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August 23

Sources for potential article on Sheriff of Nottingham (card game)?

I noticed this game listed on Requested Articles page and was surprised to learn that we didn't already have an article on it. (I've never played it but have heard it discussed a fair bit in person as well as online.) I would like to create this article, and went looking for sources to use, but there doesn't seem to be much. Boardgamegeek has a good basic description of the game, but I'm not sure if it's considered a reliable source here. This book presumably also has some useful information, but most of it appears to have been scrubbed from Google Books for containing copyrighted material. This one seems like a good source, but it only touches on one aspect of the game. Then there are a fair amount of reviews like this one, which again have a good overview of the game's content, mechanics, who designed it, etc, but I don't think reviews are considered reliable sources here. I can't figure out if this counts as a review or not.

Are there any better sources that cover this game out there that I simply haven't noticed? Alternatively, are the sources I listed good enough to use in creating the article? If anyone is able to view the contents of the book that's been redacted, then that would also be very helpful.

Thanks,

3 kids in a trenchcoat (talk) 06:24, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Star Trek The Next Generation questions

On this show, there is a lot of shade thrown about astrophysics, like from Q and also when Picard is suddenly not captain but Lieutenant junior grade after returning from going back in time. Also barbers have gotten a bad rap, and Picard plays the role of a barber so as to be underestimated. Who were the writers behind these things? Was it the same writer for both?Rich (talk) 07:10, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Please see List of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:17, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

The one where Q shows Picard what his life would be like if he never took any risk (and he ends up as a very old lieutenant JG) is "Tapestry", which was written by the extremely prolific Ronald D. Moore. I'm not sure which other episodes you have in mind...Q often dismisses human astrophysics because he's an omnipotent alien who can change the nature of the universe at will. Adam Bishop (talk) 11:16, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

• • • In Tapestry near the end, lieutenant Picard is paged to do some astrophysics analysis, which Picard considers meaningless and unworthy of him. It just seems most astronomers nowadays would disagree, might even think being the ship captain was the boring job. Also, there’s an episode where at the end Q tells Picard that it’s not about astrophysics, it’s that just for one moment Picard opened his eyes beyond that trivial astrophysics, and the test for humanity is never over.Rich (talk) 21:20, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

I've made that a link.

The one where Picard impersonates the ship's barber is "Starship Mine", written by Morgan Gendel. I found this information on the fan site Memory Alpha, in their article Barber which links to their article Starship Mine (episode). I disagree that "barbers have gotten a bad rap" on the show; in that episode Picard is just trying to appear to obviously not be a senior officer. --184.146.89.141 (talk) 21:03, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Maybe, I don’t know if I agree, since Picard also tried to seem pretty inneffectual and slow on the uptake. But there was another episode where subspace aliens were robbing the enterprise’s officers of their sleep and operating on them. In that episode Worf is getting his hair cut by a barber who seems abnormally timid or something.Rich (talk) 21:10, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

That's the classic, sixth season episode, Schisms, but I think you're reading too much into it. The barber is a little nervous because his client is Worf, who is well known to have a temper. Matt Deres (talk) 14:20, 24 August 2020 (UTC)