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Main.Video Games is basically for games that aren't on any other Video Games index, so yeah, if it's on Action Video Games, or 2010 or whatever, then you can remove it off Main.Video Games?
Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576I'd be perfectly fine with cutting entries on Video Games. Also, Video Games of the 2010s is not quite being split, I'm doing a reorganisation first to have games listed by single-year folders instead of single-letter folders as it's more economical, though I may split them (probably by year like Video Games Of 2013, as a split by half-decade seems like it wouldn't be the best either). You could help out by adding entries to Sandbox.Video Games Of The2010s Reorganisation and not adding so many entries to the main Video Games of the 2010s page (and if you don't want to, NTC3, please at least tell me why not).
Edited by Piterpicher Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)^ - For the years' pages, or Main.Video Games?
'Cause the latter has the commented out header note:
Which could be uncommented?
Edited by Malady Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576^^^ Pretty much all the entries I placed onto that page recently were from the very Main.Video Games index we were talking about. There was an immense volume of low-quality pages there that needed to cleaned up even a little and placed onto other indexes, so I almost forgot about the reorganization sandbox until I was nearly done. I placed all the relevant games from today's final round of edits into that sandbox, however.
(EDIT: Also, I think that once reorganization is done, splitting the index into 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 halves is sufficient. That's the way the Film page is organized, and as easy as it has become to make games in this decade, I still doubt their number exceeds that of the films, once you count all the amateur YouTube films as well.)
And yeah, I finally removed that index, since essentially all the pages that were on there have been added to other, better indexes. I think the only exception is Caravaneer, which should probably have Caravaneer 2 merged into it, as both games are very similar. (Along with the other such clean-up.)
However, we are still left with a few pages that are unindexed because they should never have been considered Video Games in the first place.
- VideoGame.Action Chatroom - Unmistakably a Roleplay; thankfully, it only has one wick.
- VideoGame.Realpolitik CIV - another Roleplay.
- VideoGame.Night Of The Living Alternate History - and another one.
- VideoGame.John Wizard Games - Should be in Creator.
- VideoGame.Living Force - a Tabletop Game; if the reference to "modules" doesn't give it away, a Wookiepedia profile that confirms it does.
- VideoGame.Digimon Fusion Kai Battle Age - clearly Darth Wiki; a Deviant Art page it links to straight-up admits it was never real, and so should go to Unpublished Works.
- Videogame.The 15 Keys Rising - It's miscapitalized too, but that's irrelevant here. The important thing is I'm pretty certain it never existed; there are no links on the page and searches reveal no evidence of it existing, and take great trouble to find the Wattpad series it was based on (which was a Self-Insert to boot.) This page was apparently made by series' creator, as he had the same handle here as on his account on Wikia. Since neither was active in years, I think it's safe to assume Darth Wiki namespace for Unpublished Works.
- VideoGame.Nightmare - It's again very hard to find evidence of this actually existing on the web. However, VideoGame.RPG Maker games (while we are on topic, that page needs to be moved to Useful Notes sooner rather than later) are usually simple enough to make that troping them like this makes no sense. Luckily, the troper who made the page is still active now, and I messaged them to see if we'll get the answers.
- VideoGame.The Nimbus - Again, I am not sure if this thing ever existed. Searches reveal nothing, though maybe this game is real, but simply crowded out by far more successful Nimbus and Project Nimbus (neither of which have anything to do with its stated description.) There's also no edit history besides Septimus Heap moving the page four years ago, so contacting its creator may be impossible.
- VideoGame.Mii - I am really not sure what to do with this one. It's clearly not a game in any conventional sense, but what category IS it?
Okay, thanks for the information and assistance. I thought about whether single years would be necessary as there were more than 20000 Flash games released in 2000s and 2010s, but perhaps we don't have to rush it too much. I agree with your thoughts on most of those pages, though I'm not sure on what to do with VideoGame.Mii either. Maybe move it to Useful Notes, as it's more of a Nintendo feature that appears in their games, though it wouldn't work as a trope page.
Edited by Piterpicher Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)Well, now the Subcategories box looks real weird, with no regular index alongside.
Take the info out of the box, and relabel it or something?
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576^^ Well, to be fair, I'm pretty sure that many of those 20,000 games we haven't yet troped were sequels and such, so they'll not take up as much space.
However, adding them here is still going to get real hairy real soon, due to Flash's phase-out by the browsers and all. This project
will apparently still save these games past 2020, but it's certainly going to be a hurdle.
And Useful Notes pages can still include a lot of tropes on them (just check out Blackbeard), so I guess Mii will be fine in that format. Some of its 63 wicks
might no longer work for a UN page and have to be cut, though.
Also, Nightmare's page creator messaged me with a playthrough they used for the page, so that's good. Unfortunately, it still has no download link included, but at the very least we can prove it once existed and get images from there.
^ I redesigned the page with a more standard approach. Think it's good enough?
Edited by NTC3Also, I just decided to start moving the three forum games into the Roleplay namespace, but instantly ran into another indexing problem. Unlike Main.Video Games, Main.Roleplay is a disambiguation page, and while some entries are understandable (i.e. a reference to tabletop and digital RPGs), I am really confused by the existence of both Main.Forum Role Plays and Main.Play By Post Games.
As far as I'm concerned the former just looks like a worse version of the latter, being a bare index page with basically no description, and seemingly talking about the exact same thing as the more detailed Main.Play By Post Games. At least Main.Journal Roleplay somewhat makes sense as a separate index. Perhaps Main.Forum Role Plays is meant to encompass both Journal and Play-by-post pages, but even then it would appear completely unnecessary.
On the bright side, at least moving stuff to DarthWiki is much less complicated.
Edited by NTC3

Basically, I spotted that Main.Video Games not only houses a table of indexes, as is right, but also contains an index of its own, which is superfluous to say the least.
There's simply no way a single index page can fit all of video games; even the Video Games of the 2010s page is currently getting split due to being too large. As such, it is currently a grab-bag of pretty obscure game pages, mostly created by inexperienced tropers who stuck that index alone (some pages there shouldn't be counted as videogames at all, but rather Roleplay, or even Tabletop Game in one instance).
I have done my best to polish up the pages there and ensure they are stuck on at least one other "proper" index. With permission, I would like to go ahead and cut it, and place a commented-out warning in its place.