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| | | Author: | StormChaser  | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2023 16:31 | | Subject: | Games | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| One catalog expert disagrees with me on this issue, but I am requesting that
the entire catalog team discuss this and present a unified opinion on the matter.
I also hope to hear input from other BrickLink members. Such input should definitely
have been considered in this decision (so please share your thoughts).
My opinion is that games should all be located together. When games were moved
from Sets to Gear, some were scattered throughout the catalog instead of being
categorized as games:
The rationale given to me was that only sets branded as Games would be in the
Games category. Yet even those clearly branded on the box as the Games theme
were sometimes not categorized as games:
Sets: LEGO Brand: LEGO Employee Gift: Holiday & Event: Christmas: Games
Currently, only 42 games are correctly categorized as games:
There are, by the way, other instances of set box branding ignored for the purpose
of making things easy to find. For example, these sets are all categorized as
Advent even though not all are branded that way (and, really, there is technically
no Advent branding anyway):
Why are all the advent calendars in one place? Because common sense says that
people looking for advent calendars want to see them all in one place. The same
common sense says that people looking for games want to see them all in one place.
In addition, BrickLink does not even have written guidelines governing how sets
are categorized - so it's all just the whim of the person deciding. In this
case, scattering games was simply a bad decision.
Here's another example. These sets are absolutely not Train sets. They
are City sets. Look at the pictures of the set boxes.
Notice the distinct difference in box appearance from a true train set:
But we categorize them as trains. Why were they not categorized as City:
Train: RC Train instead? Because common sense says they are trains and people
want to find all the trains together in one place.
There is more to categorization than just the box and that is why I have made
this request for a well-considered group decision. The games should have stayed
together and they should be together.
It just makes sense.
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| | | | | Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2023 16:39 | | Subject: | Re: Games | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | |
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| In Catalog Requests, StormChaser writes:
| | games were moved from Sets to Gear
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Oops. Games moved from Gear to Sets.
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