Well, as a mathematician, I also studied logic during years, and Pat's logic sounds clear to me : mahjong IS a game and deserves his place on marp ; I know the problem is that there is a lot of mahjongs (like there is a lot of streetfighters or wonderboy) and it's not just that someone mastering mahjong or sf can earn 2000 LB pts when someone mastering a game with no clone (like anteater!) only earn 100 LB pts(posted 9065 days ago)The only solution to avoid that was to "merge" pts for similar games (very good idea by Pat) but this was unanimously and recently rejected by quite all marpers (except me and maybe an other one, don't remember)
So what remains ? the fact that we keep all clones ; there is nothing else to vote : archiving a type of game would amount to make a segregation (why mahjong ? why not soukobdx ? or puzlclub ? or puzznic ? or shanghai ? no skill, only reflexion ... the list is long and debates would be endless)
Sorry, QT, there is not only skill games in arcade ; "segregation is the way to chaos" (don't remember whose sentence it is) and don't forget that this is this type of "choices" which lead you out off rules coordinator chair ; if you don't like mahjong , very simple : don't play it !!!
Phil