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You have clearly noticed that I have been working on the Isle of the Dead article. By any chance do you have any information on the game like its instruction manual? Been trying to get it to at least GA status but hitting a wall. GamerPro64 02:44, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
I am requesting a history page move for obvious technical titular reasons: SP//dr to Peni Parker. Jhenderson 777 21:08, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I recently had my first article deleted. I'm trying to improve it so would you be able to provide me with a copy of the deleted article for use as a draft? Thanks, MLKinsella ( talk) 10:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi man! Sorry if i haven't been able to help you a lot in the articles you've created but i'm still with the issue of not having internet on my household. I need help from you to move this article from Bound High! (video game) to Bound High!. Take care pal! Roberth Martinez ( talk) 15:09, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi BOZ. You protected this draft back in January because of IP disruption, The PP has run out and the IP (or IPs) is back at it again. Not sure if a new PP request is needed, but I'd thought I ask you first. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:14, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I wanted to bring this to your attention. Looks like we have a Single Purpose Account going after the Sean Patrick Fannon page. Dealt with them a little last year now they are back and put the page up for deletion. Looking into it a bit myself. Web Warlock ( talk) 18:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
The consensus was to not redirect. Please revert your edit. czar 05:02, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, it looks as if too many of your article creations are for subjects with extremely limited notability. I have redirected a few and nomineted two for deletion, but it seems that there are many other similar ones. A review (certainly a capsule review) in Space Gamer is not sufficient to establish notability at all (and in some cases wasn't even an independent source, reveiwing stuff from their own company), and in many cases no other indepth sources fo some reliability could be found (e.g. for The Journal of Tékumel Affairs there is a passing mention in the 1984 "Fantasy Review", a fanzine, and then some mentions on game fora and wikis). Please don't create further articles on such things unless there are much better sources. Fram ( talk) 14:54, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
seems | an admin may be | vandalizing articles as the redirects made from existing articles left other articles pointing to | limbo with no reasoning or fixing other pages? and no votes or anything from the wikipedia community itself. shadzar- talk 04:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey BOZ,
If you have time, would you mind to add some comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Infinity Gauntlet/archive2? The nomination is in danger of stalling, and I don't really want to go through the process a third time. Thanks, Argento Surfer ( talk) 19:08, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for all your service to WP:APPLE. I meant to include you in the recent mass messaging but here it is. So please check my new Welcome message and see what you think, and let me know if you think there should be an Apple II task force. I don't know what other active admins we have in WP:APPLE, but that would be gr8. I also invited Dgpop, and I'm super esteemed in your collaboration with him as per his Talk page. We definitely need an Apple II barnstar! — Smuckola (talk) 09:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC) |
Hi! Sorry for bothering you about this subject once again but I need your help, as i don't have the ability to rename files: File:NEOGEO Fatal Fury - King of Fighters (Garō Densetsu Shukumei no Tatakai).png => NEOGEO Fatal Fury - King of Fighters (Garō Densetsu - Shukumei no Tatakai)
@ BOZ:Hey man! Can you try to revive this article: Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S (3DO game)? Somebody merged it with the Sailor Moon game list, which shouldn've been done in the first place... Roberth Martinez ( talk) 21:46, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi. A conflict has arisen on the Adam Hughes article. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 21:34, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion regarding the split of Lois Lane to Lois Lane in other media. There might be edit conflict on it. Jhenderson 777 13:16, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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You've been at it for years, but your enthusiasm for creating and sourcing Wikipedia's video game articles never seems to wane! This barnstar is dedicated particularly to your work with Next Generation—your efforts to add every single review the magazine ever gave to its corresponding Wikipedia article, even when that means creating the article from scratch, is inspiring. I know it's inspired me. Thanks for your tireless contributions! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 05:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC) |
Thank you JimmyBlackwing, I am honored! :) And, I will say, to turn it back to you, I was originally inspired to start this project of doing the Next Generation reviews because I saw you had added some of them to articles I was watching, so you inspired me as well. :) I looked at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Next Generation Magazine page and saw how many redlinks there were under the Game Reviews column (notice there are far fewer such redlinks and bad links now), and how many of the articles had few or no sources or reviews, and I said to myself that we can do better than this. The stubby articles I create may not start off very impressive, but we have to start somewhere don't we? Look at Doctor Hauzer and Burning Soldier as examples of where my stubs and restored articles can go if the right person takes notice! I think I am more than halfway done with the NG page, and there are a bunch of other magazine pages to go through after that, so we will see how long my stamina holds up. ;) BOZ ( talk) 05:33, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Just letting you know that the amount of links {{ Infobox D&D deity}} had was very small, and I'm pretty sure there were much more when I nominated it. Whatever links were left I added the race and series as you've asked (except for D&D as I couldn't be really sure that all links were actually for that), but I have no idea if whoever did the rest did the same. -- Gonnym ( talk) 12:30, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Maniac is a German gaming mag started in like 93, and they're still around so they decided to upload all their old game reviews to their site under the Klassic Test section. They upload about two per day, and timeline-wise they're up to reviews from 1998. Very valuable resource, as its very easy to access, and they reviewed many games, including obscurities that no modern publication would talk about. They have reviews for obscure systems like Jaguar CD, 3DO, CDi.
