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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2011

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 4, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2011
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Project At a Glance
As of Q4 2011, the project has:

Content

• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

  • Reference library – talk
  • Newsletter – talk
  • Video game images – talk

MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 06:35, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Infinity Blade comment

Greetings. I was going to do the GA review on Infinity Blade, but it seems that J Milburn has beat me to it. He's addressed nearly all the issues that I had intended to bring up except one: the development section seems a bit lacking to me, and I would suggest using one or two more online interviews to bolster it. This one from Pocket Gamer and this one TouchArcade appear useful. It couldn't hurt to mention something about the game's production in the lead. Just a thought, since I'm not reviewing it. You could probably stand to expand it after the GA is decided. Regardless, great work on the article! ~ Hibana (talk) 17:36, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

A couple things

Hi PresN, I've reviewed all your changes and supported the article at FAC. I'm impressed that you've kept with that article for so long, hope it gets promoted this time. Also, since I see that you're an expert at video game articles: there are a few users trying to improve Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares up to GA. I don't think they're familiar with video game articles, so it may help a lot if you could weigh in about sources etc. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:26, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments and your willingness to help, if things eventually cool down enough without the article's quality being significantly degraded I'll probably renominate and ping you back. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:58, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, Skyeking has been indeff'd, so I put the article back in the queue for round two. Feel free to review the article at your leisure, although don't feel like you are obligated to. Also, I was just swinging by the GOCE and saw Bastion article, looks interesting. I'll try to finish reading it soon and jot down any comments I have. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:01, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

DISPLAYTITLE in Userpages

I'm trying to use it on mine but for some reason it is not working -- I must be doing something wrong. I'm not sure exactly how many parameters can be handled. I tried making it show up as "Salvidrim!" but figured that was maybe too intricate... but even just "Salvidrim!" doesn't show up as intended. Help? :) Salvidrim! 07:12, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	For trivial help fixing up my userpage & making a category to count WP:NIN articles. :) Salvidrim! 22:20, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

SMB

Hey, just wanted to congratulate you on SMB reaching FA. That was not in any way smooth sailing, but you stuck with it. Thumbs up. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 21:04, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, same here. I'm really impressed that you stuck with it after two unsuccessful noms. I probably would have given up long before then! Mark Arsten (talk) 00:02, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

For your great work on Bastion (video game) and Super Meat Boy! ♫GoP♫_{TN 15:32, 31 January 2012 (UTC)}

WikiCup 2012 January newsletter

WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X (submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 (submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun (submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!

The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.

A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.

• 12george1 (submissions) was the first to score, with his good article review of Illinois v. McArthur.
• 12george1 (submissions) was also the first to score points for an article, thanks to his work on Hurricane Debby (1982)- now a good article. Tropical storms have featured heavily in the Cup, and good articles currently have a relatively fast turnaround time for reviews.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions) was the first to score points for a did you know, with Russian submarine K-114 Tula. Military history is another subject which has seen a lot of Cup activity.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions) is also the first person to successfully claim bonus points. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is now a good article, and was eligible for bonus points because the subject was covered on more than 20 other Wikipedias at the start of the competition. It is fantastic to see bonus points being claimed so early!
• Speciate (submissions) was the first to score points for an In the News entry, with Paedophryne amauensis. The lead image from the article was also used on the main page for a time, and it's certainly eye-catching!
• Jivesh boodhun (submissions) was the first to score points for a featured article, and is, at the moment, the only competitor to claim for one. The article, "Halo" (Beyoncé Knowles song), was also worth double points because of its wide coverage. While this is an article that Jivesh and others have worked on for some time, it is undeniable that he has put considerable work into it this year, pushing it over the edge.

We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.

A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:15, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Super Meat Boy

Hi, probably I forgot to explain why I did so. It was shown in red letter an error related to references. I tried to solve it, I looked for examples to find anything wrong in the markup but I couldn't solve it. So finally I decided to remove final references to avoid appearing red error message. You can test so with previous version, I think. I am just a newbie in writing in wikipedia, I just try to solve some small details when I think I can. I am not sure if this is the correct protocol to answer you. Greetings--LantiusN 22:56, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

ANRFC closing

Per this edit I interpreted the December Skyward sword RfC as concluded in favor of not using "universal acclaim". So I closed the discussion in these 2 edits. This was mainly done to condense the issue which until recently dominated >50% of the physical space on the already enormous talk page. If this was improper of me (e.g. because I was an involved editor) then please revert. Otherwise thanks for your help. -Thibbs (talk) 23:16, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear PresN,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Misplaced Pages administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 03:14, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Admin assistance required (WP:VG)

To finalize the newly-converted taskforce. If you could take a peek at the thread and let us know if you can assist... :) Salvidrim! 11:59, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Hope you don't mind me "using" you for these kinds of things. :) Salvidrim! 15:34, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Regarding you ANI conclusion

Would you please be kind to point me out how did I "violated ARBMAC", and preferably supported with diffs and related policies pointing exactly how did I violated them. FkpCascais (talk) 23:49, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

You took the responsability of closing the thread, and I exposed all diffs where I demonstrate how the charges against me are unfounded. You just limited yourself to make more unfounded conclusions towards me, so either you back them by diffs, or otherwise you should restore my thread at ANI, remove your comment, and leave it for someone less "fed up" to conclude it. Listen, I would have had no problems in "going editing somewhere else" if I came to do something wrong, but I see no reason whatsoever to take a vengative sanction which is not backed by one single diff, and to have admins backing eachother on this without providing anything else but vague wrong accusations. FkpCascais (talk) 02:06, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

As far as I see, ARBMAC doesn´t give admins green-light to sanction someone without being able to demonstrate even one breaking of policy. ARBMAC is still under general WP policies, and ARBMAC involved admins doesn´t have green light to undisriminatelly sanction someone just because they are "fed up"... Actually, "fed up" seems the best excuse, as otherwise you would have easily been able to provide me a diff that would have ended this story. FkpCascais (talk) 02:27, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

OK, you didn´t said "fed up", but you said "everyone is so sick of the constant fight over the macedonian articles" which basically gives the same tone, and doesn´t relate to me in any way.

