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I've been doing articles on XBLA games for several years now, and I've been getting better it over time. I've recently brought Blood Knights up to GA level, and it's the first article I've done that I feel might been a viable candidate for Featured Article. Before I move forward with that, however, I wanted to ask you and a few other people that are involved in video game FACs what their thoughts are on the matter. In short, does the article have a realistic chance of going through FAC successfully? How much work would it take to be at that level? Your thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Sven Manguard Wha? 22:07, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Seiken Densetsu 3 you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
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Hi there- this is just a quick note to apologise for a small but important mistake in the last WikiCup newsletter; it is not 64 users who will progress to the next round, but 32. J Milburn ( talk) 18:43, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The article
Seiken Densetsu 3 you nominated as a
good article has passed
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I am working on a new article for the soundtracks of Final Fantasy XIV and its reboot/remake/sequel A Realm Reborn. Since you seem to know a lot about putting music articles together and I don't, could you help me with this? What I've got now is extremely early on and should absolutely not be taken as the final work. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 11:21, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, PresN, I think I need advice. After this year's E3 has come and gone (I have high hopes of new developments there), I'm thinking of putting Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy up as a GAN (it's by no means a solid plan: Drakengard in general is far higher and more concrete on my long-term priority list). I've been doing a little work on it today, and it's looking alright. But I'm still not happy with the "Titles" section. It seems too clunky, and it's not helped by the nature of the series. I tried modelling it after the article for Kingdom Hearts, but it's still not right. It isn't linked by common gameplay or a single story. All that unites it is that mythos, which is covered as thoroughly as it can be in another section. The trouble is, since I can't find any comparable article or series in Wikipedia, I don't know how to rearrange or rewrite it. Could you give advice, and maybe lend a helping hand? I'm seriously hoping to get this article to FA someday. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 21:36, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
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Okay, something different. User:Judgesurreal777 contacted me and suggested I put some of the articles I had worked on a lot up for GA review. Among those he pointed out in a later post was Music of Final Fantasy XIV. As you were also a substantial contributor to this article, I felt that I should consult you about the article's viability for nomination before taking any steps in the matter. So, do you think we could safely take it to that stage? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 07:42, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey PresN, there's a reply for you at
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Deathrow (video game)/archive1#Image_review_by_PresN, when you have a moment czar
♔ 12:43, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's
Adam Cuerden (
submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from
Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as
SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's
Godot13 (
submissions), whose featured list
Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's
ChrisGualtieri (
submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including
Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included
Cliftonian (
submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance
Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and
Caponer (
submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated
list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include
narwhal from
Reid,iain james (
submissions),
tiger from
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) and
The Lion King from
Igordebraga (
submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to
Czar (
submissions) and
Red Phoenix (
submissions) for their work on the
Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.
192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Do you know how long it'll take for the {{ WPVG}} template to update? I tried purging the caches but I'm seeing no new categories on articles such as Talk:Fez (video game) czar ♔ 00:54, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of
Infinity Blade to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA) appear as "Today's featured article" soon, please nominate it at
the requests page; if you'd like to see an FA on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to
the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with 1,301 articles in
Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be).
You (and your talk-page stalkers) may also be interested to hear that there have been some changes at the TFA requests page recently. Nominators no longer need to calculate how many "points" an article has, the instructions have been simplified, and there's a new nomination system using templates based on those used for DYK suggestions. Please consider nominating another article, or commenting on an existing nomination, and leaving some feedback on your experience. If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know.
Bencherlite
Talk 09:08, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if you wanted to do a Good Article review exchange. I would like Alfred V. Verville to be reviewed and I see you need Music of Final Fantasy XIV to be reviewed. Agreed? Nasa-verve ( talk) 20:19, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey PresN—would you have the time to expand your image review into a full review? I'm looking for additional thoughts on the FAC. czar ♔ 13:10, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
Congratulations on the Thatgamecompany TFA. Definitely well deserved. I remember copyediting that article way back when—fun times. It'll be cool to see a game studio on the front page. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 05:15, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Got a fun new thread on the main talk page involving your article. GamerPro64 22:00, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
He suggested that I looked for you. I'm working on the Sleeping Dogs article, which is nominated for GA. There's a couple of things that need to be worked on in the article, and I was wondering if you'd be interested. It's mostly reference stuff. URDNEXT ( talk) 18:08, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
hi presn, please note that there are some errors in the way you handled the "dokodemo chokobo" portion of this article
/info/en/?search=List_of_Chocobo_media
dokodemo chokobo 2 and 3 are not two part-apps like dokodemo chokobo 1. dc1 was two-games-in-one, while dc2 and dc3 were just single games where the first segments came preinstalled on the phones and the second segments, called "sequel", could be downloaded separately on the same day the game was released.
