User talk:Czar/2014 Jan–Apr

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Earthbound in GameFan

• Des Barres, Nicholas Dean sub nom Nick Rox. "Planet SNES: EarthBound" DieHard GameFan. No.30 (Vol.3, Issue 6). Pg.55. June 1995.
• "Viewpoint: EarthBound" DieHard GameFan. No.32 (Vol.3, Issue 8). Pg.15. August 1995.
  • Note: the three scores come from "Skid", "Nick Rox", and "K. Lee" in that order. "Skid" is the nom de plume of Dave Halverson; "Nick Rox" is Nicholas Dean Des Barres; and "K. Lee" is Kelly Rickards. Halverson was the editor in chief so you can list him as the author alone if need be. In other cases with scores like these I've seen people treat them like Famitsu Cross reviews, i.e. adding the scores and giving a total out of 300. I'm not sure what's the best way to handle it though.
• Des Barres, Nicholas Dean sub nom Nick Rox. "GameFan 16: EarthBound" DieHard GameFan. No.32 (Vol.3, Issue 8). Pg.70. August 1995.
• Des Barres, Nicholas Dean sub nom Nick Rox. "GameFan 16: EarthBound" DieHard GameFan. No.32 (Vol.3, Issue 8). Pg.71. August 1995.

These are the GameFan articles for now. I'll take a look at the non-English coverage now. The Russian article may be more about Mother 1 than EarthBound actually, but I'll take a closer look. -Thibbs (talk) 01:29, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Excellent. Thanks so much! If the Mother coverage is noteworthy, do let me know—that's in the pipeline as well. czar ♔ 02:54, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Earthbound in the non-English press

Here are some scans from non-English sources. The first one is a review from one of the better-known Brazilian magazines, Super GamePower (listed here alongside Nintendo World and Official PlayStation Magazine). The second is from the Russian gaming magazine, Velikij Drakon.

• Portuguese scans: here and here

Marcelo Kamikaze. Rubem Barros (ed.). "SNES: EarthBound" Super GamePro. No.16. Pg.26-27. 16 July 1995. ISSN 0104-611X.

SNES By Marcelo Kamikaze EarthBound EarthBound has all the classic RPG elements : extensive dialogue, complex quests, weapons, puzzles to solve and power-ups. However, the childhood atmosphere may disappoint if you were expecting a game like Dungeons and Dragons. Banal Frontier EarthBound is the story of a young boy, a meteorite and series of coincidences. When a meteorite crashes in the city of Onett, near the towns of Twoson and Threet, our young hero suspects that something terrible might happen. He gathers his friends : a psychic, a dog and a few others and begins a journey to solve the mystery. The strong point of the game is good music and humorous dialogues. Throughout the game can be found discussions of bodily functions, mania and even some sexual innuendo. The scenarios are not very characteristic of 16-bit games and the enemies are poorly designed. The music by the Eerie Symphony provides heroic ballads of struggle. When you visit Frank's Arcade, you will hear a variety of classic video game music . It's a shame that more efforts was not made to improve sound effects of the enemies. The controls are those of a traditional RPG. A menu system allows you to select items, spells and more. When you buy a more powerful weapon, the machine pays you in cash for the older weapon. Another problem is the small number of items that you can carry at once. EarthBound can be interesting if you know where the funny parts of the game are. The problem is that the humor, typical American humor, is too mature for kids and the gameplay is too childish for veteran gamers. Although EarthBound has all the elements of a classic RPG, including extensive dialogue, complex quests, weapons, spells, mazes to solve and power-ups, elements of the game's atmosphere are quite childish. A game more suitable for beginners than for those already initiated in the genre. Attack Strategies Attack from behind. The screen turns green and you get a surprise attack (you will have to fight for a battle round) Never turn your back to the enemy. The screen turns red and you are hit with an attack Laterally attack if the enemy is watching you. The screen turns purple. You attack the enemy counter- attacks, and so on. One strategy is to dodge around the enemies . This always works. You can also go in and out of rooms to see if the enemies disappear. Struggling With Franky Fighting Franky is not easy. Find the arcade (it's in the lower half, near the middle of Onett) . When you find the arcade guy, refuses his help and fight him. Defeat him and you'll meet Frank. Do not face Franky without 100% power. Bring with you some burgers and PSI Rockin 'Attack . Without these items, it's just down to luck. When Frank dies, there is one more threat, Frankystein! It's time to use PSI Rockin' Attack. Another alternative is to destroy it with punches. American Humor Bees have a sense of humor: " Oh, what a pain ... Everything is getting dark ... " Bathroom humor: " Do not talk to me... I 'm thinking . " "Then you are ready to work hard, Spanky?" "Finish the winds of violence, not with the winds of change." "I'll eat garlic to increase my strength." But garlic should keep people away. "... spit in their eyes and make them wet their pants... " says a rebel to his friend in front of police station TIP: In town, look for power-ups, even the garbage cans hold interesting items. TIP: Visit the library to get some culture. Talk to librarians to get the city map. TIP: Take a Dirceu Butterfly. Each encounter restores PSI points. At the mouth of caves, use various PSI attacks . Then exit the cave and fill your PSI meter. TIP: The number of items you can carry is small. Eat all you can to clear inventory space and keep up your energy. TIP: Call your mother in Onett and she will tell you that your sister is working for the Escargo Express. Use the E. Express to store items that will be useful later. TIP: The giant ant by the Big Footprint is a tough nut to crack. First destroy the two spiders in front of it, then use the " PSI Rockin' Attack ' to eliminate it. If your power is low, use " PSI Lifeup " to reinvigorate it. TIP: After examining the meteorite, go to Pokey's house (where you will witness a small family squabble). Return to the meteorite and look for a bee. TIP: ATMs are located in all pharmacies and department stores. Never carry too much cash with you, leave it in your account. Every time you die, you lose half of the money from your pocket. EarthBound - 3.5/5 SNES Nintendo 24-Meg, 1 player RPG Chart - 3/5 Sound - 4/5 Control 4/5 Fun Factor 3/5

