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

[Henry Lowood]

Marty,

No doubt for some of the sources mentioned, the discussion there was 
longer than the original sources cited.

On the other hand, where else can you get sentences like,
"I applaud *Sexy**Kick* for his excellent research into Gensis numbers 
presented here." [sic]

That discussion is taking place in a alternate universe as far as 
history (as a discipline) is concerned.

Henry

On 1/28/2011 10:49 AM, Martin Goldberg wrote:

> 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

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