Talk:Playing card suit

message: I edited out the reference to poker.  Suits have extreme relevance in many forms of poker, since a straight flush beats a straight, and a straight flush is unique in that all the cards are of identical suit.  There are plenty of better examples of "suitless games" such as blackjack, war, go-fish, etc.  --Rhett Aultman
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There is, or at least was for a while, a 5-suit scheme, with i think Eagles as the 5th suit.  I don't know that it deserves a mention, let along an article, but on the other hand, i don't think it should be flatly said that there are only 4 suits.  I'll take a try at something eventually, if no one who knows at least a little more about this aspect does so first. --Jerzy(t) 03:24, 2005 Jan 5 (UTC)
There is now information about the fifth suits you are referring to. Took a while to research the information and report on it. The suits referred to came from bridge and in the 1935 to 1938 time periods became popular. Included is all the infomation I was was able to gather from various sources including my own collection, Hochman's and historical references to playing cards. (no copyright infringements.) Some information came from actual decks for sale and copies of rule sets available online. --Killerbee 10:30, 2006 Nov 19
Removed the line about Hamilton Playing Card Company, as it was not a separate producer of cards. According to Hochman's and as listed at RUSJoker, Hamilton Playing Cards were made by Russell Card Playing Co. which is also the US Playing Cards Co., later on. The Eagles suit in the United States came about in 1938. I have references on demand. I had planned on cleaning up the articles I rewrote a number of times, in the section about adding suits and commercial suits, as I have researched and found more information. How is the standard requested to be applied to clean up that section? I saw at least two comments that some did not like the many suits and commercial decks. They are historical and in many cases contemporary and relavant to additional card playing suits. Suits are evolving, and will continue to do so. How does Wikipedia or the owner of this topic wish to have the items reorganized? --Killerbee 20:37, 2007 Nov 21 (Original text: "For a brief time in the 1930s, the Hamilton Playing Card Company produced a five-suit deck for ladies' social clubs; the fifth suit was green and its icon was the eagle.")  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Killerbeeinvest (talk • contribs) 01:42, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Initial topics

message: The following information was attained from the television show Tilt on ESPN
In the show, the different card suits are said to be related to the classes of society as the following:
Suit    	Relation
Clubs   	Peasants
Diamonds	Aristocrats
Hearts  	Royalty
Spades  	Military
:I was going to ask if anyone knew the origins of the suits... If we could get a source, I think it should go up. Troubleshooter 11:34, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The latter makes more sense to me. In feudal times there was no separate military class: the officers were noble or royal (and there was no clear line between "royalty" and "aristocrats"), the foot soldiers were peasants. —Tamfang (talk) 22:55, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suits Translated 

message: Are they really necessary? They're such little stubs, and even if they ever grew into anything more (which doesn't look likely) they'll probably be heavily redundant. The information can easily be contained on Suit (cards), and mentioned on heart (symbol)], diamond, etc. -Silence 19:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Individual pages for the four suits? 

message: "Trumping" and "trump" should not redirect right into Bridge-related articles. The OED has 3 noun and 3 verb variants of "trump", only one of which deals with the card game... Yeah I should do it myself, but I'd rather an admin who knows how to do these things neatly do it. JDG 06:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If this hasn't already been dealt with: it's probably more likely to be if you outline which of the 6 "variants" you see as more than dict-defs.  E.g. trump in the sense of trumpet arguably deserves a Dab entry aimed at Trumpet, and maybe even one to a section of Book of Revelation if it explicates the "last trump". But dict-defs are not articles, and the existence of a dict-def is often no indication of an potential article topic. (This is far from the ideal time for me for undertaking a reconstruction of some kind. But this may suggest the direction you may have to go in to have a reasonable expectation of seeing your insight acted upon.)--Jerzy•t 03:37, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad redirects 

