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:Policy is similar to Wikipedia - it doesn't matter which spelling you use, but be consistent throughout an entire page (rather than throughout the entire site). I'm British, so I say colour, categorise etc. It's not a problem if you use -ize, but please don't go round changing British spellings into American just for the sake of it (which some people do). My Talk page gets archived every now and then (whenever I remember), it was quite overdue being archived again. What you did with car thefts etc is fine, I can't suggest anything else. [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 22:50, 15 November 2008 (UTC) | :Policy is similar to Wikipedia - it doesn't matter which spelling you use, but be consistent throughout an entire page (rather than throughout the entire site). I'm British, so I say colour, categorise etc. It's not a problem if you use -ize, but please don't go round changing British spellings into American just for the sake of it (which some people do). My Talk page gets archived every now and then (whenever I remember), it was quite overdue being archived again. What you did with car thefts etc is fine, I can't suggest anything else. [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 22:50, 15 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
::Well once again, Australia uses British spelling. I also use colour. I wouldn't go around fixing -ise for -ize (or any British for American) if I knew that -ise was British. In fact, I copied and pasted it into Microsoft Word before I ''fixed'' it to see if it was acceptable (knowing that you typed up the page) and it came up with a red line (which reminds me, I better check my language settings). While patrolling, I saw a user change mum to mom and knowing the policy, I got confused as to why it mattered. I didn't make a big fuss over it by reverting the edit or anything, but I couldn't believe that a user wasted time on that. I admit, once on [[Roman Bellic|Roman]] I wrote ''trunk'' instead of ''boot'' just because I know that everyone understands trunk and not everyone boot. But I don't use any American language personally (American culture has a big influence on me/but not in language). Also, I don't know what was wrong with me when I edited [[Caddy]], I even noticed the bad spelling in my edit summary. Thanks for fixing that. One other thing. [[Freeways in GTA IV]] was once called [[Freeways in the GTA IV rendition of Liberty City]], which moved to [[Freeways in Liberty City in GTA IV]], which a few days later I compressed to [[Freeways in GTA IV]]. I was thinking that Freeways in GTA IV would be much easier to find, and we all know that [[GTA IV]] takes place in [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]] (anyone who wants to know about the freeways anyway). I noticed however that your the one that made [[Bridges in Liberty City in GTA IV]], meaning that you have a reason for mentioning Liberty City? I think that one of them needs to be moved for consistency, but which one? Oh, and sorry for having one huge post and taking up all the space on your talk page again. '''[[user:Biggest gta fan ever|Biggest GTA Fan Ever]]<sup>''[[user talk:Biggest gta fan ever|Talk]]''</sup>''' 05:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC) | ::Well once again, Australia uses British spelling. I also use colour. I wouldn't go around fixing -ise for -ize (or any British for American) if I knew that -ise was British. In fact, I copied and pasted it into Microsoft Word before I ''fixed'' it to see if it was acceptable (knowing that you typed up the page) and it came up with a red line (which reminds me, I better check my language settings). While patrolling, I saw a user change mum to mom and knowing the policy, I got confused as to why it mattered. I didn't make a big fuss over it by reverting the edit or anything, but I couldn't believe that a user wasted time on that. I admit, once on [[Roman Bellic|Roman]] I wrote ''trunk'' instead of ''boot'' just because I know that everyone understands trunk and not everyone boot. But I don't use any American language personally (American culture has a big influence on me/but not in language). Also, I don't know what was wrong with me when I edited [[Caddy]], I even noticed the bad spelling in my edit summary. Thanks for fixing that. One other thing. [[Freeways in GTA IV]] was once called [[Freeways in the GTA IV rendition of Liberty City]], which moved to [[Freeways in Liberty City in GTA IV]], which a few days later I compressed to [[Freeways in GTA IV]]. I was thinking that Freeways in GTA IV would be much easier to find, and we all know that [[Grand Theft Auto IV|GTA IV]] takes place in [[Liberty City in GTA IV|Liberty City]] (anyone who wants to know about the freeways anyway). I noticed however that your the one that made [[Bridges in Liberty City in GTA IV]], meaning that you have a reason for mentioning Liberty City? I think that one of them needs to be moved for consistency, but which one? Oh, and sorry for having one huge post and taking up all the space on your talk page again. '''[[user:Biggest gta fan ever|Biggest GTA Fan Ever]]<sup>''[[user talk:Biggest gta fan ever|Talk]]''</sup>''' 05:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
:I wasn't trying to get at you about spellings - just explaining policy. I recall a decision being made on whether to mention games or cities. Normally, you'd say city (Bridges in San Andreas). But where there are multiple 3D renditons of a city, then mention the game name instead (Bridges in GTA IV). Don't bother mentioning both (unless you have to). Create redirects and/or disambigs as much as possible (whichever is appropriate). However, if a feature is only in one rendition, you can leave it as the city name (eg: Subway in Liberty City?). | :I wasn't trying to get at you about spellings - just explaining policy. I recall a decision being made on whether to mention games or cities. Normally, you'd say city (Bridges in San Andreas). But where there are multiple 3D renditons of a city, then mention the game name instead (Bridges in GTA IV). Don't bother mentioning both (unless you have to). Create redirects and/or disambigs as much as possible (whichever is appropriate). However, if a feature is only in one rendition, you can leave it as the city name (eg: Subway in Liberty City?). | ||
:The reason for all that is because [[Liberty City]] is a place, and [[GTA III]] is a game - things to do with the place should be part of the place as much as possible. However, if Rockstar keep re-using cities, they're ''all'' going to have to be moved to the game's name. And I also don't like having different styles for different games (not that anyone would notice). So should we move to use "in GTA IV" for everything, instead of the city names? Or should we stick with using the best option, and using the 2nd best if that one is impossible, and using 3rd best if that one is impossible? [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 05:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC) | :The reason for all that is because [[Liberty City]] is a place, and [[Grand Theft Auto III|GTA III]] is a game - things to do with the place should be part of the place as much as possible. However, if Rockstar keep re-using cities, they're ''all'' going to have to be moved to the game's name. And I also don't like having different styles for different games (not that anyone would notice). So should we move to use "in GTA IV" for everything, instead of the city names? Or should we stick with using the best option, and using the 2nd best if that one is impossible, and using 3rd best if that one is impossible? [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 05:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
::While I will love to be in the discussion, I don't think that a HUGE policy change like this should take place in a private discussion, especially with you directly asking me. So I have imported (and replied to) all (relevant) discussion from this page to [[Grand Theft Wiki talk:Consistency]]. If that is not the right place for the discussion please move it again, but looking through all the policy, that looked like the best place to me. '''[[user:Biggest gta fan ever|Biggest GTA Fan Ever]]<sup>''[[user talk:Biggest gta fan ever|Talk]]''</sup>''' 06:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC) | ::While I will love to be in the discussion, I don't think that a HUGE policy change like this should take place in a private discussion, especially with you directly asking me. So I have imported (and replied to) all (relevant) discussion from this page to [[Grand Theft Wiki talk:Consistency]]. If that is not the right place for the discussion please move it again, but looking through all the policy, that looked like the best place to me. '''[[user:Biggest gta fan ever|Biggest GTA Fan Ever]]<sup>''[[user talk:Biggest gta fan ever|Talk]]''</sup>''' 06:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC) | ||