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Did you get any further help on this? I don't know whether it's a question for WP:VPT but it might be.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey Thibbs. Can you process some of these Search Engine requests? They seem to be piling up. GamerPro64 18:14, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ ( talk) 05:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I've been working on an article (
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Hello Thibbs! I hope Vapours has been treating you well recently. I came up with a pretty, probably nifty idea for the upcoming feature in the newsletter. Instead of it being an essay about my opinions, I think a better idea would be to ask a bunch of users in our Wikiproject what their individual thoughts were on the matter, and put it together kind of like a survey, highlighting unique and common answers among everyone. Do you think that's a good concept that we could use? I'll handle sending out the queries and putting it together if so. P anini 🥪 02:46, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
I saw that you have a copy of The Doom Hacker's Guide from looking in the reference library. Would you be able to check if it has a section about Doom clones, specifically mentioning the game "Immoral Cumbat"? I'm searching for sources for List of erotic video games, as I'm currently overhauling the whole article, and while looking for sources for an obscure porno Doom clone called "Immoral Cumbat", The Doom Hacker's Guide came up in Google Books. It would be a great help as all I was able to find otherwise was a brief mention of it in a French magazine, which isn't enough to show notability. Thanks. Waxworker ( talk) 12:29, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
When is the release date for the next VG newsletter? Panini! 🥪 04:15, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Oh boy, I wont be back to working on my computer until July 9th, and the quarter comes out July 6th. Sorry I wont be there for the rest of this quarter! Keep in mind I have the Wikipedia app and am not on browser, so I can hardly do any editing in the meantime. I'll finish my feature (the survey) for the next quarter; if for some reason you want to, I have my data stored on one of my sandboxes, but I wont put that burden on you if you dont want to. Like seriously, dont do if if you dont want to. Panini! 🥪• Panini! 🥪 01:51, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Layla Love, an article you created in 2018, is under spirited attack by a new-to-Wikipedia editor who sees this as a personal 'white whale.' I reverted a PROD (twice) and recommended taking it to AfD, which appears to now be that editor's intent. If there are better references than now exist, now is the time. David notMD ( talk) 11:40, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
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I believe you may have an article about the board game Evo at 172 (Vol 25, #6). I would be really grateful if you could lend me a scan of it or something like that. Many thanks. Slimy asparagus ( talk) 16:46, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Thibbs!
My message has to do with an article about a certain little Japanese video game. You see, I'm digging for info that could help expand the page's development section, but, given the game's origin, some neat tidbits on the topic lie beyond the language barrier, which is kinda stalling as my command of Japanese is near non-existent. Specifically, I've stumbled upon these liner notes for the game's soundtrack which entirely read as cipher text to my eyes, so I wondered whether you would consider lending a helping hand with interpreting the notes, seeing as you've had quite a lot of experience in that field. Looking forward to hearing from you. Electroguv ( talk) 09:05, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Electroguv, I gave it a shot here. As I said earlier, the kanji is blurry in some places. Text on pages 1-6 generally work, and 7-10 is generally in English anyway, but there are some very small kanji characters at the bottom of page 6 (seems to be a short bio for Kow Otani) and at the bottom of page 9 where I can really only discern the katakana/hiragana. Either way, here's what I came up with:
Japanese
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Do you know how to use English-to-Japanese translation tools? - Thibbs ( talk) 20:24, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
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ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 13:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Thibbs. I just made SVGs for the non-letter symbols, and am wondering if color matters. Should hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur etc. be red? (Is that why oxygen is red in ball-and-stick model kits?) If so, they could be divorced from Sun, Moon, Earth files. It would only take a few minutes. Copper & platinum would also be distinct from anything we could do with Ⓒ & Ⓟ with html. But I only see refs for some in B&W. — kwami ( talk) 04:47, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Also here. Copper/Venus has a doubled cross, and the lack of a shield is really old for iron/Mars, but again with the double cross, almost Sagittarius. Worth adding as additional alch symbols? There's probably no end to variants like those, though this source has the usual symbols for silver, lead and sulphur (which Wikisource editors insist on keeping with incomplete inking on that page, though I was able to replace it elsewhere). — kwami ( talk) 19:01, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ ( talk) 20:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
I've just noticed the article you've created. Welcome back, and I hope you're doing well! Panini! 🥪 04:47, 5 February 2022 (UTC) |