message: Am I the only one for whom the card symbols used as & code in-text (other than diamonds) do not show up for? Any suggestions as to why they might not show up? Thanks TheHYPO 07:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Give us all your details (what kind of computer, operating system, web browser, etc.) and maybe we can help you find your problem (often it's something like installing a typeface or a browser setting).  --LDC 10:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: XPsp2, IE6. I've found this very occasionally in other articles. In one someone used what I assume to be the 'approximatly' symbol, but it shows up as the 'unrecognized symbol' square. These card symbols don't even give me the square - it's just blank where they should be. Thanks TheHYPO 23:00, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Anyone with info on this issue? I've also found that people have put Japanese text in some articles which I assume other people can see that doesn't show up for me. Is there an option I might have unset? TheHYPO 14:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suit in-text symbols? 

message: Do we have a source to confirm this? There's been a lot of discussion of this topic in our house over the years, oddly enough. As an English-speaker, I would have thought that bastos, being clubs, would correspond to clubs and espadas, sounding like "spades" would correspond accordingly, as indicated here in the article. However, my Spanish-speaking spouse, who grew up using a Spanish-style deck, always insists that these are not the correct correspondences (but, being asleep, can't be consulted right now as to what they supposedly are). So again, do we have verification? Lawikitejana 05:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am confused. Your unsourced edit contradicting sources cited, which I reverted, directly contradicts your previous statement above: "I had never associated "it:fiori" (i.e. flowers, our way to call "en:clubs") with "it:bastoni" ... until I heard of the English names of these suits. In other words, we using Latin suits do not see any obvious link between French and Latin suits". So why did you change the correspondence to Clubs/Bastoni? Helen (talk) 09:56, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correspondence of Spanish to Anglo-French suits 

message: If anyone can provide authoritative information, I think that how long the suits shown in the graphic have been in use would be of interest. I saw an old painting... 1500s???... in which the "French" symbols are clearly visible. Prado, Madrid, I think.
82.20.63.64 22:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the current "usual" suits and symbols 

message: Especially in the table of Anglo-Hispano-French suits, there are lists of translations of the names of the suits into variuos languages. The languages are not identified, and the relevance of these translations is not clear. This is not a dictionnary, so unless the names in other languages somehow shed light on the suits as such, I think they should be removed. Names that are simple translations of the English names (like Sewdish "Hjärter" for Hearts) are not interesting, and names that are NOT simple translations (like "Klöver" for Clubs) should e.g. be translated back into English to (show why they) warrant inclusion.--Noe (talk) 23:20, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a dictionnary 

message: The line:
"The Italian-style suits are the original suits (which is why the English term 'spade' refers not to the tool, but is derived from the Italian word espada = "sword", which this suit represents)" 
(#1 of the second set of bullets in the "Traditional Eastern suits and decks" section)
conflicts with this line in Spades (suit):
"It is often stated that the suit is named after Spanish espada (sword), but this is not likely. In Germany and Scandinavia, Spanish playing cards were not in use, and Spanish loanwords in these languages were rare. It should also be noted that the Spanish name for the French suit is picas - not espadas." 
(5th part of the opener)
Neither one is cited.
Anyone have a source, can correct this conflict, know the answer"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.34.219 (talk) 06:29, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict 

message: *Agreed. Clubs, Hearts, Diamons and Spades are part of the same deck. Krenakarore (talk) 13:47, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: ===Hearts===
====Unicode and HTML symbols not displaying properly on a Mac====
* For whatever reason, the Unicode and HTML symbols for heart are not displaying properly on a Mac.  What I'm seeing is a capital U with an umlaut followed by either a bullet or a degree symbol.  I will check on my PC when I get home.  Is there an alternative that can be used? 12.233.146.130 (talk) 19:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Aye.  I was just about to post about that myself. I wish I knew a playing card expert. Zell Faze (talk) 21:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This might be helpful. It says that the English "spade" comes from the Italian "spada" and that the cards' symbols were changed in order to reflect the different meaning of spade in English (also here and here). I'll add it to the article. Regards SoWhy 21:45, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

