sourcing-verification

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Does a primary source confirm the two-hop Mamluk card-suit renaming mechanism (coins → polo-sticks → batons)?

capture promoted 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, transmission-of-knowledge, translation-history
Dummett's own 1999 primary statement on unsolved Mamluk/Chinese playing-card problems does not raise the coins-to-polo-sticks misreading mechanism

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, sourcing-verification, argument-from-silence
The spiorad.net Mamluk-deck reconstruction site's account of the coins-to-polo-sticks resemblance is its own inference, not a citation to Mayer or Dummett, and traces back to the same uncited Wikipedia sentence

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, sourcing-verification
Wikipedia's 'Batons (suit)' article carries no citation for the coins-to-polo-sticks-to-batons mechanism sentence; its only footnote is attached to a different, later sentence

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-18 · history-of-games, playing-cards, etymology, sourcing-verification, wikipedia-citation-practice
Does Benkard (2000) report the organizational-forgetting depreciation rate (~0.96 monthly, ~61% of experience surviving a year) that the L-1011 learning-reversal claim rests on?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-24 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing, benkard