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There seems to be some progress being made towards redrafting the guideline. Most of the arguments for a permissive guideline seem to have been countered in the sense that they have been found not to be viable. My attempts to obtain a compromise earlier this year seem to be leading towards a slightly stricter applciation of ] for fiction that should discourage topics which are only the subject of in universe plot summary, trivia and cruft. A recent post at ] seems to make this clear. Can you provide some cool and clear support towards drafting a compromise that is compliant with existing Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines? --] (]) 19:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

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Hey Sephiroth... BCR, saw the message you left me and I'm "writing" back to ya, cause I'm very much interested in getting an admin coach, and if you're still offering, I'd like to accept your offer, if... you know... the offer is still there. You don't say? Your were Gary's mentor? Very nice to meet ya and I would like to say that me and Gary are homies. ;) Well, I see in his page that he does not want to be an Admin., I respect that, but I think he would be a phenomenal one. :P I wouldn't want to "push him" over the "limit". If that slot is open, count me in, if its open. Peace, --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 04:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, from where I am, good morning. :) Yeah, I've taken that step to be civil with other users here, so I won't be known as a "grumpy" individual. Article work: From my previous Rfa, I was told to work on other articles, besides wrestling, because some users thought, that if given the tools, I would have gone out of my way and "protect" wrestling related articles, which I knew would have been conflict of interest, but the users we're not gonna take a chance. So, I took their suggestions and have worked on other articles, that have nothing to do with wrestling, but I still work on wrestling articles. ;) Admin work: I've done my job with CSD and have reported users to AIV, but I need to put myself in discussions for deletion and related stuff, as well. But, what I would like to know, if you see my Rfa, can you help out with the scenario of an Admin. threatening another Admin., cause the answers I wrote didn't help me at all, and I would like to know what should be done. Believe me, I've read the guidelines and policies, is just that I find it hard to believe that another Admin. would do such thing. For the CSD, like I've said, I've done my fair share; Some articles that I've placed for deletion, per the criteria, get deleted or it comes back to haunt me (at my talkpage), explaining why the article has somewhat of a notability to keep. Everybody make mistakes, I know that; No one's perfect, cause I certainly am not. Also, change came to America, I think Misplaced Pages could use an update, that's if you could help me do that. ;) Forgot your comment about the list. I tried working on a South Park list, but I have no idea what to do. If you want proof, here's the proof, there's no progress there. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 16:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Disruptiveness and Canvassing

Hey, if you have some time, can you take a look at Dream Focus (talk · contribs) actions of late regarding the Gantz equipment list, Card Clow AfD, etc. It seems pretty disruptive to me, but may just be because he's starting to get on my nerves. He's dismissing all consensus discussions as not being consensus because they don't have "enough" participants, no matter how many are there, and implied that I was "vote staking" discussions because only "my friends" participate. Also, to me this seems like canvassing by attempting to claim that his list is the "same" and that if one is deleted then the other will be to. I removed it as canvassing, but he has restored it (twice)-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 04:31, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I asked a sincere question there, and you erased it saying it was canvasing. I then went to the wikipedia page for canvasing, and asked for an opinion there. Another editor stated it didn't seem like canvasing to them. I don't believe it is canvasing, since I only posted the question in one place, to try to figure out why some weapons pages were allowed, while others were deleted. Collectonian is twisting my words around. I didn't dismiss all consensus discussions, only stated that it was wrong such a thing was decided always by such a small number of people. And in the case of the Clow Cards, I asked the discussion be reopened, since only the person nominating it wanted it deleted, two wanted it kept, two voted to merge/redirect, and one voted for redirect. This all started when I asked her not to delete a relevant fact on the main Gantz page, she then deleting my comment and posting something on my user page, claiming it was an attack against her. Please read from the start if you decided to look into this. http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Dream_Focus#Messages Dream Focus (talk) 05:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to have to bother about this again, but DF is again making personal remarks and falsifying statements made in a conversation on my talk page in an AfD the coming to a Wikiquette alert filed on my behalf (unasked, I might note) and made more ther. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 13:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

