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[edit] List of server emulators?

Is shardwire.org dead? It has been down for some time. Any other up to date list of emulators? --Agamemnon_god 03:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Consensus on opening sentence

Just to report, after an long (off-wikipedia) discussion the new opening sentence is now a consus, now seen valid from all discussing sides. Due to this consus all discutants feel the "critism of the term" section no longer needed. As I've also a lot of other things to worry about than server emulations, I will in future now with this also leave this page for other community edition. Jestix 21:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

The main arguments towards the consensus are:

• the term is widely used in MMOG community. (this can be backed up with a lot of links, on google, on slashdot, on open directories...)
• emulators in the traditional always refered to emulation of hardware, either hardware by hardware, or hardware by software. server emulator therefore violates the traditional understanding of the an (cpu) emulator.
• there is valid concern, that the term may be used with analogous logic to e.g. licq beeing an icq emulator, gaim beeing an aim emulator. Samba being a windows-file-server emulator. and so on. Jestix 21:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

As the main critic of "server emulator" I can confirm Jestix' report of a consensus being reached. So long as it is made known in the opening paragraph that the term is colloquially accepted and widespread, but not technically accurate, then I have no problem with the article and would be willing to contribute to it and improve its quality. Kethinov 00:25, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Can we now remove the cleanup template? Jestix 21:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the cleanup tag, but this article still needs references, so I've added that tag in its place. —Mira 04:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

The language and grammar in the article is still quite terrible, so I added a copyedit tag. --SevereTireDamage 05:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)