Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Enix games/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by The Rambling Man via FACBot (talk) 00:31, 5 September 2017 (UTC).

List of Enix games

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  16:51, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

In 2003, video game developer Square and publisher Enix merged together to form Square Enix. We have featured lists on Square Enix games, Square Enix mobile games, Square Enix Europe games, and Square video games, but no FL for Enix games. Here to plug this hole (mostly) is this list: all 95 titles that Enix had a hand in publishing after its transition from publishing hobby programming contest computer games in 1985. It was very unpleasant to try to source minor early 90s Japanese-only video games, especially as their games were largely referred to as just "Enix games" even though they didn't directly develop them, but it's all there now. Thanks for reviewing! -- Pres N  16:51, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Comments –
 * Do we really need the fair use image? I don't really see how it aids understanding of the topic.
 * All caps in the titles of refs 75 and 78 need fixing. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 02:47, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, adding the logo seems to be pretty standard, but I'm not interested in fighting for it without a strong reason, so pulled.
 * Fixed.
 * Both fixed. -- Pres N  01:35, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support – Everything looks up to FL standards now. Nice job, as usual. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 22:02, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Great work with the list. I just have these two relatively minor comments; once my notes are addressed, I would be more than happy to support this for promotion. Aoba47 (talk) 15:33, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Comments from Aoba47
 * In the following sentence ( Enix initially found games to publish by holding contests for programming hobbyists and publishing the winners, with the first titles appearing in February 1983.), I would suggest avoiding the repetition of "publish" as two variants of the word are used in close proximity.
 * Do the developers need to be linked multiple times in the table? I would image that would be an instance of over-linking and should be avoided.
 * Fixed repetition.
 * Nope, for sortable tables, it's standard to link every instance, so that changes to the sort order don't elevate an unlinked one over a linked one, or leave you in an odd situation where you link scattered uses of the name throughout the table because e.g. sorting descending on column 3 makes row 14 come first, but descending on column 4 makes for 20 come first, leaving you linking rows 1, 4, 20, and 25 and skipping the ones in the middle. -- Pres N  16:19, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for addressing my comments. I support this for promotion. If possible, I would greatly appreciate it if you could look at my current FLC? Either way, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day. Aoba47 (talk) 16:29, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for addressing my comments. I support this for promotion. If possible, I would greatly appreciate it if you could look at my current FLC? Either way, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day. Aoba47 (talk) 16:29, 1 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Comments from Golbez
 * I'm inclined to support. However, we have the issue of only the Japanese name being given. For games where they were released with different names in different regions - Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior being obviously the most notable - that should be noted somehow, either in a footnote or (ideally) in the same cell as the Japanese name. Now they can't necessarily be held liable for games published by other companies in other regions, which might mean Illusion of Time may not warrant a mention; I'm unsure. But Dragon Warrior, at least starting with #2, does. --Golbez (talk) 16:13, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm a little confused; the names given are the English titles that the games are commonly known as, or the Romanization of the Japanese title if there is no such common English name. The Dragon Quest games follow that pattern- the common name (and article titles) are at Quest, which is the name used in Japan since release and in English since 2005. Are you asking that I add in the alternate English names of games at the time of release, rather than what they're known by now? That would pretty much just be Dragon Warrior 1-7, plus a couple others, though I can do that. It does raise the question of what to do about games like Bust a Groove 2, which only had that name in English but in Japan was "Bust a Move 2: Dance Tengoku Mix"- mostly Enlish but not quite, and the alternate title is the Japanese one, not the American/European one. What were you thinking for that? -- Pres N  20:04, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Dragon Quest was released as Dragon Warrior in NA. So it's odd to say "Dragon Quest was released in NA". I don't see why we couldn't include multiple names in one cell, like Dragon Quest JP Dragon Warrior NA
 * but this may be against the prevailing style so don't do it just because I said to, this could be worth discussion though. As for the example, it would work the same way: Bust a Move 2: Dance Tengoku Mix[JP], then Bust a Groove 2[NA] on next line. --Golbez (talk) 03:25, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I took a bit to think about this, and I'd prefer not to do it, for the following reason: like I said, the article titles listed are the "English titles that the games are commonly known as" whenever possible, which is the rule we follow when making article titles. The problem is, take The Portopia Serial Murder Case - that's the name the game is known as throughout English media. But that's not actually its name- it's Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken (aka ポートピア連続殺人事件), because it was only released in Japan, in Japanese. The Portopia Serial Murder Case is just the English translation- and not the only one, as its sometimes translated as The Portopia Serial Murder Incident. So... what would we put as the title? The Japanese title, which very few people would know, linked to the English one they would?
 * I could put a footnote for all of the games containing all of the various names and translations... but at that point, I think it would make more sense to leave all the name confusion up to the articles themselves. -- Pres N  11:49, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Nah, I'm probably being pedantic. I'm not sure, and since I'm not sure that shouldn't hurt y'all, so support. --Golbez (talk) 19:29, 1 September 2017 (UTC)


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