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

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


 * Hi, BOZ. Can you please put a substantially longer protection on Jacob Batalon? The vandalism is continuing regularly. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 19:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Nightscream, I am no longer able to perform this function. BOZ (talk) 19:38, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Can you recommend an admin who can? (Thanks for your speedy reply.) Nightscream (talk) 19:39, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Not sure specifically, but I would recommend going to WP:RFPP. BOZ (talk) 19:40, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Got it. BusterD (talk) 20:05, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, man. :) BOZ (talk) 20:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Banzai Bug
I was wondering if you were able to reference the four reviews at Banzai Bug. I'm planning on nominating the article for DYK, but a requirement is for every section to be cited. I'm glad that you started the article and it was enjoyable to work on. I appreciate you thanking me for my additions. SL93 (talk) 00:57, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and replaced all of those with the reviews that were linked from the Mobygames page - you can add the ones you want to use, and delete the rest. I will see what other reviews I can locate! BOZ (talk) 01:13, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I appreciate it. SL93 (talk) 01:21, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Would you be fine with me adding you as a co-creator on the DYK for you helping with sources? SL93 (talk) 02:49, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That would be cool, thanks. :) BOZ (talk) 02:52, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Done at Template:Did you know nominations/Banzai Bug. SL93 (talk) 03:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Mike Tinney
Hello BOZ! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Mike Tinney, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted material from other websites or printed works. This article appears to contain work copied from Appelcline, Shannon (2014). Designers & dragons. '90-'99 : a history of the roleplaying game industry(s). Vol. 3. Silver Springs, MD : Evil Hat Productions, LLC. ISBN: 9781613170847 161317084X. Copyright © 2014 Shannon AppelCline, All Rights Reserved. Pages: 15; 29; 39., and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate your contributions, copying content from other websites is unlawful and against Wikipedia's copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are likely to lose their editing privileges.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Pilaz (talk) 07:32, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I do see that I unfortunately copied the first sentence word-for-word when I started the article in 2015, and the rest of that paragraph has some close paraphrasing and a few phrases copied verbatim; I rewrote that section under Talk:Mike Tinney/Temp per the instructions, so please review to make sure it is rewritten sufficiently. BOZ (talk) 15:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Boz, this is not the first time you've engaged in copyright violations and plagiarism. In 2020, you were correctly called out for word-for-word copyright violations by FRAM, for violations committed a year prior on May 20, May 21 and May 21 2019, which you recognized as copyvios and manually corrected (diff1, diff2, diff3). The corrections took place almost a year after your original edits. It's not like you were unaware of plagiarism and copyright violations, either; you de-plagiarized someone else's word-for-word copyvio on Sword of Aragon in 2009 (see discussion). In 2020, in response to Fram's query, you responded that I will begin going through my other articles to make sure they are rewritten. I have five questions that I'd like you to answer:
 * Did you actually follow up on that expectation by going through your other articles to make sure they were copyvio-free and plagiarism-free?
 * Since you missed this 2015 plagiaristic additions of yours (AFG), how many and which articles did you effectively "go through"?
 * Given that you did not address this 2015 copyvio before I brought it up seven years later, and given that you had written you would go through articles of yours to check for plagiarism, do you agree that it is possible that there are other copyright violations that you inserted in English mainspace between January 2015 and May 2019?
 * At what approximate date do you consider to have begun introducing plagiarism and copyvios?
 * At what approximate date do you consider to have stopped such a practice?
 * I want you to know that I am not on a witch-hunt against you, one of the encyclopedia's most productive fantasy contributors, but against copyright violations and plagiarism, for which I have zero tolerance and which are strictly forbidden on Wikipedia (WP:PLAGIARISM, WP:COPYVIO). Your cooperation is likely to lead to less editor and admin time wasted discovering each of those individually over the years. Thank you. Pilaz (talk) 16:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I do recall two years ago spending a few months going through quite a lot of my contributions to make sure that they were rewritten when necessary, but I do not recall how far I got nor do I know which articles I looked at, so regrettably it is possible that there are others. As far as starting and stopping, I don't have answers for those questions unfortunately, other than since it was brought to my attention two years ago I have made an effort to be more cautious and avoid copying text. I will cooperate and participate in any process necessary to find and correct any other problematic additions on my part. BOZ (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I just checked the number of articles you've created between January 2015 and May 2019: 1,680. That probably explains why you couldn't check each individual one for plagiarism...
 * Also, I checked the draft text and it seems good for admin review now. I endorse it. Next step would be to leave a link to it on Talk:Mike Tinney for copyvio admin review. Pilaz (talk) 18:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, thank you for taking a look. BOZ (talk) 18:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, BOZ. This message is being sent to inform you that a request for a contributor copyright investigation has been filed at Contributor copyright investigations concerning your contributions to Wikipedia in relation to Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. Thank you. FRAM 09:26, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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

