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Talk:Video game artist

message: Where it says "Up until about the early 1990s, almost all art for video games were created by the game programmers." It should probably say "Up until the late 1980s, practically all sprites for video games were created by their programmers."
Earlier than this, Nintendo/Sega consoles, aswell as Arcade Machines, used palleted drawn Sprites by artists.--Mincetro 06:55, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

message: Make mobile 2600:100F:B13B:364:383C:FC62:7654:530B (talk) 22:46, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello
Talk:Video game producer

message: I moved the section called "Recruitment" here for several reasons.  Here it is:
:Although qualifications are often necessary it is possible to become a video game producer through internal promotion. Often an entry into the industry comes through being a game tester, however only the top percentile will progress to other roles. One notable example is Justyn McLean at SEGA Europe who came from game testing and made the move to PD becoming "a major player in the SEGA empire".

First off, the only source cited is a tabloid, the Daily Mirror, hardly a reliable resource.  Second, it mentions Justyn McLean as a "major player" at SEGA Europe, but the last credit I can find for him is an Associate Producer, hardly a "major player".  Thirdly, what is said here can be said about any position in the video game industry.  In fact, I graduated from testing to programming.  The only problem is finding a verifiable and reliable resource that says as much.  If and when it is located, this information should go in the main video game industry article and not singled out for the producer article. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:29, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I had some mention of becoming programmer/designer through starting as tester, but it did not mention producer or in fact other "less-technical" positions. Though all my books are in UK and I won't be there for a while. There is a mention in Game_testing#Employment. I suppose that can (should) be added to VGI article. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:10, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Recruitment section

message: Do people feel that Robin Hunicke is sufficiently notable in the video game industry to have her own article?  I suggested the idea of merging her article into Thatgamecompany (her current employer), but others don't seem to agree with this proposal.  Please understand that I'm not trying to lobby for getting rid of Hunicke's page, and if the consensus is that her bio should stay as its own article, I'm fine with that.  Richwales (talk · contribs) 17:54, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robin Hunicke 
Talk:Spirit prison

message: I'm inclined to remove the claim that somebody other than the mormons believes this, but I'll wait to see if anybody can suggest another group before I do so. Uucp 17:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Restoration Branches and other traditionalist RLDS factions also generally believe in the "prison house" doctrine. It is not put forward as a definite doctrine but is heavily implied by several mainstream Christian authors, (possibly inspired by the Latter Day Saint position though I cannot prove this) notably C. S. Lewis in The Great Divorce. It is not quite the same as Catholic Purgatory because the reason for being there and the conditions of getting out are different. I am not sure in what degree the RLDS position is similar or dissimilar to the LDS position as the afterlife is a major source of contention between the two positions. --BenMcLean (talk) 16:58, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What other Xtian group believes in this? 

message: With a word change "Prison of the spirits" there are many 100s of references, all based on 1 Pe 3:19. The two paragraphs moved out to Spirit world (Latter Day Saints) where they were more relevant.In ictu oculi (talk)
: A comment origional made here was moved to Talk:Spirit world (Latter Day Saints)#Merge/Redirect to avoid cross-thread posting. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 22:36, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect?
Talk:Level editor

message: I meant to merge this page with the List of level editors page, not just change the tittle. Does anyone know how to merge them? Grizvan
:Lists and articles should not be merged. I've renamed the article to its original name because it's quite common to have an article about a subject (like a certain type of software) and a list about that subject. - Simeon87 13:10, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: And this is a fact. All released Doom editors are third-party ones.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.63.85.252 (talk) 19:11, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I don't know how I could've misread the ref... Fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out! --DanielPharos (talk) 21:39, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doom did not include a level editor
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/David Saks

message: I removed a vote as it was added to a comment authored by User:172.155.69.223 by User:66.239.212.48, two purportedly distinct editors.  See this and this for evidence.  Given the odd "do not delete" (instead of "keep") language used by the other two "keep" voters, as well as similar comments on the Memphis talk page, I think there is enough evidence present for a checkuser request for possible sock puppetry, and I have made the request (though given the backlog of requests, it may not go through for awhile). - Jersyko talk 01:16, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sock puppetry
Talk:New Forest coven

