Talk:Grand Theft Auto modding
Page title
editThis page should have a better title. It should at least be called "Grand Theft Auto modding". —DangerousJXD (talk) 03:02, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Requested move 29 August 2015
edit- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: moved to Modding in Grand Theft Auto. Jenks24 (talk) 17:01, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Grand Theft Auto modding → Modding in Grand Theft Auto – Modding in Grand Theft Auto gives a better impression on what the article is about. "Grand Theft Auto modding" looks similar to a game title and some people may confuse it. Anarchyte 10:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- I support this. The proposed article title sounds less awkward, and is consistent with other Wikipedia articles. The article's current title (and grammar problems for the page in general) may have to do with User:Cha Cha Dancer's shaky English.Harryhenry1 (talk) 07:27, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Whole article from the ground up, along side with fifty reviewed references may also have to do with User:Cha Cha Dancer besides his shaky English I think. As for the title change, I think that Modding of Grand Theft Auto would suit better. Modding in GTA sounds like it is official part of the game. It needlessly gives wider scope. When you say Modding of GTA it sounds more direct, it gives you the impression that Grand Theft Auto is the one whose parts are being modified-which in fact is true. Modding in that sentence could easily be equivalent replacement for Alterations or Modifying. However, these are just details about different perception or impression. I wouldn't really mind Modding in Grand Theft Auto title either.Cha cha cha dancer (talk) 09:16, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not taking away you creating an article from the ground up with 50 reviewed references (I was impressed by both of those).Harryhenry1 (talk) 09:24, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- I support moving to Modding in Grand Theft Auto. Reasons above. —DangerousJXD (talk) 07:59, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
backstory of this article, plus suggestions for parent-and-child-article structure
editKudos to ChaChaChaDancer, this is a significant improvement, nice work. Still a bit too heavy on the GtaNet stuff, per WP:UNDUE, there just aren't enough sources specifically about GtaNet, to support (yet) the prominent placement it is receiving in this article. GtaForums (which recently became a 'subsidiary' of GtaNet in some sense), and also GtaGarage (also recently became a 'subsidiary' of the webring) have plenty of WP:SOURCES making them WP:NOTEWORTHY sections of this broader modding article. That can be fixed however.
Some suggestions about the grandparent-parent-child structure of the related series of wikipedia articles related to Grand Theft Auto ...
- Grand Theft Auto, the parent-article , of which *this* article is a spinoff-slash-subsidiary-article unto ... need to add a sub-sub-section Grand Theft Auto#modding (inside the existing Grand Theft Auto#Reception subsection methinks), which points to *this* subsidiary article Grand_Theft_Auto_modding.
- Also, might need to put See Also links (to Grand Theft Auto modding) inside the various game-version-specific articles listed at Grand Theft Auto disambiguation-page, for the games that have been wiki-notably modded, at least
- Grand_Theft_Auto_modding#Online_modding_communities , section of the *this* article , of which the 'old' article GTANet.com now redirects[1] unto
- Hot Coffee mod, which is an extant article about a *specific* famous-or-infamous mod , linked to GtaGarage if memory serves ... *this* article is now the newly-created-parent of that spinoff-article, in particular, the Grand_Theft_Auto_modding#Impact_of_Hot_Coffee_on_modding_scene should link to the main (child) article Hot Coffee mod using {{main}}
For the earlier discussions about the inter-connections between GTA mod-scene, and particular websites therein, interested GTA-modding-talkpage readers will please see:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Czar&oldid=679191648#Opinion_on_page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Czar&oldid=679191648#friendly_WP:CANVASSING_about_a_borderline-WP:N_article,_in_the_wikiproject_videogame_turf_;-%29
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GTANet.com , result was redirect to *this* article Grand Theft Auto modding
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:GTANet.com&oldid=677368207 , which in particular has some sources that may not yet be integrated into *this* spinoff article
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GTANet.com&oldid=677789591 , final GtaNet/GtaForums/GtaGarage combo-page prior to redirect
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GTANet.com&oldid=677341894 , slightly earlier version of the combo-page , which additional WP:ABOUTSELF refs that might conceivably be useful here
Anyways, please everyone, don't feel you have to dig through the 'old' talkpage stuff if you don't want to, but in case some refs were about to be lost into the twisting sands of wiki-history, per WP:PRESERVE, I figured I would post some pointers to the previous discussions here on the 'new' talkpage. I don't know enough about the subject to attempt integrating the old refs into the current article personally, so I didn't even make the attempt. Thanks to all concerned, 75.108.94.227 (talk) 11:42, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
declined speedy deletion
edit@WikiCini: Nice article with lots of sourcing. Been here since 2015. Funny that your second edit should be a request to delete it. The thing could do perhaps with some copyediting, but that's remediable via judicious editing. If there is a comparable article perhaps they can be merged. Name of said article would be helpful for the sake of comparison. Dlohcierekim 03:35, 21 April 2017 (UTC)