User:Scalene/Confidence Tricks

"The Conjurer" by Hieronymus Bosch. The painting accurately displays a performer doing the cups and balls routine, which has been practiced since Egyptian times. The shell game does have some origins in this old trick. The real trick of this painting is the cutpurse who is working for the conjurer, and robbing a bent-over spectator.

Welcome to the Confidence Games WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to confidence tricks, including topics such as pyramid schemes, con artists, notable confidence tricks, and internet scams.

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to confidence tricks, by expanding articles on people, tricks, and language related to confidence tricks.

Scope

• This project proposes to work with all pages related to confidence tricks, their history, methods, and artists. We acknowledge the efforts and work of other projects which cover the same area, and will focus our attention on those articles which do fall within the scope of any other active regional project, such as, for instance Wikipedia:WikiProject Law.

Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Scalene^{•UserPage•Talk•Contributions•Biography•Є•} 09:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

All members should feel free to add a userbox to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project, once someone makes one.

Articles

Featured articles

Articles on confidence trick-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. None at this time.

Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
None at this time.

Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status: None at this time.

New articles

Please feel free to list your new articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box that can be found on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for confidence tricks, so that the articles will appear there.

Formerly recognized content

Former Featured articles

Delisted Good Articles

Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Templates

Stubs

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

Other templates

A template should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It'll be made eventually. If we remember.

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Resources

Related projects

Wikipedia:WikiProject Law Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime