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"Very" positive

Please try to avoid adding language like "Very positive reviews", or removing text like "generally favorable". This is generally seen as being peacocky and non-neutral point of view. Typically, the best course of action with video games is to quote Metacritic directly, as this is something we can source. Anything else could be viewed as original research on our part. WP:VG/POV has some more information on video game guidelines.

Please keep up the good work. You've done a good job on the Call of Duty 4 Remastered section. -- ferret (talk) 15:23, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

February 2017

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DYK for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered

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Usage of "universal acclaim"

Here are a couple of discussions in regards to the usage of "universal acclaim", one of which I started when I was working on getting God of War III to become a Featured Article. [1] [2] --JDC808 ♫ 21:49, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

July 2018

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Viscera Cleanup Detail. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Please do not add your own personal analysis of what a game's reception was. This includes citing multiple reviews that say nothing about a consensus among reviewers. This is known on Wikipedia as synthesis, and it is forbidden by policy. You must find a source that says what the consensus among reviewers was, not cite individual reviews and add your own analysis. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:46, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

August 2018

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Bram Stoker's Dracula, you may be blocked from editing. Please stop adding your own personal thoughts about what a film's reception was. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 00:40, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate I apologize for this. As per your July comment, I've understood more about how my prose for Viscera Cleanup Detail was original research/novel syntheses. Likewise, you've made me aware how this also related to my work on Bram Stoker's Dracula, and yet in terms of the latter I'm still a little confused about when an inclusion of a reception consensus ( "the film received critical acclaim" etc.) in the lead would violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. As I see it, a film's reception section will have a number of reliable review articles for said film, and (if available) should also include the score the film was given from a review aggregation website (e.g. Rotten Tomatoes). If two film articles have similar reception sections that include such sourced content, please can you clarify the difference on why one film can have a reception consensus, but another (in this case, Bram Stoker's Dracula) can't? Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:30, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Unfortunately, pings don't work when you add them to an existing edit ("if the mention is not on a completely new line with a new signature, no notification will be sent." from WP:PING). It's a weird and unintuitive feature. I'm not entirely sure I follow what you're asking. But one common problem with film articles is that people will add their own personal analysis of what the reception was like. One person will say it got "mixed reviews", another will change this to say it was "mixed-to-positive", and another will say that "critics praised X but critized Y". Well, it's all unsourced opinion. None of it belongs, because it's just random people on the internet saying what they think it was. That's fine for a blog or a forum post, but it doesn't work in a encyclopedia. Now, if a professional journalist says "it received mixed reviews", that's different. We can report that journalist's analysis, but we can't do it ourselves. Rotten Tomatoes has a critical consensus, and we can quote that. But we can't take the score of 55% or 65% or whatever, and extrapolate from that to say whether the reviews were "mixed", "positive", "critical acclaim", etc. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 11:42, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Fastest-selling PS4 exclusive

Which game is it now? --JDC808 ♫ 15:47, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

PS4's Spider-Man, as sourced in its Wikipedia article with https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/09/20/marvels-spider-man-ps-4-sells-record-3-3-million-copies-opening/1346187002/ Wikibenboy94 (talk) 16:04, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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Neutral language

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God of War 2018 FAC nomination

Hey, so I'm wanting to nominate God of War for FAC. Since you've been helpful with the article, I was wondering if you could read over it to see if there's anything you see that you think may need changed or fixed. I read over it yesterday and I'm pretty confident with what's currently there. There are two things that I know need done, which are to replace the demo image in the Gameplay section with one of the final product (and possibly add another elsewhere in the article), and archive sources that haven't been archived yet. --JDC808 ♫ 03:11, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll read through, though I'm sure if it's anything I think needs changing it'll just be grammatical stuff. I'm still just an amateur so I won't be able to assist with updating the image or achieving sources, in case you did need help on that.

