Aye crap, I just approved a lot of summaries from Wikipedia. I should be checking on this thread more.
And remember contributors, there are a lot of things that could be added. I could think of a bunch: Australia and Korean release date slots, name slots for hundreds of different languages (hey, ya never know, there could be some lurkers who only know Tagalog!), developer(s), year of development, etc. But we administrators are very busy. Hell, have you ever seen a red message at the corner of your screen that says "180 moderator jobs pending?" It's not fun.
Like Gamefaqs, we're a site that prides itself on user-generated content and information. But if 90% of game pages with a summary list Wikipedia, people might start to think that we're either unprofessional or working with the site. And although it's easy to take a summary from a site such as Wikipedia or IGN (and I've done it plenty of times myself), those sites still wrote those summaries as their own original content.
Vgchartz is entering a high traffic ranking, and may soon become one of the top 5,000 ranked websites in the world. During times of big releases, our traffic boosts incredibly, and it's a real shame if lurkers, cynics, and curious gamers see that most of our content is taken from another site. Remember, not all sites are even very reliable anyways.
Here is my final opinion, and one that I feel strongly about. Instead of adding and updating games that are completely unnecessary (you know what these are), we should be focusing on updating release dates for the "Upcoming Releases" section (sometimes I've been working on quite a bit lately), filling in missing games, and updating the ones we already have. There are possibly hundreds of PC games that have no boxarts, release dates and publishers names, or even a correct genre. Vgchartz money is obviously a big motivation to update games, but it should be encouraging contributors to update games that really need it (until I started working on them, there were actually several current generation million sellers that were completely empty of information, many of them for the 360 and DS).
And to make it seem as if you don't have to read as much, I'll end with a short sentence.
