User talk:Guyinblack25/Archive 14

TFA/R nomination of Final Fantasy
Hi, as the person who seems to have done most of the work at the last FAR, you should be aware this article's been nominated to be Today's Featured Article on May 24 by an IP editor. If you have views on the subject, you might want to weigh in at WP:TFA/R. Many thanks.--Wehwalt (talk) 00:51, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Space Gun (video game)
Hi, I am reviewing your GA nomination and have made some comments at Talk:Space Gun (video game)/GA1. Best wishes, Xtzou ( Talk ) 18:42, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back
Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back has been passed as a GA. A very nice article. Good work! Best wishes, Xtzou ( Talk ) 19:52, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
Thank you for references and article. Do I have to worry about article disappearing since it is in a sandbox?

Could you also clean up the header for the discussion page for Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire?

Please respond on my talk page.

Vyeh (talk) 16:49, 4 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for cleaning up the header for Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire. Vyeh (talk) 03:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Since you were in favor of the merger and the merger took place, I don't think you missed anything. Thank you for the example articles. I will look at them. As you might have noticed looking at the talk page, I am interested in highlighting (sourced, of course) Alpha Centauri as a sequel to Civilization II by the designers of Civilization II in a field of three sequels to the commercially successful Civilization II. Vyeh (talk) 21:19, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Quick bit about Lara Croft
Something's been bugging me about the last paragraph of Critical reception...it feels oddly out of place with the rest of the section. The first sentence feels like it should be more at home with the beginning paragraph, but the latter two discussing the changes to the game to reflect her attitude on killing seem like they should be part of a design section regarding personality and development thereof. What do you think?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 14:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll try to get to it today...sorry, work's been on my ass and my internet connection's pretty bad where I'm living now (leeching off a nearby signal). Most I've been able to do are quick bits here and there lately, but I should be able to do some tweaks and work on it today for ya.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 14:51, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Good work for both of you for passing Lara Croft to GA!! It looks pretty good. I'm pretty sure it's becoming one of the best examples to follow when editing VG characters articles.Tintor2 (talk) 14:50, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Merger of Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire into Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
I have completed the merger of the contents of Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire into Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. I am waiting to convert the source article into a redirect pending comments in Talk:Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. I would appreciate if you could let me know there whether it is OK to convert the source article to a redirect. Thanks. Vyeh (talk) 10:49, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Lara Croft
I made a few tweaks to improve flow. A few notes:


 * Is use of "he" or "she" frowned upon for fictional characters? I replaced certain uses of "the character" with "she", because the former phrase really crops up otherwise.
 * Other changes included some rearrangements to make paragraph lead statements use active voice and generally starting them with use of her name instead of a reference or pronoun.
 * "Crystal Dynamics focused on believability rather than realism to re-develop the character." Just a little curious what this sentence means since believability/realism sound pretty codependent.

Hopefully I didn't disarm any British English usage; feel free to revert any of the changes! Nice work on the article, too. I definitely foresee it being an FA in the near future. ZeaLitY [  Talk  -  Activity  ]  06:27, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Just a heads up, I submitted The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest to FAC. ZeaLitY [  Talk  -  Activity  ]  00:21, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Espio GAN
I think I fixed all your concerns. Get back to me if you think there's anything additional that needs to be done. Tezero (talk) 19:02, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Space Gun GA
Hi, thanks for letting me know about the Space Gun article reaching a GA rating. My editing has tapered off a bit due to other commitments but it is still nice to see that something I put a lot of work into has been rated so highly. Thanks for all your input and work on the article as well. AirRaidPatrol 84 (talk) 09:35, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Re:List of X-Men video games
Sure, not a problem. Just drop me a line once you've updated the list and I'll get right on working on it. Just an fyi though, the sooner you put up the draft the better-- I start my summer job next Monday, and I work from 12:30-6:30 PM on every weekday. So once it starts, I'll be able to help but not on a regular sort of quick schedule like I've been working recently. Also, it's nice to still see you here, semi-retired and all. :) -- Nomader (Talk) 22:05, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Re:Tidus
Thanks. I'll try doing that.Tintor2 (talk) 16:04, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

