User talk:Overmage/Archive 1

Fate stay/night edits
Heya,

Thanks for updating the List of Fate/stay night characters page. I'd like to see it where each major character's role in the different scenarios (consider the anime and the manga separate scenarios) is made clear. That should clear some of the confusion. Also, is there a proper way to cite the video game? AngusWOOF (talk) 06:06, 3 April 2012 (UTC)


 * No problem, I left a message on your page to avoid an edit war, everyone hates that :p


 * Generally, the anime is almost entirely the same as the first route of the game, Fate, with a few exceptions (mostly anything to do with Sakura or Caster in the anime is original). Otherwise, the anime is essentially identical to Fate. The manga is almost entirely the same as the second route of the game, Unlimited Blade Works (also with an anime movie), with no notable differences.


 * The third route, Heaven's Feel is present in the original game only.


 * Roles generally differ, but character attributes do not, meaning that if a character is a false Master in one, he will be a false Master in all three routes.


 * Overmage (talk) 06:10, 3 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. I suggested calling it the "anime storyline" instead of "sideplot" since that Sakura subplot is part of the main action in the anime. AngusWOOF (talk) 06:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. Overmage (talk) 06:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC)


 * It looks like the scenarios page has been deleted so the front page will need content. AngusWOOF (talk) 16:34, 6 April 2012 (UTC)


 * On it. Thanks for the heads up! Overmage (talk) 00:12, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

talk page read status
Hi - I do check my talk page (whatever happened to the "good faith" assumption?), but am clearly less skilled in the code of Wikipedia than you yourself are, so wasn't aware that I needed to somehow flag your edits as "read" so that you would be aware that I had read them. Can you please let me know how to mark your edits to my talk page as "read" so that you can be kept up to date on my current status and reading? If instead there is simply a cultural expectation amongst Wikipedia editors that one respond to talkpage comments in order for people generally to believe them to be read, then that is fine, too, but it does seem a leap of expediency to assume I had not read your comments as a rationale for escalating your reversion activities against my good faith efforts.

Also, can you please help me understand the citation process for applying new and controversial genre labels to all games that share a family tree? I have read the debate page that you have linked to, and it though consensus may have been reached on that particular page (with quite a bit of bloodshed, clearly), I'm curious to understand how a tenuous consensus is then applied outwardly? Is it your position that the term ARTS should be inserted before every mention of every game in the genre? It should be sufficient that the page located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends contains the term in the appropriate section (under "genre"). What are your grounds for inserting the term into the body of the Riot Games company page entry? I'm not nearly as experienced at Wikipedia as you, but this is not a standard format. Looking, for example, at the entry for Nintendo, many (in fact most) of the games mentioned on that page are not prefaced by their genre. Are you certain that your edit is appropriate here, and if so, why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vladcole (talk • contribs) 05:19, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * actually, it was because you did not make a reply on my posts on the talk page, but instead reverted. I was expecting you to at least reply on your talk page to indicate you were aware of my postings and discuss it there first before simply reverting. As you immediately made reversions and had made no replies to my posts on your talk page, it was not a bad faith assumption to assume you simply had not checked your talk page - if I were assuming bad faith I would have said you were deliberately ignoring my messages, so I assumed good faith that you simply did not check before reversion. There isn't a "cultural expectation" to respond to believe them to be read, it was your reversions without comment on the talkpage. Generally, it's considered polite to first try to discuss on talk pages before reverting, if you disagree with the initially stated edit reason. And, well, because I had actually asked to discuss on your talk page, but you did not do so.


 * The issue here is not truly about inserting ARTS everywhere here. The real issue is that your removal of the term, and your reasons for doing so, are rather clear violations of Conflict of Interest. You said that the term is used by Valve. Unfortunately it appears that your reversions may involve areas which have the interests of Riot Games, rather than the interests of Wikipedia, at heart. Please read the WP:COI article, it is rather important. Your deletion of the term (and in fact, the original addition of MOBA), and the reasons stated for doing so (usage by a rival corporation), represented clear COI which is inappropriate in and of itself.


