User talk:TheJoebro64/Archive 12

Promotion of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

Congratulations, TheJoebro64! The article you nominated, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Hog Farm (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:06, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 22 February 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 22, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comments at FA for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Hello again. As we have previously collaborated on article nominations, I would like to ask if you are able to leave any comments here at my FA nomination for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Any small amount of comments would be appreciated, but I completely understand if you are too busy or uninterested. Thanks in advance. SatDis (talk) 06:34, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

SatDis, I'll try to take a look but I can't make any guarantees. If the FAC runs into risk of being closed just let me know again and I'll try my best to get some comments in. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 14:13, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Donkey Kong Land

Congratulations, TheJoebro64! The article you nominated, Donkey Kong Land, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, and thank you today for the recent Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, introduced: "What do you get when you throw a niche-but-beloved late '90s franchise, cars, Legos, and infuriated fanboys into a blender? You get Rare's misguided masterpiece, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. This honest-to-God attempt to innovate in a genre that'd stagnated outside of Mario ultimately did more to kill the series it was attempting to resurrect than it did to, well, resurrect it, but it's seen a bit of a renaissance in recent years thanks to its inclusion in Rare Replay. Nowadays, you're more likely to hear about how it was unfairly maligned and innovative, offering a massive amount of constructive freedom a full three years before Minecraft's proper release."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:58, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Banjo and Kazooie

Hello, TheJoebro64, and thank you for being an editor of Wikipedia! I am writing to you (as you suggested, I saw) about your revert of my explaining who Banjo and Kazooie are in the intro of today's FA. Not everyone knows, of course. While the article includes a link, in my experience not everyone cares enough to follow a link, that may lead to another link, etc. Instead, a one-or two-word explanation, the first time the term comes up, is helpful. The names do not make it clear (to the uninitiated) that they are characters, and to someone not familiar with the "franchise", there's a "hunh?" factor; that's why I explained. While saying that they are characters may be a little heavy-handed, some explanation seems called for. What about their being a bear-and-bird duo? It's a bit more specific, and less obvious. Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 19:23, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's unnecessary to call them "the characters". Maybe there's a better way to introduce them, but I think contextually readers will almost instantly deduce that they are characters. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 14:48, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Death in the Family & Jason's name

Hey, I was looking at the article for the "A Death in the Family" story arc. Firstly, I have to say, great work on it. You put a lot of effort into it and I'm glad it became a FA. What I wanted to ask, is how come Jason and other characters like Dick are referred to by their surnames rather than first names? I understand that this is common practise on Wikipedia with real-life figures (unless said figures are known by mononyms; like Adele). But with fictional characters - especially superheroes - they're usually referred to either by their codenames or first names, as indicated here. Shouldn't that be the case with Jason and Dick in this article? PanagiotisZois (talk) 16:22, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@PanagiotisZois: I actually wasn't aware of those naming conventions. I'm not sure why I chose surnames over first names so I won't lift a finger if you change them. (I could get around to it myself but I'm preoccupied at the moment.) JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 20:20, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2023 March newsletter

So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Nintedo Power & Super Mario All-Stars

Hi, why are you adding an amalgamation of the ratings of Super Mario All-Stars to the article from Nintendo Power? The magazine did not give an over-all ranking like that, and combining their numeric rating into one overall one is against the rules of WP:STICKTOSOURCE. I've removed it once and you reverted it without explaining why it was acceptable. Could you add to the discussion on the articles talk page before adding it again? Thanks! Andrzejbanas (talk) 05:03, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Andrzejbanas, it's pretty common practice across the video game article sphere to average the scores of magazines that gave multiple scores rather than one individual one—in fact, I don't think publications like EGM, Nintendo Power, and GamePro would be in Template:Video game reviews if we didn't allow that. My understanding is that it reflects how review aggregators like Metacritic and GameRankings document the scores. Not to mention, it's a simple average, which would fall under WP:CALC, which WP:NOR outright states still constitutes "a meaningful reflection of the sources". JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 15:00, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a meaningful reflection of the source of you state an average that is not implied by the authors. WP:CALC appears to be for basic math, as it makes it look certain magaInes gave an overall grade which they didn't. I believe this is specifically what WP:STICKTOSOURCE means when you should not go over what is implied. Any reader taking a glance at the article without investigating the citation would assume that's what the rating the magazine gave, which if course it's not. Could you show me where this consensus came from in the video game wikiproject? Andrzejbanas (talk) 15:44, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The relevant discussions I found were Template_talk:Video_game_reviews/Archive_3#Scores_with_multiple_categories and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Archive_111#Review_scores. Doesn't seem like there's any hard rules but adding the scores up appears to be the preferred practice (I was mistaken—I previously assumed that it was averaging). We typically include footnotes explaining the score breakdown so it doesn't imply the magazine gave that rating. This might be worth bringing to WT:VG since the two discussions I found didn't have a ton of input though JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 16:16, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for sharing these with me! I might bring them back up on the talk page as the previous discussions per what I said above and per WP:STICKTOSOURCE as I feel like that potential rule was overlooked when the earlier discussions were brought up. Andrzejbanas (talk) 01:04, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Joe. I was just curious if you were still going to contribute to the discussion on averaging out scores as I posted on the Video Games WikiProject here. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:07, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I started writing a reply but I've been a bit busy this week so I haven't gotten around to finishing and posting it. Should do it later today (the tl;dr would be that I think adding up the scores for publications who had multiple reviewers giving scores is fine but I've been convinced doing so for reviews that rated different aspects should be discouraged) JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 14:11, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No rush, I just didn't want you to miss out on the discussion in case you had. Have a great weekend! Andrzejbanas (talk) 15:03, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you