RetroGamer
Just wanted to let you know, I'm continuing to help out with fact checking over at RetroGamer and now moved on to freelancing articles for it. My first is an 8 page Atari 7800 retrospective in the current issue (79)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ZHVnEeKj4 --Marty Goldberg (talk) 20:06, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Number of non-free images
Thought you'd be best for answering this, tried to explain it to him over at the Crystal Castles article but he wants more concrete answer on why we have to limit the amount of non-free images. He started a discussion here: WikiProject_Video_games/Video_game_images. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 02:43, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Another
Thanks for the response for him. He's asking about infobox platform lists now here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games, so I thought you may want to respond there as well. It seems he's looking to be very active here and is already going around doing lots of changes to articles, so you might consider taking him under your wing. He's asking all the right question, and with the right guidance during his learning period I think he could make a great asset to the project vs. the alternative of him doing sweeping changes and then stepping on people's toes. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 20:48, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Baby Pac-Man
Hi there! I was hoping for some advice on the Baby Pac-Man article. When I came on, this page was simply a re-direct. I decided to start an article from scratch here, as the prior version was barely a stub. I saw that a user had erased the prior article and turned it into a re-direct. I had hoped to avoid this happening again by posting justification for an article on the talk page, and creating at least a proper stub with a couple of references as a starting point. Unfortunately, on the talk page, I'm being challenged for notability, which I thought I had established. I have read the guidelines regarding inherited notability, and understand that anything Pac-Man related isn't necessarily notable - but this is an official Bally-Midway product (though not a Namco one) with some 7000 distributed units, a rare hybrid cabinet (both pinball and video) and with adequate sources for, at least, existence as an article. Am I wasting my time trying to build an article? I figure someone more senior on the project could advise. I certainly don't want to engage in a flame war on the talk page. - super &beta;&epsilon;&epsilon; cat 18:34, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Re:Organization XIII GAR
Um, wow Gib. I am shocked that you are asking me this. Its been a year since the first review. But, I'll review it again. Also, are you gonna work on the article again when I do the GAR? GamerPro64 (talk) 19:10, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well now. I don't want you give a GAR to an article you promoted it to in the first place. I will do the review. Besides, I got nothing better to do here.I can't find live links for Jesus Walks and I need help with my Sandbox but can't find any. So I'm prepared to do the review right now. GamerPro64 (talk) 19:43, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Alright, Gib. I have started the GAR here. So please give your comments on how the article is flawed and such.
 * Hey Gib, id it alright if I closed O13's GAR? Nobody has made any comments on it since the 12th. GamerPro64 (talk) 04:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I delist Organization 13. GamerPro64 (talk) 15:29, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Odokee
What is his deal?— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙 ) 06:23, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

FAC help
Hey, I was wondering if you could take a look at .hack (video game series) and maybe point out any problems you see. It's at FAC right now, but Jinnai seems to have succeeded in scaring off any other reviewers with his unactionable "Oppose and request speedy close". Thanks for your help, Axem Titanium (talk) 09:29, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * No worries. Thanks a lot for the help! :P Axem Titanium (talk) 20:31, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's alright. There were some pretty dubious proceedings going on during the nom, so I'm going to see if I can get them reopened. Stay tuned. Axem Titanium (talk) 14:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, it's been the requisite two weeks so I submitted killer7 for FAC. Would you mind taking a look at it? Thanks again. Axem Titanium (talk) 13:14, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Dragon Quest
Even though you reformatted the timetable in Dragon Quest, that's not why I am here commenting. I am here to ask you if you can review Dragon Quest's A-class Assessment. If you don't want to do it, I understand. GamerPro64 (talk) 21:05, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh. I thought you were just re-working the timetable to make it better. But anyhow, carry on. GamerPro64 (talk) 21:24, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Point Taken
Yes, I agree about personality and how it can a tough needle to thread. That said, I've just described what the games relate without the copious repetition and speculation in the other version. That's the version I'd prefer to build on because at least the information is accurate and not repeated. Let's hope something concrete can come out of the VG discussion. Spartancourage (talk) 04:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Dragon Quest
I have responded to your assessment. 陣 内 Jinnai 19:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Ignore Me
Just sent you a bunch of stuff that was actually meant for Sabre, so ignore that (by the way, man, you're still using Hotmail? You must be crazy!) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 17:33, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Template:VGmedia
Figure I should drop you a line about this-- it's a proposed change that's currently being discussed at WT:VG to the VG game lists. As I'm not really around enough to discuss the merits of it right now, I figure you might want to take a look at it and comment judging by the amount of work you put into making Template:VGtitle work. Nomader (Talk) 21:50, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Dragon Quest
Sorry its taken a while, but I made some corrections based on the comments. I haven't done any major grammar review of the article yet, but did want some comments on the specific items mentioned. 陣 内 Jinnai 20:52, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Reply on classes. I think the idea can partly work, but it still has issues. I've outlined some of the key problems as to why using one name can be harmful. 陣 内 Jinnai 17:46, 18 August 2010 (UTC)