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the frog flying into the air. It is the successor to {{nihongo|'''''Kero Kero King'''''|ケロケロキング}}), released only in Japan in 2000 for the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]].
{{nihongo|'''''Kero Kero King'''''|ケロケロキング}}) is the predecessor to {{nihongo|''Ribbit King''}}, developed by Amedio and published by [[Media

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Renaming articles

A few days ago, you cut the contents of a several pages and pasted them on a different article to retitle. While appreciable, this is not the way to do it. Should you come across more titling errors in the future, Wikipedia:MOVE#How to move a page outlines the proper way to move a page. Sometimes, the page you need the article to be at already exists as a redirect, in these cases, you should use {{db-move}} at the top of the page; this is fully explained at WP:MOR. You didn't necessarily do anything bad, but it's best to have everyone following the same guidelines for stuff like this. If you have further questions, you can poke me, and I'll try to answer them. mol uɐɯ 22:14, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changing date styles

Deeply troubling to see your contributions filled with "DMY dates for a UK-developed game." The policy is to retain the given format unless you have a case for strong national ties. Perhaps there's one for a battle in the UK, but the developer's location is not STRONGNAT for a video game. In any case, it's a discussion to have individually on article pages and not to be enacted unilaterally. Please revert your edits. czar ♔ 22:41, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is completely unreasonable. It uses the EngvarB template, for one thing. In fact, check the page for GoldenEye by the same developer or the pages for the Grand Theft Auto series of video games (except Advance, which was developed in the U.S.); they have at some point in their life had their date format changed from the previous MDY to DMY under MOS:DATEUNIFY. I'll admit, "DMY dates for a UK-developed game" or any variation thereof sounds a bit cocky for an edit summary, and it may be wiser to use the MOS:DATEUNIFY tag next time, but the above situations prove that I'm not the only one doing this sort of thing. MrLavisherMoot (talk) 00:16, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If the standardization is done by editors maintaining the series and there is local consensus, I wouldn't even bother. I saw this happening on pages unilaterally, without engvarB consensus. (As for GTA and Rare, it's a controversial position to claim STRONGNAT based on developer location. I know of perhaps two editors who try to maintain those articles and thus their engvarB, but it certainly isn't a widespread practice.) I'm asking that you achieve consensus in an article or topic area before systematically changing the format. And that you revert your edits in the meantime. czar ♔ 01:04, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And that you revert your edits in the meantime.
So you're basically suggesting that I should go back and revert all edits of a similar nature I did on other affected pages, including those music albums I did a few weeks back? I would have thought that the game developer or musician(s)' country of origin would be reason enough for strong national ties, but apparently that doesn't seem so. MrLavisherMoot (talk) 01:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's normal BRD procedure, and usually kinder to ask the original editor to revert their systematic edits than to receive a ton of "revert" notifs. I was particularly looking at the video game articles, but I'd recommend reverting all edits that don't have some kind of clear consensus already in place, yes czar ♔ 02:38, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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