message: I dislike how this entry misrepresents the work of Ginzburg since his work clearly demonstrates (as does the work of Eva Pocs and Emma Wilby) that those accused of witchcraft were in fact pagan, and that the existence of shamanic fertility-cults clearly demonstrates the persistence of a historical witchcraft and a plausible variant of the Murray thesis.  In fact, the use of a ritual knife is not unique to Wicca since it occurs in Central European traditional witchcraft without any connection to Wicca!  Also, Hutton is an unreliable source since he confessed ("Witches, Druids and King Arthur") that: 1.) he was unable to prove Wicca's modernity (despite his use of absolutist language and making grossly unsupported arguments); and 2.) he confessed to having intentionally discovered and ignored evidence tracing Wicca to remote antiquity because such evidence would have disproved him.  Hutton has also been lying about Carlo Ginzburg for years!  In "The Witch" he claims that Ginzburg no longer endorses his views in "The Night Battles" and "Ecstasies" apparently because Ginzburg hasn't written anything new on the subject in recent years.  However, Ginzburg hasp republished them in Italian with an additional postscript!  Furthermore, Hutton has been claiming that he and Ginzburg are close, personal friends and that Ginzburg agrees with his assessments of Ginzburg's work.  So, I contacted Ginzburg who told me that he and Hutton are NOT friends in any sense; in fact, they met each other only once (and briefly) at a conference, which was enough to demonstrate that they are in complete disagreement with each other over Ginzburg's conclusions. 
Also, Norman Cohn's views hardly support Hutton since much more recent evidence has proven the opposite of his views, such as the fact that those accused of witchcraft really were pagan.  Furthermore, even Hutton has had to agree that Cohn was unjust to Murray by demonstrably misrepresenting her views as a Straw Man argument. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.39.20.64 (talk) 05:53, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Ritual magic

message: Allow me to clarify. Ritual magic is not an occult subject, nor a neopagan one. Ritual magic happens in Hinduism, Daoism, Voodoo and many other multi-million-adherents cultural systems. It is simply a combination of ritual and magic - and both ideas are far more universal than either the occult, or neopaganism. You try to cram ritual magic - something hundreds of millions of people do - into the domain of a specific group of people that probably doesn't exceed one million. Only in Europe and Northern America can this appear to make sense.Denial 10:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Quasi-quotation

message: One, Lisp makes use of quasiquotation, and its influenced other languages: the computer science link should be covered.  Alan Bawden's paper Quasiquotation in Lisp (PS) is a good resource for this.
Two, George Boolos has a nice, short article in his "Logic, Logic and Logic" on a problem with quasiquotation that we would benefit from discussing.  Can't remember the title. --- Charles Stewart(talk) 06:05, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it would definitely be good to discuss quasiquotation in Lisp.  I think the Boolos article you have in mind is "Quotational Ambiguity."  However, it is not so much about quasi-quotation as about a more obscure difficulty (which he calls "Ernst's paradox" after the student who brought it to his attention) that can be encountered when attempting to use quotation in a strictly correct way.  Ernst's paradox might be worth of its own article.  I'll put it on my tentative to-do list.  Dbtfz (talk - contribs) 20:45, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Two things

message: I reckon this page is pretty unaccessible for someone who isn't familiar with the subject (Edmund1989 18:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I cleared it up a little bit, but I probably need to come back to it.  The order of explanation is a little weird.  We should be saying how it does work before saying how it doesn't. KSchutte 06:05, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: accessibility

message: The vast majority of the backtick uses described in the link target (Backtick#Use in programming) are not called "quasiquote".  That term is only used for a few - definitely Scheme, Scala, and Haskell - and perhaps only those.  The sentence at the top of this article implies that quasiquote is synonymous with backtick, which is not the case.  Instead, should it link individually to the Scheme, Scala, and Haskell articles?
I took a stab at simply rephrasing the sentence.
108.64.118.44 (talk) 06:15, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ""Quasiquote" redirects here. For the programming language escape character, see Backtick § Use in programming." 

message: Robert Binkley 1970 and Yasutada Sudo 2008 seem relevant -- are they talking about the same problem and did they succeed in solving it? 2600:1009:B00B:B2B6:0:57:4C9B:A501 (talk) 20:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quantifying into quoted contexts
Talk:Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines

message: Both the articles Trans Air Congo and Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines claim use of the same code "Q8". 
: Anyone have a ref handy?Andy Dingley (talk) 11:10, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  IATA code Q8? 
Talk:Von Neumann regular ring

message: I think these things may sometimes be called "absolutely flat" in the commutative case. See Atiyah/MacDonald, Introduction to Commutative Algebra, p. 35. - Gauge 06:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

message: I see that in the section "Generalizations" is placed the notion of "strongly regular", which is in fact not a generalization, but a specialization!
Every strongly regular ring is a von Neumann regular ring, and not the converse.
Actual generalizations of von Neumann regular rings are:
* pi-regular rings.
* PP rings.
* Generalized PP rings.
* CPP rings.
* CPF rings.
* APP rings.
* P-von Neumann regular rings.
Every von Neumann regular ring is contained in those classes.
---Jose Brox  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.58.205.50 (talk) 17:03, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Generalizations" are not so
Talk:Baltic neopaganism

