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Hey, long time no see!
We certainly need new blood in WP:MACHINIMA. My efforts over the last year have mainly been the odd revert or AFD of blatantly nonnotable productions, or maintaining the status quo of existing articles. The core problem is that of course 99.9% of machinima isn't notable, leaving us with little to work on other than the improvement of existing articles. I agree that merging into WP:VG may be the easiest way to get people involved, but I do fear the possibility of lowering of standards on what gets to be made into articles, be it due to the parent project's nature, or the potential involvement of those who have vested interest in certain productions. I could be completely wrong though, as I've barely read WP:VG and its subpages.
As for improving existing articles, unfortunately I'm still just as bad a procrastinator as before, if not more so. I have bit of a short attention span at times, and sometimes forget about a task I intend to do for months. Case in point, I volunteered to take the shears to the RvB page on Wikiquote, which had gotten to over 340K, but haven't laid a finger on it in over three months. I want to watch through all the DVDs again to refresh my memory and better decide what stays and what goes from the page, but I've been tardy on that front, having only watched through Season 1 so far. Still, I suppose it will give me an excuse to also listen through the commentary again and garner info to improve the general RvB articles. I actually took down some notes from the seasons 1-3 and Strangerhood commentaries close enough to two years ago, then forgot all about them.
By the way, what did you think of RvB:Reconstruction? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drat ( talk • contribs) 08:28, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Blu-ray.com is not an official site, believe me, I know. They have no affiliation to the BDA nor do the two Swedes who own it even have a clue about how the industry works. From the site itself:
"This web site is not affiliated with the Blu-ray Disc Association. All trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners."
Please stop attempting to endow them with official status. The staff their are so far outside the CE and movie industry, it's unbelievable.
Locution ( talk) 19:44, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
The official source would of course be the BDA, but information from them outside of a .pdf white paper is hard to come by. Even then, it's nearly impossible trying to find the actual mandatory codecs, etc. anywhere on their official sites, the U.S. site being blu-raydisc.com. I've added refs to InterBluray.co.uk that list it all on one page, and in simpler language than Blu-ray.com. :-)
I do have the BD white papers, but most of the ones available online are outdated, for some reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Locution ( talk • contribs) 20:03, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Yes, creating a list of machinima festivals seems to be the best way to go. AMAS festivals can always be split off later if the article gets big, yet they still dominate it.-- Drat ( Talk) 11:26, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I'll revise the section some time. Most of the additions to the page were written ages ago; I only recently dug up the files and put them together, so I guess it was inevitable something was out of date or based on my older interpretations of policies.-- Drat ( Talk) 06:37, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
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I'm not quite sure where to ask this, but as I see you handle CSD a lot, I thought I would give you a try. On new page patrol tonight, I came across user:CCFSDCA, who is adding articles such as Africa Industrialization Day, Garifuna settlement day, and Ceremonie-yam. In these articles are statements such as "Original text from The Whole World Calendar Book of Holidays Around the World by Christopher Corbett-Fiacco, by permission of author.)" The author was advised on his talk page that in order to be able to do this, the work must be donated to Wikipedia. [1]. Judging from the user's username and another article he wrote, I am guessing that he is the author of this book, however I would like to know what the appropriate response should be in this situation; specifically, 1) is there a way to verify that the book has been donated, and 2) if it has not, should these articles be tagged for speedy deletion (G12)?
Sorry if you're the wrong person to ask... if this is the case, I would really appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks! -- Aka042 ( talk) 19:51, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thank you so much for your assistance on User:Ikip/AfD. Hope to see you again soon! Have a great weekend. Ikip ( talk) 21:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
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That'll be really handy, thanks! Sorry for the late reply, I've been a little busy, and you know my capacity for forgetting things.-- Drat ( Talk) 07:51, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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Sorry about the source. New to this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonexadon ( talk • contribs) 18:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
May I know under which WP policy/guidelines was the Office assistant in popular culture section removed? A very large number of WP articles on diverse topics have "In popular culture" sections. :-) - xpclient Talk 14:06, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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No problem! By the way, I am actually working on that readthrough of the machinima article, and making changes and notes offline, but then I installed a bunch of games and got distracted. I'll try to get back to it.-- Drat ( Talk) 10:08, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hey, long time no see!
We certainly need new blood in WP:MACHINIMA. My efforts over the last year have mainly been the odd revert or AFD of blatantly nonnotable productions, or maintaining the status quo of existing articles. The core problem is that of course 99.9% of machinima isn't notable, leaving us with little to work on other than the improvement of existing articles. I agree that merging into WP:VG may be the easiest way to get people involved, but I do fear the possibility of lowering of standards on what gets to be made into articles, be it due to the parent project's nature, or the potential involvement of those who have vested interest in certain productions. I could be completely wrong though, as I've barely read WP:VG and its subpages.
