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June 25, 2010	Articles for deletion	Kept
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Reference ideas for Minecraft

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Minecraft players go full propaganda mode as petition demanding the end of the 'mob vote' draws 300,000 signatures in just a few days

The Minecraft mob vote boycott petition is missing the point

The Minecraft Community Is "Boycotting" This Year's Mob Vote

Minecraft Players Trying to Stop Mob Vote With Propaganda Posters and More Than 220,000 Signatures

Over 150,000 players sign new Minecraft mob vote petition

“United we bargain, divided we beg”: The 2023 Minecraft mob vote boycott explained

After a proposed boycott, Minecraft mob vote faces more controversy in wake of rigging accusations Barber, Regina; Kwong, Emily; Summers, Juana; Carlson, Rachel; Ryan, Erika (2025-05-02). "What playing Minecraft tells researchers about social learning". NPR. Retrieved 2025-05-02. Wu, Charley; Deffner, Dominik; Kahl, Benjamin; Meder, Björn; Ho, Mark; Kurvers, Ralf (2025-04-25). "Adaptive mechanisms of social and asocial learning in immersive collective foraging". Nature Communications. 16. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58365-6. Retrieved 2025-05-02.

Discussion at Talk:Redstone (Minecraft) § Destination of the redirect

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Redstone (Minecraft) § Destination of the redirect. -- Joy (talk) 21:57, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ping @Joy: since this is pretty stale. FWITW, NetheriteNetherite also redirects to List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic particles.

Problem is there's lots of fictional materials in Minecraft. Unless someone wants to start filling up that list with froglight, nether quarts, end stone, etc. then there's no point in randomly picking redstone and netherite as something special. Actually adding all these minecraft materials would just run into cruft issues. So in as much as redirects are needed, they should come here. But I think it's fair to say that people looking for detailed information about a particular block aren't turning to Wikipedia as their primary source. GMG ^talk 14:03, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenMeansGo well, the reason I noticed this is because the clickstreams for 'redstone' show a fair few readers each month go there and proceed to Minecraft (August about 142, July ~86, June ~106, May ~96, April ~108, March ~74). It is consistently the largest single contingent of readers there. So giving these readers a coherent destination would probably be helpful. --Joy (talk) 15:23, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"AlphaVer" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect AlphaVer has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 16 § AlphaVer until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 23:20, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"MINE CRAFT" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect MINE CRAFT has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 25 § 'MINE CRAFT' redirects until a consensus is reached. User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 06:18, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion needed on a move of a related page

There has been a requested move on the page Development of Minecraft: Java Edition, but the discussion died after two days with little result. It's been relisted once in 20 September, but nothing else happened. Please participate so a verdict can be reached. Thanks in advance. Dabmasterars [RU/COM] (talk/contribs) 12:04, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]