Comments/Ratings for a Single Item

I have to largely agree with the direction of that article.  It should give
some overview of the idea behind 3D chess, and list some few noteworthy
examples.  Then, I think the link to this site is sufficient as an external
link for other variants.  I would emphasize the multitude of other existing
games in the article and reference the external link, but I think listing
too many examples directly in the wiki article may be too much.

Derek Nalls wrote:

The existence of all other 3-D chess variants has been gutted from the literature.

I see this page still has a link to our directory of 3D games. So the page is still acknowledging that there are many more 3D games than the few famous ones described and linked to on the page. I looked at the removed links, and I suspect many of them were vanity links put up by people with conflicts of interest, which Wikipedia does have a policy against, and I can understand the need for such a policy with a site like Wikipedia.

I also largely agree with the direction (and condition) of this article.
It is only the purging of ALL external links to individual 3-D chess
variants that I take exception to.  Admittedly, I have a conflict of
interest since I invented 'Spherical Chess 400'- one of the casualties of
this recent edit.  This is the reason I would rather not get personally
involved in an edit war on this Wikipedia page.  In other words, I would
prefer someone else (who is plausibly neutral) to do it.

Please understand that I realize my game does not meet the notability
requirements for direct mention in this article?  However, a single
reference to my game's web site in the 'Other variants of
three-dimensional chess' sub-category of 'External links' is appropriate
and unassuming.  A couple of other quality game web sites (that were
purged) merit a single reference as well.  I suspect 'MrOllie' simply
saved time by NOT examining them at all on a case-by-case basis ...
although as an editor, he should have.

The link to The Chess Variant Page's directory of 3-D games is certainly a
positive attribute for the article but unnecessarily, too indirect.