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FIFA 12

Would it be possible to consider the FIFA 12 page for restoration given that it is now 2011 and EA Sports has discussed the game publicly? Thank you. --Postmechanical (talk) 16:20, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's something at least - go ahead and be bold. Here are some other possible sources, although they might just be reiterating the same press release. Marasmusine (talk) 19:59, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fractint

I'm new here and not even sure if this is the right place for making this comment, so please bear with me. I'm Bert Tyler, the original author of the freeware Fractint program (but of course can't prove that here). I edited the Wikipedia entry on Fractint to give credit to Dave Warker for the concept of using integer math to generate fractals, replacing the (incorrect) entry stating that Fractint was based on the DKMANDEL program. You correctly removed the entire history section of that article until the dispute could be resolved. I'd like to prove to you that I'm me but don't know how to do so. My email address has changed since the old FRACTINT.HLP file was generated (from bert.tyler@oef.com to bert.tyler@verizon.net), but my home phone number is the same as is in that file. Help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.240.62 (talk) 19:07, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bert, thanks for contacting me. I'm quite willing to trust anything you say in this matter, however this encyclopedia is largely generated by collating information from reliable secondary sources first (e.g. reviews in magazines, books), and then the primary source (e.g. Fractint and its documentation). If Warker isn't mentioned in either of these kinds of sources then unfortunately we can't mention him here - but perhaps you are in the best position to locate an appropriate source (or update the official website?) Thanks, Marasmusine (talk) 23:40, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. I've contacted Timothy Wegner (currently the prime Fractint developer and maintainer of the fractint.org website) to see what we can do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.240.62 (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is Timothy Wegner. I manage the fractint mailing list and am the current fractint project coordinator and have been for a very long time (early 1990's). I started collaborating with Bert in 1989 or so in the Compuserve graphics forum. Bert and I (and a few others) are authors of the Waite Group's "Fractal Creations" and "Fractals for Windows" books. Yes that comment above is really Bert Tyler talking. He is the one in the best position to know the source of integer math. I was not aware of Dave Warker's role in giving Bert the idea, and would be inclined to credit Bert himself, but I can confirm that fractint was NOT based on DKmandel. My suggestion would be to just delete the statement about DKMANDEL. On another subject, the "official" fractint websites are fractint.net and fractint.org, which are current mirrors of each other. I think the http://www.nahee.com/spanky/www/fractint/fractint.html site deserves to be a link in the article, it's just misleading to say it's the "official" site. It's run by Paul N. Lee, who while a long time participant in the fractint mailing list. This is not a big deal. I'll suggest a small wording change. Twegner (talk) 03:31, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maramusine, I didn't read your response to Bert carefully enough. I'll work out with Bert what he wants to say about the history, and we'll update both the fractint website and the documentation accordingly and let you know. Then you will have an outside source to update the wikipedia article if you wish. Twegner (talk) 15:54, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Timothy; as long as we work in accordance with WP:PRIMARY, this will be acceptable. Thanks, Marasmusine (talk) 23:32, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is Bert again, with good (but a bit embarrassing) news: Tim and I have found a published source that includes a brief description of the birth of Fractint. Fractal Creations, 2nd edition, ISBN 1-878739-34-4, published by the Waite Group Press in 1993, written by Tim Wegner and Bert Tyler. (Yes, Tim and I wrote a book about Fractint. That included comments on how it got started. And then we both forgot about that we'd written those comments in the book. That's kind of embarrassing.) Unfortunately, that text does not mention Dave Warker by name; only as a "friend" of Bert.

At any rate, on page 461 in the "About the Authors" section is the following text: "Bert Tyler is Fractint's original author. ... Bert's involvement with the program began when he downloaded a "Mandelbrot generator" program, fired it up on his brand-new 80386-based PC with no math coprocessor - and then broke out of the program two hours later when it had drawn only half of its first image. Bert remembered that a friend of his [that's Dave, but the book doesn't say that] had written a Mandelbrot generator for a TI-based processor that used integer math and decided to try programming something similar for his 386 - and Fractint was born."

