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Welcome from Repayne

Nice work on the Dragonlance characters. --Repayne 01:41:24, 2005-09-08 (UTC)

Thank you, I am trying to add/edit/finish at least one article per day, especially those which are not really updated. That is why I try to stay away from Raistlin and Tasslehoff, and pay more attention to the others. -- ReyBrujo 03:13, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

CT stuff

holy crud you've added so much stuff to the CT-related pages over the last couple of days. Great job! Peaceman 02:22, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Most has already been written, spent most of the time wikifying and rewording to make it easier for non native speakers. I am proud to say I bought the game two months after it was released in the US (USD 105, only MK2 costed me more, USD 110), as soon as I found it, and will gladly do anything in order to share with others what I believe, along with Final Fantasy VI, the best RPG ever released for any console. -- ReyBrujo 03:32, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Nintendogs.

Let me explain. Wikipedia is not for guide content. A list of dogs available in which games belongs on Nintendogs' Wikibook. That's what the Wikibooks page is for. - A Link to the Past (talk) 01:51, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

The name of the protagonist belong to the article. Their long description may not. See games like Street Fighter II, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Final Fantasy VI... TV series and movies like Charmed, Lost, The Terminator... The list of dogs is necessary for the user to understand the differences between the games. And since the information is not long enough to need its own list, it fits in the article. -- ReyBrujo 02:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Where ever did you get the idea that breeds of dogs are considered protoganists? Here, allow me to replace the big list.
Each version has their own default dogs.
There. Short and sweet, and accomplishes the same end result, better. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
In case you didn't realize, in Nintendogs the dogs are the protagonists. Do you think, in example, the Charmed article would be useful saying "The series have a bunch of witches fighting devils." only? -- ReyBrujo 02:30, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
They are not main characters. There is not plot. You are just raising puppies. The fact that you mostly interact with them does not make them main characters. These are generic dogs, not a single dog in the game is programmed to be more important than the other, and no single does has a pre-programmed name that you can get. Anyway, the only difference between the dogs are appearance and, sometimes, whether they need different shampoo and brushes. They are not distinguishable. This information belongs on Wikibooks. The fact of the matter is that going into detail on what dogs are in what game is not important. What is important is to educate them about the game. You gave an argument saying that it should be on Wikipedia because more people go there. We don't put definitions on Wikipedia instead of Wiktionary, do we? - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:40, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Oh, my... that must be one of the worst arguments I have ever read. With it, no game article should have information about characters because they are just the same character with slight modifications. I will call for a survey to solve that conflict. Obviously, you see no reason except yours, something I already realized when you wanted to delete all FFVI character articles because the AW:DS ones were being deleted. -- ReyBrujo 03:30, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Plagiarism/copyright violation??

Hi, since I wrote nearly every word on the current version of RuneScape cheats I have a hard time seeing how it could be a copyright violation. I've tried hard to make it less instruction manual and more information/knowledge page. As to whether there should be a wikibook, that may be, however, given the number of hits to the page each day I'd say it's a topic that people are interested in and that it deserves a wikipedia page.user:Jonathan888 (talk) 09:12, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

