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Talk:Duck (bridge)

message: Someone has changed the main page as saying when *not* to duck as well as when to duck. As this page currently doesn't say when not to duck I'm changing it back. However, it might be a good idea putting in examples where ducking is foolish. I like to think "Duck only when there is a good reason to" but many players seem to duck randomly. I like then squeezing them... >:-). Anyone got any ideas? Cambion 17:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: To Duck or not to duck
Talk:Winkle squeeze

message: What's the contract for the example?  Who's lead is it?
209.242.167.226 (talk) 16:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Improve example

message: The article shows one example (good, and one example could be enough). The general description before the example should be improved. What is it that distinguishes a "winkle" from other squeezes or from other "forcing defender to lead at a disadvantage" tactics (Swe. "inpetning")? 
(Anders Hallström)
83.226.181.235 (talk) 11:42, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please quantify
Talk:Stepping-stone squeeze

message: Surely stepping-stone should be hyphenated? It's a concatenation of two words.
Cambion 11:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so too. Steppingstone is plain ugly. I think I have Reese's book in question, so I can check, but I think I would have noticed if he spelled it differently. Duja 15:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I checked the book, Reese uses "stepping-stone" throughout. Duja 08:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, "stepping-stone" it is. Winston Churchill wrote, "One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible." However, Churchill was known to be a rotten bridge player, so let's use the hyphen. I have rephrased the derivation of "stepping-stone" in part to avoid "metaphor," which I thought needed more explanatory verbiage. BTW, in English, the word "metaphor" drops the final "e" in contrast to, e.g., "gonophore."  Xlmvp 14:28, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Pseudo-squeeze

message: Those new examples are seriously nice (particularly the 2nd one). Is it ok to use hands from books btw? I've always either made them up or used ones that occured to me in real life. (I don't think I'd have found the play to make the 2nd one...:-) ) Cambion 14:05, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess it's up to the writer's style: while formal style is generally preferred, my own preference (on wikipedia as well in general) is to resort to jargon if it gets straight to the point. Your formulation "a play by declarer that takes advantage of a layout of the cards" meant nothing, as pretty much every technique in bridge is exactly that. Duja► 09:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

text: No hard and fast rules; but yes, if an example is taken from a book, it should be credited. I don't think the bridge hands and examples can be copyrighted, as they represent ideas rather than original artwork, and the ideas are not copyrightable (but do deserve due credit). Oh, and thank you for your contributions. I assume you're the same person as User:FutharkRed? You're certainly welcome to continue to edit not logged-in (as an "anon"), but it's generally better to stick to a user account for both you (more anonymity, your contributions centralized under the account name) and other wikipedians (easier to talk with a "real name" than with a dynamic IP address). Duja► 09:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Point would be people new to bridge might not know, those that haven't read bridge books. Obscurans 19:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Guard squeeze

message: The Double Guard Squeeze is not so rare (although the layout of the specific example given is indeed a rarity).
Is this really a Double Guard Squeeze or something a little more exotic ?
It appears to be a sort of mirror hybrid !
My understanding is that The Double Guard Squeeze is very closely related to the Compound Squeeze.
Assume that all the conditions for a compound squeeze are present except that one of the two ambiguous threats has no entry. As the opponents will discard to ensure that the entry-less ambiguous threat will end up as the common threat for the ensuing double squeeze then, by definition, this compound squeeze must fail. 
In these cases, the Double Guard Squeeze can come to the rescue.
Its basic form consists of a simple guard squeeze on one opponent followed by a simple squeeze (or successful finesse )against the other opponent. The need to guard against the finesse turns out to be ample compensation for the lack of an entry to the common threat. 
Would it help to provide some different examples of these ?
Tjlillie 22:27, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rarity of the Double Guard Squeeze ?
Talk:D. J. Opperman