Hopefully that helps things. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.240.62 (talk) 22:12, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK folks, I took a crack at editing the page, I documented what I did in the Fractint page discussion section. I forgot to edit the note that got added with my edit, I did more than undo Maramusine's edit. This was my first attempt at doing anything on wikipedia. All these years I have avoided touching the Wikipedia fractint page because I understood that in general people should not edit pages about their own projects. I certainly could greatly beef up the fractint page but I assume it would be inappropriate, and I'm happy to leave it alone. I only intervened to rescue Bert, who didn't quite realize what he was doing when he made corrections to the page in his inimitible style :-) Twegner (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:29, 18 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Taylor martin golonka

Reference from the university's sports records as the individual with the most steals in a single game http://www.pointloma.edu/Athletics/MensBasketball/Archives/PLNU_All-Time_Leaders.htm

reference from the official website of the movie ; god's waiting list citing taylor martin golonka as having produced the sound track danger. it was however mispelt Golanka http://www.godswaitinglist.com/gwlcredits.html

i will provide additional references. let me know if the ones above are not suitable —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxwell34m (talk • contribs) 23:50, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Best For Film

You deleted the page for Best For Film whilst I was in the process of writing it! I feel it's hugely unfair to delete a page for not jumping through all the relevant hoops without giving me a chance to finish jumping, not to mention flying in the face of the standing instruction not to frighten newbies (you will notice that I have never before created a page). I would appreciate you at least letting me finish the entry before making snap judgements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmu2108 (talk • contribs) 14:30, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why?

Hi Marasmusine, why did you delete wiki page on Ulticom, it's a well known company in its fields, I have seen tens of other similar companies, for instance if you go in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_delivery_controller Could you restore it and tell what should be changed in order to make it acceptable (like the others). thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinlaurentjp (talk • contribs) 15:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having a similar problem with Marasmusine (and I will report it). Why did you delete my addition to Chronology of roguelike video games, specifically "Kharne: The Revelation". Your "excuse" in the history is "no WP:RS" (no reliable, published sources). In fact, I included a good link in my addition to a website dedicated to rogue-like games. If you didn't like that particular site, you could have simply provided a better link (there are many references for Kharne on the web) instead of deleting the entire "Kharne" entry. Oh, I get it--you're one of those types who thinks that the only reliable source is YOU. ProResearcher (talk) 01:57, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One more note. At the top of the entry for Chronology of roguelike video games is the statement "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it". What a joke! ProResearcher (talk) 02:00, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment, Marasmusine.

> > a cursory look >

...and a cursory look at your "talk page" shows complaint after complaint that you are "trigger happy" with deleting.

> > I did do a Google search, but only found token directory entries >

Did you really?

The first entry in the article "Chronology of roguelike video games" is a game named Beneath Apple Manor. The reference for this game is a link to "Home of the Underdogs". First, the link is garbage, so why haven't you deleted the entry? Second, your Google search conveniently overlooked the entry for Kharne: The Revelation at "Home of the Underdogs". In fact, Underdogs rated Kharne: The Revelation as "Top Dog". I would love to hear your explanation--Why did you delete my addition of Kharne: The Revelation when it has exactly the same reliable source as Beneath Apple Manor?

> > what can be done to satisfy you >

Undo your deletion. It was completely unwarranted. ProResearcher (talk) 13:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Space Tanks

Hi Marasmusine . please remove your latest changes . yesterday i tryed to improve that spacetanks acrticle -now it's deleted?! - no external links?!, not reviewed @fileplanet???!! just kidding? its a pity everyone can delete or redirect anything @wiki without any rules ?! please undo your latest entrys. and I just kick the download link ;-) type "spacetanks" in google (search pictures like case-covers) and you'll see that game were sold in any Shops where one could buy worms, c & c etc. in 2003 -5 (in germany , france, UK , Russia and more ) please let us "talk" (I'am one of the developers) .. as i saw ST-article i just wanted to fix that article in my vacances ->such as (broken links, few links from other sites etc, no cover picture) etc.

No Reviews?? okay many internet stuff is lost since 2003)BUT the game got many reviews , got revies in TV and youtube and got very good reviews Magazines such as in ComputerBild (with very good) , C't-magazine (very good) etc.pp

- sorry (i know about your admin status) but it's some kind of vandalsim you did (in my opinion) -since other people wasting their time with writing articles ... where is a deletion-discussion?? ' must say weird things happen here @wiki!

sure i'am not so familiar with wiki ,-) ... I just wanted to fix some issues and upload a cover picture ;-(( Pardon -I didn't know about forbidden download links (its a public domain version) but ok .... please support me to do a nice article instead of removing it.

here one can find e.g. ST in a game pack (german version) http://www.rebuy.de/i,71732/pc-spiele/spacetanks-tropico-railroad-tycoon2-platinum

that funny : first i saw the wiki entry of SpaceTanks i saw a orphan issue (with statement : please linke it from other sites ) .. so i was searching for adequate sites like artillery game and worms clones etc ... but you removed those links too- nice ;-( what about this one ..??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Play_on_Tape

you've forgotten  to delete it ??

