Hans Adler

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Court piece

Hi Hans Adler, according to this source court piece and troefcall are not exactly the same games. Troefcall has probably been derived form court piece. See also here: "It [troefcall] has some similarity to the Indian game Court Piece". I think you'd better change the article of court piece yourself, because you added it there. Thanks! Ymnes (talk) 12:25, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! I guess you found my very old (2011) redirect from troefcall to court piece. As I remember it, at the time there were dozens of stubs and sub-stubs for various very similar games, many under several names, and often also under several spelling variants per name. None of them had a proper source. I will slightly rephrase the court piece article to make it clear that troefcall is a related game and likely derivative, not the same game. In the long run we should probably have a section on it that explains the difference, but I am not sure that I will find the time to write it myself. Depending on how substantial these differences are, a separate article might make sense, but I don't really expect that this will be necessary (or useful). Hans Adler 16:13, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your change in the article. Well it's expected to be a derivative, but also it has similarities with belote and hearts (which are very popular among Dutch). So it may after all be a mix of several worlds. It's quite a developed card game among Surinamese meanwhile. Since I have researched quite a lot in order to write the Dutch language article, I just decided to write an English version as well. See troefcall. Have a nice day! Ymnes (talk) 16:47, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, as you clearly know this game well I trust you know what you are doing. Of course you are free to correct the court piece article yourself if more is required. There is no article ownership. Hans Adler 09:21, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:West Balkans card games

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