User talk:Larsinio/archive02

Parodius

Well thank you for your added contibutions! Only article left now is Sexy Parodius! Buzda 20:15, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Controversial

I feel I have to disagree with you on that. The "controversial" tag was put there originally by Brazil4Linux (the same guy who wrote "Die, Americans Die"). And, in fact, the entire fiasco has been CAUSED by that same individual, from the beginning. I mean, really, it's a Wikipedia nonfictional biographical article about a buisnessman. If you really do feel that there's any controversy about the guy, I would love to discuss it. Daniel Davis 17:00, 27 December 2005 (UTC) (Doom127)

Larsinio you are seeing now who controversial Doom127 is. I hope people of Europe and Japan arrive in the article and kill American bias Xbox sucks at all

Being insulted by someone who spews "Death to America" doesn't hold much weight, man... Daniel Davis 23:33, 27 December 2005 (UTC) (Doom127)

Gradius and all that jazz

Sorry for the absence! Back now —Vic Vipr 11:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Just a quick question, do you want to keep compilations in the gradius template? Personally I'm not sure since we already have specific articles for most of them. Thoughts? -Vic Vipr 20:00, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, three things (I'm in a hurry :-)

Firstly, I proceeded to add Gradius compilations to the template per your suggestion.

Secondly, I feel the List of Gradius titles have become redundant and perhaps we should implement a #redirect, or would you like to keep it?

And lastly, does Lord British' have any significant connection to Vic Viper or could we list it under 'reoccurances/commonalities' in Gradius series?

Architectural lighting design

Thanks for the heads up about the link on my user page! Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 15:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Pentarou

Sure! I was even thinking about that when I was putting the Wai Wai World article together, since he makes a small appearance in the game. Buzda 20:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Sun Tzu Image

Even images in the public domain need sources. For the purely legal reasons, we need to know the source to confirm the public domain status. But moreover, it's important for historical reasons and informative reasons to know who made the image, when, where and why.

More importantly, this image is not a photograph. It's not even a painting that he sat for. I suspect it's quite possible that it was made by someone whose only knowledge of China was meeting a immigrant grocer. To post this without any source is to impune a false accuracy to it, and even after a source it would need a note saying that it was a fictional image in the article.--Prosfilaes 21:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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Upa

I just made an article for Upa. Feel free to contribute. Buzda 06:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

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GCOTW

Done :) Jacoplane 20:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Yume Penguin Monogatari

Damn, you beat me to it (I was the one who mentioned it on the Pantarou talk page) - good work! I have to say it's one of the only old Konami games I've actually managed to finish - I can't even beat the first boss in the MSX Parodius! ^_^ --Zilog Jones 18:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

You've done great work on those pages so far, and I definately don't think it's fancruft - Pentarou was pretty much Konami's mascot for their MSX games (there's a few me he was in that aren't listed yet - I'll add them soon), and all those games are quite notable due to their originality or popularity.

Regarding the whole obesity issue with Yume Penguin Monogatari - I don't think Konami were trying to make some sort of political or sociological (or whatever other -ology) statement with the game, but then again what way NOA took the game is a totally different matter. It was probably just too quirky and cute for North American release regardless of that. --Zilog Jones 19:18, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

My only issue with the articles right now are the use of names - in all the MSX games he was only really called "Pengiun" (I don't think the Pentarou name came into place until Parodius Da!), so I think the articles on the MSX games should reflect this. --Zilog Jones 19:23, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:Nj seal2.jpg

Speedy deletion warning

Image:Nj seal2.jpg has been listed at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, because the image is redundant with Image:New Jersey state seal.png.

Allan Cole

I removed your speedy deletion tag from this article. Being a vanity page is not a speedy deletion criterion. However, please feel free to nominate it for deletion. howcheng {chat} 19:50, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Bill Motz

I put a hangon tag on the Bill Motz you tagged for speedy deletion. The article claims the person is a writer for disney, which seems to me to not be speediable. If you think it should be deleted, I think an AfD process should be started. The creating author's username is the same as the title of the article, which does suggest vanity. Maybe move to the author's userpage?

