Talk:Quick Time Event

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Contents 1 Starting page 2 Citation? 3 Name 4 Dragon’s Lair reference

[edit] Starting page

Just started the page, heard about QTE's all the time and took me a while to figure out what it was refering to so figure a page on it wont hurt. I know that its not the "official" name(there doesnt seem to be one), so trying to make that clear. John.n-irl 16:48, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation?

The only citation on this page is one for heavenly sword. I don't think it should be on there, as a list hardly needs citations. ~~Lazyguythewerewolf . Rawr. 15:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name

No one refers to them as Quick Timer Events as far as i can see, while it may originally have been coined that. Im going to try editing the article to reflect that(with a source). (sorry this comes after a bunch of edits, but it needs a source anyway if your changing the name because of Shenmue)John.n-irl (talk) 22:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Aargh! I don't really care what it's called, but can people stop doing cut-and-paste moves. It destroys the history. Use the Move tab people! Leithp 08:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I've now move protected it for a week anyway, to allow for discussion. The move protection won't stop edits to the article. Leithp 08:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Ha, grand, sorry don't usually move pages John.n-irl (talk) 21:44, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

While I don't have too much of a preference one way or the other, it is probably important to have consistency. Currently the article is at Quick Time Event, but the article itself (outside of the reference text quoted from 1up) refers to Quick Timer Events.

For what it's worth, the PAL manuals for Shenmue I and II both use the spelling "Timer", and the US manual for at least Shenmue also uses that same spelling. There has been a short discussion on the subject at User talk:Waka#QTEs.

What we do have that could be useful here is WP:COMMONNAME, which suggests that the article should be at the most common name. So if Quick Time Event is now most common, we should probably keep the article located there, regardless of the original spelling. --Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 13:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

It can be noted that Zero Punctuation uses "quick time event". --BranER (talk) 14:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon’s Lair reference

I have to wonder if a single reviewer’s opinion is enough for an encyclopedia to credit Dragon’s Lair for the introduction of QTEs… —Frungi (talk) 04:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)