Talk:Hot Potato (video game)

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. -- tariqabjotu 22:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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• Hot Potato (video game) → Hot Potato! – per article, refs, etc --Relisted. -- tariqabjotu 05:22, 12 August 2013 (UTC) 82.132.223.78 (talk) 23:51, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose: An exclamation mark is not a sufficient disambiguator. —BarrelProof (talk) 12:21, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support: Yes it is. And so is a question mark. Unreal7 (talk) 20:15, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

I may have been in a bad mood when I wrote that. Anyhow, I think the question should be discussed. This was originally submitted as an uncontroversial technical move, and I think it's worth having some discussion held first to see whether it's really a good idea. —BarrelProof (talk) 04:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose – even if "!" were enough to disambiguate a title, abstractly, in this case usage in the cited sources does not confirm that the "!" is considered to be part of the name. The present disambiguated title is much better in such cases. Dicklyon (talk) 06:19, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose as per Dicklyon verbatim. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:04, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support The title on the cover of the game is "Hot Potato!". Also, it seems that a slight majority of the sources use the convention:

• Use exclamation (5):

• Provo, Frank (July 5, 2001). "Hot Potato! Review for Game Boy Advance". GameSpot. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [1]
• Satterfield, Shane (June 28, 2001). "Hot Potato! ships for the Game Boy Advance". GameSpot. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [2]
• "Hot Potato! for Game Boy Advance". GameRankings. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [3]
• "Search Results from Metacritic.com for Hot Potato!". Metacritic. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2010. [4]
• Semerad, Jay. "Hot Potato! Review". Allgame. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [5]

• Do not use exclamation mark (4):

• Harris, Craig (July 6, 2001). "Hot Potato Game Boy Advance Review". IGN. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [6]
• Adam (July 8, 2001). "Exclusive Interview with Pukka Games". Nintensity. Archived from the original on August 1, 2001. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [7]
• First Look: Hot Potato. IGN. April 19, 2001. Accessed from November 17, 2012. [8]

• Note: IGN did not use the exclamation mark here, but they did include source material from BAM! Entertainment that does use the exclamation mark.

• Tedeschi, Bob (July 9, 2001). "E-Commerce Report; Online retail profits have not materialized, so sites are offering information as a substitute for sales". The New York Times. Retrieved October 27, 2010. [9]

• One source (Eurogamer) was a dead link. The exclamation is enough to disambiguate the subject. Anyone simply typing in "Hot Potato" can then click on the video game link from that disambiguation page. I don't see a good reason not to move it to the actual title of the game. Jujutacular (talk) 07:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Additional Refs

Adding here to add in later, just found one more today in Google Books:

• https://books.google.com/books?id=b3rg6wmjc5QC&pg=PA612&dq=%22game+boy+advance%22+%22hot+potato%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigoPux76vaAhUSna0KHaLABMAQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=%22game%20boy%20advance%22%20%22hot%20potato%22&f=false

`Nomader (talk) 23:53, 8 April 2018 (UTC)