Kinds Regards, Stefan Nagel / YawThrust Software

postscriptum: a few links about differnet cover -case pictures regarding SpaceTanks (scroll a bit and you should find not all but a few case covers for ST ... including the russian version "tankstadory"

http://images.google.com/images?hl=de&biw=1076&bih=742&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=%22space+tanks%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

http://images.google.com/images?hl=de&biw=1076&bih=742&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=%22spacetanks%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Hi Stefan. We have articles on games that are sufficiently notable. This is generally shown with reviews in magazines or particular websites. I redirected the Space Tanks article as suggested at WP:PRODUCT guidelines, since no coverage was presented in the article and I couldn't find any.

If you can give me further details about the ComputerBild and C't-magazine reviews, I will gladly improve the article with them. Marasmusine (talk) 13:32, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RE Press_Play_on_Tape: I won't remove this link as it is directly relevant. Other links I removed in cases where Space Tanks was being used as an "example". Since we currently can't demonstrate that it is exemplary, there's no need to list it. Again, this can change if you can show me "significant coverage". Marasmusine (talk) 13:45, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

yes of course i can .... and thank you for fast reply!! as i said i just wanted a nice informative article without broken links and pictures... in the mo i'am busy but i 'll come back to you on sunday ...okay? okay computerbild and ct are in german language there is also a review done by a retromagazin like ZZAP (forgot the name yet) thanx in advance , stefan could you tell me where i can find your email-address? tehn i'll come back to you via mail-okay? sincereely , stefan

Hello Marasmusine hope I found the stuff you wanted:

c't Magazine http://www.yawthrust.com/download/ct.jpg http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Aus-vollen-Rohren-288988.html http://www.heise.de/software/download/cdd_22_6

a few Germans Magazines http://www.yawthrust.com/download/bz.jpg http://www.yawthrust.com/download/new_beat.jpg

the Computerbild Spiele -Mag. has nothing online. so here you get the scans :

Hi Stefan. Language isn't a problem - as long as I can see that they are solid reviews I can always work out some kind of translation. The retro magazine might be "Retro Gamer". Emailing the magazine scans to me is might be possible through wiki-mail - try the "E-mail this user" link under the toolbox on the left-hand side of this page. Marasmusine (talk) 15:52, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

---Page 1---- http://www.yawthrust.com/download/st_cbs1.jpg

Page 2---

http://www.yawthrust.com/download/st_cbs2.jpg

for sthe english review (retro gamer magazines) you have to ask the people from alten8.com

btw: you wrote something about 7 days until removing the article -

      but you did it in just 4 mins ? ! 
       hope the "coverage" is 	effectual to you and the spacetanks site comes back very soon again;-)

regards , stefan nagel

Thanks for the links. I tried to translate the last section of the Computer Bild review, since this was the final "Judgement". However, the only bits I could work out were the criticisms. Perhaps you can help me at User:Marasmusine/stuff. Marasmusine (talk) 18:23, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

okay thank you very much. of course i can help to translate it . would suggest to translatete simply the whole review since it's not too large i think. maybe we can take the headlines and screenshots from computerbild spiele to combine this with the new (coming soon ) english text . maybe with permission of them ...what do you think?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drecksackblase (talk • contribs) 20:06, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copying the whole thing would be incompatible with our GFDL license and our manual of style. We just need to summarize reviewers' opinions. Marasmusine (talk) 07:59, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

okay no prob - but hopefully not only the bad things ;-) btw: what do you think about the press play on tape- deletion ?! can't understand whats up there ... (have seen them in denmark /roskide festival must note : it was more fun than nick cave, neil young and judas priest there in roskilde. maybe its a geek band but still a good one !

No, not just the bad things! I need some help with the Computer Bild translation because I feel that there were positive comments but couldn't quite work out what they were.

The PPoT deletion appears to be compliant with policy. The discussion was here. As usual, there's no prejudice against recreating the article should the band become notable. User Dream Focus pointed out some sources that might be usable ([1]) Marasmusine (talk) 09:44, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Marasmusine, As promised i came back to you with some help. thanks lot for you patience with me and your good work here at wiki.

first of all: could we put the following link below ==gamePlay== rubric?

http://www.yawthrust.com/st_manual/index.htm

could help to understand possible strategys etc. a few textlines sadly are fat that's a bit ugly (done by pdf2html -converter ) maybe i can fix it later on.