I'm also considering nominating one video game article for WP:FA that I majorly contributed to and got to WP:GA a while back. An admin redirected me to WT:VG to see if anyone there could help, but it's been about a week and I've not got a response from anyone. Do you know the best way to have someone look through the article and possibly get it nominated? Wikibenboy94 (talk) 19:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

What article? I could take a look. You could also nominate it for Peer Review and state that you're wanting to nominate the article for FA. --JDC808 ♫ 20:08, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

It's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (see above on this page for reference). Thanks I'll try that. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 21:24, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@JDC808: I've started reading God of War and so far have a handful of grammatical changes I'd improve. Once I've gone over the whole thing am I fine to do this or did you want to be made aware first? Wikibenboy94 (talk) 09:16, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

You can go ahead and make the fixes. --JDC808 ♫ 10:48, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, although three of the edits I have contested. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 21:05, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Rum

The reason it was removed from Bethesda's article due to being caused by another company is perhaps valid enough, if weak, for removing it there. However, it's connection to Fallout 76 and the marketing mistakes surrounding it is relevant and should stay on that article. -- ferret (talk) 12:33, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Ok, sorry about that. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:41, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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Unreliable huh.

So the non mainstream source i used that points out the swastikas missing on the uniforms is trash? is this what we're doing now? TheGorg14 (talk) 16:15, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

@TheGorg14: Whether or not you are the same IP that sourced a YouTube video discussing the use of swastikas in Call of Duty: WWII, note that YouTube content that is self-published is generally considered unreliable. Please also familiarise yourself with WP:YTREF. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 17:17, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

well regardless there needs to be a non-Youtube Source on the Blatant, purposely forgetfulness on the Swastikas in Campaign considering the in game campaign doesn't uncensor everything but the flag. TheGorg14 (talk) 19:33, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

@TheGorg14: If you can find a reliable source on the subject then go ahead, but it is very unlikely there will be any content discussing this that is not user-generated. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 22:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

well it's gonna be impossible considering the media is so biased against the truth. TheGorg14 (talk) 23:10, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

SOMA

Can you take a look at current edits being made at "SOMA"? thanks. — Daveout ^(talk) 16:43, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Relevant page: https://kotaku.com/weeks-later-somas-haunting-ending-still-has-players-de-1741773285 — Daveout ^(talk) 17:17, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for correcting my edit on the MGSV page, as it was my first one, so maybe it was even ridiculous. But the intentions were the best possible, in this case, to clarify some things that many people ignore. The fact that Nem Kojima himself says personally that the game is not finished, with all the letters, makes this remain a doubt and opens space to speculate the opposite. Finally, thanks for correcting the edit. Big Boss'Phantom (talk) 17:44, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

UserG versus Primary Source

Be mindful that a Facebook post is still a valid Primary Source about an entity/topic/person. Still needs cautiously used, but it is not immediately inherently unreliable to source something with a primary source. -- ferret (talk) 14:37, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

@Ferret: Sorry I'll admit my edit summary probably was a bit impulsive as I'm aware not all primary user-generated sources are unreliable (I've sourced tweets in the Modern Warfare Remastered article). In this case however I did think it was warranted, particularly concerning the rum bottle, in that either the prose was superfluous or that the statements made from the production/advertising company were in a Facebook comment and not a post; unsurprisingly no third-party sources I can find seemed to be aware of what had been said. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 22:49, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes I debated reverting them as well. Primarily though I just wanted to point out that WP:USERG is a bit different from a PRIMARY source. A verified Facebook, Twitter, etc, is a primary source, not a user-generated source. -- ferret (talk) 23:36, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered

Hello.

Those punctuation changes are fine. I understand the Destructoid change, since reviewers are not mentioned anywhere else. Using this style the reader just has to mentally make the connection that a reviewer condemned the change not the magazine.

Best of luck moving forward with it.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

@Twofingered Typist: Hi, and many thanks again for your full copy-edit to the article last month. I've today added three new more reviews to Reception in further preparation for its future FA nomination and was wondering if you would kindly go over the changes and improve upon the wording as necessary? I thought as you had carried out the initial copy-edit and it only concerned one section then there was no need to nominate again at WP:GOCE. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 17:50, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

@Wikibenboy94: Those changes look fine to me Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:04, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Outriders

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Outriders_(video_game)&diff=next&oldid=1019605213

Dear Benboy, I may sound amateurish, but I strive to be precise.

