User talk:Davidgarfield

(tl|helpme) Per HappySailor I gather I am in need of another editor to incorporate further objective information into our site entry description as I did primarily utilize portions of our About Us description from within our website (per other entries i've referred to doing the same for their entries), how do I go about getting an editor to update and include objective materials to this entry so it will be properly created for inclusion? Additionally, the resource the leading description was drawn from is not from a non-free copyrighted source, but rather a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Please, can someone help us? Davidgarfield (talk) 19:35, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

GameGuideDog (also referred to as GGD) is an independant American-based website that covers support and walkthrough gameplay information about videogames. GameGuideDog has authors in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The website was founded in January 2002 , and contains over 500 articles and features, with 8,000+ video game walkthrough items. The site includes video game news, developer interviews, reviews, previews, video game walkthroughs, game cheats, as well as tech industry news, screenshots, and press release gameplay videos primarily for PC, PS3, PSP, WII, and XBOX 360.

History
The website was founded in March of 2002 as WonderdogSoftware.com, when developer David J. Garfield began to pursue a non-violent brand and rating for video games by publishing titles like Deluxe Solitaire for Kids, Circle Quest, and Virtual Juggler 3D (which included live video footage of world famous juggler Jason Garfield the video game author's brother ). The brand changed names to GameGuideDog in 2006 when the success of the GGD search engine had gained popularity as a valuable commodity to web surfers. The site began as a basic HTML template, later being moved on and integrated into the Wordpress CMS which went live November of 2009.

With the traffic consistantly increasing, the websites developers had to switch to dedicated servers in June of 2010 to handle the content and visitor numbers.

Since 2006 following the brand and site name change, the website reliably continued to receive over 4,000 unique visitors per day, which places the site in the top 100,000 on Alexa.

The website has also received national coverage within the gaming community, such as from N4G, Technorati and is regularly syndicated as well as partnered with Gamekicker.

GameGuideDog has been present at number of industry events, including New York Comic Con, GDC Canada, and E3. The website has provided extensive coverage for these conventions, including previews and interviews with high ranking members of the industry .

Notability
As of August 2011, GameGuideDog's database had expanded substantially since the website's origination. Approximately, there are:


 * Over 8000 video game walkthroughs
 * Over 195,000 referring URLS
 * Over 500 news pieces
 * Over 800 gameplay videos
 * Over 2400 Facebook Members
 * Approximately 1800 Twitter Followers

Review Scoring
GameGuideDog rates titles based on a free-form system that includes story content, overall production value, voice talent, visual talent, musical scoring, controlling scheme, multiplayer features and a final score from 1 to 5, 5 being best. The overall rating is determined based on each of these factors were applicable but not as a mathematical average.

Help request...
Hi David, first, you do not need to put copies of the article on your talk page and user page. Now... as for the article itself, first thing I would do (which you can do right here, and I will help you incorporate into the article) are these things:
 * Explain why the company is notable
 * Provide reliable secondary sources that claim it's notable for those reasons (you can just list the web page links if you do not know how to incorporate it into the article)
 * State your affiliation with the company/site clearly on your user page, that way the COI issue is clear for all to see, and no one ends up thinking you are trying to game the system.
 * It's always best to rewrite articles like this, as currently, it reads like a promotional piece (which may get it deleted). Concentrate on the notability, and include a bit of other information about the company/site.

Best, R OBERT M FROM LI &#124; TK/CN 20:06, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I fixed the link to the article on your userpage... hope you don't mind. :-) Best, R OBERT M FROM LI &#124; TK/CN 20:13, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

((tl|helpme)) Robert, okay I would still just be doing a 'self promotion' sounding entry though and am having trouble unless I am to write in 3rd person sounding text.

Notable: For example:

1) GameGuideDog is the only online service in existence that caters to video game enthusiasts by helping them with each issue on an individual basis and when necessary contacts video game development teams and publishers on their behalf. http://technorati.com/blogs/www.gameguidedog.com (This fact has been covered on the web in various forums and sites, however this notable mention sounds 'salesy to me' even if it is an actual and useful fact.)

2) GameGuideDog's founder (myself) created the first ever Non-Violent Video Game Rating several years before an ESRB system was finally put into place. The reason the founder created such a rating was based on an incident when Columbine occurred and the developer worked at a game company that supported the violent title in question during the case. The intention thus was to create something that would prevent incidents like this from occurring again as the founder took the incident personally and imagined what it would have been like if one of those children had been his own.

3) GameGuideDog helps children's charities by contributing and supporting NationalCASA.org, Protect.org, and Kidspeace.org, all of which have approved themselves as sponsee's of the website.

(see bottom of our 'mission' page seen during signups here): http://www.gameguidedog.com/mission.htm

These are examples of what I feel are notable purposes and the problem we are having is that the historical citing examples we have for proof have long since disappeared (i.e. our listings on Download.com are no longer necessary for Win98, 2000 products), all we have left are our own older resources like the actual games that were published still holding the NV rating on them as well as the reason they were being sold on the sales page. For example: http://www.wonderdogsoftware.com/WonderDog/deluxe.htm

Please help me understand better how to get 'notable' sources or I guess references outside of our published materials if necessary, or let me know if the above is usable in some way.

Davidgarfield (talk) 20:30, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi David, the above sounds like it might indeed meet the notability guidelines (but that is not for me to decide, the community decides that). As for the rest, have you tried Google's book/magazine search? Or Wayback machine? And yes, the content should be written in an encyclopedic format. Best, Rob R OBERT M FROM LI &#124; TK/CN 20:46, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
 * PS: You don't need to put a helpme template on the page for the same issue once someone's responded. You can leave a talkback template on mine instead, if I don't respond in a bit. Simply create a new section on my talk page and name it "Help" or "Talkback" or something applicable, and in the body of it, put . Best, R OBERT M FROM LI &#124; TK/CN 20:49, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Robert, okay, we've checked most of wayback, but didn't know of google book, in addition we have been written up in newspapers, would a link to an archived entry like that be sufficient. Thanks for fixing the link, and for all the help. I'll get the swing of the syntax soon enough. It's kind of difficult to understand where when and why to do something when the resource pages just describe what the functions are without saying why you need to use them. :)

Davidgarfield (talk) 20:56, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi David, many newspapers are considered reliable sources, so that is fine (obviously don't try to use places like the National Enquirer or similar). If you get the info and put it here, I'll teach you how to do citations. Best, R OBERT M FROM LI &#124; TK/CN 21:24, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Articles for creation/GameGuidedog
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I have submitted it just now, so you should get feedback soon. Cheers!  Chzz  ► 11:04, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

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