This is a list of cue sports game articles that needs to be created, at least as well-source stubs.
Priority should be determined by a combination of popularity of the game, its historical importance, sourceability, and how much it is redlinked in extant articles.
Overall
Carom
Hand billiards (carom version of
finger pool, and they might be best as same article unless there is evidence of organized competition in both disciplines; redlink from
Cue sport; Napoleon was a notable player, as sourced in Stein & Rubino; redir should exist at
Finger billiards; mention
Boccette in "See also")
Pocket
Artistic pool (exists as section at
Trick shot, but does not really belong there, as it consists of more than trick shots; see
Talk:Trick shot for citable references that provide a lot of detail; presently a redir to
Trick shot)
Mata-mata pool ("kill-kill") (apparently native to either Brazil or Portugal; uses 5 4, according to Portuguese article as of Oct. 2010 each red and blue balls (solids and stripes would work just as well, of course); goal is to sink all balls of different-colored opponent, usu. played on 7 ft tables; little else is said at
pt:Mata-mata (jogo); sounds like a short ver. of eight-ball, but weird phrasing (sink opponents' balls) hints at defensive moves as in cutthroat - maybe player can hit own ball in defense or opponents' in offense?)
Devil's pool (billiards) (redlink at
Devil's pool (disambiguation);
User:SMcCandlish has found a .au source via eBay, but another is probably needed; Australian/New Zealand pin billiards, in which the "pins" are flat obelisks like miniatures of the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A not very authoritative set of rules can be found
here, and at least two 1970s Aus. rulebooks also provided rules, but are extremely difficult to find, the Southern Billiards Rules and the Charlton Rule Book (presumably published by
Eddie Charlton's billiards equipment company). One variant known to use 3 balls, probably but not certainly carom-size, and probably but not certainly on a pocketless table, is known as
victory billiards or
victory pool. A made-up variant using
poker pocket billiards balls was featured in the weird .au sci-fi movie Hard Knuckle.)
Several noteworthy games aside from
bar billiards and
bagatelle; Stein & Rubino go into a few of them briefly, but Shamos covers many of them in detail, incl. with pre-1900 pics that can be legally scanned as public domain)
Misc.
Mouth pool (probably next-to-lowest priority; was detailed by Shamos in one of his Billiards Digest articles ca. 2002-4, not sure, possibly earlier, in the mid-'90s)
Non-notable? – probably NOT wanted
Lowest priority.
Bocce billiards (recent invention, as least as to available sources; small balls, 4 per player/team (red vs. green), under 2", and very small yellow jack or pallino ("bullet") or "jack" (target ball), about 1"; can be played with hands or with cues; pretty much same rules as bocce; see also
Boccette for a
bocce pool variant with a longer history; preserves the size ratio between the bowling balls and the jack much more closely than boccette)
Billiard golf (recent invention, not to be confused with
Golf (pool); adopts scoring system of
golf, with at least three variant sets of rules, and uses a dry-erase chart to keep track of the score;
one version uses different racking patterns, each with a "par" value;
another, also
here, Canadian-made, does the same thing but with different patterns; a
third is radically different, with a unique set of rules)
Blazz (recent, patented invention;
patent; also mentioned by Shamos, presumably in his Enc., though possibly in Pool, or both)
Hexapool (recent invention; was AfD'd, I think on
WP:COI grounds because inventor created article, or on
WP:N grounds because lacked multiple sources)
Poker pool (there are several things called by this and similar names; one,
poker pocket billiards (maybe this one is notable enough to include) in the BCA rulebook and sometimes called
pocker [a disambig page], is a
set of 16 object balls with "A", "K", "Q", "J" as well as numbers, all solids) made by Saluc/Aramith (featured in the movie Hard Knuckle, and Mueller makes a
giant diamond rack for them); one dates to the era of clay balls, unknown in number,
User:SMcCandlish has seen incomplete set, and rules if there ever were any published are unknown, manufacturer unknown, but may well be same game as poker pocket billiards; one is a
commercial recent product (15 really funky, colorful custom balls, with kings and queens and stuff on them) with various rules included; and one is just
a set of 60 cards, played with regular pool balls, and the same games
can basically be played with regular cards, but the results would be slightly skewed because there would only be 52 instead of 60 cards, unless using a hearts deck)
Progressive billiards[1] (presumptively non-notable practice drill masquerading as a new "game" - score carom with no cushions, then 1 cushion, then 2, then 3, restart; was added to and removed from the
Carom billiards article; few G'hits, no reliable sources; is there a regressive billiards? a conservative billiards?)
