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I had heard of this game in the 90's, so it has some degree of reputation. Perhaps the bulk of the content should be Merged with Myst? Dangerdan97 ( talk) 18:24, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
oppose
this article was pre-emptively mergered one day after the merge tag was added.
that is not proper procedure.
the article survived deletion debate with overwhelming keep.
the "merge" consisted of blanking the page & adding nothing @ Myst (series).
not proper procedure either.
the fair use cover shot has also been deleted...
Lx 121 ( talk) 03:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
just for good measure:
here are 2 key wp articles on the subject of "merging" wp articles
the "merge" supported by EEMIV consisted of blanking & redirecting the Pyst article page & article talk page, one day after the merge proposal tag had been added, & with no discussion of the proposal.
No Material from the Pyst article was added to the "merge to" target page.
the "merge to" target page was (& is) the article for the [Myst (series)]; already lengthy & focused on "official" Myst subjects.
the coverage of "Pyst" in the Myst series article consists of 2 sentences, not particularly well written, buried deep in the lower-mid-section of a long page.
the merge also fails the test for wp: merging on at least 2 of 3 key points: "Merging should be not be considered if:
The resulting article is too long or "clunky" The separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone (but cross linked) articles The topics are discrete subjects and deserve their own articles even though they may be short"
3. the topics: Myst (series) & Pyst are discreet, & Pyst does meet the notability criteria to merit an article, "even though it may be short"
2. Pyst as a longer article? possible, but more source material is needed
1. any real merge would make the already long Myst series article longer & pretty much by definition "klunky". Pyst is a separate topic, it doesn't "fit" into the Myst series article's coverage as anything more than an afterthought.
the game Pyst is a parody of Myst (I); it was produced & released by a completely separate game company, with no ties to cyan; it was a commercial game with a large-scale release; it sold enough copies to be considered a "successful" product (& to foster a sequel project) even if its reviews were mixed; the game received wide coverage at the time of its release; & the project involved at least 2 notable persons (goodman & bergman), one of them a "celebrity".
wp doesn't merge wierd al yankovic as a subsection of michael jackson; the parody & the parodied merit separate pages in this case as well
Lx 121 ( talk) 12:12, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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Just off the top of my head, Ultimuh predates this by a few years, and that is without even doing research. I realize the article does not claim this is truly the first parody game, but seriously, that is quite the ridiculous claim. I bet it had been at least a decade since the first, if not longer. 216.81.81.80 ( talk) 16:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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I had heard of this game in the 90's, so it has some degree of reputation. Perhaps the bulk of the content should be Merged with Myst? Dangerdan97 ( talk) 18:24, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
oppose
this article was pre-emptively mergered one day after the merge tag was added.
that is not proper procedure.
the article survived deletion debate with overwhelming keep.
the "merge" consisted of blanking the page & adding nothing @ Myst (series).
not proper procedure either.
the fair use cover shot has also been deleted...
Lx 121 ( talk) 03:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
just for good measure:
here are 2 key wp articles on the subject of "merging" wp articles
the "merge" supported by EEMIV consisted of blanking & redirecting the Pyst article page & article talk page, one day after the merge proposal tag had been added, & with no discussion of the proposal.
No Material from the Pyst article was added to the "merge to" target page.
the "merge to" target page was (& is) the article for the [Myst (series)]; already lengthy & focused on "official" Myst subjects.
the coverage of "Pyst" in the Myst series article consists of 2 sentences, not particularly well written, buried deep in the lower-mid-section of a long page.
the merge also fails the test for wp: merging on at least 2 of 3 key points: "Merging should be not be considered if:
The resulting article is too long or "clunky" The separate topics could be expanded into longer standalone (but cross linked) articles The topics are discrete subjects and deserve their own articles even though they may be short"
3. the topics: Myst (series) & Pyst are discreet, & Pyst does meet the notability criteria to merit an article, "even though it may be short"
2. Pyst as a longer article? possible, but more source material is needed
1. any real merge would make the already long Myst series article longer & pretty much by definition "klunky". Pyst is a separate topic, it doesn't "fit" into the Myst series article's coverage as anything more than an afterthought.
the game Pyst is a parody of Myst (I); it was produced & released by a completely separate game company, with no ties to cyan; it was a commercial game with a large-scale release; it sold enough copies to be considered a "successful" product (& to foster a sequel project) even if its reviews were mixed; the game received wide coverage at the time of its release; & the project involved at least 2 notable persons (goodman & bergman), one of them a "celebrity".
wp doesn't merge wierd al yankovic as a subsection of michael jackson; the parody & the parodied merit separate pages in this case as well
Lx 121 ( talk) 12:12, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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Just off the top of my head, Ultimuh predates this by a few years, and that is without even doing research. I realize the article does not claim this is truly the first parody game, but seriously, that is quite the ridiculous claim. I bet it had been at least a decade since the first, if not longer. 216.81.81.80 ( talk) 16:20, 19 November 2018 (UTC)