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Contents 1 More Info from Magazines 2 Laser Squad 3 Image:Red_dwarf_doug_rob.jpg 4 Mega 5 peer review 6 Red Dwarf peer review 7 Red Dwarf 8 red dwarf peer review 9 Re: Terminator merges 10 Sega Newsletter 11 WP:FILMS Welcome 12 Welcome to VandalProof! 13 WikiProject Films May 2008 Newsletter 14 Blade Runner. 15 The WPVG Newsletter (June 2008) 16 Orphaned non-free media (Image:BR game gameplay.jpg)

[edit] More Info from Magazines

Can you please provide the ISSN for the following three journals? (I'm working to eliminate all the ISSN Needed Tags throughout Wikipedia.) I've looked pretty thoroughly for the identification number for Sega Pro, and have not found it. I have not yet searched for the other two. Thanks! Keesiewonder ^talk 02:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

• Sega Pro
• Mega Power
• Commodore Power

• Actually, by Commodore Power, do you mean Commodore Power Play, which is ISSN 0739-8018? Or are these two different magazines? --Keesiewonder ^talk 13:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for uploading the cover image for Sega Pro - Bar codes include the ISSN that I've been looking for! Keesiewonder ^talk 23:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Laser Squad

Hi. You recently uploaded five Laser Squad screenshots, and tagged them as {{Non-free game screenshot}}. In fact, Julian Gollop has placed Laser Squad (and several other games) in the public domain. However, commons:user:tsca would seem to need convincing, as he deleted a bunch of C64 Laser Squad screenshots without even bothering to check with Julian Gollop first. If you'd like to confirm that they are PD, you could put this on OTRS. Cheers! --StuartBrady (Talk) 12:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Red_dwarf_doug_rob.jpg

I have tagged Image:Red_dwarf_doug_rob.jpg as {{no rationale}}, because it does not provide a fair use rationale. If you believe the image to be acceptable for fair use according to Wikipedia policy, please provide a rationale explaining as much, in accordance with the fair use rationale guideline, on the image description page. Please also consider using {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. Thank you. Rettetast (talk) 16:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mega

I've only just spotted what you've done to the Mega article. Nice work. - X201 (talk) 23:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. It's alaways nice that someone notices your contributions. I still feel the article needs a bit of attention though. Do you kown if there is a Wikipedia guideline on writing video games magazine articles? -- Nreive (talk) 08;50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] peer review

I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the Heroes (TV series) talkpage and give us an honest peer review. The page has gone through some major changes in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor like yourself, could head over and give us at the Heroes Wikiproject some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. We have all worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. I you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Wikipedia and its quality! Wikipedia:Peer review/Heroes (TV series)/archive2--Chrisisinchrist (talk) 04:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Red Dwarf peer review

I am quite intersted. I am honored by your compliment that I am a prominet editor- I personally don't think is true but thanks. I would be gratefull if you could tell me what this would involve. Then I will be happy to join/apply. --Phillipmorantking (talk) 13:43, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Red Dwarf

Prominent schmominent, but yes, I'll have a look. 4u1e (talk) 17:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Done! 4u1e (talk) 18:41, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] red dwarf peer review

Hello...i would love to peer review your article...i will start this weekend--ChrisisinChrist ^{comments and complaints here!} 20:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Terminator merges

Hi Nreive. Could you link me to the Wikipedia guideline that outlines how such articles should be formed? You say that when the sections grow larger and have "enough real world information", they can be split off. However, when you merged these articles you removed the most encyclopedic information of all, which pertains to the real world aspects of the games (developer, publisher, release date, platforms, etc.). Furthermore, you removed the images of the covers, which serve to identify the individual games and are particularly important in this case, since the games are all based on the same franchise and can be easily confused. The cover images will now be deleted as they are orphaned, so that when these articles are split off in the future the work that I have already done (which was quite time-consuming) will have to be repeated. In addition, you removed most of the relevant external links. As the page you linked states: "Whatever you do, endeavour to preserve information". All in all, I think this merge is a big step backwards.