The problem is that you are backing their possition (which is not backed by any diff) by also not providing any valid diff showing any fault on my behalve. And it is quite ironic that you mention my previous, and only, sanction, which was also very polemical, as it was attributed to me for havng made 2 reverts and 1 edit while the other side made 4 in the same 24 hours period (and they got clean). I was attibuted that sanction without being notified and without having had the chance to explain. So it is now an excuse for this sanction? Well, no. With no diffs, there is no reason for sanction, and you can get all admins to back you on group as you want, what counts are prooves about me breaking anyhow any policy. Also, may I ask what are you agreing with them specifically? They sanctioned me for Misplaced Pages:TE and Misplaced Pages:FORUMSHOP, with no previous warning, so you have diffs to confirm that you agree with those charges against me? FkpCascais (talk) 07:23, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 February newsletter

Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X (submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 (submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), Miyagawa (submissions) and Casliber (submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 (submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.

The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.

The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Analogue: A Hate Story

Wasn't sure if you had seen this game yet or planned to make an article for it. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 00:27, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Re:Notification

I hadn't seen that yet. The article isn't in the best shape, but what can you do? I hope it gets a shot at the front page. Thanks for the heads-up. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 00:55, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Nebula Award for Best Novel

Hey PresN, this is sitting with just a couple of comments at FLC, will you be able to address them and perhaps seek further comment from various Wikiprojects? We're a little short on reviewers right now...! The Rambling Man (talk) 08:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello

I have addressed your concerns at Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of songs recorded by Rihanna/archive1. Aaron • 22:33, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

I have replied to your concerns. (Not sure if you have it watchlisted?). Aaron • 01:04, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Bastion FAC

Oh hey. I figure that DarkC117's additions to Bastion, though unsourced, are spot on and may be sourceable by quoting the narrator. We could juxtapose the changed lines of new game + and the originals. It's also possible that this would be too vague to work as a reference. You're far more in touch with The Rules than I am, so what do you think? --Kizor 01:44, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Help on Mass Effect

Hi, PresN! I'm working on Mass Effect article (the one about the video game, not the series). I've been writing a draft of Development section and currently, I am stuck, being unable to find sources detailing the creation of the game's universe. Could you possibly help on that? Electroguv (talk) 08:55, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 March newsletter

We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to Matthewedwards (submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 (submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Misplaced Pages:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa (submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:25, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2012

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2012
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Project At a Glance
As of Q4 2011, the project has:

Content

• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

  • Reference library – talk
  • Newsletter – talk
  • Video game images – talk

MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 19:37, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 April newsletter

Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X (submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber (submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's Muboshgu (submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.

65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards (submissions) and Grandiose (submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, Ealdgyth (submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Dana Boomer (submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Stone (submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 (submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.

An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "Improving Misplaced Pages with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank Jarry1250 (submissions) and Stone (submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:18, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 May newsletter

We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth (submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X (submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa (submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber (submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.

This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu (submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:41, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Nebula Award for Best Novella at WP:FLC

Hi PresN. You have just one outstanding comment about the file being used in the above FLC. If you could satisfactorily resolve it then I'd be able to close the nomination and promote the list. Any chance you could address it? Cheers, The Rambling Man (talk) 09:45, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Nudge... The Rambling Man (talk) 10:53, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Journey (2012 video game)

It has occurred to me that Journey's retention at the thatgamecompany's Featured Topic is about to run out on the 13th. So I recommend, if you can, to improve the page and get it up to GAN or the Topic will lose its FT status. GamerPro64 01:41, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Request for assistance

How are you? It has been a while, but I'm still around on Misplaced Pages. I tried creating a new article by copying some of the text as a basis to create an article, called Eureqa, and an admin named User:Fuhghettaboutit deleted it. Perhaps it was a fair point that the text needed to be modified, or removed, but he has refused to restore the article for me to improve. and now, he has deleted a Misplaced Pages Good Article unilaterally and with no consultation, Mark Twain House. I need some assistance on this issue, could you or another admin help? Thanks. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:22, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

In fact, I really think someone should start going through his contribution history to see if he has a record of deleting other Good Articles on very weak grounds and without any warning or communication of the issues involved, speedy deletion of articles are not for notable articles, let alone Good ones. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:24, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

I like that. Turn it back on me! Blatant copyright infringement, with the text persisting though today, as a "weak ground".--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:27, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

It is a weak ground. If you find a copyright problem in a non-new article and don't know what to do about it, take it to Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems. Deleting an article isn't the solution unless there's no other way to get rid of the violations. Not sure if just scrubbing the text is enough or if you have to revdelete aftwerwards, ask there. I am confused, though- Mark Twain House hasn't been a GA since July 2009, not sure why you (Judgesurreal) thought it still was? On the flip side, yeah, Eureqa should have been deleted- you can't just copy text and modify from there, you have to start with your own text. Sorry! Not to mention that an Alexa rank isn't enough to prove notability, you need some other cites. Let me know if you want me to restore the non-text part of the article to a userpage for you, though. --PresN 05:20, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

NM, I see Fuhged already did it for you. --PresN 05:21, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Scratch what I said about the copyright problems page, if you're talking to MoonriddenGirl you're golden, she's the queen of fixing this stuff. --PresN 05:27, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 June newsletter

Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga (submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X (submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu (submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.

