Talk:Hot Potato (video game)

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Nomader in topic Additional Refs
Good articleHot Potato (video game) has been listed as one of the Video games good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
July 6, 2010WikiProject peer reviewReviewed
October 27, 2010Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 3, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Hot Potato tasks the player with navigating a bus through roads filled with alien potato beings?
Current status: Good article

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. -- tariqabjotu 22:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)Reply


I may have been in a bad mood when I wrote that. Anyhow, I think the question should be discussed. This was originally submitted as an uncontroversial technical move, and I think it's worth having some discussion held first to see whether it's really a good idea. —BarrelProof (talk) 04:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • Oppose – even if "!" were enough to disambiguate a title, abstractly, in this case usage in the cited sources does not confirm that the "!" is considered to be part of the name. The present disambiguated title is much better in such cases. Dicklyon (talk) 06:19, 5 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • Oppose as per Dicklyon verbatim. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:04, 6 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • Support The title on the cover of the game is "Hot Potato!". Also, it seems that a slight majority of the sources use the convention:
  • Use exclamation (5):
  • Provo, Frank (July 5, 2001). "Hot Potato! Review for Game Boy Advance". GameSpot. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [1]
  • Satterfield, Shane (June 28, 2001). "Hot Potato! ships for the Game Boy Advance". GameSpot. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [2]
  • "Hot Potato! for Game Boy Advance". GameRankings. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [3]
  • "Search Results from Metacritic.com for Hot Potato!". Metacritic. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2010. [4]
  • Semerad, Jay. "Hot Potato! Review". Allgame. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [5]
  • Do not use exclamation mark (4):
  • Harris, Craig (July 6, 2001). "Hot Potato Game Boy Advance Review". IGN. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [6]
  • Adam (July 8, 2001). "Exclusive Interview with Pukka Games". Nintensity. Archived from the original on August 1, 2001. Retrieved June 27, 2010. [7]
  • First Look: Hot Potato. IGN. April 19, 2001. Accessed from November 17, 2012. [8]
  • Note: IGN did not use the exclamation mark here, but they did include source material from BAM! Entertainment that does use the exclamation mark.
  • Tedeschi, Bob (July 9, 2001). "E-Commerce Report; Online retail profits have not materialized, so sites are offering information as a substitute for sales". The New York Times. Retrieved October 27, 2010. [9]
  • One source (Eurogamer) was a dead link. The exclamation is enough to disambiguate the subject. Anyone simply typing in "Hot Potato" can then click on the video game link from that disambiguation page. I don't see a good reason not to move it to the actual title of the game. Jujutacular (talk) 07:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Additional Refs

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Adding here to add in later, just found one more today in Google Books:

`Nomader (talk) 23:53, 8 April 2018 (UTC)Reply