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[edit] no trump or notrump

I prefer "notrump" rather than "no trump". To me, "notrump" is more concise; "no trump" is distracting in a bridge context. We are eliding the space in bids and cards (specifying "2♥" rather than "2 ♥"; strictly speaking the latter better represents "two hearts"), so why not use notrump as well? The article does not say it, but I think we want to use NT (e.g., "2NT", without a space) in bidding. Ray Spalding 00:05, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I started this as a proposal, i.e. a soapbox where we seek consensus; of course, some of those are my personal preferences (and I do occasionally take the liberty to act according to them), and shouldn't be taken as a law until more thoroughly discussed. You're certainly welcome to edit the page. In general, we should use Pavlicek's and BW guidelines with slight modifications. As for "notrump" vs. "no trump", I must say that I personally often use the former, as it's less clumsy on occasions. I think I was persuaded by a talk page of some article (can't find it right now), however, e.g. we used them interchangeably at Talk:Contract bridge and we have Forcing notrump article. I'll scratch the entry, as undecided at best.Duja 09:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Also prefer "notrump" and agree we should use "NT" in bidding. Matchups 02:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] article formatting

I'm going to remove the portions of this section which discuss article naming. I've started a separate page on this topic at /naming conventions, as suggested by the main page. Matchups 02:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)