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Create timelines, both textual and graphical. See link for various guidelines and examples. We need an overall one for cue sports generally, and more specific ones as we drill down into more specific topics (timeline of nine-ball, timeline of Willie Mosconi's career, etc.).
Form sections: Exhibition game needs section on cue sports; could later form a new article with "Main article..." xref to it. What other general articles need cue sports sections?
Images: improve articles with images from commons; create pics and add them to commons as GFDL/CC-by/PD.
Add: {{Sport overview}} to main articles of cue games that are real sports; medal table tags where they apply (see Ding Junhui for example).
Insert: Cue sports events (tournament results, etc.) into the "year in sports" categories (e.g. 1965 in sports), using {{subst:Cue sports heading}} if that year doesn't have one yet.
Looks like there were various junior titles either claimed or awarded some years before 1922, some of which might be local. For example,
"William Mitchell, boy champion of the world" (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 15 May 1872)
"Freddy Lawrence (the boy champion billiard player)" (Birmingham Daily Gazette, 9 October 1903)
"Master T. Newman the boy champion ... Newman already holds the cue and case presented by World of Billiards" (Leytonstone Express and Independent, 14 May 1904)
Advert in The World of Billiards (2 January 1907) for Tom Tothill "Real boy billiards champion, winner of boy's championship 1905")
Report of the boy's championship of London at Burroughes Hall, with E. Hoskins defeating Newman. (The World of Billiards (10 April 1907)
It seems unlikely that we will be able to get a comprehensive list of these, or what authority recognised them, so is it best just to have an introductory para mentioning that there were variou contests for similar titles before 1922? Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 16:00, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