As for improving existing articles, unfortunately I'm still just as bad a procrastinator as before, if not more so. I have bit of a short attention span at times, and sometimes forget about a task I intend to do for months. Case in point, I volunteered to take the shears to the RvB page on Wikiquote, which had gotten to over 340K, but haven't laid a finger on it in over three months. I want to watch through all the DVDs again to refresh my memory and better decide what stays and what goes from the page, but I've been tardy on that front, having only watched through Season 1 so far. Still, I suppose it will give me an excuse to also listen through the commentary again and garner info to improve the general RvB articles. I actually took down some notes from the seasons 1-3 and Strangerhood commentaries close enough to two years ago, then forgot all about them.
By the way, what did you think of RvB:Reconstruction? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drat ( talk • contribs) 08:28, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Blu-ray.com is not an official site, believe me, I know. They have no affiliation to the BDA nor do the two Swedes who own it even have a clue about how the industry works. From the site itself:
"This web site is not affiliated with the Blu-ray Disc Association. All trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners."
Please stop attempting to endow them with official status. The staff their are so far outside the CE and movie industry, it's unbelievable.
Locution ( talk) 19:44, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
The official source would of course be the BDA, but information from them outside of a .pdf white paper is hard to come by. Even then, it's nearly impossible trying to find the actual mandatory codecs, etc. anywhere on their official sites, the U.S. site being blu-raydisc.com. I've added refs to InterBluray.co.uk that list it all on one page, and in simpler language than Blu-ray.com. :-)
I do have the BD white papers, but most of the ones available online are outdated, for some reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Locution ( talk • contribs) 20:03, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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Yes, creating a list of machinima festivals seems to be the best way to go. AMAS festivals can always be split off later if the article gets big, yet they still dominate it.-- Drat ( Talk) 11:26, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I'll revise the section some time. Most of the additions to the page were written ages ago; I only recently dug up the files and put them together, so I guess it was inevitable something was out of date or based on my older interpretations of policies.-- Drat ( Talk) 06:37, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm not quite sure where to ask this, but as I see you handle CSD a lot, I thought I would give you a try. On new page patrol tonight, I came across user:CCFSDCA, who is adding articles such as Africa Industrialization Day, Garifuna settlement day, and Ceremonie-yam. In these articles are statements such as "Original text from The Whole World Calendar Book of Holidays Around the World by Christopher Corbett-Fiacco, by permission of author.)" The author was advised on his talk page that in order to be able to do this, the work must be donated to Wikipedia. [1]. Judging from the user's username and another article he wrote, I am guessing that he is the author of this book, however I would like to know what the appropriate response should be in this situation; specifically, 1) is there a way to verify that the book has been donated, and 2) if it has not, should these articles be tagged for speedy deletion (G12)?
Sorry if you're the wrong person to ask... if this is the case, I would really appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks! -- Aka042 ( talk) 19:51, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thank you so much for your assistance on User:Ikip/AfD. Hope to see you again soon! Have a great weekend. Ikip ( talk) 21:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
The next Connecticut Wikipedia meetup will take place sometime during April 2009 at Real Art Ways cafe and arts center in Hartford, Connecticut. Please list on
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Would you mind deleting the page KAAI (currently a stand alone redirect) so that I may move 98.5 The Stream to it's correct call sign location as requested by a recently close AfD? I would appreciate it. - NeutralHomer • Talk • February 9, 2009 @ 06:13
Thanks a lot for helping me out. I was beginning to get worried. Huntthetroll ( talk) 07:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there; am I missing something? you blocked this IP for 31 hours, when as far as I can see he did not vandalise after final warning. If I have missed something please do not hesitate to tell me; this is how we learn. -- Anthony.bradbury "talk" 22:18, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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That'll be really handy, thanks! Sorry for the late reply, I've been a little busy, and you know my capacity for forgetting things.-- Drat ( Talk) 07:51, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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Sorry about the source. New to this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonexadon ( talk • contribs) 18:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
May I know under which WP policy/guidelines was the Office assistant in popular culture section removed? A very large number of WP articles on diverse topics have "In popular culture" sections. :-) - xpclient Talk 14:06, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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No problem! By the way, I am actually working on that readthrough of the machinima article, and making changes and notes offline, but then I installed a bunch of games and got distracted. I'll try to get back to it.-- Drat ( Talk) 10:08, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Machinima productions ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:Machinima works ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — TKD:: {talk} 10:10, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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