User talk:X201/Archive 4

The WPVG Newsletter (December 2008)

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Recent edits
Yes, you had deleted something from the PlayStation Home article that I had put on and you said it was not notable, why is that it is not notable? JDC808 (talk) 16:46, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It was partly an wrong edit on my part. The bit about Red Bull Air Race having no trophies/awards would be notable if it had a citation. The bit about users recording their times on a forum isn't. - X201 (talk) 09:16, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, just wondering--JDC808 (talk) 10:04, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Edge magazine request
X201, could I get the section on Pong from the January 2000 issue (80) of Edge? (Guyinblack25 talk 22:06, 15 January 2009 (UTC))
 * Thanks. Much appreciated. (Guyinblack25 talk 20:19, 16 January 2009 (UTC))

Brütal Legend
"ü" IS a alpha numeric character and is allowed. There are plenty of articles that have accented characters like "ü", "ö" (such as Motörhead), "é", etc. Just because you don't like accented letters is not reason to move an article to a incorrect name.  TJ   Spyke   23:51, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Me liking it or not has nothing to do with it (I'm not bothered by it in the slightest if you must know). My reason for removing it is my desire to see any articles connected to Tim Schafer reach the highest standard possible on WP. Therefore I removed the umlauts and moved the article so that the article met the standards decided upon by other Wikipedia editors. My reason for doing this was to give the article the correct foundations so that it would become a Good Article and Hopefully a Featured Article with the minimum of problems. - X201 (talk) 09:24, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (January 2009)

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PS Store Icons/Badges
Hi. I noticed you replaced the image on Flower with the badge/icon thing from the PlayStation Store. I assume you got that one from the PS Blog but do you know of anywhere else where you can get these in a decent resolution? There are several other articles which would be better with those icons. Cheers.  ChimpanzeeUK  - User | Talk | Contribs 20:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

LBP Peer Review
Hi. Cheers for your help with LittleBigPlanet. It's a big list to get through on my own! I do intend to get started on it (maybe this evening), I just need to set a chunk of time aside. Thanks.  ChimpanzeeUK  - User | Talk | Contribs 12:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem. There are a couple of things in njo's list that I am unsure of/mildly disagree with, but on the whole, the article will be better at the end of the peer review. - X201 (talk) 12:42, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think one of the major problems is going to be with the sources. A lot of them are not considered reliable. Sites like TheSixthAxis I know to be reliable but it might be tricky to put together a case for it. I have submitted it to WP:VG/RS's talk page but no response yet.  ChimpanzeeUK  - User | Talk | Contribs 12:46, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thesixthaxis ref has Threespeech as the primary source and is also available on Gamesindustry.biz, which is on the OK sources list. As for others, it'll be trawl the net time, to find reliable sites with the same story. - X201 (talk) 14:57, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

RE:VG portal
Yeah, it can get troublesome sometimes. Ones we normally use are free pictures of company headquarters, stores, people, consoles, other hardware, and, if in a real bind, countries. I think some Ubisoft screen shots have been used before too, but very rarely. Sometimes you get lucky, and you get to use really interesting pics, like Dante Alighieri.

Just a quick note, try to make sure the same picture is not on Portal:Video games/Picture. It's ok if it is, just looks a little weird having the same image in two places on the portal.

Anyway, thanks for the help. It is very much appreciated, especially when I have other things going on in real life. (Guyinblack25 talk 16:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC))

The WPVG Newsletter (February 2009)

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RE: BAFTAs
Thanks for that! :D. The others might be tricky as they've got far less info in terms of news items floating around on the interweb. I think mainly for now the various areas need copyediting and fixing the mess I've managed to make of that template I've housed in my user space. BigHairRef | Talk 21:39, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Cats: PlayStation 3 games/PlayStation 3 Network games
Hi. I notice you undid a revision by 24.143.226.138 and restored the PlayStation 3 games category to Snakeball. I noticed that this user removed the category from A LOT of articles a couple of days ago. I reverted one but wasn't sure if I was correct. Do you know whether PSN games should have this cat or not or should they just have the PS3 Network one? I think they should have both but I was unsure.  ChimpanzeeUK  - User | Talk | Contribs 14:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Its always been the case with WP:SUBCAT & the "Duplicate Categorization Rule" (aka Secondary Categorization Rule) that if a user would expect to find something in a category that is filled with similar articles then the article should be in both categories. Or in plain English... in a category full of PS3 games would a user expect to find PS3 games? Yes, because the grouping criteria is that they are PS3 games regardless of any other criteria. The same user would expect to find only PSN games in the PSN category but does a game stop being a PS3 game just because its a PSN game? obviously not, so it should be in both categories.
 * Sorry it sounded like a lecture. In short games should be in both cats. If the top category was games by distribution method then it would be different, but its not. - X201 (talk) 14:45, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thought so. Thanks.  ChimpanzeeUK  - User | Talk | Contribs 15:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

You deleted my contribs to the 360 accessories
There was no advertising on the content posted. That wikipedia page CLEARLY defines it is for First and Third party accessories. The Grip-It is exactly that, an accessory. The Xbox 360 game console, developed by Microsoft, features a number of first-party and third-party accessories. We have every right to post the new item.

