2225:. The term "round" is used to mean a segment of game play consisting (or potentially consisting) of more than one frame, but not constituting an entire match. A "match" is the entire competition between vying parties, (individual or team). Where the match consists of a single frame, or a single round, it should be referred to as a match, again regardless of colloquial use, for inter-article consistency. If a match conclusion is also the conclusion of a larger stage of tournament play, a term for that may reasonably be substituted for match (e.g., "She won the last frame 8–3, and took the semi-final and will face Jackson in the final match" or "The World Championship went to Shen after an eleven ball run.").
1869:(e.g. "World Eight-ball Championship runner-up"), or do not capitalize (e.g. "3rd place in the WPA world eight-ball event that year"). There is no such thing as a "World Champion runner-up", without "-ship". Also, in reference to a single event, there is no such thing as "a" runner-up, but rather "the" runner-up. Hyphenate "runner-up", "semi-finalist" and "quarter-finalist", as they are compound nouns (but usually not fully-compounded – avoid "quarterfinalist"). "Quarter finalist" suggests 1/4 of a finalist or a finalist in a particular quarter. Do not hyphenate or fuse "1st place", etc., as they are not compounds. Hyphenating adjectival use is optional ("a 1st-place victory", "a 1st place victory").
1682:, to the extent it is relevant. Hyphenation and direct compounding is not applied to non-numbered balls, e.g., "the cue ball", not "the cue-ball" or worse yet "the cueball"), including generic references ("the red balls", not "the red-balls" or "the redballs"), and references to custom ball sets that use symbols other than a number (e.g. "the star ball", not "the star-ball"). The same goes for non-ball accoutrements; do not use compounded constructions like "billiard-table", "snookerhall", or "poolcue".
2356:. "Women's Division" would be capitalized if the league or event organizers used that term in particular, but if you use "ladies' division" instead in some construction, this would not be capitalized. Likewise capitalize "Group C" but not "C group" or "third group" if the official term is "Group C". The basic principle is that Knowledge (XXG) is not here to make up titles. By way of analogy, the first-released and plot-chronologically fourth Star Wars movie is
2240:– there is only one final match per event. The plural "finals" can be used in unusual constructions, e.g. "Doe was defeated in two UK Championship finals in a row, in 2008 and 2009", or "Jane Q. Public and John Doe won the 2009 female and male divisional finals, respectively". Do not capitalize "final" except at the beginning of a sentence, in a heading, in the title of a cited source, or in another normally capitalized context.
1586:. Its point about spelling out numbers that are adjacent to other numbers that must be in figure form is often especially important in cue sports articles even where the balls are not numbered, and in sports articles more generally because of their reliance on numeric figures in multiple contexts. In a passage that has statistics, specifications, ball numbers or other numbers-as-figures, it is recommended to spell out
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in one of the several San
Miguels in the Philippines, and perhaps even that it was arranged by the local government of one of them, neither of which are correct. Worse yet, sometimes one league sponsors the events of another, and following the deprecated practice of naming event articles for their sponsors would have resulted in the 2007 WPBA World Championship having an article at
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2577:", after first occurrence). Because "cross", "spider", "swan" and "hook" all have original, non-sporting meanings, using these rest names by themselves is too ambiguous and should be accompanied one way or another by the word "rest" at first occurrence in an article or large section. Likewise, the first occurrence of "rake" should be something like "
1097:" (a narrower one) when the latter will do. "Pocket billiards" may refer to historical, pre-pool games, and to pocket-table games as a class (including, e.g., English billiards, Russian pyramid and snooker). Except as noted otherwise here, do not use "pool", "carom billiards", or "billiards" alone, when something more specific such as
2838:) are recognized independently in most but not all cases. On Knowledge (XXG), flags are used to visually identify the sporting nationality of teams and individual players within drawsheets and result tables, for sports in which sporting nationality is recognized. This is as true in cue sports as in other sports. When
1582:: While most style guides call for writing numbers above 12 (or even 10) in digits rather than words, in pool articles especially it is best to always spell them out if they are fifteen or lower, to avoid confusion with ball numbers. Except as noted here and above (with regard to sports statistics), generally follow
2228:"Round" can be used more generically in reference to levels of play in a large competition, e.g., "the quarter-final rounds of the National Cup". When specific players or teams in opposition are being discussed, use "match" to describe their contest, and use "round" as recommended in the previous paragraph.