He asked why you were going around trying to delete manga articles, and I stated that you said on your user page, you are a delitist. Dream Focus (talk) 14:20, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

*sigh* he apparently is now determined to make his own additions anywhere and everywhere to make false statements and be harassing and contrib stalking (which at this point, seems to be his only purpose). -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 02:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

And here we go once again. I have the dispute page on my watchlist. I look over the current dispute, check the talk pages in question, and post my opinion. I then find the Star Trek planet's page I posted at earlier has had Collectonian reply after me(I can't be stalking her if she appears at a place she has never been before, and post after I do). Please click here and tell me if you believe I have done anything wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Lake_Placid_2 I asked her to post on the talk page instead of posting threats on the first time editor's page that he'll be banned if he doesn't stop reverting her edits. Dream Focus (talk) 02:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Star Trek is a film topic. I'm in the film project. Enough said. The other editor isn't reverting my edits, I'm removing his vandalism. He has ignored all attempts to get him to stop, including both warning templates and a personal note (which look, I did leave), and made it clear he would continue just copy/pasting his personal writings into the article by also putting it in his user page. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 02:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

*scream* I'd saw its obvious he's following me around at this point. He has absolutely nothing to do with local articles like this, and seems to be deliberately looking for reasons to oppose me anywhere he thinks he can. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 05:33, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Did I oppose you at the newspaper site? No. I left a comment, stating I didn't think a local newspaper was notable, thus agreeing with you there. And this about that, or the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Fritzpoll#Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion.2FGirlFriends_.28manga.29 I noticed you were involved in the administration notice board with someone, and clicked around to see your history with him, thus finding my way to those two articles. I am not following you around, which isn't against the rules anyway. Dream Focus (talk) 05:50, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Right...and you just decided to try this for fun? Calling it edit warring when the guy was vandalizing the article by adding a BS image? And yes, following someone around IS against the rules. Its called wikihounding, is considered a form of harassment, and you can be blocked for it. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 15:52, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
You consider all edits you disagree with vandalism. He wasn't doing something to vandalize, he had a disagreement over what should be there. And the three revert rule was violated by you. I reported it to the proper people. Dream Focus (talk) 15:59, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Yes, he was vandalizing. The image was NOT from where he claimed, as you could see if you bothered to actually LOOK! Its a random image from the commons, which he first claimed were two fans of the podcast, then claimed it from an event. His other edits have also been vandalism, unless of you course you actually consider this and this to be good edits, though maybe you do. He also followed here-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 16:05, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

A big thank you

Thank you for replying to some of the other editors at Talk:Stargate SG-1 and being so calm about it. I noticed that I was giving too much of a WP:FUCK and needed some time off (which presented itself by visiting a friend over the weekend), and I think I have mostly regained my cool and my old wiki-perspective now. I just want to say that I really appreciate that I wasn't left alone to fight all the bad faith targeted at me (this is new for me). – sgeureka 18:42, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Naruto characters

Hey, just wanted to pop a note to see where the merge of List of Naruto antagonists to List of Naruto characters is at? I see the discussion on the main list talk page seemed to have consensus in October. (curiosity mostly roused because someone is arguing that because Naruto has two, so should their favorite series).-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 14:31, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi. Please see my latest post at User talk:Gimmetrow#RE: Edit warring over project banner. I really hope we can nip this in the bud before it turns into something it doesn't need to be. AN/I is seldom the best place for this kind of thing, and based on past experience I find it highly unlikely that administrator intervention will come into play on either side. As Giro has said, Gimmetrow has a good record, and this incident has now been logged for all to see should it need to be referenced in the future. It would go some way if we can suck it up and say the necessary words to avoid further drama. If Gimmetrow can do the same, then this could all go away in a more-or-less amicable fashion. All the best, Steve 21:25, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Bleach episodes FLC

