Nomader

This user has created 130 articles and 87 DYK nominations.

This user has written or significantly contributed to 7 featured lists on Wikipedia.

This user has written or significantly contributed to 14 good articles on Wikipedia.

This user has written or expanded 87 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

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About Nomader

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I love editing pages about historical political elections, video games, and movies -- and other things too! Ping me on my talk page if you have any questions about my edits.

Elections to create/improve

• Creating 1975 Louisiana's 6th congressional district special election (draft here User:Nomader/1975 Louisiana's 6th congressional district special election)
• Creating 1979 California's 11th congressional district special election (where a Republican took Leo Ryan's seat in a special after his assassination at Jonestown)
• Write about the results of the 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections
• Improve political positions coverage of Dan Kildee, Susan Wild, and David Trone (sections are pretty POV-heavy right now)

Video Game Redlinks to Fill

I'll also be working to create pages for as many of itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality games as I can find are notable.

• Over the Alps
• Sweatshop (video game) (current draft: User:Nomader/Sweatshop (video game))
• Lemnis Gate (draft: User:Nomader/Lemnis Gate)
• Rox
• Amarantus (currently not notable enough, Eurogamer review is promising though 1)

Stub/Start improvement projects

I've enjoyed improving old video game stubs and taking them to DYK recently. Ones I'm considering now include:

• Superman: Countdown to Apokolips
• Bomberman Story DS
• The Yawhg
• TrackMania DS
• Dropsy (video game)
• Little 500 (interested in it after this WaPo article (1))

Barnstars and other awards

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The Original Barnstar Awarded for your work on Mississippi's 4th congressional district special election, 1981. You put in a ton of effort and went through a lot of rigorous critique to improve the article, and should be proud of your work. Wikipedia now has a very well written article about an interesting and unusual election thanks to your efforts. Please keep up the good work. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 18:54, 21 October 2018 (UTC) The Nintendo Barnstar This is for turning four lists into Featured Lists! GamerPro64 (talk) 03:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia Motivation Award Awarded to Nomader for being the main motivator at WikiProject Video games in obtaining the Special Edition WikiProject Triple Crown. Thanks also for doing most of the work in regards to this. Well done, and keep motivating! – SMasters (talk) 00:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC) Thanks very much for peer reviewing Mario's Picross. ~ P*h3i (📨) 01:46, 8 April 2018 (UTC) The Special Barnstar For taking time to review my first GA-attempt ever and providing so many helpful tips, I hereby award you this token of my appreciation. You are really good at GA reviewing so I hope you keep it up. Regards SoWhy 07:17, 18 April 2018 (UTC) The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal Twenty five DYKs! Well done. Pleased to see you have taken on the task of creating some competitive articles. Do you think that wikipedia is just a game?. I would like to thank you on behalf of me and the wiki for all the articles you have created, Cheers Victuallers (talk) 22:58, 4 September 2010 (UTC) The 50 DYK Nomination Medal Your efforts at D.Y.K. are appreciated and Wikipedia is a better place because of you. 4meter4 (talk) 06:15, 27 November 2015 (UTC) WikiProject Video Games Triple Crown Your Majesty, Nomader, I am pleased to award this special edition triple crown to WikiProject Video games and its hardworking volunteers. – SMasters (talk) 00:32, 5 March 2011 (UTC) Imperial triple crown jewels Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Imperial triple crown jewels upon Nomader for your contributions to articles games-related in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Well done. Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:00, 7 December 2009 (UTC) Napoleonic triple crown Congratulation on upgrading to the Imperial Napoleonic Triple Crown with your excellent contributions to Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. Freikorp (talk) 12:04, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Featured lists

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  Featured Lists (7)

Nomader's FLs
#	Article name	date	review link	co-nominators
1	List of Kirby media	December 13, 2008	FLC	none
2	List of Donkey Kong video games	July 11, 2009	FLC	none
3	List of Wario video games	July 18, 2009	FLC	none
4	List of The Legend of Zelda media	August 29, 2009	FLC	Gary King, Guyinblack25
5	List of Washington Capitals seasons	July 6, 2010	FLC	none
6	List of X-Men video games	January 11, 2011	FLC	Guyinblack25, -5-
7	List of Tampa Bay Lightning seasons	February 18, 2011	FLC	none

