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:There's a lot of inactive RPGs for which websites no longer exist. I've added several myself, including ''[[Junction Point (PBEM)]]'' and ''[[Typhon Station]]''. A Google search will at least verify that these sims did at one time exist, as it does with ''[[Star Trek: Miranda]]''. Beyond that, it seems impossible to have an official "source" as currently defined on STEU. I mean, I was ''in'' those two groups, as well as the [[Starfleet Sim Group]], but have little to no way of actually proving it. |
:There's a lot of inactive RPGs for which websites no longer exist. I've added several myself, including ''[[Junction Point (PBEM)]]'' and ''[[Typhon Station]]''. A Google search will at least verify that these sims did at one time exist, as it does with ''[[Star Trek: Miranda]]''. Beyond that, it seems impossible to have an official "source" as currently defined on STEU. I mean, I was ''in'' those two groups, as well as the [[Starfleet Sim Group]], but have little to no way of actually proving it. |
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| − | :I absolutely hate to see good games that people cared about and poured a lot of themselves, their talents, and their hearts into just vanish. I ''want'' us to be able to accept data from long-gone sims, at least in the interests of historical preservation, and who knows, an article here might even renew interest in a dead game. Perhaps in the case of defunct RPGs, we should have a "good faith" policy, and allow these articles to stand as "quasi-sourced." -- {{Timsig}} |
+ | :I absolutely hate to see good games that people cared about and poured a lot of themselves, their talents, and their hearts into just vanish. I ''want'' us to be able to accept data from long-gone sims, at least in the interests of historical preservation, and who knows, an article here might even renew interest in a dead game. Perhaps in the case of defunct RPGs, we should have a "good faith" policy, and allow these articles to stand as "quasi-sourced." We know these groups existed at one time, and we'll have to accept the word of those who were there as to the details. -- {{Timsig}} |
Revision as of 06:06, 6 April 2009
Recently a contributor added an article about the defunct RPG Star Trek: Miranda. It no longer has a website to check for a source as according to the article it was taken off the web back in 2007. How should we go about dealing with the sourcing issue in this and any similar cases in the future? – JayLR 14:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
- There's a lot of inactive RPGs for which websites no longer exist. I've added several myself, including Junction Point (PBEM) and Typhon Station. A Google search will at least verify that these sims did at one time exist, as it does with Star Trek: Miranda. Beyond that, it seems impossible to have an official "source" as currently defined on STEU. I mean, I was in those two groups, as well as the Starfleet Sim Group, but have little to no way of actually proving it.
- I absolutely hate to see good games that people cared about and poured a lot of themselves, their talents, and their hearts into just vanish. I want us to be able to accept data from long-gone sims, at least in the interests of historical preservation, and who knows, an article here might even renew interest in a dead game. Perhaps in the case of defunct RPGs, we should have a "good faith" policy, and allow these articles to stand as "quasi-sourced." We know these groups existed at one time, and we'll have to accept the word of those who were there as to the details. -- TimPendragon Adm • Hail