User talk:Slimy asparagus

Welcome
Hello  and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.  ''Click here to reply to this message.''  ukexpat (talk) 15:22, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Dominant Species (board game)
Thanks for your expansion of this article. Can you ensure each paragraph has a reference (even if it is repeated in another paragraph it is still required). If you expand it more (I recommend adding more reviews and quotes from reviewers) it would be eligible for the front page (see WP:DYK). Please let me know if you need any assistance! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:42, 28 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I have done this though I do hope to keep working on that article.Slimy asparagus (talk) 04:27, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Evo (board game) article request
Hi Slimy asparagus, here is a copy of the article you requested for 172 (Vol 25, #6) (presumably from "GAMES Magazine"). The citation should look like this: And here is the article: link

In case you're curious I've uploaded two other articles from GAMES from Dec 2001 and Dec 2002 as well. Here are the two Buyer's Guides article: link (Dec 2001) and link (Dec 2002)

Good luck with the article(s)! -Thibbs (talk) 19:22, 31 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks so much.Slimy asparagus (talk) 19:25, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

August 2021
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Should game mechanics add a section on "drafting games"?
There seems to be a specialized gaming vocabulary I don't know. I just googled to find out what is a "drafting game" and found this. Hoping you might be willing to do this as a benefit to game non-experts? HouseOfChange (talk) 15:00, 1 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Well that won't be considered a reliable source. There was a book out a year or two back about classifying game mechanics written if I recall by people associated with the Dice Tower. But it was very granular. They tried implementing on BGG and it was too granular. Apart from that I don't know any good sources. Usually when I try to find theoretical stuff about board games you come up with video games - which has some crossover, but I don't like the feeling that board games are a poor cousin to video games. Slimy asparagus (talk) 15:13, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Ultra checkers
Hello, Slimy asparagus,

Just a reminder that any time you tag a page for deletion (whether CSD, PROD, or AFD/MFD/TFD/etc.), you need to post a notice on the talk page of the page creator informing them of the tagging. It's part of the deletion process. It's made easier if you use Twinkle which will post the notice for you any time you tag a page once you set up your Preferences to "Notify page creator". Please do this in the future. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:24, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Clarification for World Champion?
I am not sure what you mean by this edit or how we could clarify that Roel Boomstra was the World Draughts Champion 2018 (in 2019). I don't understand what you mean by "other variants". Other variants of what? Mark in wiki (talk) 09:16, 19 September 2021 (UTC)


 * So I shall explain. I was trying to fix a dead link on that page. I did fix that. But I saw that the fixed link was before the match and so did not say who the winner was. So I tried to see if I could find a reference.
 * What I found made me think that I was finding other variants of draughts rather than international draughts. I can't now find what I saw. However I could not see what in your second reference helped, but I did find this: . If I had found it this morning I would have used it and not tagged the page. Slimy asparagus (talk) 20:17, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Why was Glasnost the Game deleted after almost 2 decades?
Dear Slimy asparagus

I happen to be the inventor of Glasnost the Game which was produced in Cyprus (not Greece) in the early 90s in 4,000 copies. I was surprised to see that after more than 10 years, the page was deleted. But more surprised I was to read the arguments. For example, one said that only 100 copies were produced, when the Game's page says explicitly that OLY 100 were still available as ORIGINALS.

Also another person claimed that newspapers were probably hoax, or that probably it was self promotion and that the inventor contacted the newspapers!

Someone also says: "Also since this game originates in Greek-speaking Cypress" This is wrong. If this person spend a moment to read the article, it said that the inventors were in Germany and in the US. And there is not country called Cypress!

I use wikipedia almost everyday because I always believed it was truly based on crowdsourcing and verification.

I am not the one who created that page, and I know very little of how wikipedia works. But i would appreciate a little bit more seriousness and respect, along with your advice and/or initiative to restore the page. The fact that the Glasnost the gape page was deleted after another surprising deletion of a page (Yiannis Laouris) that my followers created almost 20 years ago is suspicious.


 * Just to be clear, I never thought it was a hoax and I thought that was a strange claim. Still the evidence was not terribly strong. We could largely only see off line resources. Of what we could see, with a lot of digging, it seemed very likely that even the articles published in newspapers were likely based on little else than an interview with the inventor. Better evidence would be needed to convince me otherwise. Making all of the offline resources available may help. However personally I am convinced it is not sufficiently notable to be on wikipedia according to its own rules. As for "ten years", well it appears Wikipedia does not enforce its rules very quickly. Certainly you will be aware it relies on volunteers to enforce them.Slimy asparagus (talk) 17:49, 24 September 2021 (UTC)