Lazman321

Potential Fallout series Good Article Topic

So I'm slowly making my way through the articles for the Fallout games and as it stands right now, 5 of the 9 games in the series are at either GA or FA status. Fallout 3 and New Vegas survived their 2024 Good Article Reviews (although I think the Fallout 3 review got closed a little too early, the lede and reception sections still need to be tweaked), and I'm planning on revamping the Fallout Shelter article since its gotten a little bloated. That leaves 2, Tactics, 4, and 76. Since you worked on the article for Fallout 1, would you be willing to collaborate on Fallout 2? I'll admit, I'm not particularly knowledgeable on the pre-Bethesda games, but I do own the games on Steam so I should get around to them eventually. Famous Hobo (talk) 12:44, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I'd be willing to collaborate with you on Fallout 2 as best as I can. It will be a bit difficult for me since I am slightly busy with a summer semester in college right now. However, I'll try to help as best as I can. What would you like us to do? Lazman321 (talk) 16:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Famous Hobo, there is something I can do at the very least. On top of ensuring that the gameplay and plot sections make sense given my understanding of Fallout 2 from when I beat it, I can also write the reception section for you. I noticed that in both GA reviews, you mentioned hating writing reception sections. I do agree that they take significant time to write and am willing to write it while address the other sections. Also, to help with sourcing, I found the official manual, and the talk page has a list of sources found by JimmyBlackwing. Lazman321 (talk) 18:05, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Three years!

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Your GA nomination of Bejeweled (video game)

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Your GA nomination of Bejeweled (video game)

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Your GA nomination of Bejeweled (video game)

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Lazman321! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 12:34, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in the October 2024 GAN backlog drive

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Declined speedy deletion: EU Concours

Hello, Lazman321! I wanted to let you know that I have declined you G12 speedy deletion nomination of EU Concours. G12 only applies when all historical versions of the article contain copyrighted material, and "there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving". In this case, I have removed the copyrighted material from the article and its history via revision deletion.

In the future, if you see an article that contains copyrighted material but has some text worth saving, you can request an admin to delete certain revisions of the article tha contain copyrighted material. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this. :) Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 01:31, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

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Action of 23 March 1654

Well spotted here, I agree this looks like a hoax! Because the page has existed for nearly 20 years I opted for an AfD rather than unceremoniously deleting it, but this, along with Action of 2 May 1654, do seem to be fictitious as far as I can tell. Sam Walton (talk) 21:25, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Good call, but happy to help, nonetheless. Lazman321 (talk) 21:34, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for Bejeweled (video game)

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Congratulations Lazman321, I am pleased to award you the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels for your incredible contributions to Wikipedia. Damien Linnane (talk) 02:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I was actually just reading the ChilledCow article the other day. Well done on such a great collection of articles. Damien Linnane (talk) 02:14, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Quiver (video game)

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Your GA nomination of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven

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A barnstar for you!

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	In appreciation of your work in getting the article on Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven to GA status. I recently got into that album and was blown away, and I'm happy to see its article receive the TLC it deserves. Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 23:33, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

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Lucid (Asa album)

Let me start by saying this. Do not review any other article I nominate for GA. Your review was lackluster to say the least. You didn't bother looking at the previous GAN done by other editors. If you actually went through the previous GAN carried out by other editors, you would see that all of their comments were addressed. Your claim about the article having grammatically issues is straight out false. The editor who edited the page has created several good articles related to Kanye West. For your info, this particular statement (the album's title depicts the place where Aṣa was at the time of the album's release) was suggested by the editor who last reviewed the article. I am going to take the article to GOCE and renominate it. I'll continue nominating it until it passes GAN. I am not going to allow your lackluster opinion stop me from bringing the article GA status.  Versace1608  ^{Wanna Talk?} 16:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Lucid (Asa album)

Let me start by saying this. Do not review any other article I nominate for GA. Your review was lackluster to say the least. You didn't bother looking at the previous GAN done by other editors. If you actually went through the previous GAN carried out by other editors, you would see that all of their comments were addressed. Your claim about the article having grammatically issues is straight out false. The editor who edited the page has created several good articles related to Kanye West. For your info, this particular statement (the album's title depicts the place where Aṣa was at the time of the album's release) was suggested by the editor who last reviewed the article. I am going to take the article to GOCE and renominate it. I'll continue nominating it until it passes GAN. I am not going to allow your lackluster opinion stop me from bringing the article GA status.  Versace1608  ^{Wanna Talk?} 16:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Your accusation of close phrasing is false. I summarized the sources in my own words. A copyright detector test was also performed on the article by previous editors. You are the only editor who has falsely accused me of copying source material. The previous editors who reviewed the article have way more experience than you and didn't bring up this false accusation. Like I said earlier, don't review any other article I nominate for GA.  Versace1608  ^{Wanna Talk?} 19:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

@Versace1608: As per WP:PARAPHRASE, close paraphrasing is the "superficial modification of material from another source" and is considered plagiarism. Per WP:GACR, copyright violations is one of a few scenarios where an article can be failed without further review, and I did provide you with evidence of significant close paraphrasing in my spotchecks and my rationale for closing the review, which is that I want to give you time to fix the plagiarism before renominating it. Also worth noting that close paraphrasing is one of the few methods of plagiarism that cannot be detected by the copyright detector, meaning it does not matter that prior reviewers used it. Lazman321 (talk) 20:37, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Stop talking nonsense and show me evidence of the so-called plagiarism. You've wasted my time and this will be my last response to you. I thought you were a serious editor.  Versace1608  ^{Wanna Talk?} 21:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

@Versace1608: Okay, I feel telling me to "stop talking nonsense" and that you thought I was a "serious editor" feels like your personally attacking me. If you want evidence, here it is. Lazman321 (talk) 21:50, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

If you feel like I'm personally attacking you, report me to an administrator; it's as simple as that. Your review was lackluster. You sat there nitpicking the article simply because you do not want to pass it. Just because you claim that it I closely paraphrased the source doesn't mean that it is true. Your criticism of the article is your opinion and not a fact. Previous editors who are more experienced than you did not tell me this. They actually took the time and gave a detailed review of their critique. You, on the hand, looked at a few sentences and concluded that I plagiarized the entire article. Like I said earlier, do not review anymore articles I submit. I am going to resubmit the article this weekend and someone else will review it. The only downside is that the article will be at the bottom of the page. You've wasted my time here. Before you waste anyone's else time, make sure you refrain from reviewing articles you perceived to be closely paraphrased. The fact that the Lucid (Asa album) article passes Earwig copyright plagiarism test doesn't mean anything to you. Nitpicking one or two sentences in an article and concluding that the entire is plagiarized is what's important to you. Someone should give you a barnstar for being an expert in spotting close paraphrasing.  Versace1608  ^{Wanna Talk?} 22:14, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Promotion of Bejeweled (video game)

Congratulations, Lazman321! The article you nominated, Bejeweled (video game), has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC)