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Grenadier Models Inc & Other Wikis

Hi Boz, noticed you reversed the changes made to the Grenadier page and wondered if you could provide some advice. If the reference to LMWiki is not acceptable and there are no other references (annoyingly Forlorn Hopes website doesn’t reference Grenadier as such) I presume that removing the reference and just providing the information is ok? The information regarding the license passing to EM4 (and the rest of that section) has no references so hence I thought it better to have a reference. Any advice much appreciated.

Happy New Year, BOZ!

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BOZ,
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Happy New Year!

BOZ,
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Persistent disruption by 69.121.181.163

Hi, BOZ. Happy New Year. Listen, can you put another, longer block on 69.121.181.163. Its talk page is a two-year litany of constant warnings and at least one block for persistent blanking content and other disruptive editing, by myself and others, and he/she is not stopping. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 02:20, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wishing you a happy 2022! Happy holidays

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Card games introduced in 1990

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Jacob Batalon needs protection

Hi, BOZ. Happy New Year. Hope everything is going great for you and yours. Listen, the Jacob Batalon article has been the target for both persistent vandalism and addition of uncited information for the few weeks, with the former being reverted on at least five different occassions since December 26, and similarly frequency for the latter, as you can see in the article's edit history. Can you please put a prolonged block on that article, one that will dissuade those vandals monitoring it from returning? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 00:09, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, BOZ. Can you please put a substantially longer protection on Jacob Batalon? The vandalism is continuing regularly. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 19:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Nightscream, I am no longer able to perform this function. BOZ (talk) 19:38, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Can you recommend an admin who can? (Thanks for your speedy reply.) Nightscream (talk) 19:39, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure specifically, but I would recommend going to WP:RFPP. BOZ (talk) 19:40, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Got it. BusterD (talk) 20:05, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, man. :) BOZ (talk) 20:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Banzai Bug

I was wondering if you were able to reference the four reviews at Banzai Bug. I'm planning on nominating the article for DYK, but a requirement is for every section to be cited. I'm glad that you started the article and it was enjoyable to work on. I appreciate you thanking me for my additions. SL93 (talk) 00:57, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and replaced all of those with the reviews that were linked from the Mobygames page - you can add the ones you want to use, and delete the rest. I will see what other reviews I can locate! BOZ (talk) 01:13, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I appreciate it. SL93 (talk) 01:21, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Would you be fine with me adding you as a co-creator on the DYK for you helping with sources? SL93 (talk) 02:49, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That would be cool, thanks. :) BOZ (talk) 02:52, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Done at Template:Did you know nominations/Banzai Bug. SL93 (talk) 03:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Mike Tinney

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Nomination of Mike Tinney for deletion

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Nomination of DragonLords for deletion

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Fram (talk) 09:03, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem: Mike Tinney