For future reference, how does the newsletter determine quarterly release dates? I tried to look at past dates but they seem to fluctuate, so I was wondering how you figure that information out. Panini! • 🥪
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Also ping BOZ. You were listed as an user to contact on Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Games for issue 148, which contains info on El Grande. If you have access to it, could you please possibly ping me and share the resource? Unfortunately, I am not sure how this reference library works or how to share resources, though, so apologies in advance. Many thanks for your help and time! VickKiang (talk) 05:50, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! I'm planning on bringing back the VG newsletter. IF you could help out that would be great but you don't have to if you're too busy. I'm asking you because you are one of the last people to have edited the Draft (I'm planning on including everything from Q2 2021 to now (Q4 2022)). I might also ask some of the people who help out with the signpost since I think the process they use is very similar. I doubt you'll be able to help considering you haven't edited in 3 months, but I figured that I would try. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 15:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ ( talk) 23:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
Hey there! I've been working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Games for the last few months, slowly going through the first 100 issues that are on archive.org - I've gone through the first 10 and have a couple hours of free time this morning, so we'll see how much further I get. :) BOZ ( talk) 15:55, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
For the talk page watchers of Thibbs, I just want to come here and state that I have finally finished going through this reference page that he started, going through the first 116 issues of this magazine and noting all the reviews (and "Games 100" features, and other special listings). It was quite a lot of work, but I was glad to have done it because it led to finding a lot of reviews for games that really needed it. I found it in this condition, looking good enough for many issues after 100, but nothing at all for the first 100 issues, and when I found them on the Internet Archive, I set about doing something about that. I made my first edit to the page in May 2022, then 20 more edits in November 2022 through January 2023, and after learning about the passing of Thibbs and finishing some other projects I steamrolled through the remainder in the past two weeks. I hope that this is something I have done that Thibbs would admire. If more issues pop up on IA in the future, I will probably return to this sooner or later, but for now I need a long break. :) BOZ ( talk) 01:51, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
You dedicated so much time to improving things in the world. You'll be missed. -- Whereizben - Chat with me - My Contributions 13:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
Westford man was an exuberantly curious collector and amateur naturalist
Thomas Asa Hibbs of Westford, Vt., died of brain cancer on April 14, 2023, at home, surrounded by his loved ones. He was 41 years old. He was born in New York City in 1981, moved to Vermont in 1986, and attended Westford Elementary School and Essex Junction High School. He graduated from McGill University in 2004, where he majored in English. He received a JD from Rutgers University Law School in 2010 and an MS in information science from the State University of New York at Albany in 2014. From 2015 to 2022 he was an integral member of the office staff of the family dental practice.
He was an avid and expert collector of vinyl records, books and retro video games, gleaning gems from bins in secondhand shops, which he visited frequently. He cataloged and preserved his treasures on digital archival sites to share them with others. Thomas was committed to preserving information by contributing articles to Wikipedia on various topics which interested him, from expanding the Westford, Vt., page and the pages about sites in Hungary connected to close relatives and family history to articles on Satellaview, the periodic table, Tove Janssen, and tongue-in-cheek scholarly pages about the Lapine language and gamergate ants. A perfectionist, he reveled in detail in his career, collecting and play.
Thomas was exuberantly curious about the world, history and people. He was an amateur naturalist who studied and knew about ferns, mushrooms and insects and had an uncanny ability to find four-leaf clovers, interesting fossils and arrowheads, on occasion. He loved to scan the sky and was always keeping track of meteor showers, eclipses and aurora borealis activities. He would often entice his father and brothers to come and lie down in the field near the house on summer nights and watch for satellites, meteors and fireflies. He loved nonhuman beings of all kinds, especially the family dogs and his late cat, Azrael. He had a special soft spot in his heart for children, his nephews and cousins, and young patients in the dental practice who delighted in his friendship. He was never angry, never had an enemy, and he never got into any fights. He was an excellent Wordament and Boggle player. He never played cards or competitive board games against his family because he couldn't stand to see any of them lose. No one loved sugar as much as Thomas, who would even put sugar into apple cider! He was also proud of his Hungarian heritage and cultivated at first a tolerance, then a fondness, for hot, spicy foods, following in the footsteps of his maternal grandfather. He very much enjoyed almond flavor, poppy seeds and edible maple products. Music was a large part of Thomas’ life and, despite difficulties communicating in the late stages of his illness, he never lost his ability to appreciate music and connect with his family through music.
