ECW28

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:ECW28 reported by User:Soetermans (Result: ). Thank you. Soetermans. T / C 22:27, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

March 2015

• You have been blocked for 1 week. You're wasting too many people's time with your inability to understand a basic concept like "open world", but today's edit warring and random lashing out at Soeterman pushed things over the line. While blocked, I recommend reading up some on what "open world" means, and when you come back, please only make changes if you have reliable sources backing your statement, and don't have editors who oppose the change. Sergecross73 msg me 01:25, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

About your new user page statement

Hi ECW28,

I noticed you've changed your user page. You're making a statement, and let me respond to it.

The point of adding games to the category open world is for two reasons: 1. I love open world games and I want to play them. But I consider this to be the only place that has every open world game listed. 2. There are games that are missing. I wish to find out which games are missing and add them. But since there is no guideline to go by, I have to make a determination based on sources from the Internet. Which is frustrating because without a guideline for what is and isn't an open world game, I'm at a loss.

Okay, you love open world video games. But if you want to help Wikipedia, you'll have to edit by its rules. No guideline? There are dozens of guidelines here on Wikipedia, which you either do not know about or maybe even disregarded. See the guidelines, to which I've pointed you before. For video games, there's this guideline. In a nutshell, Wikipedia has to back up the information it presents, so Wikipedia says that others say that. If you want to add information about open world video games, you'll have to add sources. Game Informer, GameSpot, Kotaku, GamesRadar, Giant Bomb, Joystiq, or maybe even some scientific essays (like gamestudies.org). The information is out there. If you need help how to add it, see the reference guideline.

One thing you can definitely not do, is add your own ideas, that's what you've been doing. I really do hope that you'll read the guidelines and take some time to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia, because you do seem to want to help. And if you like video games as much as I do, you'll do fine. --Soetermans. T / C 09:05, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Open world again

ECW28, you have to stop your disruptive editing. Mass Effect, No Man's Sky or Adrift aren't called open world games. You're not adding sources or even adding information to the article body, only adding it to the category. You've been asked and told repeatedly on how Wikipedia works and how you have to go by adding your claims to these articles. I ask you again, to find sources that back up your claim and NOT your own opinion. --Soetermans. T / C 20:15, 1 June 2015 (UTC)