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VGWP

Hi Frecklefoot, thanks for the barnstar. Coincidentally, I was just looking into the videogames wikiproject talk archive (for some research for a piece I'm writing about the project), and I noticed your name way back on the first page, in 2004. You certainly deserve a barnstar for your ongoing work - but I see this was already awarded to you, four years ago! Kinda scary. Well, I'll give you a "shout out" in the piece, anyway. Marasmusine (talk) 13:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Yeah, I guess I am an old-timer here. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 14:38, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

game producer recruitment subsection

Hi, not sure why the video game producer recuitment subsection, with reference and citing of article about getting in to the role within a major label has been removed? Let me know —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bcooper77 (talk • contribs) 16:42, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See the Talk page for why I removed it. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 17:49, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinks

The justification is that they -are- redlinks, thus no need for the paticular parantheses. 13:51, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

I edit hundreds of articles, so in the future, please state your particular issue. Luckily, I know what you're talking about, my edit here. I'm not sure I understand your explanation above. Please elaborate. Thank you. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 13:59, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit/undo on 31st Augurst 2010 regarding South African Game Development on "Game development"

Hi Chris,

I'm the owner of "South African Game Development" / sagamedev.com

I recently added an external link on the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_development

The link was to help South Africans interested in the subject matter to find www.sagamedev.com I see the update got undone.

Is the article an inappropriate place to add the link? If it is, which article will be an appropriate place?

Best Regards, Jacques Korax1978 (talk) 08:26, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia gets a lot of additions of links to other websites by users trying to advertise their site. Wikipedia is not the place to do this. Please take a look at the policy at WP:EL. If you think my undo of your edit was unjust, please take the matter up on the game development talk page or the Video games WikiProject. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 10:59, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the link was removed unjustly since SAGD has done allot to promote game development in Southern Africa, and it is still doing allot. In my books it is no different than what gamedev.net or any of the other game development sites is doing. It deserves to be listed in Game development WitMamba (talk) 14:29, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Except what GameDev and the other sites do is international, widely recongnized within the game industry, etc. Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia, not a South African encyclopedia. Just allowing your site would open the floodgates for a German game development site, Spanish, French, Brazilian, etc. Plus, I notice your only activity on Wikipedia is to edit my talk page. So I suspect that you are a sock puppet for Korax1978. If not, you are at least a friend or other ally. And your user page says you even own a similar website.

I've said my piece. I don't think it's justified. If you disagree, bring it up at the other two places I recommended above. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 14:55, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sock puppet my ass lol Don't accuse someone of something unless you can prove it. I am a Namibian developer not South African. I support South African game development as well as any and all African game development since the industry is still in early stages. I accept and respect your explanation but I will advice you to refrain from personal attacks. Korax has done allot to improve game development in our part of the world. I would expect a fellow game developer like you to at least respect that. WitMamba (talk) 20:14, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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you're on the radio

Hi Frecklefoot, you may recall that I mentioned I was writing a "piece" on the videogames wikiproject. It's actually a short, regular feature on the radio show "One Life Left". For the next couple of episodes I'm doing short (30-60 second) profiles on some of the wikiproject members. I decided to profile you first... well I gotta start somewhere! It will probaby air on Monday, and in podcast form at http://www.onelifeleft.com/ later in the week. Thanks, Marasmusine (talk) 13:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm flattered. * blush * — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 13:47, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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sleep paralysis

why are you reverting the change to the sleep paralysis page. cease now or you will be reported to the admins for sabotage. you provided no reason for your revert. ah i now see your motivation. you belong to a religious denomination. now refrain from sabotage or you will be reported. if you dont agree with my edit, you can discuss it on the talk page of the article. nothing gives you the right to revert for no reaosn.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.250.81.218 (talk • contribs)

I do belong to a religious organization, but it has no impact on why I reverted your edit. I make a number of helpful edits on subjects which I am opposed to or don't agree with—I try not to let my personal opinions get in the way of NPOV, one of the pillars here on Wikipedia. And I'm not opposed to the content of your edit. The reason I reverted it is because it appeared to be complete original research, something forbidden on Wikipedia. If you have a verifiable, reliable reference for your statement, fine, include it and I—as well as other editors who have also reverted your change—won't be so inclined to revert it.