As I stated, it is not copyright violation as in copying the information from another place, but instead, a violation of the RuneScape licence. If you want, I could rewrite the whole article, but it would become quite short as most information would become internal links. An AFD nomination would be used to determine whether other members of the Wikipedia community believe the contents fit Wikipedia or not.
Also, you must use a NPOV approach with the articles. Articles with technical information about something belong to a Wikibook, not to the Wikipedia. It is not a matter of popularity, but instead of whether it fits or not in the Wikipedia definition. And as I said, Wikipedia is not a collection of instruction manuals. The official policy says that articles that include instruction, advice (legal, medical or otherwise, in your case illegal), suggestions, or "how-to" like tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals and recipes should be created in Wikibook, not Wikipedia. And your article fits that definition. -- ReyBrujo 12:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Did you even read the article?? Let's take an example at random from the article: 'Two player scams' It has a short, concise description of how the scam works, period, no advice, no names, no point of view, no instructions. Read the rest of the article, if you have issue with the language used being instructional then EDIT IT for Pete's sake. It is definitely not an instruction manual, nor a list, nor a tutorial nor walk through, it discusses the history of RuneScape cheats, countermeasures, current events, etc. If you have any real suggestions on how to make it more encyclopedic I'm all ears and I'll even do the editing. In the meantime I'd appreciate it if you'd be constructive instead of destructive. This article is vandalized at least 10 times a week and having to deal with AFD requests by the company's employees weekly is becoming a pain. Yes, they've basically admitted they work for the company, they delete large sections of the article because it's 'illegal information'. Show me the point of view in the article and I'll edit it again, you don't even have to do the work, I'll do the grunt work, just stop trying to delete.Jonathan888 (talk) 15:01, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
You seem to be confused: you say you aren't saying it's copyright violation, and on the talk page you edited your comments again with an AFD, AND say there is copyright violation, you are not being consistent in your statements. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jonathan888 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
My exact words in the RuneScape Talk Page were or maybe an AFD process due Vandalism (the information stated in the article vandalizes copyrighted work from a third party, which may bring problems to Wikipedia). Note that I talked in potential. The [http://www.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/terms/terms.ws|terms of services] state that You must not encourage, or attempt to trick other players into breaking our rules. Whether my interpretation that the sections Two person team trade scam, Clan trust test or loyalty test scam and [Alt + F4] scam, item duplication scam may break the rules is right or not, it is questionable and I admit it.
My comment about AFD. Understand this: I don't want to delete the article. But since my opinion is that the article should be transwikied, in such cases the article is nominated to deletion (see Wikipedia:Transwiki#Instructions). -- ReyBrujo 03:02, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Xbox 360

STOP blanking my contributions. It's all sourced. Next time I will report you to a Administrator and you can be blocked. --Brazil4Linux 13:28, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

First of all, don't threaten me. Do you become as mad Second, follow the rules. Third, blogs are not good sources. If you believe CNET blog is a good resource, just tell me so in the Talk Page of the article, don't just accuse me of being a fanboy and threat me of bad faith. That shows you don't really understand how this community works. -- ReyBrujo 22:39, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
By the way, I believe this is the first time I delete something you posted. I believe you exaggerate. A lot. -- ReyBrujo 22:39, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:InuYasha (character)

Template:InuYasha (character), the template I tried to create, didn't work. Please help me out. -- Dark Magician

Replied on the user's talk page. [1] -- ReyBrujo
Further comment on the user's talk page. [2] -- ReyBrujo
Template:IY Character, the template you created, worked! Thanks a lot! I used it on Kagome Higurashi. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a newbie! -- Dark Magician
I used Template:IY Character on Sango (InuYasha), Kirara, Miroku (InuYasha), Shippo, Sesshomaru, Jaken (which I found the picture of), Kikyo, Naraku, Koga (InuYasha), and Rin (InuYasha)! Thanks again! -- Dark Magician

Thank you for the discussion regarding the controller tech

While I disagree with you on certain points, I appreciate the fact that you've remained rational and civil in your replies. THAT'S the spirit of Wiki. By discussing this, as we are, we can come to a logical consensus regarding this. That said, there are a few points I'd like to bring up, that of the Dual Analog's reliance on the technology from the Sony Flightstick and the rumble differences between Sony's controllers and Nintendo's. I'm glad we can discuss this in a mature and reasonable fashion; you certainly have my respect. Daniel Davis 04:18, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


We may have to request protection of the Rev article

If you noticed, a user named QuackShot just entered the article's discussion section. Quackshot's a sockpuppet of a guy named Brazil4Linux, one created a day or so ago. It's not the first one, of course (200.147.97.92 and 200.151.100.114 are both IP-traced sockpuppets of Brazil4Linux's dialuol.com.br address). He engaged in a massive revert war against myself, GoldDragon, Jedi6 and other contributers to the Kutaragi article, eventually leading to myself requesting protection against it. After that, he's been going around trying to attack each of us; apparently I'm the next target here. Knowing what he did to the discussion about the Kutaragi article, I might request protection on it. Keep in mind that I'd be happy with protection even if it was stuck at a version I personally didn't agree with, I just don't want to have anything to do with this Brazil4Linux guy again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doom127 (talk • contribs)

re:Category:Wikipedians by D&D Alignment

I noticed you are categorized as a Wikipedian by alignment. If you are in to userboxes, there are now infoboxes available using a standard template. See the alignment category page for details. This is a copied announcement, please reply on My Talk Page or in the category talk if you have any questions. xaosflux Talk/CVU 18:49, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Do As Infinity albums

You're welcome! If you want to see all the generally accepted colors for the album infoboxes, take a look at WP:ALBUMS. —Slicing (talk) 18:08, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Argentina

You are invited to join the Argentina-related regional notice board and Argentina Wiki Project. Mariano(t/c) 08:30, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Editing

Thanks Infinare 03:40, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Famitsu

Here is the link: [3] Gerard Foley 12:47, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Forget it. I just saw it was you who reverted the change. I thought it might be interesting to leave it on the talk page. Gerard Foley 12:51, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Multiple related AFDs

In the future, it would be nice when nominating a bunch of related AFDs like those Ragnarok articles in a single AFD so we can just say "delete all" --Quarl 07:31, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


Faithmouse Article

Mr. Brujo,

I can explain the Faithmouse article. It was my first time creating an article, and I typed the word "test" to make sure I knew what I was doing. The article is fine and in good shape now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thudgens (talk • contribs)

excuse me

I did not even do any pages i only was correcting mis spelled words --Zhang Liang 19:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I need help

What is the difference between anime and magna? --Whopper 19:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Anime is television and movies, manga is written in books, similiar to comics. DoomsDay349 21:49, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Muchas Gracias

Thank you for your kind help. I apologize for the unsigned comment above, I was not thinking. --65.67.76.196 23:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey, Rey.

Saved from here. Nice to see a possibly familiar face popping around. -- kanzure 04:53, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

PSP

Thanks for letting me know. That's kind of a tough one IMHO. I'll keep my eye on the discussion though. K1Bond007 20:11, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Mensaje de un wikipedista norteamericano

¡Saludos, compañero de Wikipedia! I'm coming to Argentina soon and wanted to see if any of my fellow Wikipedians were interested in meeting up, etc...I'm flying into BsAs on Jan. 25th and I don't know many people there, so if you'd be into talking/getting together, let me know. Feel free to leave a message on my user page...seeya around - Paul 23:22, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

List of anti-heroes

I just want to inform you that the article List of anti-heroes was deleted today after being listed on VfD. I am not sure if you knew it was listed or not, or if you care or not. I felt, since you had participated as a contributor on the article that you should know. If you want to know more about the status of the now deleted article, I have made a post in Wikipedia:Deletion review. If you don't want to know more, please disregard this message. sincerely, Kingturtle 21:41, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Asuca Hayashi

You made a teeny error while cleaning up the article.

The girl's first name is spelled with a "c". And the name is always repeated in Japanese order with the "conventional" spellings. E.G.

"Asuca Hayashi (林明日香 Hayashi Asuka?)_," WhisperToMe 04:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, if you follow the transciption rules and use the "nihongo" template, you could write it like this:
Asuca Hayashi (林明日香 hayashi asuka?) chsf 3:50, 2006 January 19 (mooga-time)

Kingpriest of Istar copyright Vio

Rey, I have posted a possible Copyright Violation template on this page, because I am concerned that the large qoute from Time of the Twins is a possible violation of copyright laws. I am not exatly sure how qouting of text works in system, however, I somehow doubt that WotC would approve of having a large portion of their work posted on an open-source encyclopedia. Avador 23:36, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Playstation Portable

Regarding some of your edits to Playstation Portable, I figured in case you are unaware, I'd let you know that dates are rendered according to your prefs. For example: [[January 9]] and [[9 January]] appear as January 9 and 9 January, which will appear identical if you have chosen a preferred format at the Special:Preferences page, so it really doesn't matter whether the number is placed before or after the month name. I figured I'd save you a little bit of typing. Just link them the way they already stand, because no matter what you do, half the world will be viewing it one way and vice versa. The comma doesn't matter either. [[9 January]] [[2003]] will show up as "January 9, 2003" (emphasis added) in the "U.S." setting. Smart software. --OscarTheCattalk 16:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [4] -- ReyBrujo
You're absolutely right - if user is not signed in, then the date preferences stuff doesn't do anything. As a result they'd get a mix of January 1 2000 and 1 January 2000. Thanks for letting me know. --OscarTheCattalk 22:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Sailor Moon pages

  • pgsm.ytmnd.com Something mildly amusing for all your hard work. :) Danny Lilithborne 22:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Dragon Ball

OI! Image:Dragonball-credits.jpg and Image:Dragonball-adbreak.JPG are screenshots from Dragonball. It is from the dvd. And Funimation makes Dragonball. So they made it. Is that simple enough for you? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PalermoD (talk • contribs) .

Response to your image tagging message

I got the image from my emulator...so do I write that on the image page? I put the template for screenshots on the page before, so i assumed that was enough. Peaceman 21:44, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

2nd W album cover.

