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::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. | ::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) | ::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) | ||
== About the page titles like Red (game), Blue (game), etc. == | |||
A few related discussions which were created in December 2023: | |||
* [[Talk:Red (game)#Move]] | |||
* [[Talk:Blue (game)#Move]] | |||
* [[Talk:Green (game)#Move]] | |||
* [[Talk:Silver (game)#Move]] | |||
As discussed in those separate talk pages, I think we can at least agree that these four specific page titles look like they are about games but they are actually about game characters: [[Red (game)]], [[Blue (game)]], [[Green (game)]], and [[Silver (game)]]. Relatedly, [[Gold (game)]] and [[Crystal (game)]] look like they are about games but they are redirects to character pages. | |||
Some different ideas for page titles have been discussed, like this: | |||
* Red (game) | |||
* Red (video game character) | |||
* Red (game character) | |||
* Red (character) | |||
In the talk pages linked above, I originally suggested using the long version (video game character). However, we also discussed using (game character) instead, which is shorter and appears to be just as clear. | |||
You know, it has sometimes been argued that just (character) is not good enough since a number of other characters named share those names: "Blue (character)" could be about [[Blue (Adventures)]], [[Blue (Origins)]], [[Blue (Ruby-Sapphire)]], and [[Blue (Pocket Monsters)]]. However, there is also the possible argument that (game) and (game character) are not entirely accurate because those pages also contain counterparts from other media. | |||
For instance, [[Red (game)]] is currently the main page with information about Red as the character from the Pocket Monsters HGSS Jō's Big Adventure manga or from the Pokémon Evolutions anime series. Maybe that could be a point in favor of using "Red (character)" since that would be the main place to look for Red and his counterparts, much like [[Misty]] is mainly about the game character but is the main page for a bunch of her counterparts as well. | |||
Several other characters currently use (game) but they are not exactly named after games, like Ethan (game), Rosa (game), Calem (game), Elio (game), and so on. In this case, I would suggest removing (game) altogether and moving them simply to "Ethan", "Rosa", "Calem", "Elio", etc. whenever possible. They arguably don't need any kind of disambiguation like (game character). --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel Carrero]] ([[User talk:Daniel Carrero|talk]]) 02:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC) | |||