Also, some games like Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures only came out in Japan and Europe, meaning there's no American coverage at all. And German is super easy to translate to English. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 16:57, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hey I need your help. It has been suggested that Iron Man's Armor to be deleted and I need your help to prevent that from happening. I'm planning to use Iron Man Armor on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki to get the citation needed to save the article. I really need your help to prevent this from dying, please I really need you. Penguin7812 ( talk) 19:38, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Restoring some of the content would be good as they were purged by @ Namenamenamenamename: due to how minor some of them are. Especially those who appeared in TV, film, and video games like Kraglin, Karla Faye Gideon, Father Lantom (who was redirected to the page detailing about the characters that appeared in the TV series Daredevil), both versions of Baron Samedi (with the Loa version not being listed prior to the minor character purging), and anyone else I left out while I had to establish a page for Rick Stoner due to him being notable as the first known director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Those that appeared in The Punisher I was able to redirect to the List of Punisher supporting characters page. -- Rtkat3 ( talk) 14:10, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. The building manager redirect to building management is shown to be in all caps because of how it's creator made it. Is there a way for you to retitle it to not being in caps as a favor that I ask of you? -- Rtkat3 ( talk) 15:54, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Couls you please block user:Evanhop. She is clearly not going to stop until she gets blocked. CLCStudent ( talk) 16:37, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, just to clarify, would you prefer that I reopen the discussion at WP:Articles for deletion/Dream Pod 9? –– Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs) 23:43, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi there,
Not trying to give you a hard time at the Dream Pod 9 AfD. It's just that the boldtext !vote should only come from a person once. You can always add more comments, or even strike a previous !vote to add a new one -- the only thing that's kind of a no-no is repeating a bold !vote. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:41, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I was just issued a warning from WP:Peachy saying I shouldn't have removed the AfD template on Dream Pod 9. It was removed from when I closed the discussion, but when it was relisted after a DRV discussion, I was warned, though this is a mistake. Are you able to assist with clearing it?
If I am mistaken, and there is a reason that this warning was issued, please correct me. –– Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs) 03:12, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
Do you mind helping solve a debate / edit war in Lex Luthor. Thank you! Jhenderson 777 16:16, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
I apologize for the trouble, but as I said to the other moderator, I am actually not attempting to change anything, I have only restored the Wikipedia page in support of existing reference citations. The other individual is attempting a radical edit, based on nothing, that is in direct contravention of every single comic book authority- Overstreet, CGC, CBCS, and of course DC comics itself. Which is why the other individual is unable to produce any citation other than something from some guy's site called "mikesamazingworld", which itself, when you click the magnifying glass (the way the other individual suggest I do) specifically states in a disclaimer in the pop up that "publication dates are NOT release dates" (I also notice that Action Comics 23 has a copyright number that is also earlier than Superman 4, further undermining the edit the other individual is attempting to make).
Given that the other individual is attempting to edit 80 years of existing DC canon on Wikipedia with absolutely no citation to support anything close to the content of his attempted to edit, I would hope that the moderators take note that I am not the one who is attempting to "change" anything to advance some odd agenda. I'm simply trying to keep the information consistent with the relevant citations and established comic book canon.
