I guess what this problem illustrates is the need for more disambiguation pages - ones which contain a brief description of the area for each page link in case the 'official' name might not be familiar to most people. You could also mention commonly-used names for areas in both their room pages and the disambiguation pages so people know what you're talking about.

As for images, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem for those games with prerendered backgrounds (i.e. RE1, RE2, RE3, REmake - still haven't managed to get backgrounds from RE0, but maybe somebody out there's managed it), where you can get hold of the backgrounds fairly easily, but for everything else you'd need a pretty dedicated bunch of editors to go through and take good-quality screenshots of every room with whatever method they prefer.

If you wanted to test this out on one game and see how it worked, RE1/REmake would probably be the best as, unlike RE2/RE3, none of its areas appear in the Outbreak games (which is also another point of contention - if you have two 'official' names for a room in, say, the Raccoon General Hospital, from RE3 and Outbreak #1, which one do you use as the page address? My gut feeling would be to go with the Outbreak names, since they actually appear on-screen, but... well, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here). RE1/REmake would also be one of the more interesting ones to do, as it would allow people to instantly compare old vs. remastered backgrounds (which would be a neat feature) for any room.

Actually, while we're on the subject - which guides does the wiki use as the most reliable source for determining room names? Are the Kataishinsho guides the most frequently-used?

We use whatever's licensed. But until recently the Administration only owned copies of the Kaitaishinsho - we now have some BradyGames guides, as well. The Japanese guide was written by Famitsu, who have a proofreading deal with Capcom with pretty much guarantees that whatever they have in their books is what the developers themselves would have said. The BradyGames guides, on the other hand, can only really be used for gameplay, since they don't have access to the Lore that the Famitsu guides had (plus the BradyGames RE0 guide had a terrible-quality timeline that got the games confused with the WildStorm comics and S.D. Perry novels).

Don't mean to drag this out but, what about cases of localized games actually displaying room names in text? This almost isn't the case with any of the early games but Revelations has names of rooms mentioned many times during gameplay. Would it be localized names as the article names with its Japanese and translated Japanese name in the infobox?

In this case they'd be gameplay matters like item names. Stay in English; tell you if the Japanese is different.

Right. Well, since it seems the Kaitaishinsho guides are probably the most reliable, we should use those. Outbreak locations might actually be easier to do as a test run since the names are all given in-game, although the lack of screenshots for many rooms will mean the pages will be pretty bare-bones (although we can flesh them out with item/enemy placements). Outbreak or Hellfire would be easy to do.

I don't know if there's anybody here who's skilled at creating complex templates, but I've often thought it would be a lot neater for room infoboxes - for those which appear in multiple games - to have tabs that allow you to only show info for one particular game. So like, the Marshaling Yard would have a RE2 tab, a RE0 tab, a RE: Outbreak #1 tab and so on, and you'd have screenshots and item/enemy/music info for each of them. This would have the advantage of avoiding really really long infoboxes that stretch down the entire page trying to fit in three games' worth of info. The Final Fantasy wikia uses a tab system for their enemy pages, which somebody could possibly use as a starting point... unless there are some avid RE fans at Wikia Community Central who might want to help out?

Adding 'tabber' to the "items" and "enemies" sections of the infobox should get the job done. I've added an approimation to Main hall.

Nice. Is there a way to add

(uh, ignore that last post of mine)

Nice. Is there a way to add "tabber" so it applies to the entire infobox, and not just individual sections? That way we could have different background images depending on the game.

I think I saw the Silent Hill Wiki employ a more complex method. But really, most wikis that use <tabber></tabber> within their articles just do so to let you see how a character changes appearence over time. By the way, you can re-edit your previous comments and fix that mistake by clicking on the [ ] button in the bottom-left corner. That'll put you into source mode. I added in <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki> tags to prevent it from being used.