User talk:ObserveOwl

Why you delete maps, bundles, gamemodes and queues on gorilla tag?

Like, why everything? I would've just cleaned it up and shortened it but not remove it all. I am aware that the wiki exists and is a much better place for this but please don't remove it all. Tyshkovsky (talk) 02:28, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Tyshkovsky, I felt a bit bad removing it since I acknowledge that people spent time on it. I usually tilt towards retaining content on this encyclopedia. But draft reviewers would probably not accept it with that much information on it.

Firstly, the whole content was unsourced, failing the verifiability policy. I tried, but couldn't find a reliable source from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources list that I could cite to explain the maps or bundles in more detail. I only found some UploadVR pieces like this, which didn't provide a helpful overview on all of the game's maps.

Secondly, Wikipedia has a manual of style at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Video games with details about how game articles should be structured. See this part, particularly the 7th and 8th points. If you take a look at an article about some video game on this list, you should notice that they don't have that much in-game information like maps beyond what is reported by reliable sources.

Thirdly, the bundles section kinda violated this part of a policy, which states, "An article should not include product pricing or availability information (which can vary widely with time and location) unless there is an independent source and encyclopedic significance for the mention, which may be indicated by mainstream media sources or books (not just product reviews) providing commentary on these details instead of just passing mention."

To clarify your point, I did keep some information about the gamemodes as a list on Gorilla Tag#Gameplay as they were explained by independent sources like this one from ESRB. This gameplay section also briefly explains that queues and maps exist with a few examples, just like how this source does. So I did try to retain the most I could. Feel free to ask more questions to me here, or to others at the teahouse. ObserveOwl (talk) 06:29, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Sorry if I wrote too much, @Tyshkovsky. If you didn't read all that, what I said is that a lot of the details on the previous draft were not supported by reliable sources. From the sources that I found, I could only use some good coverage of the gamemodes and a few mentions of the maps and queues, which I kept on the gameplay section of the article. The bundles weren't mentioned by independent sources. ObserveOwl (talk) 17:23, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

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