message: It is currently being proposed that Category:Baltic countries and territories be deleted. This article is related to that category. The relevant discussion is located at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 January 8#Countries and territories by language family. The deletion discussion would benefit from input from editors with a knowledge of and interest in Baltic neopaganism. Krakkos (talk) 12:02, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion of [[:Category:Baltic countries and territories|Category:Baltic countries and territories]]
Talk:Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft

message: I support the proposal to merge this content into Neopaganism in German-speaking Europe. This organization is not notable enough to justify having its own article, and the target page would benefit from the inclusion of this material. (I'm also going to propose merging the information from Heidnische Gemeinschaft.) —Aryaman (talk) 15:28, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Merge > Neopaganism in German-speaking Europe
Talk:List of monarchs of Hesse

message: Dear John, dear Kmorozov, I have seen that you have edited Rulers of Hesse in the past, so I am asking you about your opinions:
*Should rulers' names be given in their English or in their German form?
*What should be done about articles that have been created with the non-preferred spelling/form in their title?
Thanks for your consideration. Str1977 19:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should rulers' names be given in their English or in their German form? 

message: I think, it would be cool to make layout as here List of rulers of Bavaria#Wittelsbach_Dynasty Kmorozov 10:52, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Layout 

message: I was very surprised to see this line in the article, while correct to state that the direct line died out, stating the whole family ceased to exist is incorrect, there are significant numbers of members this family line still alive today in the USA, South Africa and Australia.  I am not that familar with the terms of reference of an article, i.e. when a family line is said to cease to exist, but think that it requires at a minimum rewording.
:What are you talking about?  There are many descendants of the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt who are live, but the only agnatic descendants that I'm aware of are the Mountbattens, who are not dynasts.  And none of them live in the USA, South Africa, or Australia.  What are you referring to? john k (talk) 03:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line of Hesse-Darmstaft became extinct  

message: I kind of feel as though the article is a bit muddled by the inclusion of so many non-sovereign lines like Hesse-Rotenburg and Hesse-Philippsthal.  Any thought to removing the non-sovereign cadet lines to their own article, and leave only those lines who had imperial immediacy or ruled over sovereign states after the end of the Holy Roman Empire? john k (talk) 03:59, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of non-sovereign lines 

message: #Louis of Hesse and by Rhine dies
#Philipp of Hesse-Kassel, already head of the Electoral House of Hesse, succeeds Louis to "the total headship" of Hesse, even though Louis had "nominally adopted" Philipp's son, Moritz
#Moritz is head of the House of Hesse since Philipp died in 1980
Why are Philipp and Moritz (and Moritz's son. Donatus) omitted from the article? 71.234.215.133 (talk) 15:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extinction/succession/adoption
Talk:Gothi

message: ::The term goði literally means "speaker for the gods". 
Can anyone provide support for this statement? I have deleted it, pending documentation. Rsradford (talk) 16:43, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call. I don't believe this can be substantiated. Haukur (talk) 17:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is literally no such thing. The -i suffix means one of or the like, and the "goth" is likely related to the modern English "god" so it means more literally "godsman" but I can't source that. The surname "Godard/Goddard" may relate to goðorð/godord mentioned at the end of this article. Nagelfar (talk) 11:43, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the -i has any significance other than being the weak masculine declension's nominative singular ending. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 05:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning?

message: Is there a unicode for the backslashed "th" (with a '\' going through and connecting the t & h) which is the symbol for a voiceless "th" sound that is not the eth character? I think this article should likely have that so those who come across the page do not pronounce it like "goth" is pronounced. IPA could be used too, but that the voiceless 'th' symbol doesn't seem to have a unicode strikes me a bit. It is pronounced like "go thee" Nagelfar (talk) 11:40, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The symbol to which you refer, ᵺ, is not a standard symbol but rather a tendency of transcription in English dictionaries. Each dictionary uses its own transcription system. These systems are not usually used on Wikipedia. Rather, IPA is used, and for native words the respelling at Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key. Furthermore, the pronunciation of Old Norse is theoretical and with great regional and chronological variation, and in this case I know of at least two possible phonemic transcriptions of the word, not to mention phonetic transcriptions. It is better to refer someone to Old Norse orthography, but doing this in every single article containing a Norse word is overkill. I think it's a given that if the word is not in a language you know that you're probably not pronouncing it correctly, and if that bugs you you should learn the pronunciation through the obvious channels. Finally, eth & thee have a voiced sound, not a voiceless. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 16:59, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voiceless "th" sound 

message: Hello.
Goði -- Chieftain (singular) ... Lord (i.e., Herr)
Goðar -- Chieftains (plural) ... Lords (i.e., Herrn)
Goðorð -- Chieftainship (District of a Chieftain) ... Lordship (i.e., Herrschaft)
Are these correct?  ArmchairVexillologistDonLives! (talk) 07:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goðorð -- Chieftainship
Talk:Hard and soft polytheism

message: There were a lot of Greeks, and Greek culture covered a long period; it's misleading to say they all thought the gods were distinct and separate. In the Greek magical papyri (which are thought to express popular, rather than obscure beliefs) there are several examples of multiple goddesses being seen as merely aspects of a single great goddess. And in Orphism, Pan and Zeus and Dionysus were seen as aspects of a single being, the Phanes-Protogonos. The Greeks were also quick to adopt foreign gods under the names of domestic deities, e.g. the Ephesian Artemis, or the god of Mendes being described as the Egyptian Pan! I think we need to find a better example of hard polytheism! Fuzzypeg☻ 03:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek religion not a good example 

message: Is this term a neologism? It has very few google hits and I can't find any reliable sources. JoshuaZ 03:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Might be. While the concept is certainly out there, I think I've only seen the term itself on WP and LJ. Hmmmm.  Personally, I think this whole article is flawed the more I look at it.  Polytheism is polytheism. Henotheism and duotheism, etc, already have names.  I think this is an attempt to coin or solidify an unsourced neologism.  For instance, the source I just suggested about for CR - we've never debated being "hard" or "soft" polytheists.  We are simply polytheists.  This article is trying to say that only "hard" polytheism is polytheism, but that the term can be somehow degraded to encompass philosophies that aren't actually polytheism, simply by qualifying them as "soft" polytheism.  I'm tempted to just ditch this. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 22:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: you are right I think. Whatever we have here that is worth keeping can be merged into polytheism. Thus, I don't suggest an Afd, I would prefer a simple merge which we can just do silently unless somebody objects. I don't necessarily agree that "Polytheism is polytheism" in the sense that there cannot be huge differences in conception, just as there can be huge differences in monotheist conceptions of God. But such as they are, they should be discussed without resorting to neologisms. dab (𒁳) 13:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

text: True, it is more complicated than just "polytheism is polytheism." :-) There are a range of interpretations. But trying to put that range into two defining categories, based on OR and the opinions of the contributors, is not only simplifying it far too much, it's inappropriate for the 'pedia.  If there are no objections, I agree we can merge and redirect. I need to look over both articles and see if any of this is worth saving, and how it would best be integrated. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 18:42, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neologism?
Talk:Soft polytheism

message: There were a lot of Greeks, and Greek culture covered a long period; it's misleading to say they all thought the gods were distinct and separate. In the Greek magical papyri there are several examples of multiple goddesses being seen as merely aspects of a single goddess. And in Orphism, Pan and Zeus and Dionysus were seen as aspects of a single being, the Phanes-Protogonos. The Greeks were also quick to adopt foreign gods under the names of domestic deities, e.g. the Ephesian Artemis, or the god of Mendes being described as the Egyptian Pan! I think we need to find a better example of hard polytheism! Fuzzypeg☻ 03:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: indeed. the only way is to discuss this in context, and make clear that both positions existed alongside even in anqtiquity. --dab (𒁳) 11:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Greek hard polytheism?
Talk:Gay Liberation Front

message: Was this group armed? Were/are there armed gay groups in the tradition of the Black Panther Party? etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.255.214.234 (talk) 06:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, though in the manifesto the intent was to defend themselves: "If this involves violence, it will not be we who initiate this, but those who attempt to stand in our way to freedom." -- Ashley VH 15:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manifesto 

message: As it stands this article is very confusing with the overlapping references. Both groups are significant enough to have their own separate articles. Anyone interested in teasing this apart? Pjefts (talk) 16:38, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to separate into two articles one for GLF-New York City and one for GLF-Britain 
Talk:Heidnische Gemeinschaft

message: This organization is not notable enough to justify having its own article, and the target page would benefit from the inclusion of this material. (The same merge has been proposed for the article on the Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft.) —Aryaman (talk) 15:32, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Merge > Neopaganism in German-speaking Europe 
Talk:Baylor University/to do

message: *Create section on Sexual Assault Scandel which gives a summary of what has occurred and how it effects the University
*Academic profile (Expand)
*Baylor 2012 (Expand)
*Campus (Create & Pictures) - should mention the construction of Brooks village, and Brooks Flats
*Student life (Create)
*Athletics: Expand football section (first game was played in 1904, and numerous all-americans have played at Baylor since then, including Mike Singletary) and create section for tennis program. Separate men's and women's basketball.
*Bush Library
*Homecoming - one of largest in nation (oldest continous running homcoming parade)
*little tidbits - greek life, bear claw and sic 'em bears expression
*mention of the ban on dancing
*Tidbit that Baylor is the oldest continually operating University in Texas
*Update Alumni-Priscilla Owen, Chet Edwards
*Sul Ross graduated from University of North Alabama
Note: Priscilla Owen already listed.  Chet Edwards graduated from Texas A&M.  Krazos 03:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)