Thomas loved and was beloved by his family and friends. He was a devoted son, brother, nephew and uncle, and family was very important to him. He is survived by his parents, Michael and Agnes Hibbs; his siblings, Julia Collins (Shane), Peter Hibbs (John Cruisce) and John Hibbs; nephews Keith and Oliver Collins; aunts Timea Széll (Judith Weisenfeld), Anne Diel (Kris) and Annamária Széll; uncles Stephen Hibbs (Linda Campbell), Paul Hibbs (Rebecca), Henry Hibbs (Judy) and Kálmán Széll (Lisa); by Kálmán Széll (Mária), Thomas’ great-uncle, who is an identical twin of his late maternal grandfather; and many cousins in the United States and Hungary. A gentle, kind and humble soul with a brilliant mind, sense of humor and eccentricity in the best ways, he will be missed by many. The world was a better place because he was in it, and we will never forget him.
The family is deeply grateful for the care and friendship of Thomas’ neuro-oncologist Dr. Alissa A. Thomas of the University of Vermont Medical Center.
In lieu of flowers, the family prefers contributions in Thomas’ honor and memory to the UVM Cancer Center.
-- Whereizben - Chat with me - My Contributions 23:51, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
I will ensure family sees your kind comments and words - thank you! -- Whereizben - Chat with me - My Contributions 00:55, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, talk page stalkers. I am running some clean-up of the WP:VG Reference Library and noticed that Thibbs had listed himself as owning numerous video game magazines and books, and being a point-of-contact to get info from these sources. Did anyone happen to overtake ownership of these materials? TarkusAB talk/ contrib 19:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
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Did you get any further help on this? I don't know whether it's a question for WP:VPT but it might be.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hey Thibbs. Can you process some of these Search Engine requests? They seem to be piling up. GamerPro64 18:14, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
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Template:Spümcø has been nominated for merging with Template:John Kricfalusi. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Molandfreak (talk, contribs, email) 20:28, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ ( talk) 05:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I've been working on an article (
Kremlingames) and I wanted to bring in some outside opinions/input from other users. Wanna check it out and see what you think? Thanks!
Tyrone Madera (
talk) 00:49, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello Thibbs! I hope Vapours has been treating you well recently. I came up with a pretty, probably nifty idea for the upcoming feature in the newsletter. Instead of it being an essay about my opinions, I think a better idea would be to ask a bunch of users in our Wikiproject what their individual thoughts were on the matter, and put it together kind of like a survey, highlighting unique and common answers among everyone. Do you think that's a good concept that we could use? I'll handle sending out the queries and putting it together if so. P anini 🥪 02:46, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
I saw that you have a copy of The Doom Hacker's Guide from looking in the reference library. Would you be able to check if it has a section about Doom clones, specifically mentioning the game "Immoral Cumbat"? I'm searching for sources for List of erotic video games, as I'm currently overhauling the whole article, and while looking for sources for an obscure porno Doom clone called "Immoral Cumbat", The Doom Hacker's Guide came up in Google Books. It would be a great help as all I was able to find otherwise was a brief mention of it in a French magazine, which isn't enough to show notability. Thanks. Waxworker ( talk) 12:29, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
When is the release date for the next VG newsletter? Panini! 🥪 04:15, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Oh boy, I wont be back to working on my computer until July 9th, and the quarter comes out July 6th. Sorry I wont be there for the rest of this quarter! Keep in mind I have the Wikipedia app and am not on browser, so I can hardly do any editing in the meantime. I'll finish my feature (the survey) for the next quarter; if for some reason you want to, I have my data stored on one of my sandboxes, but I wont put that burden on you if you dont want to. Like seriously, dont do if if you dont want to. Panini! 🥪• Panini! 🥪 01:51, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
Layla Love, an article you created in 2018, is under spirited attack by a new-to-Wikipedia editor who sees this as a personal 'white whale.' I reverted a PROD (twice) and recommended taking it to AfD, which appears to now be that editor's intent. If there are better references than now exist, now is the time. David notMD ( talk) 11:40, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
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I believe you may have an article about the board game Evo at 172 (Vol 25, #6). I would be really grateful if you could lend me a scan of it or something like that. Many thanks. Slimy asparagus ( talk) 16:46, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Thibbs!
