Talk:German-style board game
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It seems to me that, without a definition of what a german-style game is to test against, the list of games section is original research, which is forbidden by WP:NOR. As a result, we should remove it. Percy Snoodle 10:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- Rather than deleting this list, which in my mind is vital to help others fully understand what a german-style board game is, why not simply break it out into a page of it's own where all German-style games are listed be they old, new, in print, or out of print. I want to add the game War On Terror by TerrorBull games but at this stage have no criteria to go by to determine if it is deemed notable enough to include yet 81.144.157.50 12:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC) Trollgod 12:19, 05 January 2007 (GMT)
[edit] Removable of BGG
I'm curious why BoardGameGeek was removed from the see also (especially given that BrettSpielWelt was not). Rdore 04:00, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I added a link to BGG under the external links section. I can't imagine why it shouldn't be there. Bgplayer 23:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
- Probably because BGG had already been linked to in the article, but BSW hadn't. --McGeddon 23:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, here is the explanation given by the anonymous user: "removed inappropriate see also only included to spam the boards." Probably the same guy who wanted to delete BGG from Wikipedia a few weeks ago. --Jcbutler 02:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Currently BGG is in the "See also" section, but it has been removed again from the "External links" section. We really need to discuss this and come up with a consensus, rather than continually adding and removing it. --Jcbutler 18:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- My feeling is that since it has an external link on its own page, it shouldn't appear in the external links on this page. However, if there's a page on the BGG wiki specifically about designer games, rather than the wole of BGG's rather broad remit, then that page would be a suitable target for an external link. Percy Snoodle 19:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- I don't know if it was in the "See also" section before or not but I'm fine with it being there and not in "External links". It probably makes more sense even since it has its own page. Bgplayer 22:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Italics
This article seems very inconsistent about whether and when the name of a game gets italicised. Are there rules about this that I'm not aware of?
- According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting), italics are used for the titles of books, films, video games, computer games, musical albums, and works of art. Board games are not specifically mentioned, but I would argue that we should use the same rule that applies to computer and video games, and italicize all of them for the sake of consistency. The exception might be noncommercial games like chess and go, which are generally not italicized, or capitalized for that matter. --Jcbutler 17:37, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
