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My apologies.
So, why did you do that?
This fell off the main page without getting resolved.
Wikipedia describes "Seventh (2005–2017)" and "Eighth (2012–present)", so for the lack of better knowledge on the topic either edit feels odd to me.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
^ Why do they feel odd?
... because both "2004-2017, 2011-present" and "2004-2011, 2011-2017" contradict it.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
The discrepancies in the start years are because in both cases, a handheld system (the Nintendo DS in 2004, the 3DS in 2011) came out a year ahead of the first new console.
Does anybody feel it can be restored to the previous years?
It should probably be restored to the generally accepted years.
Okay, it's done.
A couple of years ago, I brought up a query
when someone changed the year ranges for the seventh and eighth console generations on Horrible.Video Game Generations Seventh Onwards. Specifically, they changed the range on Seventh Generation from 2004-2017 to 2004-2011 and Eighth Generation from 2011-present to 2011-2017. After the discussion in ATT, the user reverted the changes.
Today, an editor named Gentle Mart made the exact same edit, changing 2004-2017 to 2004-2011 and 2011-present to 2011-2017. Requesting permission for a revert.
I will be summoning Gentle Mart after posting this.