• Russian scan: here

Daniel Martin and G.Dragon. "8-битный картридж ценой в 1 тысячу долларов." Великий Dракон. No.44. Pg.53. 1999. ISSN 0868-5967.

8-Bit Cartridge Sold for 1000 Dollars One thousand dollars for an 8-bit cartridge! Even the biggest fans in our 8-bit editorial staff were pretty stunned by this incredible news. However, the results of the investigation undertaken by the editors not only confirm the accuracy of the figure, but also expose a world of video games of such depth that Russian gamers could have hitherto only guessed at. So, as usual, it all started in ancient times (not as far back as before the Earth was chosen by the dragons, but not long after). It is on the crest of a wave of 8-bit role-playing games, of which our country has experienced only through "Little Ninja Brothers" and its successors. Nintendo released its new 8-bit hit (in Japan, of course) called Mother for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The debut game was successful and Nintendo of America launched an English version (called Earthbound). The official Nintendo Power magazine had already promised a release of the game by the end of 1992, but time has conspired to prepared quite a different fate. To battle for a place in the market the just released Super Nintendo console urgently needed new games with guaranteed 100% popularity. The 8-bit project was closed and Nintendo began to develop Mother 2 straight for SNES. And since the 8-bit English version had not come out, Nintendo called this English version of Mother 2 "Earthbound". And this is where things become incredible . Although 8-bit "Earthbound" never appeared on shelves, beta cartridges for testing purposes had been produced. In January 1998, one such cartridge was suddenly put up for online auction at http://www.ebay.com by someone calling himself Mariotti. The cartridge was purchased for $200 (for comparison, Earthbound for the SNES can normally be purchased for a maximum of $30), and shortly afterward the gamers that had lost the bidding began to beg the new owner to use the priceless relic to create an electronic copy for 8-bit computer video game emulation. The price that was asked for permission to use the cartridge was $400: $200 in advance and $200 after copying! A global fundraising event was declared and strong word of thanks were poured out to the new owner. Gamers had gathered the required funds by 22 April 1998. And on April 27, Demiforce (these guys regularly change internet addresses) had already made a copy. A little later, in connection with the relocation, the cartridge again changed hands: this time for $500. And eight months later - again , already over $1,000! The marketing plans are unknown for the new owner of this rare edition of the cartridge. Martin (Daniel) and G.Dragon P.S. Perhaps the most curious aspect of this case is that Earthbound - a typical and modest-seeming RPG is an outstanding example of the sensational RPG genre.

Hope these are useful to you. I also have a Chinese source, but it's quite small. I'll keep looking at a slow pace. -Thibbs (talk) 18:53, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Amazing. I have no idea how you found (or translated) these, but I'm very much indebted. Thanks again and do pass along anything else you find czar ♔ 00:38, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!

