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January 2014

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Reliable sources and bare urls/s

Hi Game4brains, and thanks for your edits at List of controversial video games. Just some advice: I refer to your edit here [1]. Please be advised that you cannot, under any circumstances, use a wiki as a reference on wikipedia. Accordingly I have deleted your references to the Zelda wiki. It would also be very much appreciated if you started formatting your references with an approved method found at Template:Cite web. As well as looking a lot tidier, formatting references helps prevent link rot, as when parameters like date, author and article title are specified, it is easier to find a references new location, or a mirror of it, if the original url becomes dead. As an example, I have formatted one of the references you added, see here: [2], not the best example, as this particular article does not appear to have a date or an author, but if the parameters cannot be filled simply leave them blank. Have a nice day. Freikorp (talk) 06:06, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Notable"

Please see Wikipedia:Words to watch. Wikipedia style is not to state that something is notable but for the fact to speak for itself. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:00, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October 2016

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January 2017

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Uploading my image

Do not upload an image from my twitter to Wikipedia for me. I upload the high quality version myself, and doing this just creates a headache for me, since now I have to get this one deleted. Evan-Amos (talk) 16:15, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The Trimates

Ahem. You just added a biographical claim without a citation. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:33, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Revert

You probably got a notification that I reverted this edit--I hope my edit summary explains why but if you have any questions, please let me know. I do have one for you: why did you use the <small>...</small> tag? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:35, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thanks for your message. I mainly used the tag based on seeing it used in other album infoboxes to denote certain important footnotes about credits, and given that some album pages such as those for Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits and Never Let Me Down by David Bowie list the running time for both the CD and LP releases separately (with indicators for each format), I felt it was an appropriate use of the tag. Regarding the reversion for Dead Letter Office, I had been under the impression that, like the CD and LP releases of Brothers in Arms, Never Let Me Down, and The Best of OMD and the LP and cassette releases of Speaking in Tongues by Talking Heads, the CD and LP releases for the R.E.M. compilation occurred simultaneously, which consequently would make both runtimes reflective of the original release. I was not aware that the CD release of the album was after the LP and cassette releases had already occured. -User:Game4brains 19:05, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense. Thanks for writing back. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:54, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Doctor Who book

Nice find with the Fourteenth Doctor edit and the book excerpt regarding a second Doctor reprisal! XxLuckyCxX (talk) 21:14, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, though it wasn't my discovery to begin with; it had already been described at greater length on Sydney Newman's own page on this site, under the "Later years" section. Nevertheless, I'm glad I could be of help. Game4brains (talk) 21:23, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Plot summary length

Hi, regarding this edit: it's not a single episode, but a four-episode story within (what should have been) a 26-episode season. Whilst there may indeed be a 400-word limit for standalone episodes, I think that multi-episode stories should be allowed more. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:57, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have a point there, and I agree that it'd make sense for the rules to be more lenient in such cases. However, as WP:PLOTSUM and MOS:TV don't list any special rules for multi-episode stories (as far as I can tell), I just assumed it would be safest to treat them the way one would treat articles for singular episodes.

With that in mind, do you think it'd be a good idea to bring the subject up on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Television just to get this formally cleared up? Game4brains (talk) 23:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see why not. Doctor Who wasn't the only TV drama to have multi-episode stories - I did make a list some years ago, can't remember where, but on it there were Batman and The Tomorrow People. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:58, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. I made a post on the talk page; feel free to contribute there! Game4brains (talk) 17:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]