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

DYK for Banzai Bug
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Full Thrust
Surprisingly I am struggling to find a second reference to cement GNG for this. I thought this would be more popular... anything you could dig up? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:20, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, I did find the review noted on the article from Steve Jackson Games periodical Pyramid, but sadly tabletop game reviews are not as easy to find as RPG reviews since I have yet to find a decent resource that indexes them. BOZ (talk) 16:54, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

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Your opinion is requested
Hi. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 19:43, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Question
Hi! I was about to add the sales figures but I'm not sure which Flight simulator is this referring to. Do you know which one this is ? Timur9008 (talk) 07:18, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * My best guess, based on the fact that the clipping is from 1988 and says "sold about 800,000 copies in the last five years", is that it is talking about Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0, largely because nothing else really fits? BOZ (talk) 05:21, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I will add the sales figures there then. Timur9008 (talk) 07:28, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

What about this one? I think it's this one Super Dodge Ball. what do you think?Timur9008 (talk) 09:02, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I think you're right, especially if this review is for the NES version - take a look under the "Related games" section and that description matches your clipping fairly well. The clipping makes it clear that this release is by CBS/Sony although that is not reflected in the article from what I can see, but if you look at the NES version's Mobygames page the publisher is listed as CSG Imagesoft Inc., and if you click on that link it is clearly a subsidiary of Sony. :) BOZ (talk) 13:19, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

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


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

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


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

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


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

How about this? I think it's Wonderland (video game). What do you think? Timur9008 (talk) 12:06, 30 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I think that's the only game that makes sense, but that newspaper article is low on specifics so it's hard to be completely sure. BOZ (talk) 10:40, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

What about this? . Timur9008 (talk) 12:37, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

from the source Electronic Arts Inc. last year sold 5.5 million copies of its The Lord of the Rings game based on a license from Time Warner’s New Line Productions"

I think its The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 * Most likely; are there any other contenders that it could be describing? BOZ (talk) 10:49, 2 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Well the Article is from May 2004. Return of the King released in 2003. I'm not sure what else could it be. Timur9008 (talk) 11:30, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah that's probably it then. BOZ (talk) 11:35, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Do you know which Rambo game is this? Timur9008 (talk) 12:49 ,7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, the clipping from 1989 is talking about Acclaim and the NES, so searching on Mobygames the only one that makes sense to me is this, which would be here. BOZ (talk) 12:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Timur9008 (talk) 12:16, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

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Drafts
Please don't replace a redirect with a draft article, then move that page to draftspace, like you did with Free D.C!. This leaves a redirect to draft-space which needs to be deleted, as well as not allowing our readers to continue to what the previous target of the redirect was. Instead, could you please create the drafts in draft-space and then move them to article-space when finished over the redirects (if you can't do this, you can ask at WP:RM/TR), or keep the articles in article-space while you write them? Thanks. Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 00:58, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Next time I do that, I will point the redirect it creates at another article. BOZ (talk) 01:04, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 02:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

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

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


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

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

Here are all the sources that I found btw. (there are probably more though) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97792630/the-age/

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

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

https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay-017-1997-10/page/n59/mode/2up
 * Good idea, looks like it used to be a separate article but was unsourced. If you're confident that we've got enough sources to split it back out then that's good enough for me, I will try to find the time to do that later today. BOZ (talk) 12:10, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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


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

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

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

In terms of references it is also frowned upon to just chuck a bare Internet Archive link in there. Again, that dumps the responsibility onto other editors to properly cite the magazine in question. Thank you. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:58, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, I will try to add a bare minimum infobox, although I am often not sure what information to include in which field, so I will leave that part to whoever wants to add it. BOZ (talk) 15:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * At minimum I usually include: Publisher and Developer (basically just the company names, linked if able), Release date (full date is preferable to just the year), Platform (what console or systems it runs on) and Genre. Mode can also be either Single-player, multiplayer or have both. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The infobox you have started adding is a good start, but I would heavily recommend including the platform(s) and whether it is single-player, multiplayer or both in the infobox as well. This at least makes it easier to categorize the page properly without having to do additional research. Thanks. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:09, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. I'm not always sure what info belongs in those spots or where to find it. BOZ (talk) 18:17, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
 * In other words, I'd rather put nothing than put the wrong thing. BOZ (talk) 18:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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


