User talk:Ryūkotsusei/Archive 2

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Long Reply
Well as to being back, I couldn't stay away more than a couple days. I'm probably going to be at low editing until the week after next because I have stuff going on, but there is too much here to do, and over the last four days I would go on but not edit. Kinda counter-productive. As to constructive stuff, I agree with you that the reception section needs some more quotes. I find the best combo for writing recepetion sections would be to intersperse vague impressions and specific details. However, I think it's okay as is, since most people approve of a paraphrased citied sentence as much as the direct quote. I find that direct quotes do the job better. So, rambling aside, you might want to consider something like this:

F-Zero was generally praised among the critical community, earning a 89% on gamerankings. Gamespot stated that "if you want a light-speed racer that looks and plays sharply while simultaneously offering some dramatic challenges, F-Zero GX is exactly what you're looking for." and "there's a lot going on in F-Zero GX." Gamespot was not totally convinced, noting, "There are a couple miniscule issues to speak of here (a few less than spectacular tracks, a daunting difficulty), but those noted F-Zero GX is still my favorite racer this generation, by far."

The usual setup is PP 1=General comments (opening and closing quotes work well) and then PP 2 and 3= exceptionally good and bad things (the stuff you've included already, except in quote form). Then you have your PP about sales figures and the like. I also ran into people during FAs who wanted me to include a PP which compared the game to other games like it. You may want to compare it to the sucess of other F-Zero games.

As to the missions section, delete it, send to strategy wiki and the like if you really want to. Sorry about the length, but uh yeah, I hope this answers your question.--Clyde (talk) 03:02, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

re: F-Zero
Hi,

I'm honoured that you chose to ask my opinion, considering that I have a lesser edit count and less time spent here than yourself. I will try to list some things that I think need work before this can become an FA, starting from the top:

Infobox

 * The F-Zero logo image needs a fair use rationale. For an ideal example of an FU rationale in a game article, see Image:FFVIIbattlexample.jpg.  The same goes for all other images in the article, which need more detailed ones.
 * Instead of putting all of the release dates in the infobox, I would instead put "See List of F-Zero games" (a comment I was going to write about the games section was to split the list of games off into a seperate article titled, List of F-Zero games. See List of Final Fantasy titles, a featured list, as a good example.)

Lead

 * Why mention that "the game concept gives little focus to "car combat"", when there are many other racing games that don't have combat. If you think this should be mentioned, I would put it further down the article, possibly in the overview section, or as part of a section dealing with what makes F-Zero games unique from other racing games (just an idea).
 * "Graphical capabilities"? What does this mean?  That the games have detailed graphics, fast graphics, or something else?
 * Because it has not yet been explained what "pilots" are, and "inspiring" seems a bit POV (unless you can back that up with a citation of a review who called the pilots and settings inspiring), I would instead say "unique characters and settings".

Overview

 * You can remove the first sentence from the first paragraph ("As mentioned by the manual..."), as it's not necessary because you are using inline citations for that. If anyone wants to know where the info is coming from, they can just check the references.  I would, however, replace the sentence with something else so that the prose "flow" is kept.

Story

 * As a general note, this section could do with many more citations for all the "facts" presented, as this is backstory and not actual gameplay, I assume.
 * "Taking place in the 24th century, F-Max was the precursor to the F-Zero races. This competition predates the coming of F-Zero by some 200 years." Revise this to something like, "Taking place in the 24th century, F-Max was the precursor to the F-Zero races by some 200 years." (better flow).
 * We need a reference that states that F-Max races came 200 years before F-Zero races and took place in the 24th century.
 * In "F-Max era", there is a self-reference, "(see chronology)". To avoid this, I would instead wikilink "further inconsistencies" to the chronology section of the article.
 * Also in that section, change the dash after reference 2 to a semicolon.
 * In "Original F-Zero Era", there is no need to wikilink 2560, as it's unlikely that there will be an article anytime soon.
 * The section has past-tense/present-tense conflicts. Choose one or the other.
 * A citation is needed that says the F-Zero Grand Prix was founded by space merchants.
 * Change "When the first one was held" to "When the first race was held" or "When the first event was held" ("one" is not specific enough, and too casual).
 * "It purportedly has billions of fans, many of whom like to gamble on the outcomes of races" needs a citation.
 * In "Horrific Grand Finale", Huge Accident should be in quotes and a wikilink should be provided to the appropriate section of the article.
 * Horrific Grand Finale should be in quotes so that people don't think it's a capitalization error.
 * Wikilink Super Arrow.
 * Wikilink Zoda.
 * The last sentence of "F-Zero X Era" ("It is unknown, but likely...") should be removed as original research unless you can provide a citation.