The reviewer writes: "One redeeming quality of the story is that it sends the player all over the planet of Enoch. Environments are vibrant and regularly shift from desert to snow, to caves to forests. This extends to the level design and combinations of areas offering cover or no cover at all."

This can be summed up that he likes scenery. You deleted "scenery" from what I wrote.

Can I bring scenery back?

MichalZim (talk) 09:25, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

MichalZim "Scenery" is too specific, whereas "visuals", the replacement I used, is a more comprehensive and commonly-used term for articles that aptly describes what a reviewer thinks of how a game looks in terms of the art/environments ("graphics" is an alternative, although this refers more to the technical specifications of the games). Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:14, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Scenery is not specific; it includes level design the reviewer writes about (see the above quote), not just visuals. MichalZim (talk) 13:50, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Then this would fall under level design, and should be noted as such. Scenery and visuals (as you've since included) are the same thing. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 16:05, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Resident Evil Village Metacritic Score

Sorry, when I press the link to Metacritic, It showed 82/100 at the time for me. GameEnd (talk) 18:25, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

GameEnd Well for mine it says 83/100 (based on 7 reviews), and I've no reason to believe that IP editor was changing it for dishonest reasons. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 18:28, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

RE Village revert

Hello, you reverted an edit of mine on the Resident Evil Village article saying "Nothing about the original wording implied it might have been referring to Miranda as the founder." However, I never claimed that the wording did this, I claimed that it seemed to indicate that Miranda created the t-virus because it says "Miranda mentored Oswell E. Spencer, the founder of Umbrella Corporation, and used her knowledge to eventually develop the t-Virus." As far as I am aware, it was Oswell and the Umbrella Corporation that created the t-virus, not Miranda. I may be wrong there as I am not a buff of the series. Nonetheless, if it is incorrect as is, I don't want to change things in a way that may be reverted and so instead I am leaving this message here so that you can change the article (or not) in a way that you find to be the most appropriate. Thanks. Alduin2000 (talk) 23:05, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Alduin2000 Either way, I still think the original wording was analogous to your edit. There's very little difference between "used her knowledge" and "knowledge learned from Miranda". She can't have developed the t-Virus because Umbrella did it first. Its merely indicating they were influenced by her work to create the virus. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 23:23, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

@Wikibenboy94: Thanks for the reply. I don't think the current wording is analogous to my edit. Cutting out the parenthetical aside of the current sentence about who Oswell is, the sentence becomes "Miranda mentored Oswell E. Spencer and used her knowledge to eventually develop the t-Virus." This explicitly states that Miranda herself developed the virus and so is explicitly not saying that it was simply her knowledge that influenced the creation of the virus. I'm not attached to my wording if it doesn't flow so well but if I am right that Miranda did not create the virus (which I think you are saying she didn't if I am interpreting you correctly?), I just hope that it can be changed in some way so as to maintain the accuracy of the article. I would do it myself but I don't want to simply go back to writing what I had before because I think it would be a little inappropriate after already being reverted about that. Alduin2000 (talk) 23:44, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I agree with Alduin that the sentence, as quoted above, suggests that Miranda made the t-virus. It needs split up to clarify and avoid run-on-ness. "Miranda mentored Oswell E. Spencer, the founder of Umbrella Corporation. Spencer used her knowledge to eventually develop the t-Virus." would resolve the issue. -- ferret (talk) 23:46, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Promotion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered

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Congratulations on promoting the article, great to see the progress over time on the article up to FA (I have considered creating a potential topic for Call of Duty 4 if you are interested).  Spy-cicle💥  ^Talk? 15:00, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered scheduled for TFA

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I'd already schedule that date, but since it's your first FA, I've given it an instant run out rather than make you wait another year.

I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:49, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

That was very quick! Many thanks, Jimfbleak! Wikibenboy94 (talk) 18:49, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

That's funny, you didnt even get any supports!

Looks like its video game month, now that we have this, Plants vs Zombies and Paper Mario all lined up Panini!^🥪 17:59, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Panini! I know, guess I just got lucky! I actually nominated it earlier than planned, not realizing the time frame was only from July to August; I'd intended June 27 for the anniversary of the PS4 release of the game's standalone version, but July 27 also works for its release on the remaining platforms. I didn't fancy waiting until November 4 for the 5th anniversary of the initial bundled version. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 18:49, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the article "about the 2016 remaster of the 2007 video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, titled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. I have been the largest contributor since the article's inception in 2017, and assisted in getting it to GA a few months later. Since then, I have continued to improve and expand upon it in that time."! Congrats to your first TFA! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Precious

video game remastered

Thank you for improving the quality of articles around video games, with a focus on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, updating other articles including Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, for "Went ahead and did it anyway", - Ben, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2637 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:40, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks Gerda! Wikibenboy94 (talk) 09:55, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2

Hi, WikiBenboy,

It's me again. You improved my text about Outriders a bit, however this time you are not right.

I wrote ">>GameStar<< reviewer Sascha Penzhorn wrote that the game is for you if you enjoy long-distance shots,"

In the German text it was written that the game is for you if for you "Spaß macht, den perfekten Distanzschuss zu planen". - "it's joyful to plan perfect distance shots". It's my interpretation they mean long-distance shots, but I knew the game introduces long-distance shots (above 1 km) to the franchise. So it's quite logical they mean the game is for you if you enjoy long-distance shots. You changed that into "the game would appeal to fans of sniping games". It's a completely different thing!

Actually, they made quite a fuss about introducing long-distance shots to the branch. It's quite important they succeeded and the feature was praised.

Also, I wrote: "there is a problem if the player is allergic to single-player games with microtransactions."

You changed that into "criticized the story and its inclusion of microtransactions."

You completely abandoned they are microtransactions in a single-player game. It's a completely different thing, paying to win against computer or paying to win against a human player.

MichalZim (talk) 11:16, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

@MichalZim: Google Translate has the English translation as "you enjoy planning the perfect long-range shot", which is more or less what you've said. I don't who you're referring to when you say THEY made a fuss out of introducing long-distance shots (which to me means nothing and sounds like something that is expected in a sniping game). Either way, as I've mentioned before, unless these statements are in the article they should not be referred to. My phrasing of "the game would appeal to fans of sniping games" is a summary of two of the review's positive opinions, which they list as being able to plan the perfect shot and feeling it was a sniper game that appealed to professional and beginner gamers.

I've changed the wording on the microtransactions to clarify that they were in the single-player mode. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:24, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

@Wikibenboy94: Sorry, I added the "they" paragraph at the last moment, just glanced at it and thought it should be ok. It actually wasn't quite clear.

CI Games (the game's developer) made quite a fuss about introducing long-distance shots in the last game (i.e. SGW C2); it was going to be a novelty.

You wrote: "long-distance shots (which to me means nothing and sounds like something that is expected in a sniping game)".

Well, in Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 the player was eliminating enemies while hiding, like, over a hill near-by. So no, there were no long-distance shots.

" My phrasing of >>the game would appeal to fans of sniping games<< is a summary of two of the review's positive opinions, which they list as being able to plan the perfect shot and feeling it was a sniper game that appealed to professional and beginner gamers."

As I get it, your goal is referring what the reviewer wrote, not inferring what can be deduced from it. Especially while, as you partially admit, you actually do not know many sniping games.

Besides, as you noted, the reviewer wrote that the game is also good for beginners at sniping games, so interpretation that the game is for fans of sniping games is inaccurate.

"unless these statements are in the article they should not be referred to."

It's quite clear by "distance shots" they mean "long-distance" shots". Even Google translated for you "long-range shot". Also, the article is behind pay-wall, they only gave free access to this summary. I'm going to subscribe them, but not today.

And thank you for changing wording about microtransactions. However, you wrote to me "that they were in the single-player mode". I guess for now it's a game with single-player mode only. MichalZim (talk) 11:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi!

