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Hi IceWelder. Great work on games-related articles. Please consider add Yodo1 in your watchlist. A lot of COI/UPE editing going on. Cheers! 94.202.127.250 (talk) 10:51, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking over the added text, it mostly looks fine, and most sources qualify as reliable per our list. What made you think of UPE exactly? If there are minor NPOV issues, it's usually better to fix those manually than reverting the lot. IceWelder [✉] 15:11, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! 1) Do you see any more sources for this? I know the page was previously deleted. Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2017_May_14#Westlake_Interactive

I found these

• https://web.archive.org/web/20000824155449/http://www.insidemacgames.com/features/00/westlake/p3.shtml
• https://www.newspapers.com/article/austin-american-statesman/140439025/

+ the officiall site

2) I found this source [1] (which also includes text from one of the Bethesda press releases that weren't archived :O) Was wondering cau help incorporate this source in the Bethesda Softworks article in Bethesda_Softworks#1990s section (so we can remove the "needs expansion with: Information regarding Daggerfall's launch" template) Timur9008 (talk) 11:41, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1. Some trivial mentions per WP:VG/SE, though nothing significant.
2. That's very cool, but I'm rather short on time at the moment. Feel free to just add some text yourself. :)

IceWelder [✉] 15:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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(t · c) buidhe 02:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Do you know what this is? [2]. I think it's Vortex (Amiga video game) given the year but I can't be sure. Timur9008 (talk) 11:05, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It sure sounds like it, but the details there are quite limited and the platforms don't match. I couldn't immediately find anything else that mentions this name, though granted I cannot invest a lot time at the moment. IceWelder [✉] 13:02, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well I checked but yeah I found nothing else Timur9008 (talk) 15:20, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Do you any way to add the exact URL for this ? Its's mentioned here (per the California Secretary of State website business search, if you type ZeniMax four results show up) among them is ZeniMax Productions. [3]

I was gonna add that to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeniMax_Media#Defunct (to e-Nexus Studios) Timur9008 (talk) 10:36, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, there is no way to do this. What you could do, for example, is to link the PDF document for the incorporation. However, I generally advise against using incorporation dates for foundation dates because many sources consider the start of the business as the founding date, i.e. when you start trading, which does not always match the incorporation date that is merely the legal step. IceWelder [✉] 11:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ah, nevermind then. Timur9008 (talk) 11:57, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Do you know what this talks about? [4] (the 7 million figure) I think it means just the original game but I guess it could mean that and the sequel (Finding Nemo: The Continuing Adventure given the "The Finding Nemo video games have been a tremendous hit for THQ at retail? Timur9008 (talk) 17:28, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

? Timur9008 (talk) 11:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, I firmly believed that I already responded to this. Maybe it was a dream? Anyway, the press release seems to only talk about the very first game and makes no mention of The Continuing Adventure, so I'd think the figure only relates to one. IceWelder [✉] 11:46, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done added. Thanks! Timur9008 (talk) 15:17, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't mean to be rude, but the Manual of Style states that ™ and ® should not be used in either article text or citations unless excluding them removes essential context information. Given that citations include references and their titles, and knowing that the Wii brand is trademarked is not essential context information, may I remove it? CoolieCoolster (talk) 13:52, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reading the guideline more closely, it does indeed say that they should be removed, explicitly, from citation titles. This just happenes to have happened around the same time as the MOS:TITLETYPOCON discussion, about fixing errors in citations, with many reservations about possible preservation issues. I'm wondering whether trademark symbols have the same kind of impact. IceWelder [✉] 14:29, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]