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Hi ReyBrujo - I saw your comment over on Biographicon (here: http://www.biographicon.com/discussion/a17v2 ) about the GNU Free Documentation License and Wikipedia bios and replied, but I thought I should reply here as well. The GNU Free Documentation License is referred to in the Archive (history) page of every biography that came from Wikipedia. For example: http://www.biographicon.com/history/i599n/Deng_Xiaoping But it sounds like it was too hard to find given a reasonable effort, so we probably need to do something different. Please let me know what you think. I'd like to talk about this. Thanks! -Ethan Herdrick 71.198.202.86 (talk) 04:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, you are right, I missed that! Thanks for the clarification, and for dropping by here. I suggest a "License" link at the bottom, including the information in the Terms of Service section, or in the About section (which are the ones where people usually check first and foremost). Good luck! -- ReyBrujo (talk) 04:33, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [1] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 04:35, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I am alerting you that we are now considering a Request for Arbitration regarding him as an alternative to mediation, and would like your opinion on the matter. BOZ (talk) 13:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
RE: VGChartz
Hi, I noticed you recently removed a citation I had used in
WP:V and I cannot seem to find which criterion VGChartz fails under. Looking at this company's potentially biased self-reporting (eg. here, here, or here) it appears to be reliable enough to me. Could you perhaps point me to the appropriate section where your criteria for reliability are explained? Cheers, -Thibbs (talk) 22:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply
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PS - I hope you don't mind me "hijacking" this portion of your talk. I probably should have created a new section, but this one was already so appropriately titled... Thibbs (talk) 22:09, 26 April 2008 (UTC) shifted to this new section Thibbs (talk) 23:10, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose I have phrased myself poorly. I am interested in why VGChartz fails
WP:V for reliability. Does it? Essentially I'm asking if this is wikipedia policy you are applying or WikiProject Video Games policy. I can understand your edit if you are applying WPVG policy but as far as I can see WPVG does not have a monopoly on editorial policy within any part of wikipedia's boundaries. Perhaps I am wrong. Anyway don't get me wrong. I approve wholeheartedly of WPVG and if this is WPVG policy I will bow to their wishes. It does strike me as startlingly arbitrary that they have decided upon the magicbox as their reliable alternative to VGChartz. As User:Kung Fu Man
pointed out in the first example of VGChartz' unreliability, VGChartz does seem to have explanations for its figures whereas the magicbox is almost devoid of this kind of information. For all the average person knows they could be pulling these figures out of the magichat.
All in all, I realize you are but one person and if I have problems with WPVG's decisions regarding reliability of VGChartz or the magicbox I should take it up with them. To clarify, though, (and I 'm not sure if you know but...) did WPVG take
WP:V into account when choosing the magicbox over VGChartz to form the bulk of their citations or was this nothing more than a simple vote of preference? Thanks for being so attentive to my concerns. -Thibbs (talk) 23:10, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply
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Replied on the user's talk page. [3] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 01:05, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I've taken so long to respond. My non-wiki work is currently on the hectic side. So I went back through months worth of archives at WPVG and now I can better understand your cursory reversion of my initial edit at List of best-selling video games. The only thing that still eludes my research (and I haven't gone through everything yet by a long stretch) is where you folks have been getting your information about the techniques VGChartz or the magicbox employ. I have scoured their websites and while I find minimal information on VGChartz, I find abolutely no information listed at the magicbox. Having merely skimmed some of the archived WPVG posts I thought I saw something about a WPVG member having written to or otherwise interviewed the VGChartz people to learn what goes on in their case, but I didn't see anything other than speculation about how the magicbox collates its figures. If you know the answer off-hand it would save me a bunch of time, but if you are busy or don't know I'm sure the information can be found somewhere in the archives. Can you remember this detail?
