Talk:Instructions

Proposal

1. Move to "instructions". Because there are toys that have their instructions printed on the back of their packaging (Minibots and Legends, for example). Unless we have two articles, one for "instructions" in general, the other one specifically for "instruction booklet", which I'd consider pointless.

2. Reorganize the whole article. Instructions haven't really changed that much in the past few years as far as I can tell, so breaking them down by line is also pointless. A better way would be categories such as: "Photographic instructions vs. line-art instructions", "instruction booklets vs. instructions printed on packaging", "image-based instructions with accompanying text vs. images-only instructions", "North American vs. international/European Hasbro instructions" and "Japanese instructions".

Thoughts?--Nevermore 13:45, 29 September 2009 (EDT)

Yeah, it needs to be changed A LOT. It can't posebly cover every kind of instructions like this, the japanese instructions are almost all the time difrent from the US/EU ones, and there is the entire thing about "out of the main line" thing with the Ipod SoundWave and Alternators.--Sunjumper 14:48, 29 September 2009 (EDT)

Agreed, some of them are "instruction sheet", while others are "instruction booklet". "Instruction" seem to be much better. --TX55^TALK 21:13, 29 September 2009 (EDT)

As the guy who did a lot of this article, I'd like to see a sandbox before any wholesale changes. I agree the post-G2 sections are pretty lacking and could probably be consolidated somehow (or expanded! or reorganized.) The G1 stuff, though, I think is pretty solid and doesn't need to change much. The main gist of the article now is "how has the instruction art changed over time". The proposed sections would be an adequate replacement. If somebody's up for taking them on... well, more power to 'em. It sounds daunting! -- Repowers 23:55, 29 September 2009 (EDT)