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How to properly warn of future game removals from stores?

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Flamingfool719 (talkcontribs)

Hi Rose,

You reverted my edit on Stranger Things 3 (see: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Stranger_Things_3:_The_Game&diff=prev&oldid=1082956) warning that the game would soon be unavailable for purchase from select digital storefronts. You advised me to read the Editing Guide Introduction (https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/PCGamingWiki:Editing_guide/Introduction). I did read through it and perhaps I missed it but I didn't see anything about how to cover the availability or more specifically the impending future lack of a availability from a digital storefront for a game. For Stranger Things 3 specifically it is now a bit of a moot point (admittedly my edit warning users was only a day prior to their removal). But I was wondering what the correct approach is in a more general sense. Suppose it has been announced that a game will be removed from all digital storefronts in exactly one month from now. Shouldn't this be something that PCGW warns users about on the store page? If so, what is the proper way to do this if not as key points? I'm genuinely curious because I'm not aware of any policy outlining this. Is it outlined in the editing guide somewhere? Much thanks in advance and my apologies if this isn't the best way to ask this question. I'm relatively new to the wiki as an editor (though I've long been a user) and couldn't find a better way to contact you to ask this question.

Rose (talkcontribs)

Hi,

Our articles are not really intended to work as PSAs regarding impending changes. I would argue that it is against the spirit of the Time and dates policy. However, we do have the forums with the most recent threads appearing on the front page, and also the News section which can be edited by any staff Editor, Moderator and Administrator, though it has not been discussed whether to cover this type of content there, so it may be best to take it to the forums and ask the rest of the community. If concluded that it is acceptable, I may even start doing it myself to help out.

Rose (talkcontribs)

To add to the above, I suppose one could argue that some people do not visit the front page and would want to know from the game pages. If deemed acceptable and not contrary to the aforementioned guidelines, my suggestion would probably be to do it via the Note field of the Availability table, but that would create the expectation of having someone maintain that page to also timely remove the notes when no longer applicable and we cannot have that because everybody here is a volunteer working at their own pace.