Talk:Street Fighter V

IP edits notice

So recently, it seems that once again, anonymous IP editors have been adding content that either 1) uses unreliable sources like "Eventhubs" and "Shoryuken" and/or 2) going out of their way to violate WP:NPOV with negatively slanted material. This was discussed endlessly, and the way its been happening lately makes me think it could the same person(s) responsible for disrupting the page for much of 2016. If this continues, the article is going to be protected. Please stop. Sergecross73 msg me 19:40, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Rootkit

The article talks about that rootkit debacle in 2016, but fails to point out that it was removed in urgency 48 hours after the fact once Capcom realized they fucked up.

They tried to make as little noise as possible around the whole thing (most people don't know there was a rootkit at all), but I can dig up threads where people initially concerned about it acknowledged it was removed. I'm talking about big Reddit threads here, so I don't know if it's the stuff that's allowed as reliable source though.

No, generally, Reddit threads are not considered a usable or reliable source on Wikipedia. If you want to go into more detail with this, you'd need to find professional video game journalists/websites that had covered it - your GameSpot, IGN, Eurogamer type websites. A large list of acceptable and non-acceptable sources are listed off at WP:VG/S. Sergecross73 msg me 16:21, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

I've been searching into this and I think I found a reliable source that confirms the eventual removal of the Rootkit, it's from Kotaku which is listed among the reliable sources in that link you gave me: https://kotaku.com/street-fighter-v-update-pulled-because-it-made-pcs-vuln-1787038586

What they did was basically to rollback the PC update to a previous one in order to add the new content without the rootkit. Just for the sake of completeness I'm also dropping here the link to the main reddit thread that was made about this issue and also reports on how the issue was eventually fixed, and also has further links to Street Fighter's offical Twitter account which confirmed that they were addressing that problem: https://old.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/comments/544tg5/warning_to_all_sfv_pc_players/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.116.168.183 (talk) 17:55, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Whatever that can be verified solely by the Kotaku source would be usable, assuming the additions were written accurately and neutrally. Sergecross73 msg me 18:06, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

I added the Kotaku source about the removal of the rootkit and reworded the previous section so it doesn't sound like there's still a rootkit in SFV to this day (I just put the verbs to the past, I changed nothing else). I'm not used to edit Wikipedia articles, hope I didn't screw anything up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.18.183.108 (talk) 23:25, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

I think you did fine. Past attempts got way tot detailed with tech jargon or veered off topic into editorial monologues about how awful Capcom was for this. You managed to avoid all that, so that's good. Sergecross73 msg me 01:52, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

“Nerdlife” and Famitsu

Regarding the IP making this edit, you need to either cite Famitsu directly, or fine a reliable source that replicates the score. “Nerdlife” is not a reliable source. As such, they are not usable for reporting on content of reliable sources. Just because Famitsu is a magazine doesn’t mean you can cite any ol’ random blog. Feel free to look up WP:REFB for help on learning how to cite magazines directly, or WP:VG/S on info on commonly accepted sources for Wikipedia. Sergecross73 msg me 13:52, 7 March 2020 (UTC)