Tag Aliases/Discussion: VG Consoles

Alias: "ps1" to "playstation_1"/"playstation_one" (not in use)
Alias: "ps2" to "playstation_2"
Alias: "ps3" to "playstation_3"
Alias: "psp" to "playstation_portable"
Implication: "playstation_[whatever]" to "playstation"

Implication: "xbox_360" to "xbox"
(poss. Alias: "xbox360" to "xbox_360")

Alias: "nes" to "famicom"/"family_computer"
Alias: "snes" to "super_famicom"
Alias: "super_nintendo" to "super_famicom"
Alias: "sfc" to "super_famicom"
(these have some trouble: 2/3 of the "nes" pics involve actual NES stuff)
(poss. Alias: "gamecube" to "nintendo_gamecube")
(poss. Impl.: "nintendo_ds_lite" to "nintendo_ds")
(poss. Impl.: "nintendo_dsi" to "nintendo_ds")

I'm not too versed in the other companies' givings, but that's about all I can scramble right now. The Game Boy stuff has already been Alis'd and Imp'd all up, so HAVE AT THESE!

Why the long tags? I would reverse all of these.

I don't like the xbox <-> xbox_360 implication. They are two different consoles and you'd just be polluting the one tag with the other. Although you could search for xbox -xbox_360 to get the same result in case it is applied, I just don't think the implication is a good idea.

The NDS ones make a bit more sense since you would probably want to find all the types NDS when you search for nintendo_ds. With xbox, I don't think that's the case, you'd be looking for the xbox console.

I'm not sure about the NES -> famicom idea either since they're not the same thing.

I prefer the shorter tags too.

The NES and the famicom look pretty different, so I don't think those two should be aliased.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ファミリーコンピュータ

Just to note, edited your second link to be shorter. Should still work - does for me anyway.

*bumping for related discussion*

there appears to be 3 tags for the same thing: video_game_console, game_console , and console. should we alias these? however, the later appears to be used for something else like post #1130763 and post #1191422 for operating a ship, computer, or mecha. should these be better tagged as system_console instead? thoughts? thanks.

let's go with game_console, I guess. Aliased video_game_console to that. Ill leave plain console alone until it gets cleaned up.

bumping.

console has a new wiki which mirrors game_console and video_game_console. what do we do with plain console? i think it's easy enough for a cleanup but do we reserve it for non-game consoles or empty and mark it as ambiguous (moving the rest to system_console)?

bumping for wiki move and cleanup. system_console is populated now but posts containing plain console are still retained. also,

create alias handheld -> handheld_game_console

reason: for clarity

ghostrigger said:

create alias handheld -> handheld_game_console

reason: for clarity

Done

^ thanks. but what we'll do with the console tag since it's cleaned already as suggested before? those that fall under game_consoles were already tagged as such and system_console for those that don't fall under game_console.

requesting permission to mark console ambiguous (and empty it) and move the current console wiki to game_console.

ghostrigger said:
requesting permission to mark console ambiguous (and empty it) and move the current console wiki to game_console.

Sounds fine.