My message has to do with an article about a certain little Japanese video game. You see, I'm digging for info that could help expand the page's development section, but, given the game's origin, some neat tidbits on the topic lie beyond the language barrier, which is kinda stalling as my command of Japanese is near non-existent. Specifically, I've stumbled upon these liner notes for the game's soundtrack which entirely read as cipher text to my eyes, so I wondered whether you would consider lending a helping hand with interpreting the notes, seeing as you've had quite a lot of experience in that field. Looking forward to hearing from you. Electroguv ( talk) 09:05, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Electroguv, I gave it a shot here. As I said earlier, the kanji is blurry in some places. Text on pages 1-6 generally work, and 7-10 is generally in English anyway, but there are some very small kanji characters at the bottom of page 6 (seems to be a short bio for Kow Otani) and at the bottom of page 9 where I can really only discern the katakana/hiragana. Either way, here's what I came up with:
Japanese
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ワンダと巨像 |
Do you know how to use English-to-Japanese translation tools? - Thibbs ( talk) 20:24, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Art game (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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ZXCVBNM ( TALK) 13:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Thibbs. I just made SVGs for the non-letter symbols, and am wondering if color matters. Should hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur etc. be red? (Is that why oxygen is red in ball-and-stick model kits?) If so, they could be divorced from Sun, Moon, Earth files. It would only take a few minutes. Copper & platinum would also be distinct from anything we could do with Ⓒ & Ⓟ with html. But I only see refs for some in B&W. — kwami ( talk) 04:47, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Also here. Copper/Venus has a doubled cross, and the lack of a shield is really old for iron/Mars, but again with the double cross, almost Sagittarius. Worth adding as additional alch symbols? There's probably no end to variants like those, though this source has the usual symbols for silver, lead and sulphur (which Wikisource editors insist on keeping with incomplete inking on that page, though I was able to replace it elsewhere). — kwami ( talk) 19:01, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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For future reference, how does the newsletter determine quarterly release dates? I tried to look at past dates but they seem to fluctuate, so I was wondering how you figure that information out. Panini! • 🥪
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Also ping BOZ. You were listed as an user to contact on Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Games for issue 148, which contains info on El Grande. If you have access to it, could you please possibly ping me and share the resource? Unfortunately, I am not sure how this reference library works or how to share resources, though, so apologies in advance. Many thanks for your help and time! VickKiang (talk) 05:50, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! I'm planning on bringing back the VG newsletter. IF you could help out that would be great but you don't have to if you're too busy. I'm asking you because you are one of the last people to have edited the Draft (I'm planning on including everything from Q2 2021 to now (Q4 2022)). I might also ask some of the people who help out with the signpost since I think the process they use is very similar. I doubt you'll be able to help considering you haven't edited in 3 months, but I figured that I would try. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 15:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
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I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer. :) BOZ ( talk) 23:20, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
Hey there! I've been working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Games for the last few months, slowly going through the first 100 issues that are on archive.org - I've gone through the first 10 and have a couple hours of free time this morning, so we'll see how much further I get. :) BOZ ( talk) 15:55, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
For the talk page watchers of Thibbs, I just want to come here and state that I have finally finished going through this reference page that he started, going through the first 116 issues of this magazine and noting all the reviews (and "Games 100" features, and other special listings). It was quite a lot of work, but I was glad to have done it because it led to finding a lot of reviews for games that really needed it. I found it in this condition, looking good enough for many issues after 100, but nothing at all for the first 100 issues, and when I found them on the Internet Archive, I set about doing something about that. I made my first edit to the page in May 2022, then 20 more edits in November 2022 through January 2023, and after learning about the passing of Thibbs and finishing some other projects I steamrolled through the remainder in the past two weeks. I hope that this is something I have done that Thibbs would admire. If more issues pop up on IA in the future, I will probably return to this sooner or later, but for now I need a long break. :) BOZ ( talk) 01:51, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
You dedicated so much time to improving things in the world. You'll be missed. -- Whereizben - Chat with me - My Contributions 13:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
Westford man was an exuberantly curious collector and amateur naturalist
Thomas Asa Hibbs of Westford, Vt., died of brain cancer on April 14, 2023, at home, surrounded by his loved ones. He was 41 years old. He was born in New York City in 1981, moved to Vermont in 1986, and attended Westford Elementary School and Essex Junction High School. He graduated from McGill University in 2004, where he majored in English. He received a JD from Rutgers University Law School in 2010 and an MS in information science from the State University of New York at Albany in 2014. From 2015 to 2022 he was an integral member of the office staff of the family dental practice.
