User:Dinoguy1000/archetypes

History

Note that exact times aren't being tracked here (and I'm too lazy to go back and check), so some stuff that happened on the same day may be presented out-of-order. Also note that some stuff may need summarized (better).

Make additions or corrections as necessary.

• March 9, 2007 - Archetype created
• June 14–15, 2007 - User talk:Deltaneos/Archive 1#Card Lists and User talk:Huajun Chen/Archive Uno#Lists
• June 15, 2007 - User talk:BritishCynic/Archive0004#More Deletion
• June 15, 2007 - User talk:Huajun Chen/Archive Uno#Restore Category + Check out category + GX char images + We're safe + Category:Duelist and User talk:Deltaneos/Archive 1#Alive/User talk:Deltaneos/Archive 1#Categories./User talk:Deltaneos/Archive 1#Category: Duelist
  • All of the above discussions are, broadly speaking, the same discussion
  • Archetype member lists deleted in favor of templates and pages discussing strategy, etc.
  • Said pages categorized in Category:Archetype
• June 15, 2007 - Category:Archetype created
• July 23, 2007 - Category:Archetypes created and deleted minutes later (by the same editor), presumably because it duplicated Category:Archetype
• July 24, 2007 - Category:Archetypes redux by the same editor; time between creation and deletion this time is one minute
• June 4, 2008 - Support for marking a card as an archetype member or support card is added to {{CardTable2}}, via search1–search10
• June 30, 2008 - {{Infobox/Archetype}}, {{Infobox/Archetype/Start}}, {{Infobox/Archetype/ExtendedName}}, {{Infobox/Archetype/End}} created
• July 1, 2008 - {{Infobox/Archetype/List}} created, then renamed to {{Infobox/Archetype/Yu-Gi-Oh!}}
• July 9, 2008 - Explicit support for marking a card as an archetype member or support card is added to {{CardTable2}} with the replacement of the searchN parameters with more specific archetypeN and archsupportN parameters
  • Property:Archetypes, Property:Archetypes Support created
• September 25, 2008 - {{Infobox/Archetype/Start}} renamed to {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype/Start}}, {{Infobox/Archetype/ExtendedName}} renamed to {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype/ExtendedName}}, {{Infobox/Archetype/Yu-Gi-Oh!}} renamed to {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype/Yu-Gi-Oh!}} and then to {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype/List}}, {{Infobox/Archetype/End}} renamed to {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype/End}} to prevent a potential conflict with a more general ACG template
• September 26, 2008 - {{Infobox/Archetype}} renamed to {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype}} to prevent a potential conflict with a more general ACG template
• October 25, 2008 - {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype/ExtendedSetDetails}} created
• November 19, 2008 - {{ArchetypeNavbox}} created ("One Archetype template to rule them all")
• December 11, 2008 - Property:Archetype Related created
• October 22, 2009 - Forum:Article title casing/plurality
  • Archetype page names briefly mentioned in the last couple of comments, specifically pointing out that plural archetype page names don't make much sense
• October 22, 2009 - Category:Templates/Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype created
• September 29, 2010 - Talk:Mirror of the Ice Barrier
• October 16, 2010 - Forum:Confining archetypes to monsters only
• December 28, 2010 - Forum:Singular archetype page names?
  • Singularize archetype page names (e.g. "Archlords" → "Archlord")
  • Category:Archetype renamed to Category:Archetypes
  • "(archetype)" used as a disambiguator/qualifier when there's a name conflict with something else (card, etc.)
• January 11, 2011 - Category:Archetypes created per Forum:Singular archetype page names?
• January 12, 2011 - Forum:What constitutes an archetype?
  • First (?) suggestion to distinguish between archetypes and series
  • First (?) suggestion that archetypes should be determined by support
  • Series were originally referred to, in the opening comment (though not directly), as unsupported archetypes
  • First reply used "series" and then "group"
  • Third reply added "family" as a possible name (yes, you can really blame me for that =D )
  • Fourth reply narrowed "group" suggestion to "card group", "as then we might need to group other things later on"
  • First suggestion of cases where an archetype and series can overlap and lead to potential conflicts for documentation
  • Later comment suggests "theme" or "themed series" for series, and "group" for more general/arbitrary card groupings
• February 1, 2011 - Category:Archetypes fully replaced Category:Archetype with the deletion of the latter
• February 20, 2011 - Forum:Archetype Classification
• June 13, 2011 - {{ArchetypeNavbox}} renamed to {{Archetype navbox}}
• July 25, 2011 - Forum:Archetype definition (again)
• August 7, 2011 - Talk:Grepher#Not quite a series
  • Rule of Three first suggested and adopted
• October 2, 2011 - {{Archetype card list}} created
• October 18, 2011 - {{Infobox archetype}} created
• October 18, 2011 - {{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Archetype}} marked as deprecated in favor of {{Infobox archetype}}
• March 20, 2012 - Forum:Archetypes, Series, and Support
• August 28, 2012 - {{Card article}} created, with a placeholder standing in for the search categories ("here be dragons")
• October 1, 2012 - Search category code is added to {{Card article}}, including parameters for archseries (archetype), archetype support (archetype_support), and archseries relation (archetype_related)
• November 14, 2012 - Property:Archetypes Support renamed to Property:Archetype support
• November 15, 2012 - Property:Archetypes renamed to Property:Archseries; Property:Archetype Related renamed to Property:Archseries related
• December 19, 2012 - {{Card article}} renamed to {{Card}}
• March 17, 2013 - The archetype and archetype_related parameters in {{Card}} are changed to archseries and archseries_related, and archetype anti-support marking is added via archetype_anti-support
• July 1, 2013 - {{Archetype card list}} renamed to {{Archseries card list}}
• January 4, 2014 - {{Search categories}} created based on code from {{Card}}, including the ability to mark cards that anti-support archetypes
• March 26, 2014 - {{Archetype navbox}} renamed to {{Archseries navbox}}
• April 14, 2014 - {{Infobox archetype}} renamed to {{Infobox archseries}}
• December 30, 2015 - {{CardTable2}} is updated to use {{Search categories}}
  • This change also deprecates the CardTable2 archetypeN, archsupportN, and archrelatedN parameters in favor of archseries, supports_archetypes, and related_to_archseries; archetype anti-support marking is also added to CardTable2 by way of the anti-supports_archetypes parameter
• March 9, 2016 - Property:Archetype anti-support created