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 07:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: This page needs to be checked by someone who is more au fait with WP's standard biographical style than I am. --Slashme 09:20, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proper biographical style

message: What did he always write about what similar in every poem 41.147.1.25 (talk) 17:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is he always writting about, what to it always relate to
Talk:Jack Carroll (politician)

message: Sorry for the recent disturbance of this page. Unfortunately, instead of creating another page named "Jack Carroll (criminal)" it appears that user:Jarrodcav just deleted the information and replaced it with the second Jack Carroll. I will make another page called Jack Carroll (criminal) and maybe a link on this page could be put up saying "did you mean Jack Carrol, a Perth criminal" or something along those lines. Sorry for the disturbance and thankyou for any further cooperation.
--Alexbonaro 09:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good lord indeed... 
Talk:Henry Ford (illustrator)

message: Henry Chapman Ford  (1828 - 1894) provided enough for the initial stub.--Jerzy•t 09:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

message: Whoops! FORD, Henry, Illustrator; LANG, Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book ... documents Henry Ford (1860-1941).  More research needed, and Henry Ford (illustrator) probably needs to be a Dab. --Jerzy•t 09:30, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Chip tuning

message: This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): WestonChants.
=== Appearance? ===
"Chip tuning refers to changing or modifying an EPROM chip in a car's or other vehicle's electronic control unit (ECU) to achieve better performance, whether it be more power, cleaner emissions or better fuel economy."
...Better appearance?  Ahanix1989 05:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

message: "Chip tuning refers to changing or modifying an EPROM chip in a car's or other vehicle's electronic control unit (ECU) to achieve better performance, whether it be more power, cleaner emissions or better fuel economy."
...Better appearance?  Ahanix1989 05:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appearance? 

message: What sort of image would demonstrate this concept? Nave.notnilc (talk) 23:51, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture? 

message: I removed some Powerchip promotion that is related to some drama:
*ANI
*Powerchip AfD
Please keep this out of the article unless high quality reliable secondary sourcing is established.  67.117.130.143 (talk) 06:39, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  promotion 

message: The article would benefit from the inclusion of diesel engines in the discussion, since remaps and tuning boxes apply to these, too. EdX20 (talk) 21:05, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diesels
Talk:Guy Menzies

message: I hope it doesn't look like I'm monopolising this article, but I reverted the addition of the Squadron Leader/RAF titles from the first line of the article, as it implies that Menzies was a Squadron Leader in the RAF when he flew the solo flight. I think this is consistent with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Honorific prefixes. - Gobeirne 09:36, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Squadron Leader
File talk:80486dx2-large.jpg

message: How was the protective layer removed? --Abdull 09:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no "protective layer."  I only removed a portion of the FPGA packaging to expose the die.  Nothing else was altered or removed. -- uberpenguin @ 2006-06-29 14:02Z 14:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Category talk:People educated at the City of London School

message: Joe Strummer seems to have gone to City of London Freeman's school. IS this the same as City of London School?  IF not, should he be removed from this list?
:Freeman's is a different place, albeit with some links (I live near it but went to CLS). Timrollpickering 17:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Joe Strummer
Talk:Samurai in Japanese literature

message: I thought that the Bushido page was far too long, and disjointed due to the literary references. As a means of perhaps simplifying the Bushido page, whilst allowing more scope for discussion of the literature, it would be better to separate the two. I have basically copied the earlier sections from the Bushido page, and will gradually migrate them over when I have time. Note: nothing is lost here, and they are direct copies.--OzzieB 09:48, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bushido literature

message: No mention of the Hagakure/Book of the Samurai?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.169.205 (talk) 03:37, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hagakure
Talk:Hostomel Airport

message: Wouldn't it be appropriate to move this article from the existing Gostomel to Hostomel to reflect more properly the Ukrainian pronunciation of Гостомель, as г  is an h  in this language (except in very few cases)? ✓ Kanġi Oĥanko (talk) 18:11, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''H'''ostomel i.o. ''G''ostomel
Talk:Herbert Sausgruber

message: Translation from the german article about him. You can read it on the german language wikipedia here: . I'll add the link to the german article under "Weblinks". --DocBrown 10:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Bruno Beger

message: I have A LOT of information to add to this article, including references, but I'm busy rewriting the Ahnenerbe article (in which I talk about Beger).  Once I'm done with that article, this one is on my to-do list. JW 10:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Aristophanes of Byzantium