Good Articles

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  Good Articles (14)

Nomader's GAs
#	Article name	date	review link
1	GT Advance Championship Racing	February 22, 2008	GAN
2	Moto Racer Advance	August 30, 2009	GAN
3	Hot Potato	October 27, 2010	GAN
4	Politics and Prose	November 30, 2012	GAN
5	Comet Ping Pong	February 2, 2018	GAN
6	Florence	April 13, 2018	GAN
7	Florida's 18th congressional district special election, 1989	June 3, 2018	GAN
8	Mississippi's 4th congressional district special election, 1981	June 10, 2018	GAN
9	San Marino at the 2002 Winter Olympics	June 23, 2018	GAN
10	Fiji at the 2002 Winter Olympics	June 24, 2018	GAN
11	Army Men: Operation Green	June 26, 2018	GAN
12	Elsinore	July 29, 2020	GAN
13	1997 New Mexico's 3rd congressional district special election	July 13, 2021	GAN
14	CT Special Forces: Back to Hell	April 13, 2023	GAN

  Good Article Reviews (10)

Nomader's Good Article Reviews
#	Article name	date	review link	pass/fail
1	Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two	February 15, 2008	GAN	Pass
2	Computer Bismarck	August 13, 2009	GAN	Pass
3	Muslin trade in Bengal	December 19, 2017	GAN	Fail
4	SpellForce 3	April 17, 2018	GAN	Pass
5	National Front (UK)	June 10, 2018	GAN	Pass
6	Sonic Dreams Collection	June 12, 2018	GAN	Pass
7	Gun Beat	June 13, 2018	GAN	Pass
8	Dungeons 3	July 6, 2018	GAN	Pass
9	Need for Speed: High Stakes	July 6, 2018	GAN	Pass
10	Talk:Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (video game)	March 15, 2023	GAN	Pass

Articles appearing in Did You Know?

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  Did You Know... (86)