Incidentally, speedy notices are usually put at the top of the page for better visibility. --Hansnesse 19:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Speedy nominations

Howdy! Thanks for all the work with speedy nominations, but it may be good to slow down a bit. Also, if an admin removes a speedy notice, it is usually a bad idea to renominate it, and it is usually a bad idea to remove hangon tags. Many articles which are not for speedy deletion can be put through the article for deletion process with some debate (see Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion). It usually a good idea to give every article a full hearing, both in case people disagree about the nomination, and to be fair to new users who may be unfamiliar with policy. A few tips:

• Speedy with care, use AfD or even just a note on the talk page when in doubt.
• check "What links here" to see if the article is used, and google (etc.) for checking notability.
• Don't worry about getting everying flagged. If you come across a page you need to investigate further, click the watch tab and come back to it. There are lots of people patroling new pages, and there is no race to speedy, despite the name.
• Use {{PotentialVanity}} if the page is likely to be about the author.
• Don't be afraid to contact the page author if you're unclear what they are up to; in many cases it is a new user who may be trying to do something which is not appearent.
• Patent nonsense is speedible, general nonsense is not (although sometimes borderline stuff is speedied anyway). Check over the rest of Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion: not everything which should be deleted is speedible.

Anyhow keep up the good work. I took the liberty of reverting some vandalism on your user page on the way in. Thanks, --Hansnesse 20:20, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Takosuke

I'm thinking he could use a page as well. Buzda 05:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Smurf article and japanese

I voted keep and unifortunately I don't have a grasp of the Japanese language. Buzda 19:58, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Run and gun

That's pretty good for a new article! I read through it and it sounds OK. I'm not really an expert in that field so I wouldn't really know what to add. Nice work. Thunderbrand 01:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, indeed, good job! I've added it to my watchlist and I'll ponder over how I think it could be improved. In the mean time, please give your opinion on this ;) Jacoplane 03:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Shoot me up!

Hey, looks like have yet to reply to some of your messages :)

The run and gun article looks good, I'll chime in with the usual copy edits and anything else that might be of interest.

What else is there...? Oh yeah, I have to say that Lord British looks so out of place in the Vic Viper article. I think Gradius series would be a better fit for now in the gameplay elements section. Vic Vipr 14:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll put together some basic legacy for Gradius. Also, do we use shoot 'em up now for the genre field? Vic Vipr 18:33, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Slam pong

I noticed the wikify tag you added to the slam pong article on 8 February. It does not seem to me like the page has any obvious style issues, based on the Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout, that would merit this designation. It's even employing the most up-to-date metawiki structure for citations and references. If you have specific examples where you feel the style fails to meet Wikipedia standards or any other suggestions for improvement, feel free to point them out on the article's discussion page, or if you prefer, on mine.--Kharker 22:03, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Adminship

Im thinking about applying for adminship, do you think its a good idea? Or should i hold off for now till i build up my street cred some more. --Larsinio 22:54, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Your record on Interiot's tool looks good enough for Adminship, at least for the Mainspace (articles). If you run for adminship, there will be a lot of people who will oppose on the grounds that you have little experience within the Wikipedia: namespace. I would recommend that you spend some time voting/commenting on other people's RfA's, and participate in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Of course, any contribution on Wikipedia:WikiProject CVG also helps here :) Anyway, if you do that for a month or so I'll nominate you myself. Cheers! Jacoplane 23:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk Page

Do NOT edit my talk page again or you will be banned. -- unsigned by user ELLG73

I reverted his blanked out talk page. Youre not supposed to blank out your talk page , moving to archive yes. blanking no. This user obviously does not know what hes talkinga bout --Larsinio 14:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually user's are allowed to do that in most circumstances. It's not the greatest idea, and doesn't really hide anything. I would recommend leaving the user alone now unless they actually vandalize pages. The personal attacks are another thing, and that has to stop. But I imagine they will if you move out of the situation. - Taxman ^Talk 02:27, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Harassment

Please stop harassing me on my talk page. - EllG73

Shoot 'em ups!