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Re: FT image

Are there any other recognizable symbols of the franchise? I can use the flame from the logo, but without the red element it's not very distinctive. I might try just a "B" done up a similar way. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs 22:09, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Here's a draft, by the way: File:B with flames.png --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs 00:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The thing is that at 60-70px, the 'bleach' would be nigh unrecognizable, as would the text effects. I think it's best to leave it more emblematic. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs 19:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Nobel laureates capitalisation change

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Sorry, and Category:Misplaced Pages featured topics Nobel Laureates featured content and Category:Misplaced Pages featured topics Nobel Laureates good content. Thanks! rst20xx (talk) 23:05, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

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David Fuchs (also known as Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs), is a long time video games editor that has written a large number of the project's Featured articles. He has been ranked high on Misplaced Pages:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations, and has assisted in reviewing and editing more many. Recently David has begun to assist with image reviews for Featured article candidates, and branched out into other types of articles in addition to video games. He can normally been seen on the project's talk page offering advice and his input on the various discussion taking place there.

  1. What drew you to Misplaced Pages, and what prompted you to begin editing?
    I got involved due in part to (I believe, my memory is fuzzy) finding the site while doing research for Advanced Placement Europen History during high school. My earliest contributions (in December 2005) were creating topics based on what I learned, as well as creating an article for my high school with another friend. I soon became involved with editing topics related to Halo video game franchise, specifically the article on the parasitic Flood.
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  3. What article(s) are you most proud of writing or exemplifies your best work?
    I suppose Myst is a sort of accomplishment I can point to; I started work on the article on May 2 2008, when it looked like this, and submitted it to Featured Article Candidates one day later. I think that's some kind of record, but I dunno. In terms of being a good read or something I'm very happy with, however, I'd have to look at my more recent work, specifically Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Bone Wars.
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Fictional element notability

You referenced my position during your comment at WT:Notability (fiction). This is to inform you that due to revisions of the guideline, I have had to switch my position from support to strong oppose.—Kww(talk) 16:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

It seems to be the subject of a bit of edit-warring: is the revision to which I refer.—Kww(talk) 17:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Jutsu (Naruto)

Hi, I am reviewing your article, Jutsu (Naruto), for GA and have started my comments at Talk:Jutsu (Naruto)/GA1. I like the article and find it interesting, but I am concerned, first, with one fundamental issue. I am worried that this article is too much a series of embedded lists rather than an articles. Could you consider and discuss this issue with me? Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 03:19, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Collectionian issue

Please look at what is going on now. here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#Collectonian_and_Farix_refuse_to_honor_the_Merge_consensus_on_AFD I have two editors following me around accusing me of forum shopping, among other things, which make no sense at all. Both of them refuse to honor an AFD consensus. I mention it now, since whenever there is a problem, she post here, and you end up on my talk page discussing whatever she told you. Also as an administrator, perhaps you can tell me if they are breaking some rules. Dream Focus (talk) 15:06, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Need your help

Modelled after List of Naruto characters, I created two test articles: User:JSH-alive/Sandbox/WC characters for Winx Club, and User:JSH-alive/Sandbox/TS! characters for Totally Spies.

I need your help, or at least your comment for those articles. Also, What can be done for Code Lyoko (1, 2, 3), Atomic Betty, The Powerpuff Girls, PPGZ (1, 2), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Codename: Kids Next Door (1, 2, 3, 4) and Ben 10 (1, 2) ? -- JSH-alive 13:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC) And Huntik? -- JSH-alive 07:54, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Request for adminship... 3?

Hi Sephiroth BCR, it's now been over half a year since my previous request for the mop, and reviewing that RfA reveals that you were one of my opposers last time round. I was wondering if you'd like to comment on my current status in the Misplaced Pages community, and if you believe I would be ready to run for adminship again in future? Please respond wherever you feel it is most appropriate. Kind regards. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 16:24, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Dunno if you're on this but....