A quick note about other competitions taking place on Misplaced Pages which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Misplaced Pages. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 11:05, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2012

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2012
Previous issue | Index | Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q2 2012, the project has:

Content

• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

  • Reference library – talk
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MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 21:42, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Bravely Default: Flying Fairy

This article could easily be a start rated article with a little push. Wanna help? :) Judgesurreal777 (talk) 03:08, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 July newsletter

We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth (submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X (submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu (submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 (submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.

Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 22:30, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Two Square Enix articles left!

Two quick things! We are down to two Square Enix game articles that are stubs! Emperors SaGa is too short, and Front Mission 2089-II has no reception. Want to help us over the top? I cant find anything else, and once these are done, its just a few biographies of uncertain notability. Also, I noticed that you are in the Wikicup! A way to perhaps get some quick points would be to push some of the Square Enix projects former GA's and FA's back to their original status, since they shouldn't be too far from it now. Good luck! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:58, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

RfC discussion

You are invited to join the discussion at WT:VG/GL#RfC: Top X lists in video games. In addition, I have also expressed serious concern that we're not gaining a consensus on the matter whether we should use "Top X Lists" to determine notability for a video game character article as I am creating a video game character guideline for the relevant article guideline page, despite announcing the matter on WP:VPPR, WP:SE and WT:VG about the situation. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:13, 21 August 2012 (UTC)Template:Z48

Talkback

Cheers, TBrandley 15:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Small problem.

Analogue: A Hate Story's being considered for speedy deletion. 8-/ -017Bluefield (talk) 03:14, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Main Page appearance

Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the article Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on September 3, 2012. You can view the TFL blurb at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured list/September 3, 2012. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors The Rambling Man (talk · contribs), Dabomb87 (talk · contribs) or Giants2008 (talk · contribs), or at Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Misplaced Pages doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch. Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 21:05, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

The Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist is given each year for artists of works related to science fiction or fantasy which appeared in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines. A Hugo Award for professional artists is also given. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the presentation evening constitutes its central event. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees, except in the case of a tie. Worldcons are generally held near Labor Day and in a different city around the world each year. Brad W. Foster (pictured) has received the most number of awards, with 8 wins out of 24 nominations. William Rotsler has received 5 out of 23, the most nominations of any artist. Tim Kirk has also won five times, out of eight nominations. The only other artists to win more than twice are Teddy Harvia, with four out of twenty nominations, Alexis A. Gilliland, with four out of eight, and Frank Wu, also with four out of eight.

Your GA nomination of Nebula Award

The article Nebula Award 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:Nebula Award for things which need to be addressed. Kürbis (✔) 16:11, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 August newsletter

The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Grapple X (submissions) once again finishes the round in first place, leading Pool B. Grapple X writes articles about television, and especially The X-Files and Millenium, with good articles making up the bulk of the score.
2. Miyagawa (submissions) led Pool A this round. Fourth-place finalist last year, Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, and has reached the final primarily off the back of his massive number of did you knows.
3. Ruby2010 (submissions) was second in Pool B. Ruby2010 writes primarily on television and film, and scores primarily from good articles.
4. Casliber (submissions) finished third in Pool B. Casliber is something of a WikiCup veteran, having finished sixth in 2011 and fourth in 2010. Casliber writes on the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. Over half of Casliber's points this round were bonus points from the high-importance articles he has worked on.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second in Pool A. Also writing on biology, especially marine biology, Cwmhiraeth received 390 points for one featured article (Bivalvia) and one good article (pelican), topping up with a large number of did you knows.
6. Muboshgu (submissions) was third in Pool A. Muboshgu writes primarily on baseball, and this round saw Muboshgu's first featured article, Derek Jeter, promoted on its fourth attempt at FAC.
7. Dana Boomer (submissions) was fourth in Pool A. She writes on a variety of topics, including horses, but this round also saw the high-importance lettuce reach featured article status.
8. Sasata (submissions) is another WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist in 2009 and 2010. He writes mostly on mycology.

However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle: GreatOrangePumpkin (submissions), Ealdgyth (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), The Bushranger (submissions) and 1111tomica (submissions). We hope to see you all next year.

On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:21, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nebula Award

The article Nebula Award you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nebula Award for comments about the article. Well done! Kürbis (✔) 11:33, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Also please revisit Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/Danuta Gleed Literary Award/archive1. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 13:07, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Concerning Flower's genre

Hi PresN,

I noticed you reverted my edit on Flower's genre. We could play Genre Warriors, but fact is that video game genres are aimed at its gameplay element: first-person shooters, platformers, role-playing games. Seeing that poetry hasn't got anything to do with the game whatsoever I have to ask you to let 'adventure' be sufficient (I would go for art game myself, but who am I?). On a side note, I can't read or write Japanese - so I can't check that validity of the source. Why go for a Japanese source anyway, the game was made in the U.S. IGN calls it an adventure game, is that okay? It is a third-party source moreover. --Soetermans. T / C 12:36, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Actually the source you've provided above indicated "Genre: Action". Salvidrim! 16:51, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

System Shock 2

Hi PresN. I know we have never talked before but a friend of mine told me you'd be able to give me a great help and advice in a video game article i nominated at FAC. It's System Shock 2. The article is in good shape, but the prose may still need some tweaks and i'm not a native speaker of english. I'd appreciate all the help you could bring. Thanks. — ΛΧΣ21™ 04:14, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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Talkback

TBrandley 00:43, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

— ΛΧΣ21™ 02:14, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Music of the Final Fantasy series

May I nominate Music of the Final Fantasy series for featured topic?--Lucky102 (talk) 16:33, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Just did.--Lucky102 (talk) 19:42, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Topics