He was an avid and expert collector of vinyl records, books and retro video games, gleaning gems from bins in secondhand shops, which he visited frequently. He cataloged and preserved his treasures on digital archival sites to share them with others. Thomas was committed to preserving information by contributing articles to Wikipedia on various topics which interested him, from expanding the Westford, Vt., page and the pages about sites in Hungary connected to close relatives and family history to articles on Satellaview, the periodic table, Tove Janssen, and tongue-in-cheek scholarly pages about the Lapine language and gamergate ants. A perfectionist, he reveled in detail in his career, collecting and play.
Thomas was exuberantly curious about the world, history and people. He was an amateur naturalist who studied and knew about ferns, mushrooms and insects and had an uncanny ability to find four-leaf clovers, interesting fossils and arrowheads, on occasion. He loved to scan the sky and was always keeping track of meteor showers, eclipses and aurora borealis activities. He would often entice his father and brothers to come and lie down in the field near the house on summer nights and watch for satellites, meteors and fireflies. He loved nonhuman beings of all kinds, especially the family dogs and his late cat, Azrael. He had a special soft spot in his heart for children, his nephews and cousins, and young patients in the dental practice who delighted in his friendship. He was never angry, never had an enemy, and he never got into any fights. He was an excellent Wordament and Boggle player. He never played cards or competitive board games against his family because he couldn't stand to see any of them lose. No one loved sugar as much as Thomas, who would even put sugar into apple cider! He was also proud of his Hungarian heritage and cultivated at first a tolerance, then a fondness, for hot, spicy foods, following in the footsteps of his maternal grandfather. He very much enjoyed almond flavor, poppy seeds and edible maple products. Music was a large part of Thomas’ life and, despite difficulties communicating in the late stages of his illness, he never lost his ability to appreciate music and connect with his family through music.
Thomas loved and was beloved by his family and friends. He was a devoted son, brother, nephew and uncle, and family was very important to him. He is survived by his parents, Michael and Agnes Hibbs; his siblings, Julia Collins (Shane), Peter Hibbs (John Cruisce) and John Hibbs; nephews Keith and Oliver Collins; aunts Timea Széll (Judith Weisenfeld), Anne Diel (Kris) and Annamária Széll; uncles Stephen Hibbs (Linda Campbell), Paul Hibbs (Rebecca), Henry Hibbs (Judy) and Kálmán Széll (Lisa); by Kálmán Széll (Mária), Thomas’ great-uncle, who is an identical twin of his late maternal grandfather; and many cousins in the United States and Hungary. A gentle, kind and humble soul with a brilliant mind, sense of humor and eccentricity in the best ways, he will be missed by many. The world was a better place because he was in it, and we will never forget him.
The family is deeply grateful for the care and friendship of Thomas’ neuro-oncologist Dr. Alissa A. Thomas of the University of Vermont Medical Center.
In lieu of flowers, the family prefers contributions in Thomas’ honor and memory to the UVM Cancer Center.
-- Whereizben - Chat with me - My Contributions 23:51, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
I will ensure family sees your kind comments and words - thank you! -- Whereizben - Chat with me - My Contributions 00:55, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, talk page stalkers. I am running some clean-up of the WP:VG Reference Library and noticed that Thibbs had listed himself as owning numerous video game magazines and books, and being a point-of-contact to get info from these sources. Did anyone happen to overtake ownership of these materials? TarkusAB talk/ contrib 19:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)