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Removing extraneous reviews
edit@KGRAMR:, you clearly have an excellent list of sources, consider adding them to Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library. But don't add all the sources to the review table. Wikipedia is not an exhaustive list of all reviews, that role has typically been left to aggregators like Metacritic or Mobygames. The reviews I listed were the ones I used to write the reception section. If you think you can improve on the reception section with better choices of quotes from more prominent publications, do that. And then add the score to the table. (I left Famitsu in there because having no reception from a Japanese source is a failing of the article) - hahnchen 12:03, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Hahnchen:I added almost (not all) of the reviews for Ranger X in order that somebody else with better experience building a reception section and gave a definitive consensus as to what critics thought of the game back in the day on every region, as not every point of view will be the same. I consider myself pretty decent when it comes to finding reviews for games, however when you talk about building the reception section, I absolutely suck at it. If you or somebody else can expand the reception section for Ranger X with the reviews I found prior to your edit then that would be awesome... Roberth Martinez (talk) 12:09, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Hahnchen:Also, the sources added in the development and release section of the game you removed were not previews/reviews, those are actually interviews with the developers! Roberth Martinez (talk) 12:12, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
- OK, that's great. But the sources weren't being used. Consider adding a "further reading" section and listing your sources there, like Masters_of_Doom#Further_reading. I know @Czar: likes that approach. - hahnchen 12:18, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
- @KGRAMR, Template:Video game reviews says that all sources in the table must be used in the "Reception" section (i.e., review scores must support the text and not duplicate the purpose of an aggregator). Best practices otherwise are to put extra sources into either (1) {{refideas}} on the talk page or (2) a "Further reading" section below the main "References" section. (not watching, please
{{ping}}) czar 02:03, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
- @KGRAMR, Template:Video game reviews says that all sources in the table must be used in the "Reception" section (i.e., review scores must support the text and not duplicate the purpose of an aggregator). Best practices otherwise are to put extra sources into either (1) {{refideas}} on the talk page or (2) a "Further reading" section below the main "References" section. (not watching, please
- OK, that's great. But the sources weren't being used. Consider adding a "further reading" section and listing your sources there, like Masters_of_Doom#Further_reading. I know @Czar: likes that approach. - hahnchen 12:18, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Hahnchen:Also, the sources added in the development and release section of the game you removed were not previews/reviews, those are actually interviews with the developers! Roberth Martinez (talk) 12:12, 21 May 2020 (UTC)