Talk: Genres

AAAUUGH! This hurts my brain so much. Okay here's the plan:

1. The current contents of Category:Genres is moved to Category:Video game genres
2. Computer_and_video_game_genres is merged into Category:Video game genres
3. Remove cross-genres: articles in Action-adventure should just be in Action and Adventure, separately
4. Weed out excess genres: Category:Beat 'em up is probably just fighting games, or fighting + adventure games
5. Existing categories should be renamed to reflect that they are VIDEO GAMES. "Category:Shooter" => "Category:Shooting video games" (which should probably be split into "2d shooter", "third-person shooter", and "first-person shooter".

It would be very, very nice to have a tool to a) show articles which are intersections between multiple categories (Action + Adventure = action adventure). Alternatively, a tool to generate "fake" categories (action-adventure, action-RPG, etc) would be barely acceptable: it would be much better to keep things cleanly categorized.

I have noticed Genres can be very convoluted. How are noob users supposed to know that "Xbox games" is not a genre, but "Western games" and "Shooter games" are? Perhaps we should make a genre namespace, or something along those lines.

Oh, and Darthfredd 02:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Response

Not a good idea!

1. The current contents of Category:Genres is moved to Category:Video game genres<==These are the categories in a genre why would anyone want to write more text for reference
2. Computer_and_video_game_genres is merged into Category:Video game genres<==This is the article so it should just be left in category genre because it is its own main page for genres
3. Remove cross-genres: articles in Action-adventure should just be in Action and Adventure, separately
4. Weed out excess genres: Category:Beat 'em up is probably just fighting games, or fighting + adventure games <==Beat em up is its own genre. Genres are describable things and specific. For example: Streets of Rage is different from Street Fighter by gameplay thus beat em up is its own genre
5. Existing categories should be renamed to reflect that they are VIDEO GAMES. (Why? this is a gaming site it is implied)"Category:Shooter" => "Category:Shooting video games" (which should probably be split into "2d shooter", "third-person shooter", and "first-person shooter". (We are not wikipedia)

I have noticed Genres can be very convoluted. How are noob users supposed to know that "Xbox games"<==This problem only occurs when N00bs do not know the definition of genre. If anyone is having this trouble PLEASE refer to a dictionary or wikipedia is not a genre, but "Western games" and "Shooter games" are? Perhaps we should make a genre namespace, or something along those lines.

--Cs california 11:05, 17 December 2007 (UTC)