Your barnstar page reminded me I still owe you one:

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For all the funny and informative contributions to the WP:Top 25 Report. igordebraga ≠ 03:50, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Igordebraga: thank you! Means a lot. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 15:11, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sonic CD remake?

How is 2011 Sonic CD a remake? Everyone says it’s remaster because it is estentially the same plot and gameplay just with better graphics a remake complete overhauls the gameplay which this doesn’t. NakhlaMan (talk) 00:10, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sources describe it as such, and it was rebuilt from the ground up in a new engine. That’s different from a remaster. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 01:18, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Video Game Barnstar
		For massively overhauling Pizza Tower to the point that it barely resembles the revision from three days ago, but in a good way. I don't have a stake in the article aside from my previous edits to it; just saw the changes today and thought they were neat. AdoTang (talk) 00:19, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AdoTang: thank you! Glad to hear my work hasn't gone unnoticed. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 15:11, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yoshi's Safari

GDRI uses comparisons of game code, as well as official photos, to prove Tose developed this game.

This article only references two opinion pieces from independent writers who are not close to the subject matter, and do not cite their own sources for their claims that Nintendo developed this internally. Raizen1984 (talk) 05:37, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:RS and WP:VG/S. The source you provided is not a reliable source. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 13:52, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Sonic Boom (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 mod)" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Sonic Boom (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 mod) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 April 11 § Sonic Boom (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 mod) until a consensus is reached. Pizzaplayer219^Talk_Contribs 12:51, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Pizzaplayer219: it was mentioned in a previous version of the article but appears to have been removed at some point. (Also it's a well-known hack and this was the first search result that showed up when I googled it so I don't know what on Earth you're talking about when you said you couldn't find any sources about it.) JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 21:04, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sonic Retro isn’t a reliable source as it’s a WP:FANSITE (and a WP:USERGENERATED Wiki). When I looked on google, I didn’t find anything related to this hack. Pizzaplayer219^Talk_Contribs 21:15, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I never said Sonic Retro was a reliable source lol. I'm just not sure how you couldn't find anything about it. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 22:14, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can you provide me with a reliable source then? As far as I know there are no reliable sources that discuss this hack. Pizzaplayer219^Talk_Contribs 22:23, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if there are any RSs about it. It was mentioned in the article when I made the redirect, that's all. I don't know when it was removed or what it was cited to. I was simply confused when you said "after searching extensively on Google, I still don’t really know what this mod is" because it's a pretty easy Google search. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 22:28, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I must’ve searched it wrong. How about we stop beating the dead horse and move on. Pizzaplayer219^Talk_Contribs 22:31, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Pizza Tower

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City Escape

In the future, I would recommend that you mind your tone. Wikipedia is a collaborative process, and replying to an article by undoing its creation with merely "no" is, by design, disrespectful.

The article has multiple reliable sources that discuss it in significant detail, including multiple articles specifically about City Escape, and multiple articles that specifically discuss how City Escape is the highlight of Sonic Adventure 2. It also has multiple instances where its creation and inspirations were discussed. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 14:10, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for coming across as disrespectful, but I just don't see it. The article is primarily sources to listicles (WP:ROSENBERG) and very few talk suggest the stage itself is a distinct topic from Sonic Adventure 2. I'm starting a merge discussion. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 14:19, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Correction to Top 25 Report for April 16 to 22, 2023

Entry 21 for the Succession TV Show says "Viewers are still recovering from the series finale for this HBO show."

