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The Belgariad

I noticed you redirected Pawn of Prophecy back to the Belgariad, it would be nice if you provided your reasoning on a talk page, I am planning on greatly expanding the plotlines of this series as I reread the books, so having seperate pages is going to be approprate. Cheers. Crazynas ^t 21:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Recap episode (Air episode)

I am open to suggestions. It of course will be more than a plot summary. --Cat out 08:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

for your edits to 40,000 in gehenna. And welcome. ... aa:talk 22:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

... for adding Linux-Gamers.net to the Computer and video games Project ---xeroc- 14:26, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Cherryh articles

Thanks for all your additions to the various C. J. Cherryh articles! Other contributions to any of the articles in Category:C. J. Cherryh would be most welcome. As for yourself, welcome to wikipedia! Fairsing 05:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Evan (mythology)

Hi, I wonder if you would like to revise your opinion based on later comments: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evan (mythology). Thanks/wangi 13:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar! — Deckiller 16:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Aye! Thank you very much. ^_^ Ryu Kaze 16:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the B-Star! Sir Crazyswordsman 19:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Novels WikiProject Newsletter August 2006

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Barnstar fix

Thanks! Ryu Kaze 19:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

vg article

I made the article to try and filter mostly unrelated stuff from the source article.

Thanks for the invite. I joined. 1st one. :) RCHM 05:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

List of Mortal Kombat games and List of Pac-Man games

PresN! WHY did you remove the List of Mortal Kombat games and List of Pac-Man games from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games/Requests article? i want these to exsist! WHY? Touth 00:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Rating articles

I saw that you attempted to rate the article Digital puppetry for us. However, WikiProject Machinima's worklist is controlled by the {{MachinimaWikiProject}} template that appears on talk pages; it takes class and importance parameters to categorize articles automatically. Mathbot comes along nightly and updates the master list, overwriting manual changes to that list. A lot of WikiProjects use this protocol as well, so just thought that you'd like to know so that you don't waste time having your edits undone by the bot. — TKD::Talk 03:17, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for putting in the project information in the talk page of RecWar.--Padishar 05:35, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

CVG stuff

I noticed you give ratings to game articles. I come across articles that lack ratings and could lend a hand, but I don't know if that task is reserved for active WP:CVG participants or anything. -- Steel 23:16, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and thanks for your support in SotC's FAC. It's nice to see your hard work pay off. -- Steel 23:18, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, forget that question. Just read the talk page - anyone can do anything. -- Steel 00:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Squall

Yeah; I don't think we'll be able to get articles like Cloud and Squall to featured status, however — they're too narrow. — Deckiller 20:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Eurela

Hi, I noticed you posted a DELETE comment to the European election law ass'n. Some users expressed doubts that the association does not exist and that it does not have any membership. I scanned some of the membership applications and publishd them online in order to show you they do exist: www.volitve.si/s103.jpg www.volitve.si/s104.jpg www.volitve.si/s105.jpg www.volitve.si/s106.jpg www.volitve.si/s107.jpg www.volitve.si/s108.jpg www.volitve.si/s109.jpg www.volitve.si/s110.jpg

Please check them and please post a KEEP comment to the page if you are convinced that the thing really exists. Thanks, Topjur01 13:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar for you!

		The CVG Barnstar
		For your exceptional work on CVG articles, I award you the CVG barnstar! RandyWang (chat me up/fix me up) 11:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

No, really. Every time I go to edit a CVG-related article, your name's in the history - it's amazing. I think it's time you got a barnstar for it. Congratulations! RandyWang (^{chat me up}/_{fix me up}) 11:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! You know you deserved it. :) RandyWang (^{chat me up}/_{fix me up}) 23:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Computer and Video Games

Actually, I'm already a member of the project unofficially - see the category. I just didn't want to use the userbox for something I can only contribute to sporadically. Crystallina 21:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Style

Noooot quite sure. I think it might be related to the fair use image stuff; I'll ask him. --Zeality 16:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, yeah, you're right. It was TheEmulatorGuy. It was AMIB who removed the PC boxart. My mistake. Thanks for the correction. Anyway, I hope my response on Zeality's talk page makes sense. Ryu Kaze 16:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Xenogears

Bleh, I don't have time to polish up that article right now :(. Perhaps in a few weeks, it would be great! — Deckiller 02:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Request to Join comp. and videogame dealy

Hi yes! I suppose I should join huh? :) I also created a page for Megamania recently. I will probably be mostly just touching up and creating some articles for some older video games pages. Thanks for the tip though!

Adios Andrzejbanas 13:42, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

These two articles have secured me as a Wikipedian and have taught me how to make great material. My tenure has only begun! THank you. --Zeality 15:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

GCOTW

Thanks for updating the GCOTW while I was away. Thunderbrand 19:43, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for adding my new page of a List of Progressive Scan PS2 Games to your wiki Kona1611 20:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Anchorhead marked as stub.