text: Eh? If spade is derived from Italian espada and not from Spanish espada, what's the problem? (Espada is not an Italian word, that's what, but it's not a contradiction.) —Tamfang (talk) 00:22, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussions merged in from the suit articles 

message: ====Unicode and HTML symbols not displaying properly on a Mac====
* For whatever reason, the Unicode and HTML symbols for heart are not displaying properly on a Mac.  What I'm seeing is a capital U with an umlaut followed by either a bullet or a degree symbol.  I will check on my PC when I get home.  Is there an alternative that can be used? 12.233.146.130 (talk) 19:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Hearts

message: * For whatever reason, the Unicode and HTML symbols for heart are not displaying properly on a Mac.  What I'm seeing is a capital U with an umlaut followed by either a bullet or a degree symbol.  I will check on my PC when I get home.  Is there an alternative that can be used? 12.233.146.130 (talk) 19:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unicode and HTML symbols not displaying properly on a Mac

message: * Question : In the example card layout of the playing cards with clubs the small clubs symbol in the top left corner on every card is upside down.
Is this deliberate, an error or ambiguous ? 145.53.251.165 15:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clubs

message: * This article contradicts itself in the meaning of the suit.  It states in the intro that it stands for war, but later down it says that Spades is representative of the military class and Clubs is representative of agriculture.  To be honest, I think the former makes more sense, with Spades representing agriculture instead.nf utvol (talk) 23:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  War or Agriculture? 

message: * In Polish language clubs are called "trefl" (transcription from French - as every suit in Polish deck). The name "żołądź" is incorrect.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.6.167.146 (talk) 19:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish name 

message: ====Meanings in other languages====
* I think the section Spades (suit)#Meanings in other languages is a largely irrelevant list. This is not a dictionnary. A short statement of the fact that the name of the suit in most langauges have such and such meanings, with notable examples and exceptions, would be better. Likewise for the other suits
**Hearts (suit)#Meanings in other languages
**Diamonds (suit)#Meanings in other languages
**Clubs (suit)#Meanings in other languages
*:In fact, this info might be better summarized in Suit (cards)#Traditional Western playing cards, with a suitable link from each suit.--Noe (talk) 12:41, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Aye.  I was just about to post about that myself. I wish I knew a playing card expert. Zell Faze (talk) 21:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This might be helpful. It says that the English "spade" comes from the Italian "spada" and that the cards' symbols were changed in order to reflect the different meaning of spade in English (also here and here). I'll add it to the article. Regards SoWhy 21:45, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

text: Eh? If spade is derived from Italian espada and not from Spanish espada, what's the problem? (Espada is not an Italian word, that's what, but it's not a contradiction.) —Tamfang (talk) 00:22, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Spades

message: * I think the section Spades (suit)#Meanings in other languages is a largely irrelevant list. This is not a dictionnary. A short statement of the fact that the name of the suit in most langauges have such and such meanings, with notable examples and exceptions, would be better. Likewise for the other suits
**Hearts (suit)#Meanings in other languages
**Diamonds (suit)#Meanings in other languages
**Clubs (suit)#Meanings in other languages
*:In fact, this info might be better summarized in Suit (cards)#Traditional Western playing cards, with a suitable link from each suit.--Noe (talk) 12:41, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Meanings in other languages

message: *The line:
*::"It is often stated that the suit is named after Spanish espada (sword), but this is not likely. In Germany and Scandinavia, Spanish playing cards were not in use, and Spanish loanwords in these languages were rare. It should also be noted that the Spanish name for the French suit is picas - not espadas." 
*::(5th part of the opener)
*:conflicts with this line in Suit (cards):
*::"The Italian-style suits are the original suits (which is why the English term 'spade' refers not to the tool, but is derived from the Italian word espada = "sword", which this suit represents)" 
*::(#1 of the second set of bullets in the "Traditional Eastern suits and decks" section)
*:Neither one is cited.
*:Anyone have a source, can correct this conflict, know the answer"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.34.219 (talk) 06:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Aye.  I was just about to post about that myself. I wish I knew a playing card expert. Zell Faze (talk) 21:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This might be helpful. It says that the English "spade" comes from the Italian "spada" and that the cards' symbols were changed in order to reflect the different meaning of spade in English (also here and here). I'll add it to the article. Regards SoWhy 21:45, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

text: Eh? If spade is derived from Italian espada and not from Spanish espada, what's the problem? (Espada is not an Italian word, that's what, but it's not a contradiction.) —Tamfang (talk) 00:22, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict 

