Grand Theft Wiki talk:Style Guide/List pages
- This is to discuss the issue set out at Grand Theft Wiki:Style Guide/List pages
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I'm not completely sure which way is best. I like individual pages, and I think it's a lot easier for new users to find and edit a page, instead of navigate around a HUGE list or tables. However, I'm not a fan of having thousands of useless stubs - nobody is ever going to read them - and it just means more work to edit lots of them, more pages to check for problems etc. However, I think I'm maybe leaning towards having individual pages for everything now, so long as we ALSO have lists and tables, to make sure there are lots of ways people can find the information they want. Gboyers 20:35, 24 April 2011 (BST)
- If it takes a few sentences to describe something entirely, then I prefer them to be in a list. I made a test page but A-Dust made a point to have them separate.--spaceeinstein 01:30, 25 April 2011 (BST)
- I agree with Gboyer's idea. There should be a table of a particular category (eg. Clothing in GTA Vice City) and make seperate articles on each type of clothing so a user can see what an article of clothing looks like and then look at the article for more information. --MrLanceVanceDance 01:57, 25 April 2011 (BST)
- I used to be against separating fair size pages into short, seemingly pointless ones (with alot of duplicate content), but as time has progressed I've grown to like individual pages more and more. When things are placed in a table, the information that can be written about each one is predetermined by the headings in the table. I've seen cases where information has been repressed for this reason. If each item has a separate article, while yes, they are mostly duplicate content, it is possible to add an extra sentence containing some additional information. Although, I agree that the list pages definitely need to be kept, and each individual article needs to link back to the list.
- As for "nobody is ever going to read them", I don't think that's true. In the past I have spent time reading articles just for interest, to find details that I missed/never paid attention to (or cared about), and many times it was the stub articles that had pieces of information that I found more interesting. JFletcherTalk (formerly User:Biggest gta fan ever) 02:04, 25 April 2011 (BST)
- I agree JFletcher.I agree that the list pages definitely need to be kept, and each esction has to have a seperate article and that article needs to link back to the list. I also think that stubs can give more information than tables as they talk in more depth about their subject--MrLanceVanceDance 11:19, 25 April 2011 (BST)
Some good thoughts there. So I think we are all saying that EVERYTHING on this wiki should have its own page, even if it's just mentioned on the radio or shown on a poster; and that we should make lots of nice tabular lists to provide lots of different ways for it to be found. Is that right? Gboyers 11:31, 25 April 2011 (BST)
I agree with JF as well. But in my opinion, 2D shopfronts don't need their own pages. Things mentioned on radios are fine, because it's voice, you're hearing and usually paying some attention to it. Shopfronts though? I don't know... Chimpso (Talk) 12:01, 25 April 2011 (BST)
- A line has to be drawn somewhere. Next we will have pages for each pedestrian model.-spaceeinstein 18:09, 25 April 2011 (BST)
I agree that a line has to be drawn somewhere and that is with mods and things that seems too silly to create an article on. I think we create an article on EVERYTHING on this wiki, even if it is mentioned on TV ,radio, poster or mentioned by character except for mods or anything that seems too outright silly to make an article on.--MrLanceVanceDance 01:23, 26 April 2011 (BST)