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Re: The Simpsons Wrestling
It's borderline, but should be okay. Gary King (
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Geeez, way to ruin my wiki break! LOL, sure, I'd be glad to look it over for you! It'll be Thursday night or Friday night. CTJF83Talk 20:37, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
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Video game related articles fall under niche categories on Wikipedia: "Culture and the arts" and "Everyday life". Because of this, they are often required to demonstrate
notability more than other topics. Wikipedia defines notability as "worthy of notice", and considers it distinct from fame, importance, and popularity. Though it is acknowledge to be related to fame and the like, it is important understand that being famous, important, or popular does not mean a video game article should be on Wikipedia.
Being notable means that a topic has "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Wikipedia's policy also stipulates that this only presumes to "satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article." This means that though an article may meet the criteria on paper, it is up to the community to decide if a topic truly is notable and/or violates other policies such as
WP:NOT. In short, just because a video game, character, or related topic exists, does not mean it should also exist as a Wikipedia article.
Dealing with non-notable topics
Articles that do not meet the criteria are either deleted or merged into a relevant topic.
WP:Articles for deletion (AfD) handles the deletion of non-notable articles, among other types, and has an established process to begin discussions about reasons for deletion.
If an article is a subarticle of a larger topic, merging it into the larger topic article is a more desirable action. For example, the main character of a video may not be notable, but has received some mentions in reviews. It would benefit both topics, the character and its video game, to include the content into the article of the video game; essentially using a small, weaker article to strengthen a larger more notable article.
Things to remember
The best way to show notability is to provide
reliable sources about the topic.
Notability is less about keeping articles out of Wikipedia and more about making sure readers are provided articles about significant, quality topics.
While you may think a topic is notable, others may disagree. Try to keep a clear perspective when assessing notability so discussions can reach a consensus.
AfD is more of a last resort and is not always the best course of action to take.
Consider starting a merger discussion first, as some editors may not fully understand why an article they started is not suitable for Wikipedia.
By simply removing the excess closing font tags and placing the bold tags around the entire thing, we've managed to free up 44 more characters, that much less for editors to have to sift through ^.~
And note, the two appear exactly the same:
Your current signature:
I'm not trying to force you to change it or anything, I'm just showing that it could be made smaller with some ease, and it makes it a little less of a burden on editors trying to add comments on talk pages.
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Sumimasen!
Dochira samaka?) 18:08, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
"Invalid raw signature. Check HTML tags." That's strange, try what it says now, I updated it... Maybe my understanding of the raw signature feature is limited, so the <b> tags may be interfering with it... I'm not entirely sure... anyway, if that one doesn't work either, then it doesn't matter. As I previously stated, you are entirely within the guide-lines.
~九尾の氷狐~(
Sumimasen!
Dochira samaka?) 18:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Ah, well I guess wikipedia doesn't like having multiple tags closed with one. Oh well, that's why I substitute a
template for my sig, don't have to worry about stuff like that :P
Well I'll get on to OGG-ifying that video here soon, thanks for the support!
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Thank you
Thank you for working on the Production section of the article
Bart Sells His Soul. I will get to cleaning up the rest of it and researching info for Reception, etc., pretty soon. Cirt (
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From the Judges
This years WikiCup started off great! It's only the second full week of competition, and we already have a lot of content promoted. We have some very close pools, such as Pool A and J. We also have some pools who have not been very active yet, but hopefully that will start changing in the coming weeks.
Garden and iMatthew have also opened a new pool, the "Judge's Pool" where we are competing against each other and following the same rules as all of you. This pool however, will never have any effect on the actual competition, but you can still check back often to see how we are doing compared to yourself.
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Candlewicke (60)
Scorpion0422 (24)
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NapHit (27)
ThinkBlue (18)
97198 (11)
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X! (69)
Sasata (10)
LOTRrules (4)
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Bedford (29)
RyanCross (21)
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Sunderland06 (46)
Skinny87 (16)
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Juliancolton (133)
Tinucherian (41)
Ottava Rima (28)
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Durova (144)
Theleftorium (121)
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Paxse (78)
Climie.ca (67)
Useight (46)
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Wow, you guys are racking up the DYK's fast! Good articles are also coming in quite quickly, and we also have a few new Featured articles. This is coming along great so far; we're glad to see almost everyone working on something.
