User talk:TheTimesAreAChanging#Friendly Reminder

@TheTimesAreAChanging Hello, its one thing to make valid criticism of an edit, its yet another to make adhominem attacks against other editors like you did here [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ba%27athism&oldid=prev&diff=1136030617] with no regards to Assumimg Good Faith. If you have doubts regarding my WP:NPOV, you are welcome to discuss the edits with Civility and by focusing on the content, so long as you stop making Personal attacks.

~~ shadowwarrior8 (talk) 14:58 28 January 2023

Hey there - with all due respect, I think you should maybe take a second look at the article's introduction. It says clear as day: "Sega used the GD-ROM media format to avoid the expenses of DVD-ROM technology". That decision to use DVD-ROM technology is a pretty considerable part of what made the Dreamcast tank in comparison to the PlayStation 2. Would you rather have had me say "the lack of support for DVD-ROM technology"?

RMLF (talk) 05:16, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

:{{U|RMLF}}, I was referring to the article body, not the lead summary, so this example from the latter is irrelevant.

:Regardless, the article body does state: {{tq|"Sega selected the GD-ROM media format.[37] Jointly developed by Sega and Yamaha, the GD-ROM could be mass-produced at a similar price to a normal CD-ROM,[31] avoiding the greater expense of newer DVD-ROM technology."}} Therefore, I stand corrected that there is not a single mention of DVD-ROM technology in the article body, but it remains true that there is not a single mention of DVD-ROM technology as a cause of the Dreamcast's failure in the body. (See Dreamcast#Reception and legacy for a discussion of that topic.) If anything, support for DVD playback might have been a reason for the PlayStation 2's early success, rather than a reason for the Dreamcast's failure...

:If you wish to build support for this addition, then you should start by adding sourced content to the article body, prior to expanding the lead summary to reflect this new content. Additionally, if more discussion is required, it might be better suited for Talk:Dreamcast, where the thread would be visible to many more users.

:Thank you for stopping by,TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 13:24, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 12 May 2025 (UTC)