Ok .. so here we go ... i remember in one english review which covers the most other estimations about ST. / done by Brain Maupin.

http://www.yawthrust.com/reviews/pcgamesw.html

here a few other independent reviews

I think all in all they match in one POSITIVE point :

very good long time motivation

ComnputerBild Spiele:

...the base idea isn't really new but it animates the combatans to attack unerringly each other with crazy weapons despite of all the obstacles...

http://www.demonews.de/reviews/index.php?artikel=130&bs=1 older stuff which one maybe can't find in the net anymore:

http://www.yawthrust.com/reviews/funfak.html http://www.yawthrust.com/reviews/juko.html http://www.yawthrust.com/reviews/knarrina.html http://www.yawthrust.com/reviews/maerk.html http://www.yawthrust.com/reviews/splashgames.html

and 5 cows from tucows http://www.yawthrust.com/reviews/tucows.html (because of the alten8 marketing in uk it dissapear from tucows.

Stefan's response about critics :

combat judge

oh yes the ugly and maybe a bit daffy "combat judge" i can retort: maybe true but it is logically necessary to inform the players via sound and videoFX (robots pointing fingers) like "its your turn player 1" etc... else one can mix-up the player-order ;-) the voice was inspired from the voice of "the speaking bomb" of John Carpenters movie : "dark star" around 1974 ;-) in a C't TV- review they mixed it up with E.T.'s voice ,-)

too few planet constellations

no! that's balderdash .... the planets were shuffled randomly but one can't see everything in the first few rounds. ComputerBild tested it a few hours - to save the game level in tanskshop would help;-) after 10 rounds of playing everyting can happen but it's shuffled and it's (of course possible that the next plantet- system resembles the antecessor-system. spacetanks has no prefabricated level design there are just single elements like ufos, space insects, suns, blackholes asteroid rings etc and many things more which were shuffled and cobined by the levelengine. after 10 rounds one have to arrange with everything. to force a faster/harder game flow (with varied planet-systems and aliens etc) just save the game in Tankshop afer each round you've survived. Sometimes it can happen that players get nearly the same planet system but maybe then one can find spacepumkins , aliens or other obstacles - one can check this via zooming in/ out.

too few settings to play with

there is a menu one can reach via escape key here one can find entrys like level, particles, sound etc.

Interviews (All In One) -free translation:

Rainer Silberstein / reporter:

What was the intention to write another retro game like "SpaceTanks" ?

YawThrust: We just wanted to do a game like the c64 classic Artillery Duel 'cos it was pure fun and is quite simple to understand ;-) for us as programmers ,-) on the other hand it should combine retro flair with the pc power of the present. we just wanted to do a game which one can play as developer too.

Stefan Nagel: its needful to have a determnistic gameplay with pixel exact collisions, proper physics and well AI. -the only random one can find in ST is the shuffling of Levels .

Since as player you have the complete freedom to do what you want (and nearly everything is working) You (as the developer) can play it with fun even though you should know each scene and level of the game cos you did it. That's the reason we wanted to do a physic simulation- clear rules and endless situations whilst playing -and long time motivation forced by non pre designed levels. I really like this "mother of all games" principal -a mixture of trail and error and planning and of course wondering. and a straigh forward, tough-minded realization e.g. whilst your "winner" ceremony it can happen very quickly that your combatant turns the match to drawn ´cos maybe it´s tank track hits you!

so both tanks are destroyed. Malicious joy is most important for ST ;-) end of interview.

Space´Tanks isn't a Clone! To design a proper turn based concept for this genre it was required to put the tanks on planets else the turn based trail end error -pricipal would suffer.

And thats the main difference /novelty beteen ST and other games like warheads gravity wars. you can try out to hit the enemy with each shot. Since there is no fast movement (like in warheads) one can approximate to the enemy. so ST is a GravitySim space-version of Artillery Duel or PocketTanks including realtime aspects and not a Clone.

