Talk:Contract bridge

message: The page includes the statement: The 52-card deck can be distributed to the four players some  ways.,Manley et al. (2011), p. 579. This number is expressed as 53.6 octillion. 
However this reference - Manley et al (2011) is not actually a reference.  The sentence should be removed or the reference completed.
: "Manley et al (2011), p. 579" is IMHO a proper reference and points to the listing of Manley's Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (Edition 7) in the "Bibliography" subsection just below the "Notes". It is true that the statement "This number is expressed as 53.6 octillion." is not in the reference per se. Page 579 of the reference states the number as "53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000" and editorial license is used to restate it as 53.6 octillion.  See Octillion defined as 1027 at this link in the second column, ninth row of the table referring to "US, Canada and modern British". It is a number followed by 27 zeros (1027).  If you wish to amend the main text by replacing "53.6 x 1027" with "53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000" and remove the second half of the reference, feel free to do so but that would be poor presentation IMHO. Newwhist (talk) 17:41, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Please sign your posts.  Newwhist (talk) 17:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Positions Reference 

message: At this writing, the Overview section is, IMHO, too lengthy and contains information and details repeated in subsequent sections. I believe it should be pruned heavily with details moved to following sections where appropriate.  Comments? Newwhist (talk) 12:32, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I think most of the second paragraph should probably be omitted. Also in the first paragraph I would replace "Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships" by "Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck for four players in two competing partnerships." JH (talk page) 18:56, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It is still too long. There is a paragraph that describes another game, Spades, and what's more it is inaccurate. (It says that if you don't make your contract, you receive penalties.) Other than that, this section contains more information than is needed in an overview without telling you how to play the game.OrewaTel (talk) 09:13, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overview section 

message: This article's statement that "By 1937, however, the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) had come to power (a union of the ABL and the USBA), and it remains the sanctioning body for bridge tournaments in North America." seems a bit white-person-centric to me. The American Bridge Association has been in existence and running bridge tournaments since 1932.It's true that the ACBL was the sanctioning body for bridge tournaments restricted to white people.  If this section of the article is to be a history of bridge, rather than a history of "bridge as played by white people who refused to play with black people", it should mention the ABA as well as the ACBL. Andylatto (talk) 21:27, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This is actually USA-centric. ACBL is a national sanctioning body and is no more noteworthy than EBU (English Bridge Union) or even NZBridge. It is inappropriate to advertise it in the Tournament section. It might be useful to mention it in the history section but I doubt it. That the ACBL operated a color bar until 1967 is both noteworthy and reprehensible but it doesn't belong in this article. It might belong in a full article on History of Contract Bridge and it certainly belongs in the article on ACBL. OrewaTel (talk) 22:32, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of mention of the ABA 

message: Why are there two Rules sections? Jhurley85 (talk) 12:14, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: A very good question. I've renamed the first "How the game is played". JH (talk page) 14:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Rules?