The series finale has not aired yet. There's still 5 episodes to go. AutobioGraphix (talk) 08:18, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AutobioGraphix: Thanks for letting me know, I've fixed it. Though I will note there's nothing preventing you from editing the list yourself; anyone's welcome to contribute JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 16:16, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter

The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.
FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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Promotion of Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Congratulations, TheJoebro64! The article you nominated, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:05, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Breath of the Wild

Just letting you know that articles about Nintendo EPD games should be specified as "published by Nintendo", as Nintendo EPD is a division of Nintendo, not a separate company from its parent company; keep that in mind for any Nintendo-published games. STB (talk) 00:15, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spiral, there is absolutely no issue with the way it's set up now. You don't need to tell the reader that a Nintendo game for a Nintendo system was published by Nintendo; it's already obvious, not to mention that the infobox is right there. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 00:46, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Casual readers would not recognize "Nintendo EPD", as it is just a business division of the company that is only named in-house and is publically known as "Nintendo". Please don't reject all changes that do not specifically harm the article's importance. STB (talk) 00:52, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also I did not intend the edit to aggrevate other editors, it would be you aggressively reverting to be edit warring; we should discuss in a civilized way here and not revert anything until a consensus has been made. STB (talk) 00:57, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BRD. You made an edit. It got reverted. You don’t go forcing the same revision in over and over again. You discuss. What you did is the definition of edit warring. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 19:43, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Look at you go!

I have your video game project on my watchlist. Keep at it! Panini! • 🥪 00:30, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Panini! Glad to know my work has a fan

JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 14:43, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Pizza Tower

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Your GA nomination of Pizza Tower

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Sonic the Hedgehog navigation boxes

Hello. I would like to see your comment on the merge discussion of Sonic the Hedgehog navigation boxes. It looks like you drafted and made the spilt of the navigation boxes, and I proposed a better box, wishing you to see whether it works better. Explorer09 (talk) 07:57, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

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WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive

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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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About Sonic Frontiers

"Frontiers is not an open world game, It is a level based platformer adjacent to collectathon platformers of old. This is not a RockStar, UbiSoft, "Zelda Tears of the Wild" kind of game. This is a game taking 3D Mario design and making it its own"

This is what I said when editing the article. You responded as with what the sources say and therefor it is true. It is not. Sources are only using generic retoric and lingo as opposed to speaking what the game is on it's own terms. Even the developers have seperated open world from open zone for this very reason because of the collectathon nature of Frontiers, which I would argue is a greater implication as to what sonic frontiers actually is than the journalist who keeps generalizing. So i would kindly like it if you would revert the article. Samalik16 (talk) 17:02, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

sonic superstars opencritic?

why are we using the percentage that critics recommend, and not the average score? MrGuyWasTaken (talk) 23:55, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See MOS:VG. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 00:44, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November Articles for creation backlog drive

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WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
Epicgenius with 1518 points
MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
Sammi Brie with 520 points
Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

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Sonic Superstars

My changes make sense, stop reverting them. You are supposed to give a reason when you undo edits. 2A00:23C6:D584:5B01:F80B:2C48:1085:CDAC (talk) 17:44, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dreamcast India

So, your undo my edition, then I ask you why is this okay and can be on Wikipedia [1], but Dreamcast release in India, isn't okay ? I can understand that release dates for non-English countries like Russia or Brazil aren't necessary, but India's second langauge is English, so it would be great to have those dates here. Agonia09 (talk) 20:36, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:VG/DATE: Releases in non-English countries should otherwise not be included in the infobox, but if determined to be necessary to include, can be discussed further in the article's body. There's nothing significant about the Indian release to warrant inclusion in the infobox. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 20:31, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

hello My name is marisoft69 i wan't speak to My last edition in a infobox of Donkey Kong Marisoft69 (talk) 01:24, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Sonic Robo Blast 2

Hello! This morning I started writing an article on Sonic Robo Blast 2 in my userspace. Since the current article title goes to a redirect, I checked the history and found it had some (long, meandering, and unsourced) previous revisions that you had reverted. I believe that there is coverage from a few respectable places to justify turning it into an article again, most of which are included in the article right now, though a couple of them aren't as in depth as I would prefer. Would appreciate your thoughts as you have experience in the area. Recon rabbit 15:52, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just patrolled the article @ReconRabbit: because the coverage there seems to meet requirements imo. I think it might be an interesting hook for WP:DYK. BuySomeApples (talk) 20:58, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Reconrabbit: I'll try to take a look once I get the chance. I'm studying abroad this semester and have been traveling a lot so my time on Wikipedia has sadly been limited but I'll try my best to check it out. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 20:58, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It's since been moved to Sonic Robo Blast 2. Recon rabbit 21:02, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024 GAN backlog drive

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(t · c) buidhe 02:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just out of curiosity...

Which actor portrayed Batman the best? In your opinion. I ask because I've been on a Batman movie spree lately. Panini! • 🥪 04:12, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Panini!, funny you ask, because I've also been on a Batman kick as of late. My favorite live-action Batman is probably Robert Pattinson, though I also really like Adam West and Christian Bale. In animation, Kevin Conroy, no contest. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 11:05, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Pattinson did really well as Batman, but when it came to anything that wasn't intimidating people/fighting I feel he did a lackluster job, especially with Bruce Wayne. That, or we just have yet to see more of it.

That's why I prefer Christian Bale, because he's the most rounded in all aspects of the character in my opinion. Panini! • 🥪 15:38, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

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Your Note on The Dark Knight

I just want to say, THANK YOU for proving my point on "The Batman" being redundant on the article for that movie. There was some guy who added "the" in excess and I edited it way back in late November into early December because it was driving me nuts and this guy wasn't getting my point on it being completely unnecessary.

So I removed all but like two uses of "the" as a compromise and I'm glad that you backed up my point further. I jumped through the hoops of making an account and editing articles just to correct that mistake, so it's nice that there's someone coming in to further prove my point. It didn't need to be there, and I only had two uses as a form of compromise to avoid that little editing war from escalating further. You're awesome.

Sincerely,

Mr. Redfield Mr Redfield (talk) 23:50, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello TheJoebro64,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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TFA

Thank you today for Katana Zero, introduced (in 2022): "One of my favorite video games of the last few years has been this 2019 indie platformer, which blends the tone and themes of neo-noir cinema with fast-paced, insanely difficult side-scrolling gameplay and a killer synthwave soundtrack. Katana Zero was an intense labor of love for its creator Justin Stander, who developed the game almost entirely by himself over the course of six years. It was delayed repeatedly and switched publishers at one point, but was finally released in April 2019 to strong sales and rave reviews."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:25, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox on the page "List of Donkey Kong video games"

Hi, i think it would be interesting to add an infobox to the DK video games page, like Sonic has one. Huang36 (talk) 02:20, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Saint Patrick Academy has been accepted

Saint Patrick Academy, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

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Donkey Kong Country

This is at WP:TFAP for November 18. If you'd like to work on a blurb (925 to 1025 characters, including spaces), I'll help. We generally put the blurbs on the talk page for the FAC nomination. - Dank (push to talk) 17:07, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dank: thanks for letting me know! I'll get to work on a blurb. Will ping on the FAC talk page. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 21:33, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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Regarding Mario

I'm not too sure if your work on this article is related to me thanking your Donkey Kong GAN and now your stalking my edits, but your work is very much appreciated!

Not to push my luck, but I am slowly picking away at this article if you are interested in doing any further work (I currently have a concept and creation draft going here). If you'd also like to weigh in at the discussion I started at WT:VG, I would greatly appreciate any advice. Panini! • 🥪 23:50, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Panini!, glad to hear! Yeah, it's partially related to my work at DK. I'd be more than happy to help out at Mario, will do some looking at your draft over the next few days! JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 12:50, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sonic images

Hey! Is it okay if I resize the classic/modern Sonic characters in their main images? I understand you want line art with flat colors, but I could update it so that the sizing is accurate (the classic characters are smaller than their modern counterparts). NintenBOUND (talk) 23:30, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NintenBOUND, I think they should stay the sizes they are now. In each one, the two designs are the same height and width, which helps to differentiate between the proportional changes they underwent in the modern redesigns. I don't think the fact that Modern Sonic is a bit taller than Classic Sonic in Generations should dictate how we display the images. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 23:35, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't it mislead the reader into thinking they were the same size? NintenBOUND (talk) 00:04, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Would it confuse the reader as to what the actual sizes for the versions are? Or would the casual reader understand the differing proportions between the characters? NintenBOUND (talk) 13:23, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the casual reader would understand that. Furthermore, Classic and Modern Sonic are officially the same height, 3' 3". I really don't think one being taller than the other in one or two games is important for casual readers. It's unnecessary to change it. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 13:29, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Isn't it weird how they would make the modern versions taller than the classic ones if they were canonically the same height? Thanks for responding. NintenBOUND (talk) 15:40, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:13, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: When Pigs Fly Bakery has been accepted

When Pigs Fly Bakery, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Your GA nomination of Donkey Kong

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Your GA nomination of Donkey Kong

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Donkey Kong Country scheduled for TFA

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Your GA nomination of Donkey Kong

The article Donkey Kong you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Donkey Kong for comments about the article, and Talk:Donkey Kong/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Panini! -- Panini! (talk) 02:44, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]