Difference between revisions of "Sega"
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Unrelated question - should this page also be divided into "Sega of Japan", "Sega of America", "Sega of Europe" etc. etc.? They all have stories to tell. -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] 13:38, 19 March 2011 (CDT) | Unrelated question - should this page also be divided into "Sega of Japan", "Sega of America", "Sega of Europe" etc. etc.? They all have stories to tell. -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] 13:38, 19 March 2011 (CDT) | ||
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| − | :Before a major cleanup of this article does happen, I want to know this — how much information on Sega do we really have? Is the console wars the only recorded bit of history on the company? Do we have restructure information? Acquisitions and mergers? Partnerships to get products shipped? Is the electronic/computerized video game industry the only industry we have light shed on? What about the electromechanical days — Scarred Sun knows loads, but who else? The pinball games? Sega Toys? There's so much information; I think it would be better if we make a database of all this — documents, biographies, archives, a merger list, a timeline of restructuring, archive pages, etc. — before doing anything with the article. - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 13:43, 19 March 2011 (CDT) | + | :Before a major cleanup of this article does happen, I want to know this — how much information on Sega do we really have? Is the console wars the only recorded bit of history on the company? Do we have restructure information? Acquisitions and mergers? Partnerships to get products shipped? Is the electronic/computerized video game industry the only industry we have light shed on? What about the electromechanical days — Scarred Sun knows loads, but who else? The pinball games? Sega Toys? There's so much information; I think it would be better if we make a database of all this — documents, biographies, archives, a merger list, a timeline of restructuring, archive pages, etc. — before doing anything with the article, so we can write a new article from all that. - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 13:43, 19 March 2011 (CDT) |
Revision as of 13:45, 19 March 2011
This article is massive - it's describing pretty much every Sega console and their top franchises in detail, and seeing as we have pages for most of these things, it seems pointless to have it here. Most of it is made up of remnants of Sonic Retro.
In theory this should be the flagship page of Sega Retro for obvious reasons, yet it's written in a far more informal style than the rest of the wiki and from a North American perspective rather than covering worldwide events. It's also missing quite a lot of history since it only focuses in on the home console wars.
In theory this should be better than Wikipedia's page (which is rated "C" by all four WikiProjects that cover it), yet I'm not sure it is. -Black Squirrel 14:54, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sure this was taken from Sonic Retro, so it probably was overlooked in the past. I've been meaning to rewrite the console articles (I already did the Game Gear one quite a while ago) but never got around to it; I'm not sure if I know enough about Sega's history to write about it, though I could try later. - Andlabs 15:15, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Unrelated question - should this page also be divided into "Sega of Japan", "Sega of America", "Sega of Europe" etc. etc.? They all have stories to tell. -Black Squirrel 13:38, 19 March 2011 (CDT)
- I say yes — they are practically separate companies. However.
- Before a major cleanup of this article does happen, I want to know this — how much information on Sega do we really have? Is the console wars the only recorded bit of history on the company? Do we have restructure information? Acquisitions and mergers? Partnerships to get products shipped? Is the electronic/computerized video game industry the only industry we have light shed on? What about the electromechanical days — Scarred Sun knows loads, but who else? The pinball games? Sega Toys? There's so much information; I think it would be better if we make a database of all this — documents, biographies, archives, a merger list, a timeline of restructuring, archive pages, etc. — before doing anything with the article, so we can write a new article from all that. - Andlabs 13:43, 19 March 2011 (CDT)