User blog comment:Mscoree/January Presidential Debate/@comment-1789156-20140104211833/@comment-1789156-20140104213850

I believe that pre-existing map games should not have their categories relabeled like this.

Recently several categories have been renamed by administration, some even claiming it is the status quo to do so, but that is not the case. Correctly named categories up to now have always had "map game" omitted. Here are a few examples (although beware, some have already been targeted):
 * PM2
 * PM
 * PM3
 * NotLAH
 * AvA, and all other Ava Games.

Now that we have established that adding "Map Game" is a relatively new practice, let's look at the logistics. What many fail to realize is that there are literally hundreds of items in some categories. Usually when these categories are replaced they are only partially completed, leaving two ineffective competing categories that add to confusion and make matters worse. All this move does is create free edits and a giant pile of work for the administration, who could be using the time to do more productive and important tasks.

Furthermore, it has been said that some games are made this way to differentiate between timeline version of the map game. At an author's discretion I understand this, however, everyday we are blurring the line between map game and timeline. Look at NotLAH, which employs more pages than most timelines. In this case a timeline version of NotLAH would make very little sense considering its timeline-like qualities already. So why make it a permanent rule? Authors shouldn't be forced to add a tag to an already long title just to differentiate from a potential timeline that they have no intention of making. NotLAH may seem like an extreme example, but almost all map games now require some sort of nation page, along with others.

Therefore I believe that adding "map game" to already established map games just creates work, confusion, and redundancy, and therefore I am opposed to forced map game category tags.