Talk:Virtual Magic Kingdom

message: The picture posted is outdated can someone please obtain a picture of the "new" central plaza that has the magic shop and players chatting and please before posting random players on wikipedia let them know so you can respect their privacy. Thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by KingFit (talk • contribs) 05:31, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Central Plaza Picture

message: I think the person who wrote this is HOST_Hula, or knows HOST_Hula, or something like that, because it's always like "Here's HOST_Hula operating a game", "Here's HOST_Hula in her guest room", "Here's HOST_Hula's pins".
EvErMoReNeVeRmOrE 23:58, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: HOST_Hula

message: I am going to start doing a rewrite at User:AmericaSings/VMK. If anybody wants to help, that's where I'll be. AmericaSings 21:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Yavn never said he'd ban the accounts with 50+ mules. He would ban the accounts that are inactive and are mules
Bearflip 00:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muling 

message: I've looked through the guide again and noticed that most things have comments made by the editor
(Such as, The Epcot Room is out now! it is so cool! everybody wants it!)
So if anybody has the time please listen to the rewrite and let this topic be professional for once. Bearflip 02:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unprofessional Format 

message: I wasn't sure what to do with the list of the locations of all fifty Hidden Mickeys. On one hand, it took up a lot of space in the article, and it's non-encyclopedic (even more so than the list of codes, which are at least interesting in that they show what sorts of things can be won via codes). On the other hand, it's useful to people, and it helps Wikipedia's coverage of the game be complete. I decided to break it out into its own new article, Hidden Mickeys in the Virtual Magic Kingdom, so that Wikipedia would contain it but it wouldn't add clutter to the article. - Brian Kendig 16:08, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hidden Mickey list 

message: The article is much more useful with the links to the various sites and forums devoted to VMK. There's no reason to restrict linking to the official site proper. Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not states: "There is nothing wrong with adding a list of content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia."  This list doesn't dwarf this article. - Nunh-huh 09:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fansites like those are culled regularly by administrators from pop-culture articles. My reccommandation would be to try choosing one or two that you really think should be there. WhiteNight T | @ | C 09:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Unfortunately, some overzealous people cull them all. I would have no objection to a shorter list, but I do have objection to any attempt to expunge them entirely. Links are meant to provide access to further information - information we may not want in our article, but that people reading our article might want access to. - Nunh-huh 10:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not meant to be a link repository. External links are meant for web pages which add more detailed information to what is discussed in the article, but links to entire sites and discussion forums are better left to the services such as Dmoz and Yahoo which are dedicated to the task. The problem is that if we allow one fan site to be linked from the article, then every person who runs a fan site will want his to be linked from the article, and this sometimes turns into a big war over which sites are "worthy" and which aren't - the best solution to this problem is just to avoid it completely. If there's a web page out there which, say, is an interview with a VMK developer who gives lots of interesting background information on the game, then I'd agree it's suitable as an external link; but the sites you've linked have information which pretty much duplicates what's in Wikipedia, and have discussion boards which definitely aren't encyclopedic. Why do you want to try to duplicate the work which Dmoz and Yahoo already do so much better? If you'd like, maybe we could just link to the appropriate Dmoz/Yahoo category instead. - Brian Kendig 17:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

text: To say that this topic has received lots of discussion over lots of articles through lots of time would be understating the issue. Have a look at Wikipedia:External links and m:When should I link externally for some guidelines, and in particular see Wikipedia talk:External links for a great amount of discussion on the topic. - Brian Kendig 22:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Allen, By all means remove links which do not cover the subject in more depth than we do. But that will not include all of them except the "official" one. - Nunh-huh 07:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Being as how you're the one who's championing the external links, I'll let you apply these guidelines to 'em. :) - Brian Kendig 22:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Just wanted to add that I agree with Brian on this - MagicKnight 08:11, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  removal of useful links 

message: Doesn't the VMK game call them "Characters" rather than NPCs? --Allen Huffman 21:54, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, it does. I'll revert the edit that renamed that section. - Brian Kendig 21:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPCs versus Characters? 

message: This article seems to have become a frequent target of vandalism by anons and newly-created accounts. By my count, vandalism and reversions account for more than half of the most recent 100 edits. What would y'all say to this article being semi-protected to cut down on the vandalism? - Brian Kendig 22:24, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protection? 