Characters

 * There are currently over forty pilots? How many were there in the first game?  Perhaps include a sentence dealing with the fact that more characters are added with each installment (if this is true).  Something like, "While there were originally X pilots in the original F-Zero game, this has grown to over fourty in the latest installment", etc.

I have spent quite a bit of time typing, so I'll leave you with these comments for the moment. When I have some more time (which should be soon), I'll go through the rest of the article. Hope this helps, Green451 18:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Addendum: If this is too detailed, and you just wanted a rough idea of how much work would be needed to get to FA, I would say quite a bit. There are definitely some good parts, but there are some sections that are a bit rough, that's all. Green451 18:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

F-Zero GX
Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I've been (and still am) busy. Because of that, I can't give you a huge amount of feedback like I did before, but I will say two things that I noticed:
 * The "Techniques" section leans a little too much towards being "game guide-ish".
 * I'm not sure if the table showing the different tracks is acceptable under MOS, but I don't know what else you could do. Maybe prosify it?

These are just a few small suggestions, but there are more things I'm sure. Thanks, and good luck getting the article to GA and beyond. Green451 15:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

FAC
As usual, be prepared for people to rip your finest work apart and all you can say is "thank you sir may I have another." Also be prepared because many articles don't make it their first FAC. However, the input you get will be important toward attaining FA. I'll help as best I can, and good luck.--Clyde (talk) 18:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well you have my support now, and I think it would be worth something as the main contributor to put in your support (might want to let the community know that you are though.)--Clyde (talk) 21:28, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh congrats on F-Zero GX. Rock solid job. You should flaunt it somewhere on your userpage; it's really something to be proud of.--Clyde (talk) 00:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

List of Wii games
Hey there FullMetal Falcon,

I've noted that you've contributed before to the List of Wii games. Just wanted to let you know that the list is getting ready for Featured status and is currently undergoing a Peer Review. If you can take a moment to look over the article and add your suggestions/comments for improvement here, it'd be much appreciated. Thanks! -Digiwrld1 22:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Cite web
I think the year is being repeated twice for articles using the accessdate, accessyear format.  FMF |  contact  00:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I made a change to the template. Did that fix the issue? --  tariq abjotu  00:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

No the history is now showing "invalid time", you could check the references here as example.  FMF |  contact  00:37, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Alright; the issue should be fixed now. --  tariq abjotu  00:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

re:Game Ratio
Well according to the log Soumyasch deleted it as an ad and not asserting notability. I guess I'd ask him for the text so you can rewrite it, maybe with more citations so it asserts notabilty.--Clyde (talk) 01:07, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Metroid Prime
You were able to turn F-Zero GX into a FA; I'm looking for the same with Metroid Prime, can you help me in my PR? igordebraga ≠ 01:05, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Congrats
Hey nice job with List of F-Zero titles. Rather quiet, but well done none the less.--Clyde (talk) 02:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

re:Brawl
I dropped a comment, and will keep an eye on things.--Clyde (talk) 03:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I wish this article could be better. I'm trying to assume good faith, but I'm not so confident in some people working on the page. I'm not saying that they're trying to hurt the article, but I'm more inclined to believe that some of the editors are some what inexperienced or only work on this particular article. --myselfalso 17:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
 * True Dat myselfalso. As to 1080, it isn't going anywhere until I get the manual for it, which I am lost with.--Clyde (talk) 19:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia New York Meet-Up
Howdy! Please come to the First Annual New York Wikipedian Central Park Picnic. R.S.V.P. @ Meetup/NYC. --David Shankbone 23:26, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Quick tip
When moving content to another page, please be sure to link the page you are moving it to in the edit description. This allows others to verify where it went. Just64helpin 02:46, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar. It was a nice way to start an evening on Wikipedia. By the way, I found an even crazier talk page for an unreleased game: Godzilla: Unleashed. It got so bad they had to completely protect the article. It's so out of hand it's almost comical.--Clyde (talk) 17:42, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Signature
Better or worse? By distracting, did you mean the color was too bright?-- ►ShadowJester07  19:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Response
No, but the primary one should be used. Not a secondary image. - A Link to the Past (talk) 18:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: PNG to SVG
It would, in theory, be more efficient in the SVG format, so yes, it should be. However, even a PNG that was of slightly higher quality (the current one isn't) would suffice. Converting it would not be easy, though, because it contains a complex spectrum in the letters themselves. Alex43223T 23:25, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Username
I gotta say, I appreciate your username. Very nice choice. That is all. Paul Haymon 22:24, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyeditor
I assume it's for Captain Falcon? Well, I'd be happy to do it, but apart from that, I know that and  are good (they helped me with Age of Mythology). Ask at WP:VG to get some other people. Giggy UCP 22:32, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Captain Falcon
Copy edited as requested. A couple of points to note: I think once my comments have been addressed, the article will probably be a worthy GAC. If you decide to nominate for GAC and want me to copyedit again, just let me know --carelesshx talk 00:33, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't referred specifically to the Link article, as that (IMO) falls a long way short of FA status - see Talk:Link (The Legend of Zelda) for my opinions on that
 * I don't know much about these games, so it would be worth having an expert check over my edits to make sure I haven't inadvertently added any errors anywhere
 * There were some sections that I think need more work. I've added comments to those sections, and to the talk page