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is a categorization for clarity of writing the
English Knowledge (XXG), not an estimation of world popularity, influence or other notability. This is why major popular carom and pool games are not specifically listed. English billiards, Russian pyramid and five-pins are listed because players of them
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American-ish pool terminology is used throughout the
English-speaking professional pool world, and so should be used for articles on pool regardless of variety of English. British terms should be given at first occurrence in parentheses, as noted above. An exception is pool games that are essentially
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to be figures, even if single-digit (A run-on example to illustrate words-vs.-figures usage: "In the thirty-second frame of the evening, the seventh and final frame in a tight 4–3 match between the two 1st-place speed pool challengers, world number 1 Johnson and number 4 Garcia, Johnson committed two
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If some differentiation must be made for disambiguation reasons, it should be done with a parenthetical at the end of the article name. For example, if an organization existed called the Pool
Federation (and that were its full legal name) in the Kingdom of Tonga, and a different organization had the
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Because cue sports terminology can differ widely between the dialects, and even directly conflict, jargon terms should be given with their other-dialect equivalent at first occurrence whenever they differ, especially in a context where the dialect is not immediately intutitively guessable (i.e. one
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is (aside from the
Spanish name for a Catholic saint) a placename first and foremost (there are many of them, in fact, even in the Philippines), but a beverage company and its product secondarily; readers not familiar with Filipino beers would be most likely to assume that the tournament took place
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from plausible (and especially sourceably in-use) English translations. An exception is when the organization itself supplies a preferred
English translation, in which case that English name should be the main article, and the non-English one a redirect. If the name cannot be represented in Western
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primary sponsor (if there is one; some events have multiple primary sponsors), this would leave editors between a rock and a hard place, either listing all of the sponsors in the article title (e.g. the "Microsoft Pepsi
Budweiser Meucci Simonis Bank Pool Championship"), with ridiculous results, or
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when using the proper name of the ruleset, as with organization names (e.g., do not change "8-Ball" to "Eight-ball" if the original reads "8-Ball"). If there is an article on the topic, create a redirect from the spelling that agrees with the general recommendations of this guideline, to the real
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The article for an organization should use the most official name of the organization (such as that found on contact or legal information pages at the organization's web site, without any legal abbreviations like "Inc.", "Ltd" or "GmbH", and expanding any organizational abbreviations in the name
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proper nouns, unless also themselves proper names (e.g. "Jane Foster-Smythe"). The game also is not named "nine ball", nor "Nine Ball" for capitalization reasons already given above. Do not use the style "9-ball" for the game; small numbers should be spelled out and numerals should never start a
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It should never be referred to as simply the "bridge", as this is factually incorrect (the forward, stabilizing hand is the bridge, and the mechanical bridge is an artificial substitute for it when reaching with the hand is impossible or ineffective). It must not be referred to by colloquial
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Like "water sports" and "martial arts", these are overarching terms, classifiers not frequently used in everyday speech and writing, versus specifics like "water skiing" and "kickboxing". Therefore, do not use "cue sport(s)" when something that is both non-ambiguous and more specific can be
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the event is actually called the
National Championship, not the UK Championship or Azerbaijan Championship or whatever), and "Jane Q. Public beat reigning champion John Doe, 17–10" ("champion" by itself is not a capitalized title like Reverend, Pope, Duke or Admiral, even if it precedes a
2016:, by simply providing advertising for commercial entities – the corporate designation appearing in articles, especially in an article title, is usually not necessary and effectively acts as a form of banner ad. Second, sponsors often change from one season/year to another (the "San Miguel"
2000:: The event most often called by its primary sponsor the "U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships" (note "9", capitalized "Ball" after hyphen, and pluralized "Championships") but spelled various ways by other sponsors and by the billiards press, should be at the Knowledge (XXG) article title
2345:"Masters" is basically always capitalized because it is never really used outside of an actual event name (e.g. if Doe won the Isle of Man Masters and the Botswana Masters, we would not write "Doe is a two-time Masters winner", since "Masters" would have no clear referent.
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or common alternative form of it: "Doe is a three-time World
Champion", "...three-time Snooker World Champion", "...three-time World Snooker Champion", but "Doe is a three-time World Champion and seven-time national champion" (unless we have already said what nation it is
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itself, e.g. "Southwestern Pool Assn." to "Southwestern Pool
Association"). While the most authoritative official name should be used as the real article, any additional official or semi-official ones should exist as redirects to the former. A real-world example is the
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give that name as an alternative, secondarily, in the article introduction, and in bold. Example: the San Miguel Asian Nine-ball Tour (Guinness Asian Nine-ball Tour as of 2007), which is really the WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour. In articles titles and links to them,
2256:, not single-word and not two separate words. When appearing at the start of a sentence or in another normally capitalized context, only the first part is capitalized, as with any other hyphenated compound, but as with "final" is never capitalized otherwise.
