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	For your contributions to Doraemon. Keep on editing. Atlantis77177 (talk) 02:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Much appreciated. Maestro2016 (talk) 04:09, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

what happened to the best selling video games of all time list?

the holiday nintendo numbers have been in an were updated. also the advanced games were added in. But now they are gone so why are they gone?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.135.162.80 (talk) 16:48, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

That was an error I made. I accidentally edited a previous version of the article. Maestro2016 (talk) 17:08, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

It is ok just making sure also did you see the monster hunter section along with the mario 64 and galaxy sections? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.135.175.202 (talk) 17:21, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Highest grossing franchises

I just wanted to say great job on what you did on that page.

Very detailed and a lot of franchises have been named.

Of you want to make a page on franchises from 100 million to 1 billion, you can let me know.

Or any other pages you're working on as well. Tropetroop29 (talk) 00:30, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

I meant if not of.

Tropetroop29 (talk) 00:31, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

We're having a discussion about where the threshold should be here at Talk:List of highest-grossing media franchises#$2 billion. We're discussing whether the threshold should be $1B or $2B. You can feel free to share your opinion regarding this. Maestro2016 (talk) 17:05, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

The Licensing Letter and License Global

These two pages The Licensing Letter and License Global need to be made. Can you help me gathering references for these pages? Timur9008 (talk) 17:51, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. I've been doing other stuff lately, but I'll eventually get around to looking at them later. Maestro2016 (talk) 19:07, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Recent Edits to X Year in Video Games Articles

I think its wonderful that you have been pulling together some good sourced information on things like sales figures, development budgets, marketing budgets, etc. for many older video games. I encourage you to keep adding this information to the individual pages for these games. Its really quite wonderful! Unfortunately, trying to use these spotty figures to try and identify broader industry trends is just not possible without diving into original research and questionable speculation based on incomplete sources. Therefore, I have been reverting your edits to the "x year in video games" articles because most of these charts end up misrepresenting sales figures (conflating sales figures over a small period of time for full-year figures, using lifetime figures for single-year figures, mixing and matching worldwide and regional figures together, etc.). They also make original research assumptions that many of these games are top sellers, top grossers, or most expensive without a reliable source explicitly saying so and without the comprehensive retail tracking that would be required to support these claims even existing in the first place. If you have any questions or concerns, I would be happy to discuss the issue further, but the edits really do violate a host of policies and create numerous factual distortions and must be deleted. Please don't take this as an indictment of your overall contributions to video game articles, which have been outstanding. Indrian (talk) 09:15, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough. It's hard to find complete annual sales figures for games during that period. I was aware a lot of these sales figures for older years are incomplete, hence why I added an Template:Incomplete list tag to each list, tried to note which sales figures are incomplete, and avoided ranking the lists. But it's a lot of effort trying to build and maintain these lists. I think I'll just move most of the information to individual game articles instead. Maestro2016 (talk) 12:28, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

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All hail the maestro of sales citations. It is a real achievement to orchestrate even more major insight into the notability of an ancient and already-"good" subject like Super Mario Bros. I sure hope you have a subscription to WP:LIBRARY as I do for stuff like ProQuest and EBSCO so let me know if I can help with that or any other citations. There are a lot of other users who pore over dead trees if you have any outstanding mysteries to submit to the brain trust at WP:VGRS.

