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Championships

I am in the crowd ;-) working on the championships articles, not only lists and categories.

Probably my first new championships article will cover the European Team Championships. See User:P64/Bridge/European Bridge League#National teams where I have experimented with the tabular presentation of Results. (I have entered all the gold-medal winning teams but data entry is otherwise incomplete.) I solicit comment on some of the variations in layout.

At World Transnational Open Teams Championship I have revised the lead section to include some of the features that I hope to add elsewhere too. --P64 (talk) 21:00, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Yesterday I started major expansion of World Junior Pairs Championship and World Junior Teams Championship. See their Talk pages for some explanation of the strategy.

Before doing more work on tabular presentation of Results & Participants, i solicit comment on some of the variation that I have introduced in the Results & Participants tables. See Juniors 2008–2010; Youngsters; Girls.—one and two screens above World Junior Teams Championship#Venues. Pay attention to forward and reverse chronological order, bold and plain face, uppercase and lowercase surnames, full names and surnames only. Full name with surname uppercase is the format displayed at WBF and EBL results & participants, and by far the most convenient to provide here (largely by cut and paste). Other variations that I have introduced tend to differentiate first place gold medalists from second and third place finishers.

--P64 (talk) 20:55, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Youth program. In both articles World Junior Teams Championship and World Junior Pairs Championship, the new hatnote and new section "Scope" explain (without references yet) the WBF youth program with emphasis on allocation of its coverage entirely to the two articles. The division is not between odd years and even years but between events for Teams and events for Pairs or Individuals. I expect that will retire me from coverage of youth bridge until after next year's 2nd World Mind Sports Games. Depending on how the WBF presents the WMSG and World Youth Congress constituent events, after the first two renditions of both meets are in the books, it may be reasonable to write an article on the youth program, to rename these two articles or reduce their content and write new ones, etc. --P64 (talk) 18:58, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Colors (gold, silver, bronze). By the way, background colors used in standard tabular presentation of medalists (probably inherited from wikipedia coverage of the Olympic Games) are about as bad as can be for red-green colorblind visitors. See Vischeck display of World Junior Teams Championship; section "World Youth Congress" for example. --P64 (talk) 16:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I like the new-style table that Newwhist introduced last fall for Rosenblum Cup results: Year YYYY and Venue in one left-hand column whose cells span all the medalists, with a different background color too. When I added references to the article, I extended that approach by adding the number of entries to the left column. Then I rewrote the McConnell Cup table to match.

What do you think, Newwhist? How did you select the background color bgcolor="#F5F5DC"?

Does anyone else have an opinion about the table style? (I'll repeat the question at Talk:Rosenblum Cup.) --P64 (talk) 19:40, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I like it. I think I just copied the background color for the first column from another article but cannot remember where. BTW, thanks for all the good editing on championship articles you have been doing lately - great stuff. Newwhist (talk) 13:20, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Background colors.
(insertion 2011-09-29)   HTML color picker —probably more useful
HTML Color Chart with 140 Color Names. Remarkably, the one whose numerical code Newwhist copied (#F5F5DC) is the same that I had guessed by name at another page, and forgotten (beige). --P64 (talk) 23:18, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Using the European Youth Teams Championships for example, I have experimented with the table that present historical results. None of the tables are complete and some have data for only one tournament. On the other hand, some represent complete final standings. I solicit comments. --P64 (talk) 21:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

The plain text table now called "column year" will be suitable for cut and paste, perhaps to a spreadsheet program. --P64 (talk) 21:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Captain. "Bermuda Bowl" at Infobridge (Italian) not only consistently lists Captains and Coaches but lists them first. WBF and EBL list simple players alphabetically by surname, followed by other team members. They and infobridge [suffixing (cng) and (cg)] both distinguish non-playing and playing captains but list them identically.

Routinely I have omitted non-playing captains and coaches, where I have listed team members in tables of tournament results (ordinarily by cut & paste from WBF/EBL). Previously omission has been the rule, with occasional exceptions. I have not deleted the latter but my own few exceptions have been purposeful, such as Paul Stern.

If and where captains are listed, I am reluctant to rely (as others have done) on npc or (npc) and pc, etc, to distinguish them. Perhaps this should be OK, because those abbreviations are so well-known in the bridge world, and catering to outsiders is so unimportant on this point. I have seen also cap Capt. (capt), and so on, to identify the captain. --P64 (talk) 18:16, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Medalists conversion essentially done. 2011-09-14/15, for most "World Championships" articles i have essentially completed the conversion of "Medalists" tables to a new style that gives general information for each tournament (rendition) in column one, with a distinct background color bgcolor=beige. (It's beige for WBF and lightblue for EBL, which now appears in article space primarily at World Junior Teams Championship.) Routinely the general information for the tournament is Year, city Site, and number of Entries, plus one or two general references. For many tournaments i have deleted the now-redundant Venues section (without yet any appropriate revision of the text, only incorporation of the data in the table).

pairs Medalists. Medalist tables for the three major (Open, Women, Mixed) Pairs tournaments alone retain the old column dedicated to reporting Entries, the size of the field. The distinction makes some sense because Pairs tournaments naturally provide less vertical space for general data in column one. For example see World Mixed Pairs Championship. I am not convinced one way or the other. It is now relatively easy to go either way and I solicit comment on the Entries column for both Teams (eliminated) and Pairs (retained) tables.

