Talk:Rixi Markus

message: The WBF website does not designate a title for Markus and yet the Wiki article says she became a 'World Bridge Federation Grandmaster'.  I have sent an email today to the WBF making an enquiry but when I have done so in the past I have never received a reply or aknowledgement. Does anybody have a reference to backup the title? Newwhist (talk) 12:48, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You were looking on the right website but in the wrong place! I've added the appropriate reference. JH (talk page) 17:15, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I did see and read the Jourdain article but did not accept it as 'official' WBF. I assumed that the profile would be the 'official' repository of information on the title. However, having looked at some other profiles, most notably Terence Reese, it seems that the WBF does not keep the title and masterpoint information as the first entry in the profile if one is dead. I guess one cannot 'be' a WGM if one is not 'being'. In any case, the proper term is 'World Grand Master' not 'World Grandmaster', notwithstanding the Jourdain article Newwhist (talk) 11:35, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WBF title 

message: I've found Alan Truscott's NYT obituary of Markus . I've no time at the moment to see if there's anything we can use. I'm hoping that there might also be a NYT obit of Fritzi Gordon that we can use.
:I have edited in all I thought was appropriate; double check please and thank you.  Newwhist (talk) 12:21, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another source 

message: There's a profile of Rixi on page 16 of the September 1948 issue of the Contract Bridge Journal, but I don't think it adds much that is new. JH (talk page) 20:58, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  And another source 

message: When we give her name in bold at the start of the article we say "Rika", but later we say that at birth she was "was born as Erika (Rixi) Scharfstein". Is "Rika" a typo, or were both forms used? I think we either need to decide on one or the other (if the former) or include a note to clarify (if the latter). JH (talk page) 10:08, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Rika seems to me a nickname halfway between given Erika and nick Rixi. Enough so that I would have replaced it with Erika yesterday if we did not provide  as a source for lead name specifically. (I have OEB eds. 1 and 4, not at hand, iirc.) --P64 (talk) 22:47, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have OEB 5th edition and it does indeed have "Rika". But I'd be inclined to give greater weight to the biography on the EBU website by Patrick Jourdain (which is included among our article's references), which has "Erika". Maybe switch it to "Erika", but with a note saying that OEB has "Rika"? JH (talk page) 10:16, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In her autobiography, A Vulnerable Game, on page 3, she writes about her older sister's birth - "...Eugenia was born in January 1908...She was always known to us as Genia, just as I, when I arrived two-and-a-half years later, quickly became Rika."   Newwhist (talk) 13:00, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name at birth 

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