Thank for reaching out.
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Hey Boz, I saw your edit on Redemption and I see a "Legend of the Five Rings" quote on there. Is that a mistake? Leitmotiv ( talk) 01:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
I get that the Penguin user was a sock puppet and everything. But I don’t approve of deleting his material like Knull (comics) etc. Can you possibly bring some of his good faith material back? Jhenderson 777 03:05, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, I need help with this article, please. Do you know someone else to improve this article? F. E. Puricelli ( talk) 01:26, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for creating this article! It's been a beloved part of my collection since its publication in 1995. I've cited to it here on Wikipedia several times over the years and will try to link to the article in the future.
Mtminchi08 ( talk) 03:13, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!
Missvain ( talk) 04:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Hey out of curiosity, where did you come across your Arcane mags? If you want to email me, you can go to my website. I run the email there. Leitmotiv ( talk) 00:14, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I caught user: 1.144.110.47 removing user:1.129.104.112 from WP:AIV. CLCStudent ( talk) 16:00, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
There is a disambiguation page. If there is a primary topic, I would argue that it is the band The Fixx, but there is very little information about the X-Men character.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:23, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen someone manage to be derisive to both sides of an argument at the same time, quite as well as this. Vulcan's Forge ( talk) 22:23, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello dear BOZ! In the ongoing deletion discussion about the AD&D 2nd edition monster list the question about the independent/non-independent nature of Lawrence Schick's Heroic Worlds was raised now. Do you have insight in this, could you perhaps help out here? Unfortunately I cannot say at the moment, having quoted from the Monstrous Compendium article (not very scientific, not going to the original source myself, but the deletion discussion pressed for time). Thanks a lot for any input! Daranios ( talk) 17:10, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
The template for the List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters appears to have been broken by a merge nomination. I'm not in a position to fix it right now, can you help? Vulcan's Forge ( talk) 17:17, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
I'm working on making a page for The Surgeon, a 1985 Macintosh game with scarce information online, but found the creator of the game online (still has a stong online presence) and emailed him asking several important questions regarding the game. He responded with some really valuable insight into the game and its development, but I don't know how to cite this. I'm asking you because of your work on old Macintosh games and you seem friendly and seem like you would know the best way to handle this. I don't know if this would fall into the realm of 'original research' but I feel there's a difference between someone typing up a bunch of uncited stuff based on what they know and contacting the developer of a game for more information. Asking him to publish his response in an official capacity on his website or on his Twitter seems like overstepping some bounds, as he's active in work regarding engineering and asking him to publish information regarding a game he wrote 34 years ago seems rude. I was thinking maybe asking him if it's okay to put a transcript of the emails on archive.org, but anyone could fake that, yknow? Do you know the best way to cite this? Waxworker ( talk) 20:20, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Re: merge idea and others. I am quite fond of soft delete per WP:PERSERVE, and merges are good too except sometimes they are pointless (merging bad content into bad article that will get deleted later is a waste of time).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:13, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ Boz:, I wrote a new article for Corellon Larethian here. There is currently a redirect for Corellon Larethian to List of Elf deities (until that list article is deleted). So I want to move my draft into main space and then delete the redirect, right? I think that may be beyond my ability--any chance when you have time that you could do this? A general question, I have provisional 'new page patroller' rights. Is it frowned upon to review a page that you have authored? AugusteBlanqui ( talk) 13:25, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
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You have clearly noticed that I have been working on the Isle of the Dead article. By any chance do you have any information on the game like its instruction manual? Been trying to get it to at least GA status but hitting a wall. GamerPro64 02:44, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
I am requesting a history page move for obvious technical titular reasons: SP//dr to Peni Parker. Jhenderson 777 21:08, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I recently had my first article deleted. I'm trying to improve it so would you be able to provide me with a copy of the deleted article for use as a draft? Thanks, MLKinsella ( talk) 10:32, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi man! Sorry if i haven't been able to help you a lot in the articles you've created but i'm still with the issue of not having internet on my household. I need help from you to move this article from Bound High! (video game) to Bound High!. Take care pal! Roberth Martinez ( talk) 15:09, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi BOZ. You protected this draft back in January because of IP disruption, The PP has run out and the IP (or IPs) is back at it again. Not sure if a new PP request is needed, but I'd thought I ask you first. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 01:14, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I wanted to bring this to your attention. Looks like we have a Single Purpose Account going after the Sean Patrick Fannon page. Dealt with them a little last year now they are back and put the page up for deletion. Looking into it a bit myself. Web Warlock ( talk) 18:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