Thank you, Smuckola! I very much appreciate it. Also, thanks for the suggestion. I still haven't used WP:LIBRARY yet. Any advice on how to make good use of it? Maestro2016 (talk) 23:10, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Just make your application at least to newspapers.com, ProQuest, and EBSCO, and it might be instantly approved or take a few weeks. Start typing in cool stuff, or pasting the title of any magazine article or press release that has a dead link or no link, and it might show up in ProQuest or EBSCO but one might have the whole article and the other has only an abstract. Use the citation metadata "via=Newspapers.com | url-access=registration" because the average person can't access it, lol. WP:LIBRARY has a page dedicated to making open requests of veteran researchers who can find articles that we can't figure out how to find, and maybe we'll need an additional subscription. They are like a reference desk at a university library to just find anything. Newspapers hold a lot of announcements and reviews, especially about trade shows and console launches through the 80s and 90s. We can't cite advertisements except in the most extreme situational source like for an ancient IBM typewriter or mainframe, but they can offer clues as to launch dates or prices. I have found lots of hard core technical video game stuff from outside of the video game industry, such as trade magazines for electrical engineering or optical media publishing. I've found a lot even in international stuff like St.GIGA due to its innovation into digital satellite audio, at books.google.com. Google Books has archives of Billboard magazine, InfoWorld, and other IT magazines. — Smuckola(talk) 23:26, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Regarding Air Combat

Hey there. I don't know if you missed my post on Talk:Ace Combat regarding the notability of Air Combat, but I did a source-by-source analysis on each citation used and came to the conclusion that it simply isn't notable. So I was very skeptical at the fact you tried turning the article for Air Combat 22 into a series article, even though sources don't discuss this as a group, said series has only two games, and only one of them is notable (possibly, haven't done a proper check). I don't really understand your logic behind this, maybe you could elaborate? Namcokid47 17:16, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

I already responded to your argument at Talk:Ace Combat, but you didn't reply back. As mentioned there, there is in fact a review specifically about the arcade game published by Electronic Gaming Monthly in 1993. I also mentioned the fact that there are several Japanese Gamest magazine articles about the game, and that Gamest magazine nominated it for the "Best Graphics" award. These additional sources, along with the other sources previously discussed, should be more than enough to establish notability for an Air Combat (arcade game) article. Maestro2016 (talk) 17:23, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

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I noticed that you've added several citations to Space Harrier with publisher links to external language Wikipedia sites. Please stop doing this. That's not helpful for readers wishing to navigate through pages, and I don't understand the point of it. Namcokid47 14:35, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough. I've removed the external wiki-links now. Maestro2016 (talk) 14:40, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I do appreciate your work on articles. Namcokid47 15:26, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Separate article on EM games

Since you've been putting a huge amount of work into this, do you think you have enough to make a separate article on electro-mechanical/EM Games? The history section at Arcade game could be taken in full to a new article (leaving behind a brief summary, focusing on key titles like Periscope), but I do wonder if there's enough outside of the history that can be discussed, just like in principle what an EM game typically consists of. As you've been the lede to add to that, I would say this is your call. It's not required, but it certainly is possible. --Masem (t) 16:19, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

I don't mind either way, to be honest. We could either make a separate article on electro-mechanical games, or a separate article on the history of arcade games. Which would you prefer? Maestro2016 (talk) 16:38, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

The only concern I would have on a separate article is if there is much more that could be said outside of the history of EM games that isn't already in the history of arcade games, that goes beyond the history of EM games. If basically all that is available is what is in the history article, then splitting doesn't make sense. But if there's a way to expand more beyond the history, and its just not yet in place, then a standalone would make sense. Basically, a standalone that only features the history of EM games and nothing else, separate from the history of arcade games, doesn't make sense, that's the only concern I have. --Masem (t) 16:52, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

At the moment, I'm not quite sure what we could add outside of the historical stuff, since the term "electro-mechanical games" itself is a largely historical term. I guess we could add information about the different genres/categories of EM games that were around, maybe information on how the technology worked, or how they might be connected to modern arcade games (like air hockey, redemption games or basketball machines). But that would require more research. Maestro2016 (talk) 17:06, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Okay, it sounds like it is better to leave it within the arcade game article. Just if you happen to find a trove of information, consider this an option to expand. --Masem (t) 14:01, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Coming back to this, given how much you've been able to expand on EM game's history, I've gone ahead and so far COPIED the content from arcade game to Electro-mechanical game (and smoothed an intro for that), so if you can summarize down the EM history section on Arcade game to maybe two-three paragraphs (keeping in mind everything you're already wrote is kept at the EM game page) that would be helpful. I could take a shot but you seem to have the familiarity in that area. --Masem (t) 16:02, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Sure, I'll have a look and try to summarize it down to a few paragraphs. Maestro2016 (talk) 02:14, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

