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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]
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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
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- Clarify: What is the "continuous pool" listed above "14.1 continuous" at Alfredo DeOro?
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- 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.
- Inter-wiki: Improve simple:Billiards and foreign-language key articles.

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- Jreferee 21:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted material possibly worth sourcing and restoring[edit]

The following was deleted for being unsourced: "Despite never reaching his full potential, Thorne is widely regarded as one of the game's most natural talents, and is one of only a handful of players to compile over 150 century breaks throughout his career, an impressive feat considering that Thorne played out much of his career on tables with slower and thicker cloths than those of today, meaning that they were less suited for big breaks." — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 18:01, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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DoB[edit]

The Guardian has his DoB as 4 May. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/17/willie-thorne-obituary 90.255.70.241 (talk) 18:10, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is a pickle, Eurosport and mean search hits have 4 March. Who do we trust? ---Lilach5 (לילך5) discuss 19:19, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The correct answer is 4 March, and clearly the Guardian is in error. (This has been known to happen.) Thorne's birth was registered in the first quarter of 1954. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:57, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. All other sources (WST, Snooker scene etc) all say March. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:37, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]