Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports/Article layout bio

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Below is an article "template" for cue sports biography articles. You can simply copy-paste everything between the red horizontal lines, paste it all into a new, empty article, and edit the details, removing unneeded sections, examples, etc. Please use "Show preview" before saving your new article to ensure that it does not have any example code, empty sections, broken categories or stub tags, etc.

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'''Person's Name''' (born [[## Month]] [[19##]], in [[Place, Country]]; died [[## Month]] [[19##]], in [[Place, Country]]),
more commonly known as '''Shorter Name''', is a [[Country|Nationality]] [[occupation]], nicnamed "Nickname".
One- to three-sentence summary overview.<ref name="SomethingUnique">
[http://url.com Person's Name official website], accessed [[## Month]] [[19##]] — do website refs like this.</ref>

==Early life==
Info on childhood, and amateur career.<ref name="SomethingUnique2">[http://url2.com/article "Article Title"],
Article Author Name, ''E-Publication'', [[## Month]] [[19##]] if known;
accessed [[## Month]] [[19##]] — do online article refs like this.</ref>

==Career==
Chronological order narrative paragraphs about professional career.  For players, it is perfectly fine for it to be
duplicative of the subsection just below, which will be a summary chart. <!--Add book cite example here-->

===Titles and tournament wins===
* [[Year]] [[Event]], result (for a minor event - don't wikilink unless article already exists - or non-1st-place)
* [[Year in sports|Year]] [[Event|Title]], result (for a win in a major event) 

==Personal life==
Personal details that seem salient - family, current residency, other activities not related to why this person is
notable, trouble/scandals that don't have to do with the game, etc., etc.

==Trivia==
*List of curious facts, such as:
*Had a [[Cameo appearance|cameo]] in the film ''[[My Big Weasel Farm]]'' (2006)
*(But in that example, link to IMDb instead of wikilinking to article if it is a redlink.)

==See also==
*Important wikilink to something else relevant; rarely used for cue sports bio articles.

==References==
<references />
*Additional reference, if used for fact checking but not cited at any specific point.

==External links==
*[http://url3.com/pagename An industry bio of Person's Name] — Notes (no need to mention
name of site if it is commercial; that's just wikispam)
*[http://url.com Person's Name official website] — even if already cited as a source.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Given Names}}
[[Category:The appropriate Cue sports category here, such as Botswanan carom billiards players]]
[[Category:The appropriate nationality category here, such as Botswanan sportspeople]]
[[Category:Living people - if the person is still living]]

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