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Anime GA review

I only now saw your comment on the GA review for Anime. If you'd like to work on it and then re nominate it when you're done making the changes I requested, I will happily review it again.Lemurbaby (talk) 01:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. |>(@"<) (talk) 03:05, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Asteroids (video game)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Asteroids (video game) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 01:20, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Civilization IV

The first link you added as reference to the general 4X genre description seems to be broken. Do you think you could show it to me so that I could verify it some other way, or look for the archived version of it on Internet Archive? TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 08:28, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Asteroids (video game)

The article Asteroids (video game) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Asteroids (video game) for things which need to be addressed. Indrian (talk) 21:06, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Welcome and a suggestion

Hi. I noticed that you're in the middle of getting Asteroids to become a Good Article and hopefully beyond. Its good to see effort made towards articles based on arcade games and I hope you can continue and be part of the Video Game WikiProject. But if you don't mind offering a suggestion on another project, Sinistar has always been an interesting bird for me and its current condition is really sad. Just a thought if that's okay. GamerPro64 04:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

• Well, of course I've been thinking of improving plenty of articles about games like these, including arcade games, because there's the Golden age of video arcade games and the second generation of video game consoles, where a lot of the simple basics of video games got wide exposure and there was a number of innovations and inventions for the medium at that time. Atari was the basic form of a typical video game industry: They made games, developed games, published games, advertised games, got big, and earned money. Much of the stuff they made is simple and fun, even arcade games like Asteroids are that way. They also innovated things, like putting in vector graphics for Lunar Lander. Today, the medium is complex, while the industry is massive. The greatness of the early days of video games before the NES came is what made me focus on improving such articles. |>(@"<) (talk) 05:19, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Indeed, it's okay to improve Sinistar, and I can do it. |>(@"<) (talk) 05:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Asteroids (video game)

The article Asteroids (video game) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Asteroids (video game) for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 21:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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FAR on hold

Hi! I have placed your FAR of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening on hold. FAR instructions require a notification of a potential FAR to be made on the talk page of the article prior to the review being started. I see that you have posted to the talk page, but you did not give interested editors the chance to respond before you started the FAR. Discussion should be continued on the talk page, and if the article does not see significant improvements over the next week or two, the review may be restarted at WP:FAR. Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions. Dana boomer (talk) 15:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

You need to wait more than a couple of hours. Editors have jobs, school, are in different time zones, are on vacation, etc. A wait of at least a week is necessary, two weeks is generous. Dana boomer (talk) 15:53, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

I might help there - specially if you take a look at another of the pre-2008 FAs which I helped get a star, Metroid Prime - some concerns were raised before, and while not enough to fear a FAR, preventing is always a reasonable thing to do. igordebraga ≠ 00:16, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Hope some more people appear to look at DMC - and that my GOCE request to clean Metroid Prime up is answered soon before it gets into the FAR... igordebraga ≠ 02:08, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your note - that appears to be an interesting discussion. Just remember that before articles can be taken to FAR they need to have a notification placed on the article talk page for a reasonable period of time (not just a few hours). Notifications at WP:VG or the sub-page listing pre-2008 FAs don't count, as there may be interested editors who don't watch those places. Not just saying this to you, but to everyone participating at that discussion. Dana boomer (talk) 14:01, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Sockpuppet comment you made

Hi there. I saw this comment you made. It seems you and @Indrian: think he's a sock puppet. I was wondering if you could provide some reasons or "difs" that show this? Or if you had been to WP:SPI about it? I'd prefer to clear this up, and block him if he's a sockpuppet who's block evading or wrongfully using 2 accounts, or not be bringing it up if it looks like its not true. Please let me know what you know. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 18:18, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Talk Page

Let us discuss the changes at the Sega Saturn Talk Page. We may get in trouble if we continue to go back and forth. Although I do not think either of use is doing it intentionally, the rules still apply from what I read. I'll let you to change back to the old version for now while we discuss. John Mayor ERS (talk) 02:32, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Actually I will change it back. John Mayor ERS (talk) 02:33, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

"Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments" in an sockpuppet investigation

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Unhelpful talk page formatting

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Fix your signature

Fix your signature so people can leave you messages on your Talk page, not somebody else's. — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 03:09, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

If you want to avoid WP:ANI, please fix your signature. — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 03:16, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 03:22, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Your signature has to be legible letters or numbers, not cryptic symbols that can't be understood. Also, it is almost impossible to read your talk page with a dark red background. Was this your intention? Liz 21:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Q*bert

You seem to have made a mistake in the Q*bert article, so I reverted your last edit. You seem to believe Atari made Q*bert for some reason, I am afraid that is incorrect. Q*bert, like many other games of the time, were associated with Atari, mostly on their consoles, so I can understand your confusion. Atari did buy the rights to Q*bert some years later, and did release games like the 3D 1997 remake, so I can't fully blame you for thinking Atari made Q*bert. The real creators though were Gottlieb.

If I am not mistaken, Atari brought the franchise when Q*bert 3 came out. BustaBunny (talk) 22:37, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Your ANI comment

"I've considered changing Jak's block to a permanent site-ban because of the carnage he and his sockpuppets have done." I understand that you are obviously passionate about this matter, but what is the meaning behind comments like this? You are not an admin.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 02:48, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

And just so you know, there really isn't much of a difference between "indefinite block" and "site ban". We already block him on sight, per WP:DUCK, similar to a ban, since he's so bad a block evading, the only real difference would be that we could rightfully revert every single edit he makes, without question. Considering most of his pages are protected, and his other edits are terrible and reverted, or just largely unanswered talk page musings, so we have most of that covered too. So that's why I say I think we're better off just being vigilant with watching over these pages, and keeping up with the protection/blocks. I don't think it worth dragging through the pits of ANI drama when it wouldn't give much of a return for our efforts.

Side note, you mentioned that Jak may have first started as an IP back as far as 2011. I wasn't aware of that one. Do you have a link to that one? Sergecross73 msg me 15:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

• Looking at the CD-i page, Jak-type edits first appeared in January 2011. Indrian (talk) 15:25, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Old User page

Hi, Gonna,
You might want to copy the contents of User:Mr. Gonna/Header and User talk:Mr. Gonna/Archive and copy it to a User:Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever User page. Then, request the page be deleted as there is no longer a Mr. Gonna User account. You can post {{Db-g7}} on the page or else I will nominate it for deletion at MfD. Liz 17:00, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I can move the username part of the titles of those pages, then the redirects would be deleted. Mr*|(60nna) 23:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Tagged both redirects for speedy deletion. Mr*|(60nna) 00:04, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #103

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Comment

I've been holding my tongue on this but it is just irritating to me. Can you stop liking all my comments I make whenever you're involved in a conversation? Its one thing to do that if you're thankful for the user for making useful edits, but why like something someone says in the comments? This is not Facebook. GamerPro64 23:17, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I'll reduce that. Mr*|(60nna) 23:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #104

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