Talk:Death (tarot card)

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There need to be some Disambiguating here differentiating the Ace of Spades as the Death Card vs. the Tarot Death Card.  Some history of the Ace of Spades as the Death Card would be helpful as well.
Also, I plan to move this page to Death (Tarot card) for consistancy and to aid disambiguation. This will help with the above concern. - UtherSRG 03:26, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I know, it is a massive problem with the Major Arcana pages. Like in all the other articles I have removed the "Examples" section since it was entirely Original Research which Wikipedia does not allow. I left the "mythopoeteic interpretation" section because that may have come from a reputable source but it seems to be something based on personal interpretation like the "Examples" section. -  DNewhall — Preceding undated comment added  17:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article is just personal opinions from occult enthusiasts about the nature and meaning of a particular tarot card. No peer reviewed books or journal articles are cited. No references or footnotes are given. When a new statement is added, the source needs to be cited, and the source needs to be verifiable, and reliable. The sources listed are largely just in reference to death in general and not to the history or evolution of the card. Waite is not a reliable source on the history or development of tarot cards. His opinion can be cited however. For instance: "Waite's opinion, in his book Pictorial Key to the Tarot is that... etc."
The card in question has a history of over 500 years in European card games in which it is used as trump card (see Tarocchi). The article is unbalanced in that it only features the recent uses of the card for divination. This makes the article biased due to its recentism. Since the article ignores use of the card for game play in Europe and other parts of the world, it offers an anglo-american perspective that raises NPOV issues. There are academic sources and sources from international organizations discussing the history and evolution of the "Death" card as well as its use in games. These need to be utilized. - Parsa 06:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is my understanding that the superstitious fear of the number 13 occurs no earlier than the 19th century so it would be unrelated to the original tarot.Smiloid (talk) 08:28, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unverifiable and unbalanced content 

message: Why is there discussion of the card's interpretation in the Description section if there is an entire section later on devoted to interpretation?
Speaking of the Interpretation section ... it is filled with unreferenced non-sentences with obscure, cryptic references. Is there anyone who has a verifiable (that is, referenced) knowledge of modern (or pre-modern) Tarot interpretation who'd care to have a go at this? Please?
With all that said, apart from the Interpretation section, which needs a major rewrite, it seems that the page has been brought up to spec on style, so can we remove the copy-edit tag? If nobody has any objections, I'll take it down in a week.
GFett (talk) 09:29, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verbose and Unclear Content 

message: Checked over the article, and I can't find any issues pertaining to writing style.  Tag removed, although there's still other potential issues with the article. --Sigma 7 (talk) 14:43, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit - April 2009 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:The Fool (Tarot card) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 13:32, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
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