Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/August/5

Category:Magic: The Gathering stubs

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The result of the debate was create "Collectible card games" cat and CCG-game-stub, delete Magic cat, upmerge Magic template

Rename to the more useful Category:Trading card game stubs for all trading/collectible card games (or TCGs). Current Cat has only 18 stubs. Keep and upmerge MTG-game-stub, and create TCG-game-stub. Although redundant, TCG is a very easily recognizable abbreviation for trading card games, usually used to easily differentiate within franchises (i.e. Pokemon TCG, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, etc.).~ JohnnyMrNinja  23:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I would think that CCG is a more common acronym, used for Collectible Card Game. ~ Amalas  rawr  =^_^=  20:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I concur with the "CCG" observation; that also concords with our articles on the topic.  Alai 03:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The article names are a separate issue, but should be renamed per naming conventions. I hate to use Google hits, but "Collectible Card Game" nets 334,000, whereas "Trading Card Game" nets 2,070,000. Huge difference. WotC refers to Magic the Gathering as a "TCG" . The main Pokemon page refers to it's "TCG" . Yo-Gi-Oh! refers to itself (cartoon and game) as a "trading card game" or "TCG" . Does anyone argue that these are by-far the most famous of this type of game? "Collectible card game" is not highly used by the major companies that produce such games, not the most recognized by English readers, and therefor is inaccurate by naming conventions. See Naming conventions (common names). ~  JohnnyMrNinja  04:49, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not a separate issue at all, and the stub category name is exactly the wrong place to start such a discussion, or to depart from the existing choice of name. BTW, permcat is at, just to underline the point.  (I wouldn't be surprised if those two games alone were responsible for large amounts of google pollution;  MtG is itself definitely a "CCG", not at "TCG", in normal usage.)  Alai 12:04, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Would CCG-game-stub be redundant? What about MTG-game-stub? Is the "game" really necessary?  ~ Amalas  rawr  =^_^=  16:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Technically, you're right. But CCG-stub would be cryptic and ambiguous}} (as would [[TCG), while CC-game-stub would be a bit strange.  Alai 02:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Closing note: I went with CCG because it follows the permcat. If that needs to be changed, then take that to WP:CFD~ Amalas rawr  =^_^=  17:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
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American-biography-stub

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The result of the debate was speedy delete

Ah, for a speedy criterion... presumably this is an attempt to make a duplicate of US-bio-stub - difficult to tell, though, since all it contains is. Delete, speedily if possible. Grutness...wha?  01:56, 5 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Strong delete. Not needed, duplicate, violates the NC. Valentinian T / C 07:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong speedy delete. Unnecessary duplicate. Anyway, its current content is "". Bart133 (t) (c) 00:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
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