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Old Feb 17, 2008, 12:42 PM
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Default Enhancing Wikipedia pages with info on VGM artists

At some point, to help get the word out on this site as a game music authority, we'll have to add artists links to Wikipedia pages (similar to what I've done with OC ReMix composer profiles), and of course any albums.

One thing that's lost on Wikipedia is the discussion of the music of games within game articles. Unless it's, say, Final Fantasy VII, there's usually no mention of music. Once we have a system in place to catalog several links for albums and artists, I'd love to see us all work on incorporating information from game reviews, album reviews and interviews that all help lift the profile up of game composers.

It's a pretty big task, but once we have the framework in place for keeping track of links/references, it'll be fun working on this at the very least for composers I'm a fan of.
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Old Feb 17, 2008, 04:16 PM
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I've noticed that we're already referenced a few times on Wiki already, which is pretty neat. It seems like a great idea once we reach the point where we've established our credentials as a top-notch site presenting accurate information and once we've proven that we're going to be around for a long time. We're probably pretty close to reaching that metric; I don't quite know how to tell when we're there, but we'll get there if we keep doing what we're doing.
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Old Apr 11, 2008, 10:57 PM
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Great idea Lion Tamer-- If you need media along with the information I may be able to supply some for some of the rarer Mario, Zelda and Final Fantasy CDs (scans of booklets, disc labels, sheet music pages, etc.).
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