Resident Evil Village has literally Romanian currency,names,Arhitecture and even traditional foods(Sarmale,Tochitura de pui,ciorba de legume,ciorba de porc,etc.) How the hell does Resident Evil Village doesn’t take place in Romania if the things that I stated are in the game?That means tha Capcom stole our traditions and other things and not credited? Arkley07 (talk) 14:34, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

A pie for you! Comdrea

How to your promise ro'bret and old, ok run Skyrim to'byth. Bridgenashawn (talk) 16:18, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Infinite warfare

Hello, Benboy,

I accepted most of your corrections in the Outriders article. I tried to write more elegantly since then, but you still correct me.

"He also feels the characters' arcs are >>rushed to an uncomfortable degree<<. The reviewer gives example of a character who dislikes robots, but suddenly starts to like them without any explanation." - why did you cut it? It was interesting. I understand you feel that you just made it briefer, writing "criticizing the characterization". However, visible plot cuts, perhaps for sake of budget, is something actually different than bad characterization.

"The Destructoid reviewer feels that some of the gadgets used in the game are more entertaining in multiplayer, however he observes that Mass Effect and sci-fans may be swayed by the solo campaign." - this was also nicely put. You wrote "thought only fans of Mass Effect and sci-fi fans would be swayed by it." but the reviewer actually writes he was also swayed a bit. So what you wrote is too strong.

But congratulations for detecting Phipps's article never mentioned Black Ops III in terms of campaign quality. Seems you are good at revision. Maybe you should stick to revision and do less re-writes of other people's work? MichalZim (talk) 13:20, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher)Maybe you should stick to revision and do less re-writes of other people's work? That's what revision is. I agree with Wikibenboy's adjustments to the COD Infinite article. -- ferret (talk) 14:50, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

@Ferret: About revision - yes, I was into translation revisions, I was unaware rewrite is also a revision. I checked and it is, you are right about this one. Sorry.

About "they" - I wasn't taught about "they" at school, didn't know, still sounds strange to me. Sorry.

Still, while rushed character arcs actually is bad characterization, this is not exactly the idea. The idea is rushed and cut plot. Writing that EGM is "criticizing the characterization" does not give the idea what the reviewer meant.

You write: "drifts from what we're specifically denoting: Reception of single player". Actually, I was constantly writing about single player:

- "while he appreciates floating through the void and hiding behind an asteroid field" - the reviewer wrote it about it just after writing about disappoinments of single player campaign; before he starts naming them he admits that space sequences are fine. It concerns single player game.

- "He also feels the characters' arcs are >>rushed to an uncomfortable degree<<. The reviewer gives example of a character who dislikes robots, but suddenly starts to like them without any explanation." - this obviously concerns single player game.

- "The Destructoid reviewer feels that some of the gadgets used in the game are more entertaining in multiplayer," - which means they are not entertaining in single player game, this also concerns single player game.

You write "Too much text dedicated solely to EGM" - Well, EGM's review is quite long (even if IGN's review is even longer). Maybe it woud be better to give more text dedicated to IGN's review, not cut text dedicated to EGM's review.

However, giving it a second thought, I start to like WikiBenboy's expression "enjoying the variety of gameplay in space". MichalZim (talk) 20:42, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

@Wikibenboy94: Hi!

You changed "Joab Gilroy of IGN gave the game (...)" to "IGN gave the game (...)". Therefore, when you write "Gilroy appreciated the dialogue and cast performances." we don't know who Gilroy is... For similar reasons we don't understand "both Carsillo and Gilroy highlighted an example when Omar expresses their dislike of Ethan," - we don't know who is Carsillo, who is Gilroy and who is Omar.

Also "Omar expresses their dislike" - but we know whether Omar is he or she? Why do we have to write "their", then? MichalZim (talk) 12:10, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

@MichalZim: Thanks, removed the reviewer's names. However, Omar/Ethan/Kotch are fine to stay as the paragraph discusses the characters of the campaign, so it's clear that these three persons are examples of them. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:36, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

@Wikibenboy94: Hi again!

- Still reviewer's name - you left "The game's multiplayer was criticized by Phipps". I think Phipps has not been introduced before in the current version of the article.

- "thanks to there being almost no loading screens" - I think it's better to write "thanks to almost complete lack of loading screens".

