Talk:Portal

Delete

We only document other games if they are directly relevant to Team Fortress or have promotional items. This page, along with the ones for Left 4 Dead and Counter-Strike, offer no value to this wiki. I'd suggest either reverting the "split" or just redirecting/deleting them. — Tark 20:35, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I can see the reasoning behind it, and if we do decide to keep it as-is we would have to feature other games from Valve as well. I think to avoid that, simply merging the pages into a series page rather than their own pages (see Half-Life) is what I prefer.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 20:42, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Half-Life being a page about the game series and having a "buy now" link for the first game is a bad example imo. It should either be a page about the first Half-Life game or a page about the series (which should list all games in the Half-Life series and moved/renamed to "Half-Life series").

I understand the rationale of having a page for game series, but they are simply not relevant. We would never consider documenting all the Witcher games just because of the promo item from The Witcher 2. And I see no point in making an exemption for Valve games either (we could definitely make a list of Valve somewhere but that's a talk for another day :^)).

Game pages are mostly used as "hubs" for the promo items. Making a page for Portal 2 has value: it links to all Portal 2-themed items, has a basic description of the game and some relevant links. In contrast, a page for Portal 1 could be reduced to a brief text passage within the Portal 2 article. — Tark 21:37, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

imo it would either be for the entire series (the articles have existed for quite a while now, I don't see much reason to not keep them for legacy reasons) or the irrelevant games would be deleted entirely. I prefer the merge, but would support the deletion otherwise.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 21:45, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm with Tark, delete them. We don't have a bunch of pages covering Lara Croft: Relic Run or Worms Pinball. They're not relevant to Team Fortress and they shouldn't be here on the wiki. I don't see much reason to keep them for legacy reasons. Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 01:05, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

  I'd vote for these articles to be deleted... as mentioned before, they add no value to wiki. Yossef • Talk 10:16, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

  Support.
Tiagoquix (talk) 14:49, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

  Support. - BrazilianNut (talk) 15:29, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ My understanding was these existed only as consistent link points for games mentioned on the wiki. AFAICT, these games are not mentioned in the main space, curiously enough. M I K A D O 282 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ (contact)(Help Wanted!) 02:30, 14 September 2024 (UTC)