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Pilaz (talk) 07:32, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do see that I unfortunately copied the first sentence word-for-word when I started the article in 2015, and the rest of that paragraph has some close paraphrasing and a few phrases copied verbatim; I rewrote that section under Talk:Mike Tinney/Temp per the instructions, so please review to make sure it is rewritten sufficiently. BOZ (talk) 15:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Boz, this is not the first time you've engaged in copyright violations and plagiarism. In 2020, you were correctly called out for word-for-word copyright violations by Fram, for violations committed a year prior on May 20, May 21 and May 21 2019, which you recognized as copyvios and manually corrected (diff1, diff2, diff3). The corrections took place almost a year after your original edits. It's not like you were unaware of plagiarism and copyright violations, either; you de-plagiarized someone else's word-for-word copyvio on Sword of Aragon in 2009 (see discussion). In 2020, in response to Fram's query, you responded that I will begin going through my other articles to make sure they are rewritten. I have five questions that I'd like you to answer:
  1. Did you actually follow up on that expectation by going through your other articles to make sure they were copyvio-free and plagiarism-free?
  2. Since you missed this 2015 plagiaristic additions of yours (AFG), how many and which articles did you effectively "go through"?
  3. Given that you did not address this 2015 copyvio before I brought it up seven years later, and given that you had written you would go through articles of yours to check for plagiarism, do you agree that it is possible that there are other copyright violations that you inserted in English mainspace between January 2015 and May 2019?
  4. At what approximate date do you consider to have begun introducing plagiarism and copyvios?
  5. At what approximate date do you consider to have stopped such a practice?
I want you to know that I am not on a witch-hunt against you, one of the encyclopedia's most productive fantasy contributors, but against copyright violations and plagiarism, for which I have zero tolerance and which are strictly forbidden on Wikipedia (WP:PLAGIARISM, WP:COPYVIO). Your cooperation is likely to lead to less editor and admin time wasted discovering each of those individually over the years. Thank you. Pilaz (talk) 16:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I do recall two years ago spending a few months going through quite a lot of my contributions to make sure that they were rewritten when necessary, but I do not recall how far I got nor do I know which articles I looked at, so regrettably it is possible that there are others. As far as starting and stopping, I don't have answers for those questions unfortunately, other than since it was brought to my attention two years ago I have made an effort to be more cautious and avoid copying text. I will cooperate and participate in any process necessary to find and correct any other problematic additions on my part. BOZ (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I just checked the number of articles you've created between January 2015 and May 2019: 1,680. That probably explains why you couldn't check each individual one for plagiarism...
Also, I checked the draft text and it seems good for admin review now. I endorse it. Next step would be to leave a link to it on Talk:Mike Tinney for copyvio admin review. Pilaz (talk) 18:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thank you for taking a look. BOZ (talk) 18:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

CCI Notice

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"Ironbottom Sound: The Guadacanal Campaign" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Please hand in your admin bit

It now turns out that apart from misusing your admin bit to restore your own, AfD-deleted content in the past, and apart from creating copyvios in 2019, you have been creating copyvios since at least 2014 and still don't seem to understand or care about the difference between close paraphrasing and actually writing your own text (cf. the finds by Moneytrees, or the "tweak" you now make e.g. here which may help to fool tools like earwig, but does nothing to stop this from being a copyvio).

Please go to the burocrat's noticeboard and hand in your admin tools. Staying on as an admin is untenable after this many problems over such a long period. Fram (talk) 09:46, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Arcola, 1979

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DYK for Banzai Bug

On 7 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Banzai Bug, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Windows 95 game Banzai Bug, in which a player controls a bug that must escape from an exterminator's house and is told as a war story, was created as "The Flight-Sim with an Attitude"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Banzai Bug. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Banzai Bug), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Full Thrust

Surprisingly I am struggling to find a second reference to cement GNG for this. I thought this would be more popular... anything you could dig up? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:20, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I did find the review noted on the article from Steve Jackson Games periodical Pyramid, but sadly tabletop game reviews are not as easy to find as RPG reviews since I have yet to find a decent resource that indexes them. BOZ (talk) 16:54, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (February 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Zxcvbnm was:
There are a bit too many formatting issues for me to say it is ready to be a full article.

My suggestions: Remove the original research from the gameplay section and make sure all claims are sourced. Make sure it is prose and not a list.

Move reviews to a Template:Video game reviews template.

Reception should paraphrase rather than use direct quotes for the most part. Try to use magazine reviews as they tend to be more reliable in this time period. A some of the current sources are listed as "inconclusive" at WP:VG/S.
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Your opinion is requested

