User talk:Mystyle48

Но нельзя же указывать магазин MacGameStore (не поддерживается же), да и на Comcast.Net тоже что-то для MacOS было, как я посмотрел.

Ещё... указаны же МИНИМАЛЬНЫЕ требования - зачем же 3 разные версии Windows писать там?

Да и зачем нужна строка "The Mac OS X version is no longer sold digitally.", если Windows-версия тоже не продаётся нигде давно?

Verified it through my own copy. The game is drm free.

Did you run the game without Steam? Booting it myself without Steam running gives me a "Can't initialize Steamworks, aborting..." error.

Hi, I would like to address a few issues that you criticized in my edit.

I agree with you about the possibly unnecessary removal of the monetization section. Often the infobox already contains the same information and if you hover over it, it displays the same text that is in the table in the monetization section. So if the monetization section contains the same content as the infobox without any custom notes, I sometimes remove it because in my opinion it is redundant – it is a subjective opinion that you can disagree with. I was convinced that the editing guide did not state clearly enough that this section should always be included, even though it says "add this table below the {{Availability}} table". If the moderators clearly state that this is the standard, then of course I will comply.

I do not agree with removing the website name (EuroGamer in this case) from the reference. The editing guide in the general guidelines for references states that "naming reference links should follow this layout: <Site/Forum name> – <Article/Thread title>".

I also disagree with replacing the multiplication sign (×) with the letter X. Using the multiplication sign to indicate the reading speed of an optical drive is completely correct and is even indicated in this way on Wikipedia.

Another issue is that I am removing the HTTP protocol designation from the archived link in the Wayback Machine. I am doing this because it is a duplication because "http" is already at the beginning of the entire link and specifies that the "web.archive.org" website is secured with the SSL protocol, so in the part with the archived link there is no point in repeating it. This is what logic tells me, even though I know that the Wayback Machine inserts this element in the link by default.

The last thing I want to mention is spelling of the Crosire's wrapper name. He himself uses all lowercase letters – d3d8to9, but it is an abbreviation for Direct3D 8 to 9, so the correct spelling seems to be D3D8to9. The issue of contention is therefore what takes precedence, the author's stylization or the rules of orthography.

Of course I don't intend to revert your edit, as I've never engaged in edit warring and have no intention of doing so now. I'm all for reaching consensus and establishing standards supported by sources that we can rely on in the future. It would help to do this by regularly clarifying contentious issues in the editing guide so that it can be referred to in discussions like this.

Hi, thank you for this post. I will address each of these items:

1. Based on this edit and snippets of senior editor/staff messages from the PCGW Discord, the monetization section should remain to reflect the taxonomy given in the infobox. Most articles missing this section existed before it was introduced in 2020, and the articles created since now include it by default. I agree that it is not that necessary for some pages, but including it anyway seems to be the chosen approach.

2. Makes sense, looks like I missed this. Most references either paste the entire page browser tab title or just use the article name, and this was the convention I was personally following. But I agree, it would be more descriptive to add the website name to the reference when it's not already given.

3. The letter X is used across the wiki for display resolution listings, multipliers for graphical features like anisotropic filtering, etc. The editing guide Video page and the anisotropic filtering glossary page are examples of this. If I had to guess, PCGW takes this approach because it is simpler to type for entry-level editors.

4. I do not see the benefit in making this change. The HTTP/HTTPS protocols are re-added to the URL when other archived pages are visited on the Wayback Machine, and virtually all other Wayback Machine citations on the wiki include the protocols as well. It is strange to deviate from this convention for just a single page, as most editors just copy and paste the Wayback Machine URLs as-is.

5. "d3d8to9" is the name designated by the author, so that is the name we should use. Various existing pages mentioning the wrapper, such as the display wrapper glossary page, already do this. It could be argued that crosire intended for the wrapper's title to refer to the Direct3D 8 DLL filename (d3d8.dll), which has been traditionally lowercase throughout releases of Windows and legacy DirectX redistributables, but that is uncertain. Ultimately, seeing that d3d8to9 itself is an unofficial library, these corrections don't really apply.

The main reason why I reverted these changes is because they were not consistent with the stylization of most other pages on the wiki. However, I am glad to see that someone else cares about this as much as I do, as logical and consistent stylization is critical to page presentation and maintenance. The editing guide is my primary source for this information, and it needs to be updated - I have brought this up several times on the PCGW Discord after editing disputes over things that should be in the guide but aren't, but little progress has been made. Hopefully, this will change in due time.

Hi there. I just created an account to message you.

I don't have much knowledge on editing wikis but I just wanted to ask if you could make a quick edit to the Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing page? https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Sonic_%26_Sega_All-Stars_Racing

Could you please write somewhere that in order to play this game, users should disable "Resizable BAR" in their BIOS settings.

Myself and other users on Steam have been unable to play when it is enabled. When I tried to play while it was enabled, the framerate would go down to like 3 frames per second and the game would eventually crash

Have you tried using DXVK instead? https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/3038

It seems that some of your edits implies that all developers are responsible for publishing the game instead of one. For example, this one

To me, the only time a publisher list can be removed from the infobox is when there is no other developer(s) in the developer list other than the publisher itself. your edit on a specific article implies that it was never released in Japan, when in reality, it does.

I'm not saying that your edits is bad, but they might confuses some folks on who publish the game and who handles the publishing of the game in other regions unless they look at the introduction text.