[game_preservation] Should Wikipedia Be Responsible for Gaming's History?

[Martin Goldberg]

Thought people would like to see the type of exhausting (rather than
exhaustive) argumentative process that goes on at Wikipedia,
especially when certain personalities there want to ram something
through.  There is an argument at the video game project there
regarding console generations.  The camp trying to ram it through
wants to do away with Wikipedia's use of generations and replace it
with their vision.

For those brave enough to read through the entire thing, you'll notice
the entire process follows the same robotic and dogmatic "sources
dictate content" non-critical thinking approach.  At one point even
arguing that a source that uses the exact same generations as
Wikipedia is not the same because they left out Dreamcast from the
listing of one generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#Are_the_7_generations_fiction.3F_If_not.2C_where_are_the_sources.3F


Marty