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Roguelike Wikipedia Article
« on: January 02, 2008, 07:32:02 PM »
Ok, I am pretty sure all of you have read the Roguelike article over wikipedia.

The article has been debated for deletion before, and I feel there is a need to enhance it so it shows off better what roguelikes are about.

Here are my points:

* History is stranded on the past, lots of things happened after Moria
* Branching roguelikes into Hacklikes, *Bands and overworld just doesnt feel right to me, and may contribute to reduce the notability of the genre (Are there really hacklikes apart from nethack? are the rest of them nethack-likes? why not add ADoMlikes, DoomRLLikes, etc... for me, the only branch that still applies is the *bands one)
* I am not sure how good it is to show the example map picture
* Features may be merged with the roguelike definition from roguebasin (as a side note, the roguebasin definition still lacks some things, like the Item discovery process)
* Popularity must be extended to include all the blogs and websites that discuss roguelikes, including the @play column, the angband.ooz
* Legacy: The PnP RPGs based on roguelikes are not really notable, are they?

What do people think?

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Re: Roguelike Wikipedia Article
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2008, 11:37:00 PM »
can we just move the  content to the real roguelike wiki and be done with it? I'm sick and tired of all the CfD's of the roguelike articles (7dlr etc). Im done debating on wikipedia about it grrrrrr
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Re: Roguelike Wikipedia Article
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2008, 12:22:43 AM »
Thats true... I have a growing hatred for wikicops :P who do you think they are? (they are damaging wikipedia, but thats a topic for another discussion)

Ok, here is a possible to Do

* Extend the history to cover more milestones roguelikes
* Remove Overworld from the branches section
* Add @play and ascii-dreams
* Challenge the notability of the PnP RPGs?

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Re: Roguelike Wikipedia Article
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2008, 02:48:43 PM »
Why they want to remove an article about roguelikes?

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Re: Roguelike Wikipedia Article
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2008, 05:38:59 PM »
They say (have said) roguelikes are not notable which is one of those famous wikipedia standards.

They have tried to remove the DoomRL article, GearHead too I think, and most biggest of heresies, have challenged the Roguelike article to be deleted more than once.

Stu knows more about it than myself :D

Idiots

Ok... sorry