User talk:A Nobody/Archive 26

Merry Christmas

And Happy Holidays, from your friendly neighborhood spiderman. :) --cremepuff222 (talk) 10:50, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! Cheers! --A Nobody^{My talk} 16:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the Christmas greetings. Best wishes to you and yours. :) Robofish (talk) 18:09, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome!  :) Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 18:11, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you and Merry Christmas to you too. :) RainbowOfLight ^Talk 20:10, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome! We are probably going to open some more gifts soon! Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:49, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the card!

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You are welcome! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 16:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you!

Merry Christmas from the Antandrus Orchard in southern California, the citrus delight where it snoweth not, but where the cheer is no less. Peace and best wishes for 2010! Antandrus (talk) 18:29, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

And let me add my wishes for peace and all good things to you as well.  Frank  |  talk  20:00, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 20:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends, A Nobody. Fairfieldfencer FFF

Merry Christmas! TomCat4680 (talk) 20:29, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:51, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you!
Thanks for all your messages and support. You really make a difference to wikipedia.
All the best.
Regards, SunCreator (talk) 21:00, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words, SunCreator! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:51, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, A Nobody

Thanks for the gift and wishes, A Nobody. A very Merry Christmas to you too! Best. Acalamari 22:22, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome! Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your greeting! Merry Christmas to you also! December21st2012Freak ^{Happy Holidays!} 23:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 23:21, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year Nobody. Take care of yourself. ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:56, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! We just exchanged some more gifts. I received Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil 5: Collector's Edition, two $50 PlayStation Network cards, a spool of black thread, a spool of white thread, three bottles of stress relief bubble path, Medal of Honor: Heroes 2, the Uwe Boll Postal and Seed films, the extended cut of Donnie Brasco, Guitar Hero boxers, tape, a photograph of my mother, one of the American Pie Presents movies, some kind of laptop cooler thing, an Ohio State University snuggie, a gift certificate for Red Lobster, a book called What Might Have Been: Leading Historians on Twelve "What Ifs of History", another one on "Target America; Hitler's Plan to Attack the United States," a third book on "Oh, Yikes! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty", a bag of Fritos, Austin Powers Pinball, Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball, God of War II, etc. How did you fare? Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 00:26, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

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How nice! Thank you! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 00:32, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!

Once again it is festive season, a time where festive decorations are displayed and gifts are swapped; but what about the true meaning of christmas? The true meaning of christmas is about the fight for freedom and how in times of hardship and misery, one person leads their people to freedom as a great warrior; for those who fight for a cause are warriors and those who fight for a worthy cause are great warriors. Such an act earns respect and honour; but most importantly, brings happiness to their people. So to achieve this as happiness lies in other people's happiness and greatness lies in how you deal with little people, we selflessly think of others in the hope that they will be happy this christmas.

Hi A Nobody, have a very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 2010!
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Merry Christmas to you as well and wow, what an impressive template! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 18:40, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

And now... yes, you've guessed it

Here's wishing you a happy end to the holiday season and a wonderful 2010. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:59, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you and same to you! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 18:43, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Click there to open your card! → → →

Dear A Nobody,
Wishing you, your family, and friends a very merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate at this time of year), and I hope that the new year will be a good one, in real life, and on the wiki. There is always a reason to spread the holiday spirit; it's a special time of year of almost everyone. ;)
Love and best wishes, Meaghan - ^Merry _Christmas! - 14:50, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, I hope yours was good! Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 19:25, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Welcome note

Thank you and Merry Christmas. 74.50.125.97 (talk) 19:36, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome and Merry Christmas to you as well! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 20:18, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Newsletter Contest

I am starting to work on the next newsletter. Already have a editorial and one interview lined up.

If you are interested in the contest this time, please make at least a minor edit to the section here:

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Article_Rescue_Squadron/Newsletter/20091001/Contest

...today or tomorrow (Saturday/Sunday), or else I will remove the section and you could do the contest in newsletter 3. thanks. Ikip 20:28, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Okay. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 21:12, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

nice job! This also pushes me to put out the article before new years! Ikip 22:41, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! By the way, I don't need to be sole judge, we can see if anybody else wants to. After all everything from American Idol to the UFC has three judges. We can ask for two volunteers and accept them on a first come basis and so long as they are established members? Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:57, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Resident Evil

