brighthub.com - 1/11/2009
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Wikipedia is currently dominated by a powerful deletionist movement. MUDs and Gaming History are frequent targets, and Threshold RPG recently found itself in the Wikipedian crosshairs. Wikipedia has lost its way, and obscure, interesting content is constantly in jeopardy of disappearing. Online ...
youhaventlived.com - 1/5/2009
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youhaventlived.com —
For reasons best known to itself, Wikipedia has
a habit of deleting game-related entries ( BYOND 's
went last year; Dragon Kill Points went a couple of years ago and was only reinstated after a long fight). At the moment, there's a proposal to delete ...
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Threshold
thresholdrpg.com - 1/6/2009
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thresholdrpg.com —
Threshold is a high fantasy, real-time, multi-player, online
role playing game. Once you step across the Threshold
you will be absorbed by the rich, detailed, highly developed role playing atmosphere that comprises this fantasy realm. You become the ...
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Journey Beyond the Threshold!
massively.com - 1/7/2009
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massively.com —
While many modern MMO users may never have
looked at a screen of white text on a
black background and typed "go north," multi-user dungeons, or MUDs, were the forerunners to modern graphical MMOs. Without their appeal and gameplay concepts, we ...
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MUD history dissolving into the waters of time
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Threshold RPG and Wikipedia
The Ancient Gaming Noob —
... Muckbeast has posted a writeup about the trials and tribulations of trying to create and keep alive an entry about the MUD Threshold RPG on Wikipedia, the event that set off much of the brouhaha about keeping MUD history alive that even I posted about the other day.
A tale of politics, ambition, spite, and retaliation, it stands as another example of the “game of Wikipeidia” vs. “the ideal of Wikipedia.”
Posted in entertainment, MUDs Tagged: Threshold RPG, ...
Fear and Loathing at Wikipedia
Stropp's World —
... According to CEO of Frogdice, the creators of Threshold, in an article called Wikipedia’s War on Gaming History and Threshold RPG, the Wikipedia editor embarked on a systematic campaign to get the Threshold article deleted by: ...
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