DYK facts
#	did you know...	date	views
1	... that Mech Platoon was the first real-time strategy video game released for the Game Boy Advance?	December 30, 2008	1,589
2	... that IGN's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600, which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time?	July 18, 2009	2,200
3	... that Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is the first video game to use the Food Network license?	December 15, 2009	2,100
4	... that Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell felt that Boxing Fever carried on the Punch Out!! legacy on the Game Boy Advance?	December 17, 2009	905
5	... that Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island follows David Beckham on his quest to defeat the evil Mister Woe in order to restore peace to Soccer Island?	December 19, 2009	3,300
6	... that Bush vs. Kerry Boxing features Ralph Nader as a ring girl and Hillary Clinton as a referee?	December 22, 2009	5,600
7	... that the trial mode from Moto Racer 3 requires the player to maneuver an obstacle course on a motorcycle?	February 25, 2010	1,200
8	... that IGN's Doug Perry said Moto Racer 2 was the best motorcycle racing game seen on the PlayStation?	March 3, 2010	1,300
10	... that Pelé and Mia Hamm are featured in cartoon form as the masters of a magical soccer academy in the video game Academy of Champions: Soccer?	June 14, 2010	115
11	... that Scene It? Twilight has no questions about New Moon even though the movie version of the book was released at the same time as the game?	June 17, 2010	1,400
12	... that there were an estimated 8,000 members of Sam's Army in the stands at the U.S. men's soccer team's opening game of the 2010 World Cup in group play against England?	June 17, 2010	3,400
13	... that Let's Yoga includes yoga poses to complete in office chairs during times the player might be relegated to a desk?	June 21, 2010	1,800
14	... that Fox Sports College Hoops '99 was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64?	June 28, 2010	1,400
15	... that Hot Potato tasks the player with navigating a bus through roads filled with alien potato beings?	July 3, 2010	1,300
16	... that Alice in Wonderland, a Game Boy Color video game, begins with the player as Alice following the White Rabbit down its hole?	July 7, 2010	Data unavailable
17	... that video game critics were confused by the presentation of the game Battle Tag at Ubisoft's E3 2010 press conference?	July 10, 2010	Data unavailable
19	... that the plot of Pac-Man Pinball Advance focuses on the kidnapping of all the residents of Pac-Land by the four ghosts Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde?	July 13, 2010	1,700
20	... that Alex "Action" Mann wears a parka, a wetsuit, and a space suit in Action Man: Search for Base X?	July 14, 2010	1,400
22	... that IGN's Craig Harris stated that Urban Yeti! felt like it was produced by a few guys down in someone's basement?	August 13, 2010	4,806
23	... that the political documentary Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? won the Audience Award at the 2006 Silverdocs Documentary Festival?	August 25, 2010	3,400
24	... that Bump was the billionth application downloaded on Apple's App Store?	August 27, 2010	4,000
25	... that David Long of Computer Games Magazine described Superbike 2001's graphics as "almost photo-realistic"?	August 31, 2010	4,400
27	... that Moto Racer DS was the first Moto Racer video game to be released since 2002?	September 22, 2010	908
28	... that IGN's Doug Perry felt that Moto Racer World Tour was one of the five best motorcycle racing video games for the PlayStation?	September 25, 2010	957
29	... that Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom was nominated for GameSpot's Worst PC Game of 2002 award?	October 1, 2010	6,300
30	... that IGN's Adam Ballard described the Wii video game Chrysler Classic Racing as "basically one giant, terrible commercial"?	December 17, 2010	2,400
31	... that the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS versions of the video game Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts! are all different genres?	January 19, 2011	1,300
32	... that an 11-year-old girl beat the video game Diva Starz: Mall Mania in 42 minutes?	January 28, 2011	4,200
33	... that the instruction manual for the video game Summer Sports: Paradise Island was misprinted, leaving out instructions for four of the games?	February 5, 2011	1,000
35	... that The Daily Telegraph's Tom Hoggins stated that Body and Brain Connection created a new video game genre called "mathercise", a portmanteau of the words math and exercise?	February 21, 2011	1,600
36	... that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree involves exploding fish out of water?	March 16, 2011	1,600
37	... that Ron Gilbert, the creator of the Monkey Island video game series, told Wired that he was an addict for the iPhone and Android video game Game Dev Story?	February 19, 2012	1,722
38	... that the plot of the adventure game Undercover: Operation Wintersun focuses on a nuclear physicist trying to destroy Nazi German prototype nuclear weapons during World War II?	February 25, 2012	2,861
39-43	... that the simulation video games Cafeteria Nipponica, Dungeon Village, Epic Astro Story, Grand Prix Story, and Hot Springs Story were developed by Japanese video game developer Kairosoft?	June 9, 2012	685+607+315+321+504=2,432
45	... that the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management co-manages a national park with the Forest Department of Belize?	July 24, 2012	506
46	... that the independent bookstore Politics and Prose has had Barack Obama, J. K. Rowling, and Bill Clinton as readers at its author events?	July 28, 2012	1,150
47	... that dogs speak with the player and plead to adventure with them in PlayStation Vita Pets?	August 12, 2014	454+711=1154
48	... that Abyss Odyssey took inspiration from both the Art Nouveau movement and games like the Super Smash Bros. series?	September 1, 2014	2165
49	... that one reviewer said that Davis Cup Tennis might be worth buying only "if all available copies of Virtua Tennis and Mario Tennis suddenly vaporized"?	September 9, 2015	2342