- You changed "The Game Informer reviewer writes the campaign in Infinite Warfare contains some elements typical for Call of Duty, but is still affecting." into "Game Informer was pleased from a perception that the "frenetic" movement of gameplay in recent Call of Duty installments had been toned down for Infinite Warfare". If you wanted to paraphrase me, I actually meant the following passage from the article: "Campaigns in the Call of Duty series can often be distilled down to a series of setpieces, clichéd villains, telegraphed twists, and ridiculous monologues punctuated with excessive explosions. In Infinite Warfare, you still get some of all that, but if you’re not careful you might also find yourself shedding a solitary tear for the brave soldiers and their sacrifices in the brutal war against the Settlement Defense Front." That's what it means, doesn't it? That Infinite Warfare has bad elements of typical Call of Duty, but is still affecting... Was the word affecting unclear? I admit I actually looked it up in the dictionary, maybe it is not the best. Best regards, MichalZim (talk) 14:55, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

@MichalZim: I've removed the reviewer's name and changed to your suggestion for the loading screens (added an "an" because it's grammatically incorrect otherwise). Thanks for the clarification about the game's elements; I've kept GI's opinions on the gameplay but re-phrased your prose because what you'd written didn't really give any indication about what was "affecting". Wikibenboy94 (talk) 14:08, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

@Wikibenboy94: Also thanks. MichalZim (talk) 18:59, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Section on post credits scene in Resident Evil and Ethan Winters

Hello

In the article on [Ethan Winters] I added the fact that Ethan could be seen in a post credits scene, which was however reverted with the motivation that "it was open to interpretation".

This, however, is not so (a matter of interpretation), as can be clearly seen when the character - Ethan - is zoomed in close-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNFSzCKSaAk

It is a bit odd that this is not mentioned considering that it is widely talked about on sites dedicated to the game.

Sincerely/ Okama-San (talk) 13:53, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

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Triple Crown

I'm very pleased to present the Triple Crown Jewels to Wikibenboy94, for your work on "Did you know?" and the good and featured article processes! — Bilorv (talk) 21:40, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Congrats on the Triple Crown! You might be interested in a userbox I made, {{User crown|Imperial}}:

This user has been awarded an Imperial Triple Crown.

I notice you also mention not being too versed in Wikitext on your userpage, so feel free to ask me if you want any help laying out your userpage in a particular way. — Bilorv (talk) 21:40, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

@Bilorv: Hi, thank you for the award and your offer to help with my userpage! Do you have the template for the Standard Triple Crown, as I assume you included the Imperial Crown template by mistake? Wikibenboy94 (talk) 13:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Ah yes, sorry about that! The process of giving out a Triple Crown, at least the way I do it, is a lot of copying from the previous time one was awarded and then changing the details, so that's where that came from. {{User crown}} will produce the userbox below:

This user has been awarded a Standard Triple Crown.

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Encyclopedia's editorial standards (past tense and [...])

All right, while expanding my relations from reviews I will slowly change them to past tense. However for now I am going to make an exception for Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2. It is a very fresh game and present tense seems valid for now. Also, I wrote there that the reviewer "has an impression that". I feel in this case changing it to past tense just a few months after release would somehow suggest his opinion has changed.

Thanks for all the work put into verifying the articles, I also have an impression it is important.

Using [...] rather than (...) is rather new to me, but if that's the encyclopedia's editorial standard, that's ok with me. Thank you for informing me. MichalZim (talk) 11:11, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

In academic writing you can use present tense for reporting articles

However, here's how you can refer to articles in academic writing: https://www.eapfoundation.com/writing/references/reporting/

"Sharpling (2012) points out that reporting verbs have subtle differences in meaning."

"Smith (2016) states that using According to and state in the same sentence is a common student error."

This means that one can use present tense for articles as much as 4 years old. This is also how you can use it in my language; you actually can write "he writes" meaning that he wrote.

Furthermore, the link you gave to the correct tense on wikipedia doesn't really show examples of reporting articles; it has examples like "Battleborn was an online hero shooter that was released in 2016. Its servers were shutdown in 2021."