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

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

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

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Battle of the Bulge by Avalon Hill, 1969
BOZ, there is currently an article about Avalon Hill's 1991 version of Battle of the Bulge. However, there are two preceding editions of this game (1965 and 1981). The 1965 edition is particulary important, since it is such an early wargame. (It also led, indirectly) to the founding of SPI.) I need some advice on how to proceed:
 * Option A: Leave the 1991 article as is, and create a new article about the 1965 and 1981 editions, linked to the 1991 article?
 * Option B: Retitle the 1991 article (to <<Battle of the Bulge (Avalon Hill)>> perhaps?) and incorporate info about the 1965 and 1981 editions into the present article? Guinness323 (talk) 23:57, 8 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Complicated! :) So my question was going to be, was the 1991 version a fully separate game, or was it a remake of the previous games? BGG says it's the third version so I'm inclined to think that unless there is some compelling reason why the 1991 version is notable and different enough to have its own separate article, then we should move that page to a new title and you can restructure it to be about all three versions. Based on the title of the first two versions, I would suggest moving the page to The Battle of the Bulge (board wargame) since there is a video game to disambiguate against. BOZ (talk) 12:28, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

April 2022
Hello. Please see WP:QUOTEFARM. You need to actually write articles, not just create Metacritic-like quote collections. I find it concerning that you found this ready to be published. It's not an article, it's just a collection of quotes. It's more quotes than article. Please focus on actually writing articles rather than churning out quote collections like this. Sergecross73  msg me  15:12, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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


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

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


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

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Dave Johnson
Thank you for the kind clicks, BOZ. But one question: How did you create this diff? Normally a diff requires one to choose two versions to compare with the radio buttons. Otherwise, if you just want to show the first version of an article, I have to do that. How did you create a diff from the first version of the article? Nightscream (talk) 00:45, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean, it looks like you created that diff. Maybe there is some technical thing I'm not understanding about your question. BOZ (talk) 01:35, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Recent redirect
Hello ! Are you aware that Spider eater (Dungeons & Dragons) was restored from redirect based on a RfC discussion? Unfortunately I did not see secondary sources on that one (that's why I had removed its section from Monsters in Dungeons & Dragons), nor for Rock reptile and Barkburr, except for Extracts from Noah's Diary, where it is incorporated in the fiction, but it's mentioned that it is from "Dungeons & Dragons mythology". If you can think of a way to use that, that would be great, but it eludes me at that time. Daranios (talk) 11:14, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That is interesting. :) I can probably figure out a way to use that story if I can figure out what it is about; I will take a look later. I see that the outcome of the discussion was to restore the article, which is weird, but it sounded like they also want to do an AFD but didn't actually do one, which is weirder. I redirected it to the disambiguation page until we can establish notability, or at least get the 3E monster list back into article space. If it needs to be an article again in the meantime, then so be it. BOZ (talk) 11:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Thoughts?
I'm trying to make it clear that Mount Rushmore in popular culture is a topic meriting coverage. Let me know if you have any thoughts on improving the article. Cheers! BD2412 T 21:03, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I will take a look! I may not have much input on what can be done with it, but I will at least review the work you have put into it already. BOZ (talk) 21:31, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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


 * That seems reasonable! BOZ (talk) 18:21, 10 May 2022 (UTC)


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


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 * Some of these sockpuppeteers never give up! BOZ (talk) 20:55, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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


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

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

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


 * It's not really necessary to include that. BOZ (talk) 00:17, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Why not? The abbreviation form in parenthesis is on the TVA page and the MCU page. FF is a common abbreviation that the comics use all the time. I really don't get the difference. 2607:FEA8:879E:FC00:D5C1:952F:ED3D:FC01 (talk) 01:40, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Wasn’t FF the Future Foundation? (Founded by the 4) Or at least confusing enough which one is being referred to… -2pou (talk) 04:47, 15 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Could be either (but it usually refers to the Four). I disagree with it being confusing given the context. In fact, I'd argue it would clear up the context on the cases in which "FF" is already being used in the article. 2607:FEA8:879E:FC00:E009:F05C:FA64:7ED1 (talk) 06:12, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:33, 15 May 2022 (UTC)


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

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Hello.