Also, Thehelpfulone is our newest judge. He will, starting Monday, be helping maintain the WikiCup and help us ensure all runs smoothly. It's hard to gain consensus between two editors, so I guess "majority rules" (with three people) will start to apply while we make our decision. :-P
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Tinucherian (64)
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Friends
Thank you so much for finding those references (as you can see, I have no idea how to use NewsBank); I almost killed myself searching for them and still found nothing. Do you think you'll be able to find those last two numbers? Anyways, what's up with "
The Last One (Friends)"? I think it's time to nominate it, unless there are some issues I am unaware of. :) Corn.u.co.pia •
Disc.us.sion 23:26, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome, but I've been on the welcoming committee since 2005, or perhaps earlier, myself.
I think you need to check out exactly who's got the time and seniority... which is why brash immature new editors, perhaps like yourself sometimes get an earful from me. Such young or foolish people, that in general, haven't the breadth and depth of experience to know when an rule is a good rule, and when to let well enough alone... costing many their free time picking up after heir unnecessarily rules oriented immature decisions. Trashing a well put together series is not progress for the project, especially not when notability was ramrodded through and is so controversial itself. But perhaps you like pissing off people that contribute tens and hundreds of man-hours.
BTW -- being an American, I insist on free speech and will be rude when its for the good of the project to whom I please. If I make you feel bad, you probably have your head up your ass in some way. So what is your specific gripe. // FrankB 16:34, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Why are you deleting the synopses I've been busting ass the last two months to put together??? Didn't you see the INUSE??? Stop unformatting the condensed upper two sections... such tricks are common enough in a lot of pages to get unwanted whitespace under control. // FrankB 16:01, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Well that shows you how easy it is to overlook the link, doesn't it. Warn a guy... would ya. Apologies, my bad. This is probably a good way to go, but you really should have inquired whether I was still in the page! (Turns out I'd closed that tab, so no harm done, save for time lost ... and a certain rise to the bloodpressure. Ahem <g>)
Thanks for the speedy response. // FrankB 16:16, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Good job on the distilled seasons table, I like the alternating colors. Are you also concurrently changing the 22+ redirects to reach the proper subpage? I'd dreaded doing that for the eleven in each half season, much less all the name permutations for 22 per year. Yikes!!! See ya! // FrankB 16:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
It occurs to me your table will allow sectioning the subpages with their own TOC indexing... so can direct the redirects to the pertinent section, so to speak. Thoughts on that? // FrankB 16:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Working together
Thanks for that. My pleasure, but aside from the heart, go ahead and evolve it in place if you like... I'm trying to process recorded episodes in seasons 1-4, mainly 2 and 3 I think, so I'll be in those subpages. The thing that got me was there deinclusion! (Oh My!) For your further Info, I don't use a watchlist, so ping me if there is a talk page I should see and answer. Thanks. // FrankB 16:29, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I should really take some time someday and learn it. See {{R to Charmed}} for when running it. Might be sensible to create a template replacement that links to each title as the section. I can do that, so you can fly it faster. Just need some logic like I built into {{Chrmd}} to swap out " (Charmed episode)" and such... no hurry to make those improvements. I'd prefer seeing a improved season or three in place then increasing the page traffic. // FrankB 16:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Whatever works easiest. Don't know AWB's features, especially search and replace capabilities. The issue is that so many titles are aliased in various permutations, so any episode may have multiple redirects. I'm pretty good at templates, if it helps. // FrankB 16:56, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
OK
Prelim look here, says sections oriented list pages will need a modified format... probably a slightly modified template. Note how the episode table elements are both BELOW the (actually interleaved properly) section titles just added as you last rang my bell... See
this diff. I'm open to input on the episodes lists of co-stars, guest stars, special guest stars and credited actors... Not really happy with how any are displaying using {{also starring}}. Any thoughts on looking over the various permutations I've put together thus far? (Do think the co-stars should just appear in the "about Season nn section... and perhaps the Special Guest Starz too, like Grams, Patty, Victor. Thoughts and advice??? // FrankB 17:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking more along the lines of keeping sections to a minimum, and relegating them to {{also starring}} means I can morph that to be an infobox any time later... which is the way I'm thinking this should go... Sidebar presentations are useful. // FrankB 18:29, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
How's this look
Got the edit tags to behave and believe the second format to be attractive enough to go with
as shown here, what do you think? (I'll leave the page alone for a while, so you can check out the edit links behavior on the current version) // FrankB 18:56, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
It's not centered in the least... suspect you're just seeing an optical effect in that I tableized to stabilize the edit links using {{fixHTML}}... which expects to right float. So an interaction with your browser that differs from what I'm seeing in Firefox. The page header section created table will bound things that way on the actual page... I need to make a correction to the text error in that first section, then I'll port them both over and we can look again. Will be a while, however, have to go off again and tend again to RL for a bit. // FrankB 19:28, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
OK... :Now compare the top section vs zee bottom
here... good to go? // FrankB 22:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Good evening, or whatever... check my contribs and see sequential section changes (season 2, I think) for making those themselves... AWB should make it a snap. // FrankB 14:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
You got DVDs?
