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HighBeam for D&D articles (part 5)

The Baldur's Gate series, the Icewind Dale series, and the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series all have more than a few HighBeam hits, while the Neverwinter Nights series has tons! So, I decided to first look everything else up that we haven't already looked at, and here are the results.

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor [1] [2] [3] [4] Y

Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes [5] Y

The Temple of Elemental Evil (video game) [6] [7] (don’t think I saw those before) Y

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] Y

Dungeons & Dragons Tactics [14] N

Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale [15] [16] [17] [18] Y

Neverwinter (video game) [19] Y - BOZ (talk) 03:59, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

• I was able to rewrite the entire gameplay section with the source for D&D: Heroes. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 14:41, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
• Dungeons & Dragons Tactics source was just a trivial mention saying it was coming out. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
• Sourced a couple bits and added a little for Neverwinter, but the article is old and short, so it didn't have a lot of new information. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:06, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
• Got a little more from one source for Temple of Elemental Evil; the other source was just a trivial mention about the ability to have a male/male romance in the game, nothing that's not already covered in better detail by other sources. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 19:07, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Good progress. :) That's an interesting hammer icon! BOZ (talk) 23:20, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

• Ha! I meant to use {{n}}, but was thinking of the x-mark. Didn't even notice it until you said something. I finished Daggerdale. The sources were mostly brief reviews, with one just a couple sentences, but there was some info there. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 16:38, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
• Still working on Dragonshard, but the last two are trivial mentions. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 19:35, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

It looks like you got some use out of that first one, so hopefully there will be something worthwhile in the other three links. BOZ (talk) 06:03, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Got a good spread of spots referenced from the last three. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:50, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Awesome work, as always. :) I imagine the Pool of Radiance sequel will wind up having a reception section similar to that of Descent to Undermountain. ;) BOZ (talk) 20:34, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Also, let me know if any of those have any info about the novel by Carrie Bebris based on the game. BOZ (talk) 16:05, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

• Finished Pool of Radiance, and man I'm glad I never bought that game! Two of the articles were pretty detailed, but the other two were trivial listings, the second of which was actually a year-end summary by the author of one of the two bigger articles. Oh, and nothing about the novel, unfortunately. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 02:55, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Cool, well done as always. I figure, negative reception is better than none - you can always be notable for sucking. :) BOZ (talk) 16:21, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

OK, next, how about the Baldur's Gate (series)? There is a lot of room to work with on these games, and I know you looked at it briefly before. I stuck with the original series for now since there is a lot to do there, and we can get the Dark Alliance series later. See what you can do also with the series overview article I linked to above, and if you can find anything in there about the three novels based on the series.

Baldur's Gate (was hard to search on – I bet there are a lot more) [20] [21] Y

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast [22] [23] [24] Y

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] (last one also good for Throne of Bhaal?) Y

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] Y

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition [41] Y

• BOZ (talk) 16:21, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Or really, if you can add sources to anything in the Category:Baldur's Gate that would be swell. :) BOZ (talk) 01:18, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

• I did Tales of the Sword Coast, although none of the sources were great. One was a trivial listing, one had some detail, and the third just breezed over it before talking mostly about the original game. The fourth actually is a review of the sequel, so I moved it to that group for later. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 14:16, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't recall if it was intentional or not, but it looks like the one you moved was already listed under Shadows of Amn, so I removed the extra one entirely to prevent any confusion.  ;) BOZ (talk) 23:38, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

• Oh, forgot to note I did some on Baldur's Gate, but one of those sources you listed was one I'd already added. My son is hogging the computer and forcing me to play Portal 2 nonstop, so my WP time is getting cut lol. Poor me right? I'll look into some of the others soon though. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 20:26, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

There are certainly worse things you could be doing with your time!  :) BOZ (talk) 13:05, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Did BGII. A lot of the sources were either trivial or redundant with stuff already referenced in the article, but I got a good amount of sourcing overall. The last source was only about the expansion pack, and was a very brief mention, but still good enough to use. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 17:51, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Good deal! Does that ref have anything useful for Underdark, Astral Plane, Shadow Thieves, Cowled Wizards, Harpers, or anything else, or are they just name-drops? BOZ (talk) 20:51, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

I'll put it this way: your question has as much information as the source. ;) —Torchiest ^talk_edits 21:47, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Hah, oh well, it was worth checking just to be sure. :) BOZ (talk) 18:06, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

• Okay, did the last two. Most of the ToB sources were trivial or repeated stuff already sourced, but there were a few good bits. The BGEE source had a great quote about the iPad version, but not a lot else. Most of it was just discussing the original game, not new stuff. Start a new section at the bottom for the next batch of articles. This one is getting rather huge. :) —Torchiest ^talk_edits 17:11, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

God of War (comics)

Thanks for cleaning up the comic issues refs. I wasn't sure how to do those and couldn't find where it explains how to. --JDC808 ♫ 15:07, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I always have to go look back at another article to figure out how to do it again lol. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 15:29, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

lol --JDC808 ♫ 15:37, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Would you possibly be able to leave some comments on the Peer Review request for God of War (video game)? --JDC808 ♫ 22:59, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Sure. I'll try to give it a look this week. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 00:19, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. --JDC808 ♫ 04:37, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Do you have any other comments? --JDC808 ♫ 18:23, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

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Young and Talented School of Stage and Screen

Hi. I've noticed you've edited the "Young and Talented School of Stage and Screen" article so rather than slap a notice on the top I thought I'd write you directly.

