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If instead, the desire is to discuss the usage of the term "psionics" within RPGs, then this article should be rewritten to only discuss games that explicitly use the term "psionics" to refer to the powers within that universe. If that is the action taken, then the resultant content could very
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not any one specific game. Thus, the current (renamed) page title comes off as very stilted, and does not accurately reflect the scope of the article. So, what was the specific style guideline to which the editor who moved the page was referring?
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I'm very tempted to just move this page back to its original name, but I'd like to hear from the person who moved it. If there's a logical reason, I'm more than willing to leave it where it is. However, I did read over the
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role-playing game related articles to have the same naming, but myself am unsure if it really would make sense in this case. On the one hand, I think you have a point, interpreting the brackets as "Psionics
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role-playing games", on the other hand... I can't really explain, but I feel you got the stronger point anyway. So lets leave it just like that, I think you are right on this one. --
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uses the plural. This is my one "revert", I won't continue a revert war without discussion, but I think this was just a well-meaning mistake by the mover.
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Thanks for your follow-up. BTW: if any of you have experience with psionics in role-playing games that are not listed, feel free to add them. -
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Consistent naming: rename all Foo (RPG) and Foo (Role-playing game) pages to Foo (role-playing game)
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The only information on that page relating to the use of the singular is in discussing a
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and move it back. The article is about Psi in all RPGs, not in one RPG, and most of
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I'm waking up an old argument here, but because "psionics" is a neologism, per
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I understand the confusion now, and I think I understand how to clarify
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