Talk:Dartmouth pong

message: I think that this was getting too big in the Beer Pong article and thus needs its own article.  The current amount of text and level of detail in the other article should probably be maintained but all future expansions should take place in the separate article. 129.170.202.3 22:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article has been kept following this AFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AFD debate link 

message: Should we reorganize the list of variants? It is getting unwieldy, but I'm not sure what the best approach for ordering it. Also, I would like to know who plays which ridiculous variant, like Pearl Harbor, Battlestar Galactica, Stonehenge, etc. Schi 18:26, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Variants

message: I'm working on converting the external link refs to footnote refs; I'm removing the following cites for the following reasons, let me know if you can fix them or if I've removed anything in error:
*  - duplicative of immediately preceding NYT cite.
*  - broken; 403 forbidden error.
schi talk 22:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ref cleanup

message: Someone needs to take a look at the reference problem regarding origins.  The entry lists the NYT article and an article from The Dartmouth.  The Dartmouth article then points out basic factual errors in the NYT article--rather invalidating it a reliable source on the history of the game--but then attempts to buttress its claim... by sourcing Wikipedia... which turns around and footnotes the Dartmouth article!  Also, an "unofficial college historian" remembering playing the game as an undergrad does not establish provenance.  It doesn't mean that Dartmouth pong ain't a good entry, but someone does need to fix the sourcing problem if the entry wishes to continue to make these claims of origination.  --Patchyreynolds 14:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference sense? 

message: Does anyone know whether the new 2003(?) Phi Tau house as a room dedicated to pong in the basement?  I assume it does.  Is this something new that deserves mention in the article?  Maybe some houses added pong rooms in the Eighties, or Dragon's new building included a pong room (I don't think it did).
--Editing 20:23, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phi Tau the first purpose-built pong arena? 

message: The thrust of the lead and my personal knowledge tells me that this game is not really played beyond Dartmouth. In that case, shouldn't it be Pong (Dartmouth) rather than Dartmouth pong? Students at the College don't call it "Dartmouth pong," and students at other colleges don't call it anything, so no one really calls it that at all. Dylan 13:07, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename? 

message: Kevin Bacon's playing of pong -- in AD, the major source for Animal House -- seems to be a comment on the stature of the game.  
  Should it get a mention?
--Dartmothian (talk) 17:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kevin Bacon 

message: I'm removing this quote from the "Pong Today" section, because it basically doesn't mean anything: "Watching or competing in pong instead allows students to participate in a familiar, flexible, and multilayered framework for the organization of both group dynamics and individual social interactions; a mere social gathering is not enough, they might say." 129.170.205.80 (talk) 01:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jargon 

message: The formal census claims a couple sororities don't have house pong rules.  Yes, but what rules would they use if they were to play pong?
Abitharsh (talk) 20:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formal Census 

message: Could someone somehow illustrate the cup formations? I played some beerpong at Dartmouth in the early 70s, but we never had more than one cup per player that I recall. Some of these descriptions make it sound like there are so many cups you can't miss them. OldPine (talk) 20:30, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos/diagrams

message: This article is full of unsourced variations that clearly did not fit the intentions of Wikipedia (Wikipedia:GAMEGUIDE#GUIDE). There is no question that the Dartmouth pong #Gameplay and Dartmouth pong #Variants sections need citations or else they will be removed. FerrousCathode (talk) 02:02, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a game guide 

message: There's a confusing rule set in the service section of this article.  It states that hitting an opponent's cup on a serve scores the serving team 1 point and makes the opponents drink 1/5 or 1/2 of that cup of beer.  Later in the paragraph it states that hitting an opponent's cup on a serve scores the opponents 1 point.  I would think the correct rule would be that hitting one of your OWN cups on a serve would score the opponents one point, but I've never played this game before and have no idea what the rules are.  Little help?
::question moved here from merger discussion by Pongmeister (talk) 21:12, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about service rule