Particularly, Season 3's? see [[user talk:Fabartus#Charmed [Again]|Charmed [Again] (here)]]. When you gonna get to the next table??? // FrankB 00:12, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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Charmed Episode Tables
Hey, I fixed up season 3 table (as you may know), would you like to do the rest yourself or do you not mind me pitching in...
Pic Editor960 (
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kk well it's gonna take ALOT of work to do this, as i am also meant to be doing the main article for seasons aswell (mainly season 3) lol. If you could do season four or atleast half of it that would be great because i'm in the middle of doing something else :S, also i dont know how to get the light colours for each season eg. #D3..., could you supply me with them?
Pic Editor960 (
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Oh i know but im fixing that at the end, can you undo all my changes as it wont let me (to charmed season 1) i need all the episodes back... :(
Pic Editor960 (
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Never knew that lol, thank you, i will leave you so you can get your homework done.
Pic Editor960 (
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Thanks lol, i'm going to leave the season pages for a while and finish off the list of episodes page...when you can help please do lol. :L:L
Pic Editor960 (
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I'm so pissed off i was fixing up season 2 table and i got to like episode 17 after 1 1/2 hours fixing it up and i accidentally closed the window :@:@
Pic Editor960 (
talk) 18:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Christ on a crutch... he's undone the sections we've been adding! I asked him to take it slow, dammit. // FrankB 14:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Why did you sign off on
this in effect? by accepting sectionless formatting. What're the redirects going to link into now? // FrankB 14:54, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Oh snap
Sigh. Guess I picked a bad day to take a wikibreak... Snap? (That a new kinda swear??? <g>)
Well, old fashioned manual changes have been working fine... see
Charmed episodes for progress in the handful I've tried (and also tagged with {{R to Charmed}}), so your AWB skills are just misfiring a bit. The redirects work fine and go right to the sections as they should. // FrankB 16:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
btw
It is way more convenient to edit and maintain the pages with the sectionalized tables.
One doesn't get the format errors he created in Season 2 (I just reverted-he changed colors too for some reason) since you can edit in small pieces.
On uniformity and formatting... Think the TV episode infoboxes I experimentally copied into several sections (Speedy, convenient cut and pastes from the stand alone article pages now a redirect) should be eliminated and replaced with {{also starring}}, even when and where I landed such... • The wider format suits any article with short blurbs instead of the mid to long synopses I favor. Both can take an image, and the format of Actor/ress Name as character format has much more space and gives a much cleaner, clearer way of keeping the text simple following. Also helps keep things so aren't fielding "too In-Universe" complaints on the prose.
Is there, was there a project page for this series???
ttfn, I'll be here for a while today. // FrankB 16:53, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Another need...
Any assistance fleshing out
List_of_Charmed_characters page would be a good short burst kind of effort you can tackle easily with small impact on schoolwork. All the bluelinks using {{chrmdchar}} need followed, checked and vetted, as it's structure lies since it connects to sections like {{there}} and {{There2}}. // FrankB 22:14, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
The content is continuing to pile in, it's great! Nothing significant this issue, but we currently have a straw poll going on regarding the point values of featured pictures, sounds, and lists.
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Gary King (215)
Spencer (150)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (189)
Sceptre (35)
Spittlespat (10)
Pool C
Candlewicke (250)
Scorpion0422 (146)
Steven Walling (29)
Pool D
97198 (89)
ThinkBlue (37)
NapHit (31)
Pool E
Sasata (140)
X! (105)
Straight Edge PXK (9)
Pool F
Bedford (101)
the_ed17 (40)
RyanCross (32)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (107)
Ceranthor (67)
jj137 (50)
Pool H
Juliancolton (355)
Tinucherian (71)
Ottava Rima (28)
Pool I
Durova (462)
Theleftorium (264)
J Milburn (88)
Pool J
Climie.ca (135)
Paxse (134)
Useight (116)
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Re:Hello
Wow, can't believe I missed that, I wasn't expecting a review this quickly. Thanks for the heads up. --
Scorpion0422 22:01, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Much Apu About Nothing
I have conducted a review, and please resolve the comments. Thanks,
Ceran→//forge 16:21, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
File Move
I saw your name on the list
Wikipedia:Image renaming#Users and thought that you could do me (and Wikipedia) a favor by moving
File:Terrapene carolina major.jpg to a different name, such as or a better name if you can think of one. I will perform the rest of the edits necessary to make sure nothing is affected; I just need someone to do this part for me. Please notify me, either here or on my own User Talk page, when you do it or find it impossible.