Hi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 19:43, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hi! I was about to add the sales figures but I'm not sure which Flight simulator is this referring to. Do you know which one this is [1]? Timur9008 (talk) 07:18, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My best guess, based on the fact that the clipping is from 1988 and says "sold about 800,000 copies in the last five years", is that it is talking about Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0, largely because nothing else really fits? BOZ (talk) 05:21, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I will add the sales figures there then. Timur9008 (talk) 07:28, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What about this one? I think it's this one Super Dodge Ball.[2] what do you think?Timur9008 (talk) 09:02, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right, especially if this review is for the NES version - take a look under the "Related games" section and that description matches your clipping fairly well. The clipping makes it clear that this release is by CBS/Sony although that is not reflected in the article from what I can see, but if you look at the NES version's Mobygames page[3] the publisher is listed as CSG Imagesoft Inc., and if you click on that link[4] it is clearly a subsidiary of Sony. :) BOZ (talk) 13:19, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What about this one [5]? Could be any of these Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988 video game),Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989 video game), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1991 video game) but not sure which one, what do you think?Timur9008 (talk) 08:44, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow, good question. I would lean on the 1988 game since the others were not published by Disney, but I can't be certain that's the game it's talking about. BOZ (talk) 13:05, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I won't be using this one then.Timur9008 (talk) 09:20, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know what this means? [6] the $100,820 or the $1 million(marketing budget?) parts. This info could improve the Pitfall II: Lost Caverns article.Timur9008 (talk) 17:51, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My reading of it is this. The company had set a budget of $100,820 to produce the game, but some changes were made that increased the budget by $10,000. The media budget of $1,000,000 appears to be related to advertising on TV, and in magazines and trade publications. BOZ (talk) 15:56, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Can you add this information to the Pitfall II: Lost Caverns article? I think it says the media budget was cut to $400,000 Timur9008 (talk) 18:04, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like the TV advertising budget was cut to $400,000, but there was still some money for the other publications. I'm not sure how that information should be used in the article. BOZ (talk) 16:10, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind then. Still, thanks!Timur9008 (talk) 18:13, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What about this one? [7] I think this means combined sales for Gromada and Hard Truck. Timur9008 (talk) 04:32, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's hard to tell, because the grammar isn't great. It could mean 150K copies of Hard Truck, that many copies of both games, or that many copies of all of their games. If you can find a second source to back it up and hopefully clarify, that would help. BOZ (talk) 02:24, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Drafts

Please don't replace a redirect with a draft article, then move that page to draftspace, like you did with Free D.C!. This leaves a redirect to draft-space which needs to be deleted, as well as not allowing our readers to continue to what the previous target of the redirect was. Instead, could you please create the drafts in draft-space and then move them to article-space when finished over the redirects (if you can't do this, you can ask at WP:RM/TR), or keep the articles in article-space while you write them? Thanks. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:58, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Next time I do that, I will point the redirect it creates at another article. BOZ (talk) 01:04, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Elli (talk | contribs) 02:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thor(marvel comics)

The citations I provided for the article are already mentioned in that article in the reference page I'm not adding anything from different sources All the abilities of Thor are literally written in the same page The sources are in the references As well as the power and abilities section. Please don't revert those edits. Odinson878 (talk) 14:48, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Rivals of Waterdeep

Hi Boz – I've closed your request at WP:PAM because it's in the wrong place... that page is for asking for assistance in setting up a merger proposal. In this case the merger is already done... histmerges for mergers that have already taken place should be requested at WP:RFHM. Thanks. Richard3120 (talk) 00:21, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks, I moved my request there. :) BOZ (talk) 00:27, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Cricket 97

Hi! Was wondering can you split the information regarding Cricket 97(including the cover art) from Cricket (video game series) to its own article. Timur9008 (talk) 13:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here are all the sources that I found btw. (there are probably more though)

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97792630/the-age/

https://web.archive.org/web/19970607085724/http://www.beam.com.au/1103972.htm

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97792707/the-sydney-morning-herald/

https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay-017-1997-10/page/n59/mode/2up

Good idea, looks like it used to be a separate article but was unsourced. If you're confident that we've got enough sources to split it back out then that's good enough for me, I will try to find the time to do that later today. BOZ (talk) 12:10, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Need Help