I see you are a part of the Wikipedia Games project, but you have no business editing my content on the 360 accessories page, accessories are not games. Wikipedia is a conglomeration of user-added content... If users keep deleting content, it deters the point of having a publicly editable Encyclopedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zer0efx (talk • contribs) 14:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (March 2009)

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A note regarding the WPVG Newsletter
Due to an apparent lack of interest, the WPVG Newsletter will be switching from a monthly publication schedule to a quarterly one. The next issue be delivered on July 1, 2009, and will pertain to the second quarter of the calendar year. If you have any comments regarding this, or suggestions to improve the newsletter, please post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter.
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James Bond
The above article is being re-assessed as part of the GA Sweeps project The re-assessment has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass; otherwise it will fail. See Talk:James Bond for things needing to be addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:42, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (Q2 2009)

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Edge magazine
Do you have issue number 200? I'm looking for additional info on F-Zero.  « ₣M₣ »  01:04, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Anything worthwhile mentioning that's not already in there.  « ₣M₣ »  22:08, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I really do not know, I just saw the game on the cover. Perhaps it was just one of many covers they did just for #200. :/ Well, thanks anyway.  « ₣M₣ »  22:31, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Wipeout PS3
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British English
I've seen on some pages that it's possible to add an 'Editors note' to the top of the edit page. Do you know how to do this? (Here's an example.)  Chimpanzee  - User | Talk | Contribs 09:06, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Only Admins can add them - WP:EDN Creating editnotices section, last bit underneath the table. - X201 (talk) 10:41, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've requested one for LBP.  Chimpanzee  - User | Talk | Contribs 11:48, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Flagicon
Nice job cleaning up flagicons. Just a suggestion, flagicon=USA should probably be replaced with vgrelease|NA= (for North America). –xenotalk 13:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Its only the last week or so that I've switched to USA instead of NA= Part of my thinking was that dates with refs on them could actually be pointing to US dates and that the Canadian date, even though not present, could be different. I'm now thinking of switching back to a blanket NA, Europe gets grouped together so NA shouldn't be a problem for the US and Canada. - X201 (talk) 13:34, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's rare for release dates to be different (and if was notable, Canada would probably already be in the infobox, right?). I would say, just go with North America as a default. –xenotalk 13:37, 27 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll switch to NA. I'm about halfway through this first run through. I'll have to do a second one because of the numerous different coding variations for the country names that I've found along the way. I'll change the USA ones for NA on the second run through. - X201 (talk) 13:46, 27 July 2009 (UTC)


 * You should try using regex's to account for different wordings. I've been using regex more and more with AWB and it's a huge timesaver. –xenotalk 17:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Sackboy
I think we discussed this a while back but I don't remember what happened with it. Anyway, if you're interested, I'm putting together a Sackboy article at User:ChimpanzeeUK/Sackboy. I started it ages ago but have hardly done anything with it. I intend to get going on it again soon. Feel free to contribute if you like.  Chimpanzee  - User | Talk | Contribs 12:33, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

James Bond film series GAR notification
James Bond film series has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:56, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (File:GTAIV in-game screenshot.png)
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U/C
In video games, U/C is the official representation of North America. It simply means United States/Canada. Because the ISO code NA means something else. Just about every console video game released to the entire North American continent says U/C right on the cover next to NTSC. If a game were only released to the United States it would say US, if only Canada it would say CA. æron  phone  home   15:10, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Request for an Edge article
Hi X201, can I have a look at the Sacrifice article in issue 89 (October 2000) of Edge? Jappalang (talk) 01:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I can wait. Jappalang (talk) 22:04, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for providing the requested information! Jappalang (talk) 07:44, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (Q3 2009)

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Edge query
The Edge ref library is a tad out of date, I was wondering if you had issue 206. There's supposed to be a story about Halo 3: ODST in it I'd very much like to use for the article here. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk  ) 16:08, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate categories
Okay If you think that they should be in both categories, that's fine. I was more concerned about consistency than anything else. If you want me to be the one to duplicate the categories, that's fine as well, but right now it's 5:00 in the morning where I live, so I am going to bed soon. If you need to respond, please do so on my talk. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:53, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

About game receptions and review scores table.

Hi there. I'm working for Turkey section of Tom's Hardware Guide. I'm mainly gaming editor at the moment and i would like to add our review scores and receptions to the related games on Turkish and English sections of Wikipedia. But it seems this need a special code for the reception table. Because Tom's Hardware is not on the code list for this table. Look at this one for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_2

If there is a way to add our website name to those code. I can apply those kinds of table on Turkish section of Wikipedia for video game pages as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by UgurYurtsever (talk • contribs) 23:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

About game receptions and review scores table.

Hi there. I'm working for Turkey section of Tom's Hardware Guide. I'm mainly gaming editor at the moment and i would like to add our review scores and receptions to the related games on Turkish and English sections of Wikipedia. But it seems this need a special code for the reception table. Because Tom's Hardware is not on the code list for this table. Look at this one for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_2

If there is a way to add our website name to those code. I can apply those kinds of table on Turkish section of Wikipedia for video game pages as well. (UgurYurtsever (talk) 23:40, 10 December 2009 (UTC))

Orphaned non-free image File:Minna no golf portable 2.jpg
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