Hello Czar, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition will begin at midnight tonight (UTC). There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 17:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

James Metzger edits

Hi. You placed a tag on the James Metzger tag regarding self-published sources. I believe the article is now edited to remove all self-published sources. Can you take a look and see if you agree that the tag can be removed? (By the way, I added a comment to that article's talk page, but haven't seen a response. What is the best practice for adding these comments for discussion? On the talk page of the article or on the talk page of the person who edited it?) Laxblue (talk) 17:22, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

I replied on the talk page, and yes, that's the place to discuss article issues. Thanks for the ping czar ♔ 15:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

FYI: I added further comments and questions on the page. Please take a look.Laxblue (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:58, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Nidhogg (video game)

Just to let you know, I've reviewed and approved your nomination of Nidhogg (video game) - you can see the review here. Nice new article! :) Acather96 (click here to contact me)

Your GA nomination of Stolen Childhood

The article Stolen Childhood you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Stolen Childhood for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Forbes72 -- Forbes72 (talk) 05:12, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Well done! Feel free to leave me any feedback you have if you are so inclined. Forbes72 (talk) 05:17, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Monument Valley (video game)

Orlady (talk) 08:05, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Ben Kuchera

Friend - if you look at the two links you tagged as "unreliable source" - you will see that they are mocking the twitter debacle, not verifying the twitter conservation - (which should be accessible through twitter) - it doesn't make sense to require a comedy site to verify its credibility. - its comedy - like being mentioned in The Onion. The main point is that whatever the guy did was sufficient to draw attention for an independent published source. 83.100.174.82 (talk) 19:51, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Right, and you wouldn't use The Onion as a source about a real event. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources adequately explains why Something Awful and that P4R site are not suitable references for an encyclopedia. Please keep this article-related dialogue at the article's talk page. czar ♔ 20:10, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Phil Fish (video game developer)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Adrian Piper

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Babnik Brown

Since you started the review on this article and are most familar with it, would you mind looking over this nomination again. I believe I have addressed all your concerns. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:09, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Nidhogg (video game)

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:02, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Kim dynasty (North Korea)

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Menacer in Retro Gamer

• Carrol. Martyn, ed. "Retro News: Radica Gets Menacing." Retro Gamer. No.14 (Vol.2, Iss.2). Pg.8. March 2005. ISSN 1742-3155.

Not much more than a paragraph, but I hope it helps anyway. -Thibbs (talk) 03:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

It was good for a brief aside: User:Czar/drafts/Menacer#Reception. Thanks! czar ♔ 19:05, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Glossary of video game terms

I was going by the fact that at the beginning of WP:VG/A#Importance_scale it refers to "Low importance articles and all lists" and that Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Video game articles by quality statistics has almost all lists (with the sole exception of glossary of video games) at low importance. Although the contradiction in that last row would seem to justify making it mid importance until someone else clarifies this. I'm going to ask at WT:VG in a few minutes. FunPika 19:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good. Let's see what they say czar ♔ 19:04, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Nina (Xiu Xiu album)

Hello! Your submission of Nina (Xiu Xiu album) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! C679 15:38, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I must apologise, you are completely right and I have now passed the nomination. Thanks, C679 17:10, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Nina (Xiu Xiu album)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Orlady (talk) 08:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Infant Joy

Hello. I recently discovered your draft at User:Czar/drafts/Infant_Joy after expanding the article at Infant Joy. Sorry to jump in before you got a chance. However, I would like to encourage you to continue working on Blake related materials (and bringing over the librivox recordings for the individual poems!). I don't know if you have had a chance to see the William Blake task force, but it would be great to have another experienced use working on Blake related materials and participating in the taskforce! See you around and happy editing, Sadads (talk) 20:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Visiting Scholar (please apply now)

Hi, thanks for your interest in the position. GMU's application is now open. Please apply if you think it's a good fit! Application. Cheers! Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

EGM 39

(from [1]) Sorry, I do not have that issue at hand. --MuZemike 07:06, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Halo

Hi Czar,

I think this game definitely warrants its own article; it is untitled but so are the new Star Wars films. When any new information is released, it will be added to the article by myself (or anyone who beats me to it), but for now the article is fully referenced, reliable material. The only problem you seem to have with it is that the game is yet to be titled.

Let me know what you think, but to have someone delete an article that you spent time working on is demoralising.

Regards, Sam.

