User talk:EternalFlare

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MUD articles cleanup

Hey. You're obviously working your way through MUD articles cleaning them up, which is a noble task. It looks a bit much like you're classifying everything that doesn't have a directly supporting third-party citation as WP:OR, though, which is basically too extreme. Verifiable doesn't mean verified; a lot of what you're cutting is perfectly verifiable through references to the subject's own web site, for example (an acceptable use of primary sources so long as no extraordinary claims are involved -- we wouldn't accept the NiMUD guy's claims that the concept of OLC is his intellectual property, for example). I would like to ask you to please be a bit more conservative in designating material as original research, basically. —chaos5023 (talk) 15:56, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged as WP:OR what sounded like a biased text written by the person who created the Mud or its fans, and didn't have sources. Self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs (as distinguished from newsblogs, above), Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources (unless produced by an established expert). Please refer to Wikipedia:V#Self-published_sources.EternalFlare (talk) 00:18, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes, but the web sites of internet-delivered services are not personal web sites, and it's common sense that we may rely on the web site of LambdaMOO for information about its style of interaction as readily as we might rely on the web site of The Coca-Cola Company in the matter of how many factories they operate. —chaos5023 (talk) 01:34, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, of course, see the next section of WP:SPS from the one you quoted, WP:ABOUTSELF. —chaos5023 (talk) 15:03, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps instead of slashing material from well written articles you could research the muds concerned and add some citations. Hacking non-contentious, well written and accurate material out of wikipedia just to increase your edit count on the pretext of a tidy up is a pretty petty thing to do! DMcMPO11AAUK/Talk/Contribs 12:41, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It would probably also be a good idea to open a new section on the talk page of any article that you plan to edit as part of your campaign against MUDs and engage with the existing editors ofr those articles, or you're likely to find yourself in the middle of a whole bunch of edit wars. DMcMPO11AAUK/Talk/Contribs 12:52, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Thanks for the comment on the Aetolia page. As far as I can tell, the page is now clean and good to go, but the other guy keeps arguing... what do I do? DaskalosQ (talk) 05:01, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what to do. Wikipedia:Copyright violations is too complicated and I don't understand how to proceed. I have listed the page on Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/MUD so hopefully someone will look into it. EternalFlare (talk) 05:03, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks. I removed all the direct copy\paste stuff, though the Aetolia producer is going to email WIKI to give them permission to lift stuff from Aetolia.com and IronRealms.com. We'll just have to wait and see.DaskalosQ (talk) 05:19, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard

I've raised the issue at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Elio di Rupo. You are invited to give your side of the story there. Fram (talk) 20:48, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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