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Further to the reception section, one thing I noticed is that a couple of commentators are mentioned by name (Marc Oxoby and Joyce Saricks), but no context is provided to explain who these people are and why their opinions are notable. Would it be worthwhile adding some brief identifying context, or
402:. You quote someone as saying In his book, The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer's Bible, and that Sean Patrick Fannon describes the Forgotten Realms as being "the most ambitious fantasy game setting published since Tekumel". Therefore, why aren't there many sources describing the impact under 486:
The section doesn't really feel complete because it is primarily in-universe (and we're keeping that to a minimum), and because their are other main articles for each of the topics. I'm not sure how to really make it better, although if you have any ideas that would be great!
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I was wondering something, and maybe you can help with this. Would it be better to keep the article as a rough chronological whole as it is, or should it be split up into sections detailing RPG product, novels, computer games, etc?
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Hi, I am reviewing this article for GA and am listing my comments below. I copyedited the article and slightly reworded and fix punctuation. Many of the changes I made were to punctuation in quotations. See:
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section of an article. It orients the reader who does not already know about D&D, so that the rest makes more sense. Is there is a standard format to put such sections at the end? —
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Much of the World section can easily be confirmed by a look through the official rulebooks, although I can more specifically cite it if needed. I'll look into rewording it's lead. -
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section, since it can all be easily confirmed with the books themselves and all references would be primary. I can add them in if needed, I'm just not sure if they're needed. -
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section is fairly new; we only started adding to that recently. We'll try to find more to add there, as undoubtedly there is a ton... the question is, where to find it?
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If possible, put references at the end of a sentence, if it covers the whole sentence. It is best not to frequently interrupt sentences with citations in the middle.
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Do you have any ideas as to how it could be changed to not look copied? It looks fine to me, although it was indeed copied (in this case from the article's lead). -
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I think that most everything mentioned has been fixed; apologies if I missed anything! The only thing that I know hasn't been done was adding citation to
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That is a good idea regarding persons such as Marc Oxoby who have particular expertise or credibility, to mention that person's standing in the field. —
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Winter, Steve; Greenwood, Ed; Grubb, Jeff. 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons, pages 74-87. (Wizards of the Coast, 2004).
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as the writing style was not right for the encyclopedia, and it seemed like it was copied from something else with a different writing style.
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section go where it is, at the end. It seems like it should come first. Are you following an article structure laid out by a project?
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Actually, we've been the ones organizing the WP D&D project lately. :) But I know of other places I can ask as well...
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know? Sometime you can get ideas from looking at other articles on a similar subject and see what they used. —
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Most references in the D&D community are unreliable, so its harder to find sources that meet
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is the citation information sufficient? I'm thinking of something along the lines of:
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intro section reads like it was copied from somewhere; also it had no citations.
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Okay, you caught me. :) 'Twas just trying make the section less list-like. -
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section doesn't seem very complete. The rest of the article is great.
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All of it was 2nd edition; that was the setting's most popular years.
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Give some time frames in the lead, some dates to orient the reader.
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This section runs on some, from the general reader's point of view.
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There is no book by this author with this title at Amazon.com
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I had listed some, but someone went and excised them. :P
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