Apparently I forgot to add the copyright notice when I posted the album cover... SIXTEEN MONTHS AGO! It's taken care of now. -- Cjmarsicano 01:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:AyakashiSM.JPG

You tried to post on my talk page about this image, but of what you left, the code was broken. You left:

{subst:image source|Image:AyakashiSM.JPG}} ReyBrujo 01:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

There should be another { at the very begining, creating: {{subst:image source|Image:AyakashiSM.JPG}} [[User:ReyBrujo|ReyBrujo]] 01:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC) . I'm notifying you of this because you may be making this mistake on other pages.

I have since fixed the image you tried to notify me about. -- RattleMan 01:46, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [5] -- ReyBrujo

More image stuff

I recently went through much of the Sailormoon pictures that I saw and tried to source them, but you said they weren't a good enough source? I'm not mad at all (hey, it's not my image), but I would like to know what a "good source" to you is. Many of the images I did try to tag that were uploaded by others are screenshots from the series/anime itself. What can I do to make these images good-(well-)sourced again? -- RattleMan 04:41, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [6] -- ReyBrujo

Re: Image Tagging Image:Bssm2.png

This image is sourced from my personal collection of Sailor Moon images, which is not available on the Web. If you delete this image, the onus will be on you to replace it with a freely-licenced substitution.  Denelson83  03:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [7] -- ReyBrujo
Other than cropping this image, I did not create it.  Denelson83  03:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Replied on the user's talk page. [8] -- ReyBrujo
In case you didn't notice, I actually managed to source this image.  Denelson83  03:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Replied on the user's talk page. [9] -- ReyBrujo 22:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

DBZ images

Hey Rey, the dragonball images are from the DVDs that i have bought. They are from me, i didnt rip them from another website, if i did i wouldnt be wasting my time trying to keep them here. PalermoD 08:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)Love PalermoD <3

Replied on the user's talk page. [10] -- ReyBrujo 19:06, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

About Image:Mario Kart Double Dash (5).jpg

The image doesn't really need a source since Nintendo have released it to promote the title. --Thorpe | talk 18:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. [11] -- ReyBrujo 18:53, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Eva image

I added a link to the source of the image, [http://purlace.net/eva/index.html "Absolute Evangelion Field"]. Is anything else required? --Mosesroth

Replied on the user's talk page. [12] -- ReyBrujo 18:54, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Oldrobotnik.gif

Heya, you posted on my talk page about this image, and said it had no copyright info... but the 'Promotional' tag has been there since the 29th of January this year... this clearly states that it was released by the copyright owner to promote their work... maybe this wasn't exactly your request, if so please could you inform me. Thanks. --Zikar 03:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [13] -- ReyBrujo 18:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification, I'll get right on it. --Zikar 03:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Heyas again, I couldn't find the original image but I found an identical one and uploaded it here. Is that the sort of thing that's needed and acceptible or do I need to do something else? Thanks for your help in this matter :) --Zikar 07:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Screenshots etc. and sources

