Talk:Sleight of hand

message: I would like to ask what contributors think about linking to practical examples of sleight of hand ...such as this, Card tricks and how to palm a card. Is it better to have just a few external references or would it be valuable to actually write separate wiki pages on each trick?
Collieman 16:44, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Practical examples

message: Misdirection is not a misnomer. Misdirection means "direction away". It would be uninformative to call the card sharp's art "direction". To the extent that the observer is directed away from what he intends to observe, he is misdirected.
I agree completely. The sentence about "misdirection" being a misnomer is both erroneous and incomplete. Even if it were a misnomer, it would be important to identify the proper terminology. Chachilongbow 21:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quibble: misnomer 

message: Does anyone have a source for the assertation that the word legerdemain is derived from this? I've never heard this before, and it seems a very convoluted explanation for a word that could be explained so much easier as "leger de main" (which indeed is also the direct meaning of the word). The online etymological dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=legerdemain&searchmode=none) has never heard of this explanation either, so unless someone has a source, I'm very inclined to delete it. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor Steevm 02:21, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Le Jeu de Main 

message: As a magician, I don't think it's a good idea to expose magic secrets casually. The magic loses it's entertainment value. Patrick Murrray 03:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exposing Magic Secrets 

message: Currently The Pass redirects here: it had its own article, then it was agreed to be merged in, but there's no reference to it in Sleight of hand.  Shouldn't a description be included here (nothing too detailed)?  Side steal should be similarly redirected here with a brief description of the effect, and outline of the method.  TrulyBlue (talk) 10:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your suggestion of having a brief description of The Pass and Side Steal with an outline of the method. I'll work on the additions and will get them up as soon as I can. I would also like to add one or two more examples reflecting sleight of hand in other areas, such as coin magic also.FrankelHuang (talk) 02:44, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

text: Where did this section go? Ajaf2005 (talk) 01:26, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Pass and Side Steal 

message: I removed some references to Call of Duty or Prison Break, but if there is a desire to have these remain I think it would be appropriate to add a pop culture section. Trellis (talk) 15:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture or Popular Reference Section? 

message: This article is an instance of misdirection or sleight of hand. There used to be an article about The Pass (which I believe is the classic pass).
"The Pass" redirects here, but is not mentioned and definitely not defined. This redirection is therefore misdirection.
There is, at the bottom, a See Also list that includes other passes such as the Hermann Pass and the Invisible Turnover Pass...but not *Thee Pass*.
DrZygote214 (talk) 09:33, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sleight of Hand, yes. The Pass, no. 

message: This article require serious improvements and copyediting per it's level 4-rating. Being a former sleight of hand artist myself, I will improve the article as best I can. Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 02:06, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's done. Going to nominate it for GA-status. Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 18:59, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  February 2015 

message: "The cardsharps" is about cheating, but not about sleight of hand. IMHO it is irrelevant to this article. Gil_mo (talk) 23:17, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not sleight of hand