Sorry to bother you again but I found this little gem [8]. Can you go through each game mentioned there and update their respective Wikipedia pages? (those that have them) While I search through the newspapers for those respective articles. Timur9008 (talk) 22:26, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow! That's sweet but it looks like a big project... and I'm already trying to get through multiple big projects. :o The most I could likely hope to do would be to try to find the time to add them as external links, because anything more would just take me a long time. BOZ (talk) 20:34, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No worries :) It's no rush. (i will probably find the time to do it myself) The reason I asked is that many dates don't match up. Like Mickey's Safari in Letterland which uses GameFAQs(user-edited source) for the source for the release date. (says the game was released in 1993 but according to Beam Software's website it was released in 1990[9] (but also links that Nintendo PDF document). So I'm not sure which is correct here)Timur9008 (talk) 23:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh wow, that's definitely messy. BOZ (talk) 21:06, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Infoboxes

I heavily suggest you add infoboxes to every article you create, in my opinion they are pretty much bare minimum for any article by an experienced editor. I understand that you are mostly into making placeholders for older games but the omission of them is mostly throwing work on other editors, who will eventually have to make infoboxes for all those articles! And adding to the backlog of articles with no infobox.

If you have difficulties, the visual editor eliminates having to code the infobox or copy and paste it.

In terms of references it is also frowned upon to just chuck a bare Internet Archive link in there. Again, that dumps the responsibility onto other editors to properly cite the magazine in question. Thank you. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:58, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will try to add a bare minimum infobox, although I am often not sure what information to include in which field, so I will leave that part to whoever wants to add it. BOZ (talk) 15:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
At minimum I usually include: Publisher and Developer (basically just the company names, linked if able), Release date (full date is preferable to just the year), Platform (what console or systems it runs on) and Genre. Mode can also be either Single-player, multiplayer or have both. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The infobox you have started adding is a good start, but I would heavily recommend including the platform(s) and whether it is single-player, multiplayer or both in the infobox as well. This at least makes it easier to categorize the page properly without having to do additional research. Thanks. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:09, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks. I'm not always sure what info belongs in those spots or where to find it. BOZ (talk) 18:17, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
In other words, I'd rather put nothing than put the wrong thing. BOZ (talk) 18:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Stop

Stop removing my edits. All my edits are sourced from the article itself. All you are doing is removing important information. Just stop. With this bs. Reference878 (talk) 04:45, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just me, you have also been reverted on Thor (Marvel Comics) by User:Mako001[10], User:Gaitinjammerkid[11], and User:Drmies[12], for your edits from this account, as well as the other account User:Odinson878 and IP edits, which I assume are are all you based on the fact that you add your citations in the edit summaries rather than adding any citations in the actual article itself. Whether the information you are adding is important is questionable, but since you are not adding citations to the article your information is definitely unsourced. BOZ (talk) 10:35, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Reference878: Honestly, saying that you don't know how to add citations would suggest that you need to learn how to do so, not that we should all just put up with it. Or, to put it another way, go here and read all of it, then put it in to practice. Don't just tell us that you don't know how to add citations. I notice that you haven't used the Odinson account since 6 March. Before anything goes wrong, I will say this: You must not use that account for illegitimate purposes. Please don't deny that you are Odinson878, it will not do you any good. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 12:13, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both. User/socks blocked. Drmies (talk) 14:21, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Check it!

LOL, thank you. :) Always appreciate a bit of off-the-wall humor. BOZ (talk) 15:18, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Battle of the Bulge by Avalon Hill, 1969

BOZ, there is currently an article about Avalon Hill's 1991 version of Battle of the Bulge. However, there are two preceding editions of this game (1965 and 1981). The 1965 edition is particulary important, since it is such an early wargame. (It also led, indirectly) to the founding of SPI.) I need some advice on how to proceed:

