Talk:Stan!

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Arts and Entertainment

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group (assessed as Low-importance).

Dungeons & Dragons High‑importance

This article is within the scope of the Dungeons & Dragons WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Dungeons & Dragons-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, or join the discussion, where you can join the project and find out how to help!Dungeons & DragonsWikipedia:WikiProject Dungeons & DragonsTemplate:WikiProject Dungeons & DragonsDungeons & Dragons articles

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

D&D to-do:

view

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Merge : Various articles
Stubs : Dungeoneer's Survival Guide, Swords & Spells, Variant Dungeons & Dragons games, More...
Update : Rewrite to be out-of-universe: Companions of the Hall, Dark Sun, Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)
Verify : add sources to novels planned for merge to List of Dragonlance novels
Other : Collaboration: Dave Arneson, Drow (Dungeons & Dragons)

Role-playing games High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Role-playing games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of role-playing games on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Role-playing gamesWikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing gamesTemplate:WikiProject Role-playing gamesrole-playing game articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Untitled

Stan! Brown is a friend of mine and asked that I put the information from the Game Mechanics (a company he is part owner of) on the site. You can email him at stan@stannex.com if you need to ask him.

As for his importance, he is a long time industry leader in the world of role-playing, having been an employee of TSR and Wizards of the Coast. He was a designer on d20 Modern, as well as the lead developer for Dragonlance 5th Age. He is also an accomplished cartoonist, having one of the only long-term cartoons in Dragon Magazine, the industry leader. In addition, he is a successful author, primarily in the field of role-playing fiction. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brothersin (talk • contribs) .

What you need to do is read WP:COPY, specifically WP:COPY#Using copyrighted work from others. It would be even better, though, if you rewrote the text in your own words. The text from Game Mechanics is too tongue-in-cheek to be suitable for an encyclopedia, anyway. Powers 20:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The current article is much better. Good job! The bibliography might be a bit much -- no need to list all of his articles, illustrations, and editing. And don't forget to link things. Powers 03:11, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moving

The article's current name is a bit silly, don't you think? Shouldn't it be moved to his real name? Unless of course his real name is Stan!, I dunno. DoomsDay349 21:09, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's certainly his nom de plume, if not his legal name. Powers ^T 00:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I still think it's better to move his legal name. Anyone know what that might be? DoomsDay349 05:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Wikipedia naming convention is to use the most common name. Powers ^T 19:50, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll accept it if you can provide a reference to his common name being Stan! DoomsDay349 23:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

[1], Image:Urban Arcana Book Cover.jpg. Powers ^T 12:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great, so now could you reference it next to his name perhaps, as a bit of confirmation? Thanks. DoomsDay349 20:04, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really think that's necessary. Nowhere else, as far as I'm aware, do we justify a particular article title via citations. Powers ^T 13:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All right, I concede. I wasn't meaning to be mean or anything, I honestly wasn't aware of legal name. DoomsDay349 23:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, it is highly unusual as names go, but I believe it's consistent with our other articles on people with pseudonyms. Powers ^T 01:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting discussion - have added him to Stan dab page. PamD (talk) 08:35, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]