You want to report me to the admins? Fine, please do so. I'm a Senior Editor here with over 8 years of contributions, and I've garnered nothing but praise. That nothwithstanding, I think they'd back me and not you. Don't make threats; nothing gets accomplished that way.— Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 19:10, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well then not to be rude, which i was previously, in reaction to your reversion, but you should post a topic in discussion asking for clarification of the edit, or at least a reason in the revert to let someone know why it was reverted. I was originally only testing to see how an edit would be taken by the wiki community and always intended to provide more information in due time, through discussion or by other users such as yourself adding to my content, not reversion wars. But thank you for your consideration and my apologies. 64.250.81.218 (talk) 21:10, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Although, technically your statement that the admins would back you and not the IP user is also a threat. Awkward, isn't it? Though in the case of Sleep paralysis, I do note those additions were WP:OR. mechamind 9 0 06:23, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Hi Frecklefoot, I removed the letters because it makes the table look very strange when you sort it using columns other than title. I did check with SharkD. Marasmusine (talk) 23:56, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I went ahead and removed them again, and made the Notes column unsortable (since they won't sort well either). — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 13:11, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

iWoz Book Cover

Sorry for the dead link. I submitted a picture but I put the link up before it had been verified. Thanks for staying on the ball. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Callumgare (talk • contribs) 03:55, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Need D&D book cover images

Hi there,

I was looking at the cover images uploaded by people and making a tally to see who I could contact for help, and I noticed that you have uploaded several images. Obviously I'm not asking you to take this whole thing on by yourself, but any help you can give is appreciated at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons#Need book cover images. Thanks! :) BOZ (talk) 12:34, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All the covers I contributed I got from www.acaeum.com with permission from them. You may want to contact them and get permission yourself and use those. I don't have any more and can't contribute anything more at the moment. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 11:37, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks! BOZ (talk) 12:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Camille Grammer

Similar to the problem with Kelsey Grammer KG edit is this one to Camille_Grammer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Javaweb (talk • contribs)

Thanks, Javaweb. I reverted the edit, but you can do it yourself, you know. Be bold! : ) — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:26, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Autopatrolled

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Cool! Thanks! — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 23:11, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

Hail. I'm in need of a third opinion regarding the description of the RTS game Majesty. It's a delightful one: it takes the tropes and genre conventions of RPG cities and adds them to a different genre. The player is the king of a realm littered with evil lairs and inexplicable treasure chests. His soldiers are useless against monsters, forcing him to hire heroes, who are controlled by offering quest rewards. Every hero has a name, level, inventory and stats. Taxes for things like healing potion sales are a major part of the economy. A cliché storm. This was described (tersely) in the game's article until an anon changed it "to make it more objective and Wiki-like, and less of somepmegame review." The new version is frankly horrible, but in the interest of fairness and honing my skills ~~and soppiness~~ I'd like to ask if you think the anon's complaints are valid. Personally, I don't see anything that would be subjective or review-like, and as for "wiki-like," moving away from the general state of our prose is to be desired...

I addressed this message to you on the grounds that you were the first regular with RPGs in their edit history that I found. If you fail to care or don't have the time to check things out, please reply with the word "triumvirate" and I'll go bug someone else. --Kiz o r 20:41, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can bring up issues like this on the article's talk page, but looking at the two edits, yours seemed a little subjective and, frankly, I found it confusing. I'm not familiar with this game, so I really can't comment beyond that. All content contributed to Wikipedia should be free from bias and from a neutral point of view. Regards, — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 00:17, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can, but getting an answer within a reasonable time is another thing. Thanks for yours! I don't think my description is subjective (the statements are immediately apparent from the work without specialist knowledge) but I must concede confusing. Majesty's concept is simple enough, but it and its sequel are the only games of their kind. I'll have to write a more elaborate description that'll clarify the mechanics for readers unfamiliar with the game, and I think I can dig up a couple of cites to back it up. --Kiz o r 08:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Frecklefoot's Day!