Regards, Stefan Nagel ps: feel free to improve my english! thx in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.160.78.115 (talk) 12:46, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS: ARGGGGGGGHHH how one can avoid deleting MY PICTURES by bots???? I gave assurance that the copyright is PUBLIC DOMAIN!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.160.78.115 (talk) 18:17, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If these are screenshots, it's better to upload them to Wikipedia rather than Commons, anyway. Thanks for the info, I'll look through it during the week. Marasmusine (talk) 21:45, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Madigan Article

It was 'unfinished' and I inadvertantly saved before posting my sources. James literally deleted it in seconds. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Walterjack (talk • contribs) 15:08, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you get no response from James, let me know what your sources are and if they're adequate I'll restore the article. Marasmusine (talk) 15:10, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done:

I hope this is enough to me started...

Walterjack (talk) 15:26, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I need a few moments. I suspect that I'll edit it a bit but I'll put your original text on the talk page. Marasmusine (talk) 15:33, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is certainly enough there to verify existence. However, unfortunately most of the text of the article was taken verbatim form one of the sources Walterjack has listed (http://www.cellagallery.com/Site_2/Madigan_Album/Madigan_Album.html) so the article cannot be restored, as it was a copyright infringement. Nevertheless, it should be possible to write a new article from scratch using those sources. The opening sentences of the article seem to be OK as far as I can see, and they could be restored. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:35, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! Thanks James, I've taken the copied text back off the talk page. Marasmusine (talk) 15:41, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was intending to go ahead and restore the part of the article which seemed acceptable. However, I see you have already made a start, and it's probably better not to have two of us getting in one another's way, so I will leave you to it. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:45, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See No Evil (film) article

You un-linked several references to Dan Madigan on the See No Evil (film) page. I see that there have been some issues with the (apparently new?) Dan Madigan page but those appear to be getting resolved. It appears that the links should go back in, and would appear to have been OK as red-links, but your stated reason for removing them (db-g3) gives me pause. What was the justification for that, and does it remain? Rwessel (talk) 17:21, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lisog article

I disagree that the Lisog (Linux Solution Group) is irrelevant. It is the largest open source organization in Germany. There are wellknown members like IBM, Fujitsu, RedHat, Novell, Sopera. Lisog has a German wikipedia article since years. Is this not enough reputation?

Here are some further references:

I hope you restore the article. (Thomas.uhl (talk) 17:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Protection

Thanks for setting protection on Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate. Slowed down my Huggle a bit :) - methecooldude ^Contact 10:32, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Question Re: Tupelo Press Article

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

Hello,

I'd like to undo the first edit (not the rest on the page) to "Tupelo Press" made on 31 March 2010 by "jschley," as there seems to be a close connection between the editor and the material added, which has resulted in there being a longer mention of one of the press staff members than of the founding publisher. As the editor didn't add any other staff members, it seems non-neutral...but I don't want to step on toes or break rules. Also, I can't figure out how to undo just the one edit made on 31 March 2010 and not the others. Help?

Thanks, Books2read (talk) 16:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC)Books2read[reply]

I don't think it's possible to undo that edit, as there are intervening edits. I have trimmed his bio and done some other edits to the page to improve it. I hope you like the result. --Diannaa ^(Talk) 16:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Diannaa,

Nice fix, thanks much! Books2read (talk) 20:39, 12 November 2010 (UTC)Books2read[reply]

Vazhapalli plates

Hello,

കേരളചരിത്രം, എ.ശ്രീധരമേനോൻ, ഡി.സി ബുക്സ് 2008 translates Keralacaritram("the history of Kerla"), A. Sridharamenon, D. C. Books 2008, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

Rameez pp —Preceding undated comment added 16:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

That's helpful, thanks. Marasmusine (talk) 20:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

International Star Registry

Please go to the discussion page for International Star Registry. I would like to discuss COI. Glennconti (talk) 19:09, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ACDSee is up for deletion.

Hi, Marasmusine.

I totally agree with your blanking ACDSee and redirecting it; however, since this article has once been a subject of an AFD, I think we should give it one more chance to establish its notability. I think it won't hurt if we leave it alone for another seven days in which it will be discussed in another AFD. Maybe someone come to its rescue.

