Seperate Pokemon Red and Blue, and others

Can Pokemon Red and Blue be seperated please, they are seperate games that were released seperately and have seperate box art. Its just not right for them to have to share a page, as similar as they are.

Can the same also be done for the other merged Pokemon games too, like FireRed and LeafGreen... and I suspect Gold/Silver, Ruby/Sapphire and Diamond/Pearl probably have the same problem.

I can understand Blue and Green sharing the same page, since they were infact the same game released under a different name for different regions. But the others are seperate games so I think it would be proper for them to have seperate pages.

Thanks!

Can someone atleast post their thoughts on this?

There are different pokemon in the games, but that can be worked into the game's article on the site (perhaps under a "Differences Between Red and Blue" title.) They ARE different games, but in this case where the only difference is a handful of pokemon, I think it's appropriate for the games to be merged.

Well personally I think they are different games, no matter how small the differences, and should be treated as such. It's not like Giant Bomb cant have pages to accomodate the games seperately.

Oh and thanks for posting and I totally understand where your coming from, I just think they need their own pages thats all.

I think they should definitely have different wiki pages. They're different games, and I'd want to add both of them separately when our "collections" start working.

Yes I definitely think they should be on different pages.

I donno, this game is pretty much the same.

"I donno, this game is pretty much the same.
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No, because having 2 forums for essentially the same game is kinda dumb. All discussion about the game would be easier to find on one page.

Yeah, I dont think the content differences in each game is really substantial enough to warrant two seperate pages.

true and the rest of the Pokemon handheld such as Diamond and Pearl, Gold and Silver

"No, because having 2 forums for essentially the same game is kinda dumb. All discussion about the game would be easier to find on one page.
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"Blubba said:

"No, because having 2 forums for essentially the same game is kinda dumb. All discussion about the game would be easier to find on one page.
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But still, it's two different games.

This would be like combining NBA Live and NBA 2k games. They're pretty much the exact same, but they're two different games, and therefore have different pages.

Pokemon games shouldn't be an exception.
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"I think they should definitely have different wiki pages. They're different games, and I'd want to add both of them separately when our "collections" start working.
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This is a though call but I think I agree with keeping the games together. I understand the desire to seperate them for collection purposes but I think keeping duscussion about the game to one wiki is more important. Besides you can note in the collection list that you own both versions. Let's be honest here, they are pretty much the same game. Same plot, same locations, same ending. A hand full of pokemon doesn't make that big a difference.

The games are kinda the same to me, except with different pokemon.

"This is a though call but I think I agree with keeping the games together. I understand the desire to seperate them for collection purposes but I think keeping duscussion about the game to one wiki is more important. Besides you can note in the collection list that you own both versions. Let's be honest here, they are pretty much the same game. Same plot, same locations, same ending. A hand full of pokemon doesn't make that big a difference.
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They are completly the same, if that would be the case then they would have create wiki pages for each game even if it is the same but released in different consoles. For example, Zelda Twilight Princess, GC and Wii versions are different, wii has the wii controlers 16.8 allowed (I think) widescreen support, and im sure im missing some other stuff. Whats the point of creating 2 different pages for games like this if in the end its just the same.

"They are completly the same, if that would be the case then they would have create wiki pages for each game even if it is the same but released in different consoles. For example, Zelda Twilight Princess, GC and Wii versions are different, wii has the wii controlers 16.8 allowed (I think) widescreen support, and im sure im missing some other stuff. Whats the point of creating 2 different pages for games like this if in the end its just the same.
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Does it really matter? They probably did it to save time and space.

"Does it really matter? They probably did it to save time and space.
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They're the same game.  Small differences between versions are not different games.

"I think they should definitely have different wiki pages. They're different games, and I'd want to add both of them separately when our "collections" start working.
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Well, after reading through all of the responses, I think it would actually be best to keep them together. That way we can:

• keep the conversations in the same forum
• have one article covering both games and the differences between them, this avoids 2 radically different articles

I'm gunna go and edit the Red/Blue page to add the different versions to the release list, that way we can add them to our collections seperately.

That should solve everything I think ^_^

They are the same game apart from a few differences. Keeping them together makes the wiki much more manageable.

They are the same game with two different versions.  Every set of games like this should stay merged (Pokemon, Mega Man Battle Network/Star Force, etc.).

We discussed this extensively before launching the site, with both Pokemon and Battle Network/Star Force coming up as examples. These games are essentially identical with only a handful of different collectible characters distinguishing them from each other. All the other information about them you would write would be the same, so it's more effective to collect all that info (including a section on the differences) in the same page where it's more easily accessible to anyone with either version of the game.

To expand on what Brad said, I also think another good reason is that both the Pokemon Red and Blue games share the same story (as well as the rest of the games in the Franchise), and thus should stay all together on 1 single page.

The Wiki Section is not some in-depth Strategy Guide, but more of an Overview with some Strategy/Trivia Elements thrown-in.  Someone can easy input the differences between these 2 Pokemon games on this 1 single page.

For a great example, you could even look at a game like Final Fantasy IV.  It has just 1 single page, but its remakes are even more vastly different between each other than the Pokemon games. The main thing here is that it's plot is the same between the 5 different remakes, thus the reason for only having 1 single page.

In situations like this, I believe it is more helpful that these games stay on 1 single page, so that there is a more focused repository of information.

organizational bump!