Do you know where there is a link to topics and if they can be nominated or not.--Lucky102 (talk) 16:55, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! So basically, topics are books?--Lucky102 (talk) 19:35, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

So, if you nominated one article in a book for FA, would you be that bit closer to making it a FA?--Lucky102 (talk) 08:15, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 September newsletter

We're over half way through the final, and so it is less than a month until we know for certain our 2012 WikiCup champion. Grapple X (submissions) currently leads, followed by Sasata (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Casliber (submissions). However, we have no one resembling a breakaway leader, and so the competition is a long way from over. Next month's newsletter will feature a list of our winners (who are not necessarily only the finalists) and keep your eyes open for an article on the WikiCup in a future edition of The Signpost. The leaders are already on a par with last year's winners, but a long way from the huge scores seen in 2010. That said, a repeat of the competition from 2010 seems unlikely.

It is good to see that three-quarters of our finalists have already scored bonus points this round. This shows that, contrary to criticism that the WikiCup has received in the past, the competition does not merely incentivise the writing of trivial articles; instead, our top competitors are still spending their time contributing to high-importance articles, and bringing them to a high standard. This does a great service to the encyclopedia and its readers. Thank you, and good work!

The planning for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Some straw polls have been opened concerning the scoring, and you can now sign up for next year's competition. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 20:01, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - October 2012

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter Volume III, No. 1 – October 2012 September-December 2008, 2009, 2010, January-April 2011 | November 2012 Project News There are currently 15,862 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 345 unreviewed articles. Out of 439 total nominations, 24 are on hold, 66 are under review, and 4 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article! Even just reviewing one will help! The oldest unreviewed articles are: General sejm, Prime Minister of Vietnam, Tanisha Thomas, Kosta Pećanac, and Jilly Kitzinger. The categories with the largest backlogs are: Social sciences and society (80 articles), Sports and recreation (70 articles), Music (63 articles), Theatre, film and drama (52 articles), and History (41 articles). Please consider reviewing articles within these sections. There are currently 13 articles up for reassessment at Good Article Reassessment. Please help out and go to WP:GAR and review an article! Remember that anyone can review articles that are listed under "Community Reassessment" even if another user has already listed their opinion...the more opinions, the better! Member News There are currently 222 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to all the new members that joined during the past 17 months! If you aren't yet part of WikiProject Good Articles and interested in joining WikiProject Good Articles, go here and add you name. Everyone is welcomed! This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! If you haven't done so already, please remember to add your name to this list if you are still interested/active with this WikiProject. If you are no longer interested/active you don't need to add your name anywhere, you're name will be moved into a "inactive participant" list at the beginning of November. Inactive users will not receive future newsletters from this WikiProject via their talk page. GA Task forces There is currently not much going on at this time but there is a very large backlog. Until the next backlog elimination drive, please help reduce the number of nominations by reviewing articles and helping other reviewers that may need second opinions. Thanks to everyone who committed some time to help reduce the nominations backlog during the June-July 2012 backlog elimination drive. Most barnstars have been given out but there are still a few left. Participants that haven't gotten a barnstar yet should get it soon. Possible Fall/Winter 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive A discussion is currently being held on the WikiProject's talk page on weather another eliminations drive should take place within the next few months as the last one proved to be extremely successful. Please take the time to go to the the talk page and include your opinion on if you would be interested in taking part in a Fall/Winter 2012 elimination drive. Good Articles of the Month Each month, 5 random good articles will be choose to be featured here as the good articles of the month. Barry (dog) I Love Bees Miles Copeland (Home and Away) London Country North East The Daily Show Some Tips About References/Sources Having references included in articles is one of the most important aspects to a good article, let alone Misplaced Pages! Without them, no one would ever know what is true and what is false and Misplaced Pages probably wouldn't be where it is today. So this month, I will talk about how to check for references, how reliable they are, and so on and so forth. The first thing to do when reviewing an nominee is to do a quick scan of the article. One of the things to look for is if the article has references! If you don't see a list at the bottom of the article page, quick-fail it. For newcomers, quick-failing is failing an article when you spot a problem before actually conducting a full review. If you do find a list of references (and in most cases you will) make sure to look through each and every one. If you want to save some time, use this tool as it will tell you if there are any problematic references in the article you are reviewing. Next, check the reliability and type of the references/sources. In terms of the type of reference, check to see how many primary and/or secondary sources are included. Primary sources are the ones published by the subject of the article. For example, if the subject of the article has to do with the iPhone 4s and the source is published by Apple, it is considered a primary source. Secondary sources are those not published by the subject of the article (or in close relation to it). 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Finally, one of the more basic things to look for is that every statement in the article has at least one reference! The only case that a statement doesn't need a reference is when it is common sense that the statement is defiantly true and/or in the case where the statement can't be challenged, as per what Misplaced Pages says, "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source using an inline citation." From the Editor After a long 18 month hiatus, the third volume of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter is here! Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue of the newsletter here or on the editors talk page. Also, Happy Halloween...in advance!!! PLEASE READ: If you do not wish to receive future WikiProject Good Articles newsletter's on your talk page, please remove your self from this list. 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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2012

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
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MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 15:53, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Sandbox

Do you still plan on doing anything with this sandbox? I notice you haven't touched it since 2010. Ten Pound Hammer • 06:20, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

• If you don't want to keep the sandbox, you can tag it {{db-u1}} or ask an admin to histmerge it to the article. Might be wise to do one of the two since we tend to frown on WP:STALEDRAFTs. Ten Pound Hammer • 19:03, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 October newsletter

The 2012 WikiCup has come to a close; congratulations to Cwmhiraeth (submissions), our 2012 champion! Cwmhiraeth joins our exclusive club of previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009), Sturmvogel 66 (2010) and Hurricanehink (2011). Our final standings were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
2. Sasata (submissions)
3. Grapple X (submissions)
4. Casliber (submissions)
5. Muboshgu (submissions)
6. Miyagawa (submissions)
7. Ruby2010 (submissions)
8. Dana Boomer (submissions)

Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.