message: The timeline is subject to dispute, the dates are not entirely acurate and I feel this information is frivilous, not needed and clutters the article. - MagicKnight 00:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline 

message: I'm starting to think, in the interests of making this more of an encyclopedia article and less of a game guide, that the list of codes to get credits really doesn't belong here. I used to be in favor of it, but I don't think I am any more. Anyone else have an opinion on it? Or is there any other material in this article that's more like a game guide and doesn't really belong? Like, maybe some of the Events section can be removed and/or condensed? - Brian Kendig 05:12, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Codes 

message: I think the codes are a good idea as Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia but is still MUCH more than that.
It has loads of other things, not just boring info. See ya - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alligator1234 (talk • contribs)  — Preceding undated comment added 15:49, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hey bingo 

message: No one's offered an opinion so far, so I'll just ask once more before I move stuff. Wikibooks is starting to discourage game guide material and it's instead recommending that StrategyWiki  be the destination for such material, so I've created a stub VMK article there  in preparation for moving some VMK information there and out of Wikipedia. Specifically, some of the things I would like to move OUT OF Wikipedia and INTO StrategyWiki are:
*The list of multi-use codes
*The entirety of Virtual Magic Kingdom collectible items
*The entirety of Hidden Mickeys in the Virtual Magic Kingdom
Anyone have any opinions, yea or nay? - Brian Kendig 04:23, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To ensure full GFDL compliance remember to copy the edit history onto the talk page (example). :) GarrettTalk 10:48, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the tip; I didn't know about this! Is there a policy page somewhere which explains the need for it? What if I'm moving a section of an article - what edit history needs to be copied, then? - Brian Kendig 11:50, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can see m:Transwiki for the whole process and all the reasoning (note the transwiki log isn't used by StrategyWiki). But basically the GFDL requires a list of the major authors of the text in question, and the history paste-in is the easiest way to achieve this (and so has become policy). For a section move all you really need to do is put something like "split from cool#rad" in the edit summary (and similar for the page you're cutting it from). The history paste-in is only for author tracking between projects, everything else can be done with backlinks or redirects. GarrettTalk 22:41, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  StrategyWiki 

message: Just as a note for everyone, I have replaced the pictures of quest cards with clearer pictures. - Yumsse 8:33, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the images you put (:Image:PrcklyPearChr.JPG and :Image:GldnEars.jpg) are smaller and of much lower quality than the previous images (:Image:Vmk-card-cactuschair.jpg and :Image:Vmk-card-goldenears.jpg). - Brian Kendig 14:35, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Look it up in Wikipedia! FYI - Brian Kendig 03:52, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

text: ( Too bad the chair was not a multi-use code! Dacheatcode 21:48, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI 

message: I have added a bit to Clothing, explaining known information about unreleased costumes. Please tell me what you think. Yumsse 14:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, who deleted it? Yumsse 13:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh wait, nvm. Yumsse 13:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreleased Costumes 

message: All that gameplay info is felpful, but could we add some production notes and things like that too? I bet quite a few casual readers would like to know how this got started, who started it, what it used to look like, etc. If we don't, this article won't be so high-quality... Abby724 05:03, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please feel free to add this kind of material, as long as you attribute the sources of your information! - Brian Kendig 20:44, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: We need Production info...

message: According to a Community Leader you have to have a Degree in Computer Science in order to become a VMK Staff Member.
Can anyone find a reference for this recently added sentence? Vanguard 14:00, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Having read through this, it almost all appears to be based off of primary source material or original research. If secondary sources exist, this needs to be stubbed and written from verifiable content (most of what's here seems to be original research of the type "I played the game and found..."). Also, much of the "howto" information ("to get this item do this") needs to be deleted-WP:NOT a howto or game guide. Seraphimblade 02:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, have at it. I believe that all the material in this article can be sourced; I just have to find the correct sources in the VMK.com documentation and the fan sites. (So please don't gut the article!) As for the "howto" information, I've been diligently trying to keep the article free of that, but some of it's crept back in over the past week or two. - Brian Kendig 02:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup/rewrite

message: When I read the article, it sounded like to me Wikipedia was making VMK sound bad. It was almost like VMK was very low quality and it wasn't fun at all. That's the impression I got. But I play it, and it's not that bad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Norlid (talk • contribs) 15:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's wrong with VMK? 

