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: I would agree that we should have included this in the manual of style when setting up the wiki, as it is a convention that makes sense and is followed on other wikis. Unfortunately, nearly 24 years have passed since the wiki was opened, and we currently have {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles, a large portion of which are going to include at least one game title somewhere in the text. Changing it now would be a massive undertaking, and even using bots wouldn't be a great idea, as there are going to be exceptions that we would want to make (e.g. within templates) that are too nuanced for bots to handle. If you can figure out a way for us to easily update every instance of a game title on the wiki, then we can look into this further, but at the moment it will have to stay in the "maybe someday" pile. - [[User:BthrussellUK|bthrussellUK]] ([[User talk:BthrussellUK|talk]]) 22:51, 7 November 2023 (UTC) | : I would agree that we should have included this in the manual of style when setting up the wiki, as it is a convention that makes sense and is followed on other wikis. Unfortunately, nearly 24 years have passed since the wiki was opened, and we currently have {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles, a large portion of which are going to include at least one game title somewhere in the text. Changing it now would be a massive undertaking, and even using bots wouldn't be a great idea, as there are going to be exceptions that we would want to make (e.g. within templates) that are too nuanced for bots to handle. If you can figure out a way for us to easily update every instance of a game title on the wiki, then we can look into this further, but at the moment it will have to stay in the "maybe someday" pile. - [[User:BthrussellUK|bthrussellUK]] ([[User talk:BthrussellUK|talk]]) 22:51, 7 November 2023 (UTC) | ||
::I see. Well, maybe we could start by making sure all pages like ''[[Pokémon Emerald Version]]'' had their titles in italics using "DISPLAYTITLE". | |||
::Another thing to do would be italicizing templates like [[Template:game]] and [[Template:game2]] which are used to link to game titles in running text. But unfortunately, if we italicized those templates at the moment, it would cause some inconsistency with game titles outside templates which would still not be italicized in running text until they are edited too. | |||
::Maybe we should also consider not using the exact syntax <nowiki>{{game|Red and Blue|s}}</nowiki> anymore, because it might be convenient to use some other kind of template that leaves the "and" non-italicized. In this case, we would have: [[Pokémon Scarlet and Violet|''Pokémon Scarlet'' and ''Violet'']]. | |||
::Okay, so there are dozens of thousands of existing pages. Personally, I wonder how many pages I would be able to edit for this project. I would like to suggest that at least some of the pages might be edited by bots in some circumstances. Maybe in some cases, we might be able to use some semi-automated edits like AWB. | |||
::If we start this project and italicize game titles, I suppose we should also be able to "search" the wiki by creating lists of pages using AWB, for the purpose of checking how many of them seem to be still using non-italics game titles. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel Carrero]] ([[User talk:Daniel Carrero|talk]]) 00:23, 8 November 2023 (UTC) | |||