Impersonating troll

Are you looking for User:ConSiGno/Sandbox-Little_Temple_Group? --Quasar (talk) 22:58, 1 March 2016 (CST)

That's it!  Dunno why I couldn't find any of those threads based on kmxexii's description.  If others actually have the stomach to draft such articles, then I'll certainly leave them to it.  Thanks much.    Ryan W (talk) 22:38, 2 March 2016 (CST)

Incorrect links

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Word puzzles

Watson/Collins: Void + Ship + sequel = Voidship 2 at Doomworld/idgames No idea for the second; it seems the first two words would have to be "Awful Lost" and there's nothing that starts like this on the idgames archive. --Gez (talk) 14:22, 7 April 2017 (CDT)

Maybe a year or so back, idgames reviews switched to have newest first. So you're actually after "The Lost." Out of the Robinsons' works, I found project slipgate. The closest I could find that combines all three was The Lost Gate. --Eris Falling (talk) 15:00, 7 April 2017 (CDT)

Damn — you could have uploaded my brain and I wouldn't have seen that.  Using it as an example, I can find "The" + "Lost" + The Abandoned Base = The Lost Base, but that seems too obscure for the author to believe it was a fair challenge.  I think we'll go with yours.    Ryan W (usually gone) 17:03, 7 April 2017 (CDT)

Chord, Kaiser

The three Chord-y redlinks can be replaced by their canonical Chord NG, Chord G and Chord 3 versions; and "How Not to Be Seen" with How Not To Be Seen!.

The 2013 entry for "Untitled #2" should point to Untitled 2, "Halo of Wonders" to Halo Of Wonders, "Town of Witchcraft" to Town Of Witchcraft, "Strife: Return of The Order" to Return of The Order, and "Strife: Day of the Acolyte" to Day of the Acolyte.

In all cases the search terms page has the only link to them, so redirects seem unnecessary, but that's your call. --Xymph (talk) 07:17, 28 August 2018 (CDT)

Another one: Classic Episode 2: Singularity Complex -> The Classic Episode, Part 2. --Xymph (talk) 10:46, 11 September 2018 (CDT)

• Chord: fixed.  I'm doing this without checking TITLEPICs or anything, so in the year 71853 when I reach the third-party walkthroughs, I may ping you and Eris again.  :>
• How Not To Be Seen: fixed.
• Untitled: fixed, my fault.  (With the amount of time this took, I didn't notice reserved characters?)
• Redirects: upon rereading Eris's posts, I agree with you.  We don't say "Heretic: Heretic Treasure Chest", for example, just because it happens to use a non-Doom IWAD.
• Classic Episode: fixed.

Thank you, as always, for wanting there to be actual game content underneath certain people's pontifications.  :>    Ryan W (living fossil)

Deletion

Others have expended substantial effort to improve this page, so I'll try to explain.

I don't think I had a clear plan in 2016, and I still don't.  Perhaps I hoped that missing coverage would simply materialize as redlinks, as a side effect of the continued work of the bot and several users creating umbrella articles (who do a great job btw!).  But in hindsight, it seems virtually redundant with the publication.  Awardees and runners-up are as uncontroversial as before, and non-modding topics are as uncertain as before.  I'm sure I was the wrong person to do triage as well; plugged-in community members can immediately separate a joke or a deliberately off-topic proposal from a rising star.

It's been stated that we treat DW as the start and end of historiography, which hopelessly skews our scope discussions.  Without rehashing that debate, I'll note how many other general references have gone dark since the 1990s.  Those of us who weren't involved back then, and can't afford to travel the world scouring offline media, sometimes feel confined.  If I were starting this list today, I would advance one subtopic at a time in an RFC: speedrunning, development and advanced features, mapping tropes/tricks, 1994 mods, 1995 mods, ...  That wouldn't immediately solve the problem, but the smaller territory might make it easier to focus (myself included) and establish methods for locating specialized/archival sources in each area.  Ideally, after enough iterations, trends might emerge that finally pointed us toward a general guideline.  See these threads for some related discussion about WADs.

