Talk:List of video game industry people

message: I sectionified the list to make it easier to peruse and edit. I suspect this list will get pretty lengthy soon, so it was easier to make these changes now while it is still manageable.
Also, changed the ( -- ) after the name to a colon (: ).  I just thought it looked better.  You may change them back if you feel strongly about it, but consider using — (—) instead.
I also removed the companies the people work for or used to work for unless they had something to do with the company, such as founding or co-founding it. —Frecklefoot 17:47, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)
:Disagree with this. Does not take up much space, and is useful information. Snowspinner 17:49, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is exactly backwards. A list specifically on video game music can afford to be more detailed than a list that's including video game musicians along with other creators. More general articles go into less detail, and hit only more substantive and important highlights. Snowspinner 18:03, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That's why there should probably rather be a separate list of video game musicians. Lists of this size should preferrably not be part of any main article. Fredrik 18:09, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I think major figures should still appear on this list, however. I just don't know which ones they are. Snowspinner 18:13, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Sections

message: I'm kind of reluctant to suggest this, but I think it'd make the list more useful.  How about adding some sort of indicator for significant people?  For example:
*Peter Nobody: Designed Barbie Goes Shopping
*Sid Meier: Civilization
*Fred Obscure: Designed Plop Boy at home when in high school
or some such thing.  Of course this may spark the whole debate that we had on video game, but I think it'd make the list easier to use: one could scroll through the list and one's eyes would be drawn to the significant figures.  The obscure people could still be investigated, but the notable figures would stand out (as they should). Just a thought. Input? —Frecklefoot 18:14, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)
:My fear in obscure people is that it becomes very hard to draw a line such that the article doesn't become uselessly unweildly. Yeah, it'll require hammering out consensus, but I really think that this should be a list of important figures. Obscure and minor creators can and should be noted on pages of the individual games they did. But I don't want the entire design crew of every game in existence to be on this list, because it would make the list useless. Snowspinner 18:18, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If they are worthy of having their own articles, they're worthy of being on this list. Easy enough. Fredrik 18:22, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: I thought it was just because we were worried about the list getting too long and overwhelming the article. =) Unless we want a second article on major figures. But that seems like overkill as well. Though if this is going to be a list of general, I'll probably spin off List of major figures in the video game industry Snowspinner 18:42, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: I'd prefer a link out of article. But I think articles are too often cluttered by excesses of lists.Snowspinner 19:05, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Significant figures

message: Persuant to one of the discussions at the Computer and video games WikiProject, does anyone object to moving this page to List of video game industry people.  In short, video games encompass computer games and console games (which we used to call "video games").  "List of video game industry people", IMHO, is more concise and just as specific as "List of computer and video game industry people."  Actually, it is even more appropriate since "video game" in the new title would encompass arcade games as well, while its meaning in the current version means console games. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't bother me.  As we've discussed exhaustively on the other board, there is no single good summary word for what we do that stands up to cross-examination by someone who wants to point out its imperfections.  If we need to pick a convention, I'm good with this one. Coll7 18:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Name change

message: Why do we have this list of game programmers on this page?  We should just reference the list and leave it at that.  With this list, it makes a third list that would have to be maintained and administered (there is an additional, short list, in game programmer).  If no one objects, I'm going to remove it and just give the link to the list. — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, I misspoke.  We don't have a List of game programmers!  I was thinking of another list... Nevermind, move along, move along. — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Programmers

message: In the course of participating in Wikiproject Categorization, I have come across articles for a number of video game people that have been hard to categorize.  I realized that this category is missing what most other categories have which is a "people" category.  I am creating this now and adding a number of the cats from "":Category:Video game development to this.  I will keep video game development, as there are non-people articles related to video game development.  Scarykitty 18:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Video game people]]