Talk:Resident (Second Life)

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[edit] Companies?

I'm looking for a list of real life companies that have a presence in Second Life. Is there such a list?

My main interest is in IT-related companies, but I could settle for a list of some people working in the IT-industry.

It's for an article that I want to write for an online magazine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.117.36.126 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 11 September 2006

See here- Real-World businesses and organisations that have operated inside Second Life
Signpostmarv 16:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] uncited information

Since the article has been moved from A to B, I suggest that any information remaining in this article that still has a [citation needed] request attached should be removed if no citation can be found within a reasonable time frame- starting from the date/time of this article's creation. Signpostmarv

I'm about to nuke the uncited info
Signpostmarv 16:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Teen Grid Residents

Until such a time as there are a significant amount of Teen-Grid centric entries, any information regarding "well known" Residents, whether they be from the Main or Teen Grid, should go in this article.

If the article grows to a size that requires some pruning along the guidelines of WP:SIZE, I'm proposing now that a similar list be created for the Teen Grid Residents over on Resident (Teen Second Life)

Signpostmarv 14:20, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re-ordering the list

I was talking to someone about the list article, and it seems that they though that the lists should be alphabetically ordered by surname.

Thoughts ?

  1. Should the list be re-ordered by surname ?
  2. Should only the 2 lists with a primary focus on natural persons (as opposed to virtual persons) be re-ordered by surname ?

Signpostmarv 11:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Break out the three lists to List of* articles

What're people thoughts on breaking out the 3 lists into two or three separate articles ?

Signpostmarv 12:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I am seeing a ton of modification of this article for no rational reason except to put in false information, and so I have added the semi-protection vandalism tag. Sorry if this restricts anyone trying to give relevant information, but this article keeps getting trashed. --Texas Patriot - Frank 08:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criteria for "Residents who achieved fame or notoriety through Second Life"

This section on the page states the following criteria for "fame and notoriety":

The following is a list of Residents who have become well known outside of Second Life to varying degrees, either due to a significant accomplishment in-world - generally being featured in a Linden Lab press release or news source primarily focusing on Second Life or gaming in general (e.g. Anshe Chung and Tateru Nino) or have been featured in major news sources outside of the scope of Second Life or their in-world accomplishment has carried on the "real" world (e.g. Laukosargas Svarog and Kermitt Quirk )

While I can't find any fault with that type of criteria (they seem pretty reasonable to me), I'm surprised at how little unknown half of that list actually is "outside Second Life". The issue here is mostly: "how often do these people get featured on LL's PR or news source?" I can't imagine why, for instance, Aimee Weber is not mentioned — if you use Google's PageRank algorithm to establish notoriety (as good a criterium as any other), you'll have Aimee Weber listed as often as people like Tateru Nino (or myself, for that matter, and I'm not part of the list) and close to Prokofy Neva, but I'm pretty sure Aimee was featured on far more RL media than everybody put together with the exception of Anshe Chung. Cristiano Midnight has probably half that ranking in Google, but how often is, say, Grey Blankes mentioned?... just three hundred links on Google. Hardly "notorious" except perhaps for a very close-knitten group that know who she is and what she does.

Although bloggers tend to be favoured by Google PageRank (for obvious reasons), I'd like you to consider linking at leas t one link to a non-SL medium that featured a candidate to this "hall of fame". Without references at all, one might use Google's link count as a criterium, and set up a threshold at around 50,000 links or so. You'll see that the number of "famous people" will be in that range.

Gwyneth Llewelyn 11:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

  • I agree with you as usual. A good deal of the people here seem to have added themselves... According to Wikipedia rules that's vanity. "Owner of the second island on the teen grid"? "One of the quickest up and coming companies in SL"? I'm SO inclined to submit this article to AfD :)) Sarg 15:38, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


Gwyneth is right, this section quickly needs such criteria for entry - I recognize only a few of these names, the rest strike me as people just seeking publicity / recognition (entering their own names).

User:Circle Line 18:01, 20 June 2007 (GMT)

Perhaps the criteria for entry would be "has this person appeared in mainstream national media more than once?" That would narrow it down to perhaps 4-5 names, as it should be. Most of the names listed (mine included) are only marginally famous in Second Life itself, much less in the greater scheme of things.

As such, if such a thing were to happen, it could get folded back into the main Second Life article, and this article could be deleted. --Lordfly Digeridoo 69.246.9.98 (talk) 23:25, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

/me agrees
Signpostmarv 11:14, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Focussed Peer Review

It seems that the opinion of the Wikipedia Community with regards to "Notable Residents" is that it's rather dubious and prone to spam.

In order to encourage a more focussed peer review process, I have copied the section on Residents who achieved fame or notoriety through Second Life to the SL Wiki, the argument being that we (the Residents) are in a better position to gauge whether or not a Resident is "famous" or "notorious" for their Second Life activities.

Since account creation and anonymous editing of the SL Wiki is restricted, contributions to Notable Residents and the talk page can be considered as verified as being made by the Resident whose name is listed in the edit history (whereas linking a wikipedia account with a Second Life accounts is generally unauthenticated and not reliable).

Signpostmarv 17:51, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Species

I watched the SR-related 'Wonderland' programme the other week, and saw the residents were all Humanoid. The main page here does mention animals, robots, etc., but I don't think it's very clear whether or not an avatar can be totally, utterly non-Humanoid in appearance. Can anyone give me any knowledge (this question from someone interested in joining SR) (User: Stripey). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.102.43.174 (talk) 00:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to guess you mean SL, not SR :-P
One of my avatars is a tin of spam[1]
Cube Linden (an employee of Linden Lab) is a cube[2]
Signpostmarv (talk) 19:15, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.102.32.85 (talk) 20:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)