Starball (recent inventions; 1st is a real set of 7 balls and tokens and stuff, with a novel ruleset, for regular table; 2nd is a patent, with star-shaped rack; 3rd is subject of two patents, for a hex-shaped table, and does not appear to exist in the real world except as patent-filer prototypes, but may be related to or same as Zone-ball and/or Hexapool)
Two-ball billiards are carom games played with only two cue balls. Shamos provides rules for three variants. First variant (kiss-cannons or plon-pon) is to use your cue ball to hit your opponent's ball twice. Second variant is to hit at least two cushions before hitting the other ball. Third variant is the same as the previous one but with three cushions. A fourth variant is known as uniard (pronounced as "yuniard"), a more difficult version of
three-cushions and a culmination of the previous games. One point is scored when a player hits the other player's ball, hits the cushions at least thrice, then contact the other ball again. No known written sources, it's been around since at least the mid-1960s.
Not wanted!
WP:NFT junk that was deleted or simply shouldn't appear here, so no need to (re-)create articles about them.
4D Billiards patented pool table with moving central turntable apparatus (recent invention, still vaporware as far as actual products go, no media coverage worth mentioning; update: still no actual products as of July 2011)
Beer-in-hand (just random kids' term for jacked-up pool; plenty of GHits, but it isn't actually a game, just a fratboy style of playing any pool game; basically a dicdef)
Bjureez (non-notable local UK hand-pool drinking game made up on a blog; no GHits other than a couple of blogs)
CalvinPool (some random kids' pool game; no notable GHits other than its defunct GeoCities page or things that frame or refer to it)
Contie (made-up-one-day variant of snooker; same game except that the colour ball to shoot after a red is chosen by random drawing instead of player choice; was deleted at AfD, but not before a book actually quoted WP-provided "information" from this vanity article; AfD'd
again but should've been speedily deleted as a recreation of previously deleted material)
Impulse killer a.k.a. The Hound (another made-up-one-day goof-off pastime for kids, in which the goal is to never let the cueball stop moving, i.e. any shot taken will be inaccurate random smacking of balls around)
Lolzacat (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP GHits)
Mexican pool (evidently a hoax article; speedied; certainly did not reflect actual pool as played in Mexico, though
Cue sports in Mexico is a viable subject)
Puckpool (game) (Australian coin-op commercial variant of
carrom; utterly non-notable as its own entry, already mentioned at
carrom in an appropriate way, but keeps being added as wikispam to the ExtLinks section there, to be frequently reverted under
WP:SPAM and
WP:EL)
Seven-card ball (more apparent
WP:NFT stuff, added to
Cue sports list by someone, but reverted since not in Shamos 1999, BCA rules or other major works)
This is a list of cue sports game articles that needs to be created, at least as well-source stubs.
Priority should be determined by a combination of popularity of the game, its historical importance, sourceability, and how much it is redlinked in extant articles.
Overall
Carom
Hand billiards (carom version of
finger pool, and they might be best as same article unless there is evidence of organized competition in both disciplines; redlink from
Cue sport; Napoleon was a notable player, as sourced in Stein & Rubino; redir should exist at
Finger billiards; mention
Boccette in "See also")
Pocket
Artistic pool (exists as section at
Trick shot, but does not really belong there, as it consists of more than trick shots; see
Talk:Trick shot for citable references that provide a lot of detail; presently a redir to
Trick shot)
Mata-mata pool ("kill-kill") (apparently native to either Brazil or Portugal; uses 5 4, according to Portuguese article as of Oct. 2010 each red and blue balls (solids and stripes would work just as well, of course); goal is to sink all balls of different-colored opponent, usu. played on 7 ft tables; little else is said at
pt:Mata-mata (jogo); sounds like a short ver. of eight-ball, but weird phrasing (sink opponents' balls) hints at defensive moves as in cutthroat - maybe player can hit own ball in defense or opponents' in offense?)
Devil's pool (billiards) (redlink at
Devil's pool (disambiguation);
User:SMcCandlish has found a .au source via eBay, but another is probably needed; Australian/New Zealand pin billiards, in which the "pins" are flat obelisks like miniatures of the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A not very authoritative set of rules can be found
here, and at least two 1970s Aus. rulebooks also provided rules, but are extremely difficult to find, the Southern Billiards Rules and the Charlton Rule Book (presumably published by
Eddie Charlton's billiards equipment company). One variant known to use 3 balls, probably but not certainly carom-size, and probably but not certainly on a pocketless table, is known as
victory billiards or
victory pool. A made-up variant using
poker pocket billiards balls was featured in the weird .au sci-fi movie Hard Knuckle.)
Several noteworthy games aside from
bar billiards and
bagatelle; Stein & Rubino go into a few of them briefly, but Shamos covers many of them in detail, incl. with pre-1900 pics that can be legally scanned as public domain)
Misc.
Mouth pool (probably next-to-lowest priority; was detailed by Shamos in one of his Billiards Digest articles ca. 2002-4, not sure, possibly earlier, in the mid-'90s)
Non-notable? – probably NOT wanted
Lowest priority.