Frecklefoot has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
so I've officially declared today as Frecklefoot's Day!
For being a great person and awesome Wikipedian,
enjoy being the star of the day, Frecklefoot!

Signed, Neutralhomer

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, click here. Have a Great Day...Neutralhomer • Talk • 05:44, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Woo-hoo! Thanks! — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 00:46, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are quite Welcome! :) Keep up the Great Work! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 05:57, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Bolding article titles.

MOS:BOLDTITLE “If the page title is descriptive it does not need to appear verbatim in the main text, and even if it does it should not be in boldface.” Editor2020 (talk) 01:53, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! You learn something every day! I stand corrected. Thanks! — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 12:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You

Your user page claims you're taking a wikibreak. Who are you kidding! Tempshill (talk) 22:35, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm not super-active like I was before. Now I just mainly patrol articles I really care about and make minor corrections here and there when I encounter problems. Compared to 2006, for example, I'm nearly comatose! — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 12:50, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE / Mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.

Participation

So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to Good article status so far this month.

Progress report

We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Utahraptor resigns

The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me} has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues.

Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk) and Tea with toast (Talk)

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Service award level

There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.

Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

Herostratus (talk) 07:25, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks! At my current revision rate, I thought it would take a couple of lifetimes to reach the next highest level! — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:58, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Student trying to contact Frecklefoot about Clue AI

Hello I'm a student from Princeton University. Sorry to contact you this way but your website doesn't list any way to reach you. For my thesis I'm writing a simple Clue game including an AI, and I would appreciate the chance to ask you a few questions about your approach to the AI especially. Email me at [redacted] Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rileysiebel (talk • contribs) 00:52, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I emailed you. The ball's in your court now. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 20:29, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if it's appropriate for me to chime in or to provide the spam (I happened to notice the question while looking at "my" thread, perhaps you want to have a look at the Facebook group "Game AI" where some industry pundits such as Jeff Orkin roam, as well as some less-renowned mortals such as yours truly. You could also email me; of course I cannot answer any question on User:Frecklefoot's approach to game AI of course if that is specifically your desire, but perhaps I can provide a few general pointers. HTH -- Nczempin (talk) 17:08, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Game development tool OR

Sorry, normally I am (provably) the first to keep as much content as possible and add cn tags or others, and try to get such sections improved. But in this case, it was such an "extremely" blanket, unsourced (and probably unsourceable) statement that had been unchanged in almost 2 years, that I didn't see any chance for saving it. You may have noticed that I responded to the IP responding to the IP. Only on second look I realized just how bad the section was, on so many levels. Feel free to differ (I won't revert), but I really don't think it is possible to provide any kind of reliable source on what kinds of tools actual game developers (and not just the odd one here and the odd one there, and the one or two who make their tools public) are using and in what languages they write them. If you'd rather keep it the way it is, perhaps you could help in toning it down a little; I wouldn't know where to start and what would be left once the OR, "extreme" language and vague claims are gone: "This makes sense since,", "This is because", "an extremely RAD language", "often needed", "extremely quickly", "most popular" -- Nczempin (talk) 17:36, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I re-worded it. Is that satisfactory?

I don't develop video games anymore, but I'm still friends with many people who do and overwhelmingly they use C# for their tool creation. But I don't have a verifiable ref to back it up. Hopefully the re-wording is unbiased enough. Hope to get a ref someday! — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 18:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it is better for the second paragraph of the section; you didn't touch the first one. But doesn't it strike you that now the second paragraph is not really saying anything? You do realize that your friends, no matter how copious (with all due respect, I doubt that they are a valid cross-section of the entire world-wide community of game-developers, both hobby, independent and commercial, in the US, Europe, Japan and elsewhere), are not sufficient evidence to support the statements. If we had anything like a GDC, Gamasutra or Game Developer survey "what language(s) do you use to develop your tools" it would at least be a start. In the end, does it even matter what the tools are written in? Does it really add that much value to the article to know that tools are pretty much written in any language that it makes sense to write tools in? -- Nczempin (talk) 18:37, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, good points. Go ahead and delete the section. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 00:07, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I'm up for helping to get the article to the next level(s); I like the occasional challenge such as this :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nczempin (talk • contribs)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jacob Barnett

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GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive report

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive! This newsletter summarizes the March drive and other recent events.

