Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinese Origin of Playing Cards
or '''Redirect''' to Playing card#History This article is a bit puzzling because it's ostensibly about a paper published in ''American Anthropologist'' back in 1895.  However, much of the article's body contains a more general discussion of the origin and early history of playing cards and cites several other works, some of which were published after 1895.  A WP article dedicated to a single journal paper normally would fail , but this article is something of a hybrid as it contains a fair bit of content that goes beyond the scope of that paper.  One option would to rename the article Origin of playing cards, generalize the lead so that it adequately summarizes the subject (not a particular paper written about the subject), and make other edits accordingly.  However, the article's body causes me concern:  In the section entitled "European similarities", a Google search on "Playing cards first appeared in Europe in the 1370s......making them luxury goods for the rich" revealed that this entire phrase appears in the http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/464424/playing-card current edition of Britannica, but NOT in the http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Cards,_Playing corresponding entry in the public domain 1911 edition.  Moreover, the article cites references published in the years 1924 and 1927, but nothing more recently than that.  I'm concerned that substantial parts of the text may have been copied from an edition of Britannica published sometime after 1922, which would therefore still be copyright in the United States (i.e. possible ).  Without the potential copyvio issue, the article may have been salvageable, but I'm thinking that it's just better to delete and let the editors at Playing card decide if a new  should be created for the origin of playing cards.  However, the http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/658442 ''American Anthropologist'' article is public domain in the United States (published 1895), so it could be transcribed to Wikisource
— User:Mike, 19:13, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:COPYVIO||WP:SPINOFF (Wikipedia:Notability)