Fleet Command (talk) 23:58, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair. Marasmusine (talk) 10:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting comment on a reliable source discussion

At Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Sources#XBLAfans I've responded with some comments and I'd like to get an updated opinion from you. --Teancum (talk) 18:34, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the late response, I've barely had a moment to myself this week. I'll take a closer look soon. Marasmusine (talk) 05:25, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Global Warfare

Hi Marasmusine, what I wrote about the game, I know from playing the game for countless hours (i.e. details about the gameplay, which could easily be verified by playing the game) and because I used to be close friends with one of the devs. I'm afraid there are very few articles left about it, since it's been five years since its release. Even the official page has been taken down by now, luckily I found a copy on web.archive.org . But this is also one of the reasons I started the article, because I'm a big fan and there's so little real information on it on the internet. I just found it deserved a wikipedia-entry, for those looking for information but unable to find any. If there's still any passages that you feel strongly require citing another source, could you please tell me what those are? Maybe I could try and find something. Pete Gutterson (talk) 01:58, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sources have been added. If you are still not satisfied, please mark the passages where you feel citations are needed, instead of proposing the entire article for deletion. Thank you. Pete Gutterson (talk) 21:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

YS November 2004 issue

Hi there,

Regarding the special issue of YS, it was given away with Retro Gamer, published by Imagine. I don't have a copy myself. It sounds like you might be interested in their top 50 - I've added some of it to the "Official Top 100 games" section of the YS article, in the dropdown box. for more info, see ysrnry.co.uk Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.18.251 (talk) 17:39, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Diaspora article

Hey. I need you to have a look at the Diaspora article. I've removed a section from the article dealing with remakes/clones specifically per WP:VG/EL. A user popped to flame me on my talk page as a result, and has later come onto the talk-page to edit-war. I have listed the policies and explained how the user would go about keeping them in the article; namely presenting any coverage in reliable sources, the user hasn't really presented any arguments, and has gone back to personal attacks, so I think I need you to stick your nose into the (lack of) debate. Eik Corell (talk) 23:02, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderland Online

Hey Marasmusine, I just saw the article you created at Wonderland Online-- the IGN source seems to be a press release... is there any other third party sources we could use to make it pass WP:GNG? Nomader ^(Talk) 02:18, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I understand. I did a search myself and I couldn't find anything outside of the sources you already have. Just because it's a request doesn't give it inherent notability, but you have the interview... I think you should be fine keeping it up for now, but if someone were to nominate it for deletion, I'm not sure which way it would go. Nomader ^(Talk) 18:36, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Consistent vandalism from a school IP

209.57.92.144's edits over the last few months have consisted solely of vandalism. It seems like it has been given impunity because it belongs to a high-school. What is the policy on public IPs and vandalism, by the way? It seems some are blocked, others are just kind of left to simmer between vandalizing sessions it seems. Eik Corell (talk) 16:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I have left a final warning. Of course we can't issue long blocks for schools, as we don't want to prevent legitimate school work. We can issue a shorter one to temporarily prevent continuing damage. Marasmusine (talk) 18:45, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your message about Star Wars Combine page

I'm replying to your message about the non-neutral point of view of what I wrote long ago. Well, When I created the page I intended to make a comment of the only reference available, that is the article on PC Magazine. I read the article, and wrote about the contents stated in that article. I quoted a sentence from that article as well.
Even though I am currently playing that game, I have not added anything that was not stated in the PC Magazine article. I could expand a lot on that article, given my personal experience, but I didn't do that because I understood that every information on the wiki must be supported by a printed and official source.
I saw someone has repeatedly added a link to join the game. Well, I don't know who it was. I wasn't. During this long time, I have tried to see if there were other public sources available, but to no avail.
Let me know if it's worth that I rewrite the article in a manner that doesn't sound like an advertisement. I repeat that I wrote only what I found in the article I sent you for reference. Any help or suggestion about the writing style is welcomed. RubenWan (talk) 02:37, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nexus War

Greetings, you once contributed to a previous AfD on webgame Nexus War, this article is up for deletion again and your input would be appreciated.--Sloane (talk) 00:45, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lacunae expanse

Deletion Review for Lacunae Expanse

You deleted the page I created claiming the game has not been reviewed. Here are some reviews: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/10/the-lacuna-expanse.html

http://www.perl.com/pub/2010/10/colonizing-the-lacuna-expanse-with-perl.html

http://web.appstorm.net/quick-look/quicklook-games/quick-look-the-lacuna-expanse/

http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/mmo/reviews/93296.aspx

I'm sure you can find more if you look. Qchristensen (talk) 22:23, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Qchristensen, references for articles need to come from published secondary sources with a reputation for accuracy and fact checking (WP:V). Blogs published by individuals are normally not accepted (WP:SPS), including Brighthub which has no editorial oversight.

