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[edit] Mark Williams

I am wondering whether the Mark J. Williams article is ready to be removed from the 'Major improvements needed' section on the main page. I have done a lot of work on the article and just want to know the general concensus is. Samasnookerfan (talk) 19:26, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mick Price

I just discovered that there are a lot of links to Mick Price from various snooker articles, but there is no article on the snooker player. Same thing goes for Jason Ferguson. Just to let you know, cheers. Reinhardheydt (talk) 13:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Both former top 32 players who managed to reach a few Quarters I think. I'm surprised there is no articles on them but I don't know enough about them to start them myself. Samasnookerfan (talk) 13:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Price is probably most well known for being on the end of Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest 147 during the 1997 World Snooker Championships. User:Oliwestham (User talk:Oliwestham) 14:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Improvement Suggestions for World Championships?

With the WC around the corner are there any suggestions for ways we can further improve the article on this years event? Thing are much better than they were a few years ago, but I was pondering whether there were ways that we can capitalise on the increased interest and editing time that the WC brings to push the article beyond a knock-out chart. What exactly those improvements could be is open to suggestions, but the articles always feel a bit too statistical and not enough encyclo for me. SFC9394 (talk) 23:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Well said. I think having a 'Notable happenings' section gives things a bit more of a feel of what happened in the tournement, if well backed up with references then I think thats a good way of improving them. Have a look of what I wrote on 2008 Masters Snooker, in this instance someones changed the heading to 'Facts and figures', but its pretty much the same principle. I done a similar thing in the Welsh Open Snooker 2008 article, and also added all the centuries were made, well copied and pasted them from globalsnooker.co.uk! Samasnookerfan (talk) 13:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I think that is what we need more of. The crucible are a negative in not allowing pictures to be taken, but even so we can scout about to find relevent free pictures to add some colour to the article. SFC9394 (talk) 18:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, having pictures would be great. Any ideas where we could get some? Samasnookerfan (talk) 19:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
The two commons acceptable Flickr CC licensed picture categories are normally a good bet: [1] & [2]. It is just normally a case of searching once the tournament is up and running for folks who have been at matches or are in and around Sheffield and are uploading pictures. SFC9394 (talk) 19:10, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge WP:SNOOKER and WP:CUE?

What do we think of the idea of merging WP:SNOOKER into WP:CUE as task force? I don't think this would affect day-to-day operations in any way at all (e.g. the snooker project tags wouldn't be deleted or anything, just modified to point to the right place), would make WP:COUNCIL happy (they prefer it if closely-related projects merge), and (why I'm proposing it) would give us a larger, merged list of participants with a centralized talk page and help keep both projects active, not tagged with {{Inactive}} nor sent to WP:MFD. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 09:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I feel WP:SNOOKER should keep its own identity, it is well established, with a reasonable number of active participants. Samasnookerfan (talk) 13:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
It would under my proposal; we'd just be collectively "safer", more organized and with shared tools. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 14:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
If thats the case i'm for it then. Samasnookerfan (talk) 14:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I think if a deletionist tags them then we can stratagise to survive - at the moment I would prefer if they were kept apart. There is plenty of snooker chatter, and it may dilute the focus of the project too much if it becomes a general market stall for a whole host of separate sports. SFC9394 (talk) 18:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ray Reardon

The article came up at random for me there and I noticed it wasn't in your project - I take it you want the 6-time world champion ;). The article seems in a reasonably good state but only has a single source. Bazzargh (talk) 17:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes i'd agree, it is in a decent state. It is quite well written not too much information, and not too little. A couple more sources would be helpful though. It similar to other snooker player articles of players of his era, like John Spencer and Eddie Charlton, to name a couple. Samasnookerfan (talk) 16:00, 9 April 2008 (UTC)