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Habitat (video game) and WorldsAway article issues
Hey RestonVAUnofficialFan,

OracleKappa here. I'm the guy who was trying to fix up the Habitat_(video_game) page.

You mentioned that you were trying to clean things up a little bit. It seems that someone finally reverted the merge of the WorldsAway page with the Habitat_(video_game) page thankfully. The only problem now is that there is still a WorldsAway & Dreamscape section on the Habitat page.

The things that I believe need clearing up are mentioned on the talk page for Habitat_(video_game) but I'll sum it up here.


 * The info summary box displayed under the article picture shouldn't list WorldsAway under the release section
 * Fujitsu Habitat also shouldn't be mentioned under the release section
 * The only platform Habitat and Club Caribe were available for were the Commodore 64
 * Under the timeline heading, the entire second paragraph which begins "In 1994, Fujitsu Cultural Technologies was spun off as a new division of Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions" needs removing. That's a paragraph I wrote for the talk page detailing a rough history of WorldsAway which someone inserted into the article at some point which has no relevance to Habitat/Club Caribe
 * The entire WorldsAway and Dreamscape sections need removing from the Habitat article

Once that has been done, the article will be solely focused on Lucasfilm's Habitat and Quantum Link's Club Caribe as was originally intended.

My reasoning behind it is this. Habitat and Club Caribe are identical pieces of software, released by the same team for the same system. The reason there are two different names is because Habitat was the name for it during development. Once it was officially released, it was known as Club Caribe. However, Habitat itself was way more widely known in the industry as it was quite groundbreaking, hence it being the lead name for the article.

WorldsAway was an entirely different piece of software, created 10 years after development of Habitat begun, on different technology by a different team. The only connection to Habitat is that Fujitsu licensed the Habitat software in the early 1990's to create their own service (see this article on Japanese wikipedia: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%8C%E5%A3%AB%E9%80%9AHabitat). Then in 1993/4, Fujitsu purchased the entirety of Habitats IP and re-hired two of the original development leads to create a modern day version of Habitat for PC's. This is what became WorldsAway.

There should be a heading down the bottom of the article mentioning related software or something which briefly mentions WorldsAway. WorldsAway has its own article entirely so it'd be appropriate to link to that so people can head there for more detailed information to keep the Habitat page concise.

I hope that this clears up what needs doing for the article and the reasoning behind it. If you have any questions about this at all, please write back on my talk page. I'd love to get this resolved finally as it's been quite bothersome for a year now. Habitat was open sourced a couple of years ago and recreated for modern computers. I personally think that the article being so convoluted overshadowed that fact. It might gain some more visibility once things are tidied up.

Thanks! OracleKappa (talk) 21:52, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:ReputationDefender
Hello, RestonVAUnofficialFan. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:ReputationDefender, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 00:03, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:ReputationDefender


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 10:57, 7 February 2019 (UTC)