Talk:Lou Zocchi

message: Am I the only person who finds it odd that in eight-paragraph article about a person, five of the paragraphs (including all the longer paragraphs) are devoted to a single product of his company? This article lacks even basic biographical details. Yes, I get it, the reason Lou Zocchi has a page in Wikipedia is because of his involvement in the game industry, but the article doesn't really say too much about that. How did Mr. Zocchi get started in the game industry? Did he ever work for other game companies, or just his own? How did he get his company off the ground? Did he work in other industries between World War 2 and Gamescience? What about his military experience, which is alluded to? Is he a combat veteran of World War 2? What theater did he serve in? Where was he born? Where does his military knowledge come from? Did he attend a college or university? If yes, did he graduate from it? What did he study? Where was he born? Where does he live now? Does he have a family? Are any of them active in the gaming industry? Obviously, I'm not in a position to answer these questions or I would simply do that. But as currently written, this article reads more like an advertisement for Mr. Zocchi's dice than an encyclopedia article. Hopefully someone out there can do better.
Darkstar8799 (talk) 15:33, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Where's the Biography?

message: horusfalcon 21:18 6 Mar 2010 {CST}
I am sitting at CoastCon 33 with Mr. Zocchi, who reviewed this article with me and asked me to make the changes regarding four-sided dice which I have made.  Please feel free to contact me via email if you need further confirmation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Horusfalcon (talk • contribs) 03:18, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 4-Sided Dice

message: If Lou is a sergeant, why does this name tag identify him as a Colonel?
http://www.diffworlds.com/images/gencon2004/040818-3-gencon-tadashi-louzocchi.jpg
Marc W. Abel 21:11, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He's not in the State Guard, he's in the State Defense Force, which is as much as a "reserve" to the National Guard as the American Legion is.  It's a bunch of old fat dudes (of which a few used to be in the military) pretending to still be soldiers.  Zocchi's use of the rank of Colonel outside of the MSDF is a joke, and an insult to all armed forces members.  He's not a Colonel, nor has he ever been one in any recognized armed service.  The man is a sergeant (and just as deserving of respect as if he had actually been a colonel, were he not lying about his "rank"), and should not represent himself as anything such.  98.232.219.86 (talk) 21:02, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, but the ALSDF is akin to the American Legion or the Boy Scouts/Explorers.  The Salvation Army also issues ranks to it's members/staff, but we don't recognize those ranks as a title to address them by.  98.232.219.86 (talk) 14:17, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Military rank

message: I'm a little confused.
Certainly "Lou Zocchi" may be short for "Louis Zocchi" -- this "Lou Zocchi" article implies they are the same person.
However,
http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_05_16_05.html
mentions that "Louis Zocchi" did a lot of high-precision work during WWII,
but his son "Lou Zocchi" retired from the Air Force, designed the game Battle of Britain,
and founded the company Gamescience to make high-precision dice.
--68.0.120.35 01:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  the same person, or father and son ? 

message: I see everywhere in Wikipedia the company spelled as Gamescience, with a lower case s, but on the company's web page the camel case form GameScience is used. I therefore induce that the spelling has changed, possibly recently. I changed the article accordingly. Wipe (talk) 01:14, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of the company's name 

message: This is to confirm that Louis Joseph Zocchi the game designer and magician is indeed the son of Louis Alexander Zocchi the engraver who put the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin to demonstrate his unparalleled precision with an engraving machine. Many people don't know that he also engraved the Lord's Prayer on the pointed end of a pin. Because it was such an uneven surface, he measured the pin point with a micrometer, drew a circle on the head of a pin the size of the point and then engraved the Lord's Prayer within that circle!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cmdrpowers (talk • contribs) 17:42, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lou Zocchi, son of Louis Zocchi