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Looks like a tad more delete spam snuck in before the new year archiving... ={ Here's to 2021 being better on- and off-Wiki! - 2pou ( talk) 06:52, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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Sounds great! Glad you didn't get too discouraged by the witch hunt against your articles a few weeks ago. I've noticed your new project of adding reviews and was happy to see you back. Amazing work finding some of these, too—I'd never even heard of stuff like Casus Belli before. Looking forward to watching your progress. Oh, and Happy New Year! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 00:15, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey there man! Happy new year. Look, sorry for bothering you right now but is there any way to revive these files i previously uploaded to this article ( Bomberman (Nintendo 3DS game)), which were eventually deleted by a bot once an article reviewer redirected the article: File:3DS Bomberman (Battle Mode).jpg, File:3DS Bomberman (Normal Game).jpg and File:Nintendo 3DS Bomberman cover art.jpg Roberth Martinez ( talk) 02:12, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
@ BOZ:Hey there brother! How's it going? Hey, can you help me with this regard? I'm trying to link an article from the Japanese Wikipedia (精霊戦士スプリガン) with its English equivalent (Seirei Senshi Spriggan). But it seems to be connected with another one, as indicated by Wikidata. Can you lend me a hand with this problem? Roberth Martinez ( talk) 21:06, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Boz, hope you are well. I just realized that a page I created, Deckard Cain, was originally a redirect to Characters of Diablo, which was deleted along with its page history following an AfD sometime ago. Just wondering if you feel whether there is any benefit to undelete the page history for Deckard Cain, like you did with Thrall (Warcraft), considering that there was never consensus to delete the article itself? Haleth ( talk) 02:17, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Haleth, by the way I wanted to say good work on building and restoring articles for Middle-earth and other characters; that is not always easy work to prove notability for characters, so I love to see it work out. If you were ever interested in taking a crack at D&D characters, I made a brief list here of some potential candidates. :) BOZ ( talk) 20:13, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Any admin who would be interested in copying lead from deleted articles to the relevant list sections like List of Marvel Comics characters: P for Plague or Protector for example? Soft deletion is really not used enough... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:04, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
BOZ, you look to be active and I know you take part in the comics realm. Could you please take a look at Endless Winter quickly regarding a WP:COPYVIO correction? Thanks, 2pou ( talk) 19:16, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
I thought you might find the new Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction site useful/interesting; also, improvements to the article are welcome! Schazjmd (talk) 02:11, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
BOZ, a belated thank you for the Xmas wishes. I sincerely hope you are staying safe during the ongoing situation. Regards Asgardian ( talk) 14:45, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
You're one of the leading authors of RPG articles. Where do you get your print sources? I'd be especially interested if you knew where to find some print reviews of Gurps Steampunk that aren't from Steve Jackson Games magazines, but also just in general. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Can you point me at the Wikipedia resource page explaining how to retitle an article? This is specifically about Ironclads — the actual name of the game is The Ironclads. ("The" on the box cover is very small, but the full name is used by all sources.) It would be useful for me to learn how to do this. Guinness323 ( talk) 22:24, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
I'm trying to make Unknown Armies a less sucky article, and I noticed that coverage of crit rolls is surprisingly sparse and split between a couple odd places:
What do you think is the best place to go from here? Would we be better off expanding the terminology listing or rewriting Critical hit? Vaticidalprophet ( talk) 11:48, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Hey Boz, I just made Wabbit (video game) after reading this article. I've found a few sources but was wondering if you had any thoughts as to where I might be able to find more. I searched Internet Archive, Google News, and the Wikiproject reference library but didn't find much there. Any suggestions for me? I know you're a wizard when it comes to the older sources. Also, hope all is well on your end! DocFreeman24 ( talk) 23:50, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for thanking me on AfD (Everis Cale). Why did you do that? AnotherEditor144 talk contribs 20:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me and making contributions to me on Wikipedia! The complete thanks list is here. AnotherEditor144 talk contribs 21:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at Eclipse Phase, there are new categories, genres and references to articles that don't contain references to Eclipse Phase. I'm avoiding a possible edit war. Sciencefish ( talk) 17:30, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
[1] I was coming to remove this entry from the RPG Box, only to notice that you instead changed it to a red link. I think we are best off removing the entry. First, of course, because that I decided to write the article based on its entry there! But also because there isn't going to be anything to say about the entry that shouldn't go in the Cthulhu for President article - it's not that long an article that it can't take a few more sentences, and this was quite possibly the first "organized" campaign. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:19, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
-- Alexandra IDV 12:34, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Your pings on Talk:F.A.T.A.L. were not sent because you didn't sign in the same edits, just fyi. ( WP:PING) — Goszei ( talk) 22:37, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
I posted this on the VG project's talk page, but I am reposting it here in case I need to use it again, since that page auto-archives after one week:
I took a lengthy break in January from working my way through Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Computer Gaming World, going through the first several years of the run from 1981 and finishing up through 1988. While on this break, I used the time that I would normally have set aside for going through the magazines to instead go back through the articles that I created to find more reviews for them. I found quite a few more sources that way, and I figured I would share my findings here. I will start adding content from these sources as I find the time, but for now I added links to them in the "External links" section. If you would like to also help me work on them, that would of course be appreciated. I would like to thank some of the users who have already worked on some of these, including such users as Archrogue, Bilby, Dgpop, DocFreeman24, FOARP, Griggorio2, JimmyBlackwing, and users like Waxworker and Ylee who have helped out in the past on similar articles from this era.