  • Option A: Leave the 1991 article as is, and create a new article about the 1965 and 1981 editions, linked to the 1991 article?
  • Option B: Retitle the 1991 article (to <<Battle of the Bulge (Avalon Hill)>> perhaps?) and incorporate info about the 1965 and 1981 editions into the present article? Guinness323 (talk) 23:57, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Complicated! :) So my question was going to be, was the 1991 version a fully separate game, or was it a remake of the previous games? BGG says it's the third version[13] so I'm inclined to think that unless there is some compelling reason why the 1991 version is notable and different enough to have its own separate article, then we should move that page to a new title and you can restructure it to be about all three versions. Based on the title of the first two versions, I would suggest moving the page to The Battle of the Bulge (board wargame) since there is a video game to disambiguate against. BOZ (talk) 12:28, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hinderance

Hi Boz, with regard to this, some of my dictionaries don't list it and others refer to it as an 'archaic variant'. Quotes can though be 'silently corrected' on the basis of MOS:PMC. Seeing the item was written in 1984 shall we leave it original and put a hide tag on it so it doesn't come up to be considered again. Neils51 (talk) 04:21, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds fair to me. :) BOZ (talk) 11:41, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History merge

Hi Boz, hope you have been well. Could you do me a favour and perform a history merge between the contents of Draft:Steve (Minecraft) and the current Steve (Minecraft) mainspace article? Thanks! Haleth (talk) 05:33, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Unfortunately, I no longer have the ability to do that. BOZ (talk) 11:42, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, are you no longer an administrator on Wikipedia? Haleth (talk) 17:14, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Correct. BOZ (talk) 23:16, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Dave Johnson

Thank you for the kind clicks, BOZ. But one question: How did you create this diff? Normally a diff requires one to choose two versions to compare with the radio buttons. Otherwise, if you just want to show the first version of an article, I have to do that. How did you create a diff from the first version of the article? Nightscream (talk) 00:45, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean, it looks like you created that diff. Maybe there is some technical thing I'm not understanding about your question. BOZ (talk) 01:35, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recent redirect

Hello BOZ! Are you aware that Spider eater (Dungeons & Dragons) was restored from redirect based on a RfC discussion? Unfortunately I did not see secondary sources on that one (that's why I had removed its section from Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons), nor for Rock reptile and Barkburr, except for Extracts from Noah's Diary, where it is incorporated in the fiction, but it's mentioned that it is from "Dungeons & Dragons mythology". If you can think of a way to use that, that would be great, but it eludes me at that time. Daranios (talk) 11:14, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is interesting. :) I can probably figure out a way to use that story if I can figure out what it is about; I will take a look later. I see that the outcome of the discussion was to restore the article, which is weird, but it sounded like they also want to do an AFD but didn't actually do one, which is weirder. I redirected it to the disambiguation page until we can establish notability, or at least get the 3E monster list back into article space. If it needs to be an article again in the meantime, then so be it. BOZ (talk) 11:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts?

I'm trying to make it clear that Mount Rushmore in popular culture is a topic meriting coverage. Let me know if you have any thoughts on improving the article. Cheers! BD2412 T 21:03, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I will take a look! I may not have much input on what can be done with it, but I will at least review the work you have put into it already. BOZ (talk) 21:31, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Harrow

@BOZ: There was a character named Arthur Harrow in literally ONE issue of Moon Knight back in 1985, but they are an entirely different character completely unrelated to Ethan Hawke's character in the Moon Knight television series: a Nazi scientist who was basically Two-Face if they had chronic pain-inducing half-facial paralysis, focused on curing it. He sets a panther on Moon Knight, who crashes his helicopter, and that was it. Really Arthur Harrow should redirect to Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a Arthur Harrow (comics) page should be made as a redirect to here if there should be one (as they are otherwise a non-notable character, the name being nothing more than an WP:EASTEREGG, if that). PIcavery (talk) 17:47, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That seems reasonable! BOZ (talk) 18:21, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@BOZ: Great! Could you do that then? I would, but I have been here two days and apparently you need to be here four days to make a page. PIcavery (talk) 18:41, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think we need a redirect for the comics version, unless for some reason the company decides to bring him back, but I do agree with your idea of retargeting the redirect so I'm going to do that. BOZ (talk) 18:49, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sengoku (role-playing game)

Any chance you might have access to a second review of this one? It has recently been tagged for Notability :(. Newimpartial (talk) 11:49, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there is the Pyramid review which I had linked to. RPGnet noted that it also had a review in the Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine[14] which I do not have access to. RPGGeek notes a preview[15] and two more reviews, if we can consider either of them reliable: [16][17] BOZ (talk) 12:21, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that! I will take a look. Newimpartial (talk) 12:47, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What's with the FF revision?

