994 (Inactive since 18 August 2013; original message: "Since 27 July 2013")
TheMightyMariner (Inactive since 18 October 2013; original message: "Since 1 May 2006")

Relationships to other WikiProjects

Parent WikiProjects

WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Games

WikiProject Cue sports

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Flag Template (maintains flag icon templates for use in tournament charts, etc.)
WikiProject Biography (provides guidelines on bio articles, including of sportspeople)

^ "Steve Davis". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b Harris, Nick (3 December 2007). "An email conversation with Steve Davis: 'Snooker has real strength in depth. It's not like it used to be'". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2009.

[1] "Steve Davis". World Snooker Tour. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2024.

[Harris_E-Mail_Conversation-2] Harris, Nick (3 December 2007). "An email conversation with Steve Davis: 'Snooker has real strength in depth. It's not like it used to be'". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2009.

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