Talk:List of snooker players

Needs more info, and formatting

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:

Snooker players

Name	Country	Born	Died	Professional
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)

Something like this?

Snooker players

Name	Country	Professional		Best rank
Fred Davis	England	1937	1992	4	1976—1977
Joe Davis	England	1927	1964	1	1927—1946
Steve Davis	England	1978		1	1983—1990

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)

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.

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)

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.

BTW check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker if you're interested, it's just been set up. --Auximines 10:52, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Table

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 &lt;a name = "foo"&gt;bar&lt;/a&gt;. 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:

List of Snooker Players

Name	Country	Professional		Best rank
Allister Carter
Eddie Charlton
Dominic Dale
Anthony Davies
Fred Davis	England	1937	1992	4	1976—1977
Joe Davis	England	1927	1964
Steve Davis	England	1978		1	1983—1990
Tom Dennis
Ken Doherty	Ireland	1990		3	1997—1998
Graeme Dott	Scotland	1994		12	2002—2003
Tony Drago	Malta	1985		10	1998
Peter Ebdon	England	1991		3	1996—1997
Patsy Fagan
Neal Foulds
Marco Fu	Hong Kong	1998		15	2000—2001
David Gray	England	1996		12	2003—2004
Gerard Greene
Terry Griffiths	Wales	1978	1996	3	1981—1982
Anthony Hamilton
Quinten Hann	Australia	1995		14	2002—2004
David Harold
Stephen Hendry	Scotland	1985		1	1990—1998
Drew Henry
Alex Higgins	Northern Ireland	1961		2	1976—1977,1982—1983
John Higgins	Scotland	1992		1	1998—2000
Robin Hull
Paul Hunter	England	1995		4	2004—2005
Ding Junhui	China
Joe Johnson	England	1979		5	1987—1988
Michael Judge
Tony Knowles
Mark King
Stephen Lee	England	1992		5	2000—2001,2003—2004
Stephen Maguire
Ian McCulloch
Alan McManus	Scotland	1990		6	1993—1994,1996—1997
Graham Miles	England	1969	1992	5	1977—1978
Robert Milkins
Brian Morgan
Darren Morgan
Doug Mountjoy	Wales
Terry Murphy
Fergal O'Brien
Ronnie O'Sullivan	England	1992		1	2002—2003,2004—2005
John Parrott	England	1983		2	1989—1993
Joe Perry	England	1991		13	2002—2003
Barry Pinches
John Pulman	England	1946	1982
Ray Reardon	Wales	1967	1992	1	1976—1981,1982—1983
Dean Reynolds
Alain Robidoux
Mark Selby
Warren Simpson
Chris Small	Scotland	1991		12	2004—2005
Billy Snaddon
John Spencer	England			2	1977—1978
Kirk Stevens
Matthew Stevens	Wales	1994		6	2000—2002,2004—2005
Joe Swail
Dennis Taylor	Northern Ireland	1972		2	1979—1980
Cliff Thorburn	Canada		1996	1	1981—1982
Willie Thorne	England
John Virgo	England	1976	1994	10	1979—1980
James Wattana	Thailand
Bill Werbeniuk	Canada	1973	1990	8	1983—1984
Jimmy White	England	1980		2	1987—1989
Mark Williams	Wales	1992		1	2000—2002,2003—2004
Rex Williams

Ding Junhui

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)

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. -??

Ding Jun-hui is the typical form for such names, but Ding himself seems to actually prefer Ding Junhui. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 07:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, however it should still be moved to the "D" category -?

It should definitely be under Ding in the "D" section. Ding IS the family name. In some pool stats he even shows up as "Jun-hui Ding", and all the other Asian players get listed family-name-last as well. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 07:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Top players

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)

Only listing players with articles?

What does does everyone think about only having professional players listed who have articles on them and steadily increasing the list as people write more articles. Of course, you could go the other way and list all the professional players - but it is very incomplete at the moment. Samasnookerfan (talk)

There's some side-band discussion (including from Samasnookerfan) on whether this is a good idea, or a broader merge is called for, at User talk:SMcCandlish#List of professional snooker players. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 08:04, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Strip it down and make it consistent with such articles in other major sports

This entire list needs to be redone like List of baseball players and many others. The other, topical lists of snooker players should be in this article (and perhaps more of them), with descriptions, meanwhile the article needs to stop being a duplication of Category:Snooker players or it will simply be deleted at WP:AFD (hell, I'll probably take it there myself), as there is a large pile of precedent for deleting lists that serve the same function as their corresponding categories. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 09:30, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

This article

Many of these players may have never been professional. I have deleted some names from the article, but it still very needs for cleanup--Якушев Илья (talk) 14:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)