• The featured article award goes to Grapple X (submissions), for four featured articles in the final round.
• The good article award also goes to Grapple X (submissions), for 19 good articles in the second round.
• The list award goes to Muboshgu (submissions), for three featured lists in the final round.
• The topic award goes to Grapple X (submissions), for three good topics (with around 40 articles) in round 4.
• The did you know award goes to Cwmhiraeth (submissions), for well over 100 DYKs in the final round.
• The news award goes to ThaddeusB (submissions), for 10 in the news items in round 3.
• The picture award goes to Grandiose (submissions), for two featured pictures in round 2.
• The reviewer award goes to both Ruby2010 (submissions) (14 reviews in round 1) and Grandiose (submissions) (14 reviews in round 3).
• Finally, for achieving an incredible bonus point total in the final round, and for bringing the top-importance article frog to featured status, a biostar has been awarded to Cwmhiraeth (submissions).

Awards will be handed out in the coming days; please bear with us! This year's competition also saw fantastic contributions in all rounds, from newer Wikipedians contributing their first good or featured articles, right up to highly experienced Wikipedians chasing high scores and contributing to topics outside of their usual comfort zones. It would be impossible to name all of the participants who have achieved things to be proud of, but well done to all of you, and thanks! Misplaced Pages has certainly benefited from the work of this year's WikiCup participants.

Next year's WikiCup will begin in January. Currently, discussions and polls are open, and all contributions are welcome. You can also sign up for next year's competition. There will be no further newsletters this year, although brief notes may be sent out in December to remind everyone about the upcoming competition. It's been a pleasure to work with you all, and we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter Volume III, No. 2 – November 2012 For past newsletters click here

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Nebula awards

Then will you fix it to where it is easier to read? All the years all bunched up together like that make it hard to separate the awards and nominees. Lady Lotus (talk) 01:33, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

p.s. - and yes you can have winners highlighted separately, it'd look better if it was like this Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

RE Characters of Chrono Cross

Thanks for noticing! Yeah, I love the series, but just about everything else in the Chrono series is like GA/FA status, so there's never been much of an opportunity for me to contribute much there. Once I noticed how rough the character article was, I thought I'd give it a shot. I figure I'm in a rare position, having played the game through so many times (It's my favorite, hence the name.) and also being pretty up on Misplaced Pages policy and guidelines and whatnot. You're right, it really has been a massive undertaking, but entertaining too -- I'll try to keep at it. Makes me happy to see someone noticed; it's been rough for so long I was starting to wonder if it was because no one reads it in the first place... Sergecross73 msg me 21:48, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I always find those "Most popular pages" lists fascinating, I need to remember to look for those. And yeah, it's true, it has been quite difficult to write. I've had to take a lot of notes on how other similar articles have been written. Good ones seem to be few and far between. Many are full of play-by-play plot summaries or trivial details. Even the talk page for the CC list article was filled with arguments over trivial details like "element color". I've been using the Characters of FF8 as a reference point, but your FF12 looks good too. Thanks, I'll use that as another reference point if need be. I'm not sure I'd have the motivation to do it if I didn't already know so much about the game, it helps that I know much of the information, I just need to find the refs to support it.

Anyways though, thanks again for saying something. It's nice having a positive conversation like this once in a while. It seems like these days so many of my discussions just boil down to people complaining to me that I'm enforcing policy/guidelines they don't like, or me telling people to stop bickering over trivial details. Sergecross73 msg me 14:13, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Re: Final Fantasy IV

Thank you for the advice, I didn't know that. I'm translating some parts of this article to Portuguese and I'm checking the links too. --Prima.philosophia 23:29, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Assistance with Glass Joe

I was wondering if you'd be willing to review the quality of the Glass Joe article, once I improve it some. I'm also considering taking my boot to the Analogue: A Hate Story and Christine Love (visual novelist) article, if you're interested in doing that. Good topic maybe? - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 00:39, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

- Analogue is only $2.49 if you want to get it for a steal. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 20:40, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

I've finished my work on Glass Joe, so if you could do some copyediting when you have some free time, that would be most appreciated. The way I figure it, with respect to Love's stuff, you could work on sprucing up her article, and I could work on sprucing up the game article, and then we can converge and work on both. I've also been thinking of possibly getting Digital to featured status one day, if at all possible. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 21:00, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

ANI discussion

Hi, PresN. I was wondering if you can take a look at this thread over at ANI and give your thoughts on this matter there. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:45, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Advice on a list

Hi. I know this was quite awhile ago, but, last year (I think), you offered to help me figure out the article List of video games developed by Looking Glass Studios. I'm a dunce when it comes to lists, but this article needs to reach FL for the "Looking Glass Studios games" topic to be complete. I know you're busy, so I won't ask for editing help—I'd just like to know what to do. I have no idea what to put in the lead, given the fairly wide range of styles used in our project's FLs; and, with regard to the content and formatting of the list itself, I'm totally lost. What makes it through FLC these days? What should I avoid doing? How much information should I include? Really, any advice at all would be a huge help. Thanks. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:29, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

• If you're too busy to help, do you know of another FLC vet who could give me advice? JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:02, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

• Wow—thanks a ton. That's perfect. I'll get to work. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 00:05, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

• Also, great rewrite of the lead. It looks way better. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 00:07, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