message: Just to clarify my deletion of "significant". I know that he was significant, but under WP:POV we should let the facts speak for themselves unless someone can fins a source saying that he was significant. That's just Wikipedia bureaucracy. --Brownlee 10:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: :Aristophanes chiefly devoted himself to the poets, especially Homer, who had already been edited by his master Zenodotus. He also edited Hesiod, the chief lyric, tragic and comic poets, arranged Plato's dialogues in trilogies, and abridged Aristotle's Nature of Animals. His arguments to the plays of Aristophanes and the tragedians are in great part preserved. His works on Athenian courtesans, masks and proverbs were the results of his study of Attic comedy. He further commented on the Πινακεs (????  i just typed this in by sight) of Callimachus, a sort of history of Greek literature. As a lexicographer, Aristophanes compiled collections of foreign and unusual words and expressions, and special lists (words denoting relationship, modes of address). As a grammarian, he founded a scientific school, and in his Analogy systematically explained the various forms. He introduced critical signs — except the obelus; punctuation prosodiacal, and accentual marks were probably already in use. The foundation of the so-called Alexandrian "canon" was also due to his impulse (Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol., ed. 1906, i. 129 f.).
:Nauck, Aristophanis Byzantii Grammatici Fragmenta (1848). 
Some of this needs to go in the article — Omegatron 02:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stuff from 1911 Brittanica to include 

message: I'm not at all certain the flags are appropriate for someone who died thousands of years before they, and their country, was created. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 18:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags? 
Talk:Ashford International railway station

message: "4tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross, of which five run via Tonbridge and one via Maidstone East". Six in to four? I think this needs fixing but not knowing the correct info myself I can't do it! - Feebtlas 10:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frequency 

message: Surely the international station is owned by London and Continental Stations and Property, the property arm of LCR? If so, does this include the 2 international platforms or just the international station building —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deep Hue (talk • contribs) 
: Not sure, 1-4 are the old station (as built by SER, SECR or Southern), 3&4 are international and 5 & 6 were built to replace displaced domestic services. don't really know. the excellent page on kentrail.co.uk doesn't mention ownership IIRC. Pickle 07:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ownership of Ashford International Station 

message: I was wondering if this was still needed on this page. 81.104.1.190 (talk) 18:09, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eurostar route map (Waterloo International) 

message: There are two services in the morning to Bedford from Ashford International and one service that terminates from Bedford in the evening. These services are provided jointly by First Capital Connect and Southeastern. Should this be mentioned in the article or in the service diagram or should it not as there are few peak only services? --JoshTechFission (talk) 20:04, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ashford International to Bedford Peak Only service 
Talk:Weepul

message: Because I have created this article by merging three existing articles (weeples, wuppie and weepul), the following piece of text arised: 
"It is not exactly clear who created the first weepul. One story says the popularity of weepuls started in the 1970s in the United States, but originally under the name weeples. Another story says the weepul was created in 1979 by the Oklahoma City promotional firm, Bipo Inc. It was named by customer Tom Blundell after a stuffed doll his parents had tried and failed to market several years earlier. Blundell figured the little-people stick-on would only be a flash in the pan, “but it just got a life to it, and it still isn’t ready to die.”"
The question is: it might just have started by 1979, and the article "weeples" might be created by someone who misunderstood the word "weepul". In that case, the text should be replaced by: 
"The weepul (sometimes mistaken for weeple) was created in 1979 by the Oklahoma City promotional firm, Bipo Inc. It was named by customer Tom Blundell after a stuffed doll his parents had tried and failed to market several years earlier. Blundell figured the little-people stick-on would only be a flash in the pan, “but it just got a life to it, and it still isn’t ready to die.”"
SietskeEN 10:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can remove it if you like... the AH-action was a short but strong hype in The Netherlands lately, but for the international community it is probably not that important. By the way, you can sign your comments simply by adding four tildes (like this: ~~~~), your name and the time are then appearing automatically on saving. SietskeEN 07:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History of the weepul

message: Weepuls (under the name Wuppets) were widely distributed in the USA by the A&W restaurant chain during the 1980s, and would be worth mentioning in the article.  The only sourcing I could locate is an old A&W television advertisement from 1982 - ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVB9lMT34Vs ) The advertisement is for "character" Wuppets, but they also had the standard kind with the antennae - ( https://live.staticflickr.com/39/93153867_02641685cf_b.jpg ) Dulcimerist (talk) 04:32, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A&W Restaurant Chain Promotion as Wuppets
Talk:Adam Kwasnik

