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Yes, Mike, you wrote this page, but you do not own it. Your game does not belong in such a general article, even if you wrote it mainly as an excuse to link your game. Isomorphic 08:37, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm amazed by your audacity.
Verified facts:
1. I wrote this page.
2. I linked to Ambition on this page.
Your conclusion: I wrote this page as an excuse (your words) to link to Ambition, as if I had no other motives.
Have I linked every page I've written to Ambition? No. Of course not. That would be inappropriate. I've kept well within the bounds of topicality. I could, theoretically, post a link to my game on any page, and then it would get a hell of a lot of hits. I could, theoretically, put " GO HERE! A GREAT CARD GAME!" at the top of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, knowing that page gets a lot of hits. But I don't, because it would be entirely tasteless, crass, wrong, insulting, and egregious attention-whoring.
This page is a different story, because the reference is actually useful to the article.
And no, I didn't write this page as an excuse to link to Ambition. I wrote this page to write the page, and linked to Ambition because I could while staying topical. Mike Church 08:46, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Why does this exist? --Macarion 01:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yah why does this exist? More importantly, however, I am linking sports players to this page as well. Player (game) shoud not just refer to card/board games, but to sports games as well. Can somebody please fix this? --Gregorof 01:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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Player (video games)Player (game) — Article was recently incorrectly moved from Player (game) to Player (gaming), then to Player (video games). Player of a board game may also be called "player", board game topic is covered by the article. Board game is rarely referred to as "gaming" and is not "video game". — Voidvector (talk) 07:56, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

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Discussion

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Any additional comments:

Looking at the talk above, this may have been an attempt to disambiguate from a sports "player". However I agree the new name is inappropriate to the article content. Have you discussed this with the editor who renamed the page? It's a shame he didn't leave an explanatory edit summary. --Rogerb67 (talk) 09:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]