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There's plenty of precedent for adding a numeral to games that don't have them. Such as Final Fantasy I and Wild ARMs 1.
I've heard people say that the main series page should go in Main, and that it should be namespaced, so I couldn't say which is our "official" policy on that.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
All media should always go to their respective namespace. We sometimes leave a disambiguation page on main if there is nothing else occupying it, but generally, main is for tropes.
A series page gets split if the page gets too long and splitting it into its installments comes naturally.
If two works of the same media type have the same name (mostly remakes) we normally add a number or the production year to the title. But I have seen Half Life being called Half Life 1 a lot on the Internet.
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We often leave series pages on Main/ when the series is a multimedia franchise, such as Sonic The Hedgehog or X-Men. We can do that cuz they're indexes, and indexes go on Main, so it's fine. If the franchise only exists in one media, then we can namespace its franchise page appropriately.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Thanks, guys (especially troacctid), that cleared it up for me.
I've seen Earl of Sandvich move the entire Half Life series' page to the VideoGame/HalfLife namespace, while VideoGame/HalfLife1 was created for the original game. However, I haven't seen this being done to any other game pages at all, and as far as I know, the VideoGame/ namespace can only be used for a single game, plus I've never seen a VideoGame/Game1 if the number doesn't appear explicitly on the title. I tried PM'ing him, but received no answer.
Is it a new system or is it incorrect and should be undone?
UPDATE: Not only video games, all media.
Edited by REV6Pilot