Aselia talk:Location Templates

The location problem
In all our main areas (game, character, location, arte, other), locations and artes seem to always suffer the most. Arte pages are constantly being created, however, so that's good. It's just that there's a sheer number of artes introduced with each new release, so they can get backlogged pretty easily. That being said, I feel like we're doing okay in that regard. Locations, however, remain a stagnant problem. Each new release only introduces a certain amount, but we've fallen behind, as you can tell from these templates. It's the more recent titles that suffer the most simply because no one wants to bother with location pages. It's understandable, but let's look at a way of fixing this.

I feel like Lanate's system for the ToP location pages is pretty decent, particularly for dungeons that don't really bring a lot to the table as far as information goes. Conglomerating them into the kingdom pages and then connecting them through redirects works pretty nicely. Granted, this is a special case, as not every game has locations structured this way, so instead, we have to look at other things. Instead of countries, we could observe continents, such as for Auldrant and Terca Lumireis. Something that provides us with more than the some of the stub-like location pages we have now. As long as we use redirects to our advantage, I don't see this being a problem, and it will help knock out a lot of these red links.

Anyway, I'm just brainstorming at this point, but I may take action with it in the near future.

Arosia (talk) 01:36, March 3, 2017 (UTC)