Talk:Saints Row 2

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Five years
The article states 3 times that the game takes place five years after Saints Row 2. The article was vandalised in November by an anon user on their first edit to change one instance of "five years" to "two years", while the other two instance were left.

The official game description says five years. The official game website said five years.

Here is the article on the date of release, which references Saints Row website at that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saints_Row_2&oldid=245126125 The reference was added on 26 September 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saints_Row_2&diff=prev&oldid=241119190

When the Saints Row website was updated for Saints Row: The Third, the Saints Row 2 website was moved to sr2.saintsrow.com where it remained at least until 2013: http://web.archive.org/web/20130101032015/http://sr2.saintsrow.com:80/age_gate.php I personally witnessed the Saints Row 2 website in 2011, before it was taken down.

There are a variety of websites and store pages which still use the Official Game Description.

Here are a variety of contemporaneous articles about Saints Row 2 which repeat "five years":


 * https://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s2389714.htm
 * http://xboxaddict.com/staff_review/13078.html
 * https://www.amazon.com/Saints-Row-2-PC/dp/B0016Q4UJE?th=1
 * https://darkzero.co.uk/game-reviews/saints-row-2-xbox-360-ps3/
 * https://www.playstation.com/en-au/games/saints-row-2-ps3/
 * https://www.news-gazette.com/news/volition-counting-on-success-for-saints-row/article_c6280b8c-b387-5f68-9c52-a3f16b9a7322.html
 * https://www.gamingnexus.com/Article/1958/Saints-Row-2-Preview-Hands-On

I have restored the original reference, as well as adding a link to the google results of the official game description. I'll leave it to a more experienced wikipedia editor to select the best quality reference from the list of contemporaneous articles.

User452 (talk) 18:10, 6 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Additionally, here are two different archived versions of the publisher's store page:
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20120627235854/http://shop.thq.com:80/store/thqworld/en_US/pd/Saints_Row_2:_Greatest_Hits/productID.186241800/categoryId.58757000
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20100723224501/http://store.thq.com/store/thq/en_US/pd/Saints-Row-2-Greatest-Hits/productID.186241800
 * User452 (talk) 19:13, 6 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I see that my request for a more experienced wikipedia editor to update the reference has been fulfilled... while breaking Wikipedia's policy regarding snide comments in edit summaries: Help:Edit_summary, Civility
 * I never claimed that "google search results are a reliable source": I explicitly requested that the reference be replaced.
 * User452 (talk) 17:26, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * There's nothing really incivil or snide about that edit note. It's a direct simple statement about Google's reliability. If you mean FCOL, people are allowed to voice mild frustration. That edit is months after this talk page section, and likely the individual never even read the talk page, simply responded to a recent article edit. Besides, where do you come off trying to claim this is incivil when you made THIS edit? -- ferret (talk) 17:39, 4 October 2021 (UTC)