 * One last thing: I didn't insert this term. It was always there, and had been there for over a year in fact. It was actually a reversion, not an addition.


 * Also, see Suggestions for COI_compliance &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   contribs 05:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Overmage -- I am aware of these guidelines. I have made a very deliberate effort to keep my identity transparent and easily verifiable by anybody who wishes to verify it. It seems you may have a stake in these edits that has resulted in your overstepping. You reverted an edit without substantive comment. In reinserting the term ARTS, you wrote only this in response: "You don't check your talk page or respond to anything other than my reverts, so this is the only way to get you to notice. Sorry." Is it acceptable to revert changes to "get people to take notice"? How does that improve the editorial quality of pages? In this case, your edit had the effect of inserting a term that doesn't need to be on that page. The edit also seems to be contrary to the standard format for referring to and writing about games on Wikipedia.

Regarding the guidelines: (1) I have been transparent in my disclosures (2) I could have linked to WP:SCOIC ... mea culpa for not linking to it (3) I did make the error, noted above, of not describing one edit (4) My proposed change -- that you undo your edit that reinserted ARTS into the entry -- is based on a review of many game, game publisher, and game developer Wiki pages -- this is a non-standard format and not necessary or desirable to the clarity of the entry that is in question

Regarding your statement about not inserting the term -- your edit had the effect of inserting the term and appearing to favor that term as a prefix to the mention of League of Legends. I would like to understand your position on the term. Do you require that it be listed in front of "League of Legends"?

The age of that term's inclusion isn't the point here -- the entire entry has been in fairly bad shape for the entire duration of the year. A review of the rest of my edits will make it clear that I have greatly (and neutrally) improved the quality of the entry overall.

I think that if you believe the term doesn't need to be listed on that page, you should be willing to revert to the edit in which NO term appears as a prefix to the game name. Vladcole (talk) 05:43, 17 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I was not lying. I honestly made that reversion just to get you to talk because you were not responding to requests for discussion on the talk page. When I made a link to Action RTS, you reverted my edit without prior discussion (when I had made a few posts on your talk page to get the ball rolling), and when I made a dummy edit asking you to discuss on your talk page and made a further post there, you still did not reply. In despair (I kid you not), I made yet another reversion for the sole purpose of getting you to sit up, take notice and finally start discussing this. If you choose not to believe me, it's up to you, but bear in mind that I only did this after you had repeatedly failed to utilize the talk page or discussion - or even, the talk page of Riot Games itself before reverting my edit.


 * Despite your personal reasons - that you made that changed based on a review of many game sites/etc, it is not standard wikipedia policy. Your initial edit did not, in fact, remove Action RTS, but changed it to MOBA - clearly preserving the name of the genre. Therefore I question that the purpose of your edit was to maintain a 'standard format'. Also, see Blizzard Entertainment: "Blizzard launched their online gaming service Battle.net in January 1997 with the release of their action-RPG Diablo. In 2002, Blizzard was able to reacquire rights for three of its earlier Silicon & Synapse titles from Interplay Entertainment and re-release them under Game Boy Advance.[10] In 2004, Blizzard opened European offices in the Paris suburb ofVélizy, Yvelines, France, responsible for the European in-game support of World of Warcraft. On November 23, 2004, Blizzard released World of Warcraft, its MMORPG offering." There is precedent for stating the genre. Thus, you can't say for sure that stating the genre is 'non-standard' - leaving the term itself as being 'non-standard'.