and as you can see here
http://stoical.egoism.jp/game/chocobo/chocobo.htm
and in other references i can't find anymore, dokodemo chokobo 2.5 isn't the "sequel" part of dc2, but is just a "normal" sequel of the game, released in february 19 2004
you mistakenly changed the dc2.5 release date here
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_Chocobo_media&diff=589186746&oldid=585980401
and then removed the entry here
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_Chocobo_media&diff=590881681&oldid=590715808
would you please correct these errors? --
SquallLeonhart_ITA (
talk) 22:17, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
dokodemo chokobo 3.5 doesn't exist, there are the first part and the "sequel" part of dokodemo chokobo 3, the first part and the "sequel" part of dokodemo chokobo 2, and another game, dokodemo chokobo 2.5, which is a separate game (a true sequel) continuing the story of dokodemo chokobo 2. the "false sequels" were just the second parts of the games, with the same title and available on the same release date. dc 2.5 had a different title and was released almost a year later than dc2.the only other reference i found is here
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/hinata_hoko/e/a3d4162aba24da3399cc806f75dc6456
the japanese wikipedia has a separate article for dokodemo chokobo, describing it as a series of four games: dc1, dc2 divided into two parts, dc2.5 single part, and dc3 divided into two parts.
unfortunately there are no more links on the internet about どこでもチョコボ2・5 潜入! 古代遺跡 (you can search on google)-- SquallLeonhart_ITA ( talk) 14:26, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
Lightning Returns has passed its GA review. Now we can go ahead with nominating the articles concerned with Final Fantasy XIII ( XIII, XIII-2, those two's music articles Lightning Returns, Characters and Lightning herself) as a Good Topic. I don't think there's enough information on the music of Lightning Returns to make an article: I put everything I could find in the section that's there now. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 16:02, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
I've just put together a soundtrack section for Final Fantasy Type-0. It's as complete as possible for the moment apart from track lists, which I really can't get my head round properly. You seem better at them, so could you please help and put them in? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 16:11, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria ( talk) 19:54, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
Excuse me, are you available for contributing to the Sleeping Dogs (video game) page? It's almost at GA, and you don't need to know anything about it; just knowing how to edit. Contact me if yes. URDNEXT ( talk) 16:27, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
So I'm here working on List of million-selling game consoles, and on paper, the colored key I came up with sounded good. After implementation though, I'm not too certain lol. What do you think? « Ryūkotsusei » 22:54, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
First off, thanks for directing me to Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard which helped me upload File:Anachronox gameplay.jpg. But since I uploaded a new image for the article to replace the original gameplay image in the article, I believe that means that you have to do an Image Review on that image as well. Would it be possible for you to do that for this one? GamerPro64 03:50, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I had checked out
this article for the game Transistor (developed by
Supergiant Games, who created
Bastion), and it's in poor shape: Gameplay details overshadowed by plot section, too little information about the development and reception, and not enough references. I want you to improve the "Transistor (video game)" article to GA status, then you can take it up to FA quality. This task may seem interesting because you had taken the article "Bastion (video game)" to FA, and both Bastion and Transistor were developed by Supergiant. }I
Mr*|
(60nna)I{ 14:08, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey man, I'm working on the Super Mario Bros. 3's page and I was wondering what you think of it, considering I'm planning on taking it to FA. Cheers! URDNEXT ( talk) 16:01, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's
Godot13 (
submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C,
Casliber (
submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance
Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles
Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and
Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.
The round saw this year's first featured portal, with
Sven Manguard (
submissions) taking
Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to
12george1 (
submissions) and the
2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on
Maya Angelou's autobiographies from
Figureskatingfan (
submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer
Tomáš Rosický from
Cloudz679 (
submissions) and
a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of
Sven Manguard (
submissions).