Hi, just thought I'd chime in. For screenshots, cover arts and other images of copyrighted 2 dimentional "things" it's generaly accepted that simply naming the movie, game, tv series, book, album or whatever (preferably also linking to the item's Wikipedia article (wich should be eable to tell us who published it)) is a perfectly good source as it goes straight to the -- well source. Knowing exactly who took a screenshot is of secondary interest at best, the copyright lie with the publisers/develpers of the game/movie/whatever, not the person making a copy of a small fraction of it. So all we rely only need to know is what work the image was copied from (naming the publisher or whatever is always nice too, but that can usualy be found in the corresponding article). More detailed authorship information is however important for photos, "independent" works of art and other things that are not simply copies of (parts of) other works. --Sherool (talk) 10:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I realise it's something of a gray area. However for screenshots and the like we generaly do consider just naming the work in question to be identifying the original source (at last if you link to an article with more info about the show, movie or game. If it's some obscure thing that we have no info on more info would be required, but a better question in such cases would probably be what the image is doing here in the first place as such images are generaly supposed to only be used in articles about the work in question). For a downstream user it's more important to know that an image is for example taken from a Pokemon episode, than knowing that this particular copy was made by some random fansite or other or some Wikipedia user after all. The taker of the screenshot is not the original source, the makers of the show itself is the original source, and if a downstream user wants to apply for permission to use the image they have to ask the people who own the rights to the show or movie, not the person who made a screenshot. Also consider looking at the article(s) such images are used in if they do lack any kind of info, 9 times out of 10 you can quickly find the name of the show and such, so just add the required info yourself (feel free to pester the uploader about adding such info in the future, but if the info is readily available it's not rely helpfull to add a "deletion" (that's how people usualy percieve it) template to the image, just fix it and more on), save the "no source" tagging for images that are truly of unknown origin (there are plenty of them unfortunately). Now wether or not 20 such screenshot images should all be used in the same article is another question entierly and the answer is usualy no (we are supposed to be using as little copyrighted material as possible), but that is not rely related to how good source info they have. --Sherool (talk) 20:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Yeah people who are tagging screenshots as "free use" or "GFDL self" or whatever are mistaken, at least unless they can prove that they own the copyright to whatever the screenshot was taken from. A screenshot is just a copy, there is no creative effort involved so you get no copyright to the image. Even if you do edit it in a creative way it is still legaly considered a copy unless you have express permission to use the copyrighted material in that way (see derivative work). Photographs of "real 3D objects" are however a different matter. When you take a photo of a statue or game console or whatever you are making a new creative work, not merely making a direct copy. There might be some gray areas, like a close up photo of a book, one might argue that the photo is just a copy of the cover art...
There might be various other local laws out there that put restrictions on a photo beyond the copyright issues, but we generaly only concern ourselves with the copyright bit (and US and Florida laws since that's where the servers are). So while for example a photo of a glass pyramid outside the Louvre can not be published in France without permission from the architect that designed it due to French "design laws" there is aparently no problem with hosting such a picture on the Egnlish Wikipedia (or commons) labeled as "free use", GFDL or whaetver else. That's what I've been told anyway, not going to claim I have any kind of ultimate knowledge of all these things, but anyway confusing international complexities aside the general rule of thumb is this: Reproductions of 2D works of art (this include 3D games displayed on a screen obviously) = copyrighted by the original artist. Photographs of a real world 3D objects = copyright lies with the photographer. That's my understanding anyway. --Sherool (talk) 06:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Tetra.jpg

What exactly are you looking for in sourcing this image? I mean, it is noted as being copyrighted by nintendo... isn't that enough? Fieari 05:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [14] -- ReyBrujo 19:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Tagging images unsourced

Why did you tag many images unsourced, when they are, in fact, sourced? I am currently in the process of removing the unsourced tags, and restoring the pictures to their articles. Please explain to me your reasoning behind your tags. Flailing Breegull 14:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [15] Corrected a typo. [16] -- ReyBrujo 19:04, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Nomination

Jedi6 would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Jedi6 to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ReyBrujo/Archive 1. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.
Replied on the user's talk page. [17] -- ReyBrujo 19:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
When you do feel ready just tell me and I'll nominate you again. :-) Jedi6-(need help?) 23:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Replied on the user's talk page. [18] -- ReyBrujo 19:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

If you refuse the nomination then...

The Original Barnstar
For your diligent work on reverting vandalism and formatting pages Jedi6-(need help?) 23:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
For your long time work on videogame articles such as Wii Jedi6-(need help?) 23:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
For your long time work on videogame articles such as Wii Jedi6-(need help?) 23:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Replied on the user's talk page. [19] -- ReyBrujo 19:03, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Marketing the Wii name

Hi, Roberto. Thanks for moving this to user talk; I was thinking of doing the same. Picking up where we left off, I think you've underestimated how commonly recognized "wee" is in the USA and UK. As a term for "urine" or sometimes "urinate", it's informal, but it's not accurate to describe the term as slang, at least in the US. Basically, it's a child's euphemism that a parent might teach their child to say instead of urine when they are very young. The usage is quite old, coming from a Welch word for "water". So while the word is not something you'd commonly use among co-workers, it definitely has a very well understood meaning. You'd have a hard time finding an American of any age who's unfamiliar with the usage.

Furthermore, the "Wii" name strikes me as a lousy name to have to market in English speaking countries even without the urine connotation, regardless of who your target market is. Other than the fact that the letters make a decent looking logo, I'm hard pressed to think of anything good about the name. Nintendo claims they want to market this to the less technologically saavy, non-gaming market, but the double-i spelling, which is neither common to English nor remotely suggestive of how the word is pronounced, is very likely to alienate a significant portion of this market; if you can't even understand the name of the product, are you really supposed to believe this is the world's first system that's made with you, the non-gamer, in mind? I know Nintendo thinks the name "Wii" is in some way a clever representation of two I's coming together to form a "we". But should a product name really require that much explanation? And would anyone ever come up with that explanation on their own? From a marketing point of view, it's not enough to say "our system's name probably won't make people think of piss" -- a brand name should actually do something to enhance the target market's perception of the product. The non-gamer may be less sensitive to what's hip than the traditional gaming market, but that's no excuse for Nintendo to pretend the name of its product doesn't matter.