some page --
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There are episodes that have only one line of information, but I think we should not go into too many details. The most important thing is that the article has references. --
Toonamimaniacolatino 22:35, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Ok. I try to do. Almost no longer remember the plots of some episodes. I would not want to read the Bulbapedia's information that can not make a good summary. Also i am user of Wikipedia Spanish and is where more work because I'm from there. --
Toonamimaniacolatino 22:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Thanks :), feel free to pitch in any edits to my sections. There could be afew spelling and grammer errors :p
Empty2005 (
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Rest of them are resolved. Um, I don't like, ever do external links. I feel that they're kind of a waste of space.
Ceran→//forge 18:06, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Rest, done.
Ceran→//forge 18:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks
for the review.
Ceran→//forge 18:29, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible for you to do a review of
Nevado del Ruiz, which is at FAC?
Ceran→//forge 18:33, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your review. They're all resolved.
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Hi Lefty, could you do me a favour and listen to the commentary for Simpsons Roasting? I don't have access to my DVDs right now and I need you to verify whether or not Silverman says Rich Moore designed Flanders for the episode. A user is insisting it is true that Moore designed Flanders (I'll give you 3 guesses as to who is the one insisting it's true,
here's a hint) but that doesn't sound right to me, namely because that wasn't the first ep produced that Flanders appeared in, but also because storyboarders don't design characters (and, back when I was first listening to the commentary, that seems like the kind of thing I would have picked up, although I guess it's possible I missed it, but I have listened to that one many times and I don't remember it being said). Probably what is said is something along the lines of "Moore designed some new characters" or "Moore storyboarded this and updated some designs" and the user misinterpreted it. --
Scorpion0422 18:26, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
I don't think I'm sticking around, though I've said that before. I certainly will be away for a while. So keep an eye on things... and do what you can. It's really not sane to put time in here, and really never has been. // FrankB 18:39, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
This issue we are trying a new type of newsletter feature: "Featured editor". This is a chance to learn more about the various editors who contribute to the
Video games project as well as the roles they fill. If you enjoyed this new feature and would like to see similar interviews in future issues, please drop us a note at the
VG newsletter talk page.
David Fuchs (also known as Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs), is a long time video games editor that has written a large number of the project's
Featured articles. He has been ranked high on
Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations, and has assisted in reviewing and editing more many. Recently David has begun to assist with image reviews for
Featured article candidates, and branched out into other types of articles in addition to video games. He can normally been seen on the
project's talk page offering advice and his input on the various discussion taking place there.
What drew you to Wikipedia, and what prompted you to begin editing?
I got involved due in part to (I believe, my memory is fuzzy) finding the site while doing research for
Advanced Placement Europen History during high school. My earliest contributions (in December 2005) were creating topics based on what I learned, as well as creating an article for my high school with another friend. I soon became involved with editing topics related to Halo video game franchise, specifically the article on the parasitic
Flood.
What got you involved in writing Featured articles?
I think for most editors it's a shiny accomplishment you are striving for, and natural for most editors to try and get an FA. I first nominated an article for FA in 2007, after about a year of inactivity onwiki; it didn't pass as it was poorly written and didn't follow our guidelines for
writing about fiction; I also took a couple of tries to get my first video game FA (Halo 2).
What article(s) are you most proud of writing or exemplifies your best work?
I suppose Myst is a sort of accomplishment I can point to; I started work on the article on May 2 2008, when it looked like
this, and submitted it to Featured Article Candidates
one day later. I think that's some kind of record, but I dunno. In terms of being a good read or something I'm very happy with, however, I'd have to look at my more recent work, specifically Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and
Bone Wars.
How do you pick the articles you work on?
Whatever hits me. There's many articles I haven't gotten around to editing and improving as planned because another article has caught my fancy.
What advice would you give to editors seeking to write quality articles?
In the words of one of my
favorite cartoon characters when I was a child, "We must do reeea-search!" Even in video games, online sources don't usually cut it. Even after getting an article to FA, make sure you continually trawl the internet and elsewhere for more information to add to the topic.
