Razimus
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Re: Ultima VII
editHello. I also agree that Ultima VII is "the most badass game ever made in the history of the universe". However, regrettably adding one person's opinion is problematic:
- We try to only add statements from prominent people or journalists, because the chances are these peoples' opinions have some sort of influence.
- We don't publish original research. Which is to say, every statement should have some sort of source, preferrably a reliable one. If you have a source for this claim (ie, it appeared in some good source rather than just being thrown here), and it appears that this mention is otherwise worthy of inclusion, then it might be worth including.
Sorry if this sounds like a humourless approach. Regrettably, we're trying to make a serious encyclopaedia here, not a collection of remarks on how much the favourite game from each of rules. (Mostly because our Final Fantasy articles would be absolutely unreadable if we did that! Just think of the implications...)
Don't be disappointed, just try a little bit of seriousness. It helps. Trust me. Happy editing. =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 09:54, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Re: Lord British
editI noted you removed the source to the Ultima VII information in Lord British article. Please don't. As things appear to be, the link redirects elsewhere now and doesn't point to the correct document; however, the whole purpose of the citation is to show that "at the indicated time, this link had fact that verified this information". Citations do not need to care how to access the information now, though it'd be obviously nicer. It's crucial that the references are not removed. The correct course of action in situations like this is to add something like (Inaccessible as of xxxx-xx-xx) after the template, or add citation parameters |archivedate=xxxx-xx-xx|archiveurl=http://whatever.archive.org/blah... which point to an Internet Archive copy. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 10:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Meaburn Staniland
editA proposed deletion template has been added to the article Meaburn Staniland, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
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AfD nomination of Meaburn Staniland
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Image:Meaburn.png listed for deletion
editAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Meaburn.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 23:44, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Lord British article you have contributed too is up for replacement with a redirect
editYou have participated in the Lord British article before, and a fair portion of your edits to Wikipedia seem to be Ultima related. Some have decided it should be eliminated entirely, with some information merged over elsewhere, but most lost forever. The same is being done for Avatar_(Ultima) and The_Companions_of_the_Avatar. In addition, one Ultima topic is up for deletion at the AFD. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Worlds_of_Ultima Please share your opinions to form consensus. Dream Focus 17:02, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Unreferenced BLPs
editHello Razimus! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 741 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:
- Preston Nichols - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:04, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
The article Peter Moon (author) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- No sources. No evidence of notability. probably violates BLP to call him a "conspiracy theorist" without solid sourcing
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Speedy deletion nomination of Michael Hartson
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Nomination of Preston Nichols for deletion
editA discussion is taking place as to whether the article Preston Nichols is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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