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Disambiguation violates
WP:PTM by not disambiguating between articles sharing the exact title. "Art game" is not the same as "game art" and should not share a disambiguation page. ZXCVBNM (
TALK)13:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment@
Zxcvbnm: Why can't "game art" and "art game" share a DAB page? "Things that are not the same" are all what disambiguation is about. If we didn't have different things on the same DAB page there would be no need for disambiguation pages. Question: Could a reader unfamiliar with art concepts with video games be in doubt about which term ("game art" or "art game") to use? Also, this is not strictly a question of a partial title match, as each term fully uses up the characters. The key to
PTM is "significant risk of confusion between them". --
Bejnar (
talk)
17:40, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
I don't believe that anyone with typical knowledge of grammar would use "art game" to describe art in a video game. It clearly describes the game itself as the art. This doesn't seem to be a case of extreme ambiguity between the two terms. ZXCVBNM (
TALK)23:19, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
"What disambiguation pages are there for" should be simply as an aid to navigation for readers who are not sure what article they want, not for editors who want to show off how clever they are by saying that it's anything else. And let's remember that an encyclopedia exists for readers who want to find something out that they don't already know, rather than for people who already know everything. In this case I would have thought that it's unlikely, but possible, that anyone would confuse "art game" and "game art".
Phil Bridger (
talk)
13:14, 25 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete. I can get behind the idea that "Video games as an art form" and "Art game" could be confused, but this is a
WP:TWODABS situation and needs nothing but a hatnote. "Video game art" really is not ambiguous here (IMO), and even that could be in a hatnote rather than a separate dab page.
IceWelder [
✉]
19:48, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete Agree that the most reasonable terms that could be search results of "art game" can be handled through hatnotes at the current
art game. Merging "game art" on this page doesn't make sense, there's just no English way to mix those terms up (Though
art game should mention aspects of game art as part of why they are art games. --
Masem (
t)
21:39, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment, I don't understand the rules for Disambig pages well enough to !vote here, but I'll agree that I don't think a native speaker would confuse "game art" and "art game" even if they were unfamiliar with the topics. A non-native speaker might. English word-order rules can be tricky to learn.
ApLundell (
talk)
22:34, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Disambiguation violates
WP:PTM by not disambiguating between articles sharing the exact title. "Art game" is not the same as "game art" and should not share a disambiguation page. ZXCVBNM (
TALK)13:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment@
Zxcvbnm: Why can't "game art" and "art game" share a DAB page? "Things that are not the same" are all what disambiguation is about. If we didn't have different things on the same DAB page there would be no need for disambiguation pages. Question: Could a reader unfamiliar with art concepts with video games be in doubt about which term ("game art" or "art game") to use? Also, this is not strictly a question of a partial title match, as each term fully uses up the characters. The key to
PTM is "significant risk of confusion between them". --
Bejnar (
talk)
17:40, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
I don't believe that anyone with typical knowledge of grammar would use "art game" to describe art in a video game. It clearly describes the game itself as the art. This doesn't seem to be a case of extreme ambiguity between the two terms. ZXCVBNM (
TALK)23:19, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
"What disambiguation pages are there for" should be simply as an aid to navigation for readers who are not sure what article they want, not for editors who want to show off how clever they are by saying that it's anything else. And let's remember that an encyclopedia exists for readers who want to find something out that they don't already know, rather than for people who already know everything. In this case I would have thought that it's unlikely, but possible, that anyone would confuse "art game" and "game art".
Phil Bridger (
talk)
13:14, 25 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete. I can get behind the idea that "Video games as an art form" and "Art game" could be confused, but this is a
WP:TWODABS situation and needs nothing but a hatnote. "Video game art" really is not ambiguous here (IMO), and even that could be in a hatnote rather than a separate dab page.
IceWelder [
✉]
19:48, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete Agree that the most reasonable terms that could be search results of "art game" can be handled through hatnotes at the current
art game. Merging "game art" on this page doesn't make sense, there's just no English way to mix those terms up (Though
art game should mention aspects of game art as part of why they are art games. --
Masem (
t)
21:39, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment, I don't understand the rules for Disambig pages well enough to !vote here, but I'll agree that I don't think a native speaker would confuse "game art" and "art game" even if they were unfamiliar with the topics. A non-native speaker might. English word-order rules can be tricky to learn.
ApLundell (
talk)
22:34, 27 October 2021 (UTC)reply
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