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Charmed List of Episodes
I have finished all the season tables. Could you please enter in the writers and directors, as i have no time in the next 2 months (school)...
Pic Editor960 (
talk) 18:53, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Another query
Could you review
1997 Qayen earthquake? It's much along the same lines as Qeshm, even sounds similar.
Ceran→//forge 22:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
All those concerns done.
Ceran→//forge 20:37, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
Review done, one nitpick.
Ceran→//forge 16:31, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hehe, saw that.
Ceran→//forge 16:41, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
We're still going strong. Couple of things though; please note that you must make it known you are in the WikiCup when nominating FAs, FLs, FPos, FPs, and FSs. This is to lower the possibility of bias. We're also changing the way you get to the next round. Now, the top two from each round get through, along with ten wildcards. This means that even if you're not in the top two you can still get into Round 2, so even if you're in the
group of death you can still go through. Hopefully this will be fairer for all. We've also unfortunately had our first withdrawal - Truco has left the Cup. Best wishes for him in the future.
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Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (233)
La Pianista (61)
Pool C
Candlewicke (400)
Scorpion0422 (249)
Pool D
97198 (148)
NapHit (63)
Pool E
Sasata (233)
X! (210)
Pool F
Bedford (202)
the_ed17 (148)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (142)
Ceranthor (134)
Pool H
Juliancolton (491)
Tinucherian (95)
Pool I
Durova (887)
Theleftorium (458)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (671)
Paxse (291)
Wildcards
Useight (250)
J Milburn (181)
Spencer (177)
Climie.ca (169)
Rambo's Revenge (100)
Tinucherian (95)
WereSpielChequers (77)
Wrestlinglover (67)
Rlevse (65)
10. ThinkBlue (57)
10. Skinny87 (57)
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Sourcing Viewer sections
Hi there. For the past little while, I have been working on
Burn Notice (season 1) and
Burn Notice (season 2). I was recently trying to source the Number of Viewers section, which had existed with information, but without sources, for a while now. I had been able to get a large portion of them with the Nielsen website, but their archives stop before when I need them.
Cornucopia told me that you have access to NewsBank, so I was wondering if you could possible help me out.
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Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (308)
La Pianista (62)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (483)
Candlewicke (451)
Pool D
97198 (210)
NapHit (97)
Pool E
Sasata (262)
X! (210)
Pool F
Bedford (275)
the_ed17 (161)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (144)
Ceranthor (136)
Pool H
Juliancolton (559)
Tinucherian (100)
Pool I
Durova (1135)
Theleftorium (656)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (777)
Paxse (371)
Wildcards
Useight (325)
Spencer (215)
Climie.ca (203)
J Milburn (202)
Rambo's Revenge (110)
Rlevse (93)
WereSpielChequers (82)
Dendodge (74)
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Wrestlinglover (72)
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The Last Temptation of Homer
Hey, I reviewed the GAC for
The Last Temptation of Homer. It was in very good shape and it shouldn't take long to take care of the minor suggestions I make. Nice job! --
Hunter Kahn (
talk) 02:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
NBD, but...
why trim out the edit vspacing? They don't and won't affect the tables and make things far easier to see and edit.
Also, not as gone as I thought... can't quite leave things so in transistion without someone else aiding the regular work.
Perhaps most importantly did you and whomever come to some kind of consensus and plan on the tables titles font colors? Some are dark, others are white. I'm about to save my pending fix in season 4 where I also converted that to white and then realized how inconsistent the standard in place is... so what's the deal on that? // FrankB 13:53, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Happen to have any production information for
Homer's Barbershop Quartet, from the DVD, etc. that I could work with to get things started on the article? :) Gary King (
talk) 16:09, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the expansion. Anything else? Because, the prose is now at 6 kb, and I'd like to bring it up to 10 kb if possible. Also, which, if any, of the cultural references should be kept? Gary King (
talk) 23:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Why didn't you look at the Pete Best page? As any moron knows, the Barbershop Quartet episode is largely mirrored after the Beatles. Are you going to make me get the 2 references I need? Pete Best was kicked out of the Beatles before fame. Clancy Wiggum was kicked out of the Be Sharps before fame. In real life fans of Best showed up at gigs and chanted "Pete for ever Ringo Never" and vice versa, in the Barbershop episode the fans chant "Barney for ever, Wiggum never" and vice versa. I'm reverting the edit now. If you care so much so called Simpsons fan, then read about Pete Best and the many similarities between the plot of this episode and the Beatles and then stop destroying accuracy.
