Welcome to my talk page. If you're planning on addressing me, call me Gamer.
Misc.
- Articles on my radar:
(Video games) Mega Man Powered Up, Ride to Hell: Retribution, Darkened Skye, Vanishing Point (video game), Lair (video game), Advent Rising
(Others) They Might Be Giants discography
- To be reviewed: LittleBigPlanet (PlayStation 3) (GAR), Featured List audit page to look at
- I am currently the director for Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates along with delegate Juhachi
- Also lead editor of the Arbitration Report for the Signpost.
- Also, keeping these for personal use: Wikipedia:Good topics/count, Wikipedia:Featured topics/count, Category:Unassessed Featured topics articles
Gamer's Cold Storage, changes to Video Games WikiProject, For the template
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Contents
- 1 List of commercial failures in video gaming
- 2 Mega Man Powered Up
- 3 Resurrecting an old project
- 4 Proposed amendment to WP:ADMIN regarding paid editing
- 5 A Question
- 6 The Signpost: 09 September 2015
- 7 The Signpost: 16 September 2015
- 8 Merry Christmas II You
- 9 Notification system
- 10 The Signpost: 23 September 2015
- 11 Re: Speedy deletion nomination of Eipix Entertainment
- 12 DYK for Dyscourse
- 13 The Signpost: 30 September 2015
- 14 Arbreport
List of commercial failures in video gaming
So I was reading your WP:VG interview and decided to submit one of the articles you mentioned to reddit. It caused quite the traffic increase. JACOPLANE • 2011-04-7 21:17
Mega Man Powered Up
Here are some sources that may or may not be in the article right now. I'm on a Wikibreak so I won't be able to put them to prose.
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- [4] - PSM Magazine, Play Magazine, Game Informer, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, PSM2 Magazine UK, games(™), Official PlayStation 2 Magazine UK
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Resurrecting an old project
Hey there! Long time no see. Let me get right down to business. If I remember correctly, one of your specialties is tidying up and nominating abandoned projects—Anachronox and Pilotwings spring to mind. Well, I'd like to propose one to you: Maniac Mansion. I worked on that article with MuZemike and GuyinBlack way back in the day... it's like four or five years (!) ago now. They kept working on it after I left, and it grew to an unbelievable size and depth. And it was impressive even before all that expansion. About three years ago, its one and only FAC failed because of prose concerns, and it's been collecting dust ever since. The article is 95% of the way to being perfect—it would be a real jewel in WPVG's crown if it finally got featured.
Tonight I got inspired to copyedit the behemoth. Did the lead and gameplay section, but there's quite a bit left. I'd love to do the rest. If I had a partner who was willing to double-check the references, do some trimming on the excess content and handle an FAC nomination, I'd keep going on the CE in a heartbeat. That's when you came to mind! Would you be interested in handling the nom and whatever little janitor work the article needs? I'm pretty sure it's in good shape aside from the prose, which I'm dealing with myself, but it's been a long time since the main contributors shelved it. Some of the links might need archiving, etc. The nomination is the biggest thing—with work and all, I'm definitely not up for the stress and time commitment that would require. Totally understand if you aren't, either. But I'd really love to see this article get its due, and you're the most qualified project-salvager I can ask. You interested? JimmyBlackwing (talk) 08:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- Certainly. I've had Maniac Mansion in the back of my head for some time. I'll look through the article and do some fixing up there. GamerPro64 18:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- Great to hear. I'll keep plugging away at the copyedit. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 19:06, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
Looks like the article's going to need more janitor work than I feared. There are mangled ref templates and dead links galore, not to mention article text that's drifted from the sources over time. The copyedit is going well, but this thing will require a lot more work besides, unfortunately. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:00, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- You could ask for some assistance and make request on the WikiProject's talk page. Would be interesting to make this a full out project collaboration. That hasn't happened in years. GamerPro64 22:08, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- That's true, but I'm a bit nervous about work on the article getting derailed. I abandoned the previous push to bronze-star Maniac Mansion after a fourth editor, who was not the best writer, joined our collaboration and rewrote large portions of the article to be (if I'm honest) flat-out worse. He did some good work expanding it, but the article never had a prayer of satisfying 1a in that shape. Rather than fight over it and lose my hair, I just bailed. I'd rather not see something like that happen again. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
- I getcha, Jimmy. I think we can make it work for its second go. GamerPro64 03:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
- Prose-wise, the monster has very nearly been tamed. It's looking quite good for the most part: the content is strong. If we can get the technical side nailed down (and the writing spotchecked), we shouldn't have any trouble at FAC. Exciting stuff to finally see this project come together. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 09:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Great. Also, I am about to get ready for college again. So once that's done with I can more available to help out with the page. GamerPro64 14:21, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Sounds good. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 17:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Copyedit complete, barring whatever minor tweaks might need to be made in the future. I cut probably 7,000-10,000 bytes from the article—truly unbelievable levels of cruft and bloat. What's left is very solid. Once you're back in the saddle, we should be able to fix up the rest in no time. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 23:40, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Sounds good. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 17:47, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Great. Also, I am about to get ready for college again. So once that's done with I can more available to help out with the page. GamerPro64 14:21, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Prose-wise, the monster has very nearly been tamed. It's looking quite good for the most part: the content is strong. If we can get the technical side nailed down (and the writing spotchecked), we shouldn't have any trouble at FAC. Exciting stuff to finally see this project come together. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 09:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- I getcha, Jimmy. I think we can make it work for its second go. GamerPro64 03:18, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