If you are interested in what I have resource wise, let me know, as I have a whole wall of back issues of GamePro, Electronic Gaming Monthly, the three different PlayStation magazines, GameInformers, published strategy guides, etc. I know some insist we are not a "guide"; however, several of the guides that I have non-guide detailed information. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 23:21, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Is this in response to my recent editing? If so, feel free to contribute in any way you see fit. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 23:25, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Actually, that is coincidental. I think all of us who frequent the character discussions need to colloborate more on some of these projects and my hope is that rather than all of us going back in forth in AfDs, we first focus on improving the most important articles and then deal with the debateable ones (of course any that are hoaxs or copy vios can be deleted with no controversy). Anyway, what I was getting at with regards to the whole "not a guide" thing is something like Resident Evil 5 The Complete Official Guide: Collectors Edition. Sure it is a licensed publication, but is unquestionably a reliable source. Most importantly for our purposes, beyond the walkthrough, it devotes a huge section to "Behind the Scenes" from page 192 on. The section includes multi-page subsections on "Character Concepts" with various development information (at least a dozen full sized paragraphs) from modelers and production directors. It has additional subsections on "Motion Capture & Animation". So, for someone like Sheva, we have Yasuhiro Anpo, Production Designer, reveal "The designing of a female character is a killer assignment. We had to change and modify Sheva considerably to combine two qualities, feminine attraction and the strength of a fighting woman." Or we have Yosuke Yamagata, Modeler, say, "Sheva is a character who symbolizes one of the themes of RE5 - the 'bond of patnership'...." (he goes on for THREE paragraphs discussing her development). Now, of course, not all strategy guides have this stuff, but several of the ones I own do and I think we can reasonably agree that for something like the development sections they are reliable. Anyway, if you would like me to email you a draft of the list of published top ten lists from GameInformer and Electronic Gaming Monthly, let me know. My overall opinion is that any ones for which we can come up with both development sections and reception sections can exist as stand alone articles; those that are not hoaxes can be merged and/or redirected; and those that are hoaxes and/or have no redirect location can be deleted. As such, I am planning on only focusing in AfDs on those for which a realistic prospect of stand alone exists. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 23:39, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Might I suggest that you work on Chris first, and I'll work on Ada [and when I'm done with Ada, I'll work on Sheva]? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 00:17, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

In the "Characters" section of the manual (produced by George Hu and Offbase Productions) for Resident Evil 5 (San Mateo: Capcom Entertainment, Inc., 2009) provides the following bios:

Chris Redfield on page 6: "Chris's knowledge, instinct, and attack power are unparalled within the BSAA, and years of experience has given him the ability to wield a variety of weapons. Since Umbrella's downfall, he has fought several biological threats throughout the world, but with the hard fought victories has also come devastating tragedies." Could be helpful for User:New Age Retro Hippie/Chris Redfield.

Sheva Alomar on page 7: "A BSAA agent and an African native, Sheva joins as Chris's partner in his latest mission. Her skills in battle are formidable, and her agility is unparalleled. She is driven by her dark past to fight against the bioterrorism ravaging her homeland." Could be helpful for User:New Age Retro Hippie/Sheva Alomar.

That might be it for now as my back is really starting to hurt and I feel like shooting something; so I will probably play some Ghost Squad! Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 00:35, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Okay, done playing Ghost Squad and eating a cheeseburger (nothing like saying "no onions" and still getting onions...which I hate!) and French fries. Anyway, “Retronauts Presents WTFiction!? Deciphering silly stories” by Jeremy Parish is a five part series and Electronic Gaming Monthly 224 (January 2008) covers No. 2: Resident Evil by listing essentially the top 12 elements of the game across a couple of pages (100-101) of the magazine. Here are the numbered entries (I will only provide some parts of only some of the summaries, i.e. those you seem interested in with your userfied articles, so as not to just copy the whole thing for copyright purposes; also absent from the list below are all the lines that the article features indicating their relationships to each other):