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message: It seems that the translation table is incorrect about the translation of Tarot Marseilles/Rider-Waite to modern cards.
According to Waite's own words:
... Wands or Sceptres--ex hypothesi, ..., the antecedents of Diamonds in modern cards ...
... Cups, corresponding to Hearts; ...
... Swords, which answer to Clubs ...
... Pentacles--called also Deniers and Money--which are the prototypes of Spades ... 
The article mistakenly relates:
Pentacles to Diamonds
Wands to Clubs
Swords to Spades
In other words the article is mostly incorrect on this matter and can in fact do harm rather than help. Hopefully it will either be corrected by a responsible and knowledgeable person or removed. 
Source: http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pkt0103.htm
:I don't agree 100% with Waite's theory. I agree that Batons/Wands are the antecedents of Diamonds (Huson, 2004) and Cups correspond to Hearts but I disagree with him on the other two suits. Waite is by no means the primary or only authority on playing card history. The French playing card suits were established long before Waite's Tarot deck based on the Italian suits.
:I have revised the translation table in line with the Huson source cited. HelenOnline (talk) 19:11, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect translation of Waite's tarot deck in the translation table 

message: I propose the individual suit articles be reinstated. The merge discussion occurred in 2009. I believe the articles were deleted partly due to lack of interest. I think there is definitely enough info out there to warrant individual articles. I also propose a new article entitled List of cards in a standard 52-card deck should be created, which would - just like the articles that list pokemon - take all the relevant information from the various articles on individual cards and summarise them in a comprehensive and concise list.--Coin945 (talk) 19:03, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's go a bit further than that: Let's make articles for all individual suit symbols on each card. E.g., on a seven of spades there are seven spade symbols. If our readers need to read the entire article on the seven of spades when they just want to get some quick info on the fifth spade on said card, we are seriously letting them down. Hans Adler 20:56, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Sarcasm aside, what is your take on this issue?--Coin945 (talk) 08:55, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Encyclopedias are not dictionaries. They discuss related things together. I don't believe that there is enough noteworthy info for separate articles for the suits. If there is, it should be added to the present article until it gets too long and needs to be split. At the moment this is not the case, even though a lot of bizarre information such as tarot symbolism and unexplained 'feudal classes' has accumulated. The idea of a list of individual cards is so strange that I don't even know what to say about it. I wasn't even sure that you meant it seriously. There would be very little, if anything, to be said about them beyond trivia. We don't do articles like List of letters in Shakespeare's works or List of entries in the New York telephone directory. Hans Adler 15:24, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Individual suit articles (part 2)

message: Picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aa_inspades_roadworks_00.jpg has nothing to do with playing card suits, as the context for the picture is construction and the word spades in the picture is referring to the spade digging implement and not the playing card suit. It should be deleted.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GR8DAN (talk • contribs) 15:47, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a pun exploiting the different possible meanings of the word. HelenOnline (talk) 15:58, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant Picture next to Metaphorical uses 

