Talk:List of file formats

message: "OGM is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used"
Shouldn't it be container not shell?
Xorx77 19:02, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, on a related note, .ogg should be in here somewhere. It normally contains Ogg Vorbis files but could contain all types of media. --Twinxor 19:46, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  OGM 

message: What about *.mar? ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.159.34 (talk) 13:26, 26 June 2005
:It's already listed in the longer list,  Alphabetical_list_of_file_extensions#M, and since end-users will rarely, if ever, have to handle .mar files directly (the software update service downloads, applies, and removes them - I think?) it probably shouldn't be on a list of popular formats. (Moz ref - Software_Update:MAR) --Georgeryp 13:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MAR 

message: Should .SOL be added? I don't know that much about it, but it should be there, right? 68.110.194.13 15:42, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  .SOL  .torrent 

message: MP3 is listed under Lossy Audio and Other Audio, which doesn't make sense to me. Is there a reason for this, or could someone more knowledgeable than me fix it? Rktur 00:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MP3 

message: .wmv isn't on the page.  I don't feel I know enough to add it.   72.66.108.13 02:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is there, under ASF.  --Mcoder 02:50, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I just taught a class on file formats and needed to refer to WMV, so I added it to this list.  Even if it is under ASF, it also belongs on our list of video format extensions. Edtech2020 15:40, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  .wmv 

message: === ACP -- VA - Virtual Architecture ===
Does *.ACP for VA - Virtual Architecture belong on this list? Tricad added it on the 4th, but it doesn't seem all that notable to me.-- Mumia-w-18 19:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spurious Extensions 

message: Does *.ACP for VA - Virtual Architecture belong on this list? Tricad added it on the 4th, but it doesn't seem all that notable to me.-- Mumia-w-18 19:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ACP -- [[VA - Virtual Architecture]] 

message: Surely this list is better found, searched, maintained, by the many sites online that are dedicated to this type of directory listing. --Mespinola (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is about as far removed from a disambiguation page as a reverse dictionary is from a standard one.  It's fine.Nektig (talk) 14:10, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aren't lists a policy no-no? 

message: Isn't JS for both JavaScript and JScript? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson (talk) 04:13, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  JS 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdm
is orphaned (sp?) and could be listed here, but i don't know under which category.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silvarbullet1 (talk • contribs) 23:53, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  .pdm 

message: Talk:Windows file types for details. —Nethac DIU (¿?), wuz heer about 01:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal of massive merge

message: Most entries take the form "EXTENSION – Description". Per MOS:DASH one style of dash should be used throughout an article. In this article, various styles were used. I have corrected the article to use one style of dash. From the acceptable alternatives, I chose spaced en dashes. I made this choice after observing that most entries used a spaced dash style, which is a good choice. It prevents confusion about where the file extension—which may contain punctuation characters—ends.
There is still work to do on entries which did not have a dash at all, but need one. MetaEd (talk) 16:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style 

message: Nintendo's 3D file format taken by the Nintendo 3DS handheld console is missing. I guess it is called .mpo ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.114.62.71 (talk) 10:52, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  mpo ? 

message: I've removed the external links from the article.  Wikipedia is not a web directory.  The entries should referenced, but the list shouldn't be a pile of external links. -- Whpq (talk) 03:13, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Please add .001 file format.
Thanks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.64.59.160 (talk) 03:53, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add .001 file format 

message: I'm not certain how standard or well-established they are but I figured it might be worth considering adding this format:
.MZF - Sharp MZ-series computer files
Mostly used for emulators, etc. (original data is most likely sill on Cassette, Disk or in the MZ-800's case QuickDisk)
While I think it is based or somehow abstracted from .wav's (as much of them are originally Cassette tape data) - you should be able to find out some info from:
http://www.sharpmz.org/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ForgeAus (talk • contribs) 07:10, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion to add .MZF =

message: Does this page not what appears at List of file formats (alphabetical)? Rui Gabriel Correia (talk) 00:16, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: In my opinion the GameMaker formats should be removed or trimmed down, several of them are from the 1990's and virtually no files exist in the format, nor is their a published spec anywhere online. The formats also fail WP:Notability per WP:GNG and contain very little information that is available either in literature or the internet. BlitzGreg (talk) 12:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm, you might have a point there. Should all formats listed have a related article already? - David Gerard (talk) 15:16, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: GMD

message: "TXT – ASCII nebo Unicode plaintext Text file" What does the word "nebo" mean?  Czech for "or"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.93.175.244 (talk) 06:31, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: TXT

message: could a link from this page be made to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RISC_OS_filetypes as the infomation os valid for this subject but simply being compiled on this other page?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.51.78 (talk) 21:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for a link to the Risc OS file format page 

message: chunked MP4, missing  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:62A:4:2E01:340A:F05D:4E37:4FE1 (talk) 18:17, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: F4F

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message: this file format is the .pk7 file which is another file for the doom engine.  This file type is very rare so I have not been able to figure out quite what it does, but I am lead to believe that it is for 3d actors (the objects for the game)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.213.224.106 (talk) 20:34, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article is missing a file format 

message: I can find no trace on WP about this - there are at least an MS list - just meaningless numbers, and supposedly an ISO list - good if they could be cross-referenced based on the ISO.
Debugging would be much easier if these were included in whatever end result of the mentioned suggested future merge of the several pages I found here.
60.242.247.177 (talk) 09:50, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language files - .lang 

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thread_title:  "Biological data" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: there is no appimage, flatpakref, etc  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.65.220.245 (talk) 16:41, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing stuff 

message: I am a little surprised to find out that the .reg extension is not listed there , because I think it is quite a famous extension . It is used by the Windows Registry . 116.42.193.140 (talk) 02:53, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing extension :  .reg  

message: What is the listed .yni format? It just says "a configuration file similar to YAML" but there is no other mention (i could find) on all of wikipedia of this. Schockocraft (talk) 15:11, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  .yni 

message: this article is missing.appinstaller and .gmd2 gmd2 is a file made with gdshare CheesyChase (talk) 03:34, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing files 

message: Since Wikipedia isn't an indiscriminate list of information, any entries that don't have their own article or aren't connected to software that is notable should be removed. I'll be working on this. --ZimZalaBim talk 17:08, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-notable will be removed 

message: it seems as though the article needs a rewrite. the categories are all over the place (why is there a category for lemonos with one entry), and file formats do not seem to be in the right position a lot of the time. the descriptions for each file format are often confusing or not really standard + lacking links, and it includes incredibly specific file formats with literally no information about them.  Howrued (talk) 20:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: also theres List of filename extensions which was shot down for a merger proposal, but seems to cover almost the exact same territory. most filename extensions correspond to a file format in some way shape or form Howrued (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  rewrite