2060:, and thus the article on the event may be at that name. It is not necessary in such cases to always refer to the event by that name if it doesn't seme the best choice in the context of the material being written. E.g. one might refer to a victory on the
2289:"Championship" is only capitalized when used as part of the official name (or common short or extended version) of an event, e.g. "UK Snooker Championship", "UK Championship", but not "his third championship" even when in reference to the same event.
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If all or nearly all events in a sport are sanctioned by a single organization, do not add its acronym. Also, if the event's name is unique and unambiguous and likely to remain that way, then the organization acronym may be superfluous as unnecessary
2285:"John Doe is a frequent competitor at the Isle of Man Championships." (series of events; if one wrote "frequent competitor at the Isle of Man Championship" this would rather crazily imply that this year he competed in the championship several times!)
2248:: "John Doe lost in the semi-finals" and "the quarter-finals were held on 14 July", but "Doe's quarter-final victory" (adjective usage), and "Doe advanced from the Group C quarter-final" (a specific, singular quarter-final group being referenced).
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have no rules or player sanctioning connection at all, but such an article title would very strongly imply that competitors in this event were APA league players using APA's handicapping system and ruleset, while nothing could be further from the
1333:". This does not apply to game names frequently spelled either way (as noted, we do not use "1-pocket", "3-cushion" even if some sources do). If something like "18.2 balkline" would begin a sentence, rewrite to avoid rather than spelling out.
2429:" (some would even argue that the latter is redundant), the shorter term is usually too ambiguous for use in Knowledge (XXG) articles, which will be read by many people utterly unfamiliar with the topic. "Cue" by itself is acceptable when:
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To avoid confusion, they should be spelled out (no numerals like "9 balls left", "or sank his 9th ball in a row in the straight pool match"); it is generally accepted standard English usage to spell it out — and not hyphenate it, either —
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is usually used as the flag, despite its having political connotations in other contexts. This is not a Wikipedian imposition, but actual sporting usage in the real world, and changing it here would be a violation of Knowledge (XXG)'s
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As elsewhere in Knowledge (XXG), it is proper to use British or Commonwealth English terminology when discussing largely British or Commonwealth topics (or those highly influenced by their terminology, such as snooker even outside the
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the similarity of the former to the latter will be visually confusing to readers and editors, so it is spelled out as "the five pill" or "the number-five pill". Object-referent numerals in cue sports articles always refer to numbered
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construction should be used in Knowledge (XXG) cue sports articles are in the official names of organizations, and in the first sentence of the intro of the article about that game, and then only as an alternative colloquial name,
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2537:-type rest by default, but also implies that other types might be used, depending upon the situation; there are up to four different rests used in those games. If one means the cross-type rest specifically, say so, e.g. "
1729:), the closest English approximation of the properly-accented spelling should also be made a redirect to the main article, as many readers do not know how to generate and search for such characters from their keyboards.
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Using the Botswana hypothetical event used above, assuming sanctioning by the Botswana Nine-ball Association (BNA), and using these criteria (including the number formatting guidelines), the event article should be
1810:, not the rules themselves as applied, and only then if it is a discrete publication, not a section of a larger one (in which case use quotations marks, as with any other chapter or article in a larger publication).
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Names of organizations and titles of publications, because they are usually officially-registered and often trademarked designations, should be left as-is, but redirected-to from the name that would adhere to this
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Due to its ambiguity (see below), the umbrella term "billiard sports" is not very helpful on Knowledge (XXG), as it can be taken to mean cue sports generally, or only those played on a pocketless billiards
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2209:"), while "frame" is used in articles to refer to an instance of game play, regardless of English dialect. This terminological clarity is especially important for competitions that may involve multiple
2024:, and for all anyone knows may change again next year. Third, events often have multiple sponsors, and without a clear, citable statement from the tournament organizers as to which sponsor is
2380:, or any other shorthand an editor here might like to make up, and any even more circuitous locutions would not be capitalized and italicized either (e.g., we would not write "She starred in
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Smack-down Challenge, and Ndele Billiards Club Nine-ball Invitational. Imaginable but unattested variants (like "National Botswana Nine-ball Smackdown Challenge Invitational Classic") should
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US/Canadian example, in an article about an eight-ball player: "Using the rake, she shot with high left english from the foot rail, to pocket the 8 ball with a carom off one of the stripes."