The consensus was to not redirect. Please revert your edit. czar 05:02, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, it looks as if too many of your article creations are for subjects with extremely limited notability. I have redirected a few and nomineted two for deletion, but it seems that there are many other similar ones. A review (certainly a capsule review) in Space Gamer is not sufficient to establish notability at all (and in some cases wasn't even an independent source, reveiwing stuff from their own company), and in many cases no other indepth sources fo some reliability could be found (e.g. for The Journal of Tékumel Affairs there is a passing mention in the 1984 "Fantasy Review", a fanzine, and then some mentions on game fora and wikis). Please don't create further articles on such things unless there are much better sources. Fram ( talk) 14:54, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
seems | an admin may be | vandalizing articles as the redirects made from existing articles left other articles pointing to | limbo with no reasoning or fixing other pages? and no votes or anything from the wikipedia community itself. shadzar- talk 04:02, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey BOZ,
If you have time, would you mind to add some comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Infinity Gauntlet/archive2? The nomination is in danger of stalling, and I don't really want to go through the process a third time. Thanks, Argento Surfer ( talk) 19:08, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for all your service to WP:APPLE. I meant to include you in the recent mass messaging but here it is. So please check my new Welcome message and see what you think, and let me know if you think there should be an Apple II task force. I don't know what other active admins we have in WP:APPLE, but that would be gr8. I also invited Dgpop, and I'm super esteemed in your collaboration with him as per his Talk page. We definitely need an Apple II barnstar! — Smuckola (talk) 09:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC) |
Hi! Sorry for bothering you about this subject once again but I need your help, as i don't have the ability to rename files: File:NEOGEO Fatal Fury - King of Fighters (Garō Densetsu Shukumei no Tatakai).png => NEOGEO Fatal Fury - King of Fighters (Garō Densetsu - Shukumei no Tatakai)
@ BOZ:Hey man! Can you try to revive this article: Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S (3DO game)? Somebody merged it with the Sailor Moon game list, which shouldn've been done in the first place... Roberth Martinez ( talk) 21:46, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi. A conflict has arisen on the Adam Hughes article. Can you offer your opinion in this discussion? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 21:34, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion regarding the split of Lois Lane to Lois Lane in other media. There might be edit conflict on it. Jhenderson 777 13:16, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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You've been at it for years, but your enthusiasm for creating and sourcing Wikipedia's video game articles never seems to wane! This barnstar is dedicated particularly to your work with Next Generation—your efforts to add every single review the magazine ever gave to its corresponding Wikipedia article, even when that means creating the article from scratch, is inspiring. I know it's inspired me. Thanks for your tireless contributions! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 05:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC) |
Thank you JimmyBlackwing, I am honored! :) And, I will say, to turn it back to you, I was originally inspired to start this project of doing the Next Generation reviews because I saw you had added some of them to articles I was watching, so you inspired me as well. :) I looked at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Next Generation Magazine page and saw how many redlinks there were under the Game Reviews column (notice there are far fewer such redlinks and bad links now), and how many of the articles had few or no sources or reviews, and I said to myself that we can do better than this. The stubby articles I create may not start off very impressive, but we have to start somewhere don't we? Look at Doctor Hauzer and Burning Soldier as examples of where my stubs and restored articles can go if the right person takes notice! I think I am more than halfway done with the NG page, and there are a bunch of other magazine pages to go through after that, so we will see how long my stamina holds up. ;) BOZ ( talk) 05:33, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Just letting you know that the amount of links {{ Infobox D&D deity}} had was very small, and I'm pretty sure there were much more when I nominated it. Whatever links were left I added the race and series as you've asked (except for D&D as I couldn't be really sure that all links were actually for that), but I have no idea if whoever did the rest did the same. -- Gonnym ( talk) 12:30, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Maniac is a German gaming mag started in like 93, and they're still around so they decided to upload all their old game reviews to their site under the Klassic Test section. They upload about two per day, and timeline-wise they're up to reviews from 1998. Very valuable resource, as its very easy to access, and they reviewed many games, including obscurities that no modern publication would talk about. They have reviews for obscure systems like Jaguar CD, 3DO, CDi.
