 The Editor   | 08 May 2012 4:57 p.m. PST |
Wikipedia has been calling for corrections and updates to their listing for TMP for several years – anyone feel up to the job? link |
 Black Cavalier  | 08 May 2012 5:05 p.m. PST |
Sounds interesting, what exactly would you want done? |
| Wellspring | 08 May 2012 5:29 p.m. PST |
There's a notice up calling for deletion on the grounds of notability. Wikipedia's standards vary from article to article (often based on the editors' preexisting biases, sadly), but multiple mentions in newspapers is usually the way you do it. Especially those of the dead tree variety. I'll try to take a look on NEXIS tomorrow but others should look, too. |
| The Editor | 08 May 2012 5:47 p.m. PST |
…what exactly would you want done? They want the article re-written to sound more neutral and less 'promotional'. Might want to stress the pioneering significance of TMP, in the sense that the website has been operational continuously since 1994. The phrase… …designer and director for the Ultima VII Part II, The Serpent Isle and Pacific Strike video games. …could be corrected to… …designer and project lead for Ultima VII, Part II, The Serpent Isle computer game; designer of Pacific Strike computer game. |
 Murphy  | 08 May 2012 7:36 p.m. PST |
Is Larry Dunn still around? I think he'd be up to correcting the wiki entries! |
| nochules | 09 May 2012 4:47 a.m. PST |
I think aiming for that they did with BoardGameGeek on Wikipedia would be enough to get the lack of notability monkey off your back. |
| OSchmidt | 09 May 2012 6:05 a.m. PST |
Well I read the Wikepedia citation. I don't see any boosterism and while generally positive and not dealing with any negatives, all I can say is "so what?" Why does it need more? When you are talking about "notability" does that mean footnotes or attribution? For the subject why does it need it? What's to footnote? Do we have to have citations from "The Oxbridge New Encyclopedia of Warames" This isn't sensitive historical data here or saying something like "Hey!!! GUYS!! Guess what!!! The Germans won World War Two After all!" |
| OSchmidt | 09 May 2012 6:08 a.m. PST |
I just took a second look at it. All but the last paragraph seems just a simple statement of fact. The last paragraph with reference to the Society of Ancients could be justified with a simple citation, but probably could be dropped without comment. |
| Yesthatphil | 09 May 2012 8:16 a.m. PST |
Except that the Society of Ancients reference boosts TMP's credentials because SoA has already established credentials with Wikipedia (hard work though it was, and constant though the campaign will be) – that's the point. That's how it works. |
| 14Bore | 09 May 2012 4:21 p.m. PST |
Think it reads very nicely. Might be the third wiki artical I've ever read. Could use some Nap board info, maybe something like the only place to get a info on facings of some hardly ever used battalion from some out of the way place. Don't ya think? |