message: This game is for all ages but for manily kids becase its made by disney. So teens and adults play too they have found there way around the bad word rules. Saying any bad words will be blocked they have the turned not allowed word hell to he'll or he will. They have also made groups based on real life tragides,for insance armys groups of hunters and respect the twin towers sounds like bush  iying all over again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.127.138.60 (talk) 02:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  For kids not adults 

message: To get simple codes, go to the VMK main homepage and go to the Arcade. Click Narnia, or Pirates, and play to win easy codes! The pirate game is hard, but the Narnia one just makes you answer questions, so try both.
See you in the game, GreenWarrior —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.172.142.164 (talk) 21:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple And Easy Codes 

message: I know this article could be possibly recreated, but, me being new, I was wondering if I can edit errors (such as the "Codes sections" where there are unneccessary comments made and the section is repeated?)Thanks! --~*Twinkler4*~ 00:30, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any use in fixing? 

message: I have semiprotected this article, with an expiry of 2 weeks (chosen arbitrarily). There's just too much ongoing random anonymous vandalism going on to keep up with, and the result is that obscenities or editorialisms have been left in place for days, or deletions of entire sections have gone unnoticed and almost lost in the edit log. These two weeks will be a bit of a breather, for established authors to go through the article and clean it up to a better standard before we let the new/anonymous editors at it again. - Brian Kendig 15:39, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I kept putting it back because I didn't know why it was being deleted. You should have mentioned the reason in your edit summary. - Brian Kendig 11:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

text: See Help:Edit summary. - Brian Kendig 14:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semiprotection 

message: Didnt there used to be a section about vmk rumors somewhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.28.51.36 (talk) 21:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happned? 

message: :Image:Vmk-gameplay.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot 11:18, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Vmk-gameplay.jpg

message: I recently made changes to the Acquiring credits section.  I added Monorail Mix Game and the Tomorrowland Games, as well as made a few small changes. Goldhunt 05:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes made to Acquiring credits section. 

message: I recently also made a few changes to the Guest rooms section.  It now includes information on booting players.  I also made a few punctuation revisions, and fixed it to where a few sentences could be read smoother. Goldhunt 07:33, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes made to Guest rooms section 

message: I was just on a Disney pin collecters website and it said u can buy two randomly selected rare pins for fifteen dollars!Here Maybe we should include that in the article...tell me if we should! Kookylad 18:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buy cards from Disney? 

message: I think it is important information.  I know you don't get a ton of credits from those games, however they are still games. Should we keep it, or just stick to the major games? Goldhunt 21:08, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Tomorrowland Game Rooms? 

message: what about club 33? should we put that in? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kookylad (talk • contribs) 01:06, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  club 33 

message: :Image:VMK-Newsletter-pushtcan.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:VMK-Newsletter-pushtcan.jpg

message: I have added a rationale to the Push pic, but I am new to Wiki.  Will somebody please go, and make sure I did this correctly.  Thanks Goldhunt 05:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   Rationale 

message: Yesterday, when I visited this article and my first action was removing a link to a wholly owned and operated wiki (http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com) of VMK Forums (http://www.vmkforums.com).  This link was removed because of the inherent conflict of interest.
The editors on the linked wiki are members of VMK Forums (http://www.vmkforums.com), which is a social networking site and/or discussion forum.  Further, the wiki that is linked does not have a substantial amount of history.
Regardless, I argue this is a conflict of interest as it is a self-promoting wiki for a discussion forum.  I would urge the information to be moved directly to this site or an independent site to resolve this conflict of interest.
Personally, I have nothing against the site and found the information useful as additional reading; however, the site is self-promoting and intended to draw traffic to wholly owned and operated blogs, social networking and/or discussion forum sites.
Is there a way to make the linked wiki more independent to resolve this conflict of interest?
Becteros 22:02, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to Wikis with Conflict of Interests 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Vmk-pins-staff.jpg

message: The Trading & Scamming section mainly lists ways to scam other players in the game, and that certianly doesn't help the article. In my opinion, we should take out all of those ways listed, and just mention that scamming is a problem in the game, that's all. I just want to make sure that someone agrees before I delete a big chunk of the article. Abcw12 (talk) 02:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do we really need to know about scamming here?? 