• 1. Umbrella Corp.
• 2. Ozwell Spencer, Edward Ashford, James Marcus
• 3. Viruses
• 4. Raccoon City
• 5. Albert Wesker: "'Why won't you die?1' Wesker seems to get killed a lot, but he always seems to pop up again, just looking slightly less human. An Umbrella employee masquerading as a STARS member, Wesker tried betraying his comrades only to be killed by his own creation, the Tyrant. He later switched allegiance, hoping to steal Umbrella's secrets for a rival corporation - and even later hoped to cultivate Las Plagas." See page 100. Could be helpful for User:New Age Retro Hippie/Albert Wesker.
• 6. RPD/STARS
• 7. Ada Wong: "A mysterious woman who helped Leon Kennedy for a while...then turned coats and helped Wesker instead. But actually, she was double-crossing Wesker and his mysterious shadow organization in the service of a totally different shadow organization. Uh, OK." See page 101. Could be helpful for User:New Age Retro Hippie/Ada Wong.
• 8. Los Illuminados
• 9. Leon Kennedy: "After surviving a zombie-infested Raccoon City and putting a stop to a sex-starved mutated version of Umbrella's top viral researcher, former STARS agent Leon Kennedy went to work for the American government. There he did STARS-like duties with the added benefit of having the president's daughter totally crush on him as he put an end to Los Illuminados." See page 101. Could be helpful for User:New Age Retro Hippie/Leon S. Kennedy.
• 10. Jill Valentine
• 11. Claire Redfield: "Chris' sister Claire isn't a cop, but she's determined to stop zombie crime anyway. She's very spunky, which is demonstrated by her ability to fight the undead with a sexy bare midrift. She went searching for her brother - but ultimately, he had to rescue her when she ran afoul of Umbrella. Oops!" See page 101. Could be helpful for User:New Age Retro Hippie/Claire Redfield.
• 12. Chris Redfield: "RPD's top STARS field agent, Chris put a stop to the nefarious goings-on in Umbella's mansion, then went underground to research the company's evil-doings. This prompted his sister to go searching for him, which in turn led to him searching for her once she became trapped in a remote Umbrella facility. He'll also be coming out of cover more prominently in RE5." See page 101. Could be helpful for User:New Age Retro Hippie/Chris Redfield.

Another list entry of relevance is:

• 9. "Garrador (Resident Evil 4) Of all the tense battles in the game, there was nothing quite like the sense of being hunted in your first encounter with the vicious Garrador. These berserk and sound-sensitive gladiators could easily tear you apart with their metal claws, so you needed to drive them into a frenzy by ringing nearby bells. We still remember the terror in that brief moment when we realized the Garrador had pinpointed our location and was ready to strike." See “the top 10 boss fights,” GameInformer 181 (May 2008): 20.

And another...

• 4. "Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (PS1): Nemesis Nemesis is hardly a sparkling conversationalist, and he has the world’s worst case of smoker’s gums, but he can break through walls like they’re made of kitten farts before punching your head off. And really, that’s all he needs to do. Keep it simple, stupid." See “EGM’s Top Ten Badass Undead: Thriller night” by Scott Sharkey, Electronic Gaming Monthly 233 (October 2008): 105.

Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 02:22, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to split Chris, as he definitely has enough for a start. Could you help find some creation info for Ada? I've found very little so far. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 05:11, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good; I'm am looking for interviews on Google now. By the way, you may or may not find the following funny/cute: [1] and [2]. My dad and I got a laugh out of both and after trying to beat Darkside Chronicles and Umbrella Chronicles (the latter is too hard for me...), there was something just pleasant/nostalgic, whatever, about the Numa one in particular. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 04:48, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Colds7ream (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

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Many thanks! You too! :-) Colds7ream (talk) 17:21, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I received Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2. Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 04:58, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas (a tad belated)

Hi A Nobody. Hope your Christmas was a merry one and your new year will be a happy one! Always good to see you on wikipedia and hope to see you here for many years to come! Regards and best wishes. --RegentsPark (sticks and stones) 22:14, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:15, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

You may want to watch who you welcome next time

[3] → You may wish to be more observant next time so you're not wasting an edit there. The user was blocked right before your welcoming message ([4]) :) –MuZemike 02:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I welcomed the account after noticing what seemed like legitimate anti-vandalism work a la this edit for example. It appears the account was blocked litterally 1 minute before my welcome. I had not noticed whatever the offending edits were, just the ones such as above that looked legitimate. I was probably adding the template just as the block was occuring. I appreciate the heads up though. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 02:06, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

RE: RE

Hello! I notice on your userpage that you list Nemesis (Resident Evil) as an A-article you contributed to. Please note my workspace at User_talk:A_Nobody/List_of_decisive_battles#Resident_Evil_series. Anyway, would you like to collaborate on getting the most significant characters from the series to DYK class? The two most "notable" female characters would have to be Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield (they appear as playable characters in multiple games, appear in the movie versions, and have multiple toys made of them and therefore we should be able to find sources on their appearances in the games, movies, and as toys) and probably Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield for the guys (the former appears in the animated movie and the latter as an action figure; both are main characters in multiple games). The others listed on my userfied page have potential, but I can accept them being in the character lists. Jilly, Claire, Leon, and Chris have the greatest likelihood of working as stand alone articles (I wouldn't be surprised if they don't appear in some top ten lists as well, which incidentally, while taking care of an ill family member, I have been going through back issues of Game Informer, Electronic Gaming Monthly, etc. to compile a master list of all of their top ten lists and if you are curious what I have discovered thus far, drop me an email; I figure no one can challenge the reliability of these particular magazines; I have been working with another on this as well as seen at User_talk:A_Nobody/Archive_25#Source_request).

