User talk:Memory Prime

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August 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to International Olympic Committee, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Please familiarize yourself with WP:MOSFLAG and stop adding flag icons to infoboxes. They should not be used in this manner. --IllaZilla (talk) 06:49, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Nintendo Entertainment System, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. --IllaZilla (talk) 21:26, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Metric conversions
Just a helpful hint, for adding metric conversions (of length, etc.) you can use the handy Template:Convert. Just place. For example, typing results in Thought you might find this useful for edits like this one. You might also want to check our manual of style for units for guidance on when it's appropriate to convert units. In general, topics that are US- or UK-specific use english units (inches, feet, pounds, etc.) while topics that are international or specific to metric-using countries would use metric (ie. an article about a German-made automobile would use kilograms, meters, etc.). --IllaZilla (talk) 00:23, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your email. In the future please simply leave a note on my talk page unless it is something you wish to keep confidential. Regarding your message:

There is NO article that explains the packaging of NES games! It is something that you can write out of observation. That's just common sense. Look at the Sega Saturn page, there is a "Game Packaging" section there as well. The person that wrote it did NOT include any citations.

My response is that, by Wikipedia's verifiability and no original research policies, we must provide references to reliable sources for all of our information. This is, after all, an encyclopedia. The dimensions of games' packaging are not really noteworthy; unless some third-party reliable source has done some sort of analysis or coverage of game packaging and made commentary that's relevant to an encyclopedia, then it isn't worth including. And of course the dimensions are not always consistent. Anyway, edits like this one make a number of claims that go beyond simply giving the dimensions and basic description of the packaging...stuff that isn't gleaned simply "out of observation". Bottom line: unreferenced information can be removed at any time, and unless you can find sources to support your claims then they will likely be removed. If the Sega Saturn article contains unreferenced information like this, expect that to be removed too. --IllaZilla (talk) 23:34, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Again, please do not email me about this issue. I do not check my email regularly, and Wikipedia emails are automatically placed in my junk box by my spam filter. If you wish to communicate with me, do so here or on my talk page. It is much simpler and allows our responses to be seen by others who may be able to add input on the situation. I will not respond to further emails unless it regards a matter that must be kept confidential. Here are your 2 recent messages to me, followed by my response:

You've deleted the flag I've added to the NFL and CFL pages, but if you look at the pages for the NHL and MLB, the flags are included in the infobox.

Before you start deleting everything that I have done, please explain to me why you think flags are not allowed to be used in the infobox? There are many pages that have flags in the infobox, and you are even deleting the ones that were added by other users a long time ago.

To your first point, I am not going through every article on Wikipedia. I was looking only at your contributions and removing those that went against our guidelines. To the second point, Wikipedia has a section of its Manual of Style that explains when it is and is not appropriate to use flag icons. This link has already been provided to you twice in previous comments above (by myself and Bovineboy2008), but since you clearly haven't read it here it is again: Manual of Style (icons). Please click on that link and read the guidelines regarding flag icons. In a nutshell, flag icons should only be used when there is a compelling reason to emphasize nationality. There is no reason to emphasize nationality when it comes to the release countries of video games, the "areas served" of clothing companies, etc. There may be reason to emphasize it when it comes to international sporting competitions (ie. the Olympics) and things like that, but not for every sports team/organization, and certainly not for video games and businesses. The name of the country suffices. You even added one to Australian Football League, where it is blatantly obvious that the league is Australian. Please stop adding flag icons. Their use has been discussed and revised on Wikipedia several times in the past, and consensus has determined that they do not belong in every single infobox. If you wish to contribute to Wikipedia, please focus your efforts on more meaningful contributions other than decorating the encyclopedia with tiny flags. --IllaZilla (talk) 19:50, 16 August 2009 (UTC)