"Even by video game article standards, this source is inadequate - is there a link to a manual or official nintendo source available?" I know of a better source but I wasn't too sure about adding it so I went here. That site also is the only official source that has his full name. I have his whole profile so should I add all of it be in the "quote" parameter?  FMF  15:54, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ick... that's a tricky one. The reason I added that comment was that I though an unofficial guide to a completely different game was perhaps not the best source, particularly as I thought there would be an official source elsewhere. I've had a look for myself, and I haven't been able to find anything either. I guess, under the circumstances, it's better than no source at all. Maybe replace my comment with something along the lines of 'please replace this with a better source if one can be found'? --carelesshx talk 17:31, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm.....
You know I'll be honest I don't exactly remember (it's been so long) but I believe I intended to pass it as a good article. On further inspection I noticed some problems, so I corrected them. I think I did enough in my mind that I was a contributor and not a reviewer, so I decided not to pass it. I kept an eye on it after that, which is how I got involved. I think that was it, but I'm not sure. I've noticed you're continued improvements, they've kept it to very high standards. Good job.--Clyde (talk) 20:33, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * What? Of course I do. I own GX, X, and I've played AX. Great games. On GX I usually play Draq and Pico, as well as a custom character that's CAC.--Clyde (talk) 20:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry I haven't gotten back to you; I haven't been very active lately. I'm not much of a copyeditor, and little of my work alone has garnered the sought after bronze star. If I get a chance, I'll do what I can though.--Clyde (talk) 22:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Done.
Glad Giggy finally came to his senses. ;) By the way, he's here now. Anyway, I've finished the copyediting, and removed the tags. Just wanted to ask you though, in this sentence, did you really mean "above", or was that a mistake?: "An anti-gravity unit, known as the "G-Diffuser System", allows them to drive at high speeds, while retaining a hold of the magnetic track, located from a few inches to a foot above it." · AndonicO Talk 21:03, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Hehe, instant bookmark. ;) Our page on Dihydrogen monoxide says the US Navy has secret deposits of DHMO too. ;) · AndonicO Talk 21:09, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what you mean by "too similar to the original". If you're asking me if the story is incorrect, I'm not sure, because I don't own the game. (Is that what you meant, or am I on a completely different planet?) · AndonicO Talk 17:11, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No, it wasn't plagiarized: nothing came up on google when I searched for a few of the phrases. · AndonicO Talk 00:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

All My Base
&copy; All Rights Reserved. — Animum ''' |  talk ]] 00:59, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Show/Hide
In the days before the great standardization of VG boxes and the many wars that followed, which ultimately lead to AMIB leaving, people went crazy with navboxes. The show hide function can be bad if there are several show hide navboxes stacked on each other. It creates problems in certain browsers. We are heading down the road again where we bloat navboxes, then show/hide them, then they screw up the page. If it is so bloated it needs to be hidden, how practical is it?--Clyde (talk) 22:27, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You saw the battles and the climatic decisive end of the second navbox war, but much came to pass before then, predating even my contributions here.--Clyde (talk) 01:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Come to think of it, it could be AMIB erasing the final representations of his work or something...eh that's crazy.--Clyde (talk) 01:11, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Version...?--Clyde (talk) 21:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No I actually have it for the N64. You?--Clyde (talk) 21:30, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No sorry I don't have the manual. I bought the cartridge used at Gamestop many years ago. It didn't have the manual. In fact, I haven't been able to get what I was looking for 1080 off of ReplacementDocs. I wish there was a better place to go...--Clyde (talk) 22:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe go to VG. Drop a public request to see if anyone has it.--Clyde (talk) 22:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

F-Zero Maximum Velocity edits:
FullMetal Falcon, the page for MV has long held the information as to who the world champion of that game is, and now it has changed I edited it thusly. Hence, that is why it is notable - unless you are privy to some kind of protocol I do not know about?