The new dawn brings the fresh sorrows of man, bleached, weathered and unreturned. (
talk) 14:49, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Are you sure Best wasn't mentioned in the commentary? I think he might have been. --
Scorpion0422 15:22, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, he is briefly mentioned. As well, if you're looking for stuff, there are comments about the episode in the commentary for All Singing, All Dancing (but I'm not sure if they are things not mentioned in the HBQ commentary). --
Scorpion0422 15:36, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
I just saw this now, and have responded at
here. Gary King (
talk) 22:01, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Left, I see you're on vacation, but when you get back, could you take a look at
this? Thanks in advance! Gary King (
talk) 22:22, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Userbox for GA reviews
The userbox {{User Good Articles reviewed}} has been updated so that it can now link to a page in your user subspace where you keep track of all your GA reviews, if you have such a page. This can be done by adding a | and then the name of your user subpage (or subsection of your regular user page) wherever you have the template called. For example, on my user page I am using
{{User Good Articles reviewed|6|User:Rjanag/GA reviews}}
Hi Guys! Well it's Thehelpfulone's first time properly looking at the scores as he made this newsletter and he's impressed on how much work you have all done. It's a shame to say that
RyanCross has withdrawn from the Cup. We have almost hit 200 DYKs, not far off from 100 GA's and
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Gary King (792)
Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (419)
La Pianista (66)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (530)
Candlewicke (502)
Pool D
97198 (240)
ThinkBlue (141)
Pool E
Sasata (412)
X! (211)
Pool F
Bedford (284)
the_ed17 (169)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (157)
Ceranthor (137)
Pool H
Juliancolton (582)
Tinucherian (110)
Pool I
Durova (1347)
Theleftorium (840)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (779)
Matthewedwards (503)
Wildcards
Useight (396)
Bedford (284)
Catalan (254)
97198 (240)
Spencer (238)
Climie.ca (234)
J Milburn (216)
X! (211)
the_ed17 (169)
Sunderland06 (157)
All scores are accurate as of 17:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
21:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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Wikipedia Signpost — February 23, 2009
This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 8, which includes these articles:
Yeah, there is a chapter in there about Ernest Borgnine. I don't have my book with me at the moment (plus I have my hands full with tedious stats) so I'll take a look tonight and add what I can. --
Scorpion0422 18:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
We have 31 days left, just one month left in the first round. The first two months have already produced spectacular results, and we're hoping to see a great race to the end of the round. Get those nominations in for them to count for this round, but remember that any nominations that are not promoted before the end of this round, will still count for round two if you make it. We unfortunately had another contestant, What!?Why?Who?, withdraw this week and we wish them the best.
We saw some big jumps in content upgrades this week! We saw 33 new good articles, 3 new featured articles and lists, 8 featured pictures, 5 featured sounds, and 24 did you know items. (Also note, there are 111 good articles and 222 did you know items as of this newsletter). Keep it up during the final push to round two. GARDEN, iMatthew //
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Spencer (292)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (566)
La Pianista (68)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (580)
Candlewicke (580)
Pool D
97198 (313)
ThinkBlue (248)
Pool E
Sasata (480)
X! (211)
Pool F
the_ed17 (299)
Bedford (290)
Pool G
Ceranthor (177)
Sunderland06 (159)
Pool H
Juliancolton (604)
Tinucherian (112)
Pool I
Durova (1528)
Theleftorium (913)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (816)
Matthewedwards (625)
Wildcards
Useight (549)
Paxse (454)
Climie.ca (259}
Catalan (254)
J Milburn (232)
Rambo's Revenge (201)
Rlevse (129)
NapHit (99)
WereSpielChequers (92)
Howard the Duck (82)
Wrestlinglover (82)
Dendodge (78)
Steven Walling (69)
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Wikipedia Signpost — 2 March 2009
This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:
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Treehouse of Horror IV
I've reviewed
Treehouse of Horror IV, so please take a look at your earliest convenience. In fact, I think I'm also going to review your other Simpsons episodes and "The Last One" from Friends while I'm at it, so I'll let you know when I'm done with those too. --
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The
VG Project Collaboration of the Week is a new effort to improve important video game articles of low quality. Every week, an article is random selected by
AnomieBOT from the
Stub-,
Start-, and
C-class categories that are rated either
High- or
Top-importance. Such topics can offer a reader a good deal of encyclopedic information about video games, but are often too underdeveloped or lacking the proper level of writing and sourcing to accomplish this.
