Matt Brown wrote:
On 2/18/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
How about computer and video games? What if no-one else has ever written about it? Should we not have articles on them?
I find it hard to believe there exists a shipped game that nobody wrote a word about, ever.
Heh, if nobody ever wrote about it, I'd say that's a good definition of non-notable.
For one thing, there's the developers/manufacturers - ad copy, documentation.
Then there are things like magazine reviews, new product announcements in the press, etc.
There's online reviews and news for anything published after the late 80s or so.
The problem is that most of these sources are ephemeral and possibly hard to lay hands on.
I take that as a good reason to have WP - people with the ephemeral sources get the factual content out of their material and make it available to a wider audience. There are a number of WP articles that already have the most detailed information online anywhere, just by virtue of using print sources.
Stan