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:{{ping|Apokryltaros}} Sent. --[[User:MrLinkinPark333|MrLinkinPark333]] ([[User talk:MrLinkinPark333|talk]]) 19:25, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

::Got it and thank you!--[[User:Apokryltaros|Mr Fink]] ([[User talk:Apokryltaros|talk]]) 19:37, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

== Life magazine article ==

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The article for the [[U.S. National Video Game Team]] lists an alleged (January 1983) Life magazine article about the organization written by Drew Greenland. [http://www.twingalaxies.com/content.php/626-Ch-04-LIFE-Magazine this] is apparently the article, however I can't find any other indication online that the article actually existed. --[[User:Prisencolin|Prisencolin]] ([[User talk:Prisencolin|talk]]) 06:32, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

:{{ping|Prisencolin}} There is a photo that matches the description given on twingalaxies.com in: {{cite magazine |title=Video Game V.I.P.s |magazine=Life |date=January 1983 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=72-73}} It is accompanied by 245 words of text, a short caption, and ten captioned photos of individual players. The article pre-dates the team, and supports none of the content of [[U.S. National Video Game Team]], but does mention [[Twin Galaxies|Twin Galaxies Arcade]], [[Walter Day]], and [[Billy Mitchell (video game player)|Billy Mitchell]]. The posting on twingalaxies.com doesn't quote the first sentence of the ''Life'' article accurately, but it's close. The actual text is: "It has become a $5.7 billion industry, and Ottumwa, Iowa (pop. 27,381), a town 85 miles southeast of Des Moines, is the unlikely video game capital of the world." I can send you the text if you want, but it's hard to see how it could be of any use in the team article. --[[User:Worldbruce|Worldbruce]] ([[User talk:Worldbruce|talk]]) 05:37, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

::Is the rest of the article correct then? If it is I guess I don't need the article, seeing as it's already accessible online. Thanks for your help though.--[[User:Prisencolin|Prisencolin]] ([[User talk:Prisencolin|talk]]) 06:17, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

:::{{U|Prisencolin}} Sorry, I guess I didn't make myself clear. The twingalaxies.com page is not the ''Life'' magazine article. It only quotes the first sentence of ''Life'', and it muffs the dollar value. Twingalaxies.com claims to describe the background behind the making of the photograph in ''Life''. There certainly is such a photo, and the story is plausible, but whether it is true or not is anybody's guess. I would treat it as a self-published source. As for the ''Life'' magazine article, it has a little bit about Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies Arcade, and shows that Bill Mitchell was one of the sixteen players photographed together in Ottumwa, but it doesn't even prove Day and Mitchell met each other. It certainly isn't an article about the team (which, if Wikipedia is correct, didn't come into being until 7-9 months later). --[[User:Worldbruce|Worldbruce]] ([[User talk:Worldbruce|talk]]) 08:18, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

::::Ah, sorry about the misunderstanding. Well in that case yes, can you send me the real Life article then? I read the article on the twin galaxies website again, at the article it does say that it is a piece ''about'' Drew Greenberg's trip to Ottumwa to do research on the Life magazine article, so they're not entirely trying to fool anyone into thinking it was the actual article.--[[User:Prisencolin|Prisencolin]] ([[User talk:Prisencolin|talk]]) 16:41, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

:::::{{sent}} --[[User:Worldbruce|Worldbruce]] ([[User talk:Worldbruce|talk]]) 05:01, 15 September 2016 (UTC)