All editors are welcome and encouraged to participate by offering their insights and suggestions. Having a pool of different editors, both old and new, will help maximize improvements to the articles as well as our editing skills.
History
Collaborative efforts have come and gone within the VG project several times before. The first such effort, the "Gaming collaboration of the week", began in October 2004 as a
result of the several otherweekly collaborations popping up on Wikipedia. It proved to be quite successful at improving articles to meet Wikipedia's standard at the time, but the effort eventually saw less and less participation. A second effort, the "Improvement Drive", began in August 2005 with the intent of improving articles to FA-quality. However, few nominations and articles were selected. The decline in participation in the collaborations and peer reviews resulted in a third effort. It began in February 2006 as a workshop, but never got off the ground.
Numerous discussions have taken place on at
WT:VG to jump start collaborations and improve the process to prevent its decline again. While previous collaborations selected any video game article, most editors felt focus should be on video game topics more encyclopedic in nature—topics that are also generally in poor shape because of lack of attention. A common problem mentioned was that previous nomination processes were lengthy and hindered participation. The current idea to automate the process was
brought up by
JohnnyMrNinja, which was
further discussed to iron out the details.
Current collaboration
The current collaborative efforts began in mid-January 2009, and several articles have been improved by editors. The random choice is intended to minimize the selection process, which allows editors to focus on article improvement. Improvements include better organization of content, massaging and copy editing the prose, removing excess non-free images, and much more. The random choice is also meant to encourage participation from editors of varying interest and help prevent burnout. If the present selection is not to your liking, wait until next week. Editors are encouraged to add
Template:Collab-gaming to their watchlist to see which article is selected. Recently selected articles are:
Newsletter delivery by xenobot 00:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Question about Ratings
Hey Leftorium. I figured you could answer this question for me, since you had this info in all your Simpsons articles. How can I find the weekly ratings from the week a specific episode aired? For example, I'd like to improve
this specific Law & Order episode to GA status, but it aired on November 28, 2006 and I don't know how to find the ratings for it from that week. Can you help? --
Hunter Kahn (
talk) 15:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks anyway for the help! --
Hunter Kahn (
talk) 18:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey!
You're another person who commented on my Pokemon Platinum question! I've been online typing thank-yous to everyone who answered any of my questions. Thank you, dude! You rock! <(^_^)>
Pokegeek42 (
talk) 00:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I've placed this article on hold so you can fix some prose issues. Cheers!
Sasata (
talk) 21:16, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Rebuild of Evangelion revert warring
The concerned user has removed all the discussion (including my message) so I'm writing it back because it is valuable information about the nature of this user's actions:
I just wanted to draw your attention on the fact that user "Arison Hiyama" (ie the numerous IPs from Brazil that has recently edited the Rebuild of Evangelion articles) went as far as to vandalise the japanese wikipedia pages by adding herself the totally fake and ridiculous budgets she tries to include into the english articles (so that she could use it as a "proof"). I think this is going further than mere beginner mistakes and we should do something instead of just repeating our warnings each time she changes IP.
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Wikipedia Signpost — 9 March 2009
This week, the Wikipedia Signpost published volume 5, issue 10, which includes these articles:
I think it's safe to say that this week is probably your last chance to nominate anything for promotion to count in this round, so start planning that all-important final push. Bear in mind that anything not promoted this month will still count in the next round if you go through. It's looking very close in the Wildcards section, so if you don't see yourself there, don't panic—you may not be too far off the pace! GARDEN, iMatthew //
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Pool A
Gary King (1087)
Spencer (353)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (873)
Spittlespat (77)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (788)
Candlewicke (658)
Pool D
ThinkBlue (386)
97198 (360)
Pool E
Sasata (581)
X! (215)
Pool F
Bedford (331)
the_ed17 (313)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (228)
Ceranthor (183)
Pool H
Juliancolton (632)
Dendodge (219)
Pool I
Durova (1932)
Theleftorium (1060)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (1167)
Matthewedwards (695)
Wildcards
Useight (648)
Paxse (468)
Rlevse (290)
J Milburn (288)
Climie.ca (262)
Catalan (255)
Rambo's Revenge (241)
Tinucherian (159)
Ottava Rima (159)
PeterSymonds (127)
Neurolysis (108)
WereSpielChequers (107)
NapHit (100)
All scores are accurate as of 12:12, 15 March 2009 (UTC).