The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Music of Final Fantasy XIV you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
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I think Avalagatie is back: [1]. Same MO.-- Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 07:09, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Will you join us? Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle/Wiknic/2014. -- Pine ✉ 17:47, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 04:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey PresN. I have that review for you if you would be so kind as to do one. It is for Marvel One-Shots. I have personally nominated this one, as a main contributor to the page. I also have another GA nom just up, for which I am just a major contributor ( Captain America: The Winter Soldier). If you have any interest in reviewing CapTWS as well, that would also be appreciated. Thanks and congrats on your list becoming a featured list! - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 17:46, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
The article
Music of Final Fantasy XIV you nominated as a
good article has been placed on hold
. The article is close to meeting the
good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See
Talk:Music of Final Fantasy XIV for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by
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Czar (
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So I was looking through the archives of the Signpost to read anything they had on Featured Topics and came across this little number. Besides it showing how much the process has changed over the years, I found it interesting to see you being the one who wrote it up. GamerPro64 21:49, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you so much for the quick review and pass! That has to be the fastest GA nom I've ever been involved with! - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 19:35, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey man, do you have any tips for new editors like me on the site? Thanks. URDNEXT ( talk) 21:16, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
I am thinking of bringing Lightning up as FAN at some point in the future (not the near-future mark you, as I want to take it easy for a while in the article nomination department) and I need another opinion on it. Apart from the usual things, there's something else: the article on Aerith Gainsborough has a section concerning the character's music, and as comments have been made on Lightning's leitmotif Blinded by Light, should there be a section for it there, or is the article looking too big already? I realize that I may have been obsessing over this article a bit, but I want it to be as good as it possibly can be. And anyway, bringing a character article to featured status is a nice challenge. But I definitely need more input from other users, and since you're the other main XIII contributor... -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 09:11, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Hey—for my next trick, I was considering working on the Indie Game: The Movie article and bringing the topic to at least "good" status. Since you worked on Super Meat Boy, I wanted to see whether you'd be interested in bringing Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes's articles to GA for such a project. Thoughts? czar ♔ 13:23, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to find the page that discusses article sections written in the "On X date, Y. On Z date, W." format. I knew the phenomenon but not that such a page existed until recently when someone reposted it in a WPVG discussion. Now I don't recall where or who posted it, but might it have been you? czar ♔ 14:47, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
The article
Music of Final Fantasy XIV you nominated as a
good article has passed
; see
Talk:Music of Final Fantasy XIV for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can
nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by
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Now that the article for XIV music has become a GA, can it be added to the Final Fantasy Music Good Topic? Or do we need to jump through hoops for that to happen? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 11:03, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that you just blocked for the 4th time a user I knew in the past. I did not really watched him for a long time, but I do have a question to you about this [2]. Could you please answer? Thanks, My very best wishes ( talk) 03:01, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey, Pres, how's it going! I was wondering if you could help me with Sleeping Dogs (video game) since I really need help with it. Ever since I joined Wiki I have been trying to tackle the article alone but I can't seem to do it by myself wit the amount of experience I have. Is there any way you could help me take it to GA? I know you usually only edit Military related articles, but this one is rated B class so it should be an easy thing for both of us. What do you think? Thanks for everything in advance, URDNEXT ( talk) 12:35, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Permanent_death#rfc_ADF653E. If you could spare a few minutes of your time to help us determine whether of not Path of Exile belongs on the list of games featuring permanent death, we'd be much obliged. Thanks.
I really need that username (
talk) 19:54, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
I am glad you are keeping the Snakes in the grass under heal. They have been a source of distraction to far too many busy Wikipedians such as yourself and need to be addressed within wikipedia guidelines which they Wikilawyer to allow their rudeness and refusal to work cooperatively. Judgesurreal777 ( talk) 18:11, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
I am notifying you since you were the image reviewer at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink/archive1. File:The Bean and McCormick Tribune Plaza.jpg is part of a mass deletion at Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Cloud Gate (note that you have to scroll down past a couple of closed discussions at the top).-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:32, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!
TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.
If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.
At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.
As always, the more participants, the better, and everyone is encouraged to participate!
