Just to clarify for everyone, Person pages are only for people who have been credited in at least one game. A licensed appearance in a football game doesn't count. Except in rare cases where an athlete makes the end credits for consulting or whatever, they should not be in our database as Persons.
Character pages for licensed figures who appear in sports games are totally fine.
And I hear you about sportsmens and their place in our list and our hearts, but our data must be truthful and complete above all else! If we deny Some Football Guy his place in video game history, what's next? No Mario page because he's "too obvious?"
If the pages become choked with real-life jerks and our index pages become too tricky to navigate due to all that sports, that's a problem we'll solve with swift and intelligent design (meaning I'll send the URL to the page to Dave and beg him to make it better). Being selective is against our goal of total video game knowledge.
Put another way, if we were going to be selective, I wouldn't have created a page for a Commodore 64-based masturbation simulator over the weekend.
And I hear you about sportsmens and their place in our list and our hearts, but our data must be truthful and complete above all else! If we deny Some Football Guy his place in video game history, what's next? No Mario page because he's "too obvious?"
If the pages become choked with real-life jerks and our index pages become too tricky to navigate due to all that sports, that's a problem we'll solve with swift and intelligent design (meaning I'll send the URL to the page to Dave and beg him to make it better). Being selective is against our goal of total video game knowledge.
Put another way, if we were going to be selective, I wouldn't have created a page for a Commodore 64-based masturbation simulator over the weekend.
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Yeah, that is true. I guess if it's (in) a video game, then it should be on the site. And if we start debating if something/someone is page-worthy or not, everyone will have their own opinion, and it would only end in a complex mess.
Jeff, I agree with you about not having different pages for all athletes but can't we at least keep pages for cover athletes? If companies put them on the cover of a video game, then they obviously did something special for the industry, and also go down in the franchise's history.
"Jeff, I agree with you about not having different pages for all athletes but can't we at least keep pages for cover athletes? If companies put them on the cover of a video game, then they obviously did something special for the industry, and also go down in the franchise's history."
Well, Michael Vick probably had nothing to do with Madden ($$$)....
But Jeff Gordon did a lot of content in Nascar 09...
I think some of you are getting confused. You can still add athletes/sportsmen as characters, just not under the 'Person' category, unless they helped and are credited with the actual creation of the game.
"I think some of you are getting confused. You can still add athletes/sportsmen as characters, just not under the 'Person' category, unless they helped and are credited with the actual creation of the game."
haaaa thanks for pointing that out, thought that character and person were the same thing, and i know better that's the worst. What time is it? ah... note to self: when waking up at 7 for work dont go to sleep at 3;30 anumore
"So, as characters, are they allowed real life images, or restricted to in-game?
(Prays for the later)"
We prefer in-game shots, especially for the main image on the page. But just like we accept fan art and other unofficial images for games, we'll allow photos of game characters.
If we didn't, we would be sadly unable to bring you this amazing Shaq photo:
"So, as characters, are they allowed real life images, or restricted to in-game?
(Prays for the later)"
We prefer in-game shots, especially for the main image on the page. But just like we accept fan art and other unofficial images for games, we'll allow photos of game characters.
If we didn't, we would be sadly unable to bring you this amazing Shaq photo:
"So, as characters, are they allowed real life images, or restricted to in-game?
(Prays for the later)"
We prefer in-game shots, especially for the main image on the page. But just like we accept fan art and other unofficial images for games, we'll allow photos of game characters.
If we didn't, we would be sadly unable to bring you this amazing Shaq photo:
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