message: This text was recently added to the article - "On August 2 Kwasnik was involved in an incident involving himself an the Sydney FC Crowd during a pre season match play at Win Stadium. After seeing Wellington Phoenix score he ran to the crowd and made a gesture with his two hands and then made a gesture with his two arms this gesture generally interprets 'Fuck You'"
So as to assume good intentions and that this was a misunderstanding, I'm going to clarify this here rather than writing it off as vandalism. The gesture referred to, if I am not mistaken (I didn't see it) is mostly likely the "Phoenix symbol", a hand gesture often used by Phoenix players after scoring. It involves linking the thumbs and outstretching the fingers so as to create a shape that looks both like a Phoenix and the letter W. It has no offensive connotations whatsoever. 
IMHO, if it were an offensive gesture, nothing beyond "...he ran to the crowd, two whom he displayed an offensive gesture"  need be said. Also - I'd hardly call this an incident since there has been (too my knowledge) no complaint laid and nothing in the media about this. Gialloneri (talk) 06:08, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gesture" text 
Talk:Harold Nixon

message: This article was proposed for deletion as non-notable by User:Fram. I have added some additional information and removed the prod notice. If anyone wishes to list this on articles for deletion, please do so. Jokestress 10:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  prod 

message: This page was the subject of an AfD discussion closed on 6 July 2006.  The result was No Consensus/default keep. Xoloz 17:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: AfD Result Notice

message: All that stuff about Harold contracting tuberculosis first and Arthur succumbing first was rubbish.  Their deaths were totally unconnected, and indeed Arthur died two years before Harold even got ill.  I have removed the inaccuracies.  I've also updated Arthur's article, complete with a reliable reference. 213.121.151.174 (talk) 18:52, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mix up with brother Arthur
Talk:Arthur Nixon

message: This article was proposed for deletion as non-notable by User:Fram. I have added some additional information and removed the prod notice. If anyone wishes to list this on articles for deletion, please do so. Jokestress 10:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  prod 

message: This page was the subject of an AfD discussion closed on 6 July 2006.  The result was No Consensus/default keep. Xoloz 17:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: AfD Result Notice

message: Arthur had already died when Harold got ill, and Arthur did not die of tuberculosis - in fact its unclear what he actually died of.  I've amended the article and included a reliable source. 213.121.151.174 (talk) 18:47, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause of death
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Contract bridge

message: Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a  parameter to , which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to , and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass  a new  parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:48, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project-independent quality assessments 

message: Wikipedia does not have a formal definition for Bridge and what is notable.
Please see my suggestion for this definition at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(sports)#Bridge_2
Please comment at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(sports) Nicolas.hammond (talk) 16:42, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formal definition for approval in Wikipedia
Talk:Yves Edwards

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee 19:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:German–Ottoman alliance

message: Before anyone who thinks that Ottoman Empire and Turkey can not be used interchangeably and wishes to remove the word Turkey, please consider this:
:It was and is quite common for the name Turkey to be used in English as an alternative name for the Ottoman Empire. The secret treaty used as a source for this article does so (Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey 2 August, 1914) "In case of war, Germany will leave her military mission at the disposal of Turkey". But in case anyone quibbles that this is a mistake in translation here is another source originally in English http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Affirmation.160/current_category.7/affirmation_detail.html " French Foreign Office requests following notice be given Turkish Government. Quote. May 24th"
--Philip Baird Shearer 10:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That does not matter; we must use the most accurate phrase. Furthermore, it certainly is not "quite common" today, though it may have been then. Quotations are a different matter, of course. Otherwise we may as well call the article "Turkish-German Alliance". --Adoniscik(t, c) 02:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Turkey as a synonym for Ottoman Empire

message: First of all sorry for my bad English.
I think the following sentence is not right:
"To keep the Ottoman Empire from joining the Triple Entente, Germany encouraged Romania and Bulgaria to enter the Central Powers."
Romania did't enter the Central Powers, Bulgaria entered in 1915, one year after the Ottoman Empire did so.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.177.111.9 (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Central Powers 

message: To keep the Ottoman Empire from joining the Triple Entente, Germany encouraged Romania and Bulgaria to join the Central Powers.Hew Strachan, The First World War: Volume I: To Arms. Vol. 1 (2003) pp 644-93.
see question in previous section, please verify. Elinruby (talk) 03:33, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question
Talk:Colin Munro

message: [[reqphoto}}  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99appleseed (talk • contribs) 07:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

message: Man what are you doing I'm updating the stats after today's Nz match why are you reverting them Ggdfdshidhjdawghh (talk) 14:34, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm assuming that you didn't wait for CI to be updated (I don't know, I've just come across the reversions and made good where I can - I may have missed the odd things mind you...)? Always wait until the site from the ib is updated - don't try and work them out for yourself. Blue Square Thing (talk) 15:12, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Profile