message: the correspondence of suits given here is presented as the only possible correspondence, while opinions differ and sources are available for the different interpretations. in Italy we use both French and Spanish suit systems (we don't really call them like that, Neapolitans call French all decks that have cuori, quadri, fiori and picche, some call Italian the Napoletane deck, others the Piacentine one and I'm quite sure that most Italians are convinced that there are no other playing cards than their own regional ones), but we have at least one national game, namely Scopone. in this game there's a card that is worth a whole point and is called Settebello. if you play with French cards, settebello is the seven of diamonds, if you play with Spanish cards, settebello is the seven of denari. Associating Diamonds with Bastoni is very surprising for most Italians, in particular those living in these areas, where Scopa or Scopone is played with French cards.
Mfrasca (talk) 06:23, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The correspondences are based on sources cited, which may or may not have been authored by cartomancers who happen to have an interest in the history of the suits. If you have any other reliable sources, please provide them. Popular belief based on the English suit names does not translate to fact, but it has nevertheless been mentioned in the various notes in this section. Helen (talk) 10:06, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: the Italian SISAL publishes some rule sets: for Scopone, Briscola, Sette e mezzo; these rules are meant for all card players in Italy (Sicilian, Tuscanian, Venetian, Milanese, Roman, ...), who play the same games with similar rules, but with either the "french" or with the "spanish" cards; in these rules the suits are associated according to my edits, not as it is now. The Italian wikipedia describes settebello as either "sette di denari" or "sette di quadri". The Italian "FIGS" (Federation for Scopone) supports the same correspondence table: http://www.federazionescopone.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=70&lang=en. All Italian Chartomancy sites I checked, starting with <a href="https://www.arcanimaggiori.com" title="Arcani Maggiori" rel="nofollow">Arcani Maggiori</a>, http://www.itarocchidigabriella.it, http://www.pantakleos.com, ... (but the list is longer) also agree. Mfrasca (talk) 09:38, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I will change the table incorporating some of these sources. The current correspondences attempt to reflect historical correspondences (which no one knows for sure) but practical correspondences such as are in these rule sets are also important. Note 7 will still cover the possible historical alternative. Helen (talk) 10:53, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

text: yet an other source is the table itself, because correcting the correspondence as I had done would avoid the multiple correspondence of some of the society classes to more than one suit. According to me this need is an indication that the source used is in error. Mfrasca (talk) 09:38, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That is why the nationality of the suits was included in the line item title - French, German and Italian suits are not the same suits, so the society classes only correspond with one suit within each country's system. Helen (talk) 10:53, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: With the current edits, the French and Italian suit systems have the same society classes association. could the two rows be collapsed to a single one? Mfrasca (talk) 07:14, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I would rather not, as the sources cited are not the same. I think separate lines also helps to make it clear that the systems are independent. Helen (talk) 08:20, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basing the correspondence of suits on Tarot and Chartomancy 

message: Seems that the Swiss associate suits differently than the Germans do: image of suit associations. Mfrasca (talk) 16:14, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That particular deck comes in more than one version with different suit combinations. Helen (talk) 21:15, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Here is a source that supports our Swiss-French correspondences (not saying it is authoritative): "Das französische Blatt ist unter anderem vom Poker sehr bekannt und beinhaltet die "Farben" Karo, Herz, Pik und Kreuz. Dem entsprechen die deutschschweizer Farben Schellen, Rosen, Schilten und Eichel." Helen (talk) 09:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Several sources say the correspondences are a matter of personal preference, including these downloadable playing instructions: "Die Übertragung dieser Farben auf die französische Karte ist von eigener Auslegung". Helen (talk) 09:27, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: exactly! as well as the other hint (I can't find the article where I read the statement... we have no "self-obvious"?) that puts side by side the "denari" on northern italian decks (bordering with Switzerland) and show the extreme similarity with the swiss "Rosen". do you want to add these alternatives as notes, to make clear that the current association is questionable? or shall I do so, in the knowledge that the edits will not be rolled back? Mfrasca (talk) 07:07, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a note and sources. I don't think it is necessary to mention all the possibilities (as any combination is possible). Helen (talk) 08:50, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  association of swiss suits within their national game "Jass" 

message: NOT Swords! (I knew it like that... but this article and many sources don't say so!) Böri (talk) 10:23, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spades = Wands 

