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[edit] X Operations

What part of the xops page did you think needed to be changed (in reference to the fansite thing) Dylan Mather 22:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC) 22:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, pretty much all of it, Dylan. There's the opening paragraph which is fine. The first paragraph in the Gameplay section goes a little astray in one or two parts. The second paragraph goes into more unneeded details than the previous paragraph "includes the briefcase" for example - what briefcase? And the "magic keys" isn't really very encyclopaedic at all, or does it make much sense.
From after that its list after list then there's the whole editing and modifying section which is more akin to hacking than any general information needed in the article and may do better on a gaming or hacking site than anywhere else.
Then there's a few more lists and a bunch of external links.
It seemed to me to be an article very, very much oriented towards someone who was really really really into the game and it seemed to also be very devoid of any solid information, save the first paragraph and a half or so. Rather than remove all the information I considered superfluous and then tagging the article stubbed (if it ended up that short) I tagged it a fansite page to best let someone with information or experience on the game sort it out. -Gohst 07:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks For The Work On The TISM Page

I totally love going through an article and correcting stupid things, only to have them replaced by someone the next day. I'm assuming the best intentions, as Wikipedia tells me to, but jesus...

Alot of the stuff you added was good but not needed. The opening paragraphs are concise as they need to be and they ended up bloated and the lists of songs which went with the themes section was just unweildly. I'm not knocking you, alot of the stuff you added was good but it just didnt fit well in an encyclopedic text. It was obvious though, to me (assuming you are the user omgomgomgomg) that you know alot about TISM. Perhaps then you could help clear up some red links on the TISM Discography to make it look better before it gets added to the main article? Gohst 11:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for your comments

Hey, just wondering if you might be interested in joining the latest conversation at Talk:List of the longest movies in history. Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 23:03, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help me

Hi what were you looking for help with? --pgk(talk) 13:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. Gohst 02:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I did some cleaning…

Hi, you put a cleanup tag on the article about Niceland. I just added a few extra lines and did some minor reparations. This is all the information I could gathered. So, after I did the modifications I removed the tag. Do you think the article is fine now or it should get more cleaning? I’m asking because I can’t add more information. Kind regards, Luis María Benítez 15:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Good job. It's alot better now than it was before. Be proud now. Gohst 06:16, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dark Side of the Moon

Hi, you added here some information about an interview with Kubrick's wife that could not be checked, so it was deleted. Could you provide some reference about it? 83.36.81.198 20:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I heard her say the quotes I wrote with my own ears when she was in Melbourne, Australia as part of the Australian Center for the Moving Image's Kubrick retrospective. I kept the ticket stub from the event so if you want to know the date she said it, I can provide it for you. Gohst 03:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
In that case, I think it doesn't meet Wikipedia standards to add the quote, does it? I have no problems believing what you say, because it's clear the 'documentary' is a complete joke. But I thought you had read it in a newspaper or something! Anyway, thanks. 88.7.8.166 18:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TISM

Hi,

I must apologise for the dead space, and accidentally removing your rage photo (twice.) Please go ahead and reload it.


I am sorry you viewed the singles list as over-indulgent. As a journo with ample information on TISM I feel I have 'formalised' the article and made it readible for casual visitors (the previous version seemed more relevant to 'hard core' fans, and delved into obscure details even in the opening paragraph.)

Thank you for bringing me up to speed on some Wiki 'norms' - together we've made the TISM entry a truer and more balanced representation of the band.

PS: do i know you by another name?

