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Piterpicher (Series 2)
4th Jul, 2021 08:22:17 AM

I couldn't really find anything using that title in web archive or elsewhere. I used it in that sandbox because it seemed sensible...

Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
4th Jul, 2021 11:19:06 AM

Wonder how these keep getting through. Something like this is obviously against the rules stated on How to Make a Custom Title. Maybe someone with approval powers isn't aware these should be rejected? Or there's a rogue approver?

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Jhiday (Don’t ask)
4th Jul, 2021 12:50:20 PM

From what they've said in the past, approvers can't actually easily see what the original title was, making it possible for things like that to go through.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
5th Jul, 2021 12:14:27 AM

Yeah, we don't see what the previous title was. We only see the Wiki Word and the requested title.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
RallyBot2 Since: Nov, 2013
5th Jul, 2021 12:16:43 AM

Still doesn't explain why obviously bad titles are occasionally getting approved.

Another one for the wish list, I guess.

homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
5th Jul, 2021 02:33:00 PM

^^ Wouldn't seeing the Wiki Word be enough to not approve the custom title in cases like this, where obviously more words have been added to the title that are not in the actual Wiki Word?

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