Project:WikiProject Contract bridge

1. To make Wikipedia a world-class reference on contract bridge

1. To create comprehensive and current coverage on bidding and card play
2. To achieve a uniformity of style in all articles
3. To achieve the featured standard for all top importance bridge articles
4. To achieve minimum GA-class quality standard in all high importance bridge articles
5. To create biographies on all notable bridge players, writers and administrators
6. To create records of achievement for bridge competitions and awards
7. To create links and identify references to other bridge resources, including books and websites

1. All forums and media
2. All bridge topics on bidding and play
3. All notable people, competitions and awards at the international (WBF) and national (zonal and country) level
4. English language bridge literature and references; biographical information may be sourced in other languages

Please put your user name here, in alphabetical order, if you intend to collaborate in the Wikiproject

• :Category:WikiProject Contract bridge participants

• Wikipedia policies and guidelines apply; ensure you are familiar with:
• The five pillars of Wikipedia — a quick rundown of the five key rules you need to start editing.
• Simplified ruleset — 12 rules of thumb to help you avoid problems.
• List of policies — a comprehensive list of the 42 official policies.
• Unless explicitly addressed in the Wiki Bridge Writing Manual of Style, the Wikipedia:Manual of Style governs matters of spelling and grammar. Use a formal style with a consistent theme for text, diagrams, tables and other bridge notations using the available templates. Do not italicize or bold words unless emphasis is explicitly intended.
• The reading audience is the general public and not just bridge experts or enthusiasts. Each contract bridge related article stands on its own merits and should not depend upon or assume any prior knowledge of other articles nor an advanced knowledge of contract bridge or bridge in general.
• All descriptions, symbols and notations are based upon use of the standard fifty-two card French deck.

:See Manual of Style - Main Body

:*Appendix 1: Article creation and naming guidelines

:*Appendix 2: Referenced Manuals of Style

:*Appendix 3: Bidding table examples

:*Appendix 4: Deal diagram examples

:*Appendix 5: Notable people criteria

;Article categories

The categorization of contract bridge articles should be hierarchical and entries as mutually exclusive as possible. Red-link categories should be created when there are sufficient member articles or subcategories created; until then, the article should remain in the parent category.

The table at right represents the proposed general scheme for the categories to be used internally for purpose of managing the contract bridge articles under this project. The titles in bold represent the comparable category names to be used externally for the readers, e.g. in the index of contract bridge articles. Accordingly, the primary categories should remain stable.

;Administrative categories

1. :Category:Contract bridge stubs contains all stub articles, regardless of other categorization
2. :Category:Contract bridge templates contains all bridge related templates

;Project pages

:See also: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=WikiProject+Contract+bridge&namespace=4 List of project subpages]

:See Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge/Assessment

Quality and importance parameter capability has been added to the {{tl|WPCB}} banner but most articles have not been assessed in either parameter.

Consistent application of the grading criteria requires further support by more detailed descriptions of each classification in the context of 'contract bridge'.

• Project watchlist: summary of recent edits to all articles incorporating the WikiProject Contract bridge banner.

In addition to all normal Wiki policy, these will guide how participants will govern themselves on this project.

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See Category:Contract bridge stubs ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:Contract bridge stubs}} articles) for the list of bridge articles designated as stubs. If they are, improve them and remove the tag; if they are not deemed a stub, remove the stub. Stub tags should be removed in accordance with Wiki policy.

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• References to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge: To avoid tedious text entry and ensure consistency, a template is available and includes all seven American editions plus the International Edition. See {{tl|OEB}}
  

:Example:{{OEB|1|100}}

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• Web citation:
  {{cite web |url= |title= |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate= }}
• Web citation, two authors:
  {{cite web |url= |title= |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate= }}
• Book citation:
  {{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |author-mask= |title= |edition= |publisher= |location= |pages= |series= |year= |doi= |lccn= |oclc= |isbn= }}
  