Contestants in italics are just behind the wildcards.
17:03, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
TheHelpfulBot 17:03, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey Leftorium, it's Hunter, the guy who reviewed a bunch of your Simpsons GANs. I just nominated a TV episode for GAN myself,
Weeping Willow (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) (maybe you remember I had asked you about ratings while I was working on it), and I was wondering if perhaps you wouldn't mind reviewing it for me? (I also have plans to nominate
The Ring (South Park) pretty soon, but want to wait for Nielsen Ratings information before I do that one.) Let me know if you're able to. Thanks! — HunterKahn(
contribs) 07:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Wow...that was incredibly fast! lol. — HunterKahn(
contribs) 14:44, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
You, sir, are the man. I can't believe how quickly that review went! Thanks very much. When
The Ring (South Park) is ready for GAN, would you be willing to review that one too? If not, no biggie, I appreciate this review and that's enough. :) — HunterKahn(
contribs) 17:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
No problem. Incidentially,
The Ring (South Park) has been nominated, if you're still interested in reviewing it. I've also nominated
Golden Ticket (The Office), but of course, you're under no obligation to review both of you don't want to. — HunterKahn(
contribs) 01:03, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm really angry that you haven't reviewed it within six hours!!! ;) Not a problem at all, of course, please take your time. — HunterKahn(
contribs) 16:58, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hey
Sorry - something went seriously wrong - I don't know what happened :(
Mithrandirthewise (
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Thank you soooo much!! You are really understanding! I was afraid you'd get angry.... I'm pleasantly surprised!
Mithrandirthewise (
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Pour vous...
The Original Barnstar
For showing what the WikiCup is all about with that massive number of GAs. That's what we need- more high quality articles.
J Milburn (
talk) 22:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
The Coon
Hey man. So I've nominated
The Coon, the next South Park episode, for a GAN. I wasn't going to ask you to review it because I didn't want to bother you fresh off your reviews from last week, but I was hoping to see if you wouldn't mind reviewing this one just one more time, mainly because I wanted to ask the reviewer to weigh in on one particular issue. Another user
removed some stuff from "Cultural references" that I feel should be included. I told that user I was adding it back and would ask the GAN reviewer to give it an honest, neutral assessment, and if they felt it should be taken out then I'd leave the issue alone. Would you mind reviewing this one and checking out that issue in particular for me? Again, I hate to bother you and if it's not too much trouble, I'd be very much appreciate. (Also, I'd be happy to review
Bart Gets an Elephant for you, probably in the next day or two...) Thanks either way! — HunterKahn(
contribs) 05:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering if you are still interested in getting episodes up to GA quality?
here is the main FT drive page. Let me know, if you wanna work on more! CTJF83Talk 08:11, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
We could work on some season 5 episodes together. Do you still use IRC? CTJF83Talk 23:52, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
2 sounds good to me! CTJF83Talk 21:59, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Phil Hartman
Thanks! Let's see if it can be TFA on May 28, although, on seconds thoughts, I hate having TFAs and McClure page was actually on that date last year... oh well. Also, as you're still written episode GAs, feel free to do
Homer and Apu. I honestly don't have time regularly for any projects here right now, and when I do I'll be working on something else.
Gran2 16:23, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
What a brilliant finale to Round 1. With so little in it it was always going to be a tight contest, particularly in the all-important wildcard places. Congratulations to all those who have made it to Round 2, and commiserations to all who have been eliminated. I hope you continue to contribute as fully as you have been in the tournament, if not better!
As has been stated before, Round 2 begins Wednesday, April 1 2009. I hope you are all ready!
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Pool A
Gary King (1154)
Spencer (377)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (1055)
La Pianista (74)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (944)
Candlewicke (806)
Pool D
ThinkBlue (444)
97198 (374)
Pool E
Sasata (604)
X! (216)
Pool F
Rlevse (405)
Bedford (331)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (236)
Ceranthor (190)
Pool H
Juliancolton (686)
Dendodge (220)
Pool I
Theleftorium (1107)
Durova (961)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (1180)
Matthewedwards (702)
Wildcard winners
Useight (659)
Paxse (507)
Rambo's Revenge (333)
the_ed17 (330)
J Milburn (302)
Climie.ca (265)
Catalan (256)
Ottava Rima (190)
Wrestlinglover (169)
Tinucherian (162)
All scores are accurate as of the end of Round 1.
21:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Delivered for the
WikiCup by GARDEN at 21:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC). Queries to my talk.