User talk:Flipkin

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[edit] Welcome

Hello there Flipkin, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! — Frecklefoot | Talk 18:43, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MobyGames

Hi, Flipkin. I've noticed you've been going about adding MobyGames links to several video games articles. Thanks for doing this! A lot of them need the link. I thought you might be interested in using the template for MobyGames entries:

{{moby game|id=<everything in the URL after "game">|name=<game title>}}

to use, fill in the two fields. For example, for Pinball Construction Set:

{{moby game|id=/pinball-construction-set|name=''Pinball Construction Set''}}

renders this:

Pinball Construction Set at MobyGames

Of course, you're not required to use it, but I thought you might find it useful. Take care! — Frecklefoot | Talk 18:43, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Frecklefoot. I am still learning the system so I am not sure if I should reply here or on your Talk page. The template is great. There are some nuances it does not cover. For instance All-Star Baseball entry is for the series of games and not just one. In which case the link:
http://www.mobygames.com/game_group/sheet/gameGroupId,571/
would be more appropriate. Also I imagine on occasion one may wish to link to the platform specific page instead of the combined page.
Example
http://www.mobygames.com/game/intellivision/bump-n-jump
vs
http://www.mobygames.com/game/bump-n-jump
Best
--Flipkin 14:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad you're using it in some of the changes you make. However the template will work for the examples you cite. Remember, just enter everything after "game" in the URL. Both your examples URL's have "game" in them and you can put any text in the "game title" field. So, for the link:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/intellivision/bump-n-jump

you'd do this:

{{moby game|id=/intellivision/bump-n-jump|name=The Intellivision version of ''Bump-N-Jump''}}

which would render this:

The Intellivision version of Bump-N-Jump at MobyGames

You can do the same with similar URL's, such as the series one you cite. However, while I can see cases where you'd want to link to series, I can't think of a case where you'd want to link to just one version of a game. But if there is some extraordinary circustance, the template will handle it. HTH — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:03, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kingdom Hearts

Rationale accepted. I concede. ' (Feeling chatty? ) (Edits!) 23:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Random Mobygames comment

I was doing some preliminery research for writing up an article on KISS: Psycho Circus. I'm almost certain that Mobygames has the release date incorrect, MobyGames states the US release was mid July, whereas every other online site gives the release some time early August. I think the August date is backed up by the fact that a private release party was held on July 31, 2000 as evidenced by this old link. Do you have any backup for your July claim? - Hahnchen 16:50, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, scratch that. Further research shows the date as 17/7/00. - Hahnchen 17:15, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Riviera: The Promised Land links

I would like to discuss the links to overall gaming sites in the article for Riviera: The Promised Land. I should probably start by explaining exactly why I think they shouldn't be there. These websites are fairly popular, and if people want information from them it wouldn't be difficult to just search for it on those sites. The MobyGames link doesn't even have any information that the other sites linked to in that article didn't, so it just seems like it would be wasting space to have so many links there. Yggdra Juril Altwaltz 03:22, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Conflict of interest warning

David, you have established yourself [1] as David Berk, a co-founder of the MobyGames website. As such WP:COI prohibits you from adding any further links to MobyGames (and the 900 links you have already added may get automatically cleaned up) or editing articles about MobyGames, or getting involved in deletion discussions about MobyGames articles or templates. This is a warning to make you you understand these rules. If you break them this account may be blocked without further warning. --BozMo talk 10:31, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Looks like somebody doesn't like mobygames. Don't you just love it when they all band together and just oust whatever they don't like? BTW they want to delete all traces of mobygames links. They conveniently omitted that part. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#mobygames.com216.37.86.10 14:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
This kind of comment qualifies as "trolling" by the way. FWIW personally I don't mind MobyGames at all: not that I am technically a "they" I suppose, as I am not a "Spam member" (don't ask). I think setting up this project was a cool thing to do and its been done quite well technically. In some circumstances I would even be one of those actively linking to it. But its the conduct of some of MobyGames supporters/employees/owners I have a real problem with: linkspam campaigns by SPAs, dishonesty in characterising "community decisions", aggressive responses and the like. Numbers of links added by individual users on Wikipedia get tracked automatically, as do COI link additions once they are picked up and abuse of most wider community rules is asking for trouble as well as unacceptable. One way or another this behaviour cannot be allowed to pay. --BozMo talk 15:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
"" "" "" "" 216.37.86.10 16:26, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

On WP:COI/N, I think we can reach a consensus not to mass-delete the MobyGames links if you agree to abide by WP:COI compliance in the future. (See also WP:SCOIC.) Please comment here or there. THF 15:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] David E. Scott

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