That is in regards to Atari vs Atari Corporation in the Publishers list. I would consider Atarimania to be the authoritative source on Atari releases over Mobygames or any other website.
So, Atari and Atari Corporation should be merged together? I returned to this topic because I am routinely encountering edit submissions in the queue that seek to change one of the options to the other. In the latest batch of edits, I rejected them until some definitive answer and action is made.
I do not have an answer to that question. Basically the primary issue is that Atari has been at least 3 different companies over the years but always just use the Atari logo despite having different official names. Should the option selected in the game entry reflect the logo or the name Atari happened to have been calling itself at the time? It is the type of thing that could be made into a poll, but I fear the amount of input would be extremely limited. Not due to forum participation but rather the amount of die-hard Atari collectors that participate in the forum can be counted on one hand.
If it comes down to it, we can run a poll. But even in that case, we would need to be provided with a ruleset for handling which Atari corporate name is used in which situation. Like if it can be narrowed down to something simple like MM/YY-MM/YY uses Atari, another range uses Atari Corp, another uses the other name that was already merged, we can use that. But if there is overlap in the name uses we can't. I haven't dug into this situation myself to know if rules like that can be crafted or if it wouldn't work.
I'm personally fine with merging the two into one, going on the current practice that we drop trade declarations on company names, but I don't want to just do it on my own.
