Welcome! edit

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My notes edit

Bridgewinners. VBilt: http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/looking-for-wikipedia-volunteers/

GitHub Results: https://github.com/njhammond/generate_bridge_wikipedia_entries/tree/master/results

Wikipedia Contract Bridge list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Contract_bridge/NABC_multiple_winners

Wiki Contract Bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Contract_bridge

Adding a New Bridge Player edit

See details on GitHub for basic data. Start out at https://github.com/njhammond/generate_bridge_wikipedia_entries. To start a new player, here's what I do

General criteria should be a North American Bridge Championship or World Bridge Federation (WBF) event. This are generally "open" events including the top players in the world. Other National Bridge Organizations are more restrictive in who can take part. Females are under-represented in Wikipedia pages in Bridge.

Speedy deletion nomination of Lew Stansby edit

 

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Lew Stansby was added. Amazing that someone with his credentials featured a speedy deletion. Since then I have added over 100 entries. All accepted. Just documenting here for the next time that someone tries a speedy delete I can refer them to here.Nicolas.hammond (talk) 16:01, 13 December 2014 (UTC)Reply


Crowdsourcing in cheating in bridge edit

This is just to let you know of the brief entry made at Crowdsourcing#Crowdsourcing in cheating in bridge. Newwhist (talk) 00:54, 3 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Tx. I was very involved with the crowd sourcing effort. Crowd sourcing did not find, or verify, any cheaters. What it did to was to crowd source the data, i.e. time of opening leads. If we look at the various cases, FN was found by Maaike, FS by Per-Ola, BZ/PS were turned in by "No Matter". I do not think what has been written about crowd-sourcing in bridge is currently accurate on what happened.

Peggy Golder/Solomon edit

Nicolas, In the Bridge Winners thread concerning the ACBL Hall of Fame ("Truth in advertising") you refer to a CSV table of alternative names. Peggy Golder is not in that table. There may be others.

See WP:WikiProject Contract bridge/NABC multiple winners for some other candidates that you may be missing. I believe you are familiar with redirect pages, such as Peggy Golder itself, and you will be able to figure out the notes such as this one at the foot of the 3rd of 5 columns, which lists people with 10 to 14 NABC wins as of some years ago.

  • Peggy Solomon [total, 12=9+3 wins]

Thanks. I updated the script. I made Peggy Golder an alternative name for Peggy Solomon and re-ran the data. Peggy S now makes my "10 winners" list.Nicolas.hammond (talk) 20:59, 13 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

--P64 (talk) 23:11, 10 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Tainted titles edit

See my belated contribution at WT:WPCB#Tainted titles. There you see, I have taken the liberty of creating a new Talk page in your user space.

Now I must depart, and pore over 4 sessions of results from this weekend. --P64 (talk) 23:16, 10 October 2016 (UTC)Reply


10 Winners edit

See https://github.com/njhammond/generate_bridge_wikipedia_entries This list created on Feb 3 2017, but based on data that is probably 12-18 months old. Just because a link is red does not mean the entry does not exist in Wikipedia, it could just be listed under a different name.

5 Winners edit

See https://github.com/njhammond/generate_bridge_wikipedia_entries This list created on Feb 3 2017, but based on data that is probably 12-18 months old.


inclThis user is an inclusionist.

Proposed deletion of Ida Grönkvist edit

 

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It had two reliable sources when it was created. The next source had her name spelled wrong. Please read the article next time and do not rely on automated tools.Nicolas.hammond (talk)

I've left in these comments to show the difficulty I sometimes have of adding articles. My account is autopatrolled which is supposed to avoid this kind of issues. Ida is a World Champion, yet the entry was originally first denied. The page now exists. Nicolas.hammond (talk) 06:21, 11 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sara Sivelind moved to draftspace edit

An article you recently created, Sara Sivelind, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. GPL93 (talk) 20:44, 6 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Leaving this up to show the continued problem. Sara is a Youth World Champion. She is on the Polish Wikipedia site. Nicolas.hammond (talk) 06:25, 11 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Kristen Onsgard moved to draftspace edit

Listed so can track what happens to this page. See User_talk:Geschichte

Going to document the extra work that happens.

March 24: Wrote article. Submitted. My account is autopatrolled. Article created in similar style to other Bridge articles. The article included a picture.

March 25: Someone I don't know moved the article to draftspace. This defeats the purpose of being autopatrolled.

March 25: Because the article has moved to draftspace, the category links were removed. I presume this was a somewhat automated process. Note that when the article was moved back to the main space these category links were not put back. This required manual reinsertion later.

April 13: Manually reinsert the category links that were removed March 25.

Autopatrolled edit

I am one of approximately 4800 Wikipedians who have autopatrol privileges. It is supposed to make it easier for me to create new pages but does not always seems to work. See Nicolas.hammond (current rights · rights management · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) · block log).

Interesting that it always seems to be the female players that are rejected, even when they have the same record as the articles on male players that I created. I started to keep track of all the rejected articles (see above) so I can track this behavior.

Women in Red edit

Hi there, Nicolas.hammond, and welcome to Women in Red. It's good to have you as a member of the project with your continuing interest in women bridge players. Keep up the good work!--Ipigott (talk) 13:06, 29 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sara Sivelind (August 17) edit

 
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––FormalDude talk 04:17, 17 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
 
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Nice passive aggressive tone. I've done 2500+ edits on Wikipedia. My account is autopatrolled. But I got an invite "to help new editors like yourself". Yet another female that was declined an entry on Wikipedia. Anyone starting to spot a pattern? Nicolas.hammond (talk) 06:28, 11 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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