- That's true, but I'm a bit nervous about work on the article getting derailed. I abandoned the previous push to bronze-star Maniac Mansion after a fourth editor, who was not the best writer, joined our collaboration and rewrote large portions of the article to be (if I'm honest) flat-out worse. He did some good work expanding it, but the article never had a prayer of satisfying 1a in that shape. Rather than fight over it and lose my hair, I just bailed. I'd rather not see something like that happen again. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:57, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
So besides filling in some clips from conferences I think the article looks pretty well made. What do you think about putting it at FAC now? GamerPro64 00:17, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
- Oh, I missed this message until just now. I'd like to spotcheck the article first. A lot has changed since those references were first added. I'll work on that over the next few days, then you can feel free to nom. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 19:27, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Okay. I'm cool with that. GamerPro64 19:42, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Getting near the end of checking and fixing sources. The last big one I have to check is a GamesTM issue, which I've requested scans from at hahnchen's talk page. He said it's going to be two weeks before he can access the issue, though, so the nom is still a decent ways off. I don't think there's a huge rush, anyway. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:42, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Good luck with that. Surprised people still make magazines for gaming these days. GamerPro64 04:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hahnchen got me the scans today. I'll finish up the source-checks and then let you know when it's set to nominate. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 18:34, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
- Done. In the end, I wasn't able to double-check every single source, but I did a huge number of them. Any further errors will be tiny and easily fixable. Feel free to nominate the article at will. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:27, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
- Started the FAC. Now for the waiting game. GamerPro64 15:13, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
- Done. In the end, I wasn't able to double-check every single source, but I did a huge number of them. Any further errors will be tiny and easily fixable. Feel free to nominate the article at will. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:27, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hahnchen got me the scans today. I'll finish up the source-checks and then let you know when it's set to nominate. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 18:34, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
- Good luck with that. Surprised people still make magazines for gaming these days. GamerPro64 04:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Getting near the end of checking and fixing sources. The last big one I have to check is a GamesTM issue, which I've requested scans from at hahnchen's talk page. He said it's going to be two weeks before he can access the issue, though, so the nom is still a decent ways off. I don't think there's a huge rush, anyway. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:42, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Okay. I'm cool with that. GamerPro64 19:42, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
Proposed amendment to WP:ADMIN regarding paid editing
You recently commented on a brainstorm that discussed banning administrators from paid editing. A concrete proposal to amend the administrator policy to this effect has been made at Wikipedia talk:Administrators#Proposed change - 'No paid editing" for admins. Your comments would be appreciated. MER-C 08:17, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
A Question
Do you want to continue as lead editor of the signpost's arbitration report or move to a backup? Because I did it this week, even though there were two lead editors for it, and I enjoyed it and would like to pick it up as my lead responsibility. Please ping me in response. Thanks Tortle (talk) 19:17, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Tortle: Yes I do want to continue to be a lead editor of the Arbitration report. Didn't think there would be need of it this week but your work shown so far proves me wrong. GamerPro64 20:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas II You
Hi. Would every linked article in the track listing have to ba a GA for a Good Article Topic, or just the ones that Mariah has an article for? (One Child, When Christmas Comes, Oh Santa, Christmas Time Is in the Air Again, All I Want for Christmas, Auld Lang Syne New Years Anthem)? — Calvin999 19:37, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
- I think the latter works here but I also suggest taking this up at Wikipedia talk:Featured topic questions just to make sure. GamerPro64 19:41, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. — Calvin999 19:43, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Notification system
How many times are they going to separate the alerts and messages here? This is almost as bad as VisualEditor at this point. GamerPro64 18:35, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- Meh, Echo was an extremely welcome feature AFAIAC. Splitting notifs and messages was probably not necessary but it's setting the groundwork for future Flow-like systems. It's not harmful or detrimental for now. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:40, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
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- Well at least they let you keep having the Orange Bar of Doom here. Wouldn't want that novelty to go away. GamerPro64 18:48, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
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Re: Speedy deletion nomination of Eipix Entertainment
Hello, Gamer!
Could you, please, direct me to any specific parts of the article you find overtly promotional or in need of improvement, so that I could change them (or provide support for those claims). Thank you! --NebojsaCato (talk) 07:37, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- Well here's a question. Do you have any relations to the company? GamerPro64 14:28, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
DYK for Dyscourse
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:39, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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Arbreport
Is the Arb Report ready to go? If you don't want us to publish it this week, let Go Phightins! know. He's planning on publishing Saturday. Gamaliel (talk) 20:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
- I think its good to go. Nothing much else seems to be happening at this time. GamerPro64 20:37, 6 October 2015 (UTC)