Talk:Novuss

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Games: A bunch of high-priority game redlinks, e.g. American four-ball billiards (redirs to Four-ball billiards but not specifically covered there)
"Legends": Edwin Kelly, Charlie Peterson (pool player) (all BCA Hall of Famers); George Franklin Slosson, Maurice Daly (billiards player), Frank Ives, George Butler Sutton [not George H. Sutton, the one with no hands]
Male pool bios: Hsia Hui-kai
Female pool bios:
Male three-cushion bios: Dion Nelin & Jozef Bel Philipoom
Female carom bios: Aygen Berk Saygıner
Aristic pool bios: Nick Nikolaidis, Mark Dimick,Sebastian Giumelli, Eric Yow
Unranked in current pool but notable: Mike Eufemia, Shannon Daulton, Jimmy Reid (pool player) [speed pool champ], var. Mosconi Cup players
Non-player figures: Mitch Laurance, George Fels
Five-pins bios: Gustavo Zito
Organizations: Joss Tour
Events: WPA World Nine-ball Championships (pre-1997), BCA Open Nine-ball Championship, World 14.1 Continuous Championship, International Challenge of Champions (pool)
Media and misc.: Iwan Simonis (leading billiard cloth maker), Joss Cues (major cue mfr.), The Baron and the Kid [Johnny Cash film], Ultimate Pool Party [TV show]
And: everyone/thing listed at WP:CUEGAMES, WP:CUEEVENTS, WP:CUEORGS, WP:CUEBIOS, & WP:CUEMISC. Also a Cue sports world records article (many can be pulled from bio articles like Geet Sethi, Guinness Book will provide others, and so will BCA and other orgs., websites and books like Shamos 1999).
Meta: Outline of cue sports (OoK; cf. [1], etc.) – presently redirects to Cue sports, but this is not an OoK page.
Internal pages: Something like: [2][3]). Such pages are not fluff, but can be good places to find recruits for the project, possibly including subject-matter experts, especially if cross-referenced to the project. Also, Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Cue sports (cf. [4][5][6]).

Cleanup : Thomas Engert, Marlon Manalo
Copyedit : Jonni Fulcher
Expand : Cue sports techniques#Carom shots (section needs to exist), Straight pool, Alfredo de Oro,Jeanette Lee (pool player)
NPOV : Andy Segal (major WP:COI and WP:V issues, too), Jose Parica (it's bad!); Efren Reyes, Thomas Engert, Dennis Orcollo, Dick Jaspers
Photo : Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of cue sports and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of cue sports people
Split : List of World Eight-ball Champions - blackball stuff needs own article {draft split from real eight-ball one (draft).
Stubs : loads of players in Category:Cue sports stubs
Update : Arcade game (link to bagatelle, bar billiards, etc.)
Verify : Cue stick (mostly WP:OR!), Frank Taberski (has major fact conflict between BCA & NYT sourcing), Russian pyramid, add sources to Unreferenced BLPs
Wikify : Chicago (pool), Jonni Fulcher
Other :
- 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?
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- Ensure: that rules discussions in game articles & the Billiard techniques article do not violate WP:NOT#IINFO.
- Help fix: WP:CUEBIOS#Pool players (women) is nearly empty!
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- 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.
- Change:
- Replace:
- Some day: Seek Featured Topic status.
- Plunder: the French article; it does have some interesting tidbits, structure and images. Check out de.wikipedia, etc., as well.
- Inter-wiki: Improve simple:Billiards and foreign-language key articles.

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Sources needed

I have used the {{Fact}} ("citation needed") template in several places in the article to mark some places where specific reference citations would be a good idea. This article is entirely unsourced, and as such it is in serious danger of deletion. I would also recommend creating a sourced article about the champion and tournament that are presently red-links in the article, to give this topic more depth in Wikipedia. Non-English sources can be used, perhaps from the Estonian and Latvian articles on this topic, but they should be verified by a native speaker to actually support the facts that are citing them here. Please report any progress on that front here on the talk page. Please use the <ref name="SomethingUnique">[http://whatever "Title of Source"], Author of Source, ''Publication Name'', publication date, city of publication</ref> reference citation format to the extent possible (i.e. leave off the link if the source is a paper book, or leave off the Author of Source information if the author is not identified, e.g. in the Latvian Novus Federation rulebooks, and so on. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 23:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Source for official rules, equipment specs, etc.: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=et&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.koroona.ee/reeglid.html&usg=ALkJrhhPys0IU59AU5hnUiWleZz5EnYaJg

This is a subpage of http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=et&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.koroona.ee%2F (koroona.ee) — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 04:46, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Novuss and cued carrom variants

This article misleadingly attempts to imply that novuss is not simply a variant of carrom. That needs to get fixed. It's blatantly obviously just a variant of carrom, and not very different from American carrom, Australian puck pool, and other cued carrom variants. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 16:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed that. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 21:38, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Digging around more, it's looking to me like games of this sort popped up in various places, perhaps, but that most of them are certainly descended from Asian carrom. We know that this game or game type became popular aboard ships, because the boards/tables were small and used pucks that would stay put on mild seas and not roll around hopeless all over the place with every wave. That would certainly explain the spread of carrom from India to colonial Britain, where we know carrom was popular. We also have (not well sourced yet) info in this article already that the Baltic states got the game via sailors picking it up in British ports, perhaps only as early as the first quarter of the 20th century. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 05:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Novus and cued carrom variants, redux

The article claims that novuss itself is spreading around the world, but this seems unlikely. It is likely that game being referred to as novuss in such contexts is a non-novuss, cue-using carrom variant in several other of these countries. Actual evidence that novuss itself (not just American-style or new carrom variants) is being played in the US, Canada, Australia, Israel, England and Germany needs to be cited; Finland, Russia, Georgia and the Ukraine are more plausible.

— SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 16:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe take a look at this page http://www.novussusa.com/ - it's quite obvious, that it's not NON-novuss game, that is being played in USA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZZbatam (talk • contribs) 14:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One example. That's a start, but the claims in the article seem to imply that novuss is taking the world by storm, but there's not evidence of this so far. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 04:41, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

National sport

I see a call above for sources for this article - it still badly needs more sources. In particular, it shouldn't be too hard for a speaker of the language to find a source for the statement that it has become a national sport - and then it can be readded to that article with that source. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:33, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]