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Anyway, I don't see any problem with story/plot elements from the game, kupo, if my experience with Wikipedia had anything to tell me, kupo, it's that citing the game script usually works. I've done that in Wikipedia for most of the game articles there, kupo.}} | Anyway, I don't see any problem with story/plot elements from the game, kupo, if my experience with Wikipedia had anything to tell me, kupo, it's that citing the game script usually works. I've done that in Wikipedia for most of the game articles there, kupo.}} | ||
{{Guardian Soul|text=We could always use Youtube videos as references for story information, could we not?}} | {{Guardian Soul|text=We could always use Youtube videos as references for story information, could we not?}} | ||
{{KrytenKoro|My point wasn't that it's ''impossible'' to cite stuff from the games, it's that it would be ''useless''. By virtue of our being a wiki based on the games, and the story sections explicitly being "this is what happened in the games", having little notes every sentence saying "Indeed my good man, this happened in the games." would be overkill. Look at wikipedia's Organization XIII article for an example - they've gone so far as to transcribe entire scenes ''for quotes'' - something that is specifically not how citations work. If you say the character said something, you don't have to provide the entire conversation containing the quote. It's just ridiculous and makes the article look like you didn't have anything actually valuable to cite. | |||
If anyone watches The Soup, I think they actually spent an episode making fun of this. Or maybe it was the Daily Show.}} | |||