I really have a lot to do this year. Also I am slowly translating German review of Phantom Doctrine using Babelfish to use it in the wikipedia article as GameStar is considered a good source on wikipedia and is mostly unused because nobody wants to report reviews written in German. Babelfish is a very good translator, but allows to translate 4 sentences a day. Perhaps I will have to translate some of the German text using a dictionary to make it faster. Then I am going to translate other reviews in order to sum them up in the wikipedia. It's hardly a good idea to waste time on rewriting properly written text for the sake of editorial standards only, especially when you actually gave me no proof of such a standard existing.

MichalZim (talk) 06:22, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Removing reviews

Hi Wikibenboy94. In future instead of removing correctly cited reviews that were added and cited by other editors into the video game reviews table section, taking them time and effort, it would be much appreciated if you could be more constructive. In this sense it would be much more constructive to add information from the reviews to the reception section if that is what is needed for them to be listed in the reviews table, rather than undoing the time and effort put in by other editors to include these reviews. It would be much appreciated if you could do this in future and if you could restore reviews that you previously removed that were correctly cited and simply add information from them into the reception section. Cheers, Helper201 (talk) 18:28, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

RE Village

Hey, please don't revert war with me over that one paragraph info. That discovery in the game's post-credits scene is a crucial finding that's been picked up by multiple reliable sources. It had nothing to do with speculation. Don't remove it just because you feel like it. Neo-corelight (Talk) 05:24, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

VGAGG

Hey! I noticed in your edit summary of removing stuff, you said it was based on WP:VGAGG, however VGAGG says nothing about what you just did, in fact, you removed Game Informer when it should've been kept. Explain why you made that edit please. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:18, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

I'll amend my statement and say that it does say that, however not where the shortcut is. It would've been better if you had simply said "Per template documentation", however you have been told not to do this about 2 months ago. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

One year!

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Call of Duty: WWII

Hi, Benboy.

You changed the long quote "A first-person shooter set during the journey from Normandy to The Rhine isn't unique, but you haven't quite experienced anything like the tour" into shorter "writing that the campaign was "moving" and "salutes the brotherhood that grows and strengthens on the battlefield". Good.

However, you cut "praising "A supporting cast of well-crafted personalities"" because, as you argued "EGM also praises the characterization". I don't think it's a good reason, if both sited praised characterization, it's good to write about it. Summary of Gamespot's review is still shorter, than GI's.

Also, GiantBomb's review. You cut both that the antagonists in the game are "faceless Nazis" and that "the game doesn't really feel like it's doing anything cool to take advantage of its setting and time period". I think one of these should be restored, or even both. In the comment you wrote that "the game doesn't really feel like it's doing anything cool to take advantage of its setting and time period" is unnecessary, as it's based on the further quote "the setting change didn't bring any new and exciting inspiration with it". No, the editor wrote "the game doesn't really feel like it's doing anything cool to take advantage of its setting and time period" and "the setting change didn't bring any new and exciting inspiration with it".

If you want to cut something, cut "was more critical of the game as a whole". It is very mildly put. He "was more critical", not "more critical of the game as a whole".

Games sometimes have one very critical review, which would be good to show on the wikipedia. Consider this: https://www.destructoid.com/reviews/review-ghost-recon-wildlands/ MichalZim (talk) 02:12, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

@MichalZim: As has been advised, if you want to contest changes to an article, please do so on its talk page and, if it's directed at a specific user, leave a message for the person from there. In this instance, however, I will respond to your comments here. I can seen you've made further changes to the article since.

As the the characters are described by the reviews as "well-crafted personalities" and "well characterized", these are written so similarly that either the quotes should be removed and the prose written along the lines of "The characters were praised[1][2]" with the two review citations next to that, or perhaps better still, have EGM's review straight after GameSpot's, and write "Similarly, EGM praised the characters as "well characterized...".

What I meant about the setting quote is that "the setting change didn't bring any new and exciting inspiration with it" infers that the setting/time period was not taken advantage of, exactly as the prior quote reads, which is why I feel it was redundant, and as I say makes the sentence a bit overlong. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 12:46, 23 August 2022 (UTC)