Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stinkety Pinkety

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 16:48, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Stinkety Pinkety

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I prodded it with the following rationale: "The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline." It was deprodded by User:DGG with the following rationale "Given the famous originator, this needs a source in published sources about Kaufman". I am frankly a bit confused by that, as this does not read like a deprodding rationale, merely a criticism of inadequae sources. I don't see a single mention of this in Google Books. At most this could be redirected and merged to the creator's biography, but it doesn't look likely that it can be kept as a game of stand-alone notability. Thoughts? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:09, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as I myself also found nothing and there's simply nothing else suggesting otherwise including significance and then significance for its own article. SwisterTwister talk 05:19, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Question Has anyone searched for this in theextensive biographic material about George S. Kaufman ? DGG ( talk ) 06:09, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- As I said, it does not appear to exist as a searchable keyword in Google Books or in Google Scholar. Frankly, it may be a WP:HOAX, with ~200 web mentions being based on this article, through it might be mentioned at Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1986). Everyman's word games. Dent. ISBN 978-0-460-04711-1.. That book only has a snippet view in Google Books, but in theory it should be searchable, but this phrase does not return any result. It seems to be pretty low profile ([1]), and since it is not in LibGen (I looked), well, the venerability of this is hard. There is also the issue of Everyman's Library works as a source. Anyway, can someone prove this is not a hoax? The more I look into that, DGG, the more non-notable (at the very least) this looks. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:38, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The Kaufman attribution is almost certainly a hoax, but the thing described in the article is a kind of "folk game". I remember playing it in English class in middle school, I think as part of a lesson from Michael Clay Thompson's The Word Within The Word. Jergling (talk) 20:56, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 10:36, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I remember this concept from puzzle books when I was a kid, but they were called "hink pinks," "hinky pinkies," and "hinkety pinketies." Google results] Joyous! | Talk 18:21, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I don't think this term is used widely. Joyous! | Talk 04:38, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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