Participation

There were 99 signups for the drive; of these, 70 participated. Interest was high mainly due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page. We had a record-breaking 84 articles listed on the Requests page in March; 11 of these have been promoted to Good article status so far. Several of our recent efforts have received Featured Article status as well, and the GOCE is becoming a solid resource for the Wikipedia community. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.

Progress report

Remarkable progress was made in reducing the backlog this month, as we now have fewer than 500 articles remaining from 2009. We are well under the 4,000-article mark for the total number remaining in the queue. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 53% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their April drive has started.

New coodinators

On March 21, SMasters appointed Chaosdruid (talk) and Torchiest (talk) as Guild coordinators to serve in place of The Utahraptor, who recently stepped down. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance.

Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk) and Tea with toast (Talk)

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Atari merger question

As you were active in some of the related pages, thought you might want to participate in the discussion. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 03:35, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive.

Awards and barnstars
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We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:22, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

There's something going on.

Since you are the creator of the page Fluorescent lamp can you please sort out User:Wtshymanski's argumentative comments and him himself because he keeps deleting content I own and my text that I upload to the page that's true and what I see in a well enough way for it to be reliable. He has also been doing so to too many other scientist users that edit that page. You might as well block him from editing this particular page but do not block me, as that argument was not my fault, it's his because he started it. Autisexp235 (talk) 11:35, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall creating that article, nor do I remember ever even editing it. I think you must have me confused with someone else. I'm not an administrator—I don't have the ability to block users. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 11:36, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive invitation

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting.

This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated.

We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words".

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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Wal-Mart

Category:Wal-Mart, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 10:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Inline at Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Hi, Frecklefoot. I've removed the {{inline}} tag that you placed in the references section of Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation). I've done this because when I wrote the article I followed practices at WP:SFN, using short citations. Refs 2, 7, 10, 15, 16, and more use Kathryn Ellis' book as a source, and they are inline citations. If you have an issue with this style, it's better to take it up at WT:CITE rather than slap a tag on Today's Featured Article, which looks very unprofessional. Regards, Matthewedwards : Chat 17:28, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't see the short citations. Apologies for hasty edit. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 18:00, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Parenthetical sentences

Hi. I noticed your edits at Stradivarius and wanted to mention that some authorities, such as the Chicago Manual of Style as I recall, suggest that parenthetical remarks consisting of full sentences be written as separate sentences in parentheses when possible. (This is an example.) They make an exception for short formulaic sentences such as "(see page 47)". I'm used to this recommendation and strongly prefer it, but I usually don't change the other style here because both are accepted.

Of course, you later changed the parenthesis to a footnote, which I thought was a good solution. I'm just pointing out that both styles have their advocates. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 16:43, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, you're free to change it back and I won't revert it. As a personal preference, I really hate seeing parenthetical phrases as sentences unto themselves. But, as you note, it looks like it's more of a personal preference. Thanks for pointing to the authority that suggests it. I thought it was wrong, now I know it can go either way. Thanks for enlightening me. : ) — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:57, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As I said, I like the way you left it. Here's a reference for the style I was talking about. [1]. And we'll continue to have opposite personal preferences. :-) —JerryFriedman (Talk) 06:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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==Edit on Life Technologies Wiki Page Thanks Frecklefoot for the correction - I did think it was looking odd. I'm a new user - the point I wanted to highlight, and perhaps not very clearly was that - the brand 'Life Technologies' is a brand of Thermo Fisher Scientific in the US. In countries for example in India, Life Technologies is not a brand of Thermo Fisher but corporate name(s) of other Biotechnology Companies. (see press article below and Delhi High Court Order in the cited in the Report). http://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Upstream-Processing/Fight-for-Life-new-Thermo-Fisher-acquisition-loses-out-in-India Champi4mcollege