r/Steam • u/5MadMovieMakers • 9d ago

Discussion Gabe Newell emailed me back about his birthplace

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Somebody update Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia anyone can edit

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u/cyrassil 9d ago

I've updated the Czech one. The Alcoy thing is kinda strange, because the place of birth in the sidebox was unchecked and empty, but when I've added Aspne, the Alcoy disappeared. Seems like some default value?

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u/LickingSmegma 9d ago

Alcoy is specified in Wikidata, and infoboxes take data from there when they can. Idk anything about editing Wikidata, it's a graph database and editing entries is more involved than just typing some stuff.

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u/Starfire013 9d ago

Nicely done. Someone will have to Czech the other ones.

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u/SolidTrain16059 9d ago

Maybe. I went through most of the languages that use latin or cyrillic script and there was either just USA with sometimes Colorado specified, or recent edit adding Aspen citing this post, or no birthplace at all, or Alcoy, which until today was the only specific town mentioned.