For example, we have something like “the top 10 boss fights,” GameInformer 181 (May 2008): 20, which lists "9 Garrador (Resident Evil 4) Of all the tense battles in the game, there was nothing quite like the sense of being hunted in your first encounter with the vicious Garrador. These berserk and sound-sensitive gladiators could easily tear you apart with their metal claws, so you needed to drive them into a frenzy by ringing nearby bells. We still remember the terror in that brief moment when we realized the Garrador had pinpointed our location and was ready to strike." This listing and commentary could form the basis of a reception section on this character. Now for the plot section of the article on the character, the Bradygames Signature Series Guide devotes all of page 14 (three big paragraphs) specifically to this character and goes beyond just strategy type of information (noting for example the name's meaning ("man with claws"), i.e. we have two print reliable sources that provide out of universe commentary and importance. Next would be to see what kind of development information exists, but for a number of characters beyond Nemesis, we have some good sources out there. Something else to look at is “WTFiction!? Deciphering silly stories” by Jeremy Parish spread out across Electronic Gaming Monthly 221 (November 2007), Electronic Gaming Monthly 222 (December 2007), Electronic Gaming Monthly 223 (Holiday 2007), Electronic Gaming Monthly 224 (January 2008), and Electronic Gaming Monthly 225 (February 2008). Each of the installements devotes at least two full pages entirely to the items on the below list and includes (in the case of the above cited Resident Evil characters listings/commentaries on several characters, locations, weapons, etc.:

• No. 5: Xenogears
• No. 4: Mega Man
• No. 3: Final Fantasy VII
• No. 2: Resident Evil
• No. 1: Metal Gear

Anyway, I think the above are some priority articles and I am inspired after they said in a review of The Darkside Chronicles on X-Play something to the effect of needing to check Wikipedia for all the back story. Also, I received the collector's edition of Resident Evil 5 for Christmas (we give out some gifts early) and it has a DVD documentary bonus figures with all sorts of interviews on the characters, even the non-playable ones like Excella. Please note that I am working with another editor whom you seem friends with on this as well and I am confident he would welcome your help to. For our discussion, please see User_talk:A_Nobody#Resident_Evil. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 19:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

I'd only do another RE character article if I could get my hands on the Resident Evil Archives book scans again...I lost them after finishing Nemesis' article and haven't been able to find them since, and I don't feel like paying for them. The book's a wealth of knowledge on character development you won't find online so...yeah, it's kinda a necessity.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 22:07, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

I am debating buying it myself from Amazon.com or ebay, or asking my grandmother to. It is too bad it goes for like 100 bones nowadays. I cannot believe I missed this one when it came out as was much cheaper. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:13, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Amazon might be the best alt, but like you said it's costly and the info's too strewn around it to really purchase just to cite material from. I know there are scans floating around, just a matter of finding them (trying to locate the SF20: Art of Street Fighter book online too for similar means)...--Kung Fu Man (talk) 22:49, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Google Books doesn't have any kind of preview of note unfortunately for the RE book. By the way, are you interested in Tekken related articles at all? I bought the Collector's Edition version of Tekken 6 for the PS3 which came with an "art book" that actually features a healthy amount of out of universe development information in addition to the many images. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 22:50, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Why don't we set up a donation thing to get stuff like this? Or get interested people in on splitting the cost? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 06:17, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Some of Bradygames's books are available as PDF files for purchase. Too bad this one isn't. There is one scan at this wiki, and you can download the full scan of the 300+ page book at this location. Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 18:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

RfA thanks

My RFA →→→

Dear A Nobody, here is a little note to say thank you for your kind vote on my request for adminship which failed with a final result of (40/19/12).

Thank you for your participation in my RfA which I withdrew after concerns of my knowledge of policy. Special thanks are owed to Coffee, who defended me throughout and whom I cannot thank enough for the nomination; to 2over0 for being supportive and helpful; to A Stop at Willoughby for the thorough, thoughtful and articulate support rationale; to IP69.226.103.13 for maintaining composure and for a pleasant interaction on my talk page and, last but not least, to Juliancolton who was good enough to close the RfA at my request and, frankly, because an editor whom I respect so much found the time to support me! If the need for more admins at the main page is still apparent in a few months, I may try again. Thank you all for a relatively drama-free RfA and for providing me with much material from which to learn from my mistakes. You're all welcome to drop by my talk page any time. God save the Queen Wiki! HJMitchell You rang? 19:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

You are welcome and good luck next time! Sincerely, --A Nobody^{My talk} 19:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)