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

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

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

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

In any case, it's awesome to see that you're still around. I worry a lot about WPVG's future—between Wikipedia's traffic dip, Google not favoring us as much anymore and the perennial problem of bringing in new blood. Seeing that the old guard is still fighting helps. I'm noticing an uptick in editors I don't recognize, too, which is a very good thing. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:52, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm definitely still away from Wikipedia, unfortunately. But I looked around a little bit and found this list of reviews archived on the company's old site. They're all for Battle of Britain 2, including one from the Chicago Sun-Times. Looks like Deadly Games did something similar for its other products. Might be useful going forward. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 01:33, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Awesome, JimmyBlackwing, thanks a ton. :) I went ahead and restored The Battle of Britain 2. Timur9008, would you be able to access that Sum Times article or anything else? BOZ (talk) 01:53, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Nope. That newspaper isn't available on Newspapers.com Timur9008 (talk) 08:00, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for checking. Well at least we can use the copy they have on the website. :) BOZ (talk) 10:17, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Timur9008, can you find it based on the information in this search? BOZ (talk) 07:14, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
 * nope Timur9008 (talk) 08:14, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Not seeing anything for Clash of Wills. If it's out there, it's not coming up in the usual places. This '80s stuff can be like that sometimes. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:05, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

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

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

Grenadier Models Inc & Other Wikis
Hi Boz, noticed you reversed the changes made to the Grenadier page and wondered if you could provide some advice. If the reference to LMWiki is not acceptable and there are no other references (annoyingly Forlorn Hopes website doesn’t reference Grenadier as such) I presume that removing the reference and just providing the information is ok? The information regarding the license passing to EM4 (and the rest of that section) has no references so hence I thought it better to have a reference. Any advice much appreciated. Dylanpig (talk) 12:13, 3 June 2022‎ (UTC)


 * Hi there! I suggest that you take a read through Reliable sources to get an idea of what sources are acceptable for Wikipedia. Specifically for the case of using wikis as sources, see the "User-generated content" section of that page (or click on the shortcut WP:USERG) where it explains more about that. Ideally all information on Wikipedia should be cited to a reliable source, so it is not generally acceptable to add new unsourced information, and can be removed by anyone at any time for any reason. BOZ (talk) 12:45, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

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RE: Adding stuff to the request list
There has already been a couple of people, myself included, who have reverted some of your additions to WP:VG/R because they appear on their face to be non-notable. Is there a misunderstanding and they have sources somewhere you are just not posting? Every game posted there should have at least 3 linked sources from different publications or else it fails GNG and should not be a request. There was already a massive amount of games nobody was ever going to make an article for because few or no sources were given. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:48, 9 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I did find a lot of sources that were not included in the original requests, partly on a database I've been keeping, some from Mobygames, and some from the VG Reference Library. At first I was also doing archive.org searches to see what else I could find, but that was taking a long time - I will go back and look for more of those on anything I added back that was not a clear GNG hit. BOZ (talk) 13:56, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your patience, and if you can do me a small favor please. If you can see that I basically spent all day at this and found a ton of reviews, I have a lot left to look through but have run out of steam for the day. Indulge me one more day to go through the rest of the sources that I have to look through and let me add them to the request page, and after that if anything is still lacking you can remove it without my interference. Thanks! BOZ (talk) 04:18, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

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Spider-Man FA?
Hello, BOZ. With the 60th anniversary of Spider-Man coming up (this month?) August 10th, is it possible that the article could be an FA? It needs some expanding (and it has some maintenance templates), but I truly think if we get Spider-Man to FA by August, then that would be great. I also saw you helped address the comments during the article's GA review back in February 2009. Thanks. — SirDot (talk) 12:35, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * And also, Spider-Man may need a peer review, but that may be optional. — SirDot (talk) 12:35, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a worthy project! Good luck with that, but unfortunately I do not have the time or energy to help with that at the moment. BOZ (talk) 12:37, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Understandable, and thanks! — SirDot (talk) 13:03, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

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FYI: prodded SkyRealms Publishing
Perhaps you would like to restore the original redirect? <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 14:06, 25 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for letting me know, if we can't find anything else then I will redirect. BOZ (talk) 14:09, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

About two of Bi-Beast's aliases
One, the Hulk calls him those names, and two, these aliases are on Comic Vine and The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Sundropie (talk) 16:13, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * If he doesn't call himself that, then those are not aliases. An alias is something you call yourself. BOZ (talk) 16:33, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't know that. Now, I understand and thank you. Sundropie (talk) 16:53, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem! BOZ (talk) 21:51, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