Samcooke343 (talk) 13:45, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Sam, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Halo Xbox One, as mentioned in the edit summary. czar ♔ 16:47, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Czar, there is actually more evidence suggesting "Halo Xbox One" is in fact "Halo 2 Anniversary", and therefore not even part of the Reclaimer Saga. Please understand that the edits being made to Halo Xbox One are those from a fan and follower of the series and not of someone who is trying to edit war with you. This game should definitely have its own article, as it has more information and references than the Reclaimer Saga section has. Also, as the 2014 game will probably be H2A, the redirect doesn't even belong in the Reclaimer Saga anyway. Regards, Sam. Samcooke343 (talk) 17:04, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

The idea is that there is no deadline, and now we can discuss your counterargument at the WPVG discussion page. The work that I saw showed no mention of H2A, but you're welcome to share your proof of this from reliable, secondary sources at WPVG. Remember that Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, and that there's no rush to make an article based on unconfirmed rumors. Please continue the discussion at the aforementioned page. czar ♔ 17:16, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Corps Altsachsen Dresden

Hi Czar,
I saw that you are listed as a peer reviewer for articles regarding society. I translated an article with some friends of mine from German to English and added it to WP a few days ago. As I'm not a native speaker (and only two of my friends are "half-natives"), I would love to have the article be checked by a native English speaker. The article deals with a typical old-school European fraternity that is only somewhat similar to what people know in the US and Canada as student societies. We also listed the article for a good article review and hope that the peer review will result in synergies.

The review can be found here: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Corps_Altsachsen_Dresden/archive1

Thank you for your help :) Cheers, --WikimanGer  ^{Talk • Mail}   17:20, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

George Mason Wikipedia Visiting Scholar (please apply this week)

Hi! You expressed interest in the GMU WVS position. If you haven't already, please fill out the Application by January 27th. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 14:57, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Applied yesterday. Thanks for the heads up! czar ♔ 22:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Great, I'll let you know as soon as I know!

Also, I'll mention since this is somewhat new still, that you can pretty much never have to leave a talkback message again just by using {{U|USERNAME}}in your reply (this also helps me in case something slips by me on the watchlist). So if I wanted to ping you so that you'd get a notification, I'd just write Czar, and be sure you saw it. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 22:40, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Saints Row article

Hi there. At WP:VG, you indicated interest in helping me improve the Saints Row article, with a goal set for it to attain GA-Class. Are you still interested in coming on board to help with the article? CR4ZE (t) 12:14, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Hey! Sure, though I'm a little crunched for time now. (And are you planning to do the rest of the series? I'm somewhat more interested in its latter half.) I left a note on the talk page—let's coordinate there. czar ♔ 15:38, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

In the long run, yes I would. I haven't played SRIV and don't really want to, but I played SR1 and SR2 to death as a teenager. Going through SR2's edit history, you can see that on my old account I was heavily involved in the writing of the article. I took it through a failed GAN too. The lingering problem with SR2's article is that much of the content was sourced from developer blogs which have since been removed from the site. I tried using Wayback and other web archives but it seems the blogs are lost. That's going to create enormous problems at a future GAN for that article. I wish I had a straight answer :-( SR3, I would be interested in working on. I'll let you lead the way on that one and prompt me when you want to tackle it. I want to get SR1 up to par because I think it will be the easiest one and is more overdue for GA-Class than the others given it's been 8 years. CR4ZE (t) 15:54, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

SR3's relatively low on my priority list (well, as is SR1's, but I love a good collaboration), so it'll be a while before that one. I dug around in SR2's history and it doesn't look that bad. The "Row Community" (e.g., [2]) posts seem to be what's lost, but the vast majority of that info is sourcing minor marketing stuff. I don't think the loss of the source will be an issue because if it's really worth mentioning, it'll have coverage in a secondary source. My 2¢. Anyway, I'm willing to help with both/either—let's coordinate on the talk page. czar ♔ 16:23, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: MOS:COMMA change – or, Comma Molehill, Last Chapter?

Hello, Czar. You have new messages at Ὁ οἶστρος's talk page.
Message added 16:57, 26 January 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Mega Jet & Menacer

Just a small note of thanks on working on the Mega Jet bio and picture, and to say your work on the menacer article went above and beyond: I've been feeling very down about the Sega16 article recently (For reasons best not to go into ^_~), but your calm reasoning and hard work turned that around. Now to see what I can help with there... 81.149.182.210 (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! czar ♔ 19:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Press Kit

Hi I am one of the organizers of the Art + Feminism event and can send you a press kit. Please email me at dhoward@metro.org Best, OR drohowa (talk) 15:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Jimmy Edgar Wiki Profile Picture

Hello,

My name is Tyler Withrow and I am Jimmy Edgar's manager. I have been trying to change his profile picture on Wikipedia and you have been unfortunately changing it back. I want to nicely ask you to please refrain from doing this as it is a misrepresentation of my artist and I need this picture changed immediately.

