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[Kay12]

To arms! The Wikipedia article on LCS is about to be deleted by the Conservative automata!

This happens because of notability concerns. Wikipedia has a strict notability policy, which means that some attention has to be drawn towards the game. Ideas are welcome to help preserve the article!

[soup_alex]

Jonathan should include gavage or "pearl necklaces" in the next update and release it ASAP so that we can then include traffic-promoting images that illustrate such concepts on the LCS page.

...really, though, gavage? I suspect that the act is outlawed in the real-world U.S., but what about America under the ACs? Would a foie gras industry spring up overnight, or would such an endorsement of a non-American culture be considered Liberal?

[Kay12]

It's a PROD, so we could try to prolong the survival of the article by contesting it just before it would expire. It wouldn't give a lot of time, as the AfD process would quickly kick in. But something that would quickly make it notable...

"In March 2010, a young man from Finland, trying to imitate the game, hacked into CIA's databases to obtain secret documents. Much to everyone's surprise, they actually did contain a plan to assassinate a liberal judge. CIA was going to raid the hacker's home to kill him for this infraction, but they were unable the the hacker use a public LAN."

[Servant Corps]

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Link the page to Bay 12 Games and Dwarf Fortress, and find some Indie articles about LCS.

[EuchreJack]

I'm guessing you are not talking about the Wiki documentation, but rather an article about LCS.

Here's a few links from google:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=248x311
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiberalCrimeSquad
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/home/975423.html

Oh, and I'd suggest also using the HOTU website, if you can find out where it is, lol.

[Grimith]

The Home of the Underdogs-remake site, http://www.hotud.org, does, in fact, have an article related to the game.

Unfortunately, the game's page is entitled Liberty Crime Squad.

*facepalm*

[Servant Corps]

Link them onto the Wiki, and remove that anti-notability button.

[Tilla]

It was mentioned in a Games Radar article if that helps? From print magazine PC Gamer (UK)
http://www.gamesradar.com/f/365-days-of-free-games/a-2008071714293190000/p-3

Also, a few RockPaperShotgun links

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/liberal-crime-squad/

There's also reference in 101 free games at 1Up
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=3&cId=3156339

[Tilla]

Added the 1UP reference as it has the best text describing the game (brief as it is)

Looking at the RPS article, it's probably notable enough - Kieron Gillen has been considered a notable source in the past for other articles (including the DF article)

[Kay12]

Thank you for the successful defence. I found this lovely game by repeatedly pushing the random article button in Wikipedia until I hit that article. Lucky, eh?

[Alexhans]

The Home of the Underdogs-remake site, http://www.hotud.org, does, in fact, have an article related to the game.

Unfortunately, the game's page is entitled Liberty Crime Squad.

I found LCS searching for freeware in HotU. 

So many good memories... 

I posted a small spanish article in a known Argentinian page.  It's a bit outdated now and probably got lost in the chaotic amount of posts of that site.  But it's easy to find in Google Argentina (I even found some fellow DF players )
http://www.taringa.net/posts/juegos/2049848/Liberal-Crime-Squad-(juego-de-PC-Freeware-Open-Source).html

I'm always up for translations so I'll probably do one in the wiki but I still dream about the day where I can actually translate the game (without having to swin through the code, every version) and spread it's awesomeness over the spanish community. 

[Innominate]

I'm always up for translations so I'll probably do one in the wiki but I still dream about the day where I can actually translate the game (without having to swin through the code, every version) and spread it's awesomeness over the spanish community. 

It's definitely possible. It does require all relevant strings to be put into a master file and accessed by some index system, so it's much more work (and makes the code less readable in the mean-time). Something I might do once the current version is out of alpha.

[Alexhans]

Yes, kind of how AGS games deal with it... with their .tra files...

Good to know...

If you ever do it, contact me first so we can consider some possible grammar issues that might arise.

[Grimith]

I'm always up for translations so I'll probably do one in the wiki but I still dream about the day where I can actually translate the game (without having to swin through the code, every version) and spread it's awesomeness over the spanish community. 

It's definitely possible. It does require all relevant strings to be put into a master file and accessed by some index system, so it's much more work (and makes the code less readable in the mean-time). Something I might do once the current version is out of alpha.

I recall saying nothing of the sort. =P

[Innominate]

I'm always up for translations so I'll probably do one in the wiki but I still dream about the day where I can actually translate the game (without having to swin through the code, every version) and spread it's awesomeness over the spanish community. 

It's definitely possible. It does require all relevant strings to be put into a master file and accessed by some index system, so it's much more work (and makes the code less readable in the mean-time). Something I might do once the current version is out of alpha.

I recall saying nothing of the sort. =P

Ah, woops. A surreptitious edit and nobody is the wiser >.>