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About the MODOK page
I guess we don't need this emphasis for the Powers and abilities section after all. Sundropie (talk) 20:16, 28 June 2022 (UTC)


 * True, not really necessary. BOZ (talk) 20:30, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

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GC?
You going to be in Indianapolis this August? We should get breakfast. BusterD (talk) 15:47, 12 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hey, thanks for asking, I would love to do that one day! Unfortunately, due to a combination of financial issues and pandemic paranoia, I'm not going this year and can't honestly say when the next time I will be willing and able to face a crowd and have enough cash on hand to make it fun. :( BOZ (talk) 16:00, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * One day we will break bread. BusterD (talk) 22:39, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Permission
Greetings! Can i make a new one above all (Marvel comics) page. It's is already present on the List of Marvel Comics characters: O. It's big enough to be expanded to an article. Is it valid to publish a new improved article? Other articles similar to One Above All (For example: dc 's presence) already have a permanent wikipedia page. So Can i publish the One above All article (with improvements of course). I only wanted your approval. And the rules for publishing something like this. I'm really sorry to bother you. And thanks for the help. Shiraj chandra (talk) 10:07, 1 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't have the ability to give you permission to override the previous AFD decision. BOZ (talk) 10:11, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

No sir! I meant Is it possible to make a completely new page based on the same character. Shiraj chandra (talk) 12:34, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Apologies for Mistake
I didn't understand how I accidentally did this. Apologies and thanks! VickKiang (talk) 11:52, 1 August 2022 (UTC)


 * No worries, these things happen! BOZ (talk) 13:23, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Rabe
So you can see I'm on a bit of a tear over there. Would love to have you help me. It's helpful when the newspaper not only publishes her byline but also directly details (she did some pretty impressive journalism). I think we have enough to start with, but most of the direct detailing (as traditional with artists amd media folks) comes right out of her mouth. I'm seeing some quotes in a ChiTrib article from 1988. We may need to utilize Polyhedron to directly detail her work at TSR. It's not independent at all but she wasn't lying about herself while making thousands of friends at RPGA. The stuff after TSR I'll need to find another way of documenting. Writers don't get so much direct coverage if they're not winning awards or gaining reviews. Any sourcing you can find would be useful. I'm rewriting the entire page but might not finish this soon, seeing as how I'm at the auction all week. I'd like to discuss GenCon with you further, but since it's personal, not onwiki. BusterD (talk) 16:53, 1 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I will see what I can do! Possibly in the evening. BOZ (talk) 17:11, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Not much energy tonight for really anything. It is officially and truly on my to-do list, so hopefully in the very near future. I would also like to talk about Gen Con with you if you like. BOZ (talk) 02:57, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries. No deadline. I may have it covered. Really cool stuff on the Rabe newpapers.com search. Agreed re:GC. YGM. BusterD (talk) 19:27, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Hey there User:BusterD, I took a look and you gave a really good expansion to the lead and I love how you built a whole journalism section after having just two sentences for that. :) Sometimes in our hobby we forget that the creators have lives outside of the materials that we know best, so it's important to honor that! I tweaked a little bit but it's looking nice so I'm not sure what more I can add. Appelcline would be my go-to source, and there's already a couple of sentences in there from him which I originally added back in 2014 from the original edition, so I could double check the four-volume edition tomorrow to see if there's more material for her. BOZ (talk) 00:15, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Question on Pyramid Reviews
Hello ! In this AfD (Articles for deletion/Dungeoneer (game)), there's dispute on whether the Pyramid reviews are full or capsule ones (IMO the review should be long to be SIGCOV, but there's no evidence other than snippets). As you often improve BTG articles with magazines, I'm wondering if you could have a look? Also pinging. Thanks! VickKiang (talk) 00:38, 2 August 2022 (UTC)


 * From the few cases where I have seen the full review, they are definitely snippets of much longer reviews that you can only obtain by having a subscription. BOZ (talk) 00:39, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, so do you think these reviews count to WP:GNG as SIGCOV? VickKiang (talk) 00:52, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I would personally say so. BOZ (talk) 02:54, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think I knew someone who had access to Pyramid at some point; BusterD, jClemens, or Torchiest perhaps? BOZ (talk) 10:17, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Meant to ping Jclemens. :) BOZ (talk) 10:28, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I never had a subscription to Pyramid, I suspect it's as RS as The Space Gamer, White Dwarf, or Dragon, which clearly are... even if they're not independent of their own products. Jclemens (talk) 19:56, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