I am going to have the site change it back again and I ask that you please leave it along from this point forward.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Best, Tyler Withrow Faux Entertainment tyler@fauxent.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyler.withrow1 (talk • contribs) 23:15, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Tyler, welcome to Wikipedia. This is the first I'm hearing of an objection to Edgar's infobox picture. I changed it to the previous photo that obscured his face least. If you have an image to contribute that would show his full face (as typical for photos in an encyclopedia), I would suggest uploading it. For any other discussion, it's customary to use the article's talk page. Let me know if I can help. czar ♔ 02:04, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: Sonic characters

It's not that I don't think those wikis are valuable; I just don't see creation or reception information being seen as very useful there, and the rest would already be there. Plus, a good amount of why I edit Wikipedia is to get objective, non-crufty information on stigmatized, less-respected, or "childish" games (hell, look at my two game FA's: Shadow the Hedgehog and Lego Star Wars II) to the public, so they won't be prejudiced to dislike the subjects even more because their articles are crappy. You know, amidst stuff like Final Fantasy and Zelda, which—while I like—everyone else also does. Channeling my efforts into a separate wiki won't do much for the general public, only for fans who probably already know the information and just don't feel like putting it on their wikis.

I do, however, think contributing to List of Sonic the Hedgehog video game characters might be a worthwhile task, though. Who knows; creation and reception information could fit there. (Of course, when there's enough of it, I get antsy about creating new articles.) Tezero (talk) 18:40, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

All right. Just wanted to make sure you weren't discouraged. I know you are recently returning from a wikibreak—you may be interested in the Sega Task Force editors who recently took Sega Genesis to FA. I know Red Phoenix is particularly interested in Sega stuff and there was an offer to collaborate on Sonic Adventure 2 on WTVG recently, if you're interested in collaborating and want to take a look. Take care czar ♔ 19:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Really? I wouldn't mind tooling that one up a bit. Can you link me to the discussion? I didn't see it on WT:VG or its most recent archive. Tezero (talk) 21:25, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Relevant threads: (1) Make Sonic the Hedgehog a Featured Topic? (2) Sonic Adventure 2 (3) Sonic Adventure 2. cc sjones23 czar ♔ 21:34, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:Kim dynasty

The easiest way to define it is that for DYKs, you would need to do a minimum of 1500 characters in order for it to qualify for the process. So 1500 characters would qualify it as significant in 2014. However, you'd need to take into account the overall size of the article etc as a proportionate expansion might come across as significant. In this case, you created a nearly 13,000 byte article in 2013, but there were only two edits made which would qualify as expansions and byte-wise these total another thousand or so. When compared to the 13,000, it just isn't significant enough. We've recently discussed similar cases on the Wikicup talk page and pretty much indicated the minimum there. Miyagawa (talk) 20:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thanks! czar ♔ 20:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

OA for a class?

Hi, Czar! Just trying to get some classes set up with an online volunteer for the semester and thought, with your interest in art, you may be interested in supporting the students in this History of Fashionable Dress class. The school now has 2 new Ambassadors who are faculty members, but both of them are new to Wikipedia and learning about editing as they edit themselves. You may have some insights into the students' edits during the assignment that they don't yet have, if you're free to work with them. Hope you're doing well! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:04, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Sounds interesting. I'll join in. Thanks for the heads up czar ♔ 04:10, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. So far I haven't heard any questions from the students but I appreciate the offer! Nydia (talk) 14:15, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Sonic Boom (2014 video game)

Orlady (talk) 04:32, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Helen C. White

Thanks for your article from the wiki and I Victuallers (talk) 00:02, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Luftrausers

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:04, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

History of Fashionable Dress class edits

Hello Czar, Thank you very much for your messages about overuse of the "minor edits" button and especially your notice about too-close paraphrasing and unreliable sourcing today. The students' final edit for this unit occurred this weekend, and I'll be assessing and grading their five short edits this week. You can bet that I will make this a topic of class discussion today. In addition, the students who did not do good work will redo it. I'll be going over all the edits closely this week, but if you see any other problems in addition to the one you flagged, please do let me know. We will be taking a break from editing Wikipedia for a few weeks while we do a "theory" unit, but will return to do a larger, more conceptual edit in April. Thank you again-- I'm very grateful for your scrutiny. FashProf (talk) 09:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

No problem. Replied at User_talk:FashProf#Close_paraphrasing_and_plagiarism with a suggestion on broaching it with the class. I'm watching your talk page, so you can reply there, if necessary. czar ♔ 13:57, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Coolguyman624

