Brickipedia:Forum/New parts numbering system

Forums - New parts numbering system

This page is waiting to be archived by an administrator. Please do not edit the contents of this page. As per NBS's comment on CJC's blog - we desperately need a new method of assigning numbers to printed parts (including minifigure torsos and legs). Before we've mainly used Bricklink's system... the major flaw in that though is that Bricklink assigns the same type of numbers to printed parts as it does stickered parts (example). I think we can all agree that stickered parts should not be given numbers or seperate entries, because: We're not a shopping website for individual bricks, so no-one would want to look up a page of a stickered part. LEGO list the part and the full sticker sheet as separate pieces. Thus, so should we. Now obviously because this is the case it wouldn't make sense to continue using Bricklink's method of naming printed parts as several numbers would be missing. For example, we'd have: Part 87613pb01 [printed] Part 87613pb02 [printed] Part 87613pb03 [stickered] Part 87613pb04 [printed] And so leaving gaps in the database. Plus, as CJC said we should stop copying other sites' ways of naming and numbering things. I propose a new Brickipedia-exclusive method of naming printed parts: Simply adding an "-01" or "-02", etc suffix as the end of the mould number. This would result in: Part 87613-01 [Bricklink number is 87613pb01] Part 87613-02 [Bricklink number is 87613pb02] Part 87613-03 [Bricklink number is 87613pb04] They would be in chronological order, the part number with the lowest suffix would be the first printed variant of that part released, and the last one the latest. One thing I haven't thought about yet though is how to number official parts made up of several smaller parts of different colours and printing (Minifigure torsos and legs). Comment away! - 16:43, September 27, 2012 (UTC)