Talk:Multi-user dungeon
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Deleated content about MUDs as proto-Metaverses[edit]
@Cogk42: The proto-Metaverseness of MUDs is an important and interesting aspect of them, maybe the most important of their legacy? Maybe in a different section, fine, but leaving out this information is a disservice to our readers. The information should be restored. -- Pete Best Beatles (talk) 02:10, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- I don't really think it's relevant to this article to be honest. There's no elaboration on what "proto-Metaverses" are and even linking to Metaverse would be less-than-illuminating in contextualizing what that's supposed to mean. Also it's very weasel wordy; "some observers feel" and "most feel that history started" who are these people and why do their feelings matter? The book doesn't elaborate and upon reading the source itself, this is a very close paraphrase to what the book says, skirting on inappropriately so. That being said, MUDs might be important to the concept of a proto-Metaverse, but the concept of a proto-Metaverse isn't important to the concept of MUDs, meaning if proto-Metaverses ever had a standalone article it might be appropriate to mention MUDs there, but it's not appropriate to mention proto-Metaverses here; that entire concept is irrelevant to MUDs and their history and the source provided does not indicate otherwise. - Aoidh (talk) 03:04, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- I tend to agree. MUDs should be mentioned in Metaverse, not the other way around. Jclemens (talk) 03:27, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
Requested move 29 April 2023[edit]
- 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: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – MaterialWorks 10:36, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
MUD → Multi-user dungeon – Things have changed a lot since the 2010 RM. The 2012 film, Mud, is commonly stylized as "MUD" on its poster and elsewhere, and MUD is not a common gaming term nowadays. I think the acronym is simply too vague and needs more of a natural disambiguation. Heck, we don't even list MMORPG as its acronym despite being a FAR better known acronym to modern gamers. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 02:36, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Support move and retarget MUD to Mud (disambiguation). I see no primary topic for a TLA here. BD2412 T 15:51, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Support and retarget MUD to Mud (disambiguation). In ictu oculi (talk) 16:54, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose as recentism. This is what hatnotes are for. Jclemens (talk) 16:56, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
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.