@nonamethanks: > BKaz20 said in forum #425122: > > Is length...

nonamethanks
2026-03-28T11:42:25-04:00

BKaz20 said in forum #425122:

Is length really an issue? While those two examples are long, I've seen plenty of copytags for other franchises that are just as long, if not longer. Still, I wouldn't be opposed to shortening them to pokemon black and white 2 and pokemon ultra sun and moon. No clue what to do for LGPE though.

We try to avoid long tags when possible because they wrap around in the tag list and look really bad, so yes sometimes it's a concern. It doesn't really matter for official titles, but in cases like these where we're coming up with a tag name just for ourselves anyway, we might as well use a name that doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

Another alternative would be "&" for two games and slashes for others, so pokemon black & white, pokemon ultra sun & ultra moon, pokemon red/green/blue/yellow. We're only adding two extra characters compared to slashes for two-game entries, so it looks less jarring for them.

A third alternative would just have the two main games, and add the others as aliases: so pokemon gold & silver and pokemon crystal as alias to it; pokemon red & green with pokemon yellow and pokemon blue aliased to it. This way we avoid overly long names, but not sure how people feel about that. This final option also opens the door for making the tags for updated versions subtags instead of aliases without renaming the parent tag, if we decide it's worth it in the future.