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Finally, where do we cover development versions? Do we create a new namespace for them, or do we add them to the update history namespace and rename that to cover development builds as well? Personally, I see namespaces as a way to denote pages that are structured differently from pages in the main namespace. Galley pages are just collections of images, strategy pages have a different writing style, and stats/event history/update history are mostly tables of data. I feel like development versions have enough of an overlap with our style of update history pages to warrant covering them in the same namespace. I can't decide what the namespaces should be called, though. If separate, I think "Development:" is too broad because there's more to game development than just builds, and I don't want to rename to "Version history" for reasons I already mentioned. [[User:Polavux|Polavux]] ([[User talk:Polavux|talk]]) 22:48, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

:Forgot to mention. If we do make a new namespace just for development builds, then the number of pages in it would be very small. Like, even smaller than the stats namespace right now, and that's only small because I haven't finished the stats system for the BTD5 generation. I might be forgetting a few, but the only pages that would be in this namespace are:

:*One page covering all the development builds of Bloons (since the game is so small in scope that separate pages would be excessive)

:*Three or four pages for BTD5 mobile

:*A few pages for BMC flash

:*Three pages for BCS

:*Two pages for BTD6

:*One page for Bloons Blitz

:*Possibly one page for Bloons 2 Flash

:That's less than 20. If we do decide to include soft-launch builds, then that would also include:

:*One page for BTD5 flash (''if'' we find the build somehow)

:*One page for BATTD

:*Some number of pages for Bloons Blitz, depending on how long the soft launch lasts

:I don't think this namespace will have more than 30 pages. [[User:Polavux|Polavux]] ([[User talk:Polavux|talk]]) 23:08, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

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 Finally, where do we cover development versions? Do we create a new namespace for them, or do we add them to the update history namespace and rename that to cover development builds as well? Personally, I see namespaces as a way to denote pages that are structured differently from pages in the main namespace. Galley pages are just collections of images, strategy pages have a different writing style, and stats/event history/update history are mostly tables of data. I feel like development versions have enough of an overlap with our style of update history pages to warrant covering them in the same namespace. I can't decide what the namespaces should be called, though. If separate, I think "Development:" is too broad because there's more to game development than just builds, and I don't want to rename to "Version history" for reasons I already mentioned. [[User:Polavux|Polavux]] ([[User talk:Polavux|talk]]) 22:48, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
+:Forgot to mention. If we do make a new namespace just for development builds, then the number of pages in it would be very small. Like, even smaller than the stats namespace right now, and that's only small because I haven't finished the stats system for the BTD5 generation. I might be forgetting a few, but the only pages that would be in this namespace are:
+:*One page covering all the development builds of Bloons (since the game is so small in scope that separate pages would be excessive)
+:*Three or four pages for BTD5 mobile
+:*A few pages for BMC flash
+:*Three pages for BCS
+:*Two pages for BTD6
+:*One page for Bloons Blitz
+:*Possibly one page for Bloons 2 Flash
+:That's less than 20. If we do decide to include soft-launch builds, then that would also include:
+:*One page for BTD5 flash (''if'' we find the build somehow)
+:*One page for BATTD
+:*Some number of pages for Bloons Blitz, depending on how long the soft launch lasts
+:I don't think this namespace will have more than 30 pages. [[User:Polavux|Polavux]] ([[User talk:Polavux|talk]]) 23:08, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

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