BattleTechWiki:Requests for comment/Archive
The Request for Comment forum allows Editors to introduce an issue that may have sprung up either in a high-traffic area (ex: Project:BattleMech) or somewhere more obscure (ex:2418), but may require a third, fourth or even twenty-third opinion. This allows a community consensus to be formed through discussion and may affect more than just the article being discussed.
Useage: Under a dated section, introduce a new entry with an asterisk (*), right under the "Requests for Comments" section head (i.e., in reverse chronological order). Start it off with a link to the discussion page of the article in question, and a very brief summary of the issue being discussed. Remember to sign the entry (with four tildes: ~~~~). Please do not add an opinion to the summary here.
Acceptable Example:
- Policy Talk:Notability: discussion as to what shall be done with articles deemed non-notable. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 12:55, 19 December 2007 (CST)
Unacceptable Example:
- Policy Talk:Notability: Some spammer wants to create an article about himself, just because he wrote some fan-boy story about Peder Smythe. Let's 'explain' to him why that won't fly. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 12:55, 19 December 2007 (CST)
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20 July 2010
I have had several inquires into the naming of the 2 Richard Calderons, I am wondering if someone was please delete the Richard Calderon (2) page to clear uop the issue. Thanks!Deeppockets 00:20, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
8 January 2010
I was recommended to re-direct this question to this page. I have recently added the Leviathan (WarShip) article to Sarna. I wrote this as a only article reflecting the Heavy Transport found on TRO:3067. I feel the Transport and later Heavy Battleship are radically diffrient from one another to warrent the Transport and Heavy Battleship variant be split into own articles. Transports are going to fade away (refitted into the later variant), there straggering amount info for the Battleship as they make history during the Jihad (never mind the stats for it). My question I want to pose is should they be seperate articles? Weaponry alone for me, make me want to have them seperate. The Battleship is likely to be the article folks will turn to verse the Transport. Also, the transport aside from their role in moving the Clan to Inner Sphere, has not been used extensively. Currently two of the three Leviathans built are now Heavy Battleships. -- Wrangler 18:31, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
10 December 2009
In a drive to improve BTW's coverage of computer games, I found Mobygames.com to be a good source for pictures - not only in-game screenshots, but also shots of the package boxes with their cover art. Mobygames reserve the copyright to all data submitted to them, so I sent them an email about using picture files from their site. They said it would be okay, provided that their site is credited and linked to. I don't have a problem with either (this can be covered in the picture upload, and an external link to the respective Mobygames article in the BTW article), but it would still be a remaining obligation for BTW as long as the pics remain on this site.
I will proceed to upload game pics from Mobygames here and use them in a couple of days if nobody objects. Here's the emails:
- From: "MobyGames" <support@mobygames.com>
- To: "'Stephan A. Jaroschek'" <frabby@spacious.com>
- Subject: RE: Permission to rip pics for a wiki
- Date sent: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:52:32 -0800
- That's fine as long as you credit us as the source and provide a link back.
- Please let me know the addresses of where these will be placed so that I can tell any of our users that the use was approved. We have dedicated users that let us know of wrongdoing that is found on web.
- Thanks,
- Rob Lim
- rlim@mobygames.com
- AIM: one51night
- MSN: corn_popper@hotmail.com
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- -----Original Message-----
- From: Stephan A. Jaroschek [1]
- Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 13:48
- To: support@mobygames.com
- Subject: Permission to rip pics for a wiki
- Hi,
- I have read through your legal mumbo-jumbo but did not find an answer to my question; apologies if I just missed it.
- Would it be acceptable to download pictures (especially of game boxes, i.e. pictures that cannot be obtained as screenshots) from your site and upload them on a wiki?
- I believe it would fall under fair use, but would like to hear your opinion, especially since you claim copyright for all content uploaded to your site while the wiki operates under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) ruleset.
- The wiki in question is the BattleTech Wiki (www.sarna.net), and the pictures in question obviously are those of the various BattleTech computer games.
- Thank you for your time. I hope for a positive reply.
- SJ
Frabby 09:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
10 August 2009
- Policy_Talk:Manual_of_Style#Past_tense_in_articles_about_vehicles.3F: Discussion as to whether all articles should be written from a past tense or a tense dependent upon the article content. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 00:01, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
- Talk:Draconis_Combine#House_Kurita: regarding breaking Kurita family data out from the Draconis Combine article. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 13:25, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
04 August 2009
- Talk:Free Worlds League: regarding the use of more academic-style of providing research sources and citations. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 18:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Category talk:Inner Sphere Commands: asking for consensus opinion regarding the creation of articles with no content. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 14:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
25 July 2009
- Category_talk:Characters#Only_Sub-Categories.3F: asking for consensus opinion regarding removing all characters from the main Characters category (and into appropriate sub-categories). --Revanche (talk|contribs) 22:09, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
23 July 2009
- Policy:Verifiability: asking for a consensus review by BTW editors for this policy candidate. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 00:57, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
11 May 2008
- Template talk:NonCanon: Surprised it has not yet been done (or I have not been able to find it) - we need to clear up what is canon and what is not (and all the ambiguous grey areas in-between). Frabby 02:41, 11 May 2008 (CDT)
20 January 2008
- Category talk:Planets: Question about treatment of "lost" or "unknown" worlds and ambiguous canon Frabby 09:09, 20 January 2008 (CST)
19 January 2009
- Talk:Concord of Kapteyn: Proposal for a new category covering laws, treaties, etc. --Scaletail 20:20, 19 January 2008 (CST)
20 December 2007
- Talk:Elemental: Regarding the status of the cleanup tag on the article. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 07:31, 20 December 2007 (CST)