Forum:Location pages

For one of the next steps for the revamp project, I believe it is time to take a good, hard look at our location pages on the wiki.

As of right now, pre-revamp, the game uses pages for both the planet and the location: planet