Hey Czar reliable source? I Think I do Have A reliable source but please can i see that message? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolguyman624 (talk • contribs) 18:57, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Your edit added information that, while perhaps interesting, was not encyclopedic in content. We aim to add things that reliable sources say, such as facts from books and articles from major magazines and sites. For more, I recommend checking out Wikipedia:Plain and simple. Welcome to the encyclopedia and let me know if you have any questions. czar ♔ 19:09, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Re: Ling Xiaoyu GAN

Thanks, I'll take care of it. That's definitely a violation of his topic ban. --PresN 03:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Declined speedy move

Hey, I declined the speedy for two reasons: first, the official game information shows that the official name for the game is Threes!. Multiple reviews use the exclamation point when discussing it as well. Secondly, we already have an article at Threes!, so I'd say that's a better target. You could just cut/paste your information there, if you're so inclined. In any case, we don't need two articles and given that all of the official information refers to the game with the exclamation point, it makes more sense to keep the main article at Threes! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:02, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Re: Menacer

You are very welcome. Tezero (talk) 03:15, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Galak-Z screenshots

Saw on Commons that 17-bit have released some media, well done. I was in contact with 17-bit last year to get Skulls of the Shogun media released. They agreed to it, but never followed it up. My contact was Colin Williamson (colin[at]17-bit.com). Given that your correspondence is fresher, maybe you could chase this up. - hahnchen 16:45, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks—I'll ask czar ♔ 23:15, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

...though now I'm thinking I'll have a better response post-GDC czar ♔ 03:23, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

@Hahnchen, by way of update, they originally told me the same thing but I haven't heard back from them after several pings—hope I'm not being spam filtered czar ♔ 11:16, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Menacer

The DYK project (nominate) 00:01, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Book reviews

1. Talk:Cutting_the_Mustard:_Affirmative_Action_and_the_Nature_of_Excellence#Additional_book_reviews
2. Talk:Sex,_Sin,_and_Blasphemy:_A_Guide_to_America's_Censorship_Wars#Additonal_book_reviews

Could use help at both of those.

Thank you very much for your kind offer,

— Cirt (talk) 06:19, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Galak-Z: The Dimensional

Orlady (talk) 08:57, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Red Phoenix

I appreciated your post on his talk page and was disappointed that he chose to expunge the entire thread rather than take the chance to extend the olive branch. I have extended an olive branch of my own, so we'll see what happens. As an impartial observer, I hope you would be willing to facilitate further if a dialogue can be established. Indrian (talk) 22:30, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Well, it's his prerogative to delete his talk page threads and I respect that. I think it might be best to put his talk page on your watchlist and just reach out in solidarity when he's back in town. Anything more right now could be construed as an unwelcome advance czar ♔ 00:15, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Actually, it seems I misunderstood his intention for the delete. It was actually a move to start the discussion fresh. We have talked more, and I think this is resolved now. Mostly just misunderstanding based on us talking around each other a bit and feeling the strain of a pretty massive wiki undertaking (the Saturn GAR) while juggling real life as well. Thanks again for your intervention, which I do believe was useful for resetting the discussion. Indrian (talk) 00:18, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Good, I'm glad. I look forward to seeing Saturn at FAC some day. Take care czar ♔ 00:22, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Lucia Lacarra

Hi there. Thanks for your review of Lucia Lacarra. I've added ALT1 at Template:Did you know nominations/Lucia Lacarra.--Rosiestep (talk) 02:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Threes!

The article Threes! you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Threes! for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CR4ZE -- CR4ZE (talk) 01:11, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Threes!

Just to note, there are some referencing mistakes, at the bottom of the reflist. Thanks, Matty.007 19:43, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

They were just added. Fixed now. Thanks czar ♔ 20:24, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for 18F

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:01, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Threes!

The DYK project (nominate) 00:01, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Re: Wisp (Sonic) table

Assuming this concern of yours was about the article's GAN, not DYK (there aren't such stringent guidelines for DYKs, right?), I should say that I realized while drawing up the table that they're normally frowned upon in WP:VG. The reason I included it anyway is that many of the Wisps in it are referred to by name in the prose and image captions, sometimes more than once, and it would be tedious and awkward to describe each type of Wisp outside a table. Probably the least relevant aspect, if I had to remove one, would be the games each appears in, but I think it really is better with that. Would it help to auto-collapse the table? Tezero (talk) 02:42, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

@Tezero: Right—it's totally outside the DYK scope but I wanted to give you a heads up anyway. I think this would be a good question to throw to WTVG before you sink more time into it czar ♔ 02:47, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

