Talk:Platforms Doom has been ported to

Merge?
The list of platforms, in itself, is redundant with Games. An extremely short overview of each, as is done here, could easily be added to Games without bloating it (precedent for formatting: Monsters, Weapons, Skulltag). Ledmeister has demonstrated, of course, that much longer descriptions of similarities and differences are possible, but to go into that amount of detail we could always give each port one article, which I believe was the original intent of all the red links in Games (the author of this article has been turning those into redirects, misleadingly IMHO).


 * Merge.   Ryan W 22:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge. Bloodshedder 23:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge. -- Janizdreg 03:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge. Nuxius 07:42, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Well since this has been up for almost a year, and no one has objected, I am going to go ahead and merge some of this into games. Mostly taking info out this article and sticking it into pages that don't exist yet. I'll keep this one here, so if someone does have a problem, we can always revert. Nuxius 07:42, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Alright, almost everything is done, with the exception of:

NEXTSTEP -- One sentence does not a article make, me thinks. ;)

DOS -- Information is already in other places; redundant.

Doom 95 -- ditto

X-Box 360 - ditto

Playstation/Saturn -- Has some useful info, however a article already exists (for PSX), so they'll have to be merged. I'm working on it. Also, I'll split the Saturn info and put it into it's own article.

X-Box. For some reason, on the Games page, there are 2 entries for the 2 versions on X-Box. Well, both the GBA and PSX had 2 versions, and they are on the same page. I think for uniformity sake, the 2 X-Box versions should be one article as well. Does anyone have a problem with this? Nuxius 08:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Nuxius, the changes look great so far. I'd like to see the article deleted eventually (as opposed to leaving it here like you suggest) since it will probably be a completely redundant article. Also I'm a grammar Nazi and "Platforms Doom has been ported to" makes my eye twitch. ;) AFAIK deletions can be reverted as well. Zack 22:18, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Once the article splitting is completed, this article should be deleted. It makes no sense to have duplicated content. Fraggle 10:47, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


 * US$0.02: Deletions can indeed be reverted, but I don't think that makes a deletion just another normal editing action.  When all the content in this article becomes either redundant or irrelevant, then by all means nominate it, but until then, each contributor should be able to evaluate the situation for themselves (especially important on this site, with the amount of almost-drive-by editing we attract).


 * AFAIAA the two Xbox releases are even more similar than the two GBA releases, so if the latter share an article, the former should also share an article. The Playstation case is complicated by the fact that Williams swapped a couple of levels around between games (see here for some previous discussion).  DOS could redirect to Vanilla Doom.  I've read that the NeXTSTEP version was used during development, so even if the public release has no gameplay differences from the Linux version, we could still write about its history, similar to the Alpha articles &mdash; assuming of course that somebody outside id has ever seen it!    Ryan W 13:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Just to clarify some stuff, I do agree that is page should be deleted; what I meant was that I'm not going to be the one to delete it. Anyway, I'll do like Ryan was saying and nominate it for deletion when I'm through getting the info I need out of it.

Also, I agree that NEXTSTEP deserves an article, I just think the lone sentence here shouldn't be that article. And since I know next to nothing about the NEXTSTEP port, I'm definitely not the person to write it. :p Nuxius 08:15, 22 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Nuxius, how is this coming along? Have you gotten all the information you needed so that the page can be deleted? Zack 00:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I already have all of the info I need from this article. I was just waiting until I got all of the pages up elsewhere in the wiki before saying anything. Anyway, now that I am back from my vacation, I'm back to finishing this up (only have the X-Box article to finish up). So you can delete the article/nominate it for deletion/whatever. Nuxius 03:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


 * One thing; the articles are all being called after the system name, when they aren't in general about the system, but about ports/adaptations of the games to those systems. I'm moving them to "(Console) version" titles, except in the case of Doom 64, where I've simply added a redirect from Nintendo 64 version for consistency and completeness. Naturally, all the original titles redirect to the new ones, so anyone typing the console names should get to the articles. I've also edited the Commercial games to go along with this. -- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Who is like God? (talk • contribs).


 * Well isn't that kind of obvious? This is a Doom wiki, after all. There aren't any basic system articles, and probably never will be (see Talk:Computer). I personally see this as entirely redundant. If a person isn't smart enough to realize that a article titled Sony PlayStation in a Doom wiki is about that particular Doom version, then I don't think adding version after it is going to make it any clearer for them. Heck, if you want to make it clearer and completely fool proof, you might as well go 'all the way' with it and title the articles Doom (Console Version), like Doom (PlayStation Version), for example. I personally think that makes for a far better article name, and is also completely fool proof. I don't think even the biggest idiot could confuse what that article is about. :p Nuxius 01:45, 22 March 2008 (UTC)