Talk:Solar Empire

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 2/8/2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

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[edit] On the matter of deletion

I've deleted the "this article to be deleted" thingy as I believe it is justified to stay for the following reasons:

  • As stated in the artcile this game is now 7 years old. It's not something that only popped up a couple of days ago. It's likely amoung the oldest still-active PHP games out there.
  • It's had THOUSANDS (probably ten's of thousands) of unique users play it. Is that notable enough?
  • It's a fully formed article. If you want to delete something, may I suggest one of the many thousands of stubs that are lying around this place?
  • This article wasn't created by any of the developers (that I'm aware of). Look at the history. It was created by one "The King of Hearts". When we (the devs) found out about the article, we proceeded to update it and correct many the errors. These devs are specifically listed in the SE history as Maugrimtr, DJCapelis, mjac and Moriarty
  • Run a google for "Solar Empire". The top 8 results are all for this game, preceding even a TV series's IMDB entry of the same-name as well as the soon to be released "Sins of a Solar Empire" which comes in at ninth entry in the search.

01:40 GMT - 3-Aug-2006 User:Moriarty

[edit] Notability

  • This article is of a high quality and refers to a 7 year old project which is now Open Source and community developed
  • Many browser based games are based on ideas or code taken from Solar Empire
  • Solar Empire, specifically Endless War, has had over 2000 new users in the last few months
  • The article was created by anonymous players, The King of Hearts and Fitzlegend and was later updated by the original developers
  • The latest version has been downloaded around 1000 times on SourceForge at the time of writing this message

Mjac 13:10, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Misc

How did I know this was your doing Maugrim. :) Nicely done. Now I'll just have to check it and make sure you havn't practised too much self-agrandisement :p heh - Moriarty 1st June 2006.

Please note, the article has been edited and rewritten as mentioned in my last discussion entry. After 1 week of awaiting responses I have ovrwritten the original article. This article was written by myself, and reviewed on the main Solar Empire forums. If you wish to question or comment on the replacement please do so on the main forums - SE Forums.

Maugrimtr 11:32, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

A proposal to amend/replace this article has been made on the official Solar Empire forums. All comments are very welcome: http://forum.solar-empire.net/viewtopic.php?p=3291#3291 - Maugrim.

Maugrimtr 13:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Developers

In general, videogame articles do not include complete lists of the developer credits, and (I'd say) with good reason. This list should be cleaned up to only notable contributors, if any. --Stellmach 14:02, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

-Reasonable point, I agree. User:Moriarty 22:12UTC - 04 aug 3006

- Delete that entire section Mjac 09:57, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

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