User:David Parlett
The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.
British citizen, born London 1939. BA in Modern Languages at UCW Aberystwyth, 1961, qualified as teacher 1962. French teacher to 1967, technical writer in Public Relations to 1975, thereafter self-employed games inventor, author, historian and consultant. Contributor and consultant to Games & Puzzles magazine 1972-1980. Invented board game Hare & Tortoise 1973, which won the first Spiel des Jahres award (1980) and is still published. Author of many books on card and board games, including The Oxford History of Card Games (1990), The Oxford History of Board Games (1999), and the Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games (2000). Accredited consultant on games terminology to Oxford English Dictionary (see listing page ix of New Shorter OED, 1993). For further details and complete list of published books and games see http://www.davidparlett.co.uk.
Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages
Welcome to the Citizendium! We hope you will contribute boldly and well. Here are pointers for a quick start. You'll probably want to know how to get started as an author. Just look at Getting Started for other helpful "startup" links, our help system and CZ:Home for the top menu of community pages. Be sure to stay abreast of events via Twitter. You can test out editing in the sandbox if you'd like. If you need help to get going, the forum is one option. That's also where we discuss policy and proposals. You can ask any administrator for help, too. Just put a note on their "talk" page. Again, welcome and have fun!
-- Sarah Tuttle 12:38, 19 April 2007 (CDT)