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Thanks for contributing the Eutechnyx article, very good start to it. Seraphimblade 22:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

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Orion games were not for the Coco

...which should be obvious given that they predate it! Maury 17:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

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Per WP:NFCC item #8, we do not permit the use of fair use images in galleries such as you have attempted on Acorn Electron. If you have questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. Simple reversion is not acceptable and would violate policy. Thank you, --Durin 22:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

• Decision after decision after decision after decision after decision after decision after decision after decision has ruled against the use of such galleries. I am reverting this change and reporting it to WP:AN/I. I cautioned you against simple reversion. --Durin 01:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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Re: Thanks for Pipeline

Hi RJ, hope this reaches you, I'm replying to your comment about Pipeline (and this too is "Blatant abuse of the Wiki User talk page", hope no-one notices). Thanks very much for your comments about the game (and for your constructive edits of the page). I'm delighted whenever someone says they enjoyed it, more and more so as time goes on. I don't write games these days (though I do drop in on game developer conferences every now and then, and occasionally bump into coder heroes from the 8-bit days, like Jeff Minter). I do write programs still, but they are scientific ones (computational biology) -- see biowiki.org which is my group's website. All the best... Ian —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ian Henty Holmes (talk • contribs) 23:18, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

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Platform

Please stop adding in ports to the launch platform identifier in the infobox. The plural in the title is for more modern games that launch on multiple platforms. Ports are covered in the Ports section of the article. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 22:05, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

The design of the infobox is in regards to the main platform, hence the inclusion of information such as mode, input method, cabinet, display, CPU, etc. etc. in the infobox template. This goes for all sub-templates as well. If a game was released on multiple platforms at launch (such as your Thrust example), then of course the multiple launch releases belong in the list (hence the plural). "Staggered releases" can still be considered ports however, unless its documented that the other platforms were being worked on at the same time and not as an after launch. Also, the issue here is unruly long lists of ports that have developed in the Platform line of the infobox, which Wikipedia does have policies against - prose is always preferred over lists. The idea of including all platforms it was available for is what the standard Ports section of the video game related articles is for, and the prose format these sections use are more inline with policy than a long list. If there's an article that section doesn't exist in (such as Thrust), feel free to create it. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 22:23, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Just created a Ports section there for you, as well as the other standard sections. There actually was an entire paragraph already discussing ports, it was just in the intro area instead of where it should be. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 22:38, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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Hey, good job adding to the Coldcut page. You may notice if you read the history section that it pretty much only covers up to the early nineties then starts talking about their style, etc. If you know about the release of Let Us Play! and it's reception and any other stuff regarding them post-1997 you should really add it. That section is a bit of a mess right now. Cheers Kansaikiwi (talk) 01:04, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

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I was wondering if you'd like to help me set up a WikiProject for The Kinks. You seem to be very active in editing pages related to them, and are a great contributor to that community as a whole.

I've set up a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/The Kinks, and it's currently waiting for approval. It will need a few votes for it to pass, however. Would you be interested? Many Thanks, I.M.S. (talk) 18:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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I do understand that it is not a good idea to use user generated content when it is something that could be edited in wrong but when all the source was proving was that the thing exists, it does seem enough. I did look at the official artist website but the details (B side track etc) are now missing since it has sold out. I suppose there'll be a snapshot of that site from a few months ago that would do. Retro junkie (talk) 18:50, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

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