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August 17, 2022Good article nomineeNot listed
October 25, 2022Good article nomineeListed
Current status: Good article

Requested move 24 August 2022

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 21:02, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Minesweeper (video game)Minesweeper (video games) – Either (video games) or (video gaming). Per Talk:Minesweeper (video game)/GA1, this isn't an article on Microsoft Minesweeper, but rather the concept of Minesweeper and it's many versions. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:18, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion: Although I don't like the proposed name, the current title is ambiguous with Microsoft Minesweeper, and incomplete disambiguation (a.k.a. partial disambiguation) is only justifiable in extremely rare cases, and this doesn't look like one of those cases, so I suggest moving this to Minesweeper video game genre or Minesweeper game genre. I'm not particularly fond of Minesweeper (video game genre), since not all of them are called "Minesweeper" and natural disambiguation is preferred. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 16:27, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NATURAL says: Do not, however, use obscure or made-up names. I went through a decent amount of sources to write for this article, and never saw it referred to as either ways. Do you have any sources where it is? — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 16:31, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
To me the suggestions seem like straightforward descriptive titles, not really something creative and new, and I don't think it's really necessary to justify such titles with exact matches in sources. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 17:15, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That is pretty good too, I would support that as well, though I think I still like "video game genre" more. We may need some sort of poll format? None of these options are clearly superior to all the others. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 07:17, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I actually prefer Minesweeper game, per WP:SIMPLE. No need to DAB as it's a naturaldab. Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 11:51, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That name is ambiguous with Microsoft Minesweeper. That may not be a big problem, since Microsoft Minesweeper fits into the genre, but I think it would be better to put "genre" in the title somewhere. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 17:03, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Sadie Kaye Deadname

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The person formerly known as Richard Kaye has since transitioned and is now called Sadie Kaye, see here. Does that webpage counts as a reliable source or else what sources should I look for, since she's not published anything since the change of name? 86.26.160.231 (talk) 23:12, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing as Kaye is a private individual who is not particularly known under either name, this should be fine, assuming we are certain this is the same person. Having updated the name is appropriate and I just went through it :) ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 07:44, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I am not convinced that Sadie Kaye is the same person as Richard Kaye. I know Richard Kaye as a mathematical logician, particularly well-known in the mathematical community for his textbook of early 1990s on models of Peano arithmetic.
Besides, just today I checked his official homepage and there was no mention of "Sadie". The homepage also refers to Kaye's page on Minesweeper.
In my view, the person who proved the NP-completeness of Minesweeper should be called "Richard Kaye" in the Wikipedia entry. IF there is good evidence that the name has been changed, that could be mentioned, with reference, in brackets. Blogician (talk) 09:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure a list of people here is sufficient proof of anything. I can't even find "Kaye" on the link you provided Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 10:22, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This seems like a duplicate article with a heavy WP:OVERLAP. I would recommend it be redirected to or combined with the Good Article. Alternatively, maybe this page could be moved to Minesweeper (genre) and the Microsoft Minesweeper article moved to Minesweeper (video game), but I don't think that is particularly necessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 09:52, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support: They're literally the same game. Microsoft Minesweeper should be a section in the Minesweeper article. Evrstz (talk) 22:55, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, they're not the same. Minesweeper is a video game genre, and Microsoft Minesweeper is specifically one of the games in this genre. There're many other minesweeper games. SimonWan00 (talk) 09:11, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Expand from Mined-Out

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The history section can be expanded upon from Mined-Out § Legacy, which provides an in-depth look at the earliest Minesweeper games. 深鸣 (talk) 15:29, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia

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The version 25 October 2022, 15:09 was translated into the Chinese Wikipedia. 深鸣 (talk) 15:33, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]