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September 2011

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KV-4

I've responded to your question here on my talk page. To add to what Bushranger said, while in Computer games (and the like) certain aircraft or vehicles mahave a high profile - these appearances are generally never significant enough to merit mention in the article about the vehicle. GraemeLeggett (talk) 17:10, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Civilization V: Brave New World

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This is what a Civ V expansion article should look like: Civilization V: Gods & Kings. Not the collection of lists you keep inserting. This is an encyclopaedia not a gaming fan site. -Oosh (talk) 00:18, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

My way is obviously infinitely superior in every way. GMRE (talk) 12:34, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Before Common Era / Before Christ

Hi GMRE,

As per WP:ERA I reckon we should stick with BCE in the article on Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini. See the talk page for discussion. Thanks. PhilMacD (talk) 18:05, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Broforce and Angry Joe

Re: So Angry Joe isn't a reliable source for what Angry Joe has said? In short, no. If the article was about AJ and you wanted a self-published source on what AJ said, it could work, but as secondary source commentary about Broforce (e.g., giving it a score), Angry Joe is not a reliable source since the source has not shown editorial oversight. Feel free to argue it further at WP:VG/RS if you'd like, but please revert your edit for now. In the future, when you disagree, editors typically bring the proposed edit to the article's talk page instead of reverting the first revert. czar ♔ 19:35, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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Prototype

You had removed this entry under the consideration that it was "something that's already established by the opening sentence of the article":

Prototype, any real object, system, business, etc. used as a basis for a model, especially in the hobby of model railroading

My reason for adding the item is because (1) it is a fundamental term in modeling hobbies and (2) to my mind its meaning is not actually covered in the opening sentence and, in general, actually the opposite of the sense of the other entries. Perhaps you can help me make the entry reflect this important sense that is presently missing in the list with the link to the article. From eBay "A Model Railroader's Glossary of Common Terminology":

Prototype - The actual subject upon which a model or replica is based.

In engineering, etc, prototyping is the process of making models of something that will or might be made real, but in modeling hobbies, prototype is the "real thing" (sometimes referred to as 1:1 scale) that is being modeled. The real box car is referred to as the prototype of the model boxcar meant to represent; yes, the model boxcar is "something that is representative of a category of things", but within the hobby it is the "category of things represented" that is called the prototype, not thing (model) that represents them. The term is so fundamental you see it used in glossaries without definition, it is used in this sense without definition multiply in the linked article. Perhaps it is just a word twist I am hanging up on here, I may be wrong there, but I don't think so. In engineering, we make prototype models to represent something were are planning on making real version of, in software engineering, we make classes as prototypes for instances of objects; but in model railroading, I suppose the prototype trains are the models for the "real" model toys we make. But, in engineering, the design models we make of real things we call prototypes; but in model railroading, the models we make of real things we do not call prototypes. IveGoneAway (talk) 13:04, 13 April 2015 (UTC) 14:58, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

More to the point:

• Engineering: prototype is the model of the thing
• Model hobbies: prototype is the thing being modeled

IveGoneAway (talk) 22:45, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

I've also done some model building and I've never head someone use that word in this context. Also, the wording seemed suspicious. In this full explanation it makes much more sense. I'll put it back. GMRE (talk) 20:29, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

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