User talk:Fieldystick

Source for release dates
You've been adding or changing lots of release dates recently, but have provided sources for none of them. Since everything needs to be verifiable, please add reliable sources to your recent contributions. Regards, IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 18:41, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Sure, I can do that. None of the incorrect release dates were ever sourced to begin with, but I appreciate your current concern. Regards. Fieldystick (talk) 01:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Do you want me to add a source to literally every date that I changed? The entire article, for 1,046 games currently has 14 sources. This is what I mean when I say that the release dates in this table were never correctly sourced to begin with. Fieldystick (talk) 01:16, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Assuming you are talking about List of Sega Saturn games, you are right that it is in a very dismal state. In theory, every single entry should be sourced, but I cannot expect a single editor to gather sources for 2k dates. It would be a good start if you added references to those dates that you add or change. This should be a piece of cake since you already had the source in front of you to retrieve the respective dates. IceWelder  &#91; &#9993; &#93; 07:29, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, the Sega Saturn is the page that I was talking about. I will source them, but be warned it's going to massively balloon the number of sources on the page just for a tiny bit of changed information. Each date that I changed is going to add 2-3 (or more) sources to the page. For transparency: I started with Sega Retro as a guide for dates and then cross-referenced their stated dates with contemporary sources (i.e., my mid-late '90s gaming magazine collection). I only changed dates that I could verify from multiple sources were correct.
 * All other date changes that I made to articles on Tuesday were because I was working on the Saturn article and saw that they were also wrong in the individual games respective article.
 * I did not source them at the time on Tuesday, because it seemed overkill for how the article (Saturn games) was currently sourced. Basically, I felt that I was changing dates that were pulled out of thin air to dates that to the outside observer were also pulled out of thin air ( - so who cares? It's the same either way.)
 * I will source them like you have asked, but it will not be as speedy of a process as you think it will be. I'm going to have to go through/cross-reference my print media collection again. If you look at my sequence of edits on the Saturn article on Tuesday where I was editing dates in an almost 1:1 way with chronology, it should be pretty easy to see that this was how I was doing it. Fieldystick (talk) 14:40, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I added some base level citations that I could quickly grab to the Sega Saturn games article. Give me some time over the weekend / next week, and I will further flesh those citations out with print sources/etc.
 * I will still say that this feels like massive overkill to me, but let me know how you want it done, and I will do my best to cite it all as per Wikipedia preferences. Fieldystick (talk) 16:12, 26 August 2022 (UTC)