Talk:Richard Garriott

message: The link to the article about the kids that stole the alcohol and left behind the camera at Garriott's estate is now a dead link. "^ Claire Osborn (2007-04-05). Nine who left pics at crime scene identified. Retrieved on 2007-05-01." -- Rappo 22:48, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's trivia in any event. See WP:TRIVIA.139.48.25.61 (talk) 20:49, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Links 

message: I've heard it was something the Russians left behind and auctioned off, not Nasa.  Don't have a source though. FrozenPurpleCube 22:49, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Owner of property on the moon? 

message: Seems unlikely that Origin had a contract for Harry Potter Online, doesn't it?  I'm not terribly familiar with Harry Potter but someone who knows better is welcome to delete this comment. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.183.35.115 (talk • contribs).
:I've added a reference. It seems they were working with a company called Liquid Development. --Mrwojo 01:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry Potter Online 

message: Why is this needed? How does it add to the article? I just don't see a reason for it. Nar Matteru (talk) 14:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, I've removed it. If you run across frivolous links or links that violate WP:EL in other articles, please don't hesitate to remove them. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 19:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  relevancy of his political donations in external links 

message: according to the article, he is scheduled to go to the ISS by the flight Soyuz TMA-13 and to come back by the flight Soyuz TMA-12...6 month before. Can someone find the correct dates about this flight? (sorry for my english, I'm french) --82.227.142.250 (talk) 22:44, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Soyuz vehicles rotate. They fly one up, keep it on station, and return it 6 months later. So yes, while TMA-12 launched 6 months ago, it will not land until Expedition 17 returns, 6 months later, with Garriot aboard. Basically the crew that launches with the Soyuz, lands with it. So the vehicles are on the station for 6 months, which explains why he could return on a vehicle that launched 6 months ago. :) Ariel♥Gold 08:41, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  spaceflight 

message: Is he going to do the first civilian spacewalk??Danielshy (talk) 15:22, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Ariel♥Gold 08:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spaceflight 

message: How exactly did the article on Richard Garriot come to show his space flight as more important than his contributions to game design? He invented a genre.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.21.143.62 (talk) 19:06, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While working on this article today, I would have to agree. However, the issue is not that there is too much about his flight (there are only two paragraphs) but that there simply is not enough about his other areas (properly sourced, of course) to balance it out. Ariel♥Gold 08:39, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article focus 

message: Why is the mention of 'British accent' linked almost synonymously with 'Received Pronunciation'? The linked article itself claims only 2% of Britons speak in such a form and there is no evidence provided that Garriott does so.
SaintDaveUK (talk) 18:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Accent 

message: While being a space tourist is what hes probably best known for at the moment, hes not a career astronaught and much better known as a games developer. Now that hes comes back down to earth and this news subsides, he'll be best known as a game developer again. So why use the astronaut infobox? Nar Matteru (talk) 14:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I don't see a reason why people would object, so go for it. SaintDaveUK (talk) 17:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For some reason, all of the people who have been spaceflight participants, use that infobox. I agree that it makes no sense to use the astronaut infobox on them, but it seems to be standard across all of the tourists. Ariel♥Gold 01:31, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

text: FWIW he announced that he's leaving the video game industry and pursuing something he learned while fooling around with spaceflight.  So the astronaut infobox may not be so out of place anymore. — Frecklefσσt | Talk 16:45, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

text: The announcement might have to do with a recent legal battle with former employer NCSoft over fraudulent termination. Also, it appears as though according to legal documents given here the claim that he was voluntarily leaving NCSoft to pursue "other interests" was worded in an open letter of resignation that NCSoft Fraudulently authored in his name. I'd say this page is about to get some pretty serious updates in the near future. --NateDSaint (talk) 15:48, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox/Profession 

message: Would it be worth mentioning Garriott's 27 (or 24) Million Dollar claim?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.69.198.17 (talk) 13:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NCSoft lawsuit 

message: The first paragraph of the "Spaceflight" subsection states that "Garriott became the second second-generation space traveler", but the last sentence of that paragraph claims he is the first second-gen space traveller.  Can someone please resolve this obvious contradiction?  If I do it myself, I'm just going to delete both sentences. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 20:29, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: Garriott is listed in the "Video game works" table as a designer for Omega, but he was just one among many programmers that helped design the robot programming elements of the game. The head director of game development was Stuart B. Marks. -- œ™ 00:10, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The table doesn't claim he was the sole developer of the game, just one of the developers of the game. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 09:50, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes but I'm sure he played a role in the development in many games, doesn't mean we should list them all. I think we should probably restrict the table to only the games he had a major role in. -- œ™ 05:46, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omega 

