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The WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter Volume II, No. 1 - January 2009 Archive before | Archive after To receive future editions of this newsletter, click here to sign up on the distribution list. Project At a Glance As of January 2009, the project has: 118 Featured articles 25 Featured Lists 14 Featured Topics 1 article in Featured Article Review 15 articles for Peer review 20 A-Class articles 280 Good Articles 2 Good Topics 2 articles in Good Article Review Changes to Featured and Good content Promoted FA/FL: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, New Super Mario Bros., The Simpsons Game, The Simpsons Hit & Run, Super Columbine Massacre RPG! Promoted FT: None Demoted FA/FL/FT: None Promoted AA: None Promoted GA: Age of Empires (video game), Controversy over the usage of Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man, Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, Masashi Hamauzu, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime Pinball, Nemesis (Resident Evil), OverClocked ReMix, Reptile (Mortal Kombat), Sam & Max, Sheng Long, The Simpsons Wrestling, Sonic Unleashed, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario Kart Promoted GT: None Demoted GA/GT: Rinoa Heartilly News There were 209 new articles in January 2009 Inactive project cleanup: Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here. Old "left over" project pages have been added to a clean up page to discuss appropriate courses of action. Come help out and voice your thoughts. Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's main page this month. Marble Madness was featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article" for January 11, 2009. A fact from Lost Pig appeared on the Main page in the Did you know? column on January 23, 2009. A fact from Alisia Dragoon appeared on the Main page in the Did you know? column on January 30, 2009. Editor David Fuchs was interviewed for the Dispatch of the January 17th Signpost. Herr Fuchs was selected by having the second highest number of FA nominations in 2008, many of which were video game articles. Collaboration of the week has resumed. The first article to benefit from this was "Video game genres". Featured editor: This issue we are trying a new type of newsletter feature: "Featured editor". This is a chance to learn more about the various editors who contribute to the Video games project as well as the roles they fill. If you enjoyed this new feature and would like to see similar interviews in future issues, please drop us a note at the VG newsletter talk page. David Fuchs (also known as Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs), is a long time video games editor that has written a large number of the project's Featured articles. He has been ranked high on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations, and has assisted in reviewing and editing more many. Recently David has begun to assist with image reviews for Featured article candidates, and branched out into other types of articles in addition to video games. He can normally been seen on the project's talk page offering advice and his input on the various discussion taking place there. What drew you to Wikipedia, and what prompted you to begin editing? I got involved due in part to (I believe, my memory is fuzzy) finding the site while doing research for Advanced Placement Europen History during high school. My earliest contributions (in December 2005) were creating topics based on what I learned, as well as creating an article for my high school with another friend. I soon became involved with editing topics related to Halo video game franchise, specifically the article on the parasitic Flood. What got you involved in writing Featured articles? I think for most editors it's a shiny accomplishment you are striving for, and natural for most editors to try and get an FA. I first nominated an article for FA in 2007, after about a year of inactivity onwiki; it didn't pass as it was poorly written and didn't follow our guidelines for writing about fiction; I also took a couple of tries to get my first video game FA (Halo 2). What article(s) are you most proud of writing or exemplifies your best work? I suppose Myst is a sort of accomplishment I can point to; I started work on the article on May 2 2008, when it looked like this, and submitted it to Featured Article Candidates one day later. I think that's some kind of record, but I dunno. In terms of being a good read or something I'm very happy with, however, I'd have to look at my more recent work, specifically Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Bone Wars. How do you pick the articles you work on? Whatever hits me. There's many articles I haven't gotten around to editing and improving as planned because another article has caught my fancy. What advice would you give to editors seeking to write quality articles? In the words of one of my favorite cartoon characters when I was a child, "We must do reeea-search!" Even in video games, online sources don't usually cut it. Even after getting an article to FA, make sure you continually trawl the internet and elsewhere for more information to add to the topic. Note: This is an abridged version. To read the full interview, click here. Things you can help with: Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks view watch edit history shell vg talk alerts purge AfDs Professor Hershel Layton (1 participant) David McGarry (1 participant) Stumble Guys (4 participants) Do You Like Horny Bunnies? (5 participants) Carlos Pesina (1 participant) Atlus USA (4 participants) Danny Mastrogiorgio (2 participants) Koopa Troopa (8 participants) Super Mutant (10 participants) Altaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad (5 participants) Police Trainer (0 participants; relisted) Beam Invader (4 participants; relisted) Sephiroth (17 participants; relisted) The Boss (Metal Gear) (3 participants; relisted) Silfade (2 participants; relisted) List of Fate/Grand Order characters (11 participants; relisted) Balloon Brothers (2 participants; relisted) Enigma Engine (3 participants; relisted) ClanLib (5 participants; relisted) Dan Gelber (game designer) (6 participants; relisted) Merge discussions Snorlax (discussion) Greninja (discussion) Nostalrius (discussion) Opera House (Final Fantasy VI) (discussion) Jane's US Navy Fighters 97 (discussion) Transformers Decepticons (discussion) Transformers Autobots (discussion) Home video game console generations (discussion) Bethesda Game Studios Austin (discussion) Other discussions No major discussions Featured content candidates Trauma Center Etika (nom) Good article nominations ZX Spectrum (nom) The Sims Online (start) Dizzy (Guilty Gear) (nom) Quantum Redshift (nom) Unicorn Overlord (start) World Tour Racing (nom) Streets of Rage Remake (start) Grimace's Birthday (nom) Jynx (start) Larry (Pokémon) (start) Bulbasaur (nom) Squirtle (nom) Psyduck (start) Shulk (nom) Slowpoke (Pokémon) (start) DYK nominations No did you know nominations Reviews and reassessments The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (nom) Hogwarts Legacy (rev) Pokémon Channel (nom) Discord (rev) Rayman M (rev) Rain World (rev) Fallout: New Vegas (nom) Articles that need... assessment (1) (0) reassessment (0) cleanup (13) infoboxes (7) cover art (219) screenshots (8,766) photos (62) translation from japan (126) creation merging Project Navigation VG Project Main pages Main project – talk Project category – talk Portal – talk VG Project Departments Assessment – talk Cleanup – talk Peer review – talk   Magazines – talk Newsletter – talk Video game images – talk

• Newsletter delivery by xenobot 00:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I see you changed the page back; I like it much better the way I had it. --DJS24 16:36, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter Volume II, No. 2 - February 2009 Archive before | Archive after To receive future editions of this newsletter, click here to sign up on the distribution list. Project At a Glance As of February 2009, the project has: 119 Featured articles 25 Featured Lists 15 Featured Topics 1 article in Featured Article Review 15 articles for Peer review 21 A-Class articles 294 Good Articles 2 Good Topics 1 articles in Good Article Review Changes to Featured and Good content Promoted FA/FL: List of Metroid media, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Promoted FT: Myst series Demoted FA/FL/FT: List of Metal Gear Solid characters Promoted AA: Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario Kart Promoted GA: Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Alan Kotok, Alisia Dragoon, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Braid (video game), Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!, Discography of the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series, Fast inverse square root, Left 4 Dead, Luke Smith (writer), Mario Kart DS, Metroid Fusion, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Metroid: Zero Mission, Myst Online: Uru Live, Pong, Shadow the Hedgehog (video game), Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Metroid, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver Promoted GT: None Demoted GA/GT: Crystalis, Duck Hunt, Game Boy Micro, P.N.03, Super Mario RPG, Yoshi Touch & Go News There were 193 new articles in February 2009 Inactive project cleanup: Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here. Old "left over" project pages have been added to a clean up page to discuss appropriate courses of action. Come help out and voice your thoughts. Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's main page this month. Congratulations to the contributing editors. A fact from Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 8. A fact from Maressa Orzack appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 8. A fact from Neighborhood Games appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 10. A fact from Runes of Magic appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 12. A fact from Luke Smith (writer) appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 18. A fact from Super Mario Bros. theme appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 20. Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None was featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article" for Feb 20. A fact from Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 22. A fact from Fast inverse square root appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 23. A fact from Moorhuhn appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 24. A fact from BloodSpell appeared in the Did you know? column on Feb 26. A fact from Pokémon appeared in the On this day column on Feb 27. Feature: Weekly Collaboration The VG Project Collaboration of the Week is a new effort to improve important video game articles of low quality. Every week, an article is random selected by AnomieBOT from the Stub-, Start-, and C-class categories that are rated either High- or Top-importance. Such topics can offer a reader a good deal of encyclopedic information about video games, but are often too underdeveloped or lacking the proper level of writing and sourcing to accomplish this. All editors are welcome and encouraged to participate by offering their insights and suggestions. Having a pool of different editors, both old and new, will help maximize improvements to the articles as well as our editing skills. History Collaborative efforts have come and gone within the VG project several times before. The first such effort, the "Gaming collaboration of the week", began in October 2004 as a result of the several other weekly collaborations popping up on Wikipedia. It proved to be quite successful at improving articles to meet Wikipedia's standard at the time, but the effort eventually saw less and less participation. A second effort, the "Improvement Drive", began in August 2005 with the intent of improving articles to FA-quality. However, few nominations and articles were selected. The decline in participation in the collaborations and peer reviews resulted in a third effort. It began in February 2006 as a workshop, but never got off the ground. Numerous discussions have taken place on at WT:VG to jump start collaborations and improve the process to prevent its decline again. While previous collaborations selected any video game article, most editors felt focus should be on video game topics more encyclopedic in nature—topics that are also generally in poor shape because of lack of attention. A common problem mentioned was that previous nomination processes were lengthy and hindered participation. The current idea to automate the process was brought up by JohnnyMrNinja, which was further discussed to iron out the details. Current collaboration The current collaborative efforts began in mid-January 2009, and several articles have been improved by editors. The random choice is intended to minimize the selection process, which allows editors to focus on article improvement. Improvements include better organization of content, massaging and copy editing the prose, removing excess non-free images, and much more. The random choice is also meant to encourage participation from editors of varying interest and help prevent burnout. If the present selection is not to your liking, wait until next week. Editors are encouraged to add Template:Collab-gaming to their watchlist to see which article is selected. Recently selected articles are: Week of January 19, 2009: Video game genres – See how it improved Week of January 26, 2009: History of video game consoles (fourth generation) – See how it improved Week of February 2, 2009: Action-adventure game – See how it improved Week of February 9, 2009: Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss – See how it improved Week of February 16, 2009: Joust (video game) – See how it improved Week of February 23, 2009: Cartridge (electronics) – See how it improved Things you can help with: Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks view watch edit history shell vg talk alerts purge AfDs Professor Hershel Layton (1 participant) David McGarry (1 participant) Stumble Guys (4 participants) Do You Like Horny Bunnies? (5 participants) Carlos Pesina (1 participant) Atlus USA (4 participants) Danny Mastrogiorgio (2 participants) Koopa Troopa (8 participants) Super Mutant (10 participants) Altaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad (5 participants) Police Trainer (0 participants; relisted) Beam Invader (4 participants; relisted) Sephiroth (17 participants; relisted) The Boss (Metal Gear) (3 participants; relisted) Silfade (2 participants; relisted) List of Fate/Grand Order characters (11 participants; relisted) Balloon Brothers (2 participants; relisted) Enigma Engine (3 participants; relisted) ClanLib (5 participants; relisted) Dan Gelber (game designer) (6 participants; relisted) Merge discussions Snorlax (discussion) Greninja (discussion) Nostalrius (discussion) Opera House (Final Fantasy VI) (discussion) Jane's US Navy Fighters 97 (discussion) Transformers Decepticons (discussion) Transformers Autobots (discussion) Home video game console generations (discussion) Bethesda Game Studios Austin (discussion) Other discussions No major discussions Featured content candidates Trauma Center Etika (nom) Good article nominations ZX Spectrum (nom) The Sims Online (start) Dizzy (Guilty Gear) (nom) Quantum Redshift (nom) Unicorn Overlord (start) World Tour Racing (nom) Streets of Rage Remake (start) Grimace's Birthday (nom) Jynx (start) Larry (Pokémon) (start) Bulbasaur (nom) Squirtle (nom) Psyduck (start) Shulk (nom) Slowpoke (Pokémon) (start) DYK nominations No did you know nominations Reviews and reassessments The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (nom) Hogwarts Legacy (rev) Pokémon Channel (nom) Discord (rev) Rayman M (rev) Rain World (rev) Fallout: New Vegas (nom) Articles that need... assessment (1) (0) reassessment (0) cleanup (13) infoboxes (7) cover art (219) screenshots (8,766) photos (62) translation from japan (126) creation merging Project Navigation VG Project Main pages Main project – talk Project category – talk Portal – talk VG Project Departments Assessment – talk Cleanup – talk Peer review – talk   Magazines – talk Newsletter – talk Video game images – talk