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Single-player link

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As per WP:PIPE, piped links should ideally be avoided. [[Single-player]] is how it should be done, rather than [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]. Maestro2016 (talk) 15:21, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Maestro2016, Good day. Dagestan is not a country and it is part of Russia strictly speaking regardless how how internally Russia government term/define them politically. The body text has already mentioned Nurmagomedov ethnicity/heritage and where he was born, but altermately he is still a Russian, just like Alexander Volkov (fighter), Sergei Pavlovich, Magomed Ankalaev, Muslim Salikhov, Islam Makhachev, Petr Yan and etc - They are are Russians. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 10:05, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Maestro2016, You have reverted my edit before I have a chance to send you this message. I have open a discussion in the said articled talk page. kindly repsonse. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia^(talk) 10:17, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks! Maestro2016 (talk) 07:06, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Steel Talons

Hi! You asked why I deleted some information from the Steel Talons page: Every arcade video game was shown at a trade show. All of them. That’s how companies get operators interested. Steel Talons being announced there is not unique or interesting on its own. Also, “showcased” is a peacock word; it just means “shown.” If there’s something specific worth mentioning then please do. Cheers! Dgpop (talk) 22:43, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Arcade games are usually rolled out over a gradual process, rather than released altogether on a single date. The dates when an arcade game was shown at trade shows are part of an arcade game's gradual roll out, so it's useful information in that regard. But yeah, "shown" or "demonstrated" are better ways of putting it than "showcased". Maestro2016 (talk) 07:04, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

@Dgpop: Yeah that information is essential and standard. That little mention with a RS serves at least as a stub for expansion, and it's definitely a date and a place which is unique. Trade shows are of course interesting, potentially some of the most interesting things ever, and would only be not interesting if everyone already knew everything. Maestro2016 has been a mind blower for many months by spraying key reliable history. Or has it been years? I don't know but I don't want life to go back to the dark ages ;) Ditto with Dgpop, who is one of the very few most clever and prolific copy editors I've ever seen, next to myself. And who is inspiring and edifying to my own skills too. I randomly came to this talk page to give another compliment and I got a two-for-one. — Smuckola(talk) 03:40, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

That the game was at a trade show isn't adding much—all games are—but the reference is good, especially for the date. I suspect there's a way to turn that flat mention into something more useful: press reaction, something Atari was specifically promoting, etc. It's great to see improvements to these dusty articles! Dgpop (talk) 14:12, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

@Dgpop: Yeah. We know. That little bit is obviously vital for every game. That's the point. :) Please mention every game's trade show appearance, and compile the especially notable ones into the article about the trade show, as I have done at Nintendo Space World. Perhaps there, the Maestro's famous Japanese sources will be piqued for the scrawny little sections about early history. Many Japanese reviews are missing for 64DD especially. But surely there is no way even the mighty Maestro could find any expansion about Cut & Paste, the word processor that Dgpop and I used as kids. My first one ever. On which I wrote a book about Super Mario Bros. that scored me my NES. — Smuckola(talk) 21:02, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

@Smuckola: Thanks! I also appreciate the work that you and Dgpop have been doing for years in building up and improving these articles. Maestro2016 (talk) 16:47, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

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Also was wondering if it's possible to move some of the content from the The Pokémon Company article to the main Pokémon article.

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About Attack on Titan revenue

Hey Maestro! saw your addition on the AOT page. I've been meaning to look up AOT revenue so we could add it on the highest grossing media page. As i think it definitely has gone past the 2B mark or at least close to it.

Does Hakuhdo count the media for the IP? meaning counts manga as well? In Oricon's power ranking they do similar lists like this https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-29/top-selling-media-franchises-in-japan-2015/.97051

but it also counts manga revenue on there.