Also, some games like Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures only came out in Japan and Europe, meaning there's no American coverage at all. And German is super easy to translate to English. Harizotoh9 ( talk) 16:57, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
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Hey I need your help. It has been suggested that Iron Man's Armor to be deleted and I need your help to prevent that from happening. I'm planning to use Iron Man Armor on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki to get the citation needed to save the article. I really need your help to prevent this from dying, please I really need you. Penguin7812 ( talk) 19:38, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Restoring some of the content would be good as they were purged by @ Namenamenamenamename: due to how minor some of them are. Especially those who appeared in TV, film, and video games like Kraglin, Karla Faye Gideon, Father Lantom (who was redirected to the page detailing about the characters that appeared in the TV series Daredevil), both versions of Baron Samedi (with the Loa version not being listed prior to the minor character purging), and anyone else I left out while I had to establish a page for Rick Stoner due to him being notable as the first known director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Those that appeared in The Punisher I was able to redirect to the List of Punisher supporting characters page. -- Rtkat3 ( talk) 14:10, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
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-- Rtkat3 ( talk) 15:24, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi. The building manager redirect to building management is shown to be in all caps because of how it's creator made it. Is there a way for you to retitle it to not being in caps as a favor that I ask of you? -- Rtkat3 ( talk) 15:54, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Couls you please block user:Evanhop. She is clearly not going to stop until she gets blocked. CLCStudent ( talk) 16:37, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, just to clarify, would you prefer that I reopen the discussion at WP:Articles for deletion/Dream Pod 9? –– Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs) 23:43, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi there,
Not trying to give you a hard time at the Dream Pod 9 AfD. It's just that the boldtext !vote should only come from a person once. You can always add more comments, or even strike a previous !vote to add a new one -- the only thing that's kind of a no-no is repeating a bold !vote. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:41, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey, I was just issued a warning from WP:Peachy saying I shouldn't have removed the AfD template on Dream Pod 9. It was removed from when I closed the discussion, but when it was relisted after a DRV discussion, I was warned, though this is a mistake. Are you able to assist with clearing it?
If I am mistaken, and there is a reason that this warning was issued, please correct me. –– Redditaddict69 (talk) (contribs) 03:12, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
Do you mind helping solve a debate / edit war in Lex Luthor. Thank you! Jhenderson 777 16:16, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
I apologize for the trouble, but as I said to the other moderator, I am actually not attempting to change anything, I have only restored the Wikipedia page in support of existing reference citations. The other individual is attempting a radical edit, based on nothing, that is in direct contravention of every single comic book authority- Overstreet, CGC, CBCS, and of course DC comics itself. Which is why the other individual is unable to produce any citation other than something from some guy's site called "mikesamazingworld", which itself, when you click the magnifying glass (the way the other individual suggest I do) specifically states in a disclaimer in the pop up that "publication dates are NOT release dates" (I also notice that Action Comics 23 has a copyright number that is also earlier than Superman 4, further undermining the edit the other individual is attempting to make).
Given that the other individual is attempting to edit 80 years of existing DC canon on Wikipedia with absolutely no citation to support anything close to the content of his attempted to edit, I would hope that the moderators take note that I am not the one who is attempting to "change" anything to advance some odd agenda. I'm simply trying to keep the information consistent with the relevant citations and established comic book canon.
Thank for reaching out.
Regards,
-jaydubp — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaydubp ( talk • contribs) 19:09, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
Hey Boz, I saw your edit on Redemption and I see a "Legend of the Five Rings" quote on there. Is that a mistake? Leitmotiv ( talk) 01:44, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
I get that the Penguin user was a sock puppet and everything. But I don’t approve of deleting his material like Knull (comics) etc. Can you possibly bring some of his good faith material back? Jhenderson 777 03:05, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Greetings, I need help with this article, please. Do you know someone else to improve this article? F. E. Puricelli ( talk) 01:26, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for creating this article! It's been a beloved part of my collection since its publication in 1995. I've cited to it here on Wikipedia several times over the years and will try to link to the article in the future.
