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Unlocked the account

... and I will have a dig around tomorrow, to see what happened. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:43, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks! Do I need to take any action like changing my password to prevent this from happening in the future? Slacka123 (talk) 14:04, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
  • Probably not. Common Internet advice is to change password periodically. I have not seen hacking accounts a common issue on Wikipedia. WP is way too public for there to be any possible gain. The above Steward may be able to find out why the account was locked, and will let you know if they find anything, and probably if they did not find anything as well. Apteva (talk) 01:43, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

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I added the histmerge tag to the new page. In the future, I will use the Move page option. Slacka123 (talk)

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List of game engines

Please STOP reverting my changes. You are, in my eyes, showing page ownership. I have replied in depth to you on the article's talk page, and you have ignored it. You reverted my first set of changes because of the engine type column. In response, I removed the engine type column. If you are not going to read my edit notes or my talk page discussion, please kindly let me edit. -- ferret (talk) 12:41, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

I want to apologize for missing one of your talk pages that was mid-discussion. I'm putting a lot of work in this, and it feels like you're not working with me, by reverting everything instead of trying to address the specific areas you have concerns with... I have created a section specifically detailing why I removed each of the engines you have been trying to add back, and also added one of them back directly. Please work with me without totally reverting everything else. I've listed my reasoning for each engine now, and it's primarily due to a completely lack of sources. If you can provide them, I'd be happy to see them added back. But they do need sources. -- ferret (talk) 13:13, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

You ignored my requests to discus this issue on the talk page, so I think its only fair that you rebase your edits off of my last version.

I don't know what your background is, but I first started editing this page several years ago, when I was researching game engines for a project I was working on. You come in and ignore the past discussions on this topic and ignore the editors who have been maintaining the page for years, even archiving the talk pages that discuss this very topic, which seemed kind of shady. I'm happy that you're cleaning up the proprietary engines, but I fail to see why you are so insistent that referenced engines or those based on commercial games need to go. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slacka123 (talk • contribs) 08:51, 20 July 2015‎ (UTC)

You say I've archived talk sections that discuss this topic, but I've read them all and that simply isn't the case. If anything, the talk archives support my position, particularly comments made by Marasmusine. Of the engines in question, only LOVE is mentioned in the archives, and it was questioned as being non-notable even then. The five sections that I archived directly, I did so because they lacked dated signatures, which prevents the auto-archiving from working. There's nothing shadey about cleaning up outdated sections, and the archives are visible to everyone. -- ferret (talk) 19:18, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

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