message: I just checked it out.VMK is closing for GOOD.Never ever coming back.I feel bad that it is closing but Wiki staff,you may want to put that in the article.No wait, i'll do it.
But thanks 4 reading!-
Npurplegirl  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Npurplegirl (talk • contribs) 20:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vmk is closing 

message: After May 21st, we're going to need to change the language in the article to a "VMK was" sort of thing. For instance, the sentence, "Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom, also known simply as VMK, is a free massively multiplayer online game run by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online.", will have to be changed to, "Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom, also known simply as VMK, was a free massively multiplayer online game run by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online." Any volunteers to help do that on May 21st? We will also have to create a new section in the article offering reasons why this will be happening. I won't mind doing that.--Listen to your Princess, dear Wikipedians. (talk) 19:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any Volunteers to Change All VMK Words to Past Tense? 

message: Shouldn't there be a section on the Tomorrowland quests and their magic pins? Each of the three magic pins (Car, Dive, and Space) is important outside of being a magic pin. Car lets you drive on special tracks in the game and collect items; Dive lets you go to special underwater areas in the game and collect items; and, most importantly, Space lets you access the Inner-Space Shop. Those are not the real names of the pins, but I cannot think of the real names off the top of my head (A good place to look to get the real names of the pins is Disney's Online Worlds Wiki).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.12.237.143 (talk) 16:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tomorrowland Quest magic pins 

message: Things dont really follow on at the moment and could do with completely remodeling. I have come up with the following layout that could be used:
Contents
1 Gameplay
2 Guest Rooms and Awards
3 MiniGames
4 Events
5 Quests
5.1 In-game
5.2 In-park
5.3 Hidden Mickeys
6 Character Profiles
6.1 Badges
6.2 Pins
6.3 Clothing
7 Credits
8 Trading
9 Online safety features
10 Closure of VMK
11 External links
Does anyone object to this and/or have any suggestions on how this could be more suitable?  Opherrichards (talk) 19:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed new format 

message: I found out that VMK may be opening back in October.Add it??--LilMissNicole+++.;+= (talk) 20:14, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not unless you can cite a reliable source. Kafziel Complaint Department 20:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening Back 

message: It is very stupid of Disney to close down VMK. It was a great game, and I think they should have kept on going. Disney could have announced that they would do a pay to play noline game of VMK. For 5 dollars a month, you would be a member, like most games. After each month, maybe 5, 10, 15,000 kids would pay. 5x10,000 is 50,000 dollars! Even though Disney does not need the money, it would be shrewd of them to do it. Fun for kids, fun for the staff, and a little extra moola. So Disney, don't ostracize the kids of America, and the rest of the world... Be altruistic! Give VMK another chance! Make it happen! Show YOUR love!
~CrazyCow;) <3  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.117.176.226 (talk) 20:04, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Money Deal $$$ 

message: I find it amusing that VMK was advertised as "safe" for kids. I guess it's safe to say without incurring the anger of disney, now, but this place was anything but innocent. Many of the personal profiles included phrases such as "I'm available" or "I'm taken", and I remember being asked regularly whether I wanted to be someone's "boyfriend". If I was to guess a single reason it was shutdown...it would be the scandal that would have hit disney, if it had been known that underage teens were using VMK as a makeout site. 24.130.129.35 (talk) 11:58, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Not kid safe

message: I don't believe the current description of this picture is accurate. It states that somebody is exiting the Magic Shop. The Magic Shop was never even located in Central Plaza, so needless to say, I don't see anybody in the picture exiting the Magic Shop. I recommend that the description be changed.  Goldhunt (talk) 22:27, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Central Plaza Picture Description 

message: About those links I removed.
1) The link to the VMK website was defunct. WIkipedia's guidelines for defunct links is to remove them. They are of no use.
2) The link to the recreation of the game was not related to the game and therefore has no purpose here. Check Wikipedia's guidelines and notability.
Kringe1 (talk) 05:51, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: This article has one citation. One. And that one citation is a dead link. Seriously, this has no notability and it's longer than most video game articles. Please improve it. Kringe1 (talk) 05:53, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

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thread_title:  External links modified