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:There is a flaw in this approach. These names will need to be remembered by the contributors on the contrary to my first intention to free the editors from this additional burden and let them write as they please. Besides the old approach is working alright, so why changing it (it would also require to reparse all already filled articles)? I'll try to do something tomorrow (now it's a bit late for it), you'll see it'll feel okay. BTW, shmup is hmmm... not so good abbreviation in my opinion; it's kinda silly and funny. --[[User:Ngng|Ngng]] 19:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC) | :There is a flaw in this approach. These names will need to be remembered by the contributors on the contrary to my first intention to free the editors from this additional burden and let them write as they please. Besides the old approach is working alright, so why changing it (it would also require to reparse all already filled articles)? I'll try to do something tomorrow (now it's a bit late for it), you'll see it'll feel okay. BTW, shmup is hmmm... not so good abbreviation in my opinion; it's kinda silly and funny. --[[User:Ngng|Ngng]] 19:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC) | ||
::Wait, I didn't mean to change all the names of genres here to follow Wikipedia, only for the 4 aforementioned categories above. | |||
::Editiors don't have to remember '''any''' names(longname or short name) of genres, just copy them from the list of game genres at left side panel(click the center of the square as list item marker will select all text of a genre name and copy it). | |||
::I was presuming you would like to use abbreviation for genre names that displaying at the bottom of each game articles, but IMO I prefer fullname for genre names the way Wikipedia uses since showing fullname is more clear than abbreviation. So: | |||
:::"Real-time strategy" -> [[:Category:Real-time strategy]] | |||
:::"Turn-based strategy" -> [[:Category:Turn-based strategy]] | |||
:::"First-person shooter" -> [[:Category:First-person shooter]] | |||
:::"Shoot 'em up" -> [[:Category:Shoot 'em up]] | |||
::The word shmup is not for fun, it is recorded in the corresponding Wikipedia article for Shoot 'em up. | |||
::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shmup '''--[[User:Pcsx2fan|Pcsx2fan]] 09:45, 20 February 2011 (UTC)''' | |||