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Liliana
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Posted on 06-14-11 12:55:39 PM

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We don't have any. This sucks. I'd like to change that!

Two things that seem to be the most troubling:

1. The game's name. Should it be bolded, italicized, or even both? I've seen all possible variants, and nobody seems to know what it should be like, so it's best if we have it fixed somewhere.

2. Should the clear tag appear right after the intro/bob? It has the annoying side effect of leaving a huge whitespace, depending on the length of the bob template, which is especially noticable if you use a higher resolution. On the other hand, there's the obvious problem with images. Again, nobody knows what to do, so people just go by their mind, which is bad.

If we decide on something here, we should add it to the wiki too, on one of the countless help pages.

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Posted on 06-14-11 11:14:09 PM

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1. Bold + Italic in the header, italic elsewhere.

2. No. Images to the left fit best. If there really isn't any way to avoid the text getting crushed between the image and the bob, stuff the TOC above it, clear it, and hope for the best.

"Countless" help pages is funny, because we actually have almost none of them.

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Posted on 06-17-11 03:01:09 AM

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Another minor inconsistency I noticed is with article names for games that weren't released in the US. I brought it up on Talk:Tsumi to Batsu: Hoshi no Keishousha. I dunno how to go about quoting it so uh... you can read that there.

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Posted on 06-17-11 03:54:12 AM

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Originally posted by rabidabid
Another minor inconsistency I noticed is with article names for games that weren't released in the US. I brought it up on Talk:Tsumi to Batsu: Hoshi no Keishousha. I dunno how to go about quoting it so uh... you can read that there.

I had been thinking you'd use the Japanese name if the game wasn't released in the US. We shouldn't trust fan translations too much, since we don't know if the developer team actually had this name in mind.

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Posted on 06-17-11 05:57:33 AM

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	Save the article under the original Japanese name, then add redirects for whatever other names it usually goes by outside of Japan. ____________________

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Posted on 06-19-11 01:00:13 AM

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Originally posted by Waffle Ryebread
Save the article under the original Japanese name, then add redirects for whatever other names it usually goes by outside of Japan.

I did that with the Rudra no Hihou page. It was never released in English, so I used the Japanese name, and used the fan translation name ("Treasure of the Rudras") as a redirect. Seems to work best that way. But I'm beginning to wonder if we should put sub-titles in the page name... seems like *every* Japanese game has one, and quite a few English games, too. They're technically part of the title, but they're so rarely *used*...

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Posted on 06-19-11 01:01:53 AM

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Help:New pages:

If the game has a long title or subtitle, it's a good idea to shorten it as long as you don't make the game unrecognizable (e.g. The Fintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy is much more suited to being The Flintstones.)

This should answer your question.

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Posted on 06-19-11 01:45:34 AM

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	If it's very obviously a subtitle, just leave it out. No need to clutter up the game listings with mostly useless . On the other hand, if it's a sequel and doesn't actually have a "2" or "II" in the title (e.g. "The Flintstones: The Surprise At Dinosaur Peak"), then go ahead and use it. ____________________

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