Talk:D6 System

message: I've removed the D6 image; this article is about the sytem, not the die.  User:Segsegreyjanra holds that "D6 Die image is relevant to this article as the Game System uses SIX SIDED DICE IN THE GAME"; but that's true of the bulk of RPGs, board games and wargames.  Shall we add a D6 image to every game in wikipedia?  No. Percy Snoodle 10:31, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  D6 image 

message: I was the one who, as WBSparks [unusuable username, hence the change] got the ball rolling on this page. There wasn't much to speak of prior to that, and I managed to get some D6 people interested in contributing. 
The initial write-up was done by a fellow named Maur on the WEG forums, who I don't think ever registered a username. I was very grateful for his efforts, so I didn't say anything about the way it had been put together, but I now think that most of the objections I've seen from users like Snoodle can be pinned on the general structure of the article. For example, his beef with the dice image would probably not exist if the importance of the dice was properly explained in the artcle.
 
So I'm going to take it on myself to complete re-structure and re-write the article, and when finished I'll run it past you all and hopefully it'll be well-recieved. 
 
In general, I'm going to try to move away from the lists and incomplete sections, and produce more of an encyclopedic style of article. But, because of WEG's bankruptcy and losing the SW licence, among some other things, exactly what constitutes "D6 System" can be a point of contention.
 
For those of us who've been using D6 since the 80s, it's pretty clear that, for example, the SW rpg, is the same system. But it needs to be explained properly in the article, so that users like Snoodle, who are more concerned with general RPG article maintainance than with D6, are able to come in and make meaningful judgements.       -hupersonity 12:50pm MT  June 24, 2006
Have fun. -Segsegreyjanra  June 26, 2006.
:Oh, you're the man himself. Yeah, don't take it the wrong way, I just want to transform the lists into prose. You know, ideally, talk about the history and different products, rather than simply listing them. I'm glad that you've been keeping it alive - all I did was make a paragraph and a category page, and adjust a few links. But I know from lurking in talk pages that some things drive wikipedians nuts. The dice image is a great example - if there was something in the article that explained the importants and various utilities of using six-sided dice, and that's where the image was, then a guy like Snoodle probably wouldn't mind. I think it's the fact that it's just there, with no context, that bugs him. 
:I don't want to take a way from the work you've done - let's face it, there wasn't much here before you got started - but a situation where a wikipedian is verging on an edit war over something like an image of d6s in a D6 article is totally preventable simply by adding a few lines of explanation. -hupersonity 6:30pm MT  June 26, 2006
::Yes, if there was some context for it I'd have much less of a problem with it.  ATM, floated down the bottom by the book covers,  it looks like the image goes with the "Legends system" section (though that depends on your font size).  Percy Snoodle 13:32, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  General re-write 

message: The "History" section is, on my screen, 17 lines of unbroken text. It needs to be divided up into at least two paragraphs, and ideally three. --Peter Knutsen 17:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm inclined to agree with you, and a lot of it was my doing. I've split it into three paragraphs, the first describing the classic period, the second covering the period during which it started actually being called "D6", and the final covering the current incarnations. Hope it looks better on your side. Dahak 16:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "History" section needs some whitespace