It still needs work though. Citations come to mind, most obviously. It's currently rated as B-Class and I'd like to see it higher (see here and here) but to pass Good Article it needs to be hevially cited for a start.
As for knowing me by another name, no I don't beleive so. I think I may have dealt with you through eBay many moons ago, though for what item I cannot recall and besides, it was under a different name (possibly where you got the 'different name' thing from, who knows?) but yes I've followed TISM for some time and its possible our paths have crossed on other occassions. You used to run the TISM website, didn't you?
Back to Wikipedia and the article in question... If you're interested in providing citations for some of the things mentioned in the article, go ahead. I've been meaning to do it for quite some time now but its just such a gargantuan task I haven't been up to it. I could make notes of the glaring things if you think it would help and together we could trim it, tighten it and expand apon certain aspects which might need expanding.
Some day it might be a Featured Article... Gohst 12:08, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree on the citations, and have already been thinking about this and teaching myself how to do them correctly.. (maybe you can point me to an example of how you think they should be written.) I know in my head immediately where I sourced information from. How does one view the 'rating' of the article? 203.47.209.4 02:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

The rating is on the TISM Talk page. As for doing citations, it's easy. Find the citationable section. For example "Machiavelli is their best selling album." you find a page which has nothing to do with Wikipedia. For example one which lists all their album sales. This may be http://albumsales.com/tism for example. You put that in square brackets next to the sentance. Like so:
Machiavelli is their best selling album [http://albumsales.com/tism]
and it will look like this:
Machiavelli is their best selling album [1]
-Gohst 08:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Excellent... that will work most cases. What about where I need to cite, for example the Guide To Little Aesthetics, which obviously does not exist online - Will that require a different method, or footnoting? Thanks for your guidance. 203.47.209.4 07:42, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

At the moment there is a big quote from "The Guide" which is referenced in an external page, the page being some blog which quotes it and gives reference to the book. That suits me fine as a reference. As for an official reference, you'll have to look into how to cite its ISBN number. A few pages around Wikipedia do that. The Beatles' article does exactly that so you might want to use that as your guide. As it stands nothing much hinges on The Guide and come to think of it the Style part is largely verbose and unneeded really. Perhaps taking the main points and smoothing it into the body of the main timeline would be a better way to go with that part. That can happen in the future though... I'm just thinking aloud at the minute. Gohst 10:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the compliment on the Honk If You Love Fred Durst article. I plan on doing the same to other songs as and when they pop up in the playlist.--203.70.79.59 18:06, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Freeware" licence in infoboxen

I notice you've just added this to a large bunch of game articles. Please be careful when doing so: in at least two cases (BZflag and Wesnoth) this isn't actually correct (they're both GPL, and GPL isn't "freeware") and in Wesnoth you overwrote the existing (correct) licence. Chris Cunningham 12:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Now that the infobox has a license category, I was going through List of freeware games and adding the freeware information to the articles. When that was done I was going to go back though and check specifics, but [Teething|real life] got in the way. I didn't mean to override any existing information, as I tried to get them all done as quickly as possible. Also, I figured for the largest part they would all be freeware, as denoted by the articles title through which I found them. -Gohst 23:43, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
You made another mistake at Nethack (it was invisible, though: you added a second "license" field, and only one counts). Please check before claiming that games with open source licenses are freeware. Thank you, Kusma (talk) 11:01, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quoth article

hello, i created the Quoth article since single usually have their own articles, including EVERY OTHER SINGLE IN THE Richard D. James discography. if you'd like to talk it over, i'd be more than happy to. --AlexOvShaolin 21:37, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Howdy, I took it upon myself to Be bold as Wikipedia puts it, as the Quoth article had no picture, scarce little information, no stub tag and even if it did, no way (that I could see) that it could be improved, added upon, or extended in any way to make it into a full, stand-alone article. Those were my reasons for moving the information to Surfing on Sine Waves, let me know why you think it deserves its own article. -Gohst 00:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your GA nomination of TISM

The article TISM you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:TISM for things needed to be addressed. — Dihydrogen Monoxide 09:29, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Gohst/Todo - Replied. — Dihydrogen Monoxide 22:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] aphex

you do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gnetin (talk • contribs) 13:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Its your picture, you know the copyright on it, not me. These bots WILL delete your picture if you don't act. -Gohst (talk) 23:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Platter (turntable)

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