Forum:CT:Naming Star Wars Galaxies, Part 2

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The result of the debate was support option 3b to list post-2005 Star Wars Galaxies content in the Appearances as: ''[[Star Wars Galaxies]]'' {{c|post-[[Star Wars Galaxies#New Game Enhancements|NGE]]}}. OOM 224 (he/him/they) 16:44, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, here is the second part of the topic Forum:CT:Naming Star Wars Galaxies. As explained before, the purpose of this CT is to adopt a correct policy regarding how the video game Star Wars Galaxies should appear in the Appearances section of related in-universe articles.

The game was released in 2003 as Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. As a MMORPG, it received recurrent updates (the big updates were known as "Publish") and many patches over the years. Moreover, the biggest content additions were released as expansion packs: Jump to Lightspeed in 2004 (introduction of space content), Rage of the Wookiees in 2005 (new planet: Kashyyyk) and Trials of Obi-Wan also in 2005 (new planet: Mustafar).

So everything looks simple but...

Everything changed ad the end of the year 2005. The devs introduced "Publish 25," the notorious "New Game Enhancements", often considered as the worst decision even made by game developers. Beyond the validity of the NGE that is still debated, this update made everything more complicated for us. With the NGE, the game was made totally different and the devs assumed the rupture. They quickly stop to increase the "Publish" count and after 2006 released new updates as "Chapters". They also stop to use An Empire Divided in the game title. Moreover, they did not release expansion packs anymore; only some compilation packs were released.

So, since most of Star Wars Galaxies' content was published after the NGE (from 2005 to 2011) and since this content was totally unrelated to the latest expansion pack (addition of Mustafar in Trials of Obi-Wan), the question is how to name the post-2005 game content in the Appearances section. Here are different possible options, that can indeed be improved. Better ideas are also welcome!

Option 1

[[Star Wars Galaxies#New Game Enhancements (NGE)|''Star Wars Galaxies'']]

Option 2

[[Star Wars Galaxies#New Game Enhancements (NGE)|''Star Wars Galaxies'' (post-NGE)]]

Option 3

[[Star Wars Galaxies#New Game Enhancements (NGE)|''Star Wars Galaxies'']] {{c|post-NGE}}

*Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE)

Option 3b

''[[Star Wars Galaxies]]'' {{c|post-[[Star Wars Galaxies#New Game Enhancements|NGE]]}}

Voting

Option 1

  1. Artemaeus-Creed (talk) 00:15, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
    NanoLuukeCloning Facility 17:40, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
    — Commander Bhatoa (talk) 04:59, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Option 2

Option 3

  1. Ayrehead02 (talk) 10:15, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
    Lewisr (talk) 21:34, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Option 3b

  1. Hk 47 (talk) 12:32, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
  2. 01miki10 Open comlink 12:29, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
  3. Imperators II(Talk) 17:49, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
  4. NanoLuukeCloning Facility 17:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
  5. OOM 224 (he/him/they) 09:45, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
  6. Lewisr (talk) 17:53, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
  7. Cade GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit Calrayn 18:03, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
  8. Zed42 Wolfpack emblem (talk) 22:22, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
  9. Fan26 (Talk) 22:52, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
  10. per above NBDani TeamFireballLogo-Collider(they/them)Yeager's Repairs 21:05, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
  11. — Commander Bhatoa (talk) 23:26, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Discuss

  • As discussed in the previous topic, I don't like the proposal 1 because I find it quite confusing. In articles like this one that contains information from both the base game (An Empire Divided) and the late game (here named Starter Kit), readers could be confused and think that Star Wars Galaxies is the base game and Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided is an expansion pack. Hk 47 (talk) 12:33, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
  • I'd like to vote for option 3, but I dislike the use of anchor link there to point to the specific section of the game's article. If this post-NGE Galaxies is the only instance of Galaxies on an article, a reader following the Galaxies link is dropped straight into the middle of the article with no context where they could have just wanted to know what Galaxies was in general. Could we possibly have a separate article on this NGE? Imperators II(Talk) 07:51, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
    • This may be possible. In the meantime, I propose to modify Option 3. This would indeed make more sense for the readers:
''[[Star Wars Galaxies]]'' {{c|post-[[Star Wars Galaxies#New Game Enhancements|NGE]]}}
  • Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE)
    • Ooh, I do like that better than the current option 3, yeah. Imperators II(Talk) 09:31, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
      • Me too. I will modify the proposals. @ Ayrehead02 and Lewisr, please let us known if you also prefer the new Option 3. Hk 47 (talk) 10:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)