• Newsletter delivery by xenobot 00:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Frequently used idea are needs updating seriously and now the future of the approved area is questioned. Please see the discussions at Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations#Help with FUI and Approved area discussion. Simply south (talk) 20:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was my bad, sorry - I thought it was the VG project change but I realized it was the importance on the Xbox project. --MASEM (t) 00:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter Volume II, No. 3 - March 2009 Archive before | Archive after To receive future editions of this newsletter, click here to sign up on the distribution list. Project At a Glance As of March 2009, the project has: 121 Featured articles 25 Featured Lists 15 Featured Topics 1 article in Featured Article Review 15 articles for Peer review 24 A-Class articles 303 Good Articles 2 Good Topics 3 articles in Good Article Review Changes to Featured and Good content Promoted FA/FL: Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Promoted FT: None Demoted FA/FL/FT: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Promoted AA: Pong, Rock Band (video game), Super Mario Bros. 3 Promoted GA: Dragon kill points, Final Fantasy (video game), First-person shooter, Halo Wars, Joseph Staten, Light gun shooter, LocoRoco, Machinima, Metroid, My French Coach and My Spanish Coach, Ninja Gaiden (NES), Planescape: Torment, Popotan, Shoot 'em up, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss Promoted GT: None Demoted GA/GT: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (NES) News There were 209 new articles in March 2009 Inactive project cleanup: Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here. Old "left over" project pages have been added to a clean up page to discuss appropriate courses of action. Come help out and voice your thoughts. Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's main page this month. Congratulations to the contributing editors. A fact from Christopher Erhardt appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 3. A fact from St.GIGA appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 3. Giants: Citizen Kabuto was "Today's featured article" for Mar 5. A fact from Makoto Kanoh appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 6. A fact from Nintendo DSi appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 7. A fact from Clean Asia! appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 16. A fact from Gang Garrison 2 appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 22. A fact from 5th British Academy Video Games Awards appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 23. A fact from My French Coach and My Spanish Coach appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 23. A fact from 4th British Academy Video Games Awards appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 24. A fact from Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 25 A fact from Male Restroom Etiquette appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 26. A fact from Rufus (Street Fighter) appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 27. A fact from Factions of Command & Conquer appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 29. A fact from Darkness over Daggerford appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 30. A fact from Bloody Fun Day appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 30. A fact from Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (video game) appeared in the Did you know? column on Mar 30. Editor KieferSkunk was interviewed by video game magazine Edge. Comments from the interview were used in an article in issue 199, and an abridged online version is available on their website. Kiefer has also provided the transcript of his interview. Reader Poll The WikiProject Video games Newsletter released its first issue a year ago. The newsletter is meant to help connect editors, keep them up-to-date with the activities of the VG project, and improve the knowledge of our members. We've compiled a list of questions to help gauge the effectiveness of the newsletter's first year. Answers will be accepted for a three week period following the deliver of the March 2009 issue on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Just to clarify, this is not an April Fools' Day gag, and we would really appreciate honest criticism. Information obtained from this poll is intend to alter the newsletter for the better. So don't feel you should hold back or give answers similar to everyone else. Feel free to voice your opinion on the Poll page. Feature: VG Barnstar The Video Game Barnstar The VG Barnstar is an award given to Wikipedians recognized for efforts and contributions to improve and develop video game related articles. The VG Barnstar is one of many Wikipedia Barnstars designed to be given to editors that have helped further the overall quality of Wikipedia. It was created in February 2006 by Jacoplane—see past discussion for details—and has been given to numerous editors since. Sometimes editors with multiple Barnstars use an alternative way to display them: ribbons. Barnstars are designed to be given by anyone, so don't be shy as everyone enjoys appreciation. If you have noticed or have been impressed with the work of an editor, feel free to let them know by placing {{subst:Barnstar VG|"message" ~~~~}} on their talk page. The template uses a parameter to include a message expressing the reasons behind the award. See also Wikipedia:Service awards Wikipedia:Other awards Wikipedia:Personal user awards Things you can help with: Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks view watch edit history shell vg talk alerts purge AfDs Professor Hershel Layton (1 participant) David McGarry (1 participant) Stumble Guys (4 participants) Do You Like Horny Bunnies? (5 participants) Carlos Pesina (1 participant) Atlus USA (4 participants) Danny Mastrogiorgio (2 participants) Koopa Troopa (8 participants) Super Mutant (10 participants) Altaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad (5 participants) Police Trainer (0 participants; relisted) Beam Invader (4 participants; relisted) Sephiroth (17 participants; relisted) The Boss (Metal Gear) (3 participants; relisted) Silfade (2 participants; relisted) List of Fate/Grand Order characters (11 participants; relisted) Balloon Brothers (2 participants; relisted) Enigma Engine (3 participants; relisted) ClanLib (5 participants; relisted) Dan Gelber (game designer) (6 participants; relisted) Merge discussions Snorlax (discussion) Greninja (discussion) Nostalrius (discussion) Opera House (Final Fantasy VI) (discussion) Jane's US Navy Fighters 97 (discussion) Transformers Decepticons (discussion) Transformers Autobots (discussion) Home video game console generations (discussion) Bethesda Game Studios Austin (discussion) Other discussions No major discussions Featured content candidates Trauma Center Etika (nom) Good article nominations ZX Spectrum (nom) The Sims Online (start) Dizzy (Guilty Gear) (nom) Quantum Redshift (nom) Unicorn Overlord (start) World Tour Racing (nom) Streets of Rage Remake (start) Grimace's Birthday (nom) Jynx (start) Larry (Pokémon) (start) Bulbasaur (nom) Squirtle (nom) Psyduck (start) Shulk (nom) Slowpoke (Pokémon) (start) DYK nominations No did you know nominations Reviews and reassessments The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (nom) Hogwarts Legacy (rev) Pokémon Channel (nom) Discord (rev) Rayman M (rev) Rain World (rev) Fallout: New Vegas (nom) Articles that need... assessment (1) (0) reassessment (0) cleanup (13) infoboxes (7) cover art (219) screenshots (8,766) photos (62) translation from japan (126) creation merging Project Navigation VG Project Main pages Main project – talk Project category – talk Portal – talk VG Project Departments Assessment – talk Cleanup – talk Peer review – talk   Magazines – talk Newsletter – talk Video game images – talk

