Talk:X (video game series)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:17, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:X3 Ingame Shot.jpg

message: XenonSlayer, the link you gave for "Terrans" didn't actually point anywhere. There's currently no page by that name on Wikipedia. It's a deadlink.  For the meantime, just so it points somewhere, I pointed it to the Terrans on the list of races page. But looking around, I get the feeling this is a work in process, so I made this in a 2nd edit so you can easily revert me if/when you make a "Terrans (X)" page.The Zig (talk) 19:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terrans link 

message: Okay, I just merged in X Universe (fictional setting). Think I did all the steps from the merge list for a full-content paste. Then I did a lot of cleaning up. I tried to do this all real quick, and in parallel so the section was only messed up for literally about a minute, so do let me know if I did anything wrong. And of course look for any mistakes/typos I missed.
I'm not sure about the last subsection bit, I just included it because I didn't want to delete it. However, as hard as I tried, it still feels like idle speculation. Let me know what you think.
The Zig (talk) 12:41, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: X Universe (fictional setting): merged

message: Hi. I notice we've got a possible deletionist circling! A few of the race pages have been tagged as uncited - which is certainly true. It's also unresolvable. Simply put, I doubt we can find independent sources for each individual race. I doubt there are any newspapers/magazine (even computer game mags) that mention individual races, and I don't think anyone's written a scholarly article about the Split! Egosoft's manuals and magazines do not count for notability (they only count for verifying content), thus we cannot use these to save the articles.
I strongly suspect this is a prelude to a WP:PROD. If it comes, we could remove the prod, but looking at the mood over on AfD lately, the individual race pages don't have a snowflake in hell's chance of making it through. If we merge them into just the list of races page, I think we've got a damn good argument (as the races - collectively - are mentioned in a several articles, making them notable, and they span all the games, making it practically redundant to put them into every game's own article). As such I think we should move ahead with the merge sooner rather than later.
Thoughts?
The Zig (talk) 10:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: May have a go at this merge in the next few days for the reasons given above. If you object, speak up now! The Zig (talk) 21:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I'd support a merge. Sometimes that's the best way to save an article's content if that article raises notability concerns with the broader wikipedia community. Randomran (talk) 17:51, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Back to that merge discussion