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This article doesn't seem to be in standard wikipedia format / style.

Neither is your comment :-) Wouter Lievens 11:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Removing redlinks to founders 2 Requested move 3 "hillbillies" 4 Culture within GameDev.net 5 This is not a sales pitch 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Gdnet.png

[edit] Removing redlinks to founders

I have removed redlinks to Kevin Hawkins, Dave Astle, and Michael Tanczos primarily because I don't know who they are. Someone more familiar with GameDev can add them back in if one thinks they are notable enough to merit their own encyclopedia biography articles. For example, I could arguably consider NeHe to be notable since his site is considered the de facto OpenGL red book for newbies. Tuxide 01:20, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

No, the red book is considered the red book for noobies, NeHe's site is considered garbage that spreads sloppy coding practices.capnmidnight 06:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

This is not a forum, please do not post off-topic messages here. Tuxide 06:47, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

There's nothing off-topic about it. And being the talk page, this is essentially a forum. Promit 06:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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Tuxide 07:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

And of course Promit, being one of those egotistical and immature people who run the GameDev.net chat room, is always right. I'd back off before he tears your ass up for warning him. 67.168.216.252 06:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Gee, I wonder who 67.168.216.252 could be? Please don't use Wikipedia for yet further harassment, good sir. Thanks. Zombie81

The irony is palpable. And about the forum thing, I didn't mean it quite like that ("discussion for the sake of discussion"). What I meant was that "talk" and "discussion" are essentially the same thing, so this page pretty mcuh serves as a discussion forum about the article it's attached to. Back on topic though, I suppose this page could use with a little expansion. I'll probably tackle it tomorrow. Promit 10:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

How is my comment off topic? You're talking about links that should or should not be included. You said that you considered NeHe possibly notable for inclusion and I disputed it. I'm going to reinclude Dave Astle's red link because he was involved in the development of the QUALCOMM BREW/OpenGL platform for mobile gaming. capnmidnight 18:56, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I really don't see how the founders have merit outside of gamedev. Qualcomm brew doesn't seem to have a page on wikipedia. Any pages about these fellows probably would never be able to be expanded passed a stub. I would side with Tuxide, I don't think you should red link these people. --Numsgil 06:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

How hard did you look? BREW capnmidnight 17:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

I propose we move the article from 'GameDev' to 'GameDev.net' as that's the name of the site, as consistent with the branding, company name, etc. I'm proposing rather than doing it myself because (a) I'm new at this and (b) I may have a conflict of interests (though I'll be surprised if anyone calls me on it, as this seems innocuous). Any objections, or anyone willing to Be Bold and do it? Ubermammal 21:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

This article has been renamed from GameDev to GameDev.net as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 05:10, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "hillbillies"

Why does it say that some of the contributors are "hillbillies"? It sounds like a weird thing to put in an encyclopedia.SuperGerbil 23:42, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

I think it was vandalism...203.2.182.254 05:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Culture within GameDev.net

Is it possible to use the above section of this talk page as a citation for the kind of arrogance that is common within the GameDev.net community? See I got banned a long time ago for acting like an idiot, so now I just post in Wikipedia pages to get back at them. 203.2.182.254 05:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is not a sales pitch

I'm a regular of gamedev.net, and quite happy with their service, but this was sounding wayyy to much like a sales pitch. I added some demographic information, removed the 'hillbillies', and adjusted some of the more 'pitchy' sounding things. Still needs some work, but at least its not quite as biased.

Also. I elaborated on the 4 elements contest, since that is one of the items that caused the site to gain in notoriety I do believe.

paulcesar 209.143.33.130 18:39, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Gdnet.png

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BetacommandBot 08:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)