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:: I would oppose speedy delete of Doom23.gif for now; I've been using it to monitor the status of whether or not GIF thumbnailing has been fixed (this is a server-side backend issue which is due to the distro of Linux on MancuNET being too old...) --[[User:Quasar|Quasar]] ([[User talk:Quasar|talk]]) 17:03, 23 August 2014 (UTC) | :: I would oppose speedy delete of Doom23.gif for now; I've been using it to monitor the status of whether or not GIF thumbnailing has been fixed (this is a server-side backend issue which is due to the distro of Linux on MancuNET being too old...) --[[User:Quasar|Quasar]] ([[User talk:Quasar|talk]]) 17:03, 23 August 2014 (UTC) | ||
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+ | In the future, I suggest archiving not the previous year, but the one before. E.g., please don't archive 2015 in 2016; instead wait until 2017. Thanks. --[[User:Gez|Gez]] ([[User talk:Gez|talk]]) 10:45, 28 January 2015 (UTC) |
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Archived discussions
Big fat list of Vfd
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm laying here a list of articles that are currently (as of today, I mean) in a VfD. I know there is a category but I'll just leave this here, along with the dates, which I think are important.
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Aquarius199 (Talk page), nominated by Justice Infinity on 27 August 2013. Reason: not notable. Look also: NiTROACTiVe, which is a redirect to this page.Closed by Quasar as keep. Duration: 11 months 18 days. -
Brian Harris (Talk page), nominated by Quasar on 6 October 2013.Closed by Gez as delete. Duration: 10 months 17 days. - Bruiser Demon (Beastiary) (Talk page), nominated by Gez on 11 February 2011. Reason: Sorry, but it's not policy to create pages for individual resources..
- Cut scene psychosis (Talk page), nominated by Ryan W on 27 November 2011.
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Dimension LXXII (Talk page), nominated by Justice Infinity on 2 July 2013. Reason: Unreleased wad.Closed by Ryan W as delete. Duration: 1 year 1 month 14 days. - Doomguy 2000 (Talk page), nominated by Grain of Salt on 28 October 2012. Reason: not notable.
- Doomguy's Warzone Gold Edition (Talk page), nominated by Obsidian on 21 December 2012.
- Dynamite Trap ( Psychophobia WAD) (Talk page), nominated by Ryan W on 3 March 2013.
- EnPro Plant (Talk page), nominated by Quasar on 2 August 2013.
- Flemoid (Talk page), nominated by Justice Infinity on 22 June 2012.
- Lamp (Talk page), nominated by Ryan W on 26 December 2011.
- Doom Wiki:List of common contractions (Talk page), nominated by Ryan W on 25 February 2013.
- Plutonia Girl (Talk page), nominated by Justice Infinity on 14 June 2013.
- Robocop (Talk page), nominated by Janizdreg on 20 December 2006 and then by Gez on 26 February 2014.
- Sammis (Talk page), nominated by Insertwackynamehere on 25 November 2006.
- Stweaps (Talk page), nominated by Gez on 2 March 2013. Reason: not really notable, no mention of author or release date, download link doesn't work.
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Total Ruin (Talk page), nominated by Quasar on 4 June 2014.Closed by Quasar as redirect. Duration: 1 month 23 days.
Also, these categories:
- Generic features (Talk page), nominated by Ryan W on 6 May 2012.
- UV max (Talk page), nominated by Unmaker on 30 October 2012. Reason: I think this cat proved unnecessary.
- UV speed (Talk page), nominated by Unmaker on 30 October 2012.
Also, these files:
- Doom23.gif (Talk page), nominated by Jartapran on 5 August 2013. Reason: The thumbnail of the picture is broken.
- Ralphis.jpg (Talk page), nominated by Ryan W on 13 March 2014.
- Screenshot Doom 20110211 185308.png (Talk page), nominated by Janizdreg on 14 February 2011.
I did not vote on most of them because I'm a horrible person, but you knew that already. --Kyano (talk) 21:21, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
- About the Bruiser Demon case, my opinion three years later would be that maybe the policy ought to be rethought. I think there is some justification for having pages on individual resources when they are notable enough. Many custom monsters have become more-or-less standard staples (and I'm not talking just about custom ZDoom monsters here, DeHackEd wonderkids like the evil marines or the afrit are memorable and noteworthy) and I've seen them discussed casually in Doomworld threads that weren't specifically about them. And we do have individual articles for one specific kind of resource already (maps), so given the emergence of gameplay mods which do not have maps but do change monsters and weapons, it might be time to allow individual articles for other resources than maps. Just to be clear though, I think this should be reserved for memorable resources that have been used in several high-profile works and where the behavior has known little or no alteration between their various versions. So the Bruiser Demon (KDIZD, Stronghold, ZDCMP2...) would qualify, but the upside-down orange caco from Zen Dynamics (and AFAIK no other mod) wouldn't. --Gez (talk) 13:32, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- I agree for the most part, but it's important IMO that we very strongly distinguish between these resource monsters and the original ones. For example, having them in their own category (not just Monsters, but maybe User-created monsters or some other suitable subcat). --Quasar (talk) 14:35, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
- As a side note, the proposed speedy deletion criteria would only affect two of these, Doom23.gif and Ralphis.jpg (and the first might need to stay until the glitch gets fixed, can't remember). Ryan W (talk) 23:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Archiving
In the future, I suggest archiving not the previous year, but the one before. E.g., please don't archive 2015 in 2016; instead wait until 2017. Thanks. --Gez (talk) 10:45, 28 January 2015 (UTC)