On the talk page you marked Anchorhead as being in the "Stub" state. I'm relatively new to this ranking system, but based on my reading, I think Anchorhead would solidly qualify as a "Start" page. It features multiple links to explain the topic as well as the "Plot" subheading which reasonably completely treats the plot summary. As I'm new to the rating system and not familiar with the guidelines in question, I'm hesitant to change it myself. While I'm mentioning it, based on the scale, I believe Anchorhead is of "Low" importance. It's an important game within Interactive Fiction, but otherwise not terribly influencial. Someone feeling generous might mark it as "Mid" on the grounds that within IF it's an important game; it's existance is relavent to the depth of knowledge within IF. (I'm not necessarily expecting a reply, but if you'd like, I'll see any replies on Talk:Anchorhead (game), or feel free to ping me on my own talk page.) Alan De Smet | Talk 06:02, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for taking a look at Áedán mac Gabráin. If you have some time, could you have another look and see whether my revision has addressed any of the problems you saw. Thanks in advance. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'd like to improve the illustrations, but I suspect that will mean scanning or photographing something as I'm certainly no Leonardo da Vinci. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:30, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Jean Charles de Menezes

Hello,

I am wondering if you would re-evaluate Jean Charles de Menezes for Good Article status, as you said you might. The {{POV}} tag and the "dispute" over neutrality were caused by a single editor (fairly new to Wikipedia, as well) who did not provide any sources for their claim and who has not returned to the article in over a week. In addition, the verifiability has been improved by locating cited sources for the section which was previously missing them. Thanks, KWH 03:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, thanks again for taking the time! KWH 06:15, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

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Michelle Kwan GAC

Thank you for reviewing this so thoughtfully. Yeah, after I saw it'd been nominated for GA I started working on it like crazy, so there's a lot of recent edits. Also she has a lot of fans who like to insert fanspeak.. hence the back and forth (I hesitate to call it edit warring). Your points about the trivia and sources are well taken. I (or someone else working on this) will message you when it's ready for another look. Thank you again! --Fang Aili ^talk 13:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

• Hello all, I've added some new areas that you suggested: a filmography section on her personal bio section, and finally upped the references section up to 20 references. Could you take a glance and tell us what other sections need to be editted?

A question: would a link to www.mkforum.net break neutrality? User:Juaquino:Juaquino^{User talk:Juaquino 0:38, 8 October 2006}

Your userboxen

Hey I was looking for some good userboxes and one of yours was german solutioned ({{User:Some P. Erson/User GA}}). You might want to look into that. I'd do it but I don't know how to edit your userpage. --Clyde Miller 22:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh. Glad to help out. --Clyde Miller 23:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

La Grande Armée

Hey, you gave this article a GA review a few weeks ago and failed it on account of too many pictures. I have now removed lots of pictures and have renominated the article. Would you mind taking another look please? Thank you so much!UberCryxic 17:49, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

I started notifying projects last night but only got to two of them before I had to go to bed. Thanks for notifying the rest of the projects! Hbdragon88 20:21, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

CVG selected articles

I noticed you're marking some articles as being selected, when they haven't appeared on the portal — some aren't even featured! May I ask why? Pagrashtak 21:08, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I was just marking all of the Featured , formarly featured, and GA articles as selected. It's because it appeared that all FA's and GA's that were old enough were marked, and I was just rolling them into the new templaty box. If there's some procedure to being "selected", please tell me- If it means being selected for the Portal, then that's the first I've heard of it, though it'd make more sense. --PresN 21:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

"Selected" across WikiProjects generally means selected to appear on the portal, and that's how we use the term, at least the last time I checked. If we wanted every single FA and GA to be selected, we would just write it into the template code instead of having a selected parameter. I can see the confusion, though; our guidelines seem a lot more confused than they used to be. With our list of featured articles, there used to be a section called "Selected articles" that listed articles that had appeared on the portal; it was only about four or so, since the portal had long periods of not being updated. There's some talk about setting up a procedured for selected articles, so hopefully we'll be able to define this better soon. Pagrashtak 21:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProjects

I did not suggest a "merge" with all child-wikiprojects of CVG because I didn't think it was appropriate to merge all of them... please see WP:POINT. -- Ned Scott 05:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Tycoon Computer Games

Everyone on this WikiProject is inactive. I am Iuio, the last active member on the project. You have the go ahead to merge this project with WikiProject Computer and video games. (Iuio 07:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC))

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar. :) --TBCTaLk?!? 00:57, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Portal & Current events

Hi PresN, I was wondering what you thought of the Current events page & the portal. If you have an opinion on how I could improve them that would be much appreciated. Also, I could use a hand in keeping the current events page up to date. So if ever you see that an important event is missing from the page, please add it. You're already doing a great job maintaining the different CVG pages so please keep that up, but if you have some free time I'd appreciate it if you'd look at these pages from time to time. Take care, jaco♫plane 02:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Has to be done...