Sent by Dom497-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi PresN. I don't know if you saw my reply at my talk page, but I don't have the Nintendo Official Magazine sources you requested. It looks like User:Ashnard has them instead. I do have some material covering the game in Diehard GameFan, though. So here are those sources:
The material on pages 78-80 may not be as helpful as I'd hoped. They are printed in the section where reviews are normally found so I expected a review, but this is more like a walk-through... The scoring chart on Pg.22 may be more helpful, though. Let me know if it's too blurry and I can clarify any words. The scoring system for GameFan is such that 4 staff members individually rate the game and then all 4 scores are printed. This is similar to ho Famitsu does its cross reviews if you're familiar with that magazine. The four scores for this review are credited (in order from left to right) to Skid, Sgt. Gamer, K. Lee, and The Enquirer. "Skid" is the nom de plume of Dave Halverson, "K. Lee" is Kelly Rickards, and "The Enquirer" is Andrew Cockburn. Good luck with the article and I hope this is useful to you. - Thibbs ( talk) 00:52, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Sorry time got a little bit away from me today. Here's the December 1993 Edge article:
I'll get the Retro Gamer piece to you by tomorrow. It's about the whole Seiken Densetsu series, but hopefully it will have some good info. - Thibbs ( talk) 01:52, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Et voila:
Let me know if you need more and I can look further. I have some Famitsus from 1993 so there may be some coverage there as well. - Thibbs ( talk) 12:14, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Hopefully I'm not being TOO bold, but I just helped by archiving your user talk threads up to March 2014; it should help both you and your visitors with accessibility, and I deliberately chose a cutoff point far enough that there should have been no premature archiving. I also respected your previous mode of archiving by copypasting the threads to a new archive and adding a link to it under your "Archive" collapse. If you don't like it, feel free to revert! Hopefully you don't mind me too much; I know it's generally bad to mess with the userpages of others but I assume this is being helpful. :D ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:47, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Didn't knew that SNAAAAKE!! had a previous name. If possible, you can edit the WP:EDR where he had been mentioned. I don't know if we are allowed to add multiple names though. Thanks OccultZone ( Talk • Contributions • Log) 19:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Here ( alt with better formatting) is the LEVEL article from issue 6, translated into English. If you're concerned about the reliability of the translation, just ask a Wikipedian who speaks Swedish to verify the relevant passages. Chrono Compendium has been used as a source in FAs before, though, so it should be fine. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 20:41, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Big, big thanks. I actually came on to message you about that FAC. Congratulations on yet another quality FA—and major props for the amazing job you did handling my review. I'm aware that I can be the Reviewer from Hell (I'm certain that my ridiculous Resident Evil 2 prose review contributed to User:Prime Blue's departure from the project), but you trooped on. I'm glad to hear that you thought it was worthwhile in the end. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 02:16, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Ahead of the scans, which should be up later tonight, here are some online LOM sources that might be useful. (Three of the OPMs you asked for are available in the Internet Archive.)
There are solid details about the game and its production timeline in these, but nothing concrete about its development. Ditto for all of the material I have yet to scan. From my Googling, it seems that your best bet might be the Ultimania companion book, which I saw used as a development source on the JAWP LOM article. Good luck finding it, though. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 03:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
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link)I'm trying to figure out what to do with Keiichi Suzuki (composer) and Hirokazu Tanaka's articles. Do you have any ideas for finding information on Japanese composers? czar ♔ 23:23, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm not as familiar with VGMOnline. Want to take this one? czar ♔ 00:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!
As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:
For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.
For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).
The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.
--Dom497, Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 01:29, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:
We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists.
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There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Secret of Mana to FA status recently. I know you know all about WP:TFAR (specific and non-specific date slots) and the "pending" list, so this is just a reminder to use them as and when suits you. Many thanks. Bencherlite Talk 13:47, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
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Can you give some comments at the FAC? It would be hugely appreciated. Thanks! URDNEXT ( talk) 23:53, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
That user G-Zay has created another sockpuppet. I suspect that the puppet has the same editing behavior as G-Zay on FFX and Yoshinori Kitase. Isn't it time to take action against it? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 07:01, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
I've just created an article for the music of the Drakengard series, but the DISPLAYTITLE gadget is being silly: it's not displaying the title properly, and there's a warning message in the first three subsections saying "Warning: Display title "Music of the Drakengard series" overrides earlier display title "Music of the Drakengard series"." Can you help? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 17:24, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
I've been having a little round and recently added information from an interview about the game's soundtrack. Looking at it now, the second is looking a little bulky. When do you think we could make an article concerning it that could become a GA in the future? I've noted that there are two reviews for the main soundtrack (plus a few mentions in normal reviews), one review for the Plus soundtrack, but nothing on the promotional Pre-Soundtrack album. There are also the three digital singles. If there isn't enough, we can leave it as it is, but I was looking at the article for X-2's soundtrack and thought that it managed with comparatively little when it came to soundtrack development. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 13:59, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
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In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer
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Isopoda and new GA
least weasel.
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Pictor and
Epacris impressa.