GOCE March 2014 barnstar

		The Modest Barnstar
		This Modest Barnstar is awarded to czar for copy edits totalling over 4000 words during the GOCE March 2014 copy edit drive. Thank you very much for participating! Diannaa (talk) 18:57, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Testing the waters on Blood Knights

I've been doing articles on XBLA games for several years now, and I've been getting better it over time. I've recently brought Blood Knights up to GA level, and it's the first article I've done that I feel might been a viable candidate for Featured Article. Before I move forward with that, however, I wanted to ask you and a few other people that are involved in video game FACs what their thoughts are on the matter. In short, does the article have a realistic chance of going through FAC successfully? How much work would it take to be at that level? Your thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Sven Manguard Wha? 22:07, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

@Sven Manguard: I think its brevity works in its favor. I have a few thoughts—I'll put them on the talk page czar ♔ 13:18, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Pokémon Channel sources

Have you found the sources you mentioned at the FAC? I'm a little worried as I don't want the FAC to be closed without promotion due to a lack of feedback. You didn't seem to think it was hugely necessary, though. Tezero (talk) 16:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

@Tezero: My connections don't have the mags handy, and I wouldn't hold the FAC for them. I'm backed up in meatspace, but will get to your reply as soon as I can czar ♔ 02:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Alright. Well, heh, I hope I can get your support soon (fixing any further issues of yours as necessary), as the FAC may not be kept up much longer. Tezero (talk) 02:30, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Did You Know submission etiquette (for lack of a better word)

Hi, thanks for pointing out the error at the DYK for 2048 (video game), but what'd you mean by "revise the original hook"? This is my first participation in a DYK submission, but from looking at the others, it looked like any change needed an alt. Was I wrong in assuming that? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 23:41, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

@Supernerd11: Typically, it's just easier to revise the original hook if it's only a one- or two-word change. ALTs are more for completely new hook content or significant rephrasing czar ♔ 02:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Thanks! Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 02:07, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

GTA V FAC

Thanks for your comments. I have fixed up most of your points and have left a couple of follow-up questions as well. Please get back to me. Thanks. CR4ZE (t • c) 04:02, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

@CR4ZE: I've been mulling over that tab for the past few hours. It's a long one, and wikEd makes my eyes bleed czar ♔ 04:14, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Next FAC I do for you, I'll try and use list-defined refs instead. ;-) I still want to hear back from you about what to do with Gameplay. I prefer the way it's organised now, but I'm happy to hear your thoughts. CR4ZE (t • c) 04:21, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Pinging @Czar: Support time? CR4ZE (t • c) 04:03, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thaddeus Hyatt

Thanks for the very meticulous DYK review! This is only my second nomination, and although it was frustrating fixing one minor problem after another, I do appreciate a detailed examination over a cursory glance. Keep it up—DYK needs more people like you. Altamel (talk) 17:56, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

@Altamel: I appreciate that—keep up the good writing! I hope to see you around DYK more often czar ♔ 16:19, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Secrets of Rætikon

First of all, holy crap, that's awesome!

Second, whichever of the screenshots you decide to use (knowing nothing about the game, I am rooting for this one), you should take to WP:FPC.

Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 03:24, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

@Sven Manguard: Thanks! I have a whole collection now. I haven't given much thought to FPC, but I will definitely take a few shots there soon. Let me know if you have other suggestions for candidates czar ♔ 16:21, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Commons template PD University of Wisconsin Archives

I was looking images of Wisconsin of the Teaching Assistants Association and I saw this template that you created at Commons. I reviewed the Archives' Policies and Procedures useful for Researchers / Archives Users and it says "The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of manuscripts and other material." (I bolded the word "copyright"). It looks like the Archive don't necessarily own the copyright to all of the images. Would you provide a link on the template to the basis for this statement? I see this topic has been brought up on the talk page. I hope this is able to be resolved since this is potentially a great resource for Wisconsin topics! Royalbroil 15:51, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

@Royalbroil: I'm in regular contact with the head of the archives and he's going to provide a statement to the PD banner's effect once I can sit him down to do it. The archives holds things like newspapers, which they don't have the copyright to release and so diligence is on the user, but their other media files are donated to the archives for PD use. If you have an idea for a better way to phrase the banner, let me know—I was going off what I saw other museums and archives use for "no known restrictions" collections. czar ♔ 16:13, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I see. They could either put a statement on their website or do the OTRS option that you mentioned earlier. What a great resource! Royalbroil 21:39, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Raymond W. Cross/Richard J. Tefler