While going through that magazine from last summer up through earlier this year, I started (or restored, in a few cases) many articles which have at least three or four WP:RS sources, and may well have more:
Along with those, I was also able to start articles for a number of games which exceed the minimums of the WP:GNG, and have lots of potential for improvement, including: The Battle of Shiloh, Star Blazer, Guadalcanal Campaign, Galactic Gladiators, Seafox, Protector II, Time Runner, Millionaire: The Stock Market Simulation, Microbe: The Anatomical Adventure, Battle for Normandy, Computer Ambush, Chess 7.0, Old Ironsides, The Blade of Blackpoole, Combat Leader, Operation Whirlwind, Geopolitique 1990, Starbowl Football, Carrier Force, Tycoon: The Commodity Market Simulation, Baron: The Real Estate Simulation, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Fighter Command: The Battle of Britain, Spare Change, Rails West!, Lordlings of Yore, Panzer-Jagd, Gulf Strike, Imperium Galactum, Reforger '88, Squire: The Financial Planning Simulation, Six-Gun Shootout, Crusade in Europe, Decision in the Desert, Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics, U.S.A.A.F. - United States Army Air Force, Battle of Antietam, Paul Whitehead Teaches Chess, Transylvania, Nam, Mech Brigade, Oribter, Grand Slam: World Class Tennis, Major Motion, Pure-Stat Baseball, World Class Leader Board, Hoops, Rebel Charge at Chickamauga, Street Sports Baseball, GFL Championship Football, Gridiron!, Super Bowl Sunday, Computer Quarterback, BlackJack Academy, Infiltrator II, Tomahawk, Thunderchopper, Super Huey UH-IX, Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon, Magnetron, Super Cycle, Superbike Challenge, Shirley Muldowney's Top Fuel Challenge, Sons of Liberty, Echelon, Ports of Call, Return to Atlantis, Twilight's Ransom, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Knight Games, Paladin, Steel Thunder, Stealth Mission.
Also up through January, I had spent quite a bit of time building up parts of the Reference Library, in particular adding game reviews from several different computing magazines, mostly from the 1980s. While searching for additional sources on my creations on my lengthy break from CGW, I also spent my time building a list of retro game articles for which I had found at least three reviews from my work on the Reference Library. I may eventually start articles for some of these at some point, but for the foreseeable future I have no intentions on doing so in case anyone may wish to have a go at starting any of them. I included links to the Mobygames page (anything without a Mobygames page is marked with an asterisk instead), as well as a link to each review that I found (there are undoubtedly additional reviews out there for most of these):
Hopefully something you see here inspires you!
Reposted in whole. ;) BOZ ( talk) 13:09, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Testing pings here, since I don't think they worked on either the VG project talk page, or my repost above: Archrogue, Bilby, Dgpop, DocFreeman24, FOARP, Griggorio2, JimmyBlackwing, Waxworker, Ylee. BOZ ( talk) 21:18, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
I just left the latest warning for violating WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, et al. on this person's page. I think the editor may need a block. Nightscream ( talk) 18:44, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, BOZ. Sorry to bug you twice in two days, but User talk:80.2.122.228 vandalized an article (actually he reverted my removal of vandalism by another IP account, and after putting a warning on its talk page, I looked through that IP talk page's edit history and discovered a long history of warnings and blocks that he/she blanked from the page in order to obscure his/her history of vandalism. I think this needs a more sustained block. Nightscream ( talk) 00:33, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
On 16 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article GURPS Steampunk, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that role-playing-game supplement GURPS Steampunk was the most detailed definition of the steampunk genre when it was published? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/GURPS Steampunk. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, GURPS Steampunk), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 12:02, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
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Beginning scratchpad -- though looking at the rest of the scratchpad maybe I should start actually drawing things and not picking up new ones whenever I get a cool idea 😛 Vaticidal prophet 14:07, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey, BOZ, how ya doing? I saw your post above on Retro video games, and I'm somewhat interested in taking on Beer Run based on the name alone! A game that old with that theme is screaming for an article! =P.
Anyway, I was hoping you could help me out with a history merge. Could you please merge "Draft:The Totally Rad Show" into the mainspace article to preserve the history attribution? I wanted to restore the page since the awards meet the web notability, and I found some extra refs as well. Thanks a lot,
2pou (
talk) 20:58, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Hey, BOZ. Could you put a substantial protection on Courtney Stodden? She came out as non-binary, as reported on April 14, and prefers using singular they pronouns, a point that has been added to the article, with citations, but for the past eight days, someone suing multiple Type 6 IP addresses, as well as Type 5 ones, keeps changing the pronouns back, and ignoring the various messages with which I've attempted to communicate with them on those IP talk pages. Can you protect it for a couple of weeks? Nightscream ( talk) 04:53, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Any chance you can find some sources for this? I know it is a collectible for BTech fans (of which I am one), but I can't find sources to show it is notable enough for a stand-alone article... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:08, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
It's perfectly acceptable to suggest merging for content and history retention purposes, but could you please follow up with the articles and merge them at a later date if there is no opposition? I seem to be putting articles up for deletion which were deprodded by someone else after you suggested merging them, but the merge tags lingered so long that they were removed. TTN ( talk) 13:10, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, there's a user changing a secondary source for the UKGE awards to a primary source on the Expo's website. After reverting and warning they have contined to revert back. Could you possibly look, many thanks. Sciencefish ( talk) 14:25, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
I recently requested the requestof Ma Hunkel to be moved to Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel) with the reason cited on the Ma Hunkel redirect page. Just a heads up since you are an admin. Jhenderson 777 17:47, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey BOZ! I saw these 2 D&D/rpg books recommended in a different context but I immediately thought they might be useful here as sources. Both are by Jon Peterson: The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (December 2020) & the upcoming Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (October 2021). My library doesn't have access to the first book but I thought I would put them on your radar. Sariel Xilo ( talk) 00:10, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Not to sound like I am canvassing or anything. It’s just that the AFD of this article needs more of a consensus. So far it’s undecided. Jhenderson 777 14:11, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm conducting another survey for the Wikiproject Video games Newsletter. If you could leave your thoughts on the matter it would be greatly appreciated. Every response will be compiled into a MOS-Esque answer that balances the thoughts of our top contributors. You're one of them! The question is as follows:
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If you would like to respond, please ping me here and write your reply. I'll handle the rest. Thanks in advance, Panini! 🥪 14:48, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
games games games
Thank you for quality articles about video and other games, beginning thousands of them, including Hyborian War (which grew to FA) and GURPS Steampunk, for The King Arthur Companion, for admin services and restoring deleted articles, for missing Sarah SV, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2594 of Precious, a prize of QAI. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:44, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
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- The9Man ( Talk) 18:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)Hi BOZ. So say, we met at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senyaka.