About The Vulture Page
I'm talking about the fourth Vulture. He is the cannibal, not the first Vulture. Sundropie (talk) 13:58, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Some doubts
I'm so sorry to bother you. But is it possible to update the thor cover in The Thor (Marvel Comics) Page. Its is somewhat outdated. Thor has went up through a lot of outfit changes over the decades. Wouldn't be more useful If we put up a more recent image? I do not mean to break any rules, I just wanted some clarification. That's all Thanks for listening! Shiraj chandra (talk) 15:51, 3 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I would ask User:TriiipleThreat for an opinion on this, who can probably clarify better than me. BOZ (talk) 19:27, 3 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Per WP:CMOS, we should use “the most universally recognisable appearance of a character”, not the most recent.—TriiipleThreat (talk) 23:14, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Sir, the most recognizable appearance is his black and silver suit, which is how he is portrayed in most of the media sources Including the Thor movies. The blue and red suit was a classic suit Which only lasted until the 80s and made a few brief appearances in later editions. The black and silver suit is the most well recognized. I still want to learn more about this! Shiraj chandra (talk) 16:56, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

About The Metal Master Page
Because, there are already citations in the Fictional character biography. Sundropie (talk) 02:01, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


 * We should still include citations in the Powers and abilities section, there is no reason to have no citations in that section. BOZ (talk) 02:43, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

The Science Fiction Barnstar
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 * Thank you kindly, and much appreciated. :) BOZ (talk) 10:51, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

The Court of Ardor in Southern Middle Earth
Would you be able to double-check the release date for The Court of Ardor in Southern Middle Earth? Article indicates 1983, but some book databases, e.g. Goodreads, seem to indicate 1984. Waxworker (talk) 23:21, 10 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Fair! RPGnet says 1983, RPGGeek likewise says 1983, and those are the two I usually go by, and Heroic Worlds concurs with 1983 as well. BOZ (talk) 00:22, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Gunship 2000 (wargame) and Fantasy Land (board game)
Hello,, IMHO I need your help with Gunship 2000 (wargame). You're the creator of this article, but right now GNG isn't met. Only ref 1 count towards GNG, ref 2 is a capsule review so isn't significant. I couldn't find any refs, so am interested if you could find more. Also pinging. The second article, Fantasy Land (board game), with only 1 non-significant capsule review, is worse and so obscure that it lacks a BGG entry. If not, I'll take this to AfD. Many thanks! VickKiang (talk) 03:49, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Wrong Source Tag
It seems for Once Upon a Time (game), I meant to tag the RPGNet ref, but ended up doing the wrong one. Many thanks for your quick spotting of the error, but I'm still doing a GAR! VickKiang (talk) 06:55, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for fixes
Thank you for your fixes to a lot of my edits regarding the work of Jennell Jaquays. I wasn't yet aware of the efn template or the common practice for name changes of already notable individuals. I appreciate the help. GabberFlasted (talk) 13:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * No problem! I saw that is what people were using, for example, on works by the Wachowskis or anything that Elliot Page appeared in, so I figured that made sense to use here as well. BOZ (talk) 13:27, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Lensman (game)
I've added a good source if you feel like destubbing this. <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:27, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Got it, thanks! BOZ (talk) 10:30, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

About the Puppet Master page
Because, his mind was inside the body of living clay, before he became human by the Sphinx. Sundropie (talk) 18:08, 27 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Did the comics actually refer to him as a Golem? If not, then we should not be using that term to describe him because it is WP:OR. BOZ (talk) 14:10, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

The Duelist
Just a heads up, 18 more issues of The Duelist have been uploaded to the web archive. Leitmotiv (talk) 12:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Oh nice, excellent! Thank you. :) BOZ (talk) 12:49, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Game Boy Advance reviews in NextGen Issue #79 (July 2001)
Hey, BOZ. Wanna give you a heads-up because you skipped all the Game Boy Advance reviews in the July 2001 issue (most of which I filled in their respective articles) which are included in NextGen's Game Boy Advance reviews list, starting from page 62 to page 69. You may finish the rest of the GBA games in their articles if you want to. --Angeldeb82 (talk) 23:53, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I will definitely take a look when I get a chance. BOZ (talk) 12:57, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks again User:Angeldeb82, I'm going to work on these now. I'm only going to do the larger reviews that have star ratings because there are just a lot of the smaller ones. BOZ (talk) 18:04, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Jessica Drew - Unexplained removal
Hello BOZ,

I noticed you added an information on Jessica Drew's page in "Critical reception" because this information seemed to have been removed without an explanation.