Hi-Raymond W. Cross just took office of the President of the University of Wisconsin System. This could be an interesting article. His immediate predecessor was acting President of the UW System Richard J. Tefler who is chancellor of UW-Whitewater. This would be an intetesting article also-thanks-RFD (talk) 16:12, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

History of Fashionable Dress

Hi Czar. We edited different pages in the chronology of fashion for the first five weeks of the semester, and then in our second unit we've been reading theory and doing a different project. This week, though, the students will be making their final, larger and more synthetic edits on Wikipedia. So you should notice a lot of activity this week and next week. Thanks for keeping track of us. FashProf (talk) 09:16, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Two digits of precision comment

I noticed your comment about two digits on Game rankings and I never knew that on the game rankings we are only supposed to do two digits. I have a question though, while I am implementing the new rule about the number of reviews, if I come across articles that still have the numbers after the decimal in game rankings, do we round up if it is above .50 and down vice-versa or just ignore after the decimal? Rilech (talk) 15:10, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

@Rilech: Yep, the standard is to round to the nearest whole number (with .50 as the cutoff). I think the idea is that the field will be less tedious to update this way czar ♔ 15:14, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. And also, I noticed you have already updated the number of reviews at Titanfall. Thanks for the interest in my proposition. Rilech (talk) 15:17, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Richard J. Telfer

Hi-I started an article on Richard J. Telfer who served as interim President of the University of Wisconsin System. Any improvements or comments are appreciated. Telfer is the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. Thank you-RFD (talk) 09:34, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Robert Clodius

Hi-I started an article about Robert Clodius. He taught at UW-Madison and was acting President of the campus in 1970. He died earlier this month. Okay there is an anon editor connected with UW-Madison that sometimes requests articles about UW-Madison to be written. It takes a long time to do this. I hope this will help the UW-Madison anon editor if the editor wants to expand it. Any comments or edits are appreciated. Thank you-again-RFD (talk) 13:02, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

@RFD: Where are these requests posted? czar ♔ 02:53, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Please look at the history for the H. Edwin Young article. An IP/anon editor connected with UW-Madison has requested many articles and the H. Edwin Young article was one of them. Go to the earliest history of the article and the IP/anon editor will be listed as the author of the Young article. Professor Young died in 2012 and that was the reason for the article. I think it is University of Wisconsin.net. I hope this helps. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 09:43, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for My Struggle (Knausgård novels)

The DYK project (nominate) 18:17, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Secrets of Rætikon

The DYK project (nominate) 01:16, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Bryant Kearl

I started an article about Bryant Kearl. He was acting Chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1968. Thanks-RFD (talk) 11:15, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Grand Theft Auto Online

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey bro

Good job on the bro (subculture) article. I just approved it for DYK. One small suggestion: it needs more incoming links. I spent a few minutes linking to the bro page from Barney Stinson, Ryan Lochte, the "bronies" and some subculture pages. It can use a few more, certainly from the taser incident page for starters. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:27, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I added a few more. Many of the linked bios didn't have a good section to add such information. czar ♔ 01:07, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Bro (subculture)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Query on prior discussion

Please see query at Talk:Cutting_the_Mustard_(book)#Subtitle.

Thank you, Czar, for your polite consideration of having that talk page discussion, in the first place, and conducting yourself with such a polite and kind and professional tone, in that discussion -- it's most appreciated!

Very much !!!

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 07:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

FA congratulations

Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Menacer to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA) appear as "Today's featured article" soon, please nominate it at the requests page; if you'd like to see an FA on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with 1,307 articles in Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be).
You (and your talk-page stalkers) may also be interested to hear that there have been some changes at the TFA requests page recently. Nominators no longer need to calculate how many "points" an article has, the instructions have been simplified, and there's a new nomination system using templates based on those used for DYK suggestions. Please consider nominating another article, or commenting on an existing nomination, and leaving some feedback on your experience. If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know. Thanks, Bencherlite^Talk 13:42, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Teaching Assistants Association

The DYK project (nominate) 15:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	My congratulations on your DYK about the Teaching Assistants Association! RFD (talk) 22:44, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Greetings, a quick question

Hi, I have noticed you are fairly active at WPVG. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at an article I recently created, here. I am fairly new to creating articles. Just if you wouldn't mind telling me what may need to be improved or if it looks good considering the limited info available. Thanks! Chambr (talk) 20:03, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

@Chambr: Good start! I had actually started the Madden article previous to Madden NFL 15. I left some thoughts on the article's talk page czar ♔ 21:36, 28 April 2014 (UTC)