So, maybe we can have some commonality of interest and work thru this knotty problem together. I saw that you thanked me for my engagement there, and also that you work on cultural stuff (D&D and whatnot). Maybe we have a commonality of interest. You know... "first they came for the television episodes, then they came for the comic books, and then they came for the fantasy characters and there was nobody left to say 'whoa what are we doing here'" sort of thing. Also, you are and admin, and I want to eventually get the attention of the admin corps, or even some help. Or, if I'm barking up the wrong tree, to be so advised.
So, I don't want to summon the two editors I'm talking about, for reasons including that I'd like have a normal conversation and not a shouting match with ideologues, but you can if you think ethics requires it. They'll be plenty of time to air this out, and of course I'll give anyone involved notice and time to prep (if it ever comes to that).
So, the nominator, he's got a history, been here a long time. He's not looking at articles and saying "Oh, here's a bad article". Rather, he's on a ruthless and indefatigable decade+ long crusade against coverage of culture. (Well, popular culture, but most culture is popular culture nowadays, even PhD's and billionaires listen to pop music and watch Hollywood movies now.). So, he was sanctioned by ArbCom for this, a good while ago (2008), here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters 2. "[The nominator] is prohibited for six months from making any edit to an article or project page related to a television episode or character that substantially amounts to a merge, redirect, deletion, or request for any of the preceding, to be interpreted broadly".
The next month, the editor was "blocked one week for editing articles in violation of these restrictions", and then the next month was "blocked for two weeks violating his restrictions shortly after a previous block". Unblocked after "agreeing to avoid initiating discussions related to his restriction and to refrain from asking others to act on his behalf". (!)
And he did. I guess he did. He moved from TV shows over to comics, and I believe he slowed down (he had been carrying out nominations and blankings-to-redirect and moves at breakneck speed, I think; he stays well under the Wikipedia:Robotic editing radar now. It's an improvement, but its still a problem. (BTW Wikipedia:Fait accompli was lifted directly from this case, where it was directed specifically at this editor: "Fait accompli actions, where actions are justified by virtue of being already carried out, and difficult to reverse, are inappropriate." But I think he's learned. I mean, learned how to better achieve his unyielding agenda without actually getting in trouble.
He's over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics a lot. Not to help (he doesn't like comics after all) but to render the project confused and divided and turn conversations against what they're trying to accomplish there. And he's been called on it, many times, and there are a lot of people who are angry and frustrated. But he has supporters also, so it's a mess. I'm not a member of that project and don't much care about comics (I've written a couple-three short articles on the subject). But as a matter of principle I don't think that's a good look. We don't have people at the Geography project talking about geocruft, or battlecruft at the Miliary History project, and trying to reduce coverage because they don't like the subject. It's an interesting situation and one I haven't seen elsewhere. I guess there's no rule against it... I suppose the assumption was good faith in these endeavors.
The other editor that popped up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senyaka, I am actually looking into his contributions. He also is an ideologue and mode of PRODing articles that are are misuse of PROD. When you PROD an article and it goes to AfD and passes easily... that's a problem, if you're an experienced editor and know how things work, if it happens too much. Right now, he's not attacking comics (he has), but has turned on board games and some other stuff. But it's hard to say if it's a problem rather than just a disagreement. Many many hours of work remain ahead.
So, but also, I note that your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senyaka was "Merge to List of Marvel Comics characters: S". (That article is already 123 kB (prose + HTML) and the MOS suggests articles over 100kb (prose) "almost certainly should be divided" so....) But I'm assuming that you took the nominator at his word: "Article does not meet GNG". That'd be normal, because we assume WP:HONESTY and WP:COMPETENCE. Editors who make claims that aren't true because they either haven't checked or don't care if it's true or not... you have to wonder. I don't mind taking some hours to check an engage on individual borderline AfD cases. When it's the same thing over and over, and based on ideology... it's djust ifferent.
Anyway, I loathe doing this stuff. I like to work on articles. I'm not an admin and riding herd on other editors isn't my job, it's the Admin Corps'. Just following these two around would be a full-time job. I'm not up to it. I think that that's what these guys are counting on, a fabian strategy of exhausting opponents and even better discouraging editors from even working in that area (worked for me). But the ArbCom did say "It is inappropriate to use repetition or volume in order to present opponents with a fait accompli or to exhaust their ability to contest the change." So maybe that still holds.
Anyway, I'm looking for help, I guess, wherever I can get it. I hoping that someday AfD closers -- which basically means admins -- can at least be educated on who they are dealing with here, even if nothing else can be done. I'm exhausted and depressed, and that's not why I come here. Herostratus ( talk) 19:08, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
From a thread on Reddit about Wikipedia: "Swear to god, Wikipedia is where I learned a lot of my comic book knowledge on top of finding out about the great stories then finding them at the local library. I was bullied when I was younger, Wikipedia helped me block all that out and just read." Something to keep in mind when curating, maybe.
While updating Jeff Barber & Killer Crosshairs, I discovered that Biohazard Games redirects to Resident Evil. Clearly the two things aren't related, but I can't see how to remove the redirect. Can you advise? Sciencefish ( talk) 10:48, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Boz, hope you are well. I am thinking of writing a BLP on someone who's done/dabbled in a lot of stuff, including board games. Just asking for your opinion on whether this could be suitable for a BLP per WP:Interview? Haleth ( talk) 13:31, 12 June 2021 (UTC) Oh, and this one as well. I somehow found it randomly while searching for sources. Haleth ( talk) 13:56, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello again Boz,
I wanted you to be aware that I began a conversation on [Traveller (role-playing game)]] categorization. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Role-playing games#Over-categorization of Traveller —¿philoserf? ( talk) 21:31, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello there! Alexandra told me that you are a friend of her!