• Newsletter delivery by xenobot 16:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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You may not understand but the box art is being used as a neutral image because i t may be released on PS3 because it is multiplatform. I under stand it's your image thats been replaced but that is no reason for you to add back the image.-- Gears of War 2 (NGG) 22:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would be my pleasure to sign up and become a member of Wiki Project Xbox. mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool (talk) 16:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Notice delivery by –xeno ^talk 14:50, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Would be gatreful if you have any ideas for mottos. Please help at WP:MOTD/N. Also see Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Archive 5#Archival Simply south (talk) 21:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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How hard is it to create one? And how do you create one? --Thejadefalcon (talk) 10:32, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Would you look at Snake-Eyes page at the bottom you'll find a section labeled 2009 film with a movie plot could i get your opinion whether the movie plot should be their like that or deleted because some IP keeps deleting it The Movie Master 1 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC).[reply]

I have nominated List of New York Mets managers after rewriting the lead and adding the general manager section based off of another FL (List of Philadelphia Phillies managers). It seems to me that you were the main contributer before my work, so I have added you as a nominator. Just a heads-up, I will be leaving on Wednesday, but Juliancolton has agreed to deal with all issues that come up after that. I don't anticipate there to be many. You can see the nomination at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New York Mets managers/archive3 Mm40 (talk) 10:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I've renominated at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New York Mets managers/archive1. If you believe yourself deserving, feel free to add yourself as a nominator. Cheers. Mm40 (talk) 03:20, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I have tagged File:DanceDancerevolutioncover.jpg as {{orphaned fairuse}}. In order for the image to be kept at Wikipedia, it must be included in at least one article. Otherwise, it will be deleted in seven days. feydey (talk) 10:12, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please change this line of code from