I saw this article when it was first created on New Page Patrol, and left a message on the talkpage with my concerns at the time. I see that the article has been beefed up with more references since then but my central concern still stands - from a disinterested perspective this article looks promotional, like it's been written by the school's own staff, and gives no claim on the notability of the school. Yes, some of the students have made semi-notable performances but none of the footnotes indicate the notability of the school itself. Do you see what I mean? I can't see anything that indicates that this school passes a WP:Existence ≠ Notability test... Your thoughts? Wittylama 07:58, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it's definitely borderline. I've been trying to help along the article's creator, and have asked her to try to find references directly about the school rather than its students. I don't think it looks too promotional, but that might just be relative to the condition it was in originally, when it was speedied for copyvio from the school's own website. We'd need to know how substantial those three new offline references are to know if they meet WP:GNG or similar notability guidelines. I've just gone on the assumption that they are significant coverage, but I'd be interested in knowing their full content, if possible. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 13:43, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I agree that it's not overly promotional so the tone is fine by me, but what draws my attention is the complete lack of a claim to notability in the opening sentences. All it says is "this is a theatre school". The subsequent content explains some of the history etc. but it doesn't attempt to claim anything. If it could even say (with a footnote) that it's "the largest in the region" (or similar) that would be something I guess. Wittylama 05:41, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

I've left a note at User talk:Andreea Teia pointing here to get more input. I'd say there's a decent case to be made for taking the article to AfD, but hopefully we can avoid that with a little more work from her. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 16:57, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for that! Still a way to go on clean up, but it's coming along. :) —Torchiest ^talk_edits 13:57, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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Goldmoon and Raistlin

Your addition of HighBeam sources to these articles is being challenged. I started a new subthread on the list of Dragonlance characters, and there is a new thread on my talk page that would benefit from a response from you. BOZ (talk) 18:46, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Goldmoon has acquired a few more sources; what do you think now, are we at GNG level? BOZ (talk) 13:15, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

HighBeam for D&D articles (part 6)

OK, up next is the Icewind Dale series. On Icewind Dale II, a particularly hardworking anonymous editor who apparently really liked the game, did a bunch of work on it to build it up to Good Article – of course, that is no reason not to work on it further, if those hits I found will help. :)

Icewind Dale [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] Y

Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54]

Icewind Dale II [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]

BOZ (talk) 19:15, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

• Icewind Dale is done. The sources were the usual mix of trivial mentions, brief unhelpful summaries, and a couple detailed pieces. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 20:08, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
• Heart of Winter is done too. There were some pretty substantial reviews for that one. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 16:19, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Great work, especially considering that a month ago Heart of Winter was completely unsourced. :) Now, as far as ID2 goes, since it is a GA already, I don't know how much work you will be able to put into it. What I would suggest is that if you have any good sources for that one which you can't at the moment figure out how to work into the article, then add a list of them on the talk page; we want to keep good sources available in case there is a FAC at some point. :) BOZ (talk) 19:24, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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Raistlin

For the record, I acknowledge your good faith efforts at making the content suitable for stand-alone articles, and though I consider the requirements for stand-alone articles still haven't been made, I'm ready to continue the discussion and see what further new content could change. However, I insist that new content should not be directly integrated as stand-alone articles but introduced in the talk page or in userified form. Right now, your insistance on editing the article while there is an ongoing discussion, which currently is against unmerging, can only make the community think that you're trying to impose your view by force, through possible article ownership. Please be reasonable and re-merge the article so that civil discussion can actually happen.Folken de Fanel (talk) 22:37, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Just to clarify, Folken de Fanel edit-warred against four other editors before posting this note. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:31, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Four other editors who have been edit warring against a consensus they've yet to overturn at this point.Folken de Fanel (talk) 13:50, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

The growing consensus is to keep those articles separate. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 13:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't know you had a crystal ball and spoke for everyone on WP.Folken de Fanel (talk) 14:14, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Indeed. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 14:19, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

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• On a related note: Oh, the irony! Well, I suppose it would've been more ironic if you hadn't caught it. — Francophonie&Androphilie^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 17:29, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

  Haha, yeah, and of course that was the part I kept copy pasting into every award text. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 17:36, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

But of course. :P — Francophonie&Androphilie^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 17:43, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for that! Once I get enough of these, I'm going to melt them down into a bar of virtual gold. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:17, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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Penticton Regional Airport

Hi Torchiest! Can I ask for your input on Penticton Regional Airport, which is a good article that I am planning to take to featured article nominations. Thanks very much, TBrandley 21:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'll try to write up some comments for it either today or tomorrow. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 21:17, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments, I'll reply soon. In the meantime, could you please perform a search on the Penticton Regional Airport on HighBeam Research, as I see you have rights to it per your user page. I really appreciate your comments and this. Thanks, TBrandley 00:31, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Okay, I'll give that a look in the next day or so. Tourchiest (talk) 01:11, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I've addressed all of your concerns there, others than your most recent reply. I'm not really sure about that, as it isn't really a "facility" or anything. I think it could still stay in there. Do you think it could perhaps get away with a featured article nomination soon/now? Happy Holidays, TBrandley 06:00, 15 December 2012 (UTC)