[game_preservation] Generations standards?

[Devin Monnens]

>

> >Sad thing

> > is, a lot of it is referenced in Wikipedia!

>

> Well, that has to do with Wikipedia's notability and reliability

> policies, whereby published references are almost always given more

> weight.  That's one area I've tried to help out as well in video game

> project there, is providing alternative (and more factual) references

> when someone wants to use an obviously incorrect (though published)

> source.



Well, I wonder if Wikipedia simply isn't a good venue for this sort of
thing. Wikipedia tries to focus on EVERYTHING - breadth over depth. There is
no way it can be as detailed as a fan database for a particular game or even
a game series wikia. That's not its job anyway. For this reason, I think a
game history wiki might be a better option. Though I don't think 'wiki' is
the right term for it, because a lot of this information will require
peer-reviewed articles supporting the underlying structure (such as an
etymology paper, a book or article on Atari, the project I am working on for
1962-1973 videogames, etc). Arguments and logic don't really go inside a
wiki structure; it's more for encyclopedia articles.

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Devin Monnens
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