• Sorry for the message spam. In response to your question about helping with citations: that would be great. Only problem is that GameSpot and IGN are usually wrong and/or contradictory about the release dates of LGS's early games. Most of my release date information on those is from the hundreds of sources I've dug up on LGS over the years, so I'll have to cite that stuff instead of the databases. If you want to help a bit with their games from Terra Nova and onward, though, I'd be glad to have your assistance. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 00:14, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

• I was just in the middle of pushing back, so thanks for the encouragement. I don't know what a "table caption" is, though, so I'm not really sure what to say on that count. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:34, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

• User:Nergaal has opposed the nomination based on the format. I'm not sure what to say in response—any help would be greatly appreciated, if you have the time. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 21:14, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

• Looks like it's been passed. Huge thanks for all of your help with this article. There's no way I could have pulled it together without you. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 10:38, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Amazing User Barnstar
		Congratulations, PresN! I have decided to award you this barnstar because of your simply excellent contributions to the English Misplaced Pages. Thank you very much for all of your hard work here. You truly deserve this, and please enjoy it. Cheers! TBrandley 05:16, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

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List of Strategic Simulations, Inc. games

Hello,

I would like to bring List of Strategic Simulations, Inc. games to FL-status, but I don't know which table I should use, the one in List of Square Enix video games, List of Looking Glass Studios video games or List of Dragon Quest media? Regards.--Tomcat (7) 13:50, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

What does the "NA" means in the table? And did you exluded USA because all the games were released there? Regards.--Tomcat (7) 15:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Presumably it means "USA", but The Death Trap, for example, was not only released in Japan.--Tomcat (7) 15:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for replying so often. It is definitely North America14, but does it mean that it was released in all NA countries? Regards.--Tomcat (7) 15:46, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Congrats w/ Christine Love

Due to some time constraints I'll have to push back my work on Analogue: A Hate Story until after the New Year (though even then I'll be a bit busy with some off-site writing). I think that it would be best, anyway, to hold off on working on it, since it has DLC coming. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 10:49, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Incredible

Hey PresN, I just wanted to take a moment to say that I was completely blown away by the massive amount of article improvements you've accomplished. In particular, I'm really grateful for what you've done for FF and FF music articles over the years. I may be new to being an editor here, but I remember spending countless hours in the past reading articles like the ones for which you've done so much. These days I don't have as much time to play games as I used to, but the composers and their music is something I've never lost my passion for. I thought about saying this with an award, but I see you've already got plenty of those. All well deserved, of course! So, I hope this simple message is enough. Wateresque (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Years wrong?

Hi PresN,

I yust noticed on this page that all years are off by 1. Can't image you've missed that, so instead of just correcting, I tought I "talk" to you.

Fred — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fvzwieten (talk • contribs) 21:14, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Holiday wishes!

PresN, I wish you excellent holidays and a glorious 2013! I hope you'll have great meals, memorable family reunions and joyful times with those you love. :) Salvidrim!, signing off on my best year yet, thanks in no small part to y'all!

Talkback

Astros4477 (talk) 22:40, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Journey FAC

Just letting you know that I'm watching this to help out if you need assistance. --MASEM (t) 14:02, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

	The Video game Barnstar
	Thanks for your contribution in List of Dragon Quest media! Wangxuan8331800 (talk) 04:33, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

flc

Hello sir, would you you pls review Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra/archive1, as I'm trying to take it to FA. Please, do because it would be a great help.—PKS:1142 · 05:00, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 starting soon

Hi there; you're receiving this message because you have previously shown interest in the WikiCup. This is just to remind you that the 2013 WikiCup will be starting on 1 January, and that signups will remain open throughout January. Old and new Wikipedians and WikiCup participants are warmly invited to take part in this year's competition. (Though, as a note to the more experienced participants, there have been a few small rules changes in the last few months.) If you have already signed up, let this be a reminder; you will receive a message with your submissions' page soon. Please direct any questions to the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! J Milburn 19:12, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Welcome to the 2013 WikiCup

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List of Canadas Wonderland Attractions FLC

Another user has fixed all the issues you brought up with the list.--Dom497 (talk) 19:49, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

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Talkback

Another user and I have responded to your comment. Astros4477 (talk) 22:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter (4th Quarter 2012)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2012
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FLC

Hey! I currently have this FLC: Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of The Elder Scrolls video games/archive2. I'd really appreicate if you take a look at that list and give me some comments. Thanks! — ΛΧΣ 20:07, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Main page appearance: Bastion (video game)

This is a note to let the main editors of Bastion (video game) know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on January 30, 2013. You can view the TFA blurb at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/January 30, 2013. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegates Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), Gimmetoo (talk · contribs), and Bencherlite (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you can change it—following the instructions at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:

Bastion is an action role-playing video game produced by independent developer Supergiant Games. In the game, the player controls "the Kid" as he moves through floating, fantasy-themed environments collecting special shards of rock to power a structure, the Bastion, in the wake of an apocalyptic event. It features a dynamic voiceover from a narrator, and is presented as a two-dimensional game with an isometric camera and a hand-painted, colorful art style. The game debuted at the September 2010 Penny Arcade Expo, and it went on to be nominated for awards at the 2011 Independent Games Festival and win awards at the Electronic Entertainment Expo prior to release in July 2011. During 2011, the game sold more than 500,000 copies, 200,000 of which were for the Xbox Live Arcade. It was widely praised by reviewers, primarily for its story, art direction, narration, and music, although opinions were mixed on the depth of the gameplay. Bastion has won many nominations and awards since its release, including several for best downloadable game and best music. The soundtrack was produced and composed by Darren Korb, and a soundtrack album was made available for sale in August 2011. (Full article...)

UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Signpost question

Hi PresN, would you be willing to give the Signpost's featured content section a blurb about one or more exemplary FLCs from 2012, or those which stuck out in your mind or were your favourite? I'm thinking about a hundred words, and in the end it should look a bit like this. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:54, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

FAC review for an FAC review?

