User talk:Cowboy175

VG Chartz
Hi. With regard to your recent edit to PlayStation 2, VG Chartz is not considered a reliable source for Wikipedia. Consensus has been found that their figures are little better than educated guesses as their methods are fairly tenuous and often do not agree with those from reliable sources. For more info, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources.  Alphathon ™ ( talk ) 21:14, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

but is your source better ? i mean you use a mag as a source thats not a reliable source
 * I use? I think what you mean is "is used currently". Besides, Eurogamer is one of the more reliable sites out there (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources, in the "General" table), but regardless of that, the figures they are quoting come from Sony itself. Also, the figure quoted by VG Chartz in this case is demonstrably false - we know for a fact that they sold 140 million PS2s by January 2010 (see http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/100118e.html) and we have quarterly figures for every quarter after that (see http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps2_sale_e.html) which make it at least 146.9 million total. Both those links come directly from Sony, so it doesn't really get much more reliable than that.


 * So, in a nut shell:
 * VG Chartz is considered by Wikipedia to be unreliable, and in this case is provably false.
 * Eurogamer is considered by Wikipedia to be reliable, and in this case is true beyond reasonable doubt (the figures come from Sony and are just published in a Eurogamer article).


 * If you still feel the figure should be changed, please bring it up at the talk page before changing it again.


 * Thank you


 *  Alphathon ™ ( talk ) 22:28, 5 January 2011 (UTC)