Mathsgeek
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edit(Regarding Homer Simpson): Thanks, man. I have no idea what happened there. Must have been some sort of browser upload problem. -- Steven Fisher 19:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
That's fine, thanks for the feedback. --Mathsgeek 20:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
MobyGames links
editHey, I noticed you've been removing links to MobyGames pages from articles recently; is there a discussion you can point me to which states that MobyGames links aren't permitted on Wikipedia? I'm asking because, though I haven't added any such links myself, I consider MobyGames to be a relatively useful database with some content one couldn't find anywhere else; therefore, I think the references to the site should be retained or restored in their respective articles. Thanks, Cromag 21:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I shall stop the editing and continue the discussion, though please bear in mind that the majority of the links that I have removed have very little to add to the articles. And I tried to ignore deleting moby links with alot of content. The discussion was here.--Mathsgeek 21:07, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for providing a link to the ongoing discussion; it seems the issue is more complicated than I had considered it to be. My take on the matter is this - if a link to MobyGames is included:
- without the editor having given it much thought,
- in a case where the game or version in question is so obscure as to have almost no information listed,
- for every single version that was ever available on the market (this applies when there were numerous versions, of course),
- it should be removed. However, I also consider cover/screenshot galleries and trivia pages to be both useful and informative, especially when the article in question is a stub several sentences long. Also, I think we should take into account the fact that MobyGames is frequently used as a reference; therefore, should the content of the article be similar to that of the MobyGames page, it's fathomable that such a link could be included. That said, it is definitely not right to randomly insert MG links into every game article in existence. Some of the games – primarily adventure games – whose articles are on my watchlist have, if I'm not mistaken, quite helpful MobyGames pages, which is why I reacted in the first place. Finally, in a day or two, I'll check the MG entries for the games on my watchlist to see and decide whether they have a sufficient amount of information for inclusion in the article. Thanks, Cromag 21:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- I agree with you on that there are cases where the mobygames links are a good addtion to an article, like you mentioned with good triva and information about the game. I apologise if i have removed a content rich mobygames link, please don't hesitate to put back links that you feel that I have wrongly removed. Thankyou for your time in looking at this matter. --Mathsgeek 22:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for providing a link to the ongoing discussion; it seems the issue is more complicated than I had considered it to be. My take on the matter is this - if a link to MobyGames is included:
Why do you remove the MobyGames links without replying to me on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#MobyGames_policy? Picking three examples from your latest contributions Inca (video game), Wayne's World (game) and Ugh! reveals that those MobyGames pages contains indeed more information than the article itself. The NeveR SLeePiNG 14:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
- First of all I apologise for not replying to you before doing the edits, I did not realise that you were strongly against the edits. Maybe some of the links I edited out do contain more information than the article, such as the one you've pointed out, however a majority of them don't. I have only edited out the links that you have put in, and you must concede that alot of the links you've added you've just added without checking on the content of the link. As I've said above I shall stop editing out mobygames links and wait and see how the discussion progresses.--Mathsgeek 21:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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