(pairs, contd). At World Junior Teams Championship#European Junior Pairs (two tables), see (a) pairs Medalists with Entries reported in a column one that is busier for that reason; (b) pairs Medalists with Entries for three flights reported and referenced in two different ways, a very busy column one and an extra row. I solicit comment on both alternatives.

(pairs, contd). Feel free to reply either here or at Talk for the two linked Pairs tournaments. I hope to draft the MOS for Tournaments aka Championships during the next month and to secure it by the October 29 conclusion of the Bermuda Bowl, etc. Somewhere along the way I will export some of this discussion of Championships to that style page and its Talk. —as Newwhist has done with People style and its Talk.

--P64 (talk) 23:06, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

2011-12-09 Senior Bowl (bridge) now represents a giant step toward model for other "competitions articles". It reveals my strategy broadly. [with narrow hints to, such as References format]

Contents
   * 1 Structure
   * 2 Latest rendition
   * 3 2000 exhibition
   * 4 Historical results (formerly "Results")
   * 5 Zones and nations
   * 6 See also
   * 7 Notes
   * 8 References
   * 9 External links
   (Categories)

That is flat, where sections 3 and 4 (bold) might be grouped together under "History", "Past renditions", etc, and subclassed {2000 exhibition, serial Medalist table, cumulative Statistics, notable incidents, whatever}.

The main point today, for those who have followed closely, is a short lead section that defines the competition, reports frequency since when, identifies the trophy and briefly the latest result, schedules the next rendition. Section "Structure" covers tournament structure and may be the place for more of the definition (something "Zones and nations" extends in this draft). Those two sections 1 and 5 should become shorter here, maybe shorter and combined, as some repetitive material is covered in "Main articles" or in sections of "World Championship Bridge" or whatever. Section "Latest rendition" followed immediately by coverage of past renditions in one more sections (2 3 4 in this case) is supposed to be or to become a core that will interest some readers and editors almost exclusively. Approximately it is Sport Almanac coverage that presupposes a knowing audience.

I do still plan a guideline or strategy page, with Talk that will be destinations for export of this section. Maybe this year!

During mid-December I will write more in the competitions articles, moving some toward this half-baked model, without inadequate documentation especially for the new material (sections 1 and 5 here).

Back to the salt mines! --P64 (talk) 20:06, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

I have tried a few different displays for Linescores. See User:P64/Bridge/Sandbox#Linescores. --P64 (talk) 21:06, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

As of 2013-02-15, that link to User:P64/Bridge/Sandbox is valid.

Elsewhere on this page I have disabled what is obsolete. --P64 (talk) 01:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Computer bridge excluded?

I do not see computer bridge mentioned at all among goals, objectives and scope of this project? Is there no ambition to have excellent coverage of that, or is it in a separate project? If so, link to it! (The chess project seems to include computer chess...) 85.230.254.123 (talk) 02:27, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

I would certainly view computer bridge as falling under the scope of the project, and wouldn't read anything into its not being specifically mentioned within the objectives and scope sections. I think computer bridge is included within the goal of "To make Wikipedia a world-class reference on contract bridge". JH (talk page) 08:47, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

It is included — computer bridge is tagged with the WikiProject Contract bridge template. To make it more explicit, I have added an entry under Scope. Newwhist (talk) 14:08, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Kaplan–Sheinwold and its redirects

K–S (dash) and Kaplan-Sheinwold now redirect to Kaplan–Sheinwold which is a new title, old article.

Does this need reporting? Does the project claim redirects? I think not (so that they normally lack Talk pages). --P64 (talk) 16:00, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Now I have tagged the redirect K–S (dash) and assigned it Mid-importance. This one has importance because KS disambiguates dozens of entries and some of those have claims to K-S or K–S although that is not yet stated.

If I understand correctly this redirect will show up in our assessment table Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Contract bridge articles by quality statistics. --although without any "Redirect" row.

--P64 (talk) 02:01, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

On the other hand, I see there is a feature we must enable in order to report redirects as a class of pages. See Talk:John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. where five WikiProjects all set class=redirect but only three banners report that class.

Evidently we need a custom class (Template:Class mask) --such as Template:WikiProject Companies/class-- with FQS=yes and redirect=yes.

--P64 (talk) 22:02, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Slam and Grand Slam disambiguations

I have tagged the WP:DAB pages slam and grand slam (as redirected) and assigned them low- and mid-importance respectively. Slam is historically prior but the contrary difference in importance is indicated by the current leads.

• Slam or SLAM may refer to:
• Grand slam is a term derived from the card game of contract bridge where it refers to a contract to win all thirteen tricks on one deal.

Grand slam or grandslam may also refer to:

If I understand correctly, these two disambiguations will soon show up in our assessment table Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Contract bridge articles by quality statistics. --in a new "Disambiguation" row.

Compare #Kaplan–Sheinwold and its redirects.

