Talk:World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association

WLBSA
Hi. There was no Wikipedia (WP) reference to the Ladies' equivalent - the WLBSA - despite WLBSA being referred to in 8 separate WP articles.

So, I've added this line: "There is also a Ladies association - the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA) - with its own tournaments and rankings."

I've left the full title in red (for now), expecting that, in time, the independent WP article will emerge. Please do feel free to expand on this first line or - better still - create the independent article.

Thanks, Trafford09 (talk) 12:33, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Barry Hearn
The article is seriously out of date, could anyone add something about what has happened after Barry Hearn took over? MathHisSci (talk) 17:48, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

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WPBSA and World Snooker Ltd
An anon radically changed the article, allegedly to clear up confusion between the commercial entity World Snooker Ltd, and the WPBSA organization, but also deleting all controversy-related information and sources, and making other undiscussed changes. I've reverted that. However, the anon may have a point worth looking into. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  07:45, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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Conflict
The WPBSA and IBSF are having a quarell once again as WPBSA is trying to build an amateur division with the 2017 newly founded World Snooker Federation (WSF) that aims to take away all the (usually amateur) national associations from the amateur IBSF; the European EBSA already joined WSF and left IBSF in October 2017. The original 2013 aggreement within the World Confederation of Billiards Sports had been that WPBSA and IBSF would revive the original WSF from 1992, which had failed and had to be dissolved in 2004, as a joint cooperation, but in the following years nothing happened, and in 2017 WPBSA decided for disruption and took matters in its own hands by forming a new WSF and ignoring the ISBF. The WSF is not recognized by the WCBS and thus also has no IOC recognition. Negotiations in 2018 obviously failed, and instead the WPBSA reacted by discarding the professional wildcards of ISBF players. See:
 * https://www.wpbsa.com/world-snooker-federation-wsf/
 * http://www.ibsf.info/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=698:ibsf-news-letter-from-president-to-all-member-countries&Itemid=113
 * http://www.ibsf.info/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=747:wcbs-statement-on-issues-between-ibsf-wpbsa&Itemid=113
 * http://www.ibsf.info/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=748:ibsf-statement-24th-january-2018&Itemid=113
 * http://www.ibsf.info/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=757:ibsf-statement-5th-march-2018-clarification-regarding-membership-of-ibsf&Itemid=113
 * http://www.ibsf.info/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=758:ibsf-news-message-from-ibsf-president&Itemid=113
 * http://www.ibsf.info/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=759:wcbs-statement-15-03-2018&Itemid=113

--SamWinchester000 (talk) 00:34, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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