Template talk:cite-video game

"Most common platforms"

"This information need not be stated if the video game runs on most common platforms." I think that's a bad idea. Common platforms change a lot over time. Equinox ◑ 21:30, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

That was carried over from the original documentation. I'll take it out if you like. Smuconlaw (talk) 10:25, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Why does this exist and not {{quote-video game}}?

@Sgconlaw, Jberkel See title. I found at least one place that abuses {{quote-book}} for video games (Template:RQ:YGO FRM). Benwing2 (talk) 05:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Furthermore, no one appears to actually use {{cite-video game}}. Benwing2 (talk) 05:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Maybe the new {{quote-av}} and {{cite-av}} can subsume this. Benwing2 (talk) 05:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I guess so. The answer to Jberkel's question is that because someone originally created this template but not {{quote-video game}}, and at the time when I started to tidy up all these templates I didn't think it was a high priority to make sure that every {{quote}} template had a corresponding {{cite}} and vice versa. For example, I'm not sure how useful {{cite-hansard}} and {{cite-us-patent}} would be. — SGconlaw (talk) 06:12, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

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Template:cite-video game

This template had gone unused for 10 years and I see no practical use for it. --{{victar|talk}} 16:39, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Worth merging into {{cite-av}}? — SGconlaw (talk) 16:59, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

I would say no. I think the direct use of {{cite-meta}} should be revisited, but that's for another discussion. --{{victar|talk}} 18:16, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Personally I don't think this should be merged into {{cite-av}}; it seems too different as there's no actors, episodes, etc. If anything, we might need {{quote-video game}}, e.g. for use by Template:RQ:YGO FRM, which currently abuses {{quote-book}} for this purpose. {{cite-video game}} seems less useful, but if we create {{quote-video game}} we might want to keep it for parallelism. Benwing2 (talk) 21:27, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Should we be encouraging people to quote video games by creating {{quote-video game}}? From a durability point of view I suppose they are on par with films and TV programmes … — SGconlaw (talk) 04:11, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

What, so we can have another unused template? If someone found a need for it, it would have probably would have been created by now. --{{victar|talk}} 04:42, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

I was thinking of {{RQ:YGO FRM}} that is essentially a video game quotation template. It is currently used to provide quotes for three entries, but it seems to me that the entries could be easily attested by quotations from more traditional sources such as books and journals. — SGconlaw (talk) 06:41, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Or, it was uncreated and no one wanted to go through the hassle of making it? There is no doubt in my mind that we have quotes from video games that do not use a quote- template. Even {{quote-book}} is often shunned in favor of plain text. —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 01:21, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

@Suzukaze-c: so you think we should create that quotation template? — SGconlaw (talk) 02:27, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

• Kept as widely kept and not breaking anything. --Java Beauty (talk) 01:02, 31 August 2020 (UTC)