1. To be honest, I've never been happy with those classifications. If they exist, and are commonly used, that's fine. Scrolling shooter, for example, has been used for over a decade. But these other categories: fixed shooter, tube shooter, rail shooter, etc.; are they real, or just terms of convenience? I understand that it's hard to refer to a type of game if it's never been classified before, but I'm wary of creating neologisms. I've also got a small question about the 'bullet hell' and 'manic shooter' genres: are they really distinct? I think the distinction in the article is artificial; as far as I know, many manic shooters relax the collision detection.
2. I don't recommend it, for the above reason.
3. I think it's good that we have an article for it. However, I'm not sure about classing the overhead ones as run and guns. To be honest, I never heard of the genre before Wikipedia :) . I would class the platform type games as run and guns, and the overhead ones as shoot 'em ups. The article looks good, although I think it tries to characterise the genre too much. (Then again, I did more or less the same thing with scrolling shooter :) )
4. Not that I can think of. As I said, I'm not sure about the ones that are there already.
5. Maybe a category for manic shooters? They seem to be getting more popular.
6. I was thinking about an R-Type category, but I didn't know if six pages was enough. (I could write tons on the ships and Forces, if it belongs in an encyclopaedia...) We already have a nice series template, I think User:Vic Vipr did it.

Spottedowl 01:32, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand your logic

You removed the Pocket, SP, and Lite from the Template:Dedicated video game handheld consoles, but left the Micro intact? The Micro, if anything, is even more insignificant than the other three. The Pocket was a big deal because it had a real black-and-white screen and used only 2 batteries (AAA) compared to 4 (AA). The SP was a huge change from the original GBA, and the Lite...well, I can't find anything big about the Lite yet. - Hbdragon88 22:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Radical? The SP was the first Game Boy with a clamshell design and the first non-Japan-exclusive Game Boy to feature a front light. The Micro is in no way radical - it's simply a smaller, thinner GBA, although it radically does feature no backwards compatibility. Anyway, I changed the template so it has piped links, making them shorter. Let me know what you think, or you could just delete the changes. - Hbdragon88 01:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Les shoot them ups

The French article is nice, but I think that shoot 'em up history is better on its own page. I've heard 'cute 'em up' once or twice, but not enough to judge if it's in common usage or not.

I love the French way of saying 'shoot 'em up', though. :) It's a problem with the genre that the name doesn't sound serious enough. 'Shmup' is worse. I prefer 'shooter'. :)

By the way, what do you think of the Thunder Force series articles? I split them off into separate pages and gave them an infobox. Spottedowl 20:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Ghouls and Ghosts

I've never played Ghouls 'n Ghosts (shouldn't it be Ghouls 'n' Ghosts?). As for the categories, I've been thinking about that, but I've been unable to decide whether it's worth splitting up all the scrolling shooters; people might want to see them all at a glance. Would it be redundant to put them in both the main scrolling shooters category and the horizontal/vertical category?

As a similar example, it makes a lot of sense to have a category for manic shooters, but these are mostly scrolling shooters as well, so they could be put in both categories. Spottedowl 00:32, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Meetup reminder

Just a reminder that there will be a meetup in Newark, DE, this saturday at 3:00 PM. (Since people have complained after previous meetups that they had forgotten about it, this message is going to everyone listed on Wikipedia:Meetup/Newark) Raul654 15:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Horizontal/vertical shooters

I agree; I think they can go in both the main scrolling shooters category and the horizontal/vertical categories. If it doesn't work, we can always change it.

I've never played Spy Hunter. To be honest, I think there are always going to be games with arguable definitions; the 3D shooters, for instance; are they really shoot 'em ups, or just third-person shooters? Are run and guns shooters or platform games? Are driving games with guns shooters, or not? One definition we were using is that shoot 'em ups are games where the gameplay is simplified to allow the player to concentrate on shooting. Is Spy Hunter like that?

Probotector

I just realised we've neglected to make any mention of Probotector (background, the cyborgs etc.). Would you agree to create a full article on the subject or rather have it be part of Contra series? Vic Vipr 19:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

What is "Popup"?

