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Contents 1 Talk Page Archived 2 Current gen consoles are top importance 3 Kingbotk Plugin 4 A-class discussion

[edit] Talk Page Archived

Okay. 40 sections and 74 kilobytes is LARGE enough for archiving. It just got TOO damn big. If you wish to continue old discussions, please continue them here. Thanks.  Dylanlip  (talk) 13:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Current gen consoles are top importance

IMO, the "big 3" current gen consoles should be top importance, but the assessment scale disagrees. Thoughts? –xeno^talk 15:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the current scale. I.e. - Top is hardware articles that form the basis of vgames (Video game console) or consoles that shaped the whole industry (Atari 2600). Nothing about the Wii, XBox 360, or PS3 has drastically changed the video game industry - they're just more recent, which isn't in my opinion a reason to move them to "Top". --PresN 17:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I mainly agree with xeno. The PS3 and 360 are among the 200 most viewed Wikipedia articles, and Wii hits in at 226. They're certainly among our most viewed articles, and importance should probably reflect that. Surely we want to be prioritising the articles which people are most interested in?

That all said, those rankings are a little odd. 55 is Com/sun/media/sound/PortMixerProvider.class, for instance. And 85 is %s. Both above the Big 3.

Greg Tyler ^{(t • c)} 17:23, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

@PresN obviously I agree that the scale presently places them outside of "Top" importance. My argument is that the scale should be changed to include the reigning current-gen consoles. –xeno^talk 17:56, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

And my argument is that the way the VG project has defined the "Top" importance level - articles that "reflect the basis of video gaming and not so much the hallmarks of the fields" - means that only consoles that changed the face of the industry should be "Top" importance. The Xbox 360 hasn't changed the industry any more than the Xbox did - it's just the current model. The scale as written implicitly rejects the idea that some articles are more "important" because they are current or popular. If you think that those should be criteria -and there's a valid argument to made for that- lets take this discussion back to the main VG talk page, and redo the way the scale works. I just think that basing the "importance" rating on how many page-views the article in question gets doesn't match up with the way it's meant to be - that the more "important" an article is, the more necessary it is to include in a print version of the encyclopedia. Video game consoles is more important to include than PS3, but I'm sure it has several orders of magnitude fewer page-views. --PresN 18:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm not wild about this...I don't seem them as really needing to be Top-priority even if they are the most checked. Keeping a stand of actual importance seems to me a better bet, and prevents this from creeping into other project articles (Assassins Creed comes to mind, which was rated High solely based on it's popularity at the time and not noticed until well afterwards).--Kung Fu Man (talk) 17:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

What ground did the 360 and PS3 break to make them that important? the Wii has Motion control, but the other two arn't as impotant than that. GamerPro64 (talk) 17:12, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I think it's best to discuss this at the main VG talk page since the discussion is more active over there. I've replied there, but to summarize briefly: X360 proved the digital delivery market, PS3 proved a console can acheive market share by marketing itself also to non-gamers, i.e., as a home media device (Bluray). –xeno^talk 18:52, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Kingbotk Plugin

Does anyone know whether or not the plugin is Vista-compatible? I would ask the creator of the bot (Kingboyk), but he has not edited since mid-April. Thanks, MacMed^talk_stalk 22:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Try it and find out. Can't think why it wouldn't, the fact that it's written in VB.NET means that it won't work on macs or linux, but as long as you have .net installed (and you should by default) it should work in Vista. If it doesn't work, the worst thing that will happen is... it won't work. --PresN 00:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A-class discussion

FYI- A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Demoted A-class VG articles. Comments and input would be appreciated. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 17:40, 24 November 2009 (UTC))