Talk:GameStorm

May I change the primary result when searching for GameStorm?

Gamestorm.com is dead, deceased, gone for nine years. The domain's in the hands of a squatter.

Gamestorm.org is alive and well, and serving gamers with conventions at cost and free Game Days, for twelve years. It's run by the non-profit Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., which also offers the long-running annual [Orycon] and other conventions.

Would it be within the bounds of good taste to make Gamestorm the convention the primary page, the Gamestorm.com the secondary?

K7aay (talk) 16:52, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you, I don't understand why this is the main page. I put this up for discussion on the GameStorm convention talk page as well. Vampyrecat (talk) 22:36, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

If GameStorm.org became the GameStorm article, GameStorm would have to be moved to GameStorm (something), what would the something be? --TreyGeek (talk) 14:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

How about Gamestorm_online? Gamestorm_MMORPG? Gamestorm_MUD? Gamestorm_service? What do you suggest? I've never heard of the Gamestorm service before, so the most logical name to me is Gamestorm_online but I'd rather defer to someone who is familiar with it. Vampyrecat (talk) 19:14, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, first it appears you need to read up on how to properly disambiguate pages as none of your suggestions follow MOS. GameStorm is exactly as the article states, it was an online gaming service that offered many types of games (not just MUDs or MMORPGs). My suggestions would be invalid as I am bias towards this GameStorm as opposed to GameStorm.org. --TreyGeek (talk) 01:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

What should the GameStorm online service article be named after the disambiguation is fixed? Either the convention should be the main page or, if consensus on that cant be reached, then there should be no main page but rather a main disambiguation page. I don't understand why your suggestions would be invalid. What do you propose as a name for the online service page? What is MOS? GameStorm the convention is exactly as its article states, while GameStorm the online gaming service is exactly as its article states. I have never heard of Gamestorm.org and I don't understand why the page is named that just because the convention's current domain name is gamestorm.org. I'm in favor of fixing the current broken disambiguation situation. What do you think the solution should be?Vampyrecat (talk) 01:55, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

(un-indent) Manual of Style describes how articles should be written for Wikipedia including how article titles should be written. My suggestions are invalid because I am bias towards the online service (as a former customer and 'kind of' employee); my suggestion would be to leave things as they are, especially since there are only two people who have raised the issue (out of how many editors and readers?). If you think the name of the convention article is incorrect then that is another issue to be dealt with on that talk page. That's just my opinion. --TreyGeek (talk) 13:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I am strongly opposed to leaving things as they are. TreyGeek favors keeping things as they are. TreyGeek says we're doing it wrong but has offered no solutions and no specific justifications for the position that we're doing it wrong. There have been no suggestions from anyone on why the online service should have an article or a main article. I proposed that Game Storm convention be the main page, but TreyGeek opposes that. Alternately, there should be a disambiguation page with no main page unless that would make it more difficult for users of Wikipedia. I think it would be more useful for users if the convention were the main page, but in the spirit of compromise I propose to just have a disambiguation page with links to the two articles without a main page. I looked around for several hours for an appropriate place to list this for discussion, but unless I propose something for deletion I couldn't find an extant forum to place this before disambiguation experts. I looked for similar articles about defunct online gaming services to try to figure out the naming convention, and I couldn't find one. I found a list of defunct video game companies, and they had names such as Compile_(software_company), Electric Transit (software company), California Dreams (company). I see this as support for the idea that GameStorm (online service) should either not have an article or should not be the main article. I also see it as support for naming the online service article GameStorm (online service). Vampyrecat (talk) 17:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)