Misplaced Pages:Featured topics/Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow is now missing an image :/ rst20xx (talk) 19:16, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

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Check this. Your comment would help.Tintor2 (talk) 16:59, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

FLRC of List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

Dear Sephiroth BCR, what should we do with the FLRC of List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. We have to fix some rationales on List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, but we can fix them. Should we close the FLRC? Have a nice day. :-) AdjustShift (talk) 17:05, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

TMM character list

I've gone through and pared down almost all of the individual sections at List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters except the Ichigo section and the Saint Rose Crusaders. For the rest, do you think they are better or do they still need work? G.A.S wondered if there was still too much plot retelling/repetition? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 03:09, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

S@bre RfA

I share your frustration with A Nobody -- his comments become Le Grande-er every day, and I take some solace in these otherwise uncertain times in seeing him revert to predictable type. But, I think it might be better not to respond to his asinine baiting and trolling. None of us is going to make headway with him -- and, fortunately (and as you've pointed out), he's not making headway with anyone else. Save your bandwidth for his next barrage of ARS spam. --EEMIV (talk) 17:21, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

History merge

Hey Sephiroth, I'm wondering if you'd be willing to do a history merge of List of Shaman King chapters and User:Dinoguy1000/List of Shaman King chapters. It doesn't matter which gets deleted for the merge. Thanks in advance! 「ダイノガイ?!」 19:42, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for your support in my RfA, which closed with 83 ayes to the right, one no to left and five abstaining users!
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Redirect deletion

Hey Sephiroth, could you delete Template:Infobox animanga/Dorama? It was moved to {{Infobox animanga/Drama}} in 2006, and it looks like it wasn't used much before then - nothing transcludes it now, at any rate. Also, could you take a look at Template:Infobox animanga/Novel/Light? I'm not so sure it can be deleted, since it sounds like it was merged to {{Infobox animanga/Novel}}, but I don't know enough about the history. 「ダイノガイ?!」 20:11, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Arnold Schwarzenegger filmography request

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about my edit concerning "Sen to Chihiro..."

i really believe that it should be said that Sen to Chihiro is a foreign language film that won an oscar. Regardless of whether the Academy used an english dubbed version to send to voters, the film itself is still originally in japanese, and the award belongs to the japanese creative team that made the film, not the english voice cast. The page i tried to edit was simply about foreign language films that had won oscars not counting the best foreign language film. I think this film fits that category, and is pertinent information as this is the only non-american, non-english film so far to fin that oscar, and as of 2002 the first japanese film to win an oscar since 1955. The page itself was not about what the academy "thought" they were voting on, but on film history itself. I think this film deserves to be on that same list.

i understand i might be arguing a non-important issue. If needed why not let me update the page with a note that the academy used an english dubbed version, though the film itself is originally japanese? thanks for listening Tsuchinoko33 (talk) 11:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)Tsuchinoko33

Misplaced Pages Signpost — February 23, 2009

This week, the Misplaced Pages Signpost published volume 5, issue 8, which includes these articles:

The kinks are still being worked out in a new design for these Signpost deliveries, and we apologize for the plain format for this week.

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Bleach episodes

Congratulations for the Bleach seasons FT, good work! By the way I wanted to know why does the main episode list uses the a logo image; the first dvd used in season 1 already has the logo, so it could be used also in the main list, couldnt it be? Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 15:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

C-Class discussion at WT:FILM

This discussion is due to close in a few days, and it could do with someone neutral to close it and draw some sort of conclusion. As the only project coordinator not to comment in the discussion, and being an admin of sound mind, do you think you would be able to do it? :) Thanks in advance either way! PC78 (talk) 18:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Films February 2009 Newsletter

The February 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Signpost — 2 March 2009

This week, the Misplaced Pages Signpost published volume 5, issue 9, which includes these articles:

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List of Aria episodes

A while back on my talk page, you expressed an interest in this article. We've finished building the content up as far as we know how, and are looking for some guidance as to the next steps, possibly looking towards FAC. Would you be willing to drop by the article talk page and comment? —Quasirandom (talk) 22:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

The WPVG Newsletter (February 2009)