: Example: {{cite book |editor-last = Culbertson |editor-first = Ely |editor-link = Ely Culbertson |title = The Encyclopedia of Bridge |edition = |publisher = The Bridge World, Inc |location = New York |page =

|series = |year = 1935 |doi = |isbn = }}

: Example: {{cite book |last = Hasenson |first = Peter |authorlink = |title = British Bridge Almanack |publisher = 77 Publishing |location = London |pages = |series = |year = 2004 |doi =

|isbn = 0-9549241-0-X}}

: Example: {{cite book |last1 = Bourke |first1 = Tim |authorlink1 = Tim Bourke |last2 = Sugden |first2 = John |authorlink2 = |title = Bridge Books in English 1886-2010: an annotated bibliography

|publisher = Bridge Book Buffs |location = Cheltenham, England |series = |year = 2010 |doi = |isbn = 978-0-9566576-0-2}}

: Example: {{cite book |last= Kearse |first= Amalya |authorlink= Amalya Kearse |title= Bridge Conventions Complete |publisher= Devyn Press Inc. |location= Louisville, KY |edition= Revised and Expanded |series= |year= 1990 |doi= |isbn= 0-910791-76-7}} 1121 pages.

• Book citation Author-mask is "emdash":
  {{cite book |author-mask= 1 |last= |first= |authorlink= |title= |publisher= |location= |edition= |series= |year= |doi= |lccn= |oclc= |isbn= }}

: Example: {{cite book |author-mask=1 |last = Kearse |first = Amalya |authorlink = Amalya Kearse |title = Bridge Conventions Complete |publisher = Devyn Press Inc. |location = Louisville, KY |edition = Revised and Expanded |series = |year = 1990 |doi = |isbn = 0-910791-76-7}} 1121 pages.

• Book citation Author-mask is "with":
  {{cite book |author-mask= with |last1= |first1= |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |title= |publisher= |location= |edition= |series= |year= |doi= |lccn= |oclc= |isbn= }}

: Example: {{cite book |author-mask=with |last1 = Kearse |first1 = Amalya |authorlink1 = Amalya Kearse |last2 = Someone |first2 = Else |authorlink2 = |title = Bridge Conventions Complete |publisher = Devyn Press Inc. |location = Louisville, KY |edition = Revised and Expanded |series = |year = 1990 |doi = |isbn = 0-910791-76-7}} 1121 pages.

• Book citation, two authors:
  {{cite book |last1= |first1= |authorlink1= |last2= |first2= |authorlink2= |title= |edition= |publisher= |location= |pages= |series= |year=

|doi= |lccn= |oclc= |isbn= }}

• Journal citation:
  {{cite journal |author= |authorlink= |editor= |editor-link= |date= |year= |month= |title= |trans_title= |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |location= |publisher= |isbn= |issn= |quote= }}
  

: Example: {{cite journal |author= |authorlink= |editor = Alphonse Moyse, Jr. |editor-link = |date= |year= |title= Article Title |journal= The Bridge World |volume= |issue= |pages= |location= New York | issn= |quote= }}

: Example: {{cite journal |author= |authorlink= |editor= Jeff Rubens |editor-link= Jeff Rubens |date = |year = |title = Article Title |journal= The Bridge World |volume= |issue= |pages= |location = Scarsdale, NY |publisher= Bridge World Magazine Inc |issn= 0006-9876 |quote=}}

• Newspaper citation:
  {{cite news |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |url-status= |work= |location= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=}}

: Examples: See examples of variations at the template page

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Updated 2014-10-28. [http://www.worldbridge.org/categories/women/stars.asp Women Stars] at the WBF lists 18 stars with links to on-site biographies for 13 of them (all 8 past stars and 5 from a recent list of Top 10 grand masters). One of the 13 has no page here (Anna Valenti); seven pages were created October 2014 with little prose (Auken, Culbertson, Deas, Hawes, Kennedy, Meyers, Sanborn). The others have entries that may underuse or overlook their WBF biographies: *Fritzi Gordon, *Rixi Markus, *Helen Sobel Smith, *Dorothy Hayden Truscott; *Nicola Smith.

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Updated 2014-10-28. The ACBL title "Life Master" was inaugurated by the American Bridge League in 1936 with a class of ten players ranked by their achievements in national competition (see David Burnstine#Notes). One of the 10 has no page here (Sam Fry #10); four pages were created October 2014 with little prose (Becker #6, Frey #8, Lightner #7, Von Zedtwitz #4).

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