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Vandalism

Seems like there's been some recent vandalism to this page. I'm not sure how to speedily correct it, is there any way we can revert it back without hand re-editing?

Reverted some of the Vandalism earlier today

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is an article of importance. It is a web series involving many notable web and television celebrities. A mere template was made for content to be added, and much shall. --TheAwesomestOne (talk) 19:12, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

references added

im too lazy to make pages so I reference those without pages to the IMDB that they have...someone else can make the page. 68.96.60.234 (talk) 22:47, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:Notability (people). 117Avenue (talk) 00:24, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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--Teancum (talk) 18:49, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Josh Blaylock

I tried making a couple of stub pages for Josh Blaylock, but those keep getting deleted too. Granted I wasn't putting any real work into it, but Josh Blaylock is better known now after his story arc on Warehouse 13 so why not make him a page? TaoPhoenix (talk) 02:26, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TaoPhoenix; the main question is, does he meet Wikipedia's notability requirement for actors? Theopolisme (talk) 02:37, 11 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah see, that whole Notability theme is creaking at the seams because it gives people a chance to delete stuff that penalizes the cutting edge. Check it out - *every other star* has a page except Josh! I can see if it was a discussion about the Guy At The Table in one episode for twelve seconds, but he's arguably the *most* important star of the show! (By a hair - remember, the series "exists" because BrianD (aka Josh B) lands a million-to-one roll-shot and takes down a barely overconfident but highly "ranked" gamer, The Law, live on a talk show. So in many ways, when you have a series that is already in its second season, *everyone* on it *becomes* notable. (Incidentally the same comment applies to Brian Firenzi, who aced The Law for first season, so his page shouldn't automatically re-direct either, but that's the "next paragraph down" to discuss that.)

But I offered another one earlier. He had a four episode starring arc in Warehouse 13! The first thing I do when I see TV shows is I hit two sites to see more about the stars - IMDB and Wikipedia. So the fact that Warehouse 13 fans didn't beat us to it first either is a little odd, again a "paragraph down".

But my final point is that this is how "innovative media" works. It starts as someone's breakout performance in a breakout show, and the VGHS crew specifically said somewhere that they believe these kinds of web-series are how cutting edge digital entertainment gets born. So it might be a time to revisit the overall meta-discussion about Notability. (And maybe the "original research" - if a fan watches the entire episode, then posts a 1 line summary and it gets deleted by a bot under o.r., really?!)

Granted my Stubs look terrible, but the other hundreds of you out there have the whole polish thing down to a science. But it has to *get there* as a stub to begin with, and I am finding hundreds of these potential spots for pages lately. Maybe our overall enthusiasm for Wikipedia is waning, because we're getting tired of it all and moving on or something. But I think a better answer is just to drill out a cute little page and then it can sit there happily in the cloud. I think the *lack* of a page begins to stand out more!TaoPhoenix (talk) 23:59, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just because a series is notable, that doesn't make everyone around it notable. We need unbiased news commentary on the person for that person to be notable, not references to who was involved with making a series successful. 117Avenue (talk) 03:44, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Josh Blaylock was the co-star in Red Dead Redemption and debuted in No Country for Old Men, the movie which won the Academy Awards' Best Picture in 2008. He has a more extensive IMDB profile than many people with articles on Wikipedia. Just because you personally don't know who he is doesn't make him non-notable. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 22:01, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Recent revert

As I explained the first time I reverted the infobox, the logo is wrong, "Dominare, Certa, Perfice" is the motto used in the series, not "Perficis, Conpeto, Dominari". Also, 744 Evergreen Terrance is the address of the Flanders' house, not the Simpsons, and the VGHS residence, it is OR to presume it is also VGHS. 117Avenue (talk) 22:53, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not the Simpson's house, it's the Flanders;. However, the Flanders' house doesn't have it's own article, so 744 Evergreen Terrance is linked to the Simpson's house article to point out the reference. I will fix the logo and put a transparent version, not one with an unnecessary black background. [Soffredo] 23:09, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but applying the address of the residence to the school is OR. In my opinion the residence is 744 because the school is 742, but we'll have to get word from one of the show runners before adding any address. 117Avenue (talk) 00:12, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

At 11:41 in [this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAU6dtQ9yS0], it gives the address of the VGHS as 744 Evergreen Terrance. [Soffredo] 00:48, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for making me watch it again. I was under the impression that Shane was on the Frag Floor of a building separate of the school, but it isn't very clear is it? Does that mean that the whole campus is at 744, or it is only one building, and Frag Floor is a floor in the school. The amount of outside scenes made me think they walk between school and residence, but I guess multiple buildings could have the same address. I don't know, I'm confused now. 117Avenue (talk) 01:08, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reception

Do any reviews in reliable sources exist? Could really bolster this article if we had something for that. Zero Serenity ^{(talk - contributions)} 20:08, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How about this one from Backstage from this year?

http://www.backstage.com/interview/4-reasons-video-game-high-school-next-frontier-entertainment/ TaoPhoenix (talk) 04:59, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is an interview of some of the producers, not a review. Zero Serenity ^{(talk - contributions)} 05:38, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]