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European characters, the English name should be the main article. If it cannot be represented in unaccented English characters (the 26-letter English alphabet without accent marks or other
2140:, use the title as given for the show by the broadcaster/publisher, even if it does not agree with the article name or the name of the event as more generally known: "ESPN first broadcast
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In international professional and amateur competition, it is normal practice for pool and billiards players to represent their countries of present origin in most cases. This is known as
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happens to use WPA (or whatever) rules, this is not a particularly relevant fact and should not be reflected in the article name, though if sourceable should be mentioned in the article.
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Describe conventions for referring to cue sports games and equipment, differentiating them from each other and from other usages, especially numerical, to avoid ambiguity and confusion.
896:. It describes spelling, terminological and other conventions for the article (and category) names and content of Knowledge (XXG) topics related to cue sports (billiards-family games).
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British/Australian/etc. version, about a blackball player: "Using the rest, she shot with top left side from the top cushion, to pot the black with a cannon in-off one of the yellows."
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the cue stick and cue ball are mentioned in the same sentence (e.g. "strike the cue ball with the cue" is not ambiguous; "using a lot of follow-though with the cue" is not;
2276:. Some sources (including event organizers) use the plural form even for a single event, but Knowledge (XXG) does not emulate this potentially confusing misusage. Examples:
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For games closely associated with one dialect or another, the more appropriate dialect should be used consistently (thus American English for most pool games such as
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If a tournament is broadcast (or recorded and published) in some manner (television, DVD, VHS, etc.), italicize the name/title only when referring to it specifically
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The convention on referring to the count or sequence of balls also applies to non-ball objects, whether numbered or not, but numbered ones should be spelled out.
1025:. A topic notable only in the context of a more specific discipline should of course refer to it more specifically, not just by the major parent classification:
922:, as they apply to the naming and terminology of cue sports topics, including the handling of US vs. UK English, treatment of numbers, and neutral point of view.
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usually need not be identified by any narrower sub-discipline; these will more likely be mentioned and linked in coverage of achievements, events etc., e.g.:
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Terms such as "runner-up", "1st place", and "semi-finalist" do not qualify for capitalization. When using such terms, use an untruncated version of the
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The overall intent is to ensure that cue sports article prose is comprehensible, by avoiding awkward and ambiguous constructions. Consider the sentence
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and determining for themselves who the primary sponsor "probably" is. Fourth, and worst of all, it can directly mislead readers in a number of ways.
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In rare cases, the version of the name with the sponsor included may be determined to be the "most common name" for article titling purposes, per
1655:, an internationally standardized (mostly British Commonwealth) variant of eight-ball. Please note that the term "the black ball" in reference to
1158:) The term "cue sports" dates to the 20th or perhaps late 19th century, and is anachronistic when used to refer to the early history of the games.
939:"While nine-ball is a game played with nine balls, the 9 ball is the real target; it can be pocketed at the end of a run, but earlier is better."
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A particular cue sport, or family thereof, may be referred to less formally (e.g., anywhere in the article other than the intro sentence of the
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For game types that are subject to organized competition (i.e., are sports), "game" refers to the game rules and subculture (e.g. "the game of
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1259:"9-ball", but we eschew "9-ball" on Knowledge (XXG) as a name of the game to avoid confusion between the game and the numbered ball. (Cf. the
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Capitalize a sporting title only when it is the official title, or a shortening or sensible rearranging thereof that is clear in the context.
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2262:"Championship" is always singular when speaking of a specific event, and always plural when writing of a series or multiplicity of events
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billiards, croquet, golf, field hockey, and lawn bowling all seem to have developed from the same class of ancient Eurasian outdoor game.
1291:) It is certainly not "Nine-Ball" – second and subsequent word parts are not capitalized in hyphenated compounds, even if the compounds
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In the case of non-English-language names, the main article should be the official non-English name of the organization, with redirects
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Right: "Smith was the 2007 WPA World Eight-ball Champion (Women's Division), the runner-up in 2008, and World Champion again in 2009."
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Right: "Smith was the 2007 WPA Women's Division World Eight-ball Champion, the runner-up in 2008, and World Champion again in 2009."
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1186:"Cue game(s)" can be used, but should be reserved for activities that are not the subject of national or international competition
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in August 2009". Article titles should avoid such constructions when possible, especially with regard to including sponsor names.
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References to wins, scores, ratios, placings, etc., by long-standing sports statistics conventions, should be given as numerals
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2513:-linked. For largely American games like eight-ball and nine-ball, the term "rake" can be used, but should be wikilinked with
1926:, when this can be identified, and it is relevant: i.e. the event is a championship or qualifying match; if something like an
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Do not capitalize a ruleset, unless referred to by its actual published title, or an unambiguous, reasonable shortening of it.