This one. What's the difference between this and TVA?

2607:FEA8:879E:FC00:600B:423F:3EE8:3BAA (talk) 14:23, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's not really necessary to include that. BOZ (talk) 00:17, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Why not? The abbreviation form in parenthesis is on the TVA page and the MCU page. FF is a common abbreviation that the comics use all the time. I really don't get the difference. 2607:FEA8:879E:FC00:D5C1:952F:ED3D:FC01 (talk) 01:40, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Wasn’t FF the Future Foundation? (Founded by the 4) Or at least confusing enough which one is being referred to… -2pou (talk) 04:47, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Could be either (but it usually refers to the Four). I disagree with it being confusing given the context. In fact, I'd argue it would clear up the context on the cases in which "FF" is already being used in the article. 2607:FEA8:879E:FC00:E009:F05C:FA64:7ED1 (talk) 06:12, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Precious
One year!

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:33, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you kindly! I'm not sure what it's an anniversary of, but I'll take it. :) BOZ (talk) 12:40, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of The Garbage Chronicles

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sea Rogue (video game) (May 23)

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DragonStrike (video game): do we even need to mention this at all?

Hello.

To answer your question: yes... but I might be wrong. I remember I found websites that mix up setting and genre of video games, and in particular they assume that "role-playing video game" and "fantasy-setting video game" are the same thing, or that any Dungeons & Dragons game must necessarily be a role-playing game. It may be a thing of the past, or very old websites. What do you think?

My sources are the review by the Computer Role-Playing Games Addict (external link here) and the manual (link to the Museum of Old Computer Adventure Games History here). I know that these sources are reliable, but are they widely known as well? As far as I know, they may be obscure websites. --Abacos (talk) 18:37, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Back

Hey BOZ—I don't know if I qualify as "back" yet, to be honest! I've been editing a bit this month as a way to cool off after work, which has been insane lately. It's been fun to do a little editing again on my pet fixations on Wikipedia (sales figures, German games, etc.).

Looking at that list, I'm glad to see that many of the pages have expanded a lot since the old days. People have been busy in my absence! It's reassuring to know. If things pan out to where I can return in a significant way, beyond just stealth-editing to relax in spare moments, I'll look into resurrecting my old projects: the Next Gen reviews, the Pendulo Studios good topic, the Dracula: Resurrection GA and so on. I had to leave a lot of stuff unfinished when work picked up a few years ago.

In any case, it's awesome to see that you're still around. I worry a lot about WPVG's future—between Wikipedia's traffic dip, Google not favoring us as much anymore and the perennial problem of bringing in new blood. Seeing that the old guard is still fighting helps. I'm noticing an uptick in editors I don't recognize, too, which is a very good thing. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:52, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chult material on D&D controversy

On the D&D controversy page, the site you claim does not have the information claimed absolutely does have that information: "Unfortunately, Lowder became very sick while working on "Jungles" and ended up in the hospital for a month(!). Jean Rabe was thus brought in to actually write the adventure. Her adventure, "Heart of the Jungle", involves a more freeform wander through the Jungles of Chult." as quoted in the link in the revision: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/16838/FRM1-The-Jungles-of-Chult-2e

The other two citations are primary sources. They are references to the content on the books themselves, which can be verified from the sources cited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6000:CA40:60E:6912:81F7:6B04:9221 (talk) 06:16, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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