I'd be in favour of an article like Batman computer and video games, which has summary style descriptions of all the games in the franchise with links to their main articles. With regards to notability, I'm sure that none of these games fail that policy. They might lack references and suitable sources may be hard to track down due to the games' age, but they certainly exist. Mgiganteus1 (talk) 01:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. The page you linked states: "If the small articles have already existed for some time, the preferred course of action is to create the larger article first and redirect the small articles only after consensus determines that the large article is of sufficient quality." Firstly, there was no consensus to merge these articles as far as I am aware. Secondly, the merging of many small articles into a larger one is only a proposal (item 7 is in grey). Mgiganteus1 (talk) 02:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sega Newsletter

The Sega Project Newsletter

The Sega Project Newsletter Issue 1 - May 22, 2008 } Project News Headlines The Sega Project opens up a new task force, the Sonic Task Force. Cleanup efforts have begun on articles relating to Sonic the Hedgehog characters, but more editors are currently needed. Project logo and awards system has undergone an overhaul. Project's Featured Member In this segment each issue, the newsletter selects a member who has performed acts of merit for the project or to its respective articles. If you would like to be selected for the Project's Featured Member, please contact Red Phoenix (talk · contribs), show what acts you have performed that are worthy of merit, and talk a little about yourself; it's for fun! Fairfieldfencer (talk · contribs) is this issue's featured member, for his work with the Sonic the Hedgehog character articles and improving them in general. FFF is a 13 year old male from Britain with interests in video games and fencing. His edit count is over 3400 as of this issue. Check out his userpage for more information. Newsletter Looking for Columnists For all subsequent issues, the Sega Project is looking for columnists for the newsletter, to be released roughly every month, though no exact deadline for the newsletter will be set. If you would like to write a column for WikiProject Sega and have it displayed here in the newsletter, please make a note of this at WT:SEGA. Columns can be about anything about Sega (and its related franchises), Wikipedia, or the Sega Project. Thank you for your submissions. Active Members Members of the Sega Project, most of you are inactive around the project. While the active members can understand this, we would like more of our members to be active around the project. All you need to do is to use the project's talk page and discuss issues with project members. In return, active project members will help you with any help you might need. So please, we ask all of you to become more active around the project and make use of what you have signed up to become part of. If you have any questions or comments, just bring your comments to WT:SEGA or you can contact Red Phoenix personally at his talk page. General Membership Drive In addition to the issue we have with the inactive members, the Sonic Task Force could also use some more members. Some of you may find that area more interesting than the general project pages. You can make yourself a member of this project, too, by following the instructions at WP:SONIC. Please make use of the discussion page there, as well, if that is more to your interest. Did You Know... ...that the Sega Genesis is known as the Sega Mega Drive in Japan and Europe? ...that the Sega 32X was a colossal failure that sold only 200,000 units? ...that F-Zero GX, the popular Nintendo game, was developed by Sega's Amusement Vision studio? Contributors to this Issue Red Phoenix (talk · contribs) Authored the whole page. And remember, if you're not a member, join The Sega Project today! Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Recruit and advertise for more full time members. Copyedit: Crush 40 Cleanup: Cream the Rabbit, Doctor Eggman, Knuckles the Echidna, Sega 32X, Sega Game Gear, Sega Nomad, Sega Mega-CD, Sonic Rivals, Minor characters in Sonic the Hedgehog, Chaos Emeralds, Sega rally 3 Expand: Create appropriate pages for red links in List of Dreamcast games, Write the updates of the new content on the Sega Article. Stubs: Clean up anything that is Stub-class. Update: Expanding the WikiProject so we cover ALL Sega-related products. Other: Sonic the Hedgehog (character) - get to Featured Article status, bring Sega to Good Article status, watch and fight against vandalism in some of the more popular articles.

[edit] WP:FILMS Welcome

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Nreive! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. PS2pcGAMER (talk) 10:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Films May 2008 Newsletter

The May 2008 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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[edit] Blade Runner.