Lastly, on the subject of alienating the traditional gaming market: yes, I realize that the system has already been dismissed by a lot of hardcore types for the reasons you suggest. But there is some middle ground between elite gamers and people who've never picked up a controller before in their life. Gamecube may not have sold amazingly well last generation, but it didn't tank either. That said, Nintendo would be wise not to go too far into intentionally pissing off their base. We must keep in mind that non-gamers aren't early adaptors; Nintendo's launch is going to depend on existing gamers to a large degree. I think at this point everyone will accept it if Nintendo's launch is modest compared to Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, but if their launch is completely dismal, then even non-gamers are likely to notice.

Just my 10 cents. Boy, did that get long. Congrats on your admin nomination, by the way. Lee Bailey 03:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [20] -- ReyBrujo 18:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Amuro singles

Add links? I'm not sure what you mean by this? Do you mean the links to where the images come from? I could just link them to her official site as these images do appear on them but most of the images I uploaded were actually scanned and edited by me.NATEamx 03:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on user's talk page. [21] -- ReyBrujo 18:57, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Mortal Kombat articles formatting

Thanks for cleaning all that up - you've saved all the project members a lot of extra work. Feel free to join if you haven't already - we could use a few more active members. Virogtheconq 22:35, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

The Policy

The policy naturally assumes that the Free Use uses legitimate images. The PSP picture you're referring to is not a legitimate image. Nobody in their right mind would assume that we would be forced to use a fair use image in this manner. Don't revert it again. Daniel Davis 02:01, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [22] -- ReyBrujo 20:42, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Go ahead- I was actually in the process of asking the question on that page. Daniel Davis

Name Rumors

Could you get people to decide whether we should keep the name rumor section on the Wii article or remove it so that it isn't moved back and forth. I would do it but I need to try to distance myself from that discussion since I am currently move protecting the page. Jedi6-(need help?) 04:03, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied at the user's talk page. [23] -- ReyBrujo 17:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Israel News Agency Reaches Over 60 Million

Please reconsider your vote for deletion of article re: Michele Shohatovitz. This health care professional is well known and respected in Israel. If she does work for the Israel News Agency, then she is an author who has a reach of well over 5,000 people ([http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.israelnewsagency.com according to Alexa the INA reaches up to 60 million readers]) which qualifies her as a notable. Thank you Idf-barak 14:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA addition

Hello. I see you added back in FoxEarth's Rfa which was removed as badly formatted/unaccepted. While he did technically accept, it was still badly formatted, which is grounds for unlinking it from Rfa. There have been comments left to this effect on the user's talk page, and I think it would have been better to leave it up the editor whether or not they wished to fix the formatting and re-add it (as only the nominee is supposed to add it to the Rfa page). Regards, MartinRe 16:44, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied in the user's talk page. [24] -- ReyBrujo 17:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Images wrongly marked as unsourced

You really should go back and fix the messes you made by wrongly tagging many well-described screenshots as unsourced, and then letting it slide for so long that OrphanBot has edited the uses. Stan 05:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied in the user's talk page. [25] -- ReyBrujo 17:23, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

These images are now over 7 days old, I have added quite a few back to their articles, but I think at least some of them were deleted. There are a lot, and some of them were in multiple articles before orphanbot. I have been adding them back to the articles they are definitely fair use in, and leaving orphanbot's delinking text for other people if they want to add them back to the more questionable articles. - cohesion 07:13, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied in the user's talk page. [26]
While the goal of replacing images is laudable, forcing the deletion of existing images is less so. It would be better to simply upload the better images and use them, which will orphan the existing ones and guarantee their deletion. The credibility of our "no source" process depends on us using it only for things where we genuinely have no idea who the copyright holder is. Stan 13:03, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
I agree it would be ideal if every screenshot included a source like "Captured by User:Blah with a XYZ video card", the more information the better. My personal take on it though is that there are so many clear cut no source at all completely untagged images why not work on those and make less people upset with the process? In other words, when you have tens of thousands of clear cut copyright violations, why waste time on the gray-area contentious ones that take longer to process? But on a technical level I do agree with you that a full source is always better. - cohesion 18:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Lucy Hale AFD

