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Contents 1 The WPVG Newsletter (June 2008) 2 Watchlist 3 List of Black Lagoon episodes 4 User:DanCSeshmaroo 5 Thanks! 6 Coming to terms 7 Question 8 Undiscussed move 9 Message for you 10 Signpost updated for June 2, 2008. 11 "Move" lists 12 Message 13 Ditto 14 Re: Reviews 15 A Featured List contest 16 List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 17 Gary King 18 Formatting addition by Tan

Welcome to my talk page. The general policies I follow on this page are outlined below.

• I welcome discussion here on Wikipedia related matters, but please refrain if you wish to contact me on other matters.
• Sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~)
• Be civil. I will be correspondingly polite.
• If you add personal attacks or vandalism to this page, it will be reverted.
• I am often busy in real life, and will not necessarily reply to messages with alacrity. Keep this in mind.
• I will respond on your talk page unless you specify that you want a response here, which I will oblige.
• If you are here to request my aid as an administrator, then please provide a thorough explanation of what you want done and why. If I am not available, then I would recommend one of the many pages where you can report such tasks for administrators to take care of the problem (i.e. WP:AIV for vandalism, WP:RFP for protection).
• I will archive every thirty topics. Please do not respond on archived discussions. If you wish to continue a conversation, start a new discussion on this page.

And that's it. Happy editing!

Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse)

[edit] The WPVG Newsletter (June 2008)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter Volume I, No. 3 - June 4, 2008 Archive before Archive After To receive future editions of this newsletter, click here to sign up on the distribution list. Project at a Glance As of 2008-06-04, the project has: 89 Featured articles 13 Featured Lists 9 Featured Topics 2 articles in Featured Article Review 208 Good Articles 0 articles in Good Article Review 10 articles for Peer review Changes to Featured and Good articles, lists, and topics Promoted FA/FL: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts, List of Harvest Moon titles, Riven, Myst, Topic: Characters of Halo, The Orange Box Demoted FA/FL: Devil May Cry series (FT) Promoted GA: Air (visual novel), Crash Boom Bang!, Driving Emotion Type-S, Einhänder, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Metal Gear Solid, Off-Road Velociraptor Safari, Team Fortress 2, Grand Theft Auto (series), Kratos (God of War), History of video game consoles (seventh generation) Demoted GA: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Cloud Strife, Super Smash Bros. News There were 203 new articles in May 2008 Current proposals and discussions Well, gee, thanks 1up! 1UP.com has recently changed their rating scale. A list of affected articles can be found here. See discussion for details. About 28% of the articles on the list have been checked and updated. Inactive project cleanup Proposal to consolidate inactive projects and taskforces. Project page can be found here. WikiProject Dragon Quest has been redirected to WP:VG. WikiProject Massively multiplayer online games Guild Wars task force has been deleted. Interested in a specific video game series or company? Check out some of our task forces to help improve the related articles. Atari Command & Conquer Devil May Cry New! Gears of War Grand Theft Auto Silent Hill Suikoden New! StarCraft New! Valve Visual novels New! Warcraft Feature Writing about Development Development content is very important to include in an encyclopedic video game article. It provides a history of how the game came to be and provides real world information needed for an article to claim comprehensiveness. However, writing this section can be difficult because the amount and type of information available will vary for each game. One of the best sources for such information is a developer interview. These can provide insight into the thought process of the designers and give examples of influences and obstacles encountered. Previews can also be helpful by giving a snap shot of the game before it was released and may mention development issues that were still being addressed. When writing about development, common sense should be used to organize content to maintain a sense of flow for the reader. Most times, it is best to give the information in a somewhat chronological order—though information can also be grouped by topics like audio, promotion, graphics, etc. If one such topic gets large enough, it can be split off into its own subsection or regular section. For example, Kingdom Hearts#Audio is a separate section from the rest of the development information because it focuses on the game's musical score and voice acting. Portal (video game)#Soundtrack, however, does not have as much content and is a subsection of the main development section. What to include about development Who are the developers? Which company or studio developed the game, and are there any prominent designers involved? When did development begin? When and where was the game first announced? (e.g. Tokyo Game Show, E3 Media and Business Summit, etc.) What influenced the game's story, characters, music, and/or gameplay ? (e.g. past games, movies, books, etc.) Were there any delays? Was anything excluded because of time or technological constraints? (e.g. extra levels, game modes, characters, story arcs, etc.) Things to remember Avoid proseline. Though maintaining a sense to chronology is important, this section should not read like an ordered list of events. Images in this section should be relevant to the information given and should add on to it. Source everything to avoid information being tagged as original research. 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[edit] Watchlist

As an admin, do you get to see if a page is watched, who is watching it, or how many people are watching it? Gary King (talk) 07:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

What policy discussions? Either I'm unaware, or I am involving myself in things that simply interest me and so I accidentally come upon some discussions :D Gary King (talk) 07:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Yep... I'm here for the long haul. Also, it's like taking free English lessons from some of the toughest teachers, over at WP:FAC. Yay! (D'oh!) Gary King (talk) 07:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Black Lagoon episodes

Just curious, why did you upload a new image Image:BlackLagoonDVD.jpg to replace Image:Black-Lagoon DVD cover.jpg (effectively turned the latter into an orphan fairuse image)? I think the two are pretty much redundant, except that the new image is actually of larger scale, not really favoured by WP:FAIRUSE (which would prefer low-resolution non-free images). --PeaceNT (talk) 12:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:DanCSeshmaroo

