I'm seeing a number of issues with this grouping but don't have time to comment right now other than to ask why "blogs" are separated from "websites". I see no reason why those set few were excluded—they should be combined. czar ⨹ 13:31, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
GameRankings shut down on December 9 and started redirecting all of its traffic to Metacritic. Can we remove them from this template? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MomentHeart ( talk • contribs) 18:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
I worry that this template may be unworkably vague. If we look at List of video game magazines and Category:Video game journalism we can see potentially a hundred or more entries that might be described as "Video game journalism". How do we decide which ones belong in the "Video game journalism" template? If this template is to persist I think it needs a basic definition to be spelled out. Is this a list of historically significant publications? Or the most reliable/prominent publications? Is this an international listing? Does it cover only currently published journals and websites? Who determines prominence, reliability, historicity, etc. and is there any cut-off?
WP:NAVBOX suggests that the template should define a "small, well-defined group" with "a single, coherent subject". Guideline #5 asks: "If not for the navigation template, [would] an editor would be inclined to link many of these articles in the
See also sections of the articles"? and suggests in Guideline #3 that "The articles should refer to each other". Do any of these entries refer to each other? And I echo
Czar's question above: Is there a precedent for such a list of "active" publications?
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I'm seeing a number of issues with this grouping but don't have time to comment right now other than to ask why "blogs" are separated from "websites". I see no reason why those set few were excluded—they should be combined. czar ⨹ 13:31, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
GameRankings shut down on December 9 and started redirecting all of its traffic to Metacritic. Can we remove them from this template? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MomentHeart ( talk • contribs) 18:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
I worry that this template may be unworkably vague. If we look at List of video game magazines and Category:Video game journalism we can see potentially a hundred or more entries that might be described as "Video game journalism". How do we decide which ones belong in the "Video game journalism" template? If this template is to persist I think it needs a basic definition to be spelled out. Is this a list of historically significant publications? Or the most reliable/prominent publications? Is this an international listing? Does it cover only currently published journals and websites? Who determines prominence, reliability, historicity, etc. and is there any cut-off?
WP:NAVBOX suggests that the template should define a "small, well-defined group" with "a single, coherent subject". Guideline #5 asks: "If not for the navigation template, [would] an editor would be inclined to link many of these articles in the
See also sections of the articles"? and suggests in Guideline #3 that "The articles should refer to each other". Do any of these entries refer to each other? And I echo
Czar's question above: Is there a precedent for such a list of "active" publications?
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Thibbs (
talk) 14:56, 21 January 2020 (UTC)