As for merchandise this is the most diffcuilt and hidden aspect, Worldwide has almost zero data and Japan we can know by Charabiz's data but i cannot find sites with 2013+ data and beyond. Especially for the AOT peak years. WillsEdtior777 (talk) 21:18, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Hakuhodo is similar to Oricon in that both track media content revenue in Japan, but Oricon only tracks physical media content whereas Hakuhodo tracks both physical and digital media content. Not entirely sure if Hakuhodo includes manga sales in its numbers though. As for the CharaBiz licensed merchandise lists, I have been able to track down lists from 2013 onwards, but mostly just for the top 10 of each year. Attack on Titan doesn't appear to be among any of the CharaBiz top 10 lists I've seen so far, so I haven't been able to find any CharaBiz numbers for the franchise. Maestro2016 (talk) 04:41, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Huh that's really weird it didn't even get into top 10. Especially with how popular it was back then. It received a character prize from Charabiz/Japanese government as well. Its unfortunate we don't have any information. I'll keep trying to look for data. Also thanks about the information about Hakuhodo. I wonder if its as accurate/close to actual as Oricon. Thanks. WillsEdtior777 (talk) 22:07, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

What CharaBiz award are you referring to? Do you have a link? Maestro2016 (talk) 02:28, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Here http://www.charabiz.com/award/news/20140627.html . So it obviously did a lot of merch selling after the anime explosion. But perhaps it wasn't enough to enter the top 10? WillsEdtior777 (talk) 17:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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Opened a discussion here. Please get consensus there. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 18:23, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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Guancha, Sohu and QQ News are not user-generated content. They're Chinese news media agencies. See zh:观察者网 (Guancha), Sohu and QQ News. Maestro2016 (talk) 23:22, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

If you want to use guancha, and also want to read zh, you can check https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%8F%AF%E9%9D%A0%E6%9D%A5%E6%BA%90/%E5%B8%83%E5%91%8A%E6%9D%BF/%E5%AD%98%E6%A1%A3/2021%E5%B9%B412%E6%9C%88.

I advise you not to use it, especially if other references are already used. Because guancha is not considered a generally reliable source.

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I wasn't aware of these discussions regarding Guancha on Chinese Wikipedia. In that case, I'll avoid using it for now. However, Sohu and Tencent QQ News are not UGC, so I've restored those sources. Maestro2016 (talk) 15:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, sources like sohu and qq have also been discussed in zh.Sohu and QQ are not considered a generally reliable source.

• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%8F%AF%E9%9D%A0%E6%9D%A5%E6%BA%90/%E5%B8%83%E5%91%8A%E6%9D%BF/%E5%AD%98%E6%A1%A31
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• https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%8F%AF%E9%9D%A0%E6%9D%A5%E6%BA%90/%E5%B8%83%E5%91%8A%E6%9D%BF Rastinition (talk) 18:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

There seems to be quite a bit of discussion on Sohu, so I'll take your word for it. But I see barely any discussion on QQ News. QQ does have blog sections, but those are separate from QQ News (news.qq.com or new.qq.com). It's QQ News that's being cited, not the blog sections of the site. Maestro2016 (talk) 21:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Masters of the Universe franchise revenue

Hi! Was wondering if you found anything more regarding this. I found this [2] which mentions merch sales of $750 million (as of 1986). Was wondering if you come across anything else so we can possibly add it to the highest-grossing media franchise page.Timur9008 (talk) 21:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Not too familiar with Masters of the Universe revenue numbers. Might have to look into it at a later time. Maestro2016 (talk) 23:33, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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Question regarding Hello Kitty

Hi! Do you know what these mean? [3], [4] I think this could be just video game revenue but i can't be sure. Timur9008 (talk) 12:50, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Not sure what that number is referring to. But I doubt it's just for video games, as Hello Kitty video games aren't really known for being big sellers. Maestro2016 (talk) 19:41, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Question regarding Dragon ball Merchandise section

