Talk:People (style guide)

It is becoming more obvious that we're going to need a more explicit way of dealing with crediting people who have ported other people's games. I get the impression that contributors want to keep porting credits separate from normal author credits; perhaps we want a 'Porting Credits' section? Also, I would really prefer to see ported game references to be in the style of:

• Ported Game Name (porter: Porter's Name; date; ported-platform). Ported from Previous Game Name (authors; date; previous-platform).

-- David Welbourn 20:04, 16 May 2005 (Central Daylight Time)

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There's something I don't understand here:

Games that were ported, translated, illustrated, or remade should be listed in the Porting Credits section.

I don't think games that were illustrated by the person should be listed in Porting Credits, if they were never released without graphics! Which section should they be listed in instead? Author Credits, Other credits, or another one?

Also: I think this page should be more precise about which categories the people should be added to (Illustrators, Interviewed, Translators, French, etc.), like in the Games (style guide) page. --Eriorg 11:30, 13 July 2006 (EST)

Good catch. I think my reasoning went something like 'author credits are one thing I can moreorless clearly understand and can be put in one section, and all the quasi-authorship stuff (which is complicated to think about) goes into another'. So, um, I belatedly propose the creation of a new section called Multimedia Credits which can be used to credit people who have done illustrations, music, sound effects, and animation in IF works that they didn't author in the usually-understood sense. And, I'll try to add something more about categories. It's been a while since I last looked at these style guide pages; I guess they could use a bit of updating. -- David Welbourn 22:12, 13 July 2006 (EST)