I'll review Journey if you review God of War (video game). --JDC808 ♫ 20:53, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

File:Arena promo screenshot.jpg listed for deletion

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Orphaned non-free image File:Arena promo screenshot.jpg

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Precious

bastion
Thank you for quality articles such as the " indie video game darling of 2011" Bastion, for creating featured topics such as Hugo Award, for being a WikiDragon, for quoting "music ... can convey a subtle message, something that comes from your imagination and sticks with the listener", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:28, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Journey

Hey, congrats on getting it to FA. Were you going to submit it for the WikiCup? —Torchiest _edits 16:29, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Ah, too bad. I guess a few wording changes isn't the same as basically writing the whole article.  :) —Torchiest _edits 16:33, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 January newsletter

Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader ( Grapple X (submissions)) had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. 12george1 (submissions) was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:

• 12george1 (submissions) was also the first to score for an article, with the good article Hurricane Gordon (2000). Again, this is a repeat of last year!
• Buggie111 (submissions) was the first to score for a did you know, with Marquis Flowers.
• Spencer (submissions) was the first to score for an in the news, with 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede.
• Status (submissions) was the first to score for a featured list, with list of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) was the first to score for a featured picture, with File:Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg.

Featured articles, portals and topics, as well as good topics, are yet to feature in the competition.

This year, the bonus points system has been reworked, with bonus points on offer for old articles prepared for did you know, and "multiplier" points reworked to become more linear. For details, please see Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Scoring. There have been some teething problems as the bot has worked its way around the new system, but issues should mostly be ironed out- please report any problems to the WikiCup talk page. Here are some participants worthy of note with regards to the bonus points:

• Ed! (submissions) was the first to score bonus points, with Portland-class cruiser, a good article.
• Hawkeye7 (submissions) has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
• HueSatLum (submissions) claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Misplaced Pages at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.

Also, a quick mention of The C of E (submissions), who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:23, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment on designer credits in infoboxes

Hey PresN, I was wondering if you would be interested in participating in discussion on this topic. The discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Video games#RfC: Designer credits in Infobox video game has stalled a little bit and I'd like to reach a consensus on it. Even if you have no objections, a physical acknowledgement of that would be appreciated. Thanks, Axem Titanium (talk) 01:05, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Music of Final Fantasy XIII-2

On 9 February 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Music of Final Fantasy XIII-2, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in an attempt to sound different from previous Final Fantasy video games, the music of Final Fantasy XIII-2 includes rap, heavy metal, and electronic pieces? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Music of Final Fantasy XIII-2. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Nyttend (talk · contribs) 00:04, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Please accept my apologies

I know I said this in my reply on the Square Enix project page, but I think I aught to say it here too. I hope you will accept my apologies for my hasty actions with Final Fantasy XIII-2. It was rather stupid on my part. I promise I will be very careful in future about such actions and I will leave your current edits alone. --ProtoDrake (talk) 17:51, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - February 2013

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Ikenie no Yoru

When you get a chance, could you push this one to start? I would, but its a freaky game and I dont want to look at the spooky images :) I am going to work on Guardian Cross today to get that one to start, so we have all game Square Enix articles back to start. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:44, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

It's not a Square Enix game? Ridiculous! Oh we'll, thanks for making it a start regardless, I'm back to looking for references for those last stub bio articles. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:30, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

List of Presidents of Pakistan

Hi, any chance you could have a look at Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of Presidents of Pakistan/archive1? Regards, Zia Khan 17:47, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

List of DS:Style products

Take a look at this when its convenient to you, it seems very complete and referenced, it could be an easy featured list. You are good at lists. :) .Judgesurreal777 (talk) 05:41, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Reminder

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

1. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
2. Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
3. Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

• Sven Manguard (submissions), whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
• Sasata (submissions), whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
• Muboshgu (submissions) and Wizardman (submissions), who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
• Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 11:44, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Last 4 Square Enix stubs

Well, we are nearly there! I think we should nominate them for deletion, since I cannot find sufficient references for any of them, but I wanted you, we you are available, to take one final look. I don't speak or read Japanese, so if I'm missing something I wanted to check first. Once this is set, the number of stubs should be zero. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:43, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Level up!

In recognition of your contributions to the Square Enix Wikiproject, for coming up with the Stub project in 2011, for working tirelessly toward the then unimaginable goal (to me) of no stubs, I hereby award you this barnstar! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:13, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

All featured lists

Cool idea! I think there are really only 5 lists left; the other few are character articles that for some reason, at some point, were made into lists, which I really think they are not. You may want to chime in on this point on the talk page so we can make the change in article titles, since you are listened to, because if we make the character lists start articles, I can hack and slash at them into C's and you can probably bring the last 5 lists up to FL, and we will have no stubs and all FL.Judgesurreal777 (talk) 20:16, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Wow, Featured List nominations take a while! But yeah, that's a great idea, a Good Topic for Xenogears? A good "Characters of" article? Are such things ALLOWED? :P But that reference you found, thats like gold, we can use that... I'll start poking at the article, perhaps we can do this! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:44, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism

Two things; one, could you block this account? Vandal on its user history, it is a vandalism account. Also, can I get my user page protected again? I feel like as soon as I get un protected, people are vandalizing my user page. Bad blood from my wars in AFD from years ago...Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:24, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I am still protected, they found a loophole... geez, can we plug it? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 04:48, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

No I'm good now, I'll let people talk to me :) Thanks a lot! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 05:31, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Page move