Mtminchi08 ( talk) 03:13, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!
Missvain ( talk) 04:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Hey out of curiosity, where did you come across your Arcane mags? If you want to email me, you can go to my website. I run the email there. Leitmotiv ( talk) 00:14, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I caught user: 1.144.110.47 removing user:1.129.104.112 from WP:AIV. CLCStudent ( talk) 16:00, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
There is a disambiguation page. If there is a primary topic, I would argue that it is the band The Fixx, but there is very little information about the X-Men character.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 16:23, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen someone manage to be derisive to both sides of an argument at the same time, quite as well as this. Vulcan's Forge ( talk) 22:23, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello dear BOZ! In the ongoing deletion discussion about the AD&D 2nd edition monster list the question about the independent/non-independent nature of Lawrence Schick's Heroic Worlds was raised now. Do you have insight in this, could you perhaps help out here? Unfortunately I cannot say at the moment, having quoted from the Monstrous Compendium article (not very scientific, not going to the original source myself, but the deletion discussion pressed for time). Thanks a lot for any input! Daranios ( talk) 17:10, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
The template for the List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters appears to have been broken by a merge nomination. I'm not in a position to fix it right now, can you help? Vulcan's Forge ( talk) 17:17, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
I'm working on making a page for The Surgeon, a 1985 Macintosh game with scarce information online, but found the creator of the game online (still has a stong online presence) and emailed him asking several important questions regarding the game. He responded with some really valuable insight into the game and its development, but I don't know how to cite this. I'm asking you because of your work on old Macintosh games and you seem friendly and seem like you would know the best way to handle this. I don't know if this would fall into the realm of 'original research' but I feel there's a difference between someone typing up a bunch of uncited stuff based on what they know and contacting the developer of a game for more information. Asking him to publish his response in an official capacity on his website or on his Twitter seems like overstepping some bounds, as he's active in work regarding engineering and asking him to publish information regarding a game he wrote 34 years ago seems rude. I was thinking maybe asking him if it's okay to put a transcript of the emails on archive.org, but anyone could fake that, yknow? Do you know the best way to cite this? Waxworker ( talk) 20:20, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Re: merge idea and others. I am quite fond of soft delete per WP:PERSERVE, and merges are good too except sometimes they are pointless (merging bad content into bad article that will get deleted later is a waste of time).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:13, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ Boz:, I wrote a new article for Corellon Larethian here. There is currently a redirect for Corellon Larethian to List of Elf deities (until that list article is deleted). So I want to move my draft into main space and then delete the redirect, right? I think that may be beyond my ability--any chance when you have time that you could do this? A general question, I have provisional 'new page patroller' rights. Is it frowned upon to review a page that you have authored? AugusteBlanqui ( talk) 13:25, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
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Damon Runyon's short story
"Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the
hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well B. MarnetteD| Talk 17:33, 19 December 2019 (UTC) |
Hello, BOZ! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year!
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Thank you for continuing to make Wikipedia the greatest project in the world. I hope you have an excellent holiday season. Lightburst ( talk) 22:51, 21 December 2019 (UTC) |
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. If you don't like Christmas or just don't celebrate it in any of its forms, then please accept a generic "Happy Holidays". If you celebrate no holidays at this time of year, then hopefully you will be satisfied with an even more generic "Season's Greetings". :) Nightscream ( talk) 22:03, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you, and same to you! Happy New Year as well. JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 23:33, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
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Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
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フレフレ、みんなの未来!/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
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Have a great rest of your holiday season! If you do not, then you should know that I have acquired a very particular set of skills on my time on Wikipedia. Skills that make me a nightmare for people who do not enjoy themselves. If you do not have a great time this year, I will find you... And I will block you.
But seriously, happy holidays. Dark Knight 2149 21:57, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
– 2020 is a
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news article.
– Background color is Classic Blue (
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2020 Color of the year
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