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This might seem unnecessary at first glance, but some pages are getting very complicated and awkward detailing all of the differences, so I think we should at least consider splitting them. Thoughts? --[[User:MattyDienhoff|MattyDienhoff]] 17:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC) | This might seem unnecessary at first glance, but some pages are getting very complicated and awkward detailing all of the differences, so I think we should at least consider splitting them. Thoughts? --[[User:MattyDienhoff|MattyDienhoff]] 17:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
:I can understand your frustration with some pages getting long and complex. For most articles splitting things into clearly-defined subsections is enough. Use <code><nowiki><br clear="both" /></nowiki></code> to force a new line before each section, which keeps images and text together properly. Here you just outline the differences for each game, and you can say what they resemble and add an image, and it all stays togehter. The advantage of this is that everything is in the same place, and if there is anything common between more than one game, it can go at the top. Also this helps every page stay the same, rather thaan having some pages split, some not, some long pages, some very short pages etc. However, I appreciate that some pages may be too long even for this process. | |||
:The current (unwritten) policy on that is to split it into subpages (like /walkthrough on missions) - you could do that for a lot of details about the same vehicle, such as [[Ambulance/handling]]. If a vehicle is totally different inbetween eras, such as the [[Police Car]] or [[Bus]], then I wouldn't have a problem moving the less-important one to another page, such as [[Police Car in GTA 2]]. However I don't think we should do this by standard, certainly not for every page. There would be far too much repeated content, and that is hard to update (as most people would only edit one of them, not every copy). And people would get mixed up and link to the wrong one etc. | |||
:So try and use the first method wherever possible (see [[Comet]] or [[Moonbeam]] for half-examples). If you aren't sure what I mean, show me a page you think needs splitting the most (where there are lots of differences), and I'll edit that as an example. When we ''need'' to split stuff into pages, then we can, but we HAVE to maintain links between them all at all times, which is more important than an easy-to-read or massively detailed page. Hope that all makes sense - [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 19:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC) | |||