Talk:Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

Some thoughts on whether this title should appear in the "Sources" list or "Appearances" list (e.g. in the Henry Walton Jones, Sr. article...

As a general rule, original stories like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom should be listed under Appearances, while pure reference material like Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide should be listed under Sources. (Now, there are titles that have no original narrative component, like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (novel) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (TSR), which need to be categorized as either Appearances or Sources; but those considerations are not relevant to this discussion.)

Some titles that are usually thought of as reference books&mdash;such as this book, and a number of the RPG sourcebooks&mdash;contain short original stories among the reference material. In these cases, the rule above still applies. If a character is mentioned in the reference material, then the title should be listed under Sources; if the character appears in the short story, then the title should be listed under Appearances, with some sort of clarification that specifies the story component of the title.

Whether or not we create a separate article for each such short story is another issue entirely. --Icybro 13:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)