Talk:Paul Mendelson

Identity not

Probably this TV scriptwriter with Cambridge U law degree is NOT the Paul Mendelson featured in user space User:Doubleyew, where he is called the current Financial Times bridge columnist (born 1965). Evidently that is the writer of books on card games and casino games incompletely identified by national libraries of US and France:

• Paul Mendelson at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalogue records -- Bridge for beginners (2004); Mammoth book of poker (2008); Mammoth book of casino games (2010)

• National Library of France (BNF) attributes Texas Hold'em Poker (2007) to a Paul Mendelson of Great Britain

About a dozen articles currently link this TV writer (what links here). Among them three pertain to the card & casino games person.

Those three pages articles are List of bridge books, Blackwood convention and Hand evaluation --all a book not in the library catalogs linked above, namely Mendelson's Guide to The Bidding Battle (Cambridge, UK: Colt Books. ISBN 0-905899-86-5)

--P64 (talk) 23:59, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

At WikiProject Contract Bridge (Talk: List of bridge books#Another identity: Paul Mendelson) we have concluded that the cards and casino games writer (see User:Doubleyew; see AceofTrumps), who did previously write for TV, is distinct from this TV writer.

Our mentions of work by the games writer no longer link here and strikeout (above) marks what is thus obsolete.

--P64 (talk) 17:28, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

(reword my hasty June note for clarity) --P64 (talk) 20:14, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Resolved