Regards,
Jeromi Mikhael 13:31, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
Stifle ( talk) 08:45, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm attempting to get stuff cleaned up at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Nigel Kneale/archive1 so the FA status can be kept, but I'm frankly getting to the point where I'm not familiar enough with the subject matter to really address all of it. Does your interest in fantasy and related topics extend to mid 20th-century sci-fi TV stuff? Or do you know of a project page where I might be able to get some help in working on this? Hog Farm Talk 05:01, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
I'm in the need of the help of someone who has made more mistakes than I (and I have made a veritable plethora). IF I needed guidance or advice about the bit, could I call on you? BusterD ( talk) 17:13, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
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2pou ( talk) 01:19, 17 July 2021 (UTC)Hi. You may recall "Real_Power"_poster in April 2019 we had a disruptive IP editor with an Austin, Texas-based IP constantly reverting the wording in passages in the Adam Hughes article pertaining to the "Real Power in the DC Universe" poster. Now another Austin-based IP is doing so, beginning with this edit. I then reverted it, explaining why their edits were not improvements, but they reverted it again, insisting I take it to the talk page, which I did "Real_Power_of_the_DC_Universe"_passage here. Can you participate? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 02:42, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Well it does in that we can say nothing about her personality during the blank period :-). She appears to be CRM in World Beyond - possibly senior but this could still be misdirection but will be important one way or other in personaliy terms Citizensmith ( talk) 02:17, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
It seems to me that we can add the screenshot image widely used elsewhere of Jadis in CRM outfit turning back to face the camera ( https://www.tvfanatic.com/gallery/jadis-returns/ ) under a fair use rationale. That is we are showing the character development and how they initially appear in a spin off tv show as opposed to the parent. Multiple other fictional characters (including Walking Dead) use additional images that show different phases. The use of 2 non-free with justification in entire article with the second thumbnail at the head of The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 seems okay to me. Any thoughts? Citizensmith ( talk) 19:35, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
If you have time, could you please take a look? Thank you very much. - jc37 12:36, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
Boz, I'm a bit concerned about the articles you're creating.
In both situations, you're getting into murky territory when it comes to WP:GNG and WP:COPYVIO. It feels...very weird to be having this conversation with an experienced Admin. And it feels like you've been through this before, with both me and the community. How do we get this to stop? Sergecross73 msg me 15:46, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Your edit here introduced a duplicate ref name error. (Search for 'error:' in the versions before and after your edit.) I have since fixed this error. -- Palosirkka ( talk) 11:12, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
I had my first GURPS supplement, GURPS Fantasy Folk: Elves, published recently. The Elves in fiction article has a GURPS section. But I'm really hesitant about adding a description of my own supplement to that and the GURPS Fantasy Folk article. (Note that fantasy folk supplements have been on the Steve Jackson Games wish list for over 10 years with no results. But before Elves was even published there were two more in the series waiting for playtest/peer review. You can see an announcement about my book and the other two in-the-works books at https://dr-kromm.livejournal.com/258220.html and https://dr-kromm.livejournal.com/257449.html
More info is at /info/en/?search=Talk:Elves_in_fiction#A_GURPS_book_about_elves
Could you add something about it or give me permission to do it? I know, permission may not technically be required, but I really want to avoid the "who said you could promote your own work?" thing. Alden Loveshade ( talk) 03:47, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
I may have asked you this years ago and forgot, so forgive me if I'm asking twice.
I started the article on S. John Ross (game designer) in February 2014. But then I saw there was an edit history, including edits by you, before I "started" it! I just saw something on your user page about "S. John Ross (deleted at AFD)." So does that mean earlier edits before mine had been deleted, but then were restored to the edit history? Alden Loveshade ( talk) 03:57, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I've been trying to contact you, both with "pings" and with a message on the WikiProject page, about three newbie accounts that have been blanking relevant, source-supported content from the Nathan Edmondson article because it constitutes critical information about him, specifically a past arrest for credit card theft and sexual harassment allegations. They have ignored repeated warnings placed on their talk pages, as well as invitations to a talk page discussion where two other editors agreed the sexual harassment allegation material should remain, and a third agrees the credit card theft info should stay. They persistently revert the material, falsely claiming in edit summaries that the material is "vandalism", that the is sourced to "blogs" (they are not), etc. Can you please revert to the most recent intact version and lock down the article to incentivize that editor to join the discussion, and join it yourself. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 14:21, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, BOZ. Can you block User:108.29.73.124. He has been warned numerous times for disruptive edits, specifically adding uncited material and blanking source-supported content from the Brian Wood article, for which I've warned him several times since June 2020. I warned him three times this year, with the last warning have been in August, and he just did it again today. Can you block him? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 18:03, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thank you so much for sending your thanks. I am new to Wikipedia in English, although I have 8 years of experience in Portuguese. I like comics, cartoons, animes, video games and I saw that you have some articles in the draft that need references. Do I understand correctly? I can help in this regard, if you wish and if I understood correctly. Greetings, Luidje ( talk) 09:19, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
