Talk:V/'s Recommended Games Wiki

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Older Discussion
As this wiki gets on in years, this page gets uncomfortably big with old conversations. They've been moved to sub-pages.
 * Talk:/v/'s Recommended Games Wiki/2009
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 * Talk:/v/'s Recommended Games Wiki/2012
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 * Talk:/v/'s Recommended Games Wiki/2015

New guide

 * Pinball Games. I'll see if I can find a icon. Welcome to your doom! 13:29, November 19, 2015 (UTC)


 * How about this game's icon? It has everything - ball, flipper, bumper. --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 08:24, December 1, 2015 (UTC)
 * That Icon is OK, but it's pretty busy so it might not shrink down well. Maybe one of these is better? Black and White Simple, Vector Table, Ball and Paddle (will need to be edited to have clear background).--Kitsuneae (talk) 10:07, December 1, 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, I thought you meant as the illustration on the top of the page itself, not the icon for the main page. --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 15:09, December 1, 2015 (UTC)
 * Something like the icon from Pinball 3D Space Cadet would suffice. Welcome to your doom! 16:56, December 1, 2015 (UTC)
 * Here: [[File:Pinball_Icon.png]] Welcome to your doom! 00:22, December 6, 2015 (UTC)
 * But icons for the main page are supposed to be 32x32.I'll draw something later this week. --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 05:50, December 9, 2015 (UTC)
 * Updated the icon. Welcome to your doom! 22:39, December 11, 2015 (UTC)

An icon for the "Japanese RPGs" page: v1, v2. --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 00:45, January 26, 2016 (UTC)

Split
The Freeware Games page was humongous, so I went and sliced it, in the same style as the Arcade games list. How's that? --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 03:20, February 18, 2016 (UTC)

More systems to add

 * [[File:Pocket Dream Console icon.png]] Conny Pocket Dream Console - handheld - 2006 - ????
 * [[File:Game Master icon.png]] Hartung Game Master - handheld - 1990 - 1992
 * [[File:Mega Duck icon.png]] Welback Mega Duck - handheld - 1993 - 1994
 * [[File:Commodore PET icon.png]] Commodore PET - computer - 1977 - 1982
 * [[File:Commodore VIC 20 icon.png]] Commodore VIC-20 - computer - 1980 - 1985
 * [[File:Mattel Aquarius icon.png]] Mattel Aquarius - computer - 1983 - 1984
 * [[File:Sinclair QL icon.png]] Sinclair QL - computer - 1984 - 1986

--LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 02:33, March 28, 2016 (UTC)


 * Done. --Mozai (talk) 23:17, April 4, 2016 (UTC)

One more. Also, there's a weird "&nbsp" on the link to the Sinclair QL. And Amstrad should come after Acorn. --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 15:58, April 11, 2016 (UTC)
 * [[File:Amstrad PCW icon.png]] Amstrad PCW - computer - 1985 - 1998


 * Done. Pity I can't give edit access to the front page without unlocking it for any rando like the bad old days. --Mozai (talk) 22:21, April 17, 2016 (UTC)


 * You can unlock it for registered users. Welcome to your doom! 18:30, April 18, 2016 (UTC)

Admins
Where's the admins? Heck, why don't they make LYRIC-Stormwatch an admin? Welcome to your doom! 14:09, March 29, 2016 (UTC)
 * I admit I don't return often; it is a chore to re-learn Wikia's rules and interfaces every month. For example: I am an Admin, but I am explicitly forbidden from making anybody else an admin, or a moderator, or a janitor.  Wikia doesn't give a reason why. --Mozai (talk) 23:00, April 4, 2016 (UTC)

Oh my fucking god, Wikia's official documentation on the topic is a YouTube video of a Powerpoint slideshow. I found out: all Administrators were slightly demoted in one of Wikia's deviations from Mediawiki: there's a new Administrator+ rank called "Bureaucrat" and only they can make other users into Administrators. Only Kotep has Bureaucrat powers. --Mozai (talk) 23:25, April 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, only Bureaucrats have the power of assigning new admins. Seeing as how Kotep's last edit was 3 years ago, the only other option would be filling an adoption request. Welcome to your doom! 03:05, April 5, 2016 (UTC)

Renaming OS X
Apple is renaming OS X to "macOS" with the next version, coming Q4 2016. Should we rename it now, or only after it comes out? --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 05:24, August 5, 2016 (UTC)

Changes to frontpage
--LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 02:04, September 7, 2016 (UTC)
 * [[File:Bit Gamate icon.png]] Bit Gamate - handheld - 1990 - 1994
 * [[File:Nintendo Pokemon Mini icon.png]] Nintendo Pokémon Mini - handheld - 2001 - 2003

These are discontinued:

--LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 00:46, October 1, 2016 (UTC)
 * BlackBerry - mobile - 2002 - 2016
 * Firefox OS - mobile - 2013 - 2016

--LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 21:48, October 20, 2016 (UTC) --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 06:27, January 12, 2017 (UTC)
 * [[File:Nintendo Switch icon.png]] Nintendo Switch - handheld - upcoming
 * [[File:Acorn Electron icon.png]] Acorn Electron - computer - 1983 - 1985

Speaking of which, WiiU should be moved to the discontinued section. Welcome to your doom! 16:45, January 12, 2017 (UTC)


 * Caught up. -Mozai (talk) 02:26, January 17, 2017 (UTC)

Wii U isn't discontinued yet that I am aware of. It is still marked as "active" on Nintendo's website with a price listed, full FAQ and technical support. It is supposed to be discontinued in March 2018, not this year. --Kitsuneae (talk) 02:08, January 18, 2017 (UTC)


 * Derp, I should check facts. and while I was checking the WiiU I found out Xbox360 stopped production April 2016.  --Mozai (talk) 03:13, January 18, 2017 (UTC)

As of February 2017, the Wii U has been discontinued globally. So yeah, now it should be moved to the discontinued section. -Nesther (talk) 15:16, February 1, 2017 (UTC)


 * Source links on ending global production? As best as I can see it has only ended in Japan. Yes, that link was the "source" on the Kotaku article that claimed global production was over even though another article they posted said that Nintendo didn't plan on changing production status with the release of the switch. The US news page doesn't say anything about the Wii U being discontinued.


 * A lot of sites have been on the "Wii U is dead!" train for years now. Until official sources back it up I feel it shouldn't be considered dead. --Kitsuneae (talk) 01:52, February 2, 2017 (UTC)

Kimishima at the investors meeting this week. http://www.news1130.com/2017/02/01/nintendo-promises-more-smartphone-games-at-2-to-3-a-year/

It's dead, Jim. - Nesther (talk) 03:44, February 2, 2017 (UTC)


 * Very interesting! Also a sudden reversal of what Nintendo had been saying up until apparently this week. Thanks for the more reliable source. --Kitsuneae (talk) 04:02, February 2, 2017 (UTC)

So the Switch is current now. But is it a console or a handheld? --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 15:47, March 6, 2017 (UTC)

Alphabetical order and articles
Some people arrange the games ignoring articles. For example, they put "The King of Fighters" on K for King, rather than T for The. Which, of course, is some fucking retarded bullshit. Stop doing that, people! --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 22:00, March 1, 2017 (UTC)


 * ... that's actually a way to properly handle alphabetical order: you ignore all cases of "A" or "The" and skip to the next word. Otherwise every single "The" game would be crammed together! You see libraries arrange books like that for a reason. --Kitsuneae (talk) 01:10, March 2, 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, they get crammed together -- that's what is supposed to happen when their names start with the same word. --LYRIC-Stormwatch (talk) 15:46, March 6, 2017 (UTC)