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Any relation to Rich Dotcom in the TV Series "Blindspot"? If so, should we make an "In popular culture" section?

Very Fantastic Dude (talk) 10:44, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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How is what this person says about cryptocurrency encyclopedia worthy?--84.118.56.83 (talk) 21:16, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Call of duty rank number one claims

Since when has venturebeat.com been a trusted source?

Also online multiplayer games have numerous gaming servers, different servers for different parts of the world such as one for Europe, and one for North America, so if a person becomes number one, it would normally just mean they’re number one for that server/that part of the world.

Also the ‘in game’ number one rank changes regularly many times throughout the year, can even change daily so that rank isn’t the ‘official number one’. To achieve being the official number one you have to win at a special event/competition which are normally held at Las Vegas.

HardeeHar (talk) 17:46, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

These claims are widespread online, but I think they probably should be attributed that he claims to have this rank. I too have seen it in his interviews, it not only venturebeat. But we might not want to say it in wikivoice. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 18:32, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You’re only officially ranked number one if you won the competition so he isn’t and was never officially ranked number one, he just made number one online on that server on that day and it possibly only lasted a few hours or even few minutes before his rank had dropped to a lower number and someone else was listed as number one. So I don’t see why it’s mentioned in this wikipage.

Every time somebody becomes number one online in COD is it going to be mentioned on the COD wikipage, no cuz that would be stupid and also because reaching number one online doesn’t make you the official world number one, so I don’t see why there’s an exception made for kim.

You mention the claims are widespread online, but the source of the info came from kim whom isn’t a wiki trusted source, and as ive mentioned he isn’t and wasn’t the official number one, he is mistaken.

The reason gaming company's have an official competition to determine the world number one, rather than going off the in game ranking system is because if you went off the in game ranking system there would thousands of people all over the world all claiming they were the worlds number one (just as kim is doing).

It’s also important to know that whilst kim, Wikipedia and numerous sources online claim kim was the world number one that year, officially somebody else was officially rank number in the world that year, a person who attended and won the COD competition.

HardeeHar (talk) 07:45, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As a few housekeeping notes for new editors. Please use the colons prior to your response to indent your comments so it is clear this is a thread. I added three colons to my response here, as generally speaking you should have added two colons to your prior response to me (since I added one colon above to my initial response to you). This threading will assist other editors in understanding this discussion. Also please dont add blank space (as an apparently intended indent) to your signature, as then you are activating a quotation format. We dont use quotation format for a signature. Next regarding the content of your response, while your view of how a #1 rank is defined might in fact be true, it is not how we work at wikipedia. We use WP:RS to determine these things. And given that Kim is often referred to as this #1 rank (whether true or not), whether it is actually true or not is not of high importance to us editors. We use WP:DUE to make this determination. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 08:07, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]