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[edit] Not getting immediately deleted.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Ren'Py, so I have a bit of a conflict of interest over this page. So I'll try not to edit it directly, but rather post things here that will hopefully influence people maintaining the page.

First of all, the name is "Ren'Py", not Renpy or Ren'py. It would probably be best if this page was at that name.

I suspect some will question Ren'Py's notability. Here are some reasons why it's notable:

• There have been a number of articles about Ren'Py in various magazines. IIRC, there was a feature article about Ren'Py in GX magazine, an italian magazine. There was also some coverage in a Finnish magazine a while back.
• I was interviewed about Ren'Py for the last issue of Animefringe [1] back in 2005.
• There was an academic publication about Ren'Py a while back. (And not by me, surprisingly.) I'll try and find the link.
• Ren'Py is included in Ubuntu and Debian.

Since the Ren'Py demo is copyright me, I can license specific screenshots under the GFDL on request.

I suggest that this page (which currently is largely taken from [2]) might be better reduced to more of a stub, as right now it reads like the semi-advertising that open source projects do.

I do ask people give us some time to clean this up before immediately hitting the delete key. — PyTom (talk) 16:36, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the 'notability' tag, having incorporated those items above which I can find references for into the main article.

Additionally, it should be noted that there were outstanding requests for a Ren'Py article on the Culture and Fine Arts and Video Games article request lists.

I didn't include a couple of magazine-style mentions (e.g. this one) because they would have confused and degraded the article in the interest of pandering to the 'notability' crowd, which is stupid.

Also I totally forgot to uncheck the 'minor edit' box, and I don't think I can go back and fix that. :/ JakeS (talk) 18:36, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. FWIW, the publication about Ren'Py appeared in MIPRO 2007: [3]. — PyTom (talk) 19:18, 17 May 2008 (UTC)