Secondly, I think that for clarity's sake all pages subject to the VGChartz ban should include the {{consensus}} tag as featured in List of best-selling video games's talk page. Furthermore, I think that this tag should be linked to the discussion leading to a definitive consensus from WPVG (if there is one). If there is none, I suggest that a summary be written to distill arguments against VGChartz down to a few well-sourced problems as collected and synthesized from all prior discussion (archived and otherwise) of its failures as a reliable source. I think this would be very helpful to WPVG. It was suggested in one of the archived discussions that the two biggest culprits for reintroduction of VGChartz as a source are non-WPVG-member wiki-editors who are only seeking to add one data-point or are non-neutral VGChartz-pushers if I may coin a novel charge. Speaking as an editors in the first class of re-introducers, such an explanation of VGChartz' inadequacies would have been sufficient to quiet any of my doubts if I had been directed there and I believe this would probably be equally true for other WPVG tyros. Of course I am not suggesting that you, User:ReyBrujo, take on this admittedly large task yourself, but in general does this sound like a good idea to you? Unfamiliar as I am with the internal machinations of WPVG, could a task force be set up to accomplish such a thing? In your experience is the recurrent re-introduction of VGChartz as a source a high-level or low-level problem for WPVG articles?
Thanks for your time. -Thibbs (talk) 05:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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New Project
Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.
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Band
I was in the process of creating a page for a regional ska band who has gained national attention, and it was suggested to be deleted, before I had the chance to work out all the bugs —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flatfootedninja (talk • contribs) 18:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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WP:HAU
has a new format
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WP:HAU
Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at
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Interwikis in Greek Βικιπαίδεια
Hi Roberto. This is FocalPoint from Greek Wikipedia. Could you run your little query again to refresh the el:User:ReyBrujo/Articles missing interwikis. Since the page is too big, it would be better to save the results of the query in two/three pages if you do not mind. Many thanks from Wikiproject Interwiki.--FocalPoint (talk) 19:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That was fast. Thank you.--FocalPoint (talk) 21:27, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Laughing
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who laughed seeing
MediaWiki_talk:Watchlist-details#I_think_four_notifications_at_one_time_is_one_too_many as a watchlist notice! Too funny - I almost thought it was a joke. -- Natalya 10:17, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply
Thank you. I was a bit perplexed by the redirect when I couldn't find the title anywhere in the article. I suspected it was an alternate name of some sort, but wanted someone who was familiar with the setting to provide the appropriate context. Horologium(talk) 03:33, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Wondering If You Could Help
Hey ReyBrujo, I was wondering if you could help me. I have been having problems with a belligerent user partaking in an edit war on [[Forrest Griffin]. I know you do not know much about Mixed Martial Arts (well I don't know if you do or don't) but my pleas for admin arbitration on the matter have gone unheeded so I was wondering if you could provide a neutral 3rd opinion on the subject. He is claiming that a fights decision was not seen as controversial even though I have provided much evidence to the contrary (please see the discussion page on said article). He has made edits that have distorted references on the page so that they cite things they should not be referencing and so that is why I believe his edits are in bad faith. I also think this because I and two other users were partaking in a discussion on how to solve this problem and he went ahead and made his own edits and undoing any reversions made to them. Please help me here because I don't want this person to simply get his way by brute force. That is not the wikipedia way.--Xander756 (talk) 05:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
MGS4 Numbers
On the list it says MGS4 has sold 3.31 million units but when I clicked the reference, no where on that site does it say anything about MGS4's sales. In fact, it says a different game sold 3.31 million. Is this coincidence? --Xander756 (talk) 14:23, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
[reply]
Nevermind, seems I click the wrong reference.
Sensation
Hola Rey, vengo a molestarte un poco, he decidido ayudar a extender el articulo Sensation en la wikipedia en español, y quería preguntarte si podías hacerme el favor de traducir esta info del evento escrita por los organizadores aquí. No te preocupes, si no tienes tiempo lo entenderé y no hay prisa, yo estaré buscando mas informacion para agregar, nos vemos!--AS990 (talk) 00:32, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Whether the proposed Disputed Islands infobox is neutral in its presentation of basic article information
Whether there is a valid reason to exclude the proposed infobox from the article
I should note that I am involved in the discussion, but I do not want to influence your opinion should you choose to offer one. I merely want some uninvolved editors to view the discussion and then offer an opinion. If you choose to participate, please post your opinion in the RFC comments section there. Thank you for your time. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:40, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the article's talk page. [7] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 17:30, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7
Hi there! :)
As someone who's worked on D&D and/or RPG articles before, I'm inviting you to participate in our goal to both improve articles that have been selected to be placed in the next Wikipedia DVD release, as well as nominate more to be selected for this project. Please see the WikiProject D&D talk page for more details. :) BOZ (talk) 19:27, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I see that you have put some work into the Gary Gygax article, which I have nominated for a GA review. If there is anything you can do to help it get passed, please join in! Also, feel free to comment on the D&D WikiProject talk page regarding our efforts to get articles in the 0.7 release. BOZ (talk) 03:19, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Spanish translation
Hey mate, I was wondering whether you could translate "Do not speak English? Click
Replied on the user's talk page. [8] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 13:21, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Also, this may be a really ignorant question (my Spanish is unfortunately non-existent), but doesn't Spanish have an inverted quotation mark at the start of sentences? ¿Like this? Is this an exception or should I insert it? +
Hello. :) If you hadn't heard, Gary Gygax and Wizards of the Coast have recently been promoted to "Good Article" status. I was also thinking of nominating Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, and I figured I'd contact you since you've done some work on at least one of those. See the project talk page for discussion on that. BOZ (talk) 20:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Request for comment/user conduct
I want to let you know that there has been a
MuZemike (talk) 08:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply
Your assistance with this article would be helpful. Please see the article and/or its talkpage for the issues that you could provide assitance with. shadzar-talk 05:16, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The Latin-American Wikipedia Meeting
"Latin-American Wikipedians,unite us!"
