GTA Wikipedia article locked

[weapnsdealer]

Yeah, but doesn't Rockstar have people who make sure people like IGN, GI, PSM, Gamestop, etc, etc, dont post stuff they arent allowed to? The people at GI said they saw stuff they werent supposed to write about. Wouldnt these same people maybe have a reason to protect the Wiki page? Sure, they might be volunteers for Wikipedia, but they could be working for Rockstar and the lock date is a date when they will finally have something substantial.

Yes, they do, but Rockstar have no control over Wikipedia. To be an admin you have had to edited for aaages, and if you do anything like work for a company they ban you forever, including admins - I doubt someone would be stupid enough to do all that work for nothing.

 

However, Wikipedia have their own volunteers who make sure that all the information that's put on is backed up by a source (those little numbers that appear above paragraphs). Therefore to go on Wikipedia, a fact would need to have been reported on a well-respected news website/magazine anyway; you can't just put your own facts on or they'll be deleted, unless you can link to where it's been proven true elsewhere in the world.

Okay, this is the conclusion that I have come up with. It is at least one of the following three things:

 

1. The dates mean absolutely nothing. At all.

 

2. Each of those dates I posted before (February 28, 2013-June 28, 2013) will have something to do with either marketing or a major announcement for GTA V. Maybe a new trailer in February, and maybe a DLC announcement in June.

 

3. Maybe the June date is so far away because of the recent talk about banning the game and there has been a lot of vandalism on the page, and someone believes putting the date so far away, even after the release date, will give people enough time to cool down and stop vandalising the page when there is plenty of real, concrete information.

 

By the way, no one has updated the article to include the news about the cover art release later this month.

 

So yeah, those are 3 possibilities, but I dont know which one is true, and this is all speculation.

What recen talk of banning the game?

http://www.justpushstart.com/2012/12/u-s-s...-auto-v-banned/

 

A senator in the states wants to ban the game, he even called GTA out personally.

[Matty]

Articles on Wikipedia are protected because vandalism people, not because a developer tells Wikipedia to protect an article in relation to their game. As has been said, some of you are jumping to conclusions way to easy. They don't know when the game will be released, they just protected the GTA V article until June as it will be prone to vandalism up until and for a short while after its release.

 

Any other article on Wikipedia that is routinely vandalized is protected, the same happened for the GTA V article, simple. I can only imagine the number of idiots that add retail store placeholder release dates as the games release date - it gets old, hence why they protected it to slow down the rate of vandalism. Nothing more.

[Showstopper 26]

Yeah, but doesn't Rockstar have people who make sure people like IGN, GI, PSM, Gamestop, etc, etc, dont post stuff they arent allowed to? The people at GI said they saw stuff they werent supposed to write about. Wouldnt these same people maybe have a reason to protect the Wiki page? Sure, they might be volunteers for Wikipedia, but they could be working for Rockstar and the lock date is a date when they will finally have something substantial.

Yes, they do, but Rockstar have no control over Wikipedia. To be an admin you have had to edited for aaages, and if you do anything like work for a company they ban you forever, including admins - I doubt someone would be stupid enough to do all that work for nothing.

 

However, Wikipedia have their own volunteers who make sure that all the information that's put on is backed up by a source (those little numbers that appear above paragraphs). Therefore to go on Wikipedia, a fact would need to have been reported on a well-respected news website/magazine anyway; you can't just put your own facts on or they'll be deleted, unless you can link to where it's been proven true elsewhere in the world.

Okay, this is the conclusion that I have come up with. It is at least one of the following three things:

 

1. The dates mean absolutely nothing. At all.

 

2. Each of those dates I posted before (February 28, 2013-June 28, 2013) will have something to do with either marketing or a major announcement for GTA V. Maybe a new trailer in February, and maybe a DLC announcement in June.

 

3. Maybe the June date is so far away because of the recent talk about banning the game and there has been a lot of vandalism on the page, and someone believes putting the date so far away, even after the release date, will give people enough time to cool down and stop vandalising the page when there is plenty of real, concrete information.

 

By the way, no one has updated the article to include the news about the cover art release later this month.

 

So yeah, those are 3 possibilities, but I dont know which one is true, and this is all speculation.

What recen talk of banning the game?

http://www.justpushstart.com/2012/12/u-s-s...-auto-v-banned/

 

A senator in the states wants to ban the game, he even called GTA out personally.

That's not good. At all.

[Raavi]

This happens all the time also with games. It's totally unrelated to the game it's all about vandalism.