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These are just slightly outside of my interests, but a bunch of issues of Chronicle were uploaded to Archive.org a few weeks ago, and they seem to have reviewed World of Darkness novelizations with some regularity (for example here) - just letting you know in case you're interested.-- Alexandra IDV 13:57, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Was wondering have come across this issue, I need a source for this mentioned here. [522]. Timur9008 ( talk) 13:41, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello BOZ: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 20:54, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for being a friend and confidant, and for putting up with my pestering for your assistance. Hope your holidays are safe and fun! :) Nightscream ( talk) 20:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, BOZ! Great to hear from you again. I've been so busy lately that Wikipedia has had to take a back seat, but things are going pretty well. Merry Christmas to you, too! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 23:36, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the Merry Christmas. Same to you! :) Jhenderson 777 03:24, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the Merry Christmas from me also! Have a good holiday time and all the best for the future! Daranios ( talk) 14:41, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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Sounds great! Glad you didn't get too discouraged by the witch hunt against your articles a few weeks ago. I've noticed your new project of adding reviews and was happy to see you back. Amazing work finding some of these, too—I'd never even heard of stuff like Casus Belli before. Looking forward to watching your progress. Oh, and Happy New Year! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 00:15, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey there man! Happy new year. Look, sorry for bothering you right now but is there any way to revive these files i previously uploaded to this article ( Bomberman (Nintendo 3DS game)), which were eventually deleted by a bot once an article reviewer redirected the article: File:3DS Bomberman (Battle Mode).jpg, File:3DS Bomberman (Normal Game).jpg and File:Nintendo 3DS Bomberman cover art.jpg Roberth Martinez ( talk) 02:12, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
@ BOZ:Hey there brother! How's it going? Hey, can you help me with this regard? I'm trying to link an article from the Japanese Wikipedia (精霊戦士スプリガン) with its English equivalent (Seirei Senshi Spriggan). But it seems to be connected with another one, as indicated by Wikidata. Can you lend me a hand with this problem? Roberth Martinez ( talk) 21:06, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Boz, hope you are well. I just realized that a page I created, Deckard Cain, was originally a redirect to Characters of Diablo, which was deleted along with its page history following an AfD sometime ago. Just wondering if you feel whether there is any benefit to undelete the page history for Deckard Cain, like you did with Thrall (Warcraft), considering that there was never consensus to delete the article itself? Haleth ( talk) 02:17, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Haleth, by the way I wanted to say good work on building and restoring articles for Middle-earth and other characters; that is not always easy work to prove notability for characters, so I love to see it work out. If you were ever interested in taking a crack at D&D characters, I made a brief list here of some potential candidates. :) BOZ ( talk) 20:13, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Any admin who would be interested in copying lead from deleted articles to the relevant list sections like List of Marvel Comics characters: P for Plague or Protector for example? Soft deletion is really not used enough... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:04, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
BOZ, you look to be active and I know you take part in the comics realm. Could you please take a look at Endless Winter quickly regarding a WP:COPYVIO correction? Thanks, 2pou ( talk) 19:16, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
I thought you might find the new Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction site useful/interesting; also, improvements to the article are welcome! Schazjmd (talk) 02:11, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
BOZ, a belated thank you for the Xmas wishes. I sincerely hope you are staying safe during the ongoing situation. Regards Asgardian ( talk) 14:45, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
You're one of the leading authors of RPG articles. Where do you get your print sources? I'd be especially interested if you knew where to find some print reviews of Gurps Steampunk that aren't from Steve Jackson Games magazines, but also just in general. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Can you point me at the Wikipedia resource page explaining how to retitle an article? This is specifically about Ironclads — the actual name of the game is The Ironclads. ("The" on the box cover is very small, but the full name is used by all sources.) It would be useful for me to learn how to do this. Guinness323 ( talk) 22:24, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
I'm trying to make Unknown Armies a less sucky article, and I noticed that coverage of crit rolls is surprisingly sparse and split between a couple odd places:
What do you think is the best place to go from here? Would we be better off expanding the terminology listing or rewriting Critical hit? Vaticidalprophet ( talk) 11:48, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Hey Boz, I just made Wabbit (video game) after reading this article. I've found a few sources but was wondering if you had any thoughts as to where I might be able to find more. I searched Internet Archive, Google News, and the Wikiproject reference library but didn't find much there. Any suggestions for me? I know you're a wizard when it comes to the older sources. Also, hope all is well on your end! DocFreeman24 ( talk) 23:50, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for thanking me on AfD (Everis Cale). Why did you do that? AnotherEditor144 talk contribs 20:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me and making contributions to me on Wikipedia! The complete thanks list is here. AnotherEditor144 talk contribs 21:25, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at Eclipse Phase, there are new categories, genres and references to articles that don't contain references to Eclipse Phase. I'm avoiding a possible edit war. Sciencefish ( talk) 17:30, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
[1] I was coming to remove this entry from the RPG Box, only to notice that you instead changed it to a red link. I think we are best off removing the entry. First, of course, because that I decided to write the article based on its entry there! But also because there isn't going to be anything to say about the entry that shouldn't go in the Cthulhu for President article - it's not that long an article that it can't take a few more sentences, and this was quite possibly the first "organized" campaign. -- GRuban ( talk) 20:19, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
-- Alexandra IDV 12:34, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Your pings on Talk:F.A.T.A.L. were not sent because you didn't sign in the same edits, just fyi. ( WP:PING) — Goszei ( talk) 22:37, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
I posted this on the VG project's talk page, but I am reposting it here in case I need to use it again, since that page auto-archives after one week:
I took a lengthy break in January from working my way through Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Computer Gaming World, going through the first several years of the run from 1981 and finishing up through 1988. While on this break, I used the time that I would normally have set aside for going through the magazines to instead go back through the articles that I created to find more reviews for them. I found quite a few more sources that way, and I figured I would share my findings here. I will start adding content from these sources as I find the time, but for now I added links to them in the "External links" section. If you would like to also help me work on them, that would of course be appreciated. I would like to thank some of the users who have already worked on some of these, including such users as Archrogue, Bilby, Dgpop, DocFreeman24, FOARP, Griggorio2, JimmyBlackwing, and users like Waxworker and Ylee who have helped out in the past on similar articles from this era.
