Talk:Pokémon Stadium#Famitsu score error

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Pokemon Stadium 3. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 November 21#Pokemon Stadium 3 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesomeHwyh 15:28, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

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I have read over this article's GA review and would like to draw a community consensus on splitting the section about the original Japanese release of Pokémon Stadium and its sequel (known as Pokémon Stadium outside of Japan). The original Japanese game has many differences from the game that this article is about.

For those unfamiliar, the original Japanese game has a much smaller roster of Pokémon to battle with and is based on real-life tournaments. This game was never released outside of Japan. The second Stadium released in Japan is the same game as the English release of Pokémon Stadium.

The question is whether this separate game should have its own article on the English Wikipedia or it should be designated to a section on the English Pokémon Stadium article. Personally, I don't see it constituting its own separate article due to a shortage of content, but that doesn't necessarily make it insufficient to get its own page.

What would the community like to do here? — Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 08:35, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

:@Paper Luigi as I mentioned in the review, I couldn't find any Reception or reviews for the subject from what I could find. The production information and gameplay also share significant overlap, and would be largely duplicative of each other in those areas. I feel a split would not be wise here. I wait on the reviewer to see how they feel this section should be handled at this time, so I would wait at the very least until the review is done before making any hasty judgements on if this should be split or not. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 21:29, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

::{{ping|Paper_Luigi}} and {{ping|Pokelego999}} with just a quick overview, I've found quite a chunk.

::* English Review from IGN: [https://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/31/pokemon-stadium-import-2 here]

::* Four page English Review from 64 Magazine [https://archive.org/details/64-magazine-19/page/38/mode/2up here]

::* Portuguese review from Gamers [https://archive.org/details/gamers-br-34/page/n51/mode/2up here]

::* French review from Joypad [https://archive.org/details/joypad-078-septembre-1998/page/n75/mode/2up here]

::* Japanese retrospective overview from Famitsu [https://www.famitsu.com/article/202408/12478 here] (especially useful for comparing it to later releases)

::While researching, I think the Famitsu review in this article might not be the review for this Pokemon Stadium, per this IGN article [https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/04/24/pokemon-stadium-2-garners-praise here].

::Generally speaking, it does not really matter that they are similar. They have a different production history, different reception, and quite different release despite being similar games. Kind of like how Super Mario Bros. Deluxe and Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels all have different articles despite being games that at a glance, the average reader would not be able to tell apart. This would also help seperate what I still read as really confusing for two games with similar titles (i.e: Japanese game called Pocket Monsters Stadium and an American game called Pokémon Stadium. Andrzejbanas (talk) 09:15, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

:::Thanks to the new information presented above, I'm inclined to go along with the split, which it seems is already in progress. — Paper Luigi ^{T • C} 07:08, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

::::@Paper Luigi should be finished, bar any minor changes done during Stadium's GAN. The reviews pushed me over as well; they're small, but there's enough there to justify a split given how strangely balanced the article would be with both articles as one. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 16:04, 23 January 2025 (UTC)