Hi wikipedian!Today I'm going to talk you about a new proposal that can to advantage you and many other users of Latin America.
You,that is from Latin America (second your userbox),already shall to have observed the importance of the Wikimedia Frojects in the region.Only Wikipedia represent 40% of the internet access[1].With every this importance,why don't we make a big meeting?
Of this idea,was borned the proposal for a Latin-American Wikipedian Meeting.Various Wikipedists has Latin-American users and this is a proposal of a culture and ideas interchange,that can be help all projects.Above this,comtemplate to help in the formation of new WMF chapters in Latin America.
have noticed the revert-athon tonight... time to request semiprotection?
chocobogamermine 01:28, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply
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Replied on the user's talk page. [10] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 02:10, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello ReyBrujo. I guess your referring to my recent editing of the "best selling games" article. Now I've read your past discussions about the reliability of the VGChartz.com website and that is one of the websites I selected for my citation. I also agree with your questioning of this website see as I've looked up games on this site and saw figures that didn't quite add up but I thought it was just me. Now I know my suspicions were justified. However, three out of the five games I posted had two citation each. One being VGChartz and the other backing VGChartz figures somewhat so I would like to know why those citation weren't reliable sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.219.220 (talk) 02:17, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [11] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 03:03, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not at all. I keep an eye on most of them, but I am on indefinite wikibreak, so it makes sense to remove those templates. -- ReyBrujo (talk) 03:28, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [12] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 03:28, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Rey, we're keeping an eye on all the Dragonlance pages as well now, too, with the public D&D watchlist. :) BOZ (talk) 03:32, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Best-selling games
I'm checking too, but can you find a source with the LTD of Guitar Hero World Tour? Going by November and December NPDs, the Wii version is over 1.2 million ([13]. TJSpyke 01:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [14] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 03:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about the blanking. That page already loads slowly (due to it being over 150K, maybe handheld games should be split off into their own page?), but I also kept getting Wikimedia errors and must have accidentally pasted the PS3 info over the PSP date. As for the dead link, I realize the error was on my end as I mistyped the URL. TJSpyke 19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [15] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 19:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Vivendi source is only for StarCraft while the Edge one likely includes the expansion pack. TJSpyke 02:46, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! You left a question about the notability of Halite by putting[16] a notability template to the article. I have written about notability on the article talk page. Would you comment there? I am also interested in how can we improve the references on the article. I think they are in quite a good state now. 82.203.170.153 (talk) 23:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the article talk page. [17] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 23:47, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Dragonlance GA
Hey there! Just letting you know that we have nominated Dragonlance to be a Good Article, and it is currently up for review. :) BOZ (talk) 00:12, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
. Since you're on the rosters of membership in at least one of those projects, I thought you might be interested.