While going through that magazine from last summer up through earlier this year, I started (or restored, in a few cases) many articles which have at least three or four WP:RS sources, and may well have more:
Along with those, I was also able to start articles for a number of games which exceed the minimums of the WP:GNG, and have lots of potential for improvement, including: The Battle of Shiloh, Star Blazer, Guadalcanal Campaign, Galactic Gladiators, Seafox, Protector II, Time Runner, Millionaire: The Stock Market Simulation, Microbe: The Anatomical Adventure, Battle for Normandy, Computer Ambush, Chess 7.0, Old Ironsides, The Blade of Blackpoole, Combat Leader, Operation Whirlwind, Geopolitique 1990, Starbowl Football, Carrier Force, Tycoon: The Commodity Market Simulation, Baron: The Real Estate Simulation, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Fighter Command: The Battle of Britain, Spare Change, Rails West!, Lordlings of Yore, Panzer-Jagd, Gulf Strike, Imperium Galactum, Reforger '88, Squire: The Financial Planning Simulation, Six-Gun Shootout, Crusade in Europe, Decision in the Desert, Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics, U.S.A.A.F. - United States Army Air Force, Battle of Antietam, Paul Whitehead Teaches Chess, Transylvania, Nam, Mech Brigade, Oribter, Grand Slam: World Class Tennis, Major Motion, Pure-Stat Baseball, World Class Leader Board, Hoops, Rebel Charge at Chickamauga, Street Sports Baseball, GFL Championship Football, Gridiron!, Super Bowl Sunday, Computer Quarterback, BlackJack Academy, Infiltrator II, Tomahawk, Thunderchopper, Super Huey UH-IX, Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon, Magnetron, Super Cycle, Superbike Challenge, Shirley Muldowney's Top Fuel Challenge, Sons of Liberty, Echelon, Ports of Call, Return to Atlantis, Twilight's Ransom, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Knight Games, Paladin, Steel Thunder, Stealth Mission.
Also up through January, I had spent quite a bit of time building up parts of the Reference Library, in particular adding game reviews from several different computing magazines, mostly from the 1980s. While searching for additional sources on my creations on my lengthy break from CGW, I also spent my time building a list of retro game articles for which I had found at least three reviews from my work on the Reference Library. I may eventually start articles for some of these at some point, but for the foreseeable future I have no intentions on doing so in case anyone may wish to have a go at starting any of them. I included links to the Mobygames page (anything without a Mobygames page is marked with an asterisk instead), as well as a link to each review that I found (there are undoubtedly additional reviews out there for most of these):
Hopefully something you see here inspires you!
Reposted in whole. ;) BOZ ( talk) 13:09, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Testing pings here, since I don't think they worked on either the VG project talk page, or my repost above: Archrogue, Bilby, Dgpop, DocFreeman24, FOARP, Griggorio2, JimmyBlackwing, Waxworker, Ylee. BOZ ( talk) 21:18, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
I just left the latest warning for violating WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:IRS, et al. on this person's page. I think the editor may need a block. Nightscream ( talk) 18:44, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi again, BOZ. Sorry to bug you twice in two days, but User talk:80.2.122.228 vandalized an article (actually he reverted my removal of vandalism by another IP account, and after putting a warning on its talk page, I looked through that IP talk page's edit history and discovered a long history of warnings and blocks that he/she blanked from the page in order to obscure his/her history of vandalism. I think this needs a more sustained block. Nightscream ( talk) 00:33, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
On 16 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article GURPS Steampunk, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that role-playing-game supplement GURPS Steampunk was the most detailed definition of the steampunk genre when it was published? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/GURPS Steampunk. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, GURPS Steampunk), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Beginning scratchpad -- though looking at the rest of the scratchpad maybe I should start actually drawing things and not picking up new ones whenever I get a cool idea 😛 Vaticidal prophet 14:07, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey, BOZ, how ya doing? I saw your post above on Retro video games, and I'm somewhat interested in taking on Beer Run based on the name alone! A game that old with that theme is screaming for an article! =P.
Anyway, I was hoping you could help me out with a history merge. Could you please merge "Draft:The Totally Rad Show" into the mainspace article to preserve the history attribution? I wanted to restore the page since the awards meet the web notability, and I found some extra refs as well. Thanks a lot,
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Hey, BOZ. Could you put a substantial protection on Courtney Stodden? She came out as non-binary, as reported on April 14, and prefers using singular they pronouns, a point that has been added to the article, with citations, but for the past eight days, someone suing multiple Type 6 IP addresses, as well as Type 5 ones, keeps changing the pronouns back, and ignoring the various messages with which I've attempted to communicate with them on those IP talk pages. Can you protect it for a couple of weeks? Nightscream ( talk) 04:53, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Any chance you can find some sources for this? I know it is a collectible for BTech fans (of which I am one), but I can't find sources to show it is notable enough for a stand-alone article... -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:08, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
It's perfectly acceptable to suggest merging for content and history retention purposes, but could you please follow up with the articles and merge them at a later date if there is no opposition? I seem to be putting articles up for deletion which were deprodded by someone else after you suggested merging them, but the merge tags lingered so long that they were removed. TTN ( talk) 13:10, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, there's a user changing a secondary source for the UKGE awards to a primary source on the Expo's website. After reverting and warning they have contined to revert back. Could you possibly look, many thanks. Sciencefish ( talk) 14:25, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
I recently requested the requestof Ma Hunkel to be moved to Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel) with the reason cited on the Ma Hunkel redirect page. Just a heads up since you are an admin. Jhenderson 777 17:47, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey BOZ! I saw these 2 D&D/rpg books recommended in a different context but I immediately thought they might be useful here as sources. Both are by Jon Peterson: The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (December 2020) & the upcoming Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (October 2021). My library doesn't have access to the first book but I thought I would put them on your radar. Sariel Xilo ( talk) 00:10, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Not to sound like I am canvassing or anything. It’s just that the AFD of this article needs more of a consensus. So far it’s undecided. Jhenderson 777 14:11, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
I'm conducting another survey for the Wikiproject Video games Newsletter. If you could leave your thoughts on the matter it would be greatly appreciated. Every response will be compiled into a MOS-Esque answer that balances the thoughts of our top contributors. You're one of them! The question is as follows:
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If you would like to respond, please ping me here and write your reply. I'll handle the rest. Thanks in advance, Panini! 🥪 14:48, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for quality articles about video and other games, beginning thousands of them, including Hyborian War (which grew to FA) and GURPS Steampunk, for The King Arthur Companion, for admin services and restoring deleted articles, for missing Sarah SV, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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- The9Man ( Talk) 18:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)Hi BOZ. So say, we met at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senyaka.
