User talk:Bobfordsgun

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If editing articles on video games interests you, consider joining the Video games WikiProject and/or one or more of these platform specific projects: WikiProject Xbox, WikiProject PlayStation and/or the Nintendo task force. Cheers, He's Gone Mental 13:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Skyrim nuisance, AKA Tesseract501

I suggest leaving him alone, he hasn't made a single edit to a mainspace article. From looking at his contributions it is clear that he has only complained about things in articles. I'm going to stop commenting on his 'suggestions' and it would keep us both sane if everyone ignored him.He's Gone Mental 15:32, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

In writing, each mention should have a point.

Concerning your edit in Skyrim plot section here:

Ysgramor informs the player that Alduin has placed a "soul snare" in Sovngarde, allowing him to gain strength by devouring the souls of deceased Nords arriving there. The player meets up with the three heroes of Nordic legend who defeated Alduin originally, and, with their help, destroys the soul snare, confronts Alduin in Sovngarde and destroys him.

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I see that you removed that information I added about the main character destroying the soul snare. I don't particularly mind that. I understand that it will make things concise and make the sentence more readable, but the information was there not as wp:fancruft but to justify the mention of Sovngarde. Allow me to ensure you that I know something about serious professional writing. And in writing, especially in a summary or synopsis (or even in a novel), each mention should have a point.

If, in a synopsis, you describe a tree standing there in a scene, and there's no mention of anything else consequential to that tree, then there's no point of mentioning it. (Synopsis keeps only important things. And if the tree's just there, why is it worth mentioning? Is it fancruft? Is it there because the contributor likes how cool it is? OR will it be important later on?) If that tree will yield a fruit that will drop onto someone's head and causes his death later, you might wish to mention that tree, because it matters later. Same goes for the soul snare. Ysgramor just mentioned it, and most readers, who don't play Skyrim, might ask why this is important, because there's no evident reason mentioned in the article. They definitely won't know how cool the soul snare is. It's just there, then does nothing. But if you mentioned that it needs to be destroyed later. Then that information about soul snare has a point of being there. I added the information because I didn't want to cut anyone else's information. And because, naturally to wikipedia, people will provide tons of excuses to prevent what they added from being deleted. Well, I do have a reason, but it's there because I know how to write professionally. My job requires it. If you really wish to delete that the soul snare is destroyed in order to to force Alduin to show up, Ysgramor's mention of the soul snare has no reason to be there either, since it's inconsequential. Anthonydraco (talk) 04:01, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

MOSCAPS

Hi Bobfordsgun,

Thanks for your edits on Skyrim. I do have to ask you to keep WP:MOSCAPS in mind: the word 'content' isn't written with a capital letter :) Thanks, and happy editing. --Soetermans. T / C 10:11, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

New message from Gareth Griffith-Jones/GG-J's Talk

Good evening Bobfordsgun,

I have replied to you latest posting here. Cheers, -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/GG-J's Talk 20:42, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Godfather & True Grit

Hello Bob,
Just in case you are not watching .
And this.
All the best! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 19:57, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Hey Gareth, thanks for maintaining my edits. I wouldn't have considered it overlinking either, just adding some links to fill out the content more, haha. Bobfordsgun (talk) 12:31, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Glad to help a like-minded pal. Cheers! -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 15:36, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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Iwan Rheon

I have undone your edits to several Game of Thrones episode pages because Iwan Rheon's character is listed as "boy". While it is very likely he is in fact Ramsay Snow, it has not been revealed on the series yet, so it is speculation. Furthermore, if the character's true identity were to become known in the coming episodes, the name would not change on the previous episode pages, because at that time, the character was still "boy". Thanks. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 20:20, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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