~Ben Allen

FL Main page proposal
You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination this year. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual main page will resemble either an excerpted list format or an abbreviated text format. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:49, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Question
Hey do you think some one from Animal Crossing will be in SSBB its been driving me crazy.--FrosticeBlade 20:09, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Collages
Check his "explanation" page that is linked to by all of the fair use editors. I personally think it might be a good idea (if it can be done well, and doesn't just look crappy), but it would make it easier for the fair use editors to remove all of the images on the page. Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 02:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Durin/Fair use overuse explanation Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 14:41, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

RE:
I'm sure I could. Just post the content of the newsletter, and whom it will be delivered to on my talk page. &mdash; Animum  ( tce ) 19:21, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: User talk:Bse3
On User talk:Sjones23's page, I had made a comment about requesting a bot about sending notifications. So, if you want to write up a notification about it, feel free to do so, Animum approved my request.  « FMF »  03:16, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I wrote up a notification and made the request to Animum's bot. –User: (talk • contribs • count • [ logs ]) 03:54, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment about your posts on the talk page of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
A character list isn't a game guide, period. Look at just about any fighting game article: there is a character list and it does no harm. Also: an article can be in good quality, even if it has a character list. RobJ1981 13:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * ...and yet none of them has reached FA status. -FMF

Sora Ltd.
I got September 30, 2005 from the Masahiro Sakurai article. SNS 15:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Sales
Since I searched a lot for worldwide sales while writing an article - which I tried to somewhat mirror on your F-Zero GX work and bring it to FA without reaching a huge size; failed, got to restart someday -, I found the old version of that page, with NA sales (until 30\01\2004), and a rank of best-selling Australian games (but GX is only at 43, don't know if it's worthy). There's a newer US list, but I haven't found outside of a forum yet.

(I also thought if I should ask your help to finish working at Metroid Prime, specially because my new PR is being ignored) igordebraga ≠ 17:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:Import
There are two types of import:
 * upload import : import a file in a special XML format produced by exporting pages from another wiki
 * transwiki import / interwiki import: import pages directly from another wiki

Import allows a specific user to "move" pages/files to Meta or elsewhere. Dreamy §  21:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Reverting our userpage
Thanks for doing it, and coming back to do it again! :) The user seems determined on me being a sockpuppeteer... I'll have to post on their talk page and see why they think so.

Thanks! Sockpuppeteer Come, my minion.


 * Yeah, thanks. Sock puppet 1X9 Who, me? 20:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)


 * We really do appreciate it. Sock puppet 2X8 No, me! 20:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Best regards, Master of Puppets Care to share?  20:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)


 * You didn't steal anything, shh. :P And I could design a picture for you, if you wish... Master of Puppets Care to share?  22:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll get to work on that. Most of the effort lies in finding which copyright to use to make it uploadable... hmm. Master of Puppets Care to share?  21:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * There you have it; your image. If you want me to make any changes, feel free to suggest them; I am not human, and therefore can't have hurt feelings. Cheers, Master of Puppets Care to share?  23:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I can try my hand at creating some sort of design in that style... I'm really bogged down with school work at the moment, so I may take a few days. Terribly sorry about the inconvenience. Cheers, Master of Puppets Care to share?  06:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey, apparently the GDI logo itself isn't on the Wiki anymore. Y'think that makes your image ok? If not, I've uploaded another one, see how you like that one. It may not be as good, as I had to make it from scratch. Oh, and sorry about the long wait! I got hit by finals. Cheers, Master of Puppets Care to share?  04:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Featured List of the Day Experiment
There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 01:52, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Editing the article on Charlotte High School
Dear Mr. Falcon,

I've been considering making a contribution to it relating to a student population breakdown. The information comes from a district page, I've attached the link to the CHS talk page. I realised that you have made a number of changes to the Charlotte High School page, and you seemed like the logical choice to petition regarding my school. I look forward to your input. 68.56.200.119 (talk) 01:04, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

NB: If you want to contact me, you can do so through the talk page.

I am of the understanding that Mr. Falcon is unbiased, and PORT Charlotte High Pirates appreciate you reverting vandalizm to the Wikipedia Port Charlotte High School artical. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 17:56, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

please stop
please stop destroying the knd pages without discution are reason —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.186.159.184 (talk) 18:52, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Identity Theft
It appears someone may have used your old ID (Lord Falcon) without your permission on User_talk:209.26.221.66. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 17:53, 15 December 2007 (UTC)