In the table here Dragon_Ball#Merchandise It doesn't really match at all with what im seeing in financial highlights. The dates always end on March while the ones on table are random. and the figures for Toys and Hobby are different than the table. What am i missing here? Also as a side question. Is there a table made for Dragon ball whole IP sales which is usually above said Toys and Hobby section? Thank you. WillsEdtior777 (talk) 06:35, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Bandai Namco sells both toys and video games for Dragon Ball. So I separated the two, listing their toy sales at Dragon_Ball#Merchandise and video game revenue at List of Dragon Ball video games (by subtracting the toy sales from the group sales). And to avoid overlap with the total merchandise sales up to 2011 and for 2019, I cut-off those years from the reports (by subtracting quarterly figures from the fiscal year numbers). Maestro2016 (talk) 06:52, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

I started a discussion on Talk:List of highest-grossing non-English films#Box office admissions and wondering if u could take part P+T

92.236.253.249 (talk) 09:31, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

The discussion is about a split

92.236.253.249 (talk) 17:39, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

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One Piece in Highest grossing media errors

Hey. I've checked the franchise numbers and there's quite a few mistakes that add a couple billion.

in the Home entertainment section: Hakuhdo content is counted despite it counting everything from manga to music. Same with Home entertainment media sales in Japan during 2013–2018 using Oricon's list. these aren't home media. To find home media sales we need to get the sales from somianithing and multiply it using the BD or DVD price. It is likely counted in the Toei financial statements already however. WillsEdtior777 (talk) 23:17, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Alright, I'll have another look at the One Piece numbers later to see if there's an overlap. Maestro2016 (talk) 12:07, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Really great job you did on the Asterix pages!!!

Just wanted to kindly compliment you for the really great job you did on the Asterix pages with those wonderful facts and figures, you are such a wonderful contributer here and this is what it's all about!!!

Maybe you can try find some stats for the Beavis and Butt-Head pages as I know these are out there somewhere, it's just finding the sources for them as this was mainly aired on MTV at the time but I know the show had some pretty significant milestones which again, it's a case of finding the sources for however either way, I just wanted to kindly compliment you on such a wonderful job here. You are a real credit to Wikipedia!!

Sending you love!!

UFC Beavis (talk) 10:52, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I really appreciate it. I don't have any figures for Beavis currently, but I'll add some if I find any. Maestro2016 (talk) 16:36, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

You're truly welcome!! Yeah definitely look for some if you kindly can, you seem to have the sources and the knowledge as well as being really good with these things so I think the article's could benefit from this. Again, you've done a wonderful job here, truly impressed with the contributions you have given!! :) UFC Beavis (talk) 01:10, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Video Games movies

Do u know any box office admissions for the page List of highest-grossing films based on video games P+T

92.236.253.249 (talk) 16:01, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

I'll have a look at the article and see what I can do. Maestro2016 (talk) 16:36, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Links to RetroCDN scans

Hi Maestro2016 - let me start by saying thanks for the awesome info you found on arcade performance for Daytona USA. That's some really good stuff there, and it's a huge improvement to the article. I did want to let you know, though, that I had to remove all the URLs that were shared. The reason I did was because of WP:COPYLINK - we can't link to a source if we can reasonably suspect their posting is violating someone else's copyright. It's highly, highly doubtful that RetroCDN has permission to share these magazines. That being said, the magazines themselves are still great sources without the links and they're by no means required, but if you'd like to find links to share for these refs, consider using the Internet Archive, which also has whole issues of magazines and is usually considered acceptable because they possess a DMCA exemption. Thanks! Red Phoenix ^talk 02:32, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

I usually use Internet Archive links most of the time, and have only used RetroCDN sometimes when there's no Internet Archive link available. But that's a fair point. I'll avoid posting RetroCDN links from now on. Maestro2016 (talk) 03:02, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Live action/animation

Can u expand the box office admissions in the List of highest-grossing live-action/animated films

92.236.253.249 (talk) 18:31, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

New page

I currently working on a new page see Draft:List of highest-grossing films based on television series and wondering if u could help with it P+T 92.236.253.249 (talk) 09:40, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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Provincial governors' names from Brazil (Years 1889-1933)

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