User talk:GL22

About Faith, Hope, and Charity
Do you have any third-party reliable sources that cover this production non-trivially? — TKD::Talk 11:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * In response to your message on TKD's talk page, the official website is obviously not third party. Reliable sources that are wholly independent of the subject and the production team must have covered the subject non-trivially.--Drat (Talk) 14:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Machinima rewrite
In response to your question about whether I'm rewriting the machinima articles, yes, I have been. You can view some of the more detailed rationales for what I've done at Talk:Machinima. You're certainly welcome to join the discussion there. The problem with the list of examples by engine is that, with the [proliferation of games capable of making machinima, it was becoming unmaintainable and essentially a very large directory of loose information, which Wikipedia is not. Plus, many parts were becoming redundant with other sections of sourced material.

Admittedly, the new list is pretty bad, too, but I implemented it as the lesser of two evils, in that it takes up a much smaller percentage of the article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and the standard for featured articles asks for compelling prose, not loose lists of information.

With respect to Red vs. Blue, it is mentioned about as often as it appears in reliable sources, which, like it or not, is quite a bit; this is the concept of due weight. You should note that dozens of other productions are mentioned throughout the course of the article, too.

As for "leaving" the machinima article to those who actually make machinima, anyone can edit Wikipedia, and, theoretically, anyone should be able to verify information in it, because that information should be based on reliable sources. (In my work on the machinima article, I've tried to be careful to cite my sources in the Notes and References sections.) Expert knowledge is useful, but it, too, needs to be based on reliable published material, to avoid original research, which is prohibited on Wikipedia. I've helped multiple articles, both related and unrelated to machinima, reach featured status, so I would like to think that I have some idea of what works and what doesn't. Again, though, with respect to the machinima article, you're welcome to raise concerns on the talk page. — TKD::Talk 14:56, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Long overdue response (sorry just for the record)
No I did not do any major changes to Machinima. My edits would have been sourced from 196.14.... and/or 168.210... both shared IPs. Judge for yourself. :)

Mnbundle Mnbundle (talk) 13:11, 16 September 2008 (UTC)