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 ?
See title. I found at least one place that abuses for video games (Template:RQ:YGO FRM). Benwing2 (talk) 05:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, no one appears to actually use . Benwing2 (talk) 05:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Maybe the new and  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, 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  template had a corresponding   and vice versa. For example, I'm not sure how useful  and  would be. — SGconlaw (talk) 06:12, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

RFD discussion: February 2019–August 2020
This template had gone unused for 10 years and I see no practical use for it. -- 16:39, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Worth merging into ? — 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. -- 18:16, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't think this should be merged into ; it seems too different as there's no actors, episodes, etc. If anything, we might need, e.g. for use by Template:RQ:YGO FRM, which currently abuses for this purpose.  seems less useful, but if we create  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 ? 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. -- 04:42, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I was thinking of 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)
 * 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)