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putting on the site and to familiarise me with the content guidelines. It strikes me that others are liable to have been scared off continuing to contribute when faced with these issues. Anonymous and new users will often add inappropriate content to articles, though they mean well but simply don't understand what is required of the articles they edit. We must all remember we were all new once: I originally contributed a whole load of junk that was similar to what some IPs do now, but I learnt how fix my approach to topics.
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mixture of products, characters and a few developers. Hopefully I've got a few more in the works, though I unfortunately can't work at the same pace as I used to these days. Most of the articles I've worked on have involved me coming along, observing an article in a dire situation and rewriting the entire thing. Sometimes this has taken me a matter of days, others have been a slow process over months.
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back in 2005. There was a request on the old forums for the game to help build the article, so I came along and expanded it with a whole load of game guide stuff and original research—I knew no different back then. I went back a couple of years later and fixed the article up properly; it's now listed
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Now that's a tough one. I imagine it might link in with the wider situation in the industry. The day-to-day advertising that you might see on TV or walking down a high street is usually focused on console games, as is much of the mainstream media, so perhaps many editors are simply more aware and
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Well, I'm a history undergraduate, which seems to be mostly responsible for a recent lack of time for
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