 * If you truly feel that Action RTS is non-standard, make a new discussion on Talk:Action RTS, get people to agree with you, establish new consensus, and then we can rename it whatever you like. But until then, you shouldn't make changes without consensus, especially since your initial edit is still, to me, possibly violating COI (by calling it MOBA).
 * Who am I? I am just a random wikipedian, and I actually prefer the term MOBA, myself. However, I'm not wanting it enough to make a new discussion to create new consensus. If you want to, nobody's stopping you, I guess.
 * " Regarding your statement about not inserting the term -- your edit had the effect of inserting the term and appearing to favor that term as a prefix to the mention of League of Legends. I would like to understand your position on the term. Do you require that it be listed in front of "League of Legends"? " I do not require it, I simply question why it must be removed, as I question the neutrality of the circumstances (reference to rival corporation, MOBA, etc). Unless I can see a definitive reason for why it should be removed, the specific circumstances behind this edit point to me a conflict of interest (not wanting a rival corporation's term to be up there) reason for removal. I believe that your suggested compromise (removing the term altogether) still serves the purpose (of removing a rival corporation's title, as per your original edit reason) and is thus not in line with wikipedia editing policy. The consensus is stated as establishing proof and thus shifting the burden of proof to you, the editor, to explain why it should be removed (beyond just stating your belief that it is non-standard). Ideally, the easiest way to do it would be to start new consensus on the Action RTS page and get it to be renamed (or not, it might or might not work. I will not take part if you start one). Regrettably your original change and reason for it means I cannot agree with the stated rationale that the reason for removing the prefix is to make it 'cleaner' or more 'in-line' particularly when 1) there is no established format regarding that issue; 2)the Blizzard page also states the genre.


 * &theta;v&xi;r    mag&xi;   contribs 05:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Gurren Lagann
I'll accept the translation as "Gunmen", though I wouldn't list Anime News Network as the best place to cite character name spellings, especially when they are things that normal users can add, considering a number of the name spellings are different from how they're spelled in Bandai's dub credits, which match the ones here (though apparently Aretenborough's name is the only one that other people noticed).

In the meantime, someone had better take a look at these articles (List of Gurren Lagann characters, List of Gurren Lagann mecha). I'm personally working on a revamp of at least the former article, this time to include actual episode citations, and make it less of what I personally believe to currently be, if I may say so, a dumping ground for trivial thoughts and details. Things need to be trimmed and written in a more out-of-fictional-universe stance (not to mention detailing whatever events need to be detailed in the present tense to denote fiction's state of perpetual "now-ness"); the size of the picture alone makes me feel that page is longer than it needs to be. We also really need sections detailing the characters' conception and reception, and perhaps get some sources on the names of the characters, mechas, and places that, according to the Japanese version of the article, all seem to have names that are derived from certain words (primarily the names of "Gurren" and "Lagann"); however, the Japanese version doesn't list sources for that, so it seems that would be a problem. The same goes for the mecha article, though I'm less confident in my ability to see if it can be made into at least "Good article" material.

I've also been thinking that if characters pilot a specific Gunmen, we could provide some manner of detail on that Gunmen in each character section. That may detract from the mecha article, but it would give a little more meat to certain minor characters who have barely anything else to write about.

Let's just say that right now, I'm in a Gurren Lagann mood, and I'm thinking it's high time to give it more decent articles. User:Immblueversion (talk) 01:45, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. With another editor's help, the ANN reference has been removed, leaving the other two, more reliable ones. :x I agree the articles as they are really leave a lot of room for improvement ("Despite Simon describing it as making her nearly impossible to understand, he also notes she always spoke warmly and kindly." etc). There's so much text in there now, so we'll probably have our work cut out for us. I suspect we'll need to check the Japanese websites for sources for the name derivations; English websites will probably be of zero help.


 * At the moment, my view is that the primary problem of length is due to every single character, minor or major, having an entry which reads thus: multiple links to Personal Gunmen, then a description. This bloats the article length, given the sheer number of minor characters. The first thing to do would be to take the 'lesser' characters (e.g. Kidd) and remove the glut of links changing them to in-line text notes; given they all look the same and link to the same article (list of mecha) anyway. What do you think?  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   contribs 05:34, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I've been thinking the same thing; in fact, I'm in the early stages of working on the character page, and I'm seeing if I can't tackle improving the mecha list article either. You can see my progress on my sandbox (I've lumped the two articles together for now). I think we should take advantage of using a "Notes" section for the character, location, and mecha name meanings. We should draw references from episodes, too.


 * One thing I think may help in drawing the articles out of an in-universe perspective is to name the four story arcs of the series as Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, like how the Japanese articles do. It'd kind of be like the Naruto articles (plus the List of Naruto characters article is a featured list). User:Immblueversion (talk) 01:24, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
 Neil N   talk to me  02:44, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Replied. -- Neil N   talk to me  02:55, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Zone tillage
You proposed that Zone tillage be merged into tillage, but you did not start a discussion of the matter anywhere. If you believe a merge is necessary, please take the time to say why. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:58, 5 June 2012 (UTC) \

fort saulsbury
why did you put my page up for deletion i just created it and i own every thing on it and about it if you don't be leave me use whois and look up fortsaulsbury.org all my info is on there — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdson1973 (talk • contribs) 10:45, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I. Don't. Care. If. You. Own. The. Page. It's about something non-notable.  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 01:32, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

NCIGF
regarding the first edit you made, I reviewed several similar topics who referenced its site as I did with my #1 reference. I'm not clear why this was edited out. AN example is National Association of Insurance Commissioners--it's first reference is from its own website. this is why I assumed it was acceptable. Perhaps it is not even needed? Thanks for feedback.Denisereiter (talk) 02:07, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, strictly speaking it's not needed if you already have a better external source, but I realized it's not against policy to have them either, so I undid my first edit. :p  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 03:09, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Murals By Esen
FYI: removal of a speedy deletion template is usually not considered vandalism. (re: Murals By Esen) I see that message on wp:aiv often. I haven't been told or read what to do exactly, but I would suggest reverting it without warning or leaving it be as there is a notice on the deletion list anyway. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:58, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I was under the impression that the template specifically states that speedy deletion templates cannot be removed by the page creator themselves. In future I will revert without the vandalism tag, but the template itself specifically prohibits removal by the page creator (and there is even a warning template for that action) so leaving it be seems to be the wrong move.  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 08:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

James Wellington
Just a reminder that you can't A7 a fictional character... Peridon (talk) 08:26, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * A1 it is then  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 08:47, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Tafsir Al-Qummi
Just pointing out that anything that begins with tafsir is not an article about a person. I'm not sure that the Tafsir Al-Qummi (would be Interpretation of Al-Qummi) is notable enough for an article but A7 does not apply. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 19:45, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, seriously? You learn something new everyday I guess :p Thanks for the information!  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 00:14, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Pat Light
As a general rule, if an article is already prodded, there's no reason to set up speedy deletion as well (except in cases of copyvio or an attack page, where we really need to get it off immediately). In any event, I've declined the speedy deletion, as claiming to be drafted by a professional team(a sourced claim, I'll add) is more than sufficient to meet WP:CSD as a claim of importance. Now, it may well be that the article should still be deleted because Light isn't notable (if, for instance, he never actually played with the team), but there's no harm in giving people 7 days to try to find more sources. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:34, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * That is true, although this dude has basically been spamming them articles with one-liners. I can't argue with you wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt though. :x Oh, and sorry for the trouble.  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 02:35, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I've raised the issue at ANI; I'd recommend not worrying about prodding or csding until we see what another admin thinks. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:55, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. Thanks for the help! :)  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 02:56, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

break
I will be on break until August 2012. This is due to me editing to relieve the boredom of work, which will be halted for a while. ;)  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 08:35, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Rin's section has a big problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fate/stay_night_characters I found this text under Rin's section with absolutely no mention of the anime, the visual novel, nor of heavens feel and Angra Manyu:

"When she was young, Rin was separated from her sister Sakura but manages to reunite with her after Sakura was kidnapped by Caster, as a sacrifice for the summoning of the holy grail." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nintendo Maniac 64 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You know, you can edit it yourself. :p But thanks for the notification, edited accordingly.  &theta;v&xi;r     mag&xi;   spellbook 07:31, 30 March 2013 (UTC)