Matt Brown wrote:
On 2/18/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)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