  [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Xbox articles by quality log|Bot log]] | [[Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Xbox articles by quality log|talk]] 

to

  [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/24 articles by quality log|Bot log]] | [[Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/24 articles by quality log|talk]] 

as we need to correctly direct that link to the 24 bot, WikiPedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/24 articles by quality log , instead of xbox's bot? Prapsnot (talk) 16:26, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I'm asking all project members to participate in this discussion. Thanks!--Flash176 (soon to be rechristened as Ridge Runner) (talk) 05:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Yes, you changed the file name... you also re-uploaded the same disproportionate image as before. Why? Take a close look at it, now look at mine. Can you not also see that it seems to be the bundle box art as well, without some of the CG effects and box logos, etc., pushed into the shape of a DVD case? Making the image mis-proportioned (meaning the woman on the cover looks misshapen compared to the bundle). The logo is also smaller than it should be, I've seen the DVD case. That is not what it looks like. If you would PLEASE expend half of the effort you are using trying to force a bad looking image onto the article and find one that looks like the marketed case? Thank you.  ^{æronphonehome}  08:33, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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how dare you accuse me of vandalism when there is absolutely no evidence. I was making constructive edits. if you haven't noticed the xbox article was awful and overloaded with images and incorrect information. you ought to get your facts straight before you make unjust accusations chocobogamer mine 17:01, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

also if you had bothered to read the talk page and edit explainations i clearly explained the actions. you need to learn what is and isnt vandalism and what shouldn't be part of an article. chocobogamer mine 17:06, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As A Neutral Observer[edit]

Considering Chocobogamer is a fairly experienced editor you should have brought the issue up with them beforehand as opposed to just undoing the edit and slapping a warning template on their talk page. As Chocobogamer has stated above the images were removed prior to this discussion on the Xbox 360 talk page. Cheers, Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 18:23, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This is a general message to get people to contribute as we are running out again so if you could please do. Please also see Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day#The Future. Note to anyone who reads this, WP:MOTD/N. Simply south (talk) 15:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Blackwatch21 my name is Nepa and if there is any articles i can help with just ask me please! Or leave me a message on my talk page. May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nepa=SBR (talk • contribs)

Hello, Motto of the Day is currently running out of mottos and therefore we would appreciate your support in this project. Please suggest new mottos or support for others at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review. If you have any ideas for mottos on a special date or anniversary, or you are interested in what other ones of thdse there are please see Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials. Thank you for your time. Simply south (talk) 21:55, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Category:24 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to Category:24 portal (edit | 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. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:01, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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MOTD is currently discussing possible changes to how the project is done. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Please see Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 2#Suggested Changes. Thank you for your time. Simply south (talk) 23:11, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello fellow motto contributor. Discussions arer still open on Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations#Suggested changes and still require further input especially on ideas 10-17. Please could you voice your opinion as this is going to be closed in early November. Please help out or even make any new idea suggestions. Simply south (talk) 14:59, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is a last call. Any opinions should be suggested by and including November 5th. See Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 2#Suggested Changes Simply south (talk) 21:15, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The motto idea for those between 25th December and mid January needs consensus dtermined badly on which version should be used for which day or even whether the whole idea should be scrapped or postponed. Please help by discussion and determining consensus at WT:Motto of the day/Nominations#Christmas series and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials. The deadline is Friday at 9pm UTC. Simply south (talk) and their tree 23:34, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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