I'll try to come by, but probably not this week. · AndonicO ^Engage. 23:09, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind if I delay a bit longer; I have three other copyedit requests for articles that are already at FAC. · AndonicO ^Engage. 15:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The WPVG Newsletter (June 2008)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter Volume I, No. 3 - June 4, 2008 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 2008-06-04, the project has: 89 Featured articles 13 Featured Lists 9 Featured Topics 2 articles in Featured Article Review 208 Good Articles 0 articles in Good Article Review 10 articles for Peer review Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics Promoted FA/FL: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts, List of Harvest Moon titles, Riven, Myst, Topic: Characters of Halo, The Orange Box Demoted FA/FL: Devil May Cry series (FT) Promoted GA: Air (visual novel), Crash Boom Bang!, Driving Emotion Type-S, Einhänder, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Metal Gear Solid, Off-Road Velociraptor Safari, Team Fortress 2, Grand Theft Auto (series), Kratos (God of War), History of video game consoles (seventh generation) Demoted GA: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Cloud Strife, Super Smash Bros. News There were 203 new articles in May 2008 Current proposals and discussions Well, gee, thanks 1up! 1UP.com has recently changed their rating scale. A list of affected articles can be found here. See discussion for details. About 28% of the articles on the list have been checked and updated. Inactive project cleanup Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here. WikiProject Dragon Quest has been redirected to WP:VG. WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games Guild Wars task force has been deleted. Interested in a specific video game series or company? Check out some of our task forces to help improve the related articles. Atari Command & Conquer Devil May Cry New! Gears of War Grand Theft Auto Silent Hill Suikoden New! StarCraft New! Valve Visual novels New! Warcraft Feature Writing about Development Development content is very important to include in an encyclopedic video game article. It provides a history of how the game came to be and provides real world information needed for an article to claim comprehensiveness. However, writing this section can be difficult because the amount and type of information available will vary for each game. One of the best sources for such information is a developer interview. These can provide insight into the thought process of the designers and give examples of influences and obstacles encountered. Previews can also be helpful by giving a snap shot of the game before it was released and may mention development issues that were still being addressed. When writing about development, common sense should be used to organize content to maintain a sense of flow for the reader. Most times, it is best to give the information in a somewhat chronological order—though information can also be grouped by topics like audio, promotion, graphics, etc. If one such topic gets large enough, it can be split off into its own subsection or regular section. For example, Kingdom Hearts#Audio is a separate section from the rest of the development information because it focuses on the game's musical score and voice acting. Portal (video game)#Soundtrack, however, does not have as much content and is a subsection of the main development section. What to include about development Who are the developers? Which company or studio developed the game, and are there any prominent designers involved? When did development begin? When and where was the game first announced? (e.g. Tokyo Game Show, E3 Media and Business Summit, etc.) What influenced the game's story, characters, music, and/or gameplay ? (e.g. past games, movies, books, etc.) Were there any delays? Was anything excluded because of time or technological constraints? (e.g. extra levels, game modes, characters, story arcs, etc.) Things to remember Avoid proseline. Though maintaining a sense to chronology is important, this section should not read like an ordered list of events. Images in this section should be relevant to the information given and should add on to it. Source everything to avoid information being tagged as original research. Things you can help with: Peer review: Video game, Crash of the Titans, Xbox Live Arcade, List of Final Fantasy compilation albums, Metal Gear Solid, Shigeru Miyamoto, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess‎, Myst III: Exile, Blade Runner Cleanup: List of characters from The King of Fighters, Hellgate: London, LeChuck Featured article candidates: List of songs in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (FLC), Crackdown, Halo (series), List of Sega 32X games (FLC), Alleyway Good article nominations: Ayu Tsukimiya, Music of the Final Fantasy Tactics series, Super Smash Bros., Music of Final Fantasy XI, Day of Defeat: Source Article status review: GA Review – None; FA Review – The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, 3D Monster Maze, Final Fantasy IV; FT Review – Final Fantasy titles Articles for Deletion: Participate in video game related deletion discussions. Images: Add box-art and screenshots to articles. Make sure to include a valid non-free use rationale. Monitor the following related changes pages: changes to WP:VG and changes to this to-do list. Announce your new articles Sign up for the new VG Newsletter. 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

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:BR game gameplay.jpg)

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