carolynp

Sorry to bump this--I won't do it again, but it just pains me to see one of the Boys in Grey not getting the respect he deserves. I mean, where would we all be today if it weren't for the Ghostbusters? Clearly, accuracy with regard to the Ghostbusters should be an absolute priority.

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The specifics here relate to Ghostbusters games, but I suspect that there might be other games that bring up the same question: at what point can we actually say a character is involved in a game? In my opinion, they need to be named, or be recognizable, to be attributed to the game.

In the many versions of the original Activision computer game Ghostbusters from 1984, the Ghostbusters are never named, nor do they have any distinct characteristics. You just have three identical-looking white dudes. In this case, is it appropriate to link the Ghostbusters character pages (Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz) to the game? In my mind, it's not. The characters do not appear in the game in any meaningful way. Your Ghostbusters are generic. They are not Peter, Ray, and Egon. Someone has linked them to the page. I'm tempted to remove them, but I suspect they'd only be added again. But anyway, in my mind, they don't belong there. What do you think? Winston has also been linked to the game, and he's definitely not in it, because, sadly, as I said, you have three white guys in the game, and that's it.

This same issue applies to the Data East arcade game The Real Ghostbusters. At no point in that game are the characters named, nor do the colors of their jumpsuits even match the colors of the jumpsuits the characters wear in the show, so I would say that, despite the game's title, the characters themselves do not really appear in the game.

Thoughts?

http://www.giantbomb.com/winston-zedemore/94-1645/

The character's name is actually spelled Winston Zeddemore. Not sure if it's possible to update the existing page or if it should be scrapped and a new one created.

I'd have to say yes.

I already posted this in Colino's other thread, Wrong Image Deletion, but I guess I'll post it here as well:

I am not seeing an option to delete images from game galleries or to submit for deletion. I deleted this image from my own images, but it remains in the gallery of images for the game I erroneously attributed it to.

Could someone delete http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/33/258466-ending_thumb.jpg from the Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode gallery? My apologies for the error.

"You can just edit them and submit them for deletion. I tried deleting the unrelated images for flOw and it said that someone had already submitted a pending edit to do the same.
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Somebody has entered the Joker's name as Jack Napier on this page. While that is indeed his real name in the Tim Burton film, the character doesn't actually have any one consistent "real name" or origin story. I'm in favor of removing Jack Napier from the name field on this page. How about you?

Well, I opted to think of them as games deserving separate pages. I created a separate page for the NES game Batman: The Video Game, for instance, because it's totally different from the Genesis game, and way more awesomer.

On the Joker page, someone has entered the character's real name as Jack Napier. Now, that was his real name only in the 1989 Tim Burton film. The character doesn't have any one consistent real name across all of his incarnations.

So, what do y'all think? Is it better to handle cases like this by putting some sort of footnote next to the name, so it says something like "Jack Napier (Tim Burton film only), or should we just leave the field blank, or put something like None in the field so that people aren't so tempted to put inaccurate stuff there?

I know that here at Giant Bomb, the same game, released across multiple platforms, will still only have one page, one board and so on (thank God). But what about situations in which the same developer releases games with the same title for different platforms, but those games are actually totally different?

For instance, Sunsoft released Batman: The Movie: The Game (or whatever) for both Genesis and NES. However, the games were totally different. What's the thinking in cases like this? Do we still keep just one page, and on that page discuss both versions? Or should each version get its own page?

This issue also comes up when deciding whether or not to link concepts to a game. I was adding a bunch of games to the Double Jump page the other night, and wasn't sure if I should add Eragon or not, because the DS version, which is totally different from other versions, does include double jumping, while the other versions, to the best of my knowledge, do not.

WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK ABOUT THIS DIFFICULT QUANDARY?!?!?!