Hi, you voted weak delete at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucy Hale, and indicated you may change your opinion if relevant links were added. I added some edits, and added some links after your vote (more improvements are still warranted). Could you comment at the AFD, whether you think there's now sufficient coverage of her to keep the article? Thanks. --Rob 17:14, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied in Lucy Hale deletion page. [27] -- ReyBrujo 17:18, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Talk page

Thanks for the barnstar and no problems witht the reversion. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


Please reconsider changing your delete vote

because I have gave the citations.Thank youDzoni 11:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied at the Pilot of invisible F-117-a(song) deletion page. [28] -- ReyBrujo 17:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucy Hale

You voted "weak support" on this AFD debate, but "support" is not defined for AFDs. Please consider changing to "delete" or "keep". Thanks. Stifle (talk) 12:59, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the Lucy Hale deletion page. [29] -- ReyBrujo 17:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Hello ReyBrujo/Archive 1, and thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship! It has succeeded with an unanimous support of 67 votes, so that I am now an administrator. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page should you wish to leave any comments or ask for any help. Again, thanks a lot, AndyZ t 22:02, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello, ReyBrujo/Archive 1, and thank you for vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 62/2/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. As I acclimate myself to my new tools, feel free to let me know how you believe I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! RadioKirk talk to me 05:39, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Preying from the Pulpit

In Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Preying from the Pulpit you suggested that we merge the article Preying from the Pulpit with First Baptist Church of Hammond. 8 out of 10 people who commented there agreed with you and said we should remove the article by deleting it outright or merging its content with First Baptist Church of Hammond. Now the admin that removed the AfD has placed a merge tag on the article instead. Can you please comment on the proposed merger of the article at Talk:First Baptist Church of Hammond#Merging with Preying from the Pulpit? Vivaldi (talk) 02:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied in the talk page of First Baptist Church of Hammond. [30] -- ReyBrujo 17:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I have opened a RfC concerning Vivaldi, Hammond Baptist, and Preying at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Vivaldi. Arbusto 03:18, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

monobook.js

Hi. I hope you don't mind me asking, but I noticed you added a large number of what appears to be standardised messages to your monobook.js page. I was wondering what they were and, once implemented, how they are used. Thanks! --BillC 09:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [31] -- ReyBrujo 17:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Great, thanks. I thought I would ask as to what it did before charging in. Thanks again! BillC 18:08, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Replied on the user's talk page. [32] -- ReyBrujo 18:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Sven Littkowski

Hello again. Just for your information, with reference to the above AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sven Littkowski, I might not have been very clear in my original post. The guy is not dead. He wrote his own vanity page, and for some reason gave his date of death as the preceding day. He appears very much alive and is still posting on various bulletin boards. --BillC 22:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [33] -- ReyBrujo 22:53, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

FYI

You may be interested in this RfC, concerning a recent AfD in which you participated to some degree. TheProject 07:13, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [34] -- ReyBrujo 08:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Croatian Songs

I thought I would drop you a quick line to let you know that Dzoni's demands that those "Croatian" songs be deleted was disingenuous at best. They are in fact Croatian songs, but they were posted (undoubtedly) by Serbs who wish to emphasize the negatives about Croats. In other words, Dzoni would otherwise want those songs to remain.

I was one of those who voted to keep El kondor pada, but you could see that my reasons were different than most. I thought there was merit in some sort of article about the Serbian response to the NATO bombing.

Dzoni has plagued me -- I would have liked to have tried some procedure to get him removed completely from editing Wikipedia, but I do not know how to do it (I'm new to this). If you can help me, I'd appreciate it. His comments to me on the Dobrica Cosic talk page are the best evidence I have that he should be given the boot. Profnjm 13:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [35] -- ReyBrujo 13:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Snitch snitch make me richDzoni 16:18, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

AfD 'Bias in South Asian Studies'

Please note my comments on the AfD discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bias_in_South_Asian_Studies . Thanks Hornplease 09:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the AFD page. [36] -- ReyBrujo 12:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Reminder + Suggestion

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.
Comment Important: This talk page is becoming very long. Please consider archiving.
— Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 03:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Cheap images

The images I uploaded, and you told me to site the source. Sorry I can't site them...but I can give you the website that as the pictures, and you can do it:P It's because, I got other stuff to do, if I have known you have to site sources for uploading images, I would have done it before.

