Template:Did you know nominations/Quodlibet (card game)

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:55, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Quodlibet (card game)

(

)

William Tell as the Ober of Acorns

... that Quodlibet is a card game played by student fraternities with William Tell cards, where the dealer is known as the 'beer king'? Source: Quodlibet and Quod-Libet-Regeln)

Reviewed: O clap your hands (Vaughan Williams)

Created by Bermicourt (talk). Self-nominated at 19:55, 31 August 2018 (UTC).

Article was nominated within the right time frame, is long enough and there are no obvious copyvios. Image is freely licenced. However, what makes frw.or.at and badenia.at reliable sources? Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 13:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

It's a fair question. Being a 'student fraternity' game, it makes sense that the sources for its rules would come from student fraternities. The two cited are as follows:

KÖStV Frankonia Wien, which is an official Studentenverbindung, a student and alumnus fraternity from Vienna that was founded in 1919. The fraternity is a member of the Mittelschüler-Kartellverband, the umbrella organisation for all such high school fraternities in Austria.

KÖStV Badenia, likewise, is an official fraternity from Baden bei Wien in Lower Austria that was founded in 1928. It is also a member of the Mittelschüler-Kartellverband.

So they are both official clubs with a long history, the material is not contentious and it is unlikely they have an agenda for misrepresenting the rules of a card game played by their alumni. Indeed, what they are doing is publishing their rules for the benefit of their members. That the two sources match pretty closely is a further cross-check.

I have added a short piece under the overview to make clear which sources the rules are based on. I hope that helps. Bermicourt (talk) 16:46, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the explanation. It would be nice to find book sources, but I guess the document supplied here are as authoritative as we're going to get, so I think we can trust them. Have to AGF the sources as my German is not up to snuff. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:54, 25 September 2018 (UTC)