I see there are some more links at the article, so I'll spend some time later today going through them, and see if I can find any myself. Marasmusine (talk) 07:31, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MagicDraw UML

Hello Marasmusine, Thank you for your comments I really appreciate it. I will rewrite the teamwork description which is really from the brochure. Sorry for this mistake. I have several questions regarding to my article, how I can generate my reference list. The list of the references can be generated automatically or it should be written manually. Also I’m very interested, how I can upload some pictures. For example, I want to upload MagicDraw logo and maybe some screenshots. Thank you very much for your help and time. JustinasG (talk) 12:21, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Marasmusine, Thank you for your help two days ago. I have one more question regarding article merge. Now is two articles about the MagicDraw tool MagicDraw and MagicDraw_UML. The actual tool name is MagicDraw, and this tools can be used as UML, SysML or other tool. For this reason I want to merge MagicDraw_UML to the MagicDraw but now I can not found the old one article (I'm being redirected to the new one) How I can handle this situation?

Thank you for your help in advanced JustinasG (talk) 07:14, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gran Turismo AFD

Not sure if you noticed or not, but there were two articles up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Gran Turismo cars (2nd nomination). List of Gran Turismo courses still remains. The³5₉ (Talk) 18:41, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, got it. In my defense I was on a Source Code mission so only had 8 minutes. Marasmusine (talk) 20:08, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft Sam

Please see recent edits on Microsoft Sam. Came to my attention because edits were done by an IP address vandal (just now blocked). Looks like maybe you meant this page to be a Redirect, and the vandal kept un-redirecting it. Maile66 (talk) 21:37, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback (78.26 userspace)

Hello, Marasmusine. You have new messages at 78.26's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Gran Turismo Cars

Hello, is there any way that the deleted page, List of Gran Turismo cars, could be moved to another wiki site where this article could really benefit? I was using this page for a website that I am working on, and now I have no access to it. Danind03 (talk) 02:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Zetrix

Hello.

You have added Template:Notability to the Zetrix page. I want to keep the article and I want to know what information needs to be verified by the sources?

"Features" section is taken from the readme.txt, an online version of it can be found here.
--
Best regards,
Teyandee (talk) 11:21, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have made some modifications. I hope now it meets WP:NSOFT. Teyandee (talk) 18:29, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Diary of a Bad Man

I know you deleted the Diary of a Bad Man page because of lack of notability. There are some BBC radio interviews, such as:

A few radio interviews, radio or Q&A's which you'll find also on YouTube. It is a YouTube thing so the sources would mainly be from YouTube. The episode synopsis, I wrote entirely by myself but had trouble with adding a 'views' column. There are many other videos on YouTube which reach just 1 million views and yet they have an article. Maybe you could restore the airline with some improvements? 82.46.152.122 (talk) 14:20, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have restored the article for you and put the links on the talk page. I recommend going through the interviews, note down any salient facts, and use template:cite interview to put them in the article. Thanks, Marasmusine (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Username block

Hello, Marasmusine. You placed a username block on User talk:OpenSystemsPublishing. The user has requested an unblock and a change of username. However, looking at the user's contributions, I see that they consist 100% (apart from the unblock request) of linking to publications of Open Systems Publishing. This put me in a difficult position: either I unblock, despite the fact that it is an account which qualifies for a spam only block, or I contradict what the user has been told in the block notice: "Your username is the only reason for this block". I wonder if, in this kind of situation, you might consider that a spamusername block might be better? JamesBWatson (talk) 23:13, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Red Eclipse Edit Reply

In response to your post on my talk page:

Hey there, no problem. It must be frustrating for a long time Wikipedia editor like yourself to have noobs like me come in and blatantly (albeit not intentionally) violate a lot of the site's rules in writing more strictly by references, heh. I'll be more conscious of this in the future. On a side note I wasn't sure if this was worth replying to on your talk page, but did not see any other PM-esque option around.

Also, I have a question. Much of the information I wrote is from Red Eclipse's own Wiki articles, which is only edited by the game's developers. In a sense it's a digital instruction book. If one were to put a footnote at the bottom of the Wikipedia Red Eclipse article stating that much of the information is found there, would it be acceptable, or would it be straddling too close to not being so? I ask because a similar method was used in the Halo: Combat Evolved article.

Anywho, happy editing. Thanks.

Favoritopon (talk) 23:26, 20 April 2011 (UTC)Favoritopon[reply]

Hello again. I do think Red Eclipse is significant enough of a project to have its own article, but I think I am going to have to agree with you. As unfortunate as it is, by Wikipedia's standards it probably does not have the coverage needed to survive on its own - for now anyway. I'm sure Cube and Sauerbraten wouldn't have held on their own either this soon after their releases, it probably took some time to get enough publicity to sustain their own articles. In fact the person who made this article did so even before the game's release actually, I only stepped in to help clean it up. I'll leave it up to you as to the course of action we should take. The only appropriate article to merge it with really is that of its engine, perhaps that's the route we should take.

