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:::::* Call chapters "adventures", "gets", "battles", etc, mimicking their manga. As I said at the start: I do not think this is a good option, primarily because of the ones like "battle" and "event" (and even "adventure" and "game"). | :::::* Call chapters "adventures", "gets", "battles", etc, mimicking their manga. As I said at the start: I do not think this is a good option, primarily because of the ones like "battle" and "event" (and even "adventure" and "game"). | ||
:::::[[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 19:45, 1 August 2023 (UTC) | :::::[[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 19:45, 1 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
::::::Your first option that you listed here is the only one I don't like at all, calling them chapters in series outside of Pokémon Adventures could work, but I think the fact that the Adventures manga also prominently uses the word "chapter" to refer to story arcs would make this term ambiguous as well. Unless we also want to replace the term "chapter" with "story arc" or similar, but I'm coming at this from the perspective of trying to stick as to the source material as close as possible, because I think we should use the terms that the average reader is going to be exposed to. | |||
::::::My issue with the second option is that it can end up with tortured phrasing that makes it obvious we're dancing around referring to them as chapter/chapter-equivalents, if I were to see something like "In ''Adventure 2 - Title Here'', [...]" and I'm on the page for Adventure 3, I'd wonder why it was written that way instead of just writing "In the previous Adventure". I guess I consider "title drop" links like that to be reserved for things separated from the current chapter/episode by more than just one increment. | |||
::::::As for your third option, I think that the more I consider the idea of using them as proper nouns the more I like it. For what it's worth, there's a lot of times on Bulbapedia or other wikis I have a "what in the world is a ''whatever''" moment, but as soon as I click the link to ''whatever'' and read about what it is/what it means, the confusion is gone and I have an understanding of the proper terminology now. It was confusing, but only on my first encounter, and only for a brief moment, and I don't think there's anything wrong with users having an experience like that. [[User:Minibug|Minibug]] ([[User talk:Minibug|talk]]) 21:11, 1 August 2023 (UTC) | |||
