Talk:Three-card monte

message: I just wanted to know if it was a name of a card game or a technique used in dealing or a profession. It took me a while to read to where it actually said what it is. Maybe there should be a separate place for all the different names. It looks bad the way it is now. 
--206.87.81.34 (talk) 11:20, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: So many different names

message: The name of the article conflicts with the introduction sentence. Request for clarification. Move may be needed. Tyciol 11:42, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked a few Wikipedia usages.  Of scams, Shell game, Multi-level marketing, and even Snipe hunt all use just an initial capital.  Of card games, the same is true of Contract bridge and Five-card stud.  So, the consensus style certainly seems to be that Monte should not be capitalized.  -- RoySmith (talk) 14:13, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

text: No, Wikipedia has naming conventions, explained at WP:NCCAPS, that only the first letter of the entire title and of proper names are capitalized. The word monte is not a proper name: "borrowed from Spanish monte ('mountain'): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards" . See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/three-card_monte. —Lowellian (reply) 04:26, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: monte/Monte... is it capitalized?

message: OK, I think we've got this sorted out now (there was an interesting mess of double-redirects terminating in an endless loop, I think).  In any case, I defer on the m/M issue.  The other un-capitalizing I did was things like Queen->queen, which I think should remain.  -- RoySmith (talk) 16:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect madness and capitalization 

message: i deleted "romania" at see also - because i really cannot SEE what romania has to do with this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.188.245.159 (talk) 14:38, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romania? 

message: I don't think hatnotes usually get refs.  The one I just added, saying three-card monte can be another name for three-card poker, is from Albert H. Morehead, Richard L. Frey, and Geoffrey Mott-Smith, The New Complete Hoyle, Doubleday & Company, 1964, p. 34. —JerryFriedman  (Talk) 04:17, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  three-card poker 

message: The rest of the article speaks of 'the dealer'. In the "Drop Move" suddenly the dealer is given the second person "you", making it read like an instruction manual to would-be con artists. Vynbos (talk) 09:50, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of continuity in "The Drop Move"  

message: I had the good fortune to witness this con being run in earnest by some Roma street people (from Romania .. gee) in Geneva four years ago.  It was like watching an old movie, but it was real.  I didn't know the con, but thought something was up.  After watching for some time with a couple of people coming and going, I realized who was who and what was happening.  I was so excited about it that when I new guy showed up I explained it all to him, pointing out the shills, how they were working together so the money won wasn't really changing hands, etc. and what the dealer was doing to remove the card.  I was escorted away by another man who I had not recognized as part of the game and given a send off.  I was probably lucky not to have been beat up.  Another thing they were doing which you did not have in the article was constant talking, barker like narration, cheering etc, so that it looked like fun but I suppose also prevented the mark from concentrating.
Cool guys!  Thanks for the article!  It really was just like that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.6.197.199 (talk) 06:48, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank you!  Yes, this is how it goes! 

message: The infobox lists players as "np" - I'm not sure what this notation is meant to be referring to. Would it be worth changing to a word/phrase that makes sense in English without jargon? -- RandomTime 16:17, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Players "np." in infobox