So, maybe we can have some commonality of interest and work thru this knotty problem together. I saw that you thanked me for my engagement there, and also that you work on cultural stuff (D&D and whatnot). Maybe we have a commonality of interest. You know... "first they came for the television episodes, then they came for the comic books, and then they came for the fantasy characters and there was nobody left to say 'whoa what are we doing here'" sort of thing. Also, you are and admin, and I want to eventually get the attention of the admin corps, or even some help. Or, if I'm barking up the wrong tree, to be so advised.
So, I don't want to summon the two editors I'm talking about, for reasons including that I'd like have a normal conversation and not a shouting match with ideologues, but you can if you think ethics requires it. They'll be plenty of time to air this out, and of course I'll give anyone involved notice and time to prep (if it ever comes to that).
So, the nominator, he's got a history, been here a long time. He's not looking at articles and saying "Oh, here's a bad article". Rather, he's on a ruthless and indefatigable decade+ long crusade against coverage of culture. (Well, popular culture, but most culture is popular culture nowadays, even PhD's and billionaires listen to pop music and watch Hollywood movies now.). So, he was sanctioned by ArbCom for this, a good while ago (2008), here: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters 2. "[The nominator] is prohibited for six months from making any edit to an article or project page related to a television episode or character that substantially amounts to a merge, redirect, deletion, or request for any of the preceding, to be interpreted broadly".
The next month, the editor was "blocked one week for editing articles in violation of these restrictions", and then the next month was "blocked for two weeks violating his restrictions shortly after a previous block". Unblocked after "agreeing to avoid initiating discussions related to his restriction and to refrain from asking others to act on his behalf". (!)
And he did. I guess he did. He moved from TV shows over to comics, and I believe he slowed down (he had been carrying out nominations and blankings-to-redirect and moves at breakneck speed, I think; he stays well under the Wikipedia:Robotic editing radar now. It's an improvement, but its still a problem. (BTW Wikipedia:Fait accompli was lifted directly from this case, where it was directed specifically at this editor: "Fait accompli actions, where actions are justified by virtue of being already carried out, and difficult to reverse, are inappropriate." But I think he's learned. I mean, learned how to better achieve his unyielding agenda without actually getting in trouble.
He's over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics a lot. Not to help (he doesn't like comics after all) but to render the project confused and divided and turn conversations against what they're trying to accomplish there. And he's been called on it, many times, and there are a lot of people who are angry and frustrated. But he has supporters also, so it's a mess. I'm not a member of that project and don't much care about comics (I've written a couple-three short articles on the subject). But as a matter of principle I don't think that's a good look. We don't have people at the Geography project talking about geocruft, or battlecruft at the Miliary History project, and trying to reduce coverage because they don't like the subject. It's an interesting situation and one I haven't seen elsewhere. I guess there's no rule against it... I suppose the assumption was good faith in these endeavors.
The other editor that popped up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senyaka, I am actually looking into his contributions. He also is an ideologue and mode of PRODing articles that are are misuse of PROD. When you PROD an article and it goes to AfD and passes easily... that's a problem, if you're an experienced editor and know how things work, if it happens too much. Right now, he's not attacking comics (he has), but has turned on board games and some other stuff. But it's hard to say if it's a problem rather than just a disagreement. Many many hours of work remain ahead.
So, but also, I note that your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Senyaka was "Merge to List of Marvel Comics characters: S". (That article is already 123 kB (prose + HTML) and the MOS suggests articles over 100kb (prose) "almost certainly should be divided" so....) But I'm assuming that you took the nominator at his word: "Article does not meet GNG". That'd be normal, because we assume WP:HONESTY and WP:COMPETENCE. Editors who make claims that aren't true because they either haven't checked or don't care if it's true or not... you have to wonder. I don't mind taking some hours to check an engage on individual borderline AfD cases. When it's the same thing over and over, and based on ideology... it's djust ifferent.
Anyway, I loathe doing this stuff. I like to work on articles. I'm not an admin and riding herd on other editors isn't my job, it's the Admin Corps'. Just following these two around would be a full-time job. I'm not up to it. I think that that's what these guys are counting on, a fabian strategy of exhausting opponents and even better discouraging editors from even working in that area (worked for me). But the ArbCom did say "It is inappropriate to use repetition or volume in order to present opponents with a fait accompli or to exhaust their ability to contest the change." So maybe that still holds.
Anyway, I'm looking for help, I guess, wherever I can get it. I hoping that someday AfD closers -- which basically means admins -- can at least be educated on who they are dealing with here, even if nothing else can be done. I'm exhausted and depressed, and that's not why I come here. Herostratus ( talk) 19:08, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
From a thread on Reddit about Wikipedia: "Swear to god, Wikipedia is where I learned a lot of my comic book knowledge on top of finding out about the great stories then finding them at the local library. I was bullied when I was younger, Wikipedia helped me block all that out and just read." Something to keep in mind when curating, maybe.
While updating Jeff Barber & Killer Crosshairs, I discovered that Biohazard Games redirects to Resident Evil. Clearly the two things aren't related, but I can't see how to remove the redirect. Can you advise? Sciencefish ( talk) 10:48, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Boz, hope you are well. I am thinking of writing a BLP on someone who's done/dabbled in a lot of stuff, including board games. Just asking for your opinion on whether this could be suitable for a BLP per WP:Interview? Haleth ( talk) 13:31, 12 June 2021 (UTC) Oh, and this one as well. I somehow found it randomly while searching for sources. Haleth ( talk) 13:56, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello again Boz,
I wanted you to be aware that I began a conversation on [Traveller (role-playing game)]] categorization. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Role-playing games#Over-categorization of Traveller —¿philoserf? ( talk) 21:31, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello there! Alexandra told me that you are a friend of her!
