Talk:The Lost World: Jurassic Park (console game)

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The following section is copy & pasted from a discussion on Wikipedia:Help desk

If i take a screenshot of a video game on my laptop, is it fair use? or is it..mine..and i can upload it to wikimedia as free use? Fethroesforia 16:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Doubt it. It could be fair use if particularly illustrative. Xiner (talk, email) 16:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Its fair use as long as its used to illustrate the topic at hand. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 16:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you..one further question, there are currently three Lost World: Jurassic Park articles and I am working on a fourth, shall I create a disambiguation page for them? it will get a bit full on the top of the games pages to inform them off videogames of the same name? Fethroesforia 16:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, please do. Most people create a disambig page for anything more than two articles that have the same name. Dismas|^(talk) 16:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, many thanks to you:) Fethroesforia 17:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh..one problem...someof the games are ported on other formats (there is one article for the dreamcast and the playstation version together, which is called Lost World (videogame) (or something like that)) and also one called (gameboy game) and (arcade game). Any idea what I can call the one previously called (videogame) as I will put the disambig page there:) Fethroesforia 17:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Unless there are significant differences between the different ports, significant enough to warrant seperate articles, I would personally merge them all into the "(videogame)" page. Dismas|^(talk) 17:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well..theres quite a lot of difference, but..where do I put the disambig page if the article (videogame) is being used? Fethroesforia 17:10, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Then you could move the one that is currently at "videogame" to another name. To do that, click on the "move" tab at the top of the article. On the next page you will be asked for a new name for the article. The new page will have the old info moved to it and the old page will then be a redirect to the new page. You can then go edit the "old" page to create the disambig. See Wikipedia:Page moves and Wikipedia:Redirect for more info. Dismas|^(talk) 17:15, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, if you just search for Lost World there's a page with links to other articles there. Keep that in mind when setting up your article and any disambiguation pages. -- Kesh 17:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay..Ill move the page currently at (videogame) but what to call it..it contains a playstation and sega saturn version of the game..shall I call it (Playstation game)as its the most common version and the one the cover art is of? Fethroesforia 18:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Which system was it originally created for? If it was ported to PlayStation from the Saturn, call it (Sega Saturn game). Or, vice versa. If they were released simultaneously, that complicates matters. -- Kesh 18:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately..released at the same time (Nov 17th 1997) though the playstation version is by far more popular than the satrun one (not very encyclopedic I know) Fethroesforia 19:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, here's a compromise: GameBoy is a portable system, and Arcade is... well, an arcade system. So, the PS and DC versions are Console systems. Rename it to The Lost World: Jurassic Park (console game), then you'll have all of those versions on the disambiguation page. It's not ideal, but it would help clarify.

However, I think it's unnecessary. The Game Boy article is a stub, and the Arcade article is just a list of dinosaurs encountered. They really should both be merged into The Lost World: Jurassic Park (console game) and the pages redirected to that.

At this point, I think we're moving beyond the scope of the help desk. I'm going to copy & paste this discussion to the (video game) page, and we can continue there. -- Kesh 21:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC)