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I have been speaking with Admin on card numbering which seems to affect the Gaming category the most.  The FAQ for card numbering has been updated after discussions with confusion I feel we all have.

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https://www.tcdb.com/FAQ.cfm?ITEM=CardNumbers

The card numbers listed on checklists should try to reflect the card numbers as they appear on the cards themselves, including any dashes, prefixes, or suffixes*. Unnumbered cards should be entered in as "NNO".

* Cards with formatting like "31/250" or "18 of 20" do not need the "/XXX" or "of XX" suffixes added with the exception of Pokemon cards where this suffix informs other aspects of the cards

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So before the stared section was missing so I was under the impression cards such as Magic that display /XXX should be listed as such and I know me and other members have been fixing older ones (and some people's newer ones).  The question did come up if we should include Magic and other possible sets as exceptions as well and I don't reallly have a huge opinion other than they be consistent and everyone be on the same page.

I think any exceptions would still mean if they card is listed as 001 it should not be in the database as 1 which also happens a lot.

Thoughts?

I think those (the /XXX) are there because it helps people ID their cards.  Because the number after the slash doesn't necessarily match the number of cards in the set that appears in the upper left.  And I believe Admin said use them.  I know I would be hopeless trying to ID my few gaming cards without the full 009/147 or whatever.

Yup the previous FAQ made me think the /XXX was always supposed to be added.  I like it for most sets as it also often helps indicate special cards (Magic alternate arts, Pokemon secret rares).  Just think it needs to be consistent as much as possible and reason I am bringing it up so we don't undo each others work or add work to existing clean up jobs.