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For your work in promoting generally fluffy feelings among Wikipedians by taking the time to award barnstars to complete strangers GDallimore 22:15, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I have to say I was quite touched to receive the star, and I notice that it's not an uncommon event for you to be passing them out. Such kindness should not go unnoticed.

Age of Empires: AoK (DS) article

You rated the article as Start-class. What changes do you suggest to improve its rating? Some guy 05:56, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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Michelle Kwan and GA icons

I am so pleased that Michelle Kwan is a GA. I just had a random question--did they do away with the little green icon in the upper right? I didn't see it on any other good articles. --Fang Aili ^talk 18:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Thanks for the response. I don't mind its deletion, was just wondering where it went. Cheers, Fang Aili ^talk 20:14, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

CT

On it. --Zeality 16:47, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Category:Unassessed computer and video game articles

I've checked the updates at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Computer and video game articles by quality statistics, and recently (at least) there is only minor changes in the totals. There is still 3500+ articles (plus articles not yet tagged with CVG project on talk page). Do you have time to help assess? I try to do as many as I can in each day, but I can't do this on my own. RobJ1981 19:27, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for re-adding Óengus I of the Picts to the good article list. I now think its removal may have something to do with being the last article in the good articles category. I will try to keep a close eye on the article from now on and hopefully will be able to fix the bug in a few week's time. If it slips off again please feel free to re-add it.

Cedars 07:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

ONj

PresN, thank you so much for reviewing my article on ONj and for your very positive comments. It is most appreciated. The suggestion to propose the article for FAC is noted. As you wrote it is a complex subject. There could be a layperson article and a more detailed one or, as in this particular case, the intro is writtent more at a layperson level while the body of the article goes into the details that are also relevant. Any suggestion to bring the article to FAC level is appreciated :-) Dr. Imbeau 20:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

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Blomby Car

Hi thanks for your prod alert. Do you agree with the prod? I've messaged the person who did that. Kind of halts my momentum with arcade games as I was on a roll there. Don't want to do any more unless I am sure I am not going to get proposed for deletion. Sandman30s 22:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

PS/ Why so little activity on WikiProject_Computer_and_video_games/New_article_announcements?

Please can you speak to BlueValour about the deletion. If I am now going to choose which Mame games are noteworthy or not - makes it very difficult to continue. Sandman30s 09:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, please point me to the policy that says that video games are inherently notable. In any case, Sandman needs to slow down a touch and source as he goes. It would be of much greater benefit to the project to have a smaller number of sourced, well filled out articles than to produce a trail of part-cooked ones that may never be finished off. BlueValour 02:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks PresN for the support :) BlueValour, point taken, will try and fill out my articles as I go along, but this is going to take me *way* longer per article, and I might never reach the end point (Z) out of boredom/frustration. As it is, it takes long enough to fill in the CVG templates, which I am doing pretty thoroughly I think. Another problem - in South Africa we have limited ADSL international bandwidth per month due to a ridiculous cap, and I can only do this at the start of each month, before we are capped down to local. Sandman30s 07:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, we have a way forward. I won't Prod/AfD any and Sandman will source/fill out as he goes. Good luck! BlueValour 16:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Now the entire Blomby Car article has been deleted, even from my contributions :( Who did this and why? Sandman30s 12:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

My monobook.js problem

Thank you for pointing that out. I was confused at first why it was adding me, then I figured out that in my monobook code, I had [[Category:Unassessed ...]] instead of [[:Category:Unassessed ...]], and since monobook pages don't contain categories at the bottom, I never noticed it before. It was also showing up at the category for unassessed novel articles. Again, thanks for pointing this out. -- moe.RON ^{Let's talk | done} 18:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: New Video Game Article

Thank you for the attribution. I have added myself to the project per your suggestion. Shawnc 21:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

A?

Is Empires rated A now?--Clyde Miller 21:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

CVG Project

Hi, and thanks for your offer. I am already part of the WikiProject Nintendo. bibliomaniac15 Review? 21:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Stub class?

Hi! I notice you'd flagged several recent CVG articles as stubs, and was curious about the rationale. (The Halley Project is an example.) The assessment scale suggests it should be ranked higher, since the article contains an infobox with accurate data (including a PNG screenshot) and some clear (though concise) descriptions of the its premise, features, etc. Plus, being an Apple II game, its complexity's inherently limited, and doesn't necessarily warrant pages of verbose detail.
Thanks! Huwmanbeing 13:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Two new articles added to Wikipedia

hey, PresN! I want to know that I have added 2 new articles in need for expanding: Pimp My Ride (game) and ATV Offroad Fury Pro. Professional Gamer 16:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Advice

Hey you've done tons of work with rating video games and I was wondering, is Duck Hunt a B article? I'm trying to get it to GA.--Clyde Miller 00:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Re. WP:CVG deletions

Sorry about that. Havok (T/C/e/c) 09:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

Hey, are you interested at all in adminship? I don't mind nominating you. jaco♫plane 20:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)