Regards,
Jeromi Mikhael 13:31, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
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I'm attempting to get stuff cleaned up at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Nigel Kneale/archive1 so the FA status can be kept, but I'm frankly getting to the point where I'm not familiar enough with the subject matter to really address all of it. Does your interest in fantasy and related topics extend to mid 20th-century sci-fi TV stuff? Or do you know of a project page where I might be able to get some help in working on this? Hog Farm Talk 05:01, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
I'm in the need of the help of someone who has made more mistakes than I (and I have made a veritable plethora). IF I needed guidance or advice about the bit, could I call on you? BusterD ( talk) 17:13, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
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2pou ( talk) 01:19, 17 July 2021 (UTC)Hi. You may recall "Real_Power"_poster in April 2019 we had a disruptive IP editor with an Austin, Texas-based IP constantly reverting the wording in passages in the Adam Hughes article pertaining to the "Real Power in the DC Universe" poster. Now another Austin-based IP is doing so, beginning with this edit. I then reverted it, explaining why their edits were not improvements, but they reverted it again, insisting I take it to the talk page, which I did "Real_Power_of_the_DC_Universe"_passage here. Can you participate? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 02:42, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Well it does in that we can say nothing about her personality during the blank period :-). She appears to be CRM in World Beyond - possibly senior but this could still be misdirection but will be important one way or other in personaliy terms Citizensmith ( talk) 02:17, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
It seems to me that we can add the screenshot image widely used elsewhere of Jadis in CRM outfit turning back to face the camera ( https://www.tvfanatic.com/gallery/jadis-returns/ ) under a fair use rationale. That is we are showing the character development and how they initially appear in a spin off tv show as opposed to the parent. Multiple other fictional characters (including Walking Dead) use additional images that show different phases. The use of 2 non-free with justification in entire article with the second thumbnail at the head of The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2 seems okay to me. Any thoughts? Citizensmith ( talk) 19:35, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
If you have time, could you please take a look? Thank you very much. - jc37 12:36, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
Boz, I'm a bit concerned about the articles you're creating.
In both situations, you're getting into murky territory when it comes to WP:GNG and WP:COPYVIO. It feels...very weird to be having this conversation with an experienced Admin. And it feels like you've been through this before, with both me and the community. How do we get this to stop? Sergecross73 msg me 15:46, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Your edit here introduced a duplicate ref name error. (Search for 'error:' in the versions before and after your edit.) I have since fixed this error. -- Palosirkka ( talk) 11:12, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
I had my first GURPS supplement, GURPS Fantasy Folk: Elves, published recently. The Elves in fiction article has a GURPS section. But I'm really hesitant about adding a description of my own supplement to that and the GURPS Fantasy Folk article. (Note that fantasy folk supplements have been on the Steve Jackson Games wish list for over 10 years with no results. But before Elves was even published there were two more in the series waiting for playtest/peer review. You can see an announcement about my book and the other two in-the-works books at https://dr-kromm.livejournal.com/258220.html and https://dr-kromm.livejournal.com/257449.html
More info is at /info/en/?search=Talk:Elves_in_fiction#A_GURPS_book_about_elves
Could you add something about it or give me permission to do it? I know, permission may not technically be required, but I really want to avoid the "who said you could promote your own work?" thing. Alden Loveshade ( talk) 03:47, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
I may have asked you this years ago and forgot, so forgive me if I'm asking twice.
I started the article on S. John Ross (game designer) in February 2014. But then I saw there was an edit history, including edits by you, before I "started" it! I just saw something on your user page about "S. John Ross (deleted at AFD)." So does that mean earlier edits before mine had been deleted, but then were restored to the edit history? Alden Loveshade ( talk) 03:57, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I've been trying to contact you, both with "pings" and with a message on the WikiProject page, about three newbie accounts that have been blanking relevant, source-supported content from the Nathan Edmondson article because it constitutes critical information about him, specifically a past arrest for credit card theft and sexual harassment allegations. They have ignored repeated warnings placed on their talk pages, as well as invitations to a talk page discussion where two other editors agreed the sexual harassment allegation material should remain, and a third agrees the credit card theft info should stay. They persistently revert the material, falsely claiming in edit summaries that the material is "vandalism", that the is sourced to "blogs" (they are not), etc. Can you please revert to the most recent intact version and lock down the article to incentivize that editor to join the discussion, and join it yourself. Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 14:21, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, BOZ. Can you block User:108.29.73.124. He has been warned numerous times for disruptive edits, specifically adding uncited material and blanking source-supported content from the Brian Wood article, for which I've warned him several times since June 2020. I warned him three times this year, with the last warning have been in August, and he just did it again today. Can you block him? Thanks. Nightscream ( talk) 18:03, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thank you so much for sending your thanks. I am new to Wikipedia in English, although I have 8 years of experience in Portuguese. I like comics, cartoons, animes, video games and I saw that you have some articles in the draft that need references. Do I understand correctly? I can help in this regard, if you wish and if I understood correctly. Greetings, Luidje ( talk) 09:19, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
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These are just slightly outside of my interests, but a bunch of issues of Chronicle were uploaded to Archive.org a few weeks ago, and they seem to have reviewed World of Darkness novelizations with some regularity (for example here) - just letting you know in case you're interested.-- Alexandra IDV 13:57, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi! Was wondering have come across this issue, I need a source for this mentioned here. [522]. Timur9008 ( talk) 13:41, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for being a friend and confidant, and for putting up with my pestering for your assistance. Hope your holidays are safe and fun! :) Nightscream ( talk) 20:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks, BOZ! Great to hear from you again. I've been so busy lately that Wikipedia has had to take a back seat, but things are going pretty well. Merry Christmas to you, too! JimmyBlackwing ( talk) 23:36, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the Merry Christmas. Same to you! :) Jhenderson 777 03:24, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the Merry Christmas from me also! Have a good holiday time and all the best for the future! Daranios ( talk) 14:41, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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