50	... that Winnie the Pooh: Adventures in the 100 Acre Wood was the first Winnie the Pooh game to be released for a video game console?	September 11, 2015	2230
51	... ... that one reviewer thought that voice samples from Lindsay Lohan would have "pepp[ed] things up" for the video game Herbie: Fully Loaded?	September 5, 2017	3,415
52	... that in his review, IGN's Craig Harris called Elite Forces: Unit 77 the "perfect storm of gaming mediocrity"?'	January 29, 2018	4,125
53	... that Command and Destroy's password save system was kept when it was ported from the Game Boy Advance to the Nintendo DS, to the annoyance of critics at its 2008 release?	March 2, 2018	4,707
54	... that the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria's name comes from a sign that one of the co-founders discovered at a liquor shop?	March 5, 2018	7,986
55	... that Florence shows the awkwardness of a first date through a puzzle minigame, which becomes easier as the main character becomes more comfortable?"	April 16, 2018	8,300
56	... that Jeb Bush was the campaign manager for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's first Congressional campaign?	April 21, 2018	379
57	... that the video game Harlem Globetrotters: World Tour does not feature the Washington Generals, even though they have been the Globetrotters' traditional rival for over 50 years?	May 1, 2018	1,392
58	... that while one reviewer could not get past the second level of Army Men: Operation Green, another felt the game would only take a few hours to beat?	May 12, 2018	1,820
59	... that users of Mary-Kate and Ashley: Pocket Planner can send "G-mail" through the Game Boy Color's infrared port?	May 13, 2018	1,763
60	... that 9:05 takes only five minutes to finish?	June 18, 2018	9,524
61	... that a candidate in a 1981 congressional special election in Mississippi was kicked out of his leadership position with the Ku Klux Klan after going to a house party attended by neo-Nazis?	June 21, 2018	6,187
62	... that a group of Fijians placed a newspaper ad to recruit skiers for Fiji at the 2002 Olympic Games after discussing it at a New Year's Eve party?	June 28, 2018	2,556
63	... that at the time of its release in 2002, economic simulations like Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan were uncommon on handheld systems like the Game Boy Advance?	July 31, 2018	3,848
64	... that the role-playing video game Kenshi was inspired by stories of wandering rōnin, and the idea of a survivor traveling a wasteland?	February 8, 2019	4,664
66	... that the developers of Elsinore, a video game based on Hamlet, drew inspiration for the game's time-loop mechanic from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, anime, and visual novels?	May 24, 2020	1,741
67	... that a large sign announcing the winner of the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico special election appeared three hours before the meeting to select him had started?	July 26, 2020	2,221
68	... that the publisher of Redshirt suggested adding a sci-fi theme when the social-media simulation game was initially pitched?	August 28, 2020	5,848
69	... that the developer of The Stillness of the Wind was inspired to make the video game after fantasizing with his girlfriend about raising goats instead of living in London?	July 26, 2021	4,787
70	... that My Child Lebensborn was among the first wave of video games that were allowed to show the swatzika in Germany?	November 25, 2021	5,770
71	... that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between Copenhagen and Istanbul?	February 5, 2022	4,260
72	... that the developer Jack King-Spooner claimed that the people of Beeswing seemed to be supportive of his creation of his semi-autobiographical indie game Beeswing?	March 12, 2022	2,070
73	... that the developer of Citizen Sleeper was inspired by the feeling of people coming together and their own experiences as a non-binary person struggling to make ends meet through the gig economy?	September 10, 2022	3,689
74	... that Terra Invicta's development company is a group of former volunteer video game modders that decided to release their own game after the success of their mod?	November 11, 2022	4,931
75	... that background research for Dujanah included interviews with Muslim apostates and a Scottish veteran of Afghanistan?	December 9, 2022	5,695
76	... that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions?	March 15, 2023	3,597
77	... that the game director for A Space for the Unbound wanted to preserve his memories as an Indonesian through the game?	March 17, 2023	2,899
78	... that the developers of Jikandia: The Timeless Land wanted to make a game that could be finished in the time of a normal Japanese train commute?	March 23, 2023	3,672
79	... that the game designer of the video game Hades said that the characters were attractive "because Jen Zee"?	April 2, 2023	12,834
80	... that Atari hired a number of graffiti artists for the remixed versions of classic arcade games in Retro Atari Classics?	April 12, 2023	5,517
81	... that a filing for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of Get Up and Dance in the United States by the publisher of the Just Dance series was denied?	April 16, 2023	4,730
82	... that the title of Lemnis Gate refers to the lemniscate?	May 5, 2023	2,467
83	... that one reviewer said that her favorite part of Cassette Beasts was that it is not "forced to cater to younger children", unlike Pokémon?	May 12, 2023	11,875
84	... that one reviewer said that players should try using a guitar controller with Fret Nice "to gain a new appreciation for a traditional controller"?	May 14, 2023	3,266
85	... that the developers of CT Special Forces: Back to Hell responded to criticism of their previous game's password save system by making even more detailed passwords?	May 15, 2023	7,232
86	... that one critic called Patrician IV a "very dry affair"?	June 3, 2023	6,987
87	... that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?	June 24, 2024	5,737
88	... that the developer of The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel-art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?	October 7, 2024	7,668