Thanks for the clarifications and assistance.

Favoritopon (talk) 15:08, 22 April 2011 (UTC)Favoritopon[reply]

Re: Nomination of Melolagnia for deletion

Thank you for the notification, but I would ask you to please also notify the article creator, User:86.156.41.82. All I did was create the page as part of our Articles for Creation procedures. Thanks! Powers ^T 14:47, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just-in-time lad

Hi there Marasmusine. I'll appreciate a lot if you restore this article in my user space under the title Last-minute rescue, and thus I'll be able to edit it. – George Serdechny 13:58, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FYI. postdlf (talk) 14:26, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FYMI. – George Serdechny 14:31, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot Marasmusine, I think it'll be done in a week. – George Serdechny 14:34, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. As long as you have read and understand the policy on original research, I don't mind it being worked on in userspace. If it goes stale I'll remove it, however. Marasmusine (talk) 14:39, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vanacore Music

Hi Marasmusine, I am new to Wikipedia and I created an article for Vanacore Music. I made alot of changes and deleted paragraphs and tried to make it unbiased. It is now down to about 3 sentences, much less from the former article I had created. The article still says that it is ambigously promotional. How can I stop it from being promotional. I am not saying that it's a good or amazing company. I am just saying what the company is and what it does. Second, I added credits so people knew what type of work Vanacore Music is associated with. It's not meant to be promotional but a reference to what the company has worked on. I've seen other articles with tables including information like this; however, the credits I added were all deleted. Is there a way I can include credits in a way that is appropriate to Wikipedia standards?

Last but not least I would appreciate any additional comments or advice on how to clean up my article.

Thank You and I appreciate your help and time.

User: Vm-musicdave —Preceding undated comment added 18:04, 5 May 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Your edits on the Darkeden article

Hey. A lot of what I've learned about Wikipedia, at least regarding video game articles here, I've learned from observing your edits and reading up on the guidelines you cite. However, I did the same that you did on the Darkeden article on the Counter Strike Online article, and I got into somewhat of a kerfuffle with another editor[2], so I posted on the WP:VG/GL talkpage regarding the problem. I usually also remove non-English official sites, per WP:NONENGEL. I'd just like your perspective on this since you're the one I picked up on this particular rule from, or rather, one of the only other people I've seen enforcing it. Eik Corell (talk) 21:58, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Eik, thanks. The important thing is not to get into a revert war - the IPs edits appear to be in good faith. We need to communicating the reason for the revert and reach a concensus; avoid an "us vs. them" attitude! I'll leave a comment on the talk page. Marasmusine (talk) 11:18, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Got ya. I guess what confused me was that he used the same guideline I was operating under, to justify including the links. In situations like that, I always resort to contacting other editors because that could mean that I possibly got something wrong in my initial understanding of said guidelines. Eik Corell (talk) 13:31, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've just noticed that the post I replied to on the talk page was dated December! I thought it was current - ah well, I have cleaned up the list and directed people to the talk page. Marasmusine (talk) 19:43, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

deletion by redirection

Given Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MikMod, I think this edit is a little unethical. Admins are supposed to be rolemodels and should hold themselves to higher standards than that. —Ruud 10:50, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A redirect is not a delete. The article has been tagged as unverified for 2 years. If you have found significant coverage in reliable sources, per notability guidelines, then revert the redirect and add the sources. All I have is the brief Linux Journal mention - nothing that can't be included in a broader topic. Marasmusine (talk) 12:47, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Contested PROD

You PRODDED Hanks (band) on 5 May 2010. The PROD was contested by the author, and the article is now at AfD. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:50, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kega Fusion

In my view, your suggestion of merging information to the list of video game emulators would lose that information (not physically, as you explained above, but for casual users) and anyway, if you claim that it doesn't meet notabiility, articles for deletion would be a better place to discuss whether the article should exist at all. Although from knowledge, every other emulator article is in the same state, so you'd have to nominate every other article too, for consistency and to prevent accusations of bias. --tgheretford (talk) 11:32, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Battlegrounds 2

I Found this at moddb: http://www.moddb.com/mods/battle-grounds-2 there's also a facebook page up, and they also got a page in valve's own wiki.

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