  • 46 Image Tagging Image:Tails001.jpg
  • 47 Image Tagging Image:SR Tails.jpg
  • 48 Image:SR Tails.jpg and Image:Tails001.jpg
  • 49 Image Tagging Image:SR Sonic.jpg
  • 50 Image Tagging for Image:Sonic001.jpg
  • 51 Image Tagging Image:SR Eggman.jpg
  • 52 Image Tagging Image:Eggman001.jpg

53 Blu-ray Disc wats' that doing there:P

Here is the source the cheap website is down...so:P[http://www.tsr-online.co.uk/]

>x<ino 18:32, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Sheryne Morcos

I noticed that in your comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheryne Morcos you noted that the content for this article could be merged into Young Liberals of Canada. The article in question has now been deleted and I am pasting the contents below if you would like to merge them. Cheers. -- No Guru 21:38, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Sheryne Morcos BA is a Parliamentary Liaison Officer for the International Trade department and the Vice-President of Organization for the Young Liberals of Canada. She was previously on staff for Jim Peterson. She previously served as Vice-President of Federal Affairs for the Ontario Young Liberals, the Ontario Wing of the Young Liberals of Canada. Morcos studied at Carleton University obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with a minor in History. She has endorsed Liberal leadership candidate Scott Brison along with husband Emmanuel Morin who is the National Youth Director.

Merged this text into the article. [37] No reply to No Guru, as it was not necessary. -- ReyBrujo 19:21, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Ayu singles

Do all of Ayu's singles which have a seperate article on here need an article seperate from the album on which they're contained?--Darrelljon 14:15, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [38] -- ReyBrujo 19:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the informative response.--Darrelljon 21:23, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Playstation 3 image

How is my image not appropriate, yet only a few lines down there is a "side-on" image of the PS3 that uses the exact same referencing as mine - i.e. image from E3 2006. Surely there is a double standard happening here. rcandelori may 22 2005

Replied on the user's talk page [39] and the PlayStation 3 talk page. [40] -- ReyBrujo 05:33, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I understand your argument, but it doesn't make sense that we use hi-res images of the console elsewhere, yet we are unable to put an accurate and clear picture at the beginning of the article. In any event, the copyright restrictions are stated and I would argue that for the sake of consistency and appearance, the black PS3 image or any other official sony promotional image should be used. Otherwise, all controler and side-on images should be removed and the spurious "fair-use" versions found. Rcandelori 15:40, 22 May 2006 (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Replied on the user's talk page. [41] -- ReyBrujo 06:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

La habías cambiado

No entendía nada, vuelvo a ver la imagen y me encuentro otra de un tamaño y calidad enorme que no tenía conciencia de haber subido. No me había dado cuenta de que habías cambiado la imagen de Riverwind y me estaba volviendo loco intentando adivinar como demonios me las había apañado para subir la imagen que habías puesto en su lugar. Por esto no entenderías que volviera a introducir cambios. Bueno, creo que ahora ya están todos los datos. Creo que estaría mejor que la imagen también incluyese los títulos pero como mis libros están o en catalán o en castellano he creído que lo más conveniente era no incluirlos en la versión en inglés del proyecto. Llull 21:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Replied on the user's talk page. [42] -- ReyBrujo 21:43, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
No lo creo. En los artículos de Picachu y Mickey Mouse hay imágenes el uso de las cuales entiendo que son casos paralelos. Una imagen de un libro puede servir para ilustrar fair use un artículo sobre un libro. En esa página se describe el personaje principal del libro luego entiendo que todavía se está hablando del libro y que por lo tanto queda cubierto. Por cierto, en las versiones en castellano publicadas en España raramente se traducen los nombres. Riverwind y Goldmoon siguen conservando sus nombres en inglés. Llull 21:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for notifying me about the typo! :)--☆TBC☆ (aka Tree Biting Conspiracy) 01:23, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

In reply

Got you message, sorry about that, and I'll start following your advice right away! (See, I already am) :) DoomsDay349 22:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Rude comments

I have encountered rude behavior on wikipedia more than once. So I would assume that the words, dumb and weasel were directed at me not an established style guide. So I apologize to this user, however, if I am insulted I will not lay low. I have worked hard to contribute to wikipedia. Thank you for telling me the truth. User:Stardust6000