Bocce billiards (recent invention, as least as to available sources; small balls, 4 per player/team (red vs. green), under 2", and very small yellow jack or pallino ("bullet") or "jack" (target ball), about 1"; can be played with hands or with cues; pretty much same rules as bocce; see also
Boccette for a
bocce pool variant with a longer history; preserves the size ratio between the bowling balls and the jack much more closely than boccette)
Billiard golf (recent invention, not to be confused with
Golf (pool); adopts scoring system of
golf, with at least three variant sets of rules, and uses a dry-erase chart to keep track of the score;
one version uses different racking patterns, each with a "par" value;
another, also
here, Canadian-made, does the same thing but with different patterns; a
third is radically different, with a unique set of rules)
Blazz (recent, patented invention;
patent; also mentioned by Shamos, presumably in his Enc., though possibly in Pool, or both)
Hexapool (recent invention; was AfD'd, I think on
WP:COI grounds because inventor created article, or on
WP:N grounds because lacked multiple sources)
Poker pool (there are several things called by this and similar names; one,
poker pocket billiards (maybe this one is notable enough to include) in the BCA rulebook and sometimes called
pocker [a disambig page], is a
set of 16 object balls with "A", "K", "Q", "J" as well as numbers, all solids) made by Saluc/Aramith (featured in the movie Hard Knuckle, and Mueller makes a
giant diamond rack for them); one dates to the era of clay balls, unknown in number,
User:SMcCandlish has seen incomplete set, and rules if there ever were any published are unknown, manufacturer unknown, but may well be same game as poker pocket billiards; one is a
commercial recent product (15 really funky, colorful custom balls, with kings and queens and stuff on them) with various rules included; and one is just
a set of 60 cards, played with regular pool balls, and the same games
can basically be played with regular cards, but the results would be slightly skewed because there would only be 52 instead of 60 cards, unless using a hearts deck)
Progressive billiards[1] (presumptively non-notable practice drill masquerading as a new "game" - score carom with no cushions, then 1 cushion, then 2, then 3, restart; was added to and removed from the
Carom billiards article; few G'hits, no reliable sources; is there a regressive billiards? a conservative billiards?)
Starball (recent inventions; 1st is a real set of 7 balls and tokens and stuff, with a novel ruleset, for regular table; 2nd is a patent, with star-shaped rack; 3rd is subject of two patents, for a hex-shaped table, and does not appear to exist in the real world except as patent-filer prototypes, but may be related to or same as Zone-ball and/or Hexapool)
Two-ball billiards are carom games played with only two cue balls. Shamos provides rules for three variants. First variant (kiss-cannons or plon-pon) is to use your cue ball to hit your opponent's ball twice. Second variant is to hit at least two cushions before hitting the other ball. Third variant is the same as the previous one but with three cushions. A fourth variant is known as uniard (pronounced as "yuniard"), a more difficult version of
three-cushions and a culmination of the previous games. One point is scored when a player hits the other player's ball, hits the cushions at least thrice, then contact the other ball again. No known written sources, it's been around since at least the mid-1960s.
Not wanted!
WP:NFT junk that was deleted or simply shouldn't appear here, so no need to (re-)create articles about them.
4D Billiards patented pool table with moving central turntable apparatus (recent invention, still vaporware as far as actual products go, no media coverage worth mentioning; update: still no actual products as of July 2011)
Beer-in-hand (just random kids' term for jacked-up pool; plenty of GHits, but it isn't actually a game, just a fratboy style of playing any pool game; basically a dicdef)
Bjureez (non-notable local UK hand-pool drinking game made up on a blog; no GHits other than a couple of blogs)
CalvinPool (some random kids' pool game; no notable GHits other than its defunct GeoCities page or things that frame or refer to it)
Contie (made-up-one-day variant of snooker; same game except that the colour ball to shoot after a red is chosen by random drawing instead of player choice; was deleted at AfD, but not before a book actually quoted WP-provided "information" from this vanity article; AfD'd
again but should've been speedily deleted as a recreation of previously deleted material)
Impulse killer a.k.a. The Hound (another made-up-one-day goof-off pastime for kids, in which the goal is to never let the cueball stop moving, i.e. any shot taken will be inaccurate random smacking of balls around)
Lolzacat (some random kids' pool game; no non-WP GHits)
Mexican pool (evidently a hoax article; speedied; certainly did not reflect actual pool as played in Mexico, though
Cue sports in Mexico is a viable subject)
Puckpool (game) (Australian coin-op commercial variant of
carrom; utterly non-notable as its own entry, already mentioned at
carrom in an appropriate way, but keeps being added as wikispam to the ExtLinks section there, to be frequently reverted under
WP:SPAM and
WP:EL)
Seven-card ball (more apparent
WP:NFT stuff, added to
Cue sports list by someone, but reverted since not in Shamos 1999, BCA rules or other major works)