User talk:Survivathor

Suggested WikiProjects
Hey Survivathor—thanks for your recent contributions. I noticed your interest in Wikipedia's video game content and thought you might be interested in the video games WikiProject. We've done some great work (over 250 pieces of Featured content and over 800  Good articles), but there is plenty more to do. Come say hello on our talk page, participate in our current events, or let me know if I can help with anything. Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope I'll see you around. -- ferret (talk) 18:03, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Category use...
Hi there. I appreciate your interest in improving Wikipedia, but I think some of your category placement is a bit off. There's two parts.


 * 1) Please read over WP:CATDEF and WP:DEFINING. The short version is that when you add a category to an article, it should be a defining characteristic of the article. Not just a minor/passing aspect to it. So, for example, I don't think this was the best choice - while there are some allusion to Hitler and Nazis in the game, but Persona 2 on a whole is not focused entirely around Nazi Germany. It would not be defined as such, so the category doesn't really belong...


 * 1) I think your understanding of alternate history as a genre is a bit off as well. Alt history isn't just any game that covers a fictional event in a real world setting. It's really more when games (or any media) focus on a fictional "what if" scenario, where something goes differently than planned, and showing how it would be different. In the genre, they really explore how things play out differently. There's usually an obvious comparison point between what happened in real life, and what the fiction covers of what could have happened. So, if a game covered what happened if World War 2 never happened? Great example. But ''Parasite Eve (video game)? Castevania: Lords of Shadow 2? That's not the same, either conceptually, nor do they belong due to reasons covered in point number 1...

Let me know if you have any questions. Sergecross73  msg me  21:09, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks I appreciate the constructive feedback. Have now followed your advice.Survivathor (talk) 21:13, 21 September 2016 (UTC)