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January 06, 2009
Losing the Threshold MUD Wikipedia Entry
Richard Bartle examines the Threshold MUD Wikipedia article, recently put up for deletion. Raph picks up on this and also has some lively comment discussion.
Now for a little personal addition of my own:
Of course, there are a long list of problems with the videogame sections of Wikipedia, among them the Biographies (and a very simple lack of them at least), the notability and citation sources requirements, and the internal political issues in the groups editing the site. Not an easy problem to solve, for general historical research certainly it seems as if Wikipedia is falling slowly down if it does delete entries like this.
I'll see if I can get the Digital Game Canon site up for 2009, and see if Mobygames aims to add more detailed text fields/content, or if the Digital Game Canon website can support it in some way, for all those games which simply don't have a massive dedicated Wakia wiki, or a site of their own.
Posted by AndrewArmstrong at January 6, 2009 07:14 AM