Could you help me move GRIN (company) to Grin (company)? The Fortress GAN wants me to change the name of the article to make it standard; just like BUNGiE isnt that but just Bungie, it should be regular grin not all caps GRIN. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 06:11, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Seeing that Fortress (Grin) is now at GA status, as well as it was once part of Misplaced Pages:Featured topics/Final Fantasy XII, do you think it should join that topic once more? I mean I didn't know if was once again an article so it probably should have been placed back in. But since it now has Grin in the title I'm not entirely certain. GamerPro64 15:26, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I think so, it was still going to be a Final Fantasy 12 game after all... Thanks PresN for this, and all your kindnesses! I have a question; are all the Square Enix articles in the Square Enix template ours? They don't all seem to have our project banner if they are. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 05:50, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

An award for your contribs

Although you made it, this award is long overdue. I dont know what this wikiproject will be without you. Im quite envious of your skill and dedication.Lucia Black (talk) 18:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Characters of

I tried to move one, but since many were originally characters of, I can't move them there because the one there have to be deleted first...could you move them? I'll change them to start level articles on the index, so I can at least do that. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 18:16, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! We keep on trucking, things keep going forward. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 18:48, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for warning Niemti on his talk page. Oh boy, I find it extremely frustrating when abusive users badmouth me and bring up old and irrelevant disputes that I would rather put to bed as I always move on. We'll see what happens, eh? Other than that, good work on the Symphonic Fantasies article! Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 21:18, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Idea for another article tracker

Could we make one of those green banner for the article cleanup tags? Like what percentage of articles have them? We are in the mid 40's I think, could be another useful metric to work down to zero, or to 100% free. Also, update that wonderful graph when you get a chance, I bet we made a huge different in the last two months! I'm going to start on Characters of Xenogears soon, just found a lot of Square Enix other stuff as well.Judgesurreal777 (talk) 22:54, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it! It usually tracks with article progression anyway, so as long as we move forward they should decrease. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:24, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

List of Presidents of Pakistan

Hi, could you please have a look at Misplaced Pages:Featured list candidates/List of Presidents of Pakistan/archive1? Regards, Zia Khan 21:36, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Regarding an issue with Niemti

Hi PresN. If you don't mind, can you please take a look at the differences here, here, here and here, as well as Talk:Jill Valentine/GA2? Also, can you please look at this section? I've been trying to minimize contact with Niemti, but apparently he's going around badmouthing me to regular established editors by calling me a "stalker" (I think that its only stalking if the edits are not done in good faith) and accusing me of "lying", which I never have and these comments are considered to be a clear violation of WP:NPA. He was already warned by Fladrif (talk · contribs) about this here. And that was after I posted on the WP:RSN and supported what Fladrif said after FutureTrillionaire brought it up at WT:VG/S. Also, there has been some contention with other editors (i.e. FutureTrillionaire) going on at the GAN of Jill Valentine after he quick-failed it due to sourcing issues; see also WP:RSN#Jill Valentine and WT:VG/S#Jill Valentine. Also, since editing on behalf of another editor is called meatpuppetry and can lead to a block, I am trying not to recruit meatpuppets nor am I trying to use sockpuppets as doing so can lead me to a block. What is the best option here? Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

I see now. Thanks, anyway. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:31, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Kefka Palazzo

Ok, the article seems to be close to GA status now, but I need someone to look at it since I'm too close to it having worked on it so much. I imagine it is a bit disorganized and needs some rewriting. If you could take a look before I nominate it, that would be much appreciated. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:01, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the blitz! This way the article will get much better. Yeah I wish I could find more on Kefka's development. My thinking is that it will be good enough for GA but prohibitive for FA. I hear that there are interviews from the 1990's in V Jump Magazine in Japan with the game creators, and isn't there an ultimania? I wonder if that was ever translated into English. And thanks for wanting to take over the Jill article, it is so close, and needs so little fixing. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 14:15, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Ok here's a crazy thought, could we get away with having Kefka's laugh sampled in the article? The article does go on and on about how his laugh is so famous, so memorable, and the best video game laugh ever, but no one can hear it! If you think this would be good, could you help me add it? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:54, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Seems like the Nominator for Mighty Jill Off is on extended break, still want to address the tiny amount of fixes for its GA status? Judgesurreal777 (talk) 20:08, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Good Article Nominations Request For Comment

A 'Request For Comment' for Good Article Nominations is currently being held. We are asking that you please take five to ten minutes to review all seven proposals that will affect Good Article Nominations if approved. Full details of each proposal can be found here. Please comment on each proposal (or as many as you can) here. At this time, Proposal 1, 3, and 5 have received full (or close to) support. If you have questions of anything general (not related to one specif proposal), please leave a message under the General discussion thread. Please note that Proposal 2 has been withdrawn and no further comments are needed. Also, please disregard Proposal 9 as it was never an actual proposal.

Motion to close RFC/U

As an outside editor, I have moved that Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/Niemtibe closed.

I sent a notice to every editor who had previously commented in the RFC/U but had not yet commented on the Motion to close, including Niemti. Obviously, because of the block which you (quite justifiably) imposed, he can't comment at the RFC/U itself. At the prompting of another editor I have advised that it was my understanding that he could still comment on his Talk Page. If that is incorrect, please advise.

If you wish to comment on the Motion to close, please do so here . Fladrif (talk) 14:58, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 March newsletter

We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate Miyagawa (submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's Casliber (submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.

Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr ( Hawkeye7 (submissions)), on the European hare ( Cwmhiraeth (submissions)), on the constellation Circinus ( Keilana (submissions) and Casliber (submissions)) and on the Third Epistle of John ( Cerebellum (submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.

Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.

A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 22:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	This is for your valuable contributions and excellent work as an administrator and member of the Video Games WikiProject. You are a valuable contributor as well and I hope we can work together some time in the future. Warmest regards, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:29, 1 April 2013 (UTC)