Talk:Dino Dini

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[edit] Controversies

Personally i think a paragraph concerning controversies should be added, (v. sensible soccer, v. s.campbell ) etc what do you think? Romanista 12:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

No, I don't think so....Dndn1011 16:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dino, don't edit

Dndn1011, since you are Dino Dini, you really shouldn't edit this article. I removed the sections on your early life, etc., since they don't really add much to the topic of you being a game developer/designer. It's also completely unsourced. I know that you don't really need a source, since you lived it, but that kind of OR isn't permitted on Wikipedia. But moreoever, Wikipedia policy stricly prohibits anyone who has an article from editing that article, apart from blatant corrections ("Hey, I wasn't born in 1932!") and reverting vandalism. Therefore, I removed most of those sections you added.

I also removed the self-aggrandizing language and tried to make it more NPOV. I also did some other cleanup (game titles are italicized, not bolded).

So, please, limit your contributions to Wikipedia to anything but this article. Answering questions directed at you on the talk page is fine, but comments on the direction of the article should be left to other editors.

Thanks for your contributions to the 'pedia, and I hope you'll continue to contribute to other articles. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 16:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I read the policy and it did not seem to prohibit it in the manner you describe. It was a recommenedation only. Also the background information is relevant as it is all about early video games that I designed and developed. The current article itself it pretty poor and most of it was taken from my old website. You have also removed text that existed prior to my attempt to clean up and fill it out. The article as it stands mentions virtually nothing at all about the years I am most noted for then quotes almost verbatim what was effectively my resmue from 1996. Since I am not happy with this I have edited the article further removing most of the resume stuff. You are being heavy handed I believe and I am not happy about it.Dndn1011 17:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Um, the policy I was referring to is WP:AUTO and it states in bold up at the top "This page is considered a guideline on Wikipedia. It is generally accepted among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow." That doesn't sound like just a "recommendation" to me.

However, I was wrong on one point. It states that you may make comments and observations on the Talk page (what I stated is different), so I admit that mistake. So, say as much as you like on this talk page including (bonus!) insulting me.

Apart from that, I think it's pretty clear that you're not supposed to make large changes to the article yourself. If I accidentally stripped content that you didn't add, I apologize. But from what I could tell, you added two big sections, and I removed those (though I worked some information from them into the rest of the article). If some of this information comes from your webiste, great. But it should be cited, so it is obvious it is not OR (like this <ref>[http://www.mycoolwebsite.com/how_i_came_to_be.html "How I Came To Be"] from Fred Sed's [[MyCoolWebsite]]</ref>). Of course, other works, such as interviews, articles, and books are preferred, but for subjects such as this, information like that is scant.

Go ahead and restore the information I removed that you did not originally add. My intent was not to be a Wiki-Nazi, but just to enforce Wikipedia policy. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

No I have simply removed the content copied from my old webs site on the basis of copyright.Dndn1011 21:47, 7 November 2006 (UTC)