Wikipedia: Spring

Muzic · Post by **Muzic** » 19 Jan 2007, 04:27

I honestly must have missed something. When I first saw it last summer, it had like 3x more info. What happened :O?

Foxomaniac · Post by **Foxomaniac** » 19 Jan 2007, 06:28

Wiki article?

They removed some parts to "make the article clearer".

In-fact, in the discussion page they were planning to remove the features section of the article that mentions teh featurez of spring because "it seems like an advertisement".

To put it simply : Wikipedia is lame.

;P.

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 19 Jan 2007, 07:47

how can you advertise something that is free?

Muzic · Post by **Muzic** » 19 Jan 2007, 09:12

hunterw wrote:how can you advertise something that is free?

When you advertise something, its not generally all about profit. What about people who put up posters to spread awareness of certain things. That is in a way advertising. Advertising Spring would just be spamming topics on other forums...

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 19 Jan 2007, 09:26

I'm sure that whoever blew the whistle on "advertising" thought that spring was some sort of product. Advertising in your sense of the word merely means raising awareness about something, and in that case all of wikipedia is one enormous advertisement isn't it?

Muzic · Post by **Muzic** » 19 Jan 2007, 09:37

hunterw wrote:I'm sure that whoever blew the whistle on "advertising" thought that spring was some sort of product. Advertising in your sense of the word merely means raising awareness about something, and in that case all of wikipedia is one enormous advertisement isn't it?

Wikipedia is your gigantic encyclopedia constantly being updated by 15 year olds. It doesnt raise aware awareness of anything, unless you see Add banners saying ' WIKIPEDIA: TODAYS TOPIC '.

Edit: Still It wouldnt make sense. I mean you guys were just posting what the actual damn features were. Its not advertising its simply showing whats included in the game, we may aswell delete every software topic in wikipedia.

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 19 Jan 2007, 15:02

on the discussion page they want to change it to TaSpring again, because the website still refers to taspring (eg the sub domain & domain etc)

just a heads up

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 19 Jan 2007, 16:18

Advertising you say?

wikipedia has NEVER contained such things as game advertising.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 19 Jan 2007, 20:21

I am itching to revise the wiki entry like a madman.

TheRegisteredOne · Post by **TheRegisteredOne** » 23 Jan 2007, 21:06

mongus wrote:Advertising you say?

wikipedia has NEVER contained such things as game advertising.

right, let's all hate supcom now

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 23 Jan 2007, 21:08

I already hate supcom.

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 24 Jan 2007, 02:15

most prone to hate that skywalker dude that deleted teh spring reference at the bottom.

He also removed teh mods at spring page.

however its fixable, gift supcom and new computer to me and ill be fanboi

manored · Post by **manored** » 24 Jan 2007, 04:39

smoth wrote:I already hate supcom.

Who (or what) is supcom?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Jan 2007, 04:57

Sup Com is TA 2. Lots of people are all bitter about it. I don't know...I liked it. Am I crazy? Probebly. But I did like it, so...pshaw.

Pxtl · Post by **Pxtl** » 24 Jan 2007, 16:58

neddiedrow wrote:I am itching to revise the wiki entry like a madman.

I think the trick would be to ditch that entry and start building entries for "each game built on the Spring platform" linking back to the Spring wiki page.

TheRegisteredOne · Post by **TheRegisteredOne** » 24 Jan 2007, 16:59

TheRegisteredOne wrote:
mongus wrote:Advertising you say?

wikipedia has NEVER contained such things as game advertising.
right, let's all hate supcom now

/sarcasm

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 24 Jan 2007, 17:41

Pxtl wrote: I think the trick would be to ditch that entry and start building entries for "each game built on the Spring platform" linking back to the Spring wiki page.

Agreed. The page does a good job stating that spring is a RTS engine and listing the features, but a clear area listing and linking to the games that run on the spring engine is a necessity.

Spring RTS Engine

Wikipedia: Spring

Wikipedia: Spring