Talk:Gazebo
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[edit] Anecdote
I removed this anecdote from the article:
- A very well-known Role Playing Game anecdote, known as the "Tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo", features a player who is dumbfounded by the Game Master's description of a nearby gazebo as he doesn't know what a gazebo is. Convinced that he has encountered some sort of monster, he queries the bewildered game master for its specifics in meticulous detail then proceeds to attempt wounding it with an arrow (and, obviously, fail). By the end of the encounter the player, lacking the means to harm a gazebo, opts to flee in desperation; the frustrated Game Master responds that "It's too late. You've awakened the Gazebo; It catches you and eats you."[1]
bogdan 17:39, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
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- It's a well known anecdote in its particular subculture. Maybe it doesn't deserve quite so much space in the article, but I think it should stay. 172.201.93.201 15:38, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
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- And yet people keep deleting it from the article with no discussion... I'm putting it back in. It's at least as important as the "Sound of Music" reference. If someone wants to provide a briefer version, I won't object, but please stop removing it wholesale. 172.141.207.180 07:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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- I came here looking for the exact reference -- keep it! Fantusta 07:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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- And yet again, deleted without discussion under the guise of a clean up. I have left a message on the user's talk page. This anecdote is practically universally known in its own subculture and has appeared in print multiple times, beginning in 1985 in the APA Alarums and Excursions, in the Mensa Bulletin of June 1989... it's as old as the internet. We're not talking about Brian Peppers or the Ultimate Showdown here. This is an anecdote that has been told and retold for over 20 years. I don't want to get into an edit war here, so I have not restored the anecdote. Yet. I will do so within the week unless the user who removed it provides a better version. 172.142.236.237 01:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- This is an encyclopedia article about gazebos. A little story about a role playing game that mentions gazebos doesn't add anything to the article. In fact, it is a distraction from it. If the anecdote is notable in some way, it really should have a separate article. It simply doesn't belong here. Perhaps the bit of Sound of Music trivia should go too. Deli nk 13:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- Fair comment. Sound of Music trivia removed. I'll get around to the seperate article as soon as I work out how to set up a disambiguation page for the three Gazebo articles we will now have. 172.142.236.237 18:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- I too came here looking for that anecdote. Where is it? I wanted to tell someone about it and figured it should be on wikipedia as a reference, But I do not see it. This is an encyclopedia after all, right? I don't think it is notable to have it's own article, but it should be in this one. 202.150.116.50 04:40, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- Fair comment. Sound of Music trivia removed. I'll get around to the seperate article as soon as I work out how to set up a disambiguation page for the three Gazebo articles we will now have. 172.142.236.237 18:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- This is an encyclopedia article about gazebos. A little story about a role playing game that mentions gazebos doesn't add anything to the article. In fact, it is a distraction from it. If the anecdote is notable in some way, it really should have a separate article. It simply doesn't belong here. Perhaps the bit of Sound of Music trivia should go too. Deli nk 13:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- And yet again, deleted without discussion under the guise of a clean up. I have left a message on the user's talk page. This anecdote is practically universally known in its own subculture and has appeared in print multiple times, beginning in 1985 in the APA Alarums and Excursions, in the Mensa Bulletin of June 1989... it's as old as the internet. We're not talking about Brian Peppers or the Ultimate Showdown here. This is an anecdote that has been told and retold for over 20 years. I don't want to get into an edit war here, so I have not restored the anecdote. Yet. I will do so within the week unless the user who removed it provides a better version. 172.142.236.237 01:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
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I added a reference to another article (Eric and the Gazebo) in the See Also: section. That shouldn't ruffle any feathers - and if it does, someone is taking their garden structures a bit too seriously. Steneub 21:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
