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Falko Bindrich

Very well written article. :) NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 01:30, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you :) Nice of you to say. I've played vs. this guy on chess.com, very strong, felt he deserved an article. ChessFiends (talk) 01:42, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Review of Falko Bindrich

Talk:Falko Bindrich/GA1. Epicgenius^{(talk to me • see my contributions)} 20:41, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Falko Bindrich

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Checkmate GA (again)

Hi. I have nominated Checkmate for GA again and thought that you could have some feedback on this. Would you please review it on Talk:Checkmate/GA2? Thanks. Epicgenius^{(give him tirade • check out damage)} 17:18, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

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Chess960 Lichess EL

The Lichess site is a pretty decent EL site for Chess960, and no advertisements are obvious. So what is your problem? IHTS (talk) 22:55, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

• It just didn't seem to fit the article. It's not a site specifically for Chess960, there are plenty of places just for chess that also offer 960, like Chesscube, FICS, ICC... just seems like advertising for one site in particular to me. ChessFiends (talk) 12:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

• IMO the EL fits the article perfectly. The EL doesn't have to be dedicated to the article topic, it just needs to add value to it. When you wrote in your editsum that the EL description text "no registration, downloads, plugins, or ads" was "advertising", no, it was text that I wrote in order to describe the EL in a way so that editors wouldn't delete the EL on the basis of the site requiring registration, requiring download, requiring a plugin, or containing ads. (Do you have a suggestion for better way to describe the EL?) To be "advertisement", someone needs to be selling or promoting. The description of the EL wasn't selling or promoting, it was describing. Again, I wrote the description that way in order to attempt to preempt another editor from deleting the EL on one of those bases. (But you deleted it anyway!)

  I looked at several other sites and the Lichess site seemed to me to be the best one for the purpose. (It was clean, simple, direct. The other sites' home pages were filled with lots of confusing clutter, ads, etc.) It seems to me your objection might be that you want *no* such EL. (If so I disagree, I think there s/b one. And I think the Lichess one is the best one for the reader. I'm gonna restore the EL, and if you delete again, I'll be opposing again, at article Talk, and if necessary and if I have time/energy, at WP:ELN.) IHTS (talk) 18:23, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Okay then, thanks for the explanation. Although it still reads a lot like site advertising to the naked eye. ChessFiends (talk) 15:11, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. The current description is: "play against a Chess960 AI; site is free and open-source – no registration, download, plugins, or ads". (Do you have suggestion how to make better for the naked eye? Or, what aspect creates the problem you're detecting; maybe we can fix it thru trial-error. Help me by giving hint what specific part of description makes you feel that way.) Ok, IHTS (talk) 15:53, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Maybe this is better/simpler?: "play Chess960 against an AI (no registration, download, plugins, or ads)". IHTS (talk) 16:02, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

(I changed it to the latter. Please let know if you think it's not a slight improvement. Ok, IHTS (talk) 01:50, 25 March 2015 (UTC))

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RE: Nameless One

There was an active cleanup effort on WP:VGCHAR to tidy up Start-class articles, which should still be viewable in the archive there. All the information that could be salvaged from that one was already present in Planescape: Torment, and honestly unless you plan to work on it with sources you managed to find I don't see any reason to revive it: it's been at start for decades, and what's there didn't illustrate separate importance from teh game. AfD's themselves are not meant for cleanup, and WP:BLAR is a viable tool that can be used in instances such as this. Kung Fu Man (talk) 15:07, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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Douglas Murray

Both the references you just removed from Douglas Murray do in fact contain the statements you are saying aren't there: are you sure you are checking in the right places? Jonathan A Jones (talk) 14:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

These are the full articles, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688 and https://www.academia.edu/11653451/Beyond_Islamophobia_The_Role_of_Englishness_and_English_National_Identity_within_English_Defence_League_discourse_and_politics. Where precisely are the statements which state that Murray is Islamophobic? The first says this "Ye’Or’s Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis (Citation2005) is the canonical work of the genre (Bangstad Citation2013; Larsson Citation2012), but extemporizations on her basic theme can be found in the work of many conservative writers during the late 2000s and 2010s, such as Melanie Phillips, Mark Steyn, Bruce Bawer, Christopher Caldwell, Douglas Murray and, more recently, Alt-Right-linked figures such as Lauren Southern and Raheem Kassam." That is not support that he is Islamophobic. The second article does not mention him once.

The first is entirely the wrong article, and the second is a conference paper, not the published version. If you're not able to access the actual papers via TWL, send me an email and I'll respond with PDFs. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:48, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm seeing exactly the same as Firefangledfeathers using the articles at [1] and [2]. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 14:52, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks both, my bad, got the papers mixed up! ChessFiends (talk) 15:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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