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video games Newsletter
Volume II, No. 2 - February 2009

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Project At a Glance

As of February 2009, the project has:


Changes to Featured and Good content

Promoted FA/FL:

List of Metroid media, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Promoted FT:

Myst series

Demoted FA/FL/FT:

List of Metal Gear Solid characters

Promoted AA:

Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario Kart

Promoted GA:

Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Alan Kotok, Alisia Dragoon, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Braid (video game), Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!, Discography of the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series, Fast inverse square root, Left 4 Dead, Luke Smith (writer), Mario Kart DS, Metroid Fusion, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Metroid: Zero Mission, Myst Online: Uru Live, Pong, Shadow the Hedgehog (video game), Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Metroid, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver

Promoted GT:

None

Demoted GA/GT:

Crystalis, Duck Hunt, Game Boy Micro, P.N.03, Super Mario RPG, Yoshi Touch & Go


News
Feature: Weekly Collaboration

The VG Project Collaboration of the Week is a new effort to improve important video game articles of low quality. Every week, an article is random selected by AnomieBOT from the Stub-, Start-, and C-class categories that are rated either High- or Top-importance. Such topics can offer a reader a good deal of encyclopedic information about video games, but are often too underdeveloped or lacking the proper level of writing and sourcing to accomplish this.

All editors are welcome and encouraged to participate by offering their insights and suggestions. Having a pool of different editors, both old and new, will help maximize improvements to the articles as well as our editing skills.

History

Collaborative efforts have come and gone within the VG project several times before. The first such effort, the "Gaming collaboration of the week", began in October 2004 as a result of the several other weekly collaborations popping up on Misplaced Pages. It proved to be quite successful at improving articles to meet Misplaced Pages's standard at the time, but the effort eventually saw less and less participation. A second effort, the "Improvement Drive", began in August 2005 with the intent of improving articles to FA-quality. However, few nominations and articles were selected. The decline in participation in the collaborations and peer reviews resulted in a third effort. It began in February 2006 as a workshop, but never got off the ground.

Numerous discussions have taken place on at WT:VG to jump start collaborations and improve the process to prevent its decline again. While previous collaborations selected any video game article, most editors felt focus should be on video game topics more encyclopedic in nature—topics that are also generally in poor shape because of lack of attention. A common problem mentioned was that previous nomination processes were lengthy and hindered participation. The current idea to automate the process was brought up by JohnnyMrNinja, which was further discussed to iron out the details.

Current collaboration

The current collaborative efforts began in mid-January 2009, and several articles have been improved by editors. The random choice is intended to minimize the selection process, which allows editors to focus on article improvement. Improvements include better organization of content, massaging and copy editing the prose, removing excess non-free images, and much more. The random choice is also meant to encourage participation from editors of varying interest and help prevent burnout. If the present selection is not to your liking, wait until next week. Editors are encouraged to add Template:Collab-gaming to their watchlist to see which article is selected. Recently selected articles are:

  1. Week of January 19, 2009:
    Video game genresSee how it improved
  2. Week of January 26, 2009:
    History of video game consoles (fourth generation)See how it improved
  3. Week of February 2, 2009:
    Action-adventure gameSee how it improved
  4. Week of February 9, 2009:
    Ultima Underworld: The Stygian AbyssSee how it improved
  5. Week of February 16, 2009:
    Joust (video game)See how it improved
  6. Week of February 23, 2009:
    Cartridge (electronics)See how it improved
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Notability (Fiction)

There seems to be some progress being made towards redrafting the guideline. Most of the arguments for a permissive guideline seem to have been countered in the sense that they have been found not to be viable. My attempts to obtain a compromise earlier this year seem to be leading towards a slightly stricter applciation of WP:V for fiction that should discourage topics which are only the subject of in universe plot summary, trivia and cruft. A recent post at WT:FICT#The rules seems to make this clear. Can you provide some cool and clear support towards drafting a compromise that is compliant with existing Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines? --Gavin Collins (talk) 19:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)