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The entire family of games may be referred to by terms such as "the billiards family of games" or "billiards-type games" (
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935:"While 9-ball is a 9-ball game, the 9-ball is the real target; it can be pocketed in a 9-ball run, but earlier is better."
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Identifying events by their commercial sponsors can be very problematic for a number of reasons. First, it runs afoul of
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Wrong: "Smith was the 2007 WPA Women's Division World Eight-ball victor." (There is no such thing as "World Eight-ball".)
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are given in the singular, even if they have multiple divisions since no division produces two tying champion
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2521:. For snooker, English billiards and blackball, the proper term is "rest", and likewise should be given as
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For the particular and well-documented handling of these issues in international snooker competition, see
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game subject to over a century of organized world championship competition (not to be confused with the
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article is named in accordance with this guideline, even though multiple spellings are attested, with
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2374:Star Wars 4
2170:Other terms
1938:Exceptions:
1557:2,000,000."
1398:ball itself
1365:"), both ("
1353:money balls
1204:and in the
1117:Billiard(s)
736:Terminology
692:Mathematics
595:Philippines
448:Visual arts
443:Video games
170:Hidden text
56:substantive
2941:Categories
2929:0198610211
2918:0198605064
2892:References
2855:policies.
2785:Cue sports
2748:black spot
2676:one-pocket
2668:eight-ball
2037:San Miguel
1867:event name
1727:diacritics
1523:guideline.
1412:deprecated
1383:one-pocket
1359:eight-ball
1192:Cue sports
1099:eight-ball
1087:speed pool
958:cue sports
894:cue sports
821:User pages
796:Signatures
791:Notability
722:Cue sports
438:Television
433:Philosophy
379:Trademarks
203:Formatting
2793:Pool hall
2777:WP:ENGVAR
2768:blackball
2756:foot spot
2716:head rail
2672:nine-ball
2619:WP:ENGVAR
2427:cue stick
2389:Equipment
2200:WP:ENGVAR
2172:", below.
2163:", above.
2154:", above.
2133:Pot Black
2108:Nine-ball
2100:Nine-ball
2092:Nine-ball
1782:", above.
1757:, with a
1715:their own
1653:blackball
1644:balk line
1622:described
1614:nine-ball
1572:WP:MOSNUM
1551:WP:MOSNUM
1446:the 8 and
1375:five-pins
1367:nine-ball
1347:eponymous
1309:Nine-ball
1277:badminton
1249:nine-ball
1039:nine-ball
927:MOS:ICONS
665:Chemicals
655:Chemistry
605:Singapore
580:Macedonia
560:Indonesia
175:Infoboxes
148:Biography
89:WP:MOSCUE
82:WP:CUEMOS
74:Shortcuts
64:talk page
60:consensus
40:guideline
2832:Scotland
2656:Cuegloss
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2557:Cuegloss
2549:Cuegloss
2541:Cuegloss
2525:Cuegloss
2517:Cuegloss
2511:Glossary
2457:The cue
2104:Nineball
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1634:balkline
1592:required
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1341:the game
1235:The game
1103:balkline
849:Contents
844:Overview
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786:Hatnotes
702:Taxonomy
697:Medicine
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590:Pakistan
585:Malaysia
518:Regional
260:Captions
230:Spelling
2824:England
2684:snooker
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1969:However
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1253:outside
1230:Numbers
1206:infobox
1169:snooker
1137:snooker
1043:notable
1011:snooker
898:Snooker
726:Snooker
648:Science
565:Ireland
498:History
413:Blazons
180:Linking
136:Content
96:MOS:CUE
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2690:, and
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2316:name).
2096:9-Ball
2053:truth.
2044:! The
1949:Do not
1705:, the
1657:a ball
1512:balls.
1313:9-ball
1298:9-ball
1247:Using
1143:, and
1085:, and
1021:, and
987:table.
962:novuss
715:Sports
675:Safety
600:Poland
550:Hawaii
530:Canada
428:Novels
408:Comics
305:Tables
295:Layout
288:Layout
275:Images
253:Images
2868:Notes
2828:Wales
2744:)", "
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2598:Chalk
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2406:stick
2194:frame
2088:9Ball
1733:WP:NC
1301:e.g.:
1281:chess
1271:(cf.
1001:are:
983:used.
630:Islam
575:Korea
570:Japan
555:India
540:Egypt
462:Music
374:Legal
367:Legal
330:Lists
323:Lists
270:Icons
38:This
16:<
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2352:only
2268:and
2186:game
1973:also
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1669:see
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1396:The
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418:Film
392:Arts
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