Anyway, my offer to move the list to someone else's space stands, if you think it can eventually lead somewhere.  Currently, what I'm hearing from the feedback is that it mainly serves to bloat Special:WantedPages.  :(  Thanks again to the contributors above, for their attention to detail and for seeing implications I missed.    Ryan W (living fossil) 01:23, 15 December 2019 (CST)

> mainly serves to bloat Special:WantedPages

Just my two cents but if people have gotten so religious about trying to empty that list out that they'd rather important topics not be linked (thus indicating that they are in fact, wanted pages) than to get around to creating the pages, then the whole effort has become wrong-headed and is damaging to the wiki. --Quasar (talk) 09:49, 16 December 2019 (CST)

I agree, although I believe most of the stuff that was linked only from this page was stuff that wasn't really article worthy. That said, it would have been nice to do a review specifically of that stuff before deletion, in case there was something we missed. --Eris Falling (talk) 06:28, 17 December 2019 (CST)

I'll make a list, once the special page catches up.  Ryan W (living fossil) 17:11, 17 December 2019 (CST)

Awardees

I recommend ignoring these.  We have a page for every ceremony now, with its redlinks pre-populated.  If a name was linked here but not there, it's most likely another misunderstanding on my part.

   007: License to Spell Doom
   8-Bit Deathmatch
   Don't Be a Bitch
   Doom II Redux
   Doom: Rampage Edition
   Doom RPG (mod)
   Gamarra series
   hardcore_gamer
   Pacwad
   Rainybase
   Raynor's Tale
   RTC-3057 Demo
   RTC-3057: Hub 1
   Temple of Chaos 2: Warped Reality
   Tormentor667's Detail Guide
   TurboCharged ARCADE! The Sequel Episode
   Urthar
   Vapordemo
   Void 2

Others

   30ev4416
   30nm2721
   30pl2523
   30pn4357
   30uv1959
   30uv2303
   30uv2325
   4chan
   4 Levels That Got Lost
   Abandonware
   A Better WAD Pulled Out of My Ass
   Assault
   Austerity
   BBG
   Beluga
   Blackrock
   Brandon D. Lade
   Brotherhood of Ruin: The Lost Temple
   Combat Shock 3
   Community Instagib Pack
   Console Doom Project
   Curse of Blood
   Curse of Darkness
   Curse of the Demon Lord
   danne1
   David Armstrong
   Deus Vult II 2
   Dickie series
   Do It Again
   Doom 2 Done Quick
   Doom 2 the Way id Did: The Lost Episodes
   Doom Beyond
   Doomboy
   Doom: Carnage League
   Doomcon
   Doomguy's Warzone
   Doomworld Forums 2
   Dotims
   DSV series
   EonDM
   Eon Weapons
   ep1-457
   ep2-0327
   ep3-347
   ep4-0342
   Epic CTF
   Facepalm
   Favillesco E3
   Final Doom the Way id Did
   Fodders
   Fortune's Run
   Glass ceiling
   GL fog
   GL lighting
   Greenwar
   Greenwar 2
   Grotesque CTF
   Hatred
   Haze
   Heh
   HPack
   I am not an retarded
   IGPack
   Jean-Luc Picard
   Kama Sutra 2
   Kat
   Kill Frenzy
   KingDime
   Knee Deep in KDiZD
   KSSC
   Lazarus DM (series)
   Little Temple Group
   Livestreams
   Marines of UAC
   McDoomworld
   Mockery TC
   Motornerve
   Mouldy Old Void
   Muskadet
   Napalm
   Nazis! v2
   Nordhell
   Object 34: Sonar
   Odamex CTF
   Ola-QRAD lighting
   Orange Is the New STARTAN
   Overdetailing
   pa07-041
   PeterH
   Rage (mod)
   Rain
   Reticula
   Revelations of Doom
   Richard Smith Long (RSL)
   RicrobNet
   Sabbat Martyr DM
   scall-1453
   Scroll Down for Screenshots
   Slaughterfest 2013
   SmartCTF
   SpaceDM 9
   Spooky series
   Steve Dudzik (Lüt)
   Submerge Deathmatch Pack
   Tango TV
   Tarnsman's Projectile Hell
   Taylor
   Team LMS
   The Empty Museum
   The Guncaster
   The Lost Gateway
   The Reactor
   The Shores of ZDoom
   The Space Pirate
   The Trailblazer
   Threshold of Pain 2
   Thursday Night Survival
   Toke It Up!
   TrailBlazer
   Two Big, Stupid Maps
   UAC Ultra 2
   Übik
   Unidoom DM 3
   Unloved 2
   Voidship 2
   Voodoo doll scripting
   Way Too Many Dead Guys
   Women in the Doom community
   World Doom League
   World Extermination Radio
   xxx directory
   ZDoom Wars
   ZeroMaster
   ZHalloween
   Zombie Heart of Death

If someone wants to review these gradually, as in prior threads, feel free to edit this post and strike things out or arrange them in groups or whatever.

FWIW / KUTGW.  Ryan W (living fossil) 15:16, 27 December 2019 (CST)