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Incorporating unreleased ports into released game subpages

A lot of "unreleased ports of released games" pages could maybe... get wrapped into a subpage on their released game pages? Like we do with prototypes, listed at the bottom of the navbox.

The 32X prototype of Pinocchio already does this, but I'd like to see this done for unreleased pages too, even without a dumped anything. It would make sense from a wiki navigation perspective, and it would address a lot of these unreleased pages being short on content. Just ensure the name formatting is a little different from dumped protos (prob just lacking the date but iunno).

If turning them into subpages would cause issues anywhere, we could set up Template:Omni to automatically include links to these pages in the Omni's prototype field. Then, we'd add a new field to Template:UnreleasedBob which names which game's omni it should be in (like the "relatedto=" field in Template:MusicBob). - CartridgeCulture (talk) 01:57, 15 September 2023 (EDT)

Incorporating RomTable capability into BootlegReleaseTable

RomTables for bootleg games don't really have a good place in BootlegReleaseTable. Right now they're just being stuck under that template. Could we add a rom= field to BootlegRelease with a compact version of RomTable? - CartridgeCulture (talk) 21:56, 20 September 2023 (EDT)

Merchandise pages listing all merchandise, not just third-party

We have a lot of loose, unlinked merchandise pages (even first-party), and wedging each into its product's nav template won't work. Consider including them on its Merchandise page instead (would need dedicated first/third party sections and a heavily-reduced MerchTable). This isn't usually a problem, as our philosophy of "lots of things get individual pages" and "we have complex navboxes" usually finds a place for things. This is probably why so many merch pages stick to third-party merchandise.

But a lot still gets missed or just floats around. This is a problem that's only going to grow larger when someone starts going ham on Sakura Taisen shirts or whatever.

Any existing "list of merch" pages could also get sub-subpaged into its game's main Merchandise subpage. If not, at least have MainArticles linking to them from that page. Regardless, make sure all these pages are both reachable from, and contain, their game's Omni. - CartridgeCulture (talk) 06:39, 8 September 2023 (EDT)

Removing "photos" and "scans" from some categories

Some categories which contain the words "photo" or "scans" should probably have them removed, depending on the category. Basically, if its like... a self-contained "thing", like Category:Telephone card scans or tickets or tokens or flyers, having the word scans "scans" is redundant. It stops us from linking directly to that category and calling it "telephone cards", because its "telephone card scans" instead. This ALSO implies we've got a separate "telephone card" category.

There are still some cases where "photos of X" and things should obviously stay, but overall, this should probably be looked at eventually. - CartridgeCulture (talk) 22:30, 21 September 2023 (EDT)