--P64 (talk) 02:28, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the two dab are now covered in that report (row 'Disamb').

To cover redirects under the name 'Redirect' is more complicated (see #Kaplan–Sheinwold and its redirects) but the two redirects are now the only pages covered in row 'NA'. --and that is now adequate for me.

--P64 (talk) 01:12, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the additions to the assessment table for disambiguation and redirect pages. I am happy to leave these as you have labelled them for now but do believe that since they are administrative/navigational in nature, they do not really need article quality assessment ratings, i.e. they are not articles per se. I would have rated each with "class=NA" myself. Interesting that redirects do not have a proper row header; I will investigate if this is possible at some point - I recall that there is an ability to add custom fields but it has been some time since I dabbled in the assessment templates. Newwhist (talk) 13:15, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

About custom classes see my latest at #Kaplan–Sheinwold and its redirects.

'Disamb' (and 'Redirect' if in use) is a class alternative to {Stub, Start, C, B, ...}, same as List, Book, File, Portal, Project, Template, etc. So genuine quality assessment is not applicable to any of them, which is ridiculous for List and Portal at least, and unfortunate for some instances of the others.

So it is importance not quality that I have assessed for Grand Slam. I'll upgrade it to High when its otherwise time to revisit its Talk page. Probably there never be an article about grand slam in contract bridge, as there is about g.s. in baseball and G.S. in lawn tennis and real tennis. But most other uses are derived from contract bridge, ultimately from whist; the exceptions may also be derived from whist. So grand slam at the card table is notable for the disambiguation page and mentioned in the lead.

The Disamb. Grand Slam is not unique here; Bridge (disambiguation) must be Top importance. Beside Slam (disambiguation) that I have already graded Low, other candidates include at least contract, double, honor, trump, ruff. ... Evidently it's time that I visit WP:GAMES and skim, at least. --P64 (talk) 17:54, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

My apologies for my earlier comment. I erred. I intended to say that disambiguation and redirect pages should not have importance ratings other than NA. To parse degrees of importance for these administrative/navigational pages is unnecessary. However, I do agree that List pages (and some others that you mentioned) ought to be able to have an importance rating. Newwhist (talk) 21:48, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

List pages should commonly be graded for quality too but current wiki-tools do not enable that.

A few dab pages have importance and quality attributes. Broadly I suppose that is true insofar as they are not purely navigational, which may in turn depart from some guideline. If they later become purely navigational they can be re-graded of no importance and NA quality.

--P64 (talk) 22:39, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Today I completed major revision of the disambiguation Grand Slam where the grand slam in contract bridge is (as it was) featured in the lead sentence although not as a formal primary topic. Mainly I added dates, put subsections in chron order, and revised wording primarily with knowledge acquired as a I located dates.

Along the way I learned that the derivation from contract bridge of "grand slam" as used for the particular comprehensive or great achievement --my words now in the Grand Slam lead-- is respectively mentioned, covered, and featured in the golf, baseball, and (lawn) tennis articles. Where the origin of the term is featured (section Grand slam (tennis)#Origin of the term "Grand Slam"), I have recently added whist, etc, with source "slam" at Online Etymological Dictionary. --P64 (talk) 22:39, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Ira Rubin

This newly-created stub needs some work. Bearian (talk) 20:21, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Looks like this has been done. Time to remove this topic?? Nicolas.hammond (talk) 18:55, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

WBF website redesign

Unfortunately, a broken link may return some unhelpful general page[1] rather than this helpful ERROR MESSAGE:

We have totally redone this site as of February 23, 2013 and so all the page names are different. Our apologies!

Please use the menu above to find what you are looking for. ...

If you have many pages linking to us try changing the .asp to .aspx, this will work for most tournament results and people. In some cases also remove the folders. If you need assistance with your links to us please contact our webmaster

Some related discussion: Template talk:WBFpeople#New pathname

--P64 (talk) 20:15, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Examples

Let me record examples here as I encounter them.

Bobby Levin --player international record

http://www.worldbridge.org/people/person.asp?qryid=11125

http://www.worldbridge.org/people/person.aspx?qryid=11125 [insert 'x']

N.B. Template {{WBFpeople}} works. Its use saves keystrokes and eases maintenance of links to player records (where it has been used in the past, we have recovered all links to player records by revising the template once). Please use it. If/where it is inadequate please discuss at Template talk: WBFpeople.

World Team Championship(s) --top page for Bermuda/Venice/Senior Bowl

http://www.worldbridge.org/competitions/worldchampionships/teamchampionships.asp?qmenuid=20

http://www.worldbridge.org/world-team-championships.aspx

[1981] 25th World Team Championships --aka Results & Participants

http://www.worldbridge.org/competitions/worldchampionships/TeamChampRP.asp?qmenudetid=213

http://www.worldbridge.org/TeamChampRP.aspx?qmenudetid=213

I have improved Bobby Levin, following work on the new article Steve Weinstein. Among other things --something I didn't expect when I visited two hours ago-- I have updated the official player record and Bermuda Bowl links in the Levin biography only. --P64 (talk) 20:56, 14 June 2013 (UTC)