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Quotation marks for specific maps?

Should the title of articles about video game maps (e.g. Inferno (Counter-Strike)) be in quotation marks? MOS:VG says: "Individual video game levels, chapters, or episodes of a standalone video game should use standard double quotes". To me this clearly includes video game maps in addition to levels, but this doesn't seem to be a consensus view.

As for other similar articles, 2Fort, Tilted Towers, and Nuketown (Call of Duty) include quotes in the intro only (and sometimes in the relevant navbox). Blood Gulch does not include quotes for the main term, but does add them for other names.

(This comment is largely copied from one I made on the Inferno article.)

Brad (talk) 19:46, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

At least in a quick browse of the references used in 2Fort and Blood Gulch, it's pretty inconsistent, but generally most mentions omit the quotes entirely. Basically, treating the map as a place rather than a media title. I think the only real advice here is to make it consistent either way and follow what the sources say. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 19:52, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

I had removed the quotes from Inferno (Counter-Strike) as I've found while editing CSGO/CS2 articles that multiplayer map names (at least for those games) are almost never put in quotes. E.g., Dust II, Inferno (Counter-Strike) and Nuketown (Call of Duty) are the most-sourced articles in Category:Multiplayer maps and none of the sources for those three use quotes. IMO there's a difference between multiplayer maps and the types of "levels, chapters, or episodes" referenced in the MOS, which are more analogous to chapters in a book or other story-based artform. Alyo (chat·edits) 16:09, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I fear that looking to cited sources for formatting advice is a bad idea. Wikipedia's use of italics, for instance, would never happen if this were the case -- I don't think I've ever seen a newspaper use italics for titles; they use quotes. Brad (talk) 20:05, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Release dates in infobox

Release dates are provided for primarily English-speaking regions, especially if the game is produced in those regions, but when there are multiple releases from different regions and the first release is actually in a non-English country, should the collapsible list's |title parameter be that first non-English release or not? I'm referring to this recent edit, Japanese release is a couple of days before the release in English-speaking regions. ภץאคгöร 17:25, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it should the first release date anywhere in the world, English-region or not. Masem (t) 17:49, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

I think the usage of the word "Settings" is easily misunderstood

Because the focus of these guidelines is about video games, it should be more clear when saying "Settings" that this is about the locations or places that events within the game are occur. I know when I first read "Settings", my initial impression had been that this is talking about the "Gameplay Settings" such as "Aim Assist", "First Person" vs "Third Person" perspective, "Camera Lock Mode". But these are very different than saying if I was in the case of League of Legends, trying to write about the locations within the game such as, "Summoner's Rift", "The Howling Abyss", or locations within the game's lore that while not directly observed, are understood in what the values and culture of these locations consists of. "Demacia" is known for there prejudice against mages, "Noxus" is known for their culture of being able to rise up through one's strength. Hail~Fire 18:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I am sharing this because I don't have a lot of experience as a wikipedia editor so I don't want to assume that what I am saying I see is sufficient reason for me to go and change a page about how pages should be written. I have been an editor for the [1]League of Legends Fandom Wiki]] for the last 4 years, but I don't want to assume that things are the same here as they are for the League of Legends Wiki. Hail~Fire 18:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)