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Losing MUD history
Raph's Website — QBlog writes on the controversy going on over the possible deletion of the article on Threshold MUD. I’ve run into the fact that Wikipedia isn’t a great resource for research into the history of virtual worlds many times before; the articles are of wildly uneven quality, and a recent crappy game can have pages and pages worth of content, whereas historically interesting stuff doesn’t. LegendMUD’s entry was deleted without even a debate a while ago, despite there being other articles that reference it and point ...

Wikicrap
Broken Toys — ... good entry! Oh wait, no, he doesn’t, his entire biography is how he hates Paladins. NO, I AM NOT JOKING AT ALL. Thanks, Wikipedia, for focusing on what’s really important about the career of the lead designer of the most successful MMO in history. You rock. Especially since, apparently according to Wikipedia, I am the most important MMO developer of our time. I’m getting a plaque or something now. As a result, we have a bit of a kerfluffle (described by Bartle and Koster) where an angry Wikipedian decided that a MUD he may or may ...

Wikipedia Is What It Is…
Zen of Design — ... and Richard have posted about? Bored to death, really. I mean, it’s not like people haven’t been arguing about this for years. ...

MUD history dissolving into the waters of time
Massively — ... our conquest of the online playing field, right? Well, it appears Wikipedia does not think the same way we do on this matter. The online encyclopedia powered by user contributions has begun cracking down... Continue reading MUD history dissolving into the waters of time MUD history dissolving into the waters of time originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.   Read | Permalink | Email this |  ...

Shifting sands: EGM and Threshold MUD
/random — ... By now, you’ve all probably heard that EGM will no longer publish magazines, and the 1UP network has been sold to UGO. You also may be aware of the Threshold MUD entry being removed from Wikipedia (thanks for the pointer, Muckbeast!). Both events remind me that we’re still living in the dawn of the digital era, and the videogame era, and the only thing constant is change…and Blizzard topping software sales charts, I guess. It makes me wonder what the future holds for our hobby, and for the people who ...

Wikipedia MUDslinging
Tobold's MMORPG Blog — ... , a collaborative project fueled by the work of volunteers, is battling with this sort of problems every day. And recently they ran into trouble with Richard Bartle, because they deleted the entry on the Threshold MUD. On the surface the discussion is about whether the entry has valid source material, but behind that is the simple question whether every single MUD is important enough to have it's own Wikipedia entry, or whether it wouldn't be sufficient to make one big entry listing the history of MUDs and be done with it. ...

Fear and Loathing at Wikipedia
Stropp's World — ... Okay. So we know that there are always two sides to each story. The article I referred to was written by the CEO of the company that owns Threshold after all. However, there’s enough corroboration that I’ve seen, Bartle and ...