Talk:List of snooker players
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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:
| Name | Country | Born | Died | Professional | |
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| 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)
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- Something like this?
| Name | Country | Professional | Best rank | ||
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| Fred Davis | England | 1937 | 1992 | 4 | 1976—1977 |
| Joe Davis | England | 1927 | 1964 | 1 | 1927—1946 |
| Steve Davis | England | 1978 | 1 | 1983—1990 | |
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- 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)
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- 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.
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- 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)
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- 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.
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- BTW check out Wikipedia:WikiProject snooker if you're interested, it's just been set up. --Auximines 10:52, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
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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 <a name = "foo">bar</a>. 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)
- 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:
Shouldn't Ding Junhui appear under "D" rather than "J"? -- Arwel 21:22, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
- 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)
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)
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.
