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Primis Since: Nov, 2010
2018-09-20 16:21:16

There's no need for a page that only covers two entries of a series.

I vote to de-wick and Cut List this.

Mickoonsley19 Since: Feb, 2018
2018-09-20 16:39:00

I think that there should be a page covering the series. The games have some tropes in common and I think a page about both games might be interesting.

Primis Since: Nov, 2010
2018-09-20 16:55:50

All Sonic games have tropes in common.

This isn't a "series", it's two games, out of, like, fifty.

It'd be like having a separate page just for the James Bond movies starring Daniel Craig. It's completely arbitrary.

Edited by Primis
costanton11 Since: Mar, 2016
2018-09-20 17:03:57

Probably should be cut.

Malady (X-Troper)
2018-09-21 15:51:36

Bump due to lack of consensus?

Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Primis Since: Nov, 2010
2018-09-21 18:20:57

This page originally did cover both games, but it was split because each game deserved its own page. Expanding this page would not only be redundant, it would effectively undo the work people did to split the page in the first place.

There's also the issue of the so-called "Adventure-style" gameplay not being limited to the two Adventure games. Heroes, Shadow, Sonic '06, and Unleashed all share these traits (with Unleashed being a transitional title to the current "Boost-style" gameplay).

Edited by Primis
Mickoonsley19 Since: Feb, 2018
2018-09-21 20:00:52

What would you do with the wicks, which are referring to both games at once?

Primis Since: Nov, 2010
2018-09-21 20:34:27

I just looked over all of them. Almost every single one refers specifically to either SA1 or SA2, so I'd replace those with the proper wicks.

Two or three of them are just general statements about the two games within a larger example, which can easily be replaced with either two wicks to both games, or just de-wicked entirely.

Another two or three can — and probably should — be cut entirely for being Sinkholes.

EDIT: I replaced all the wicks that needed replacing, and cut the Sinkholes. The only wick that remains now is the one on the Ambiguity Index.

Edited by Primis
Piterpicher (Series 2)
2018-09-21 23:56:22

The Sonic Adventure Series page should be cut. If someone would ever want to try to make a page for both games (though there's really no reason for it), they should put it in the Video Game namespace.

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GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
2018-09-22 02:16:42

Cut. I don't see a point in keeping this page (let alone expanding it), because Franchise.Sonic The Hedgehog is already sufficient, not to mention it covers more than just two installments.

Plus, people looking for the Adventure games in general probably aren't going to think to put "Series" in the wiki word, since disambiguation is usually done by using the series name for the series page and adding the number 1 to the first installment's wiki word (if there isn't a subtitle).

Edited by GastonRabbit You can't just say "perchance".
Malady (X-Troper)
2018-09-22 05:12:23

^ - Well, the first game is called just "VideoGame.Sonic Adventure". No number.

And it's been de-wicked, although not by me, so I basically have no skin in the game now.

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
2018-09-22 05:21:48

^There aren't numbers in the official titles for VideoGame.Super Mario Bros 1 or VideoGame.Super Smash Bros 64, either, but they're there for disambiguation's sake. That said, the dewicking makes changing the name of the VideoGame.Sonic Adventure page unnecessary.

Edited by GastonRabbit You can't just say "perchance".
Malady (X-Troper)
2018-09-25 18:50:58

Update: It was moved to Video Game, and then it was cut... So now there's nothing named Sonic Adventure Series... And the main has 58 inbounds.

I guess anyone really looking for it could just Google it or something...

The move means that there's nothing in Main.Sonic Adventure Series telling those coming from inbounds, where to go.

Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Fighteer MOD (Time Abyss)
2018-09-25 20:41:10

It's just 58. It's not a big deal. We only worry if it's in the hundreds.

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