Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Canary


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The result was   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 13:01, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Blue Canary

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Article created March 2013. Fails WP:V and WP:OR. Unable to find even a fleeting mention of such a game in any other resources. Article is completely unreferenced and aside from a minor edit 11 months later, the original article author's entire work has been the creation of this article. Appears to be a made-up variant of an existing game. Neil916 (Talk) 19:55, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete failing WP:V and WP:OR I diligently searched through google and google books without finding anything about this game or the other variant/synonyms claimed (Green-Canarie or Breck-fish).  Could consider merging it into the article on gofish or authors, however, there is nothing to verify that this game was not made up very recently.  -- &mdash; Gaff  ταλκ 20:22, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:40, 17 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 02:10, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 12:31, 30 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. This has been at AFD far too long; searches for any of its proposed names in conjunction with the distinctive term "vein" return only this article and the userspace version of its original editor. The article itself notes it "was invented by a group of british students" and I think that's quite determinative here. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 13:48, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per above rationales. --Arxiloxos (talk) 16:36, 30 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Neil
 * This is very late, but I finally was able to complete a fairly thorough search of my books on board and card games to try to find any reference to BLUE CANARY. I was not able to find one.  I note that the article has long since been deleted.  In case of a future search through the literature, I will provide below a list of all the books that I checked.  Those marked with a † do include the alleged progenitor of Blue Canary, which is the undisputedly genuine game of Go Fish (occasionally Go Fishing or just Fish), which is itself a 'watered down' version of the game Authors.  All of the books listed below include numerous card games: not all make claims of completeness, but some are indeed encyclopædic).  I think the correct decision was made to delete the game article, as I suspect it to be a "private invention", which would better have found a home on a website other than Wikipedia.
 * Incidentally, did anything else come of the debate on another table game, Pah Tum?
 * Kind regards
 * - Steve
 * BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS CONSULTED:
 * †AINSLIE, Tom: Ainslie’s Complete Hoyle. New English Library, London. 1977 (first published in 1975).
 * ARNOLD, Peter (General Editor): The Illustrated Book Of Table Games. Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, London. 1975.
 * BOHN, Henry George (Editor): Bohn’s New Handbook Of Games. Kessinger Legacy Reprints, Whitefish, Montana. 2008 (first published 1856).
 * CHAMPLIN, John Denison and BOSTWICK, Arthur Elmore: The Young Folk’s Cyclopædia Of Games And Sports. Lightning Source UK / Scholar Select, Milton Keynes. 2015 (first published by Henry Holt & Co. New York. 1890).
 * CORBETT, Doris, CHEFFERS, John and SULLIVAN, Eileen Crowley [Editors]: Unique Games And Sports Around The World: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press, Westport CT. 2001.
 * CULIN, Stewart [1858-1929]: too many to mention individually, but I have checked virtually all of his relevant books and articles.
 * †DIAGRAM GROUP, (The): The Way To Play: The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Games Of The World. Bantam Books, London. 1977 (first published 1975).
 * DIAGRAM GROUP, (The): Collins Card Games. HarperCollins Publishers, Glasgow. 1994.
 * DOYLE, Deborah [Editor]: Hoyle’s Official Rules Of Card Games. Hinkler Books, Heatherton, Victoria, Australia. 2000.
 * DUMMETT, Michael and MCLEOD, John: A History Of Games Played With The Tarot Pack: The Game Of Triumphs: Volumes 1 & 2. The Edwin Mellen Press, New York. 2004 [also the Supplement, published by Maproom Publications, Oxford, 2009].
 * GIBSON, Walter B.: Hoyle’s Modern Encyclopedia Of Card Games: Rules Of All The Basic Games And Popular Variations. The Promotional Reprint Co Ltd, Selecta Book Ltd, Devizes. 1993 (first published 1974).
 * †GOREN, Charles H. [aka Chas H. Goren and ‘Mr. Bridge’]: Goren’s Hoyle: Encyclopedia Of Games. Greystone Press, New York. 1961.
 * HEAD, Honor [Editor]: The Guinness Encyclopaedia Of Games, Puzzles & Pastimes. Guinness Publishing, Enfield. 1988.
 * HERVEY, George F.; ARNOLD, Peter and MACFADYEN, Matthew: The Complete Book Of Card Games. Hamlyn; Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London. 2001.
 * HOFFMAN, Professor [LEWIS, Angelo John]: The Cyclopædia Of Card And Table Games. Kessinger Legacy Reprints, Whitefish, Montana. 2007 (first published 1891).
 * †MOREHEAD, Albert; FREY, Richard L. and MOTT-SMITH, Geoffrey: The New Complete Hoyle Revised: The Authoritative Guide To The Official Rules Of All Popular Games Of Skill And Chance. Revised by: Richard L. Frey, Tom Smith, Phillip Alder, Matt Klam. Doubleday, New York. 1991 [revision of Hoyle’s Rules Of Games, 1983].
 * †PARLETT, David: The Penguin Encyclopedia Of Card Games. Penguin Books, London. 2000 (first published 1979 as The Penguin Book Of Card Games).
 * PENNYCOOK, Andrew: The Indoor Games Book. Faber And Faber, London. 1973.
 * †PERHAM, Molly [Editor]: The Encyclopedia Of Games. Project editor: Brian Burns. Aurum Press Ltd; Amber Books Ltd, London. 2001 (first published 1998).
 * SACKSON, Sid: Card Games Around The World. Dover Publications, New York. 1994 (reprint of Playing Cards Around The World, first published by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1981).
 * SACKSON, Sid: A Gamut Of Games. Dover Publications, New York. 1992 (first published 1969).
 * SCARNE, John: Scarne On Cards. Crown Publishers Inc, New York. 1949 [seventh printing 1959].
 * †SCARNE, John: Scarne’s Encyclopedia Of Games. Constable & Company, London. 1975 (first published 1973).
 * TIBBALLS, Geoff [Compiler]: The Best Party Games Book Ever!. Carlton Books Limited, (London). 1997.
 * WILLUGHBY, Francis: Francis Willughby's Book of Games. Editors: David Cram, Jeffrey L. Forgeng and Dorothy Johnston. Ashgate, Aldershot. 2003.
 * WOOD, Clement and GODDARD, Gloria: The Complete Book Of Games. Garden City Books, New York. 1940.
 * ANONYMOUS: Encyclopedia Of Sports Games And Pastimes. Fleetway Press, London. 1935.
 * - Northern winter (talk) 13:55, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


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