message: I'm not really an editor, so I wouldn't know where to put this - but Richard recently was a guest on The Moth Podcast, with a short story about his spaceflight experiences. Might be worth putting a reference to it - http://themoth.prx.org/?p=1014
74.117.32.5 (talk) 16:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Moth Podcast 

message: I got a funny feeling if he was a serial killer there wouldn't be a push to call him "british american" simply because his fully-american parents were visiting England when he was born. I think we should just leave the nationality entirely off the the lede and simply explain he was born in England to american parents in "early life" . Even the modern citizenship rules would preclude him from being considered "british". 71.89.112.70 (talk) 17:08, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  He may call himself Lord British but he seems to be all American.  Dream Focus 17:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "British" -- according to whom?

message: Since I have no way to contact Mr. Garriott I am hopeing he will read this someday. I truly believe that with the court issuing Mr.Garriott $28 Million that he shuld take some of that money and re purchase the rights to Tabula Rasa (if he doesnt own them already) and find a new publisher and re create the game. It was amazing in its own right and was very inovatve. I am a game developer myself, and to be honest I was a subscriber to Tabula Rasa. I was a game that not to many had ever seen before and I wish to see it again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.92.104.16 (talk) 21:09, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You can post on his Facebook page if you want to talk to him.  This isn't the place for that.  Dream Focus 17:39, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tabula Rasa 

message: I see the infobox lists his nationality as British/American. Where is it stated he is British? He was born in England, but to American parents and he's lived the rest of his life in the US. Where does it say that he has dual citizenship or considers himself both British and English? Just trying to find out. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 00:23, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: When he goes into space, despite England having absolutely nothing to do it at all, he still wears an American and a British flag on his uniform.  Dream Focus 10:14, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Gotcha. But that still doesn't make him a British citizen, does it? All we can say is that he's an anglophile at best. I'd be all in favor of listing him with British nationality if we can find one reliable ref that states it. I'm not going to change it, but I don't think it's correct. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 14:52, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: His birth certificate says he was born in England, so that counts.  Dream Focus 15:05, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

text: That counts, but, unlike in the U.S., it doesn't make him a British citizen (see British citizenship by birth in the United Kingdom). — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 16:33, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Lord British British?

message: * The dictionary says an astronaut is "a person who travels in a spacecraft into outer space". Also look at the definition in the Wikipedia article for Astronaut)
*Check the dictionary definition I mentioned at .  And the Wikipedia article for Astronaut states:
*So clearly he is an astronaut.  He has also done scientific experiments in space, an educational show, made a film about him going into space, and given lectures.  Not sure if you'd count that as a career instead of a hobby, thus not putting it in the career section of his infobox, but it surely belongs in other places in the article.  Dream Focus 21:06, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: No one is saying he was not an astronaut.  It is definitely not a career though and should not be listed as an occupation.  Having it elsewhere in the article is definitely of value though but there already is a long section on his spaceflight.  I don't see any need to expand or reduce that section. Caidh (talk) 00:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  edit dispute.  Is he an astronaut? 

message: http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_26.pdf
http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_49.pdf
Reading different issues, different information comes forth.  In 1975 he took a one semester class on BASIC.  He then convinced them to let him do a three years of self driven classes.  He graduated in 1979.  The first source says 1977 is when he got started.  A bit odd, but whatever.  Dream Focus 00:31, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's possible that "this was in 1977" refers to when he learned to play D&D (Perhaps at that computer camp at the University of Oklahoma?). A possible chronology is: 1975 - reading Tolkein, takes BASIC class. 1976 - begins self-directed class. 1977 - learns to play D&D. Ylee (talk) 02:16, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: But he says in 1975 "I was beginning to explore fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons".  Not too important, just sort of odd.  Dream Focus 13:03, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  what sources say 

message: Lord British (username) and Lord British (nickname) should redirect here, so that they appear on the searchbox dropdown, as he's famously known as 'Lord British' -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 06:07, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirects

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message: I'm suggesting what relevant information can be condensed and salvaged from Lord British be merged into this article. The character by itself is near inseparable from Garriott, and lacks really any standalone reception. It's been that way for about 15 years now, and a cursory look for sources hasn't change that. In addition much of the Lord British article is near unusable, and the section about killing him borders on gamecruft (at best it's vastly overdetailed).-- Kung Fu Man (talk) 06:03, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I am agreeable to Lord British being redirected to Richard Garriott's article on principle. However, I would much prefer that most of the Lord British stuff, especially the running gags about players attempting to kill him, go to a dedicated section in the Ultima series article as opposed to a BLP article. Haleth (talk) 12:31, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Support per above. Evilcasper (talk) 04:02, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Lord British]] merge proposal