Talk:Derek Smart

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Notice of Arbitration Committee Decision

This article was the subject of a recent Arbitration Committee case and decision. The complete text of the decision can be found at Requests for arbitration/Derek Smart.

The Arbitration Committee imposed the following remedies:
 * Limitation on reverts by single-purpose accounts: For a period of six months, ending September 2, 2007, no single-purpose account may revert any edit made to the Derek Smart article. Any single-purpose account which performs such a revert may be kindly informed of this restriction and given the opportunity either to lay out their concerns on the article's discussion page or to e-mail the volunteers who deal with requests from article subjects. Any editor so informed who continues to revert the article may be blocked at the discretion of any administrator. All blocks to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Derek Smart.
 * Editors are encouraged to use judgment and discretion in enforcement of this remedy, rather than implementing it in a mechanical fashion. The Committee would prefer that Wikipedians who have already had significant involvement in the development of the article leave enforcement of this remedy to their peers.
 * Although the decision mentions certain editors identified as single-purpose accounts, identification of which accounts are SPAs at a given time is often a matter of administrator discretion.
 * Article cleanup: This article is urgently referred to the Wikipedia editing community at large for cleanup, evaluation of sources, and adherence to NPOV.
 * BLP policy compliance: Any user may fully apply the principles and practices of Biographies of living persons to Derek Smart. This may include deletion of the article and its history as well as its talk pages and archives and the project pages and talk pages of this Arbitration proceeding. (Please consult with the Arbitration Committee Clerks before editing or deleting any arbitration pages). Newyorkbrad 00:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Recognition date error
"Smart has worked with various publishers over the years, including industry powerhouse Take 2 Interactive, which released his first game Battlecruiser 3000AD in 2006 and which was listed in their SEC filing when they went public in 1997." I'm pretty sure the 2006 should actually by 1996. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.101.55.160 (talk) 23:02, 7 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Fixed Catwhoorg (talk) 18:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

New section
The person who blanked the page is not active. I'm not sure which of the many Wikimedia Foundation employees are responsible for inquires regarding this "official office act" but it should be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The free ad database (talk • contribs) 03:43, 17 January 2016
 * Using a brand new account to generate wikidrama is a very poor idea. In the extremely unlikely event that you are a good-faith user who miraculously noticed the history of a talk page archive, I suggest that you forget about it and work on contributing to other articles. Johnuniq (talk) 04:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It says it's "Currently under scrutiny". Now I see User:Mdennis (WMF) is listed as a contact above, so could you please fix the template so it can be put back in the queue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by The free ad database (talk • contribs) 16:33, 17 January 2016
 * You don't seem to be getting the message. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and contributors who assist build content are welcome. People who use the site for drama or poking someone will be indefinitely blocked. There is no conceivable explanation why a brand new account with a dozen minor edits would be interested in an archive of a talk page that has not changed in over two years except if they were trying to inflame a settled dispute. That's not going to happen. Johnuniq (talk) 21:55, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Why was it blanked in the first place? 2606:A000:6959:9C00:E414:E5BF:595B:76E8 (talk) 10:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on Derek Smart. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20060427084503/http://www.igda.org:80/miami/meetings/2002-06.php to http://www.igda.org/miami/meetings/2002-06.php
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20071102103139/http://www.allgames.com:80/radio.asp?show=agi to http://www.allgames.com/radio.asp?show=agi&ep=405

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Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 15:20, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * OK I checked them as correct, and the download link for the mp3 interview works. Johnuniq (talk) 10:05, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 August 2016
Make the first line two sentences, please! :( There is no punctuation before "he"

206.213.170.10 (talk) 19:51, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ thanks for pointing that out - Arjayay (talk) 21:09, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

IGDA Chapter
This page claims Smart is a board member of the Miami chapter of the IGDA, the IGDA website no longer lists this chapter, the only chapter in Miami appears to be the University chapter with no mention of Smart as it's an Academic chapter. Page is locked, but this statement should be removed ideally as it's factually incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.6.53.99 (talk) 14:04, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I've removed the claim, per the information you've given it seems clear that this is no longer an existing position. Maybe it can be reworded to note that it was a former commitment, but I'm not sure how notable it is. Kuru   (talk)  15:36, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

As he is a lifetime member of the IGDA and was a board member of the IGDA, I reverted and made the relevant change there. Wildcard999 (talk) 19:25, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

List of Games
Aren't these nearly all different versions and patches of just four or five games? 02:01, 16 March 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.42.214.93 (talk)

i am also of the belief the list needs a cull to RELEASED games only. it is rather chunky and alot of these games listed seem to have never made it beyond design stage. if we credit for designs that were never used then we set a strong precedence for infinite titles on living names. 203.221.253.181 (talk) 11:49, 14 June 2020 (UTC)