This is probably the hundredth or so sockpuppet of a banned user, who initially attacked User:David A, and is now creating endless attack accounts on Wikipedia. A CheckUser has been done once, but it seemed to not have made any difference. Suggest blocking anyone with this editing pattern from here on. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 04:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. Sephiroth BCR ^(Converse) 04:57, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

I appreciate earning my first barnstar. I'm not really sure I'm interested in adminship. The process seems like a popularity contest to me, with people opposing people whose views they find irritating. I also think it would just take me away from editing articles, which I actually enjoy. But I appreciate the gesture, and who knows... I may find my interests changing over time. Thanks again! Randomran (talk) 15:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Coming to terms

I must admit, at first i thought you were a little stiff and uptight, but now, after a while, i see your a brilliant editor. you have made many wonderful edits and truly diserve your administartor poisition. bottom line, im sorry for ever being rude to you or doubting you. also, is there a way to check i.p. addresses on wikipiedia to help find out sock puppets? -Tobi4242 (talk) 16:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Dear Sephiroth BCR, a while back I thought when you asked a couple of editors to join into a discussion that it was canvassing, which you disputed and so having looked at the canvassing guideline, I am curious how one can go about trying to get greater participation and input in policy and AfD discussions without it appearing as canvassing? I noticed for example this aspect of the AfD instructions regarding the nominating process: "it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the articles that you are nominating for deletion. Also consider notifying WikiProjects listed on the discussion page. Do not notify bot accounts or people who have made only insignificant 'minor' edits. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the article and/or use TDS' Article Contribution Counter. For your convenience, you may use {{subst:AFDWarningNew|Article title}} ~~~~ (for creators who are totally new users), {{subst:AFDWarning|Article title}} ~~~~ (for creators), or {{subst:Adw|Article title}} ~~~~ (for contributors or established users). You can determine the main contributors of the articles by entering the page name at Wikipedia Page History Statistics." A major concern for me with AfDs and some of these other talk page discussions is that they seem likely primarily the same handful of editors and I think that we need to bring in more opinions whether they agree or disagree with our stances. I would be much easier to convince if I heard from some new voices and I think we could reach a more convincing understanding and consensus. Should we include links in the welcome messages that urge editors to not only look over the policy pages, but consider discussing them on the talk pages? Should we use those suggested AfD templates for everyone who worked on the articles under discussion? Any ideas would be appreciated. Regards, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 19:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Undiscussed move

In spite of the consensus on various talk pages, someone moved Majin Boo to its "Buu" counterpart. Can you revert this and move-protect the page? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 16:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks man. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 17:20, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Message for you

Hi Sephiroth, the following message was created at Editing User talk:Sephiroth BCR (comment) (now deleted) by User:Neoonyxalchemist. Best, Gwernol 02:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for creating the article, I'm never gonna get used to how that whole thing works. Anyways, What i wanna do is take all of the info on wikipedia and divide it into categories that we as vandal busters can reign over. From there we can split the categories into sub-categories and have captains for those. In example We'd have a culture category that would break down into sub-categories of Country, Time period, ect. From the country we could for instance have Japan and Japan could have a manga sub-category and there'd be a captain for that. All this would be determined by a counsel we'd first have to create. Basically it'd be like the Gotei 13 from Bleach (manga). So what do you think?

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[edit] "Move" lists

What should I do concerning merging these? Include them, exclude them? The context of the question can be found Talk:List of Nanoha characters‎. Thanks, Vivio Testarossa^{Talk Who} 17:18, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Message

Could you perform a courtesy blank, per WP:CBLANK, on my last RFA? Gary King (talk) 02:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ditto

Greetings, Sephiroth. Would you mind blanking mine as well? It's this one. —SusanLesch (talk) 05:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much! —SusanLesch (talk) 06:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Reviews

Yeah, I try to reach every FTC, FAC, and FLC when I can and if I have more time, then make my reviews longer. But at the very least, I try to pitch in a few suggestions if I am short on time or if the subject matter does not interest me as much. Gary King (talk) 16:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A Featured List contest

Grettings. FL directors Scorpion0422 and The Rambling Man have decided to run a contest for FL contributors. We are trying to get some interest in the process and get some FLs for the under-represented topics. If you would like to learn more about this contest, you can find such information here. If you are uninterested in it, then you could still help out by reviewing FLCs submitted by the entrants. Thanks for the time, Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:21, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for entering the contest. You are now able to select the topic that you would like to work on. While it is a good idea to know which specific list you will work on before you select a topic, you do not have to submit your list until Thursday. Once you have a topic and a list, you can start work. However, you will not be able to submit an FLC until Sunday at 00:00 (GMT). Good luck and have fun! -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The tables are ugly at List of Japanese submissions for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film :p Why don't you use class="wikitable"? Gary King (talk) 15:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gary King

Hey Ben. It occurred to me that Gary is not an admin. While poking around on his talk page, I saw that there was possibly some admin coaching going on from you... but man, he gets a lot of talk page traffic and I couldn't sift through it all. What's the deal with this? Looking at his contribs and past history, this dude should probably be nominated... Gary, if you watchlist this page, feel free to chime in too. Tan | 39 16:24, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting addition by Tan

Oh, and one other footnote....

Akira Kurosawa actually had THREE other nominations in addition to his Honorary Award for Rashomon....Kurosawa was nominated (and won) in this category for Dersu Uzala. In that year, his film represented the Soviet Union.

With a total of 1 Honorary Award, 1 Win (for the USSR), 2 nominations (for Japan) and 2 other submitted films, he is Japan's most successful director in this category.

Also, Japan has never submitted a movie directed by a woman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adtran (talk • contribs) 16:41, 12 June 2008 (UTC)