message: Since when are there star suits, or suits represented by colours like blue or green?
MakeMeDo (talk) 00:03, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stars and the Rainbow 

message: I read in the Macmillan multi-volume encyclopeadia (albeit a long time ago  - back in the 1980s) that diamonds represented merchants, spades represented soldiers, clubs represented peasants and hearts represented the clergy. If this is accurate, it could go in the article somewhere (I had a look through this article just now and could not see this information anywhere). Vorbee (talk) 08:05, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Suits are symbolic

message: The current title fails WP:NATURAL, suit of cards or card suit would be better. I prefer suit of cards as a set phrase. Bullenbeisser (talk) 18:07, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[suit of cards]] or [[card suit]] 

message: This section has severe issues that make it incompatible with the scope of Wikipedia. With the exception of five-suit bridge which is a game rather than a specific deck, none of the decks are notable. Furthermore, it reads like a directory of products. There are also conflict of interest issues on several entries. Obvious ones are the Nu-Dek Sextet Bridge deck and the Toss™ Double Deluxe Decks. The editor who added the K6T deck did not even bother creating an account with a handle different than the one used in marketing it. In an earlier version, the external links used as references were simply retailers or their creators' websites. For these reasons, I propose deleting this section while adding a link to five-suit bridge in the "See also" section.--Countakeshi (talk) 09:29, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. It's a list of commercial products that takes up far too much of the article and detracts from its main purpose. The most there should be is a short overview section, properly cited to secondary sources. Bermicourt (talk) 07:31, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  another uncited multi-suit commercial example has just been added. That section's becoming a list of commercial products starting to dominate the article. Bermicourt (talk) 07:31, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: ...and another. Bermicourt (talk) 07:05, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  we can seek consensus and possibly vote to delete this section.--Countakeshi (talk) 18:57, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Or we can be WP:BOLD and delete it anyway. No one else seems to be participating in this discussion and that would confirm whether anyone else is interested. Bermicourt (talk) 07:23, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I did delete it back in 2017 only to end up in an edit war with someone who wanted to retain that section.--Countakeshi (talk) 06:13, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Another option is to create a separate article e.g. "Playing card packs with extra suits", "Non-standard playing cards" or "Commercial playing card decks" and let it takes its chances wrt notability there, leaving a short section and link here as has been done with Four-color decks. Bermicourt (talk) 07:31, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no-one has objected since you raised the subject in April I intend to be WP:BOLD and delete it. Bermicourt (talk) 18:44, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Too bad. I used to like watching this section here time by time. It concentrated interesting information on a topic I love. For the subjective reason of notability there is a lot of censorship on WP. Two people, 1 discussion, 2 months, and the information is gone for everyone. The most ridiculous is the accusation of being commercial, dressing your decision with morality, as a "bien-pensant". Those who commercialize 5- or more-suit decks are doing it because they know that all around the words there some excentric people like them that will appreciate getting these games. There no creator of such excentricities that can get decent earnings from that. I am the creator of K6T which is mocked in this discussion (uselessly) so I know. K6T has been sold to maybe 200 people all over the world in the last 6 years. The profit is 1 or 2 dollar per deck, this is what you call "commercial". 200 is probably not "notable" but it is not zero and if you don't like these decks, it is your right, but some are liking them. It is not a matter of money, it is a matter of freedom of information. It is the same for the other inventions which were reported here that you have deleted, some being historical. It should have been possible to remove all "commercial" links and just leave the information that these decks exist. The hypocrisy is that if one day Elon Musk or a famous brand, decides to sell such a thing and be really commercial, then you will find this notable and relevant for WP. I wish you a good day. Cazaux (talk) 15:18, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Good. I will try to make a contribution acceptable in WP standards in next future. Cazaux (talk) 19:45, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of interest and notability issues in 5+ suited decks section 

message: I don’t know how to play 5.190.122.212 (talk) 09:49, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: How to play what? Bermicourt (talk) 17:52, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What I need to know