User talk:Johnjdoyle

October 2012

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. A blog is generally not considered to be a reliable source, as the channel data does not necessarily back up your claim. Jasper Deng (talk) 23:58, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The site has done data stories for the last 3+ years, all with data from the Wii's Nintendo Channel. The data stories at the main posts the site has done, you can check the last 3 years and see how many it has posted. The data is directly backed up on the Nintendo Channel, the images used in the posts are taken from direct feed screens of the Nintendo Channel using a video capture device. The Nintendo Channel data backs up the claim 100%, as the posts show with images.

That does not make the site a reliable source - see my thread at Talk:Monster Hunter Tri.--Jasper Deng (talk) 00:07, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Being covered by IGN, Destructoid, GoNintendo, Joystiq, Capcom, EBA, and lots of others, as well as doing interviews with Nintendo reps, industry reps, game reps, etc. I think makes it reliable, especially considering the information is 100% verifiable to anybody with a Wii.

Links? And if these sites cover this, cite them, not an unreliable blog.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:07, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The blog is the original source, not the other sites. The site gets the credit source link, because it is the original source, you always go with the original source. Here are a few posts linked on other sites, but if you want to see GoNintendo's pages with every single one of these posted I can send you the "search" on that as well: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/04/30/monster-hunter-tri.aspx http://kotaku.com/5393302/surprise-people-prefer-wii-sports-resort-to-wii-fit-plus http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/07/monster-hunter-tri-has-occupied-over-50-hours-per-player-on-average/ http://capcom-unity.com/gregaman/blog/2012/10/02/okami-reportedly-quite-substantial http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/701785/nintendo-stops-shipping-metroid-prime-trilogy.html http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2011/04/28/a_years_worth_of_monster_hunter_tri_data http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=131018

These don't help back up the claim that the game in question became the most-played, only its hours.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:48, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a claim, it's a fact it is most played "Per person", which the image shows. Smash Bros. was the previous most played game "Per person", according to the data on the Nintendo Channel. You can go on the Nintendo Channel, and search every single Wii game released. I think you missed the "Per person" part, not the total hours part. If you missed older reports on Kotaku, you can see one here: http://kotaku.com/5512478/top-10-most-avidly+played-wii-games-in-america, before Monster Hunter Tri passed Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the hours "Per person" category. Quote from Kotaku article, "Where's all this from? (AKA an explanation of the above chart for stat junkies only): In a move somewhat surprising for the generally secretive company, Nintendo makes all of this data public. Any Wii owner can download the Nintendo Channel to their Wii and begin browsing for games. Any game that has been played enough times has usage stats listed for it, contributed by anyone who chose to share their data with the channel." Does that help?

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Please bring up your "source" At the video game project to see if its qualifies as source. Your edits now will probably start to look like vandalism soon. Also please sign your posts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games NathanWubs (talk) 19:28, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]