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So, it looks like you've pulled off the WP:SE tag off of the last few articles I created ( Chaos Rings 3 and The Legend of Legacy) Sorry about that, I didn't realize you guys were so particular as to what was put under the project's umbrella. Didn't mean to cause extra work or seem obstinate or anything. Sergecross73 msg me 15:10, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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I request that all the notable articles you've redirected you instead take to afd. The communal discussion will give the articles a chance to actually be improved, which is a very efficient way of improving the 'pedia.- Coin945 ( talk) 11:44, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello, PresN. I wanted to start off by saying thank you for List of Sega video game consoles - I hope it passes soon, but it is quite well done and I am impressed. I know you have been very helpful in providing your feedback on some of my FACs before, and I was wondering if you might be willing to take some time to give Master System its required image and source reviews here. It is nearing the end of its FAC period and has had some substantial prose reviews so far, but could use some more actionable points to address. I appreciate all of your hard work and your contributions and reviews. Thank you, Red Phoenix let's talk... 12:06, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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Do you mind clarifying if your statement on AMAs applies to the verified female developer doing an AMA on reddit linked from this discussion? A few users are arguing on whether it is good enough for WP:RS and whether it is truly verified as defined by Wikipedia. Hyperflint ( talk) 16:22, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi PresN, excuse me for ban-evading via an IP address to ask you to consider unbanning me, but I don't see any other choice. I was permanently blocked more than two years ago on charge of sockpuppetry, which I deny. I am asking you and three other administrators to look at it. I just picked you off the list, checking only that you were recently active.
I need to keep this invitation neutral, so the best thing is just to point you to my RFC/U ( /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Colton_Cosmic#Statement_of_the_dispute). I can't restrain myself from saying that the RFC/U was kidnapped by my long-term hounders, and that I was denied the ability to speak in my own defense (unheard of in RFC/Us and against their clear instructions.
I'll also risk saying, but judge for yourself, that I never socked Wikipedia, and that an injustice has been perpetrated against me.
I would answer your questions if I could but you'll have to unblock my talkpage, presumably a less-controversial act.
Colton Cosmic.
Hi. Hope you're well. I recently finished the promotion of this article. Could you fix the "Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL" error on this page? Thanks, Cowlibob ( talk) 18:31, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Looks like I missed it, oops. I owe you one. Congrats on the FL.-- ɱ (talk) 18:37, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
The 2014 WikiCup champion is
Godot13 (
submissions), who flew the flag of the
Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents.
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles.
Casliber (
submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.
A full list of our prize-winners follows:
Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Page move is proposed; you are invited to discuss it there. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:54, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
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I've been doing some work on the article in preparation for a future GA nomination. I was hoping that you could do some copy-editing on the article as that isn't my strongest suit. I did manage to find substitutes for the VGMdb references that were there, so that little hurdle has been cleared. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 21:13, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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Really impressive work on the Mana topic so far. As I'm sure you know, you're only three GAs away from a(nother) GT—which is insane. Just wanted to let you know your (apparently tireless) efforts are noticed and appreciated. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 22:34, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
An update concerning the FA nomination of said article. It's in the process of being promoted. Thank you hugely for the image review. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 15:40, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Referring to Loganmac. If they admit to it on site, like Ryulong has, then it's permitted. But if they have not, it falls afoul of WP:OUTING. Tutelary ( talk) 22:38, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
Just checking up on ya. Been following the GamerGate Arbitration and just wanted to make you if you're all right. GamerPro64 02:38, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.
If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk), The ed17 ( talk), Miyagawa ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Figureskatingfan ( talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Dragon Warrior. Since you had some involvement with the Dragon Warrior redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 17:40, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi.
Everytime I see an admin making such edits as revision #638327161, I am caught by complete surprise. I don't know why; somehow, I imagine admins as people who don't mistake. Anyway, the problem with your edit is not purposelessly moving some words around. (I never revert such edits because if I did, I'd be doing some purposeless moving myself.) It is the mistakes that is the ground for the revert.
You keep mentioning "the game" but what game? (You have forgotten to mention that FFVII is a video game.) Geostigma is not incurable; the film itself and On The Way to A Smile establish that. Cloud has not distanced himself because of Aerith's death; in fact, Marlene mentions exactly why in the Complete edition of the film. (Also, On The Way to A Smile mentions his work mandated that he remain away for prolonged periods of time.) But yes, he is nevertheless haunted.
By the way, you never need to insert an explicit § into the {{ See also}} and its siblings. It automatically replaces # with §.
Best regards,
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talk) 16:37, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
|publisher=
and |website=
/|work=
is not tolerated. Example:
GameSpot is a work/website. Its publisher is
CBS Interactive.
Destructoid is the website/work; its publisher is ModernMethod.|publisher=
.Sorry to see you mixed up in this whole GamerGate article mess...frankly I've been keeping my hands off it myself due to my own opinions, though did at one point try to at least rebuild the damn thing from scratch. It's too complicated an issue for me to even want to tackle solo though.
That said while I'm pretty firmly on the 'pro' side of things, I've always respected you and valued your friendship on wikipedia. Just felt that should be said to you in light of any shitstorm going on.-- Kung Fu Man ( talk) 08:21, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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