Conversation about redirecting those projects is located here. Please participate in that discussion if you have any interest, and if you still have interest in achieving the goals of the original project, we'd love to have you join in. If you aren't interested in either the conversation or the project, please pardon the interruption. :) Thanks. Moonriddengirl(talk) 13:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Swine Flu Argentina
Perdón... soy de exaltarme... me disculpas? --190.50.73.242 (talk) 02:30, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. – Quadell(talk) 15:13, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply
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2009 flu pandemic / Argentina
WP:SYN does not necessarily forbid to add up numbers, only if it is not agreed between the authors that it is correct to do so. Do you doubt, that it is ok to add up, as we did, the numbers, taken from the references? | FHessel (talk) 01:27, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [21] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 13:29, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On the one hand you are trying to keep up wikipedia standards in terms of WP:SYN, on the other hand you are adding wrong numbers with a reference (I am assuming in your favor, that it has been done unintentionally), which are cited with a nonexisting header saying something absolutely different, than the reference does itself. Please be more careful, when citing references. This kind of misinformation could quickly discredit wikipedia and especially this page. |FHessel (talk) 10:34, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I have to excuse me, I made a mistake. The part of the text on the right is placed below advertisements, plus I had the width of my browser window reduced, so I did not notice it. I will restore your changes. | FHessel (talk) 13:42, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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NWC Large Images
I added large images for both the Gray and Gold NWC cartridges. They are on the same blog article and are listed with Creative Commons license you recommended. —Preceding
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VGChartz ref
Hey, I noticed your edit to List of Wii games that use the Nintendo GameCube controller. The wikilink you put in your edit summary refers to using VGChartz for citing sales numbers at whatnot, I don't believe it really works in reference to VGChartz (p)reviews. Anyways, I haven't reverted your edit (since the ign link i put up seems to be a better fit), but I felt I might as well inform you.
Replied on the user's talk page. [26] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 03:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wii games
The source I used for the worldwide total doesn't specifically state the amount sold in Japan. While the bulk of those other sales are probably Japan (Australia/New Zealand is probably tiny), I can't say that. Maybe using the term "Other regions" or something like that? TJSpyke 22:26, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [27] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 01:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think I said on the talkpage that I am in support of removing the release date. TJSpyke 02:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Best Selling Video Games
For the sales of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, it says 5.17 million approximately: 3.87 million in US, 1.3 million in Japan. so unless it sold 0 in the rest of the world then I was right with the sales all along, and you were wrong. Y2J The Evil Twin (talk) 13:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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That's still saying it sold 0 in the rest of the world. You could at least say 5.17 million +. Y2J The Evil Twin (talk) 16:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Email
Hi there. I just sent you an email. Amsaim (talk) 20:51, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Saludos, Mariano(t/c) 11:49, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Te entiendo perfectamente, yo tambien estoy hasta la manija con Wikimedia Argentina, y sobretodo con 2 crios! Suerte, --Mariano(t/c) 22:52, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
List of Dragonlance novels
Would you support reformatting the current page so that it utilizes the {{Book list}} template?
Others were talking about it, but nothing really happened.
Here's an example of what I have in mind: "x".
--Kroova (talk) 23:12, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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AWB
Yeah, i'll do it tomorrow. TJSpyke 05:43, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Neogaf
Thought I saw you on there, so I must ask if you can tell me what it takes to activate an account there. « ₣M₣ » 05:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Replied on the user's talk page. [32] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 14:23, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I notice this page references The Magic Box and I was wondering how reliable the source was? Why did we chose to go with that source? Can we use this source in other articles? They do not list their source for this chart (that I see.) Thank you for your time.--108.2.2.183 (talk) 20:06, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! We once discussed at the VG wikiproject about the difference between VGChartz and Magic Box. The difference between both sites is that VGChartz does extrapolation between different sources, whereas TMB was considered a sales archive (they get numbers from NPD for USA and Famitsu for Japan, without extrapolating).
In good faith we consider TMB a good source, because we cannot prove they tweak the numbers as they wish (like VGChartz). Most of their numbers for old games are virtually impossible to come upon, since there aren't that many references for them nowadays. And yes, the numbers can be used in other articles. I have been hoping to replace TMB with multiple sources (I prefer having as many sources as possible) but we are kind of forced to keep it for very old games of the NES era.
I've looked all over that site, and while I see they have modern numbers from NPD I can't find any indication that the numbers on the page in question actually come from NPD. As far as I can find, they just showed up one day in December 2006 or January 2007.[33][34] I don't see any mention of it in their forum archives from around that time either,[35] despite there being threads about both the November 2006 and December 2006 NPD numbers. Anomie⚔ 00:47, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Replied on the user's talk page. [36] -- ReyBrujo (talk) 02:41, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure if you meant I was joking, I did poke fun at Anomie's strong resistance to give undue weight to the MK2 sales. I appreciate your help in moving forward.--SexyKick 04:32, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]