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WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons

A well put together report. Contragulations to the contributors. --Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 15:46, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. It was a lot of fun. I even suggested a FICT interview to Kirill on his talk page. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 17:14, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

We'll see how much of a glutton for punishment he is. ;) BOZ (talk) 17:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 18:10, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Sad

"In the past, our WikiProject has been the target of campaigns by individual editors to severely reduce the material we cover. Some of these efforts have been particularly aggressive, even hurtful, and I feel this is a reason many editors who were once rather active in the WikiProject have either quit working on related articles, or left Wikipedia altogether."

You got that right. The sanctimonious attitudes also serve to hinder anyone new from wanting to join up.  :( 98.232.219.86 (talk) 04:47, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Good point, yeah. I try to be welcoming, though. :) BOZ (talk) 12:04, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Please don't think that was directed at you.  :) 98.232.219.86 (talk) 13:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

No, I know what you meant. :) I try to be welcoming even some people are not. BOZ (talk) 15:34, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

And, to follow up on my thought... ;) If you haven't had a look around the WikiProject, feel free to do so, and you are always welcome to pitch in. We have a number of anons helping out in a variety of ways, so don't feel that you need to register an account to be useful! :) BOZ (talk) 16:47, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Congrats, and a request for help

Congratulations on the progression of WIkiproject:Dungeons and Dragons, and subsequent report. It's good to see the RPG hobby getting good quality coverage on WIkipedia. I also think it's a little sad that the project has encountered opposition, particularly since the sheer breadth of coverage on Wikipedia is one of its greatest strengths.

I also have a smallish request to make, and I've placed it here as I could find no specific talk page for the project. Whilst I was reading the report, I noticed mention that old magazines had been accessed for information and reviews of D&D products, including White Dwarf. I have been working almost single-handedly on a page on illustrator John Blanche, notable for his formative work for Games Workshop games and later as art director of the latter company. One good source of information might be articles and columns appearing in early and later copies of the mag, but I'm at a loss to provide such data without access to a copious collection. So, if any of you have that access as implied by the use of the magazine for this project, I was wondering if you might have a leaf through copies and see what you can find. Currently lacking and sought data include date and place of birth (which would allow for an info box), awards won over the years, and the dates of inception of various regular columns in the magazine for which Blanche was responsible, all cited obviously, using a magazine cite template. Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. Feel free to contect me on the article's talk page or my own. LSmok3 (talk) 18:57, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Probably should copy that over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 19:30, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I have access to a number of issues, but they are in no way indexed - if you could find out somewhere what issue you'd want me to look in, I'd be glad to help out! BOZ (talk) 19:41, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, and once again sorry for posting he request here (I followed the link to the project page but as I said I couldn't find any talk page to post to). Anyway, problem effectively solved - I posted the same request on the White Dwarf article talk page and got a link to a full online index of WD, and the same person has an almost complete collection and has offered to help me out with the content of actual issues of interest. . . So thanks again, and perhaps I'll be making a contrib to your project in future if I can find the time. LSmok3 (talk) 22:34, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Good deal! You're always welcome to participate. :) BOZ (talk) 22:38, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Fascinating read

All three of you gave thoughtful, comprehensive and well-structured responses. Interesting to read, and an eye-opener as to the scope of the project on which you are working.Guinness323 (talk) 21:23, 4 October 2009 (UTC)