I just wanted to let you know, when I edited the page several hours ago, I did not remove it. I put all the character's rankings in "Accolades." If you scroll down, you will see "Accolades," then, you will see,

"In 2011, Comics Buyer's Guide ranked Jessica Drew 54th in their "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list."

I always separate "Critical reception" and "Accolades," so maybe it was a bit confusing, but I added it in the "Accolades" list from the beginning. It was never my intention to remove it, but to create a list with it.

Nonetheless, because this information is appearing twice now on Jessica Drew's page, I hope it will not bother you if I remove it from "Critical reception," since it is already in "Accolades."

Best regards.

PS: Sorry if this post sounds tedious to read, I wanted to make sure you can see I was not trying to vandalize the page. 129.194.0.237 (talk) 09:23, 7 September 2022 (UTC)


 * OK that's fair, thank you for explaining! I appreciate all the hard work you're doing on the characters. I don't know any other way to reach you since you have been using multiple IP addresses, but I wanted to let you know that if you have any characters that have been merged or redirected, but you have reception information for them and want to work on the articles, then please let me know and I can help you with that. BOZ (talk) 14:35, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you kindly, I appreciate it. :) BOZ (talk) 14:13, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Armor Command release date
Hi! There are 3 sources mentioning 3 different release dates for this game, ,.

What should we do here? Timur9008 (talk) 15:13, 21 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Well, that is interesting! Since we have conflicting dates, I wouldn't get too hung up on it. Clearly it was released in the first quarter of 1998, but we can't pinpoint an exact date, so maybe just list it as Q1 or winter, and list all three citations, and someone else can figure it out one day? BOZ (talk) 15:26, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ added all 3 three sources.(with just 1998 as the release date) Timur9008 (talk) 15:40, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Exciting new sources
Hey BOZ! Hope things are okay. I just wanted to let you know that the Internet Archive has rolled out a new feature called "DiscMaster," which has big implications for sourcing old game articles. It lets you browse (and even search) the contents of CD-ROMs stored in the Internet Archive.

Just at a glance, this means that a lot of the Inside Mac Games issues are now available to read right in your browser. Here's a cache of them that runs from early '93 to early '95. Browsing through the files, you can get straight to the reviews and articles in RTF format. For example, IMG's 1993 game of the year picks, or this interview with Will Wright, or this review for Flying Nightmares.

It seems like the DiscMaster archives are still being filled out, so there should be a lot more stuff coming (from IMG and all the other magazines that had CD-ROMs back then). Pretty exciting! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 20:47, 24 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Oh sweet, that is really cool. :) BOZ (talk) 05:25, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your work !
I noticed you always thank me for my edits, while I never thank you properly. So, thank you very much for your hard work BOZ. I did not check your contributions at first, but when I did, I saw all the edits you have made on numerous pages. Thank you very very much. Higher Further Faster (talk) 17:07, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Much appreciated, thank you very much. :) BOZ (talk) 23:56, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Vortex gameplay section
Hi! Was wondering can you add a gameplay section for Vortex (Amiga video game)(an article I've just created) via the sources presented in the article(and the talk page)? Timur9008 (talk) 16:27, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Might be a busy day, but will see what I can do! BOZ (talk) 18:04, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I added a really short one for you to start with! BOZ (talk) 14:22, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Timur9008 (talk) 14:41, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

69.121.183.150
Hi BOZ, I am sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you could take a look at a contributor who keeps removing information and references without providing an explanation on several pages. This user only writes "Minor detail edits," but I do not think they are minor at all. In fact, their edits have been reverted several times before because they seem to remove important data. I do not know who else I can turn to regarding this situation. Higher Further Faster (talk) 23:37, 20 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi thanks, yes I have seen this activity before, and I have seen this user's contributions reverted many times before. I think a good idea would be to post this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics to get more people to have their eyes on this. BOZ (talk) 23:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Understood, I will post a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics. Thanks you. ^^ Higher Further Faster (talk) 00:15, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Video games articles put up for deletion
Hello ! Hope you are doing well! In case you are interested in putting in your video games knowledge: I have just DePRODed several video games proposed for deletion. I plan to look if I can find sources/reviews for them, but am not deeply in the subject. Input would be most welcome. There also have recently been some recently nominated for deletion. All the best, Daranios (talk) 19:17, 21 November 2022 (UTC)


 * OK thanks, I'll take a look. Mobygames might have reviews listed there. BOZ (talk) 19:22, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

The Games Machine
just noting to self for now, unless anyone else wants to pick these up before I get to them. I had already found that early issues of The Games Machine did reviews of tabletop RPGs, but today I learned that they were also doing reviews for board games and PBM. Until I am better ready to add those to articles, I'm just noting them here!

The Games Machine #3: Board games

The Games Machine #4: Board games

The Games Machine #5: Board games

The Games Machine #6: Board games PBM

The Games Machine #7: PBM

The Games Machine #8: PBM Board games

The Games Machine #9: PBM Board games

The Games Machine #10: Board games PBM

The Games Machine #11: Board games PBM

The Games Machine #12: PBM

The Games Machine #21: PBM

The Games Machine #22: PBM

The Games Machine #23: PBM

The Games Machine #24: PBM

The Games Machine #25: PBM

Will be moving to User:BOZ/The Games Machine when I'm ready. :) BOZ (talk) 20:16, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

A greeting and a small question
Hi BOZ, first of all I wanted to thank you for the work done for the DragonHeart: Fire & Steel page, since you managed to fix it properly by making it clear why it is encyclopedic and for this I am grateful to you. I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you a question about it, I noticed that in the gamebox it is reported that the game was released in Japan on April 21, 1997 but looking online on websites such as GameFAQs, MobyGames, Famitsu, GAME Watch and 4Gamer.net I can't found any sources about a Japanese release. So since you put the release date in this revision, do you remember where you read or found information about its release in Japan? If so I could put it on the page as a source if you wish. Thanks again for your great contributions on the encyclopedia. --Pazio Paz (talk) 16:49, 28 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi there and thank you! In actuality after checking, I see that I did not add a release date or infobox, I merely restored it almost four years ago from this previous version before the article was redirected. It looks like that information was added to the article in 2010 by an IP: and modified again by IP in 2012:  so if you find that unverifiable then it's simply better to remove it. BOZ (talk) 18:54, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for the quick response and sorry if I thought it was you who entered the Japanese date into the gamebox. Now I'm going to remove the Japanese date as there is no evidence on the net about it. Thank you again and I wish you a good continuation. --Pazio Paz (talk) 23:16, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries, and thanks for brining that to my attention! BOZ (talk) 00:15, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

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Kindred and more
My congratulations for granting Kindred his own article even in light of the truth that was revealed in the "Sinister War" storyline as well as restoring specific articles of those who appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Would you have done the same thing for any characters that appear in it's sister counterpart associated with DC Comics? Also, another editor had twice tried to establish the page for King Thor after I had created it as a redirect. Though other editors reverted it due to their claim that it is doesn't have enough notability to it. I just wanted to tell you that. --Rtkat3 (talk) 15:37, 5 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi there, and thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have any more input on those other characters at this time. BOZ (talk) 15:39, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. If you happen to stumble on those inputs, you can make use of them. Rtkat3 (talk) 15:56, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy holidays
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Hi BOZ, thanks for the Christmas message. I don't interact with other editors as much as in years past, so it's heartening to hear from someone. Hope that all is well with you and that you have an enjoyable Christmas weekend.

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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas to you too, and thank you for the yuletide talk page message! Hope you have a festive holiday season, and a safe and Happy New Year! And thanks for your counsel and support in the past!

And go ahead and eat the yellow snow --- provided that it's lemon! Nightscream (talk) 04:07, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas! Hekerui (talk) 11:42, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a prosperous new Year. Best regards RV (talk) 10:06, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Thanks BOZ, and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too.Vulcan&#39;s Forge (talk) 16:45, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Happy editing, Timur9008 (talk) 17:24, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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Merry Xmas
Thanks for the well wishes, and the same to you. Regards Asgardian (talk) 06:20, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

December music
We sang Charpentier's delightful Messe de minuit pour Noël today, which was on DYK yesterday, - a first for me, pictured, - thank you for good wishes, and enjoy the season! - As for Precious anniversary above, just follow the link. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:01, 25 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Beautiful, thank you! BOZ (talk) 04:27, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
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I apologize for my long-term absence. I had to take care of a few things.

But I have seen that you have been working very hard nonetheless. Thank you very much for your dedication ! Higher Further Faster (talk) 15:33, 27 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Good to hear from you! No need for an apology, real life is more important than Wikipedia. Hope you are doing well and had a Merry Christmas. BOZ (talk) 15:50, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, BOZ!
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