I noticed in the "Recent changes" that you have reverted a page "using popups", with a link to a popup page that describes behavior that I don't see. What exactly is that? --JMD

GCOTW

I just wanted to say congrats to you for the huge success of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker as GCOTW. When I first saw that it was nominated and going to win, I was like "Eww...Micheal Jackson.", but it has done extraordinarily well the past week. I'm guessing that it was successful was because of the curiousity factor of the article. Anyway, good job! Thunderbrand 16:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

infobox beverage

Be careful when adding infobox beverage on vodka brand articles, you're adding a picture of a bottle of Belvedere vodka, which do not correspond to the article. Saihtam 20:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

proof

I know it is, but proof is not universal, most of the world uses ABV, the average person in the UK would have no idea what proof is. Discordance 16:06, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if my edit summary sounded abrupt, in the same way i dont expect the average person in the UK to know what proof is I wouldn't expect you to know that ABV is more understandable abroad. Just one of those things Discordance 16:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Page move needed and adminship

I moved the page. About the adminship thing....I dunno. You have plenty of edits and you are committed to Wikipedia, but I think some people may oppose you. Scanning through some of your past edits, I see little involvement outside of the CVG stuff, and some people would probably want you to do other things before they support you. It would be good to scan the Recent changes to do some vandal hunting and get involved in the AfD process or something similar. I would probably wait maybe a month or two from now, but if you wanted to nominate yourself, I could see you passing the RfA fairly easy, since you have been here a while and as far as I know haven't been in any major conflicts. Just my thoughts. Thunderbrand 21:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

When I nominated myself in July of last year, I passed easily even though I didn't do that much outside of the CVG realm (the only other thing I really did was stub sort, and I started to revert vandalism). I think that the standards now are a bit tougher than last year, though. But a lot of people would support you if you look at their Standards. Thunderbrand 13:15, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I dunno. The only thing I can think of would be to go to some admins who haven't voted and ask them for their input. But that kind of borders on "ballot stuffing" so personally I wouldn't. Thunderbrand 17:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Gamerforever

Could you explain why you added the template {{userpage}}? I am slightly confused as to why you added it, are you adding it for User:Gamerforever? Are you User:Gamerforever? Thanks,

Prodego ^talk 22:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Well generally you should not edit another user's user page, as WP:USER explains it:

"It is considered polite to avoid substantially editing another's user page without their permission...Some users are fine with their user pages being edited...Others may object".

Also, your "leave a message" link at the top of your userpage directed to "User:Larsinioe", I corrected that to your username for you, hope you don't mind. Prodego ^talk 22:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Still, creating a page could be seen as substantial edit, and it may be wise to discontinue to create userpages for others. That said, nothing you did violates any policy, and thank you for answering my question. Happy editing! Prodego ^talk 00:03, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Computer and video game culture

Re: Women in Video Games. - I just know the facts, I wouldn't know where to begin. :P. I'm actually at work right now, so when I get off work and if no one has bothered to do so, I'll go ahead and write something.--AlphaTwo 19:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Splatterhouse

I noticed that you added and categorised it as a beat 'em up in the opening paragraph and also modified the Genre: line in its infobox to reflect that. However you removed the mention of it being a horror game (I believe it falls loosely under Survival horror just as much as entries in the Clock Tower series do) in the opening paragraph but left it in the infobox genre line. I'm just wondering why the removal in one place and not the other? TheMonkofDestiny 13:20, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Your request for adminship

It is with regret that I have to inform you that your request for adminship was unsuccessful on this occasion. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to seeing a nomination with your name on it in the future. -- Francs2000 21:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry it didnt work out. Im sure it will work out in the future. Tutmosis 00:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Manic shooter

Agreed, it should be moved. Spottedowl 15:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Gradius series

Not really sure what should be added. Only thing that really needs a little more info is the Parodius section, although we already have the Parodius series article for that. Buzda 00:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Red Falcon

I'm seeing conflicting reports, or rather views, on Red Falcon. Some say it's the entity you fight at the end of the game and others refer to it as an "organization". I believe Red Falcon is mentioned in the timeline within Shattered Soldier but I have no means of verifying this as I don't have a copy handy at the moment. Vic Vipr 16:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Gingerfield rocks

First, I haven't violated 3RR. Secondly, a glance at User talk:Gingerfield rocks, as well as that the Talk pages of many of the articles in question, should answer your questions. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Given that the month can't be verified, and that it really doesn't matter anyway, I think that we can safely omit it, and leave just the year. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: title screen

A whole article on a title screen? I'm not too sure. What can you say about it? Thunderbrand 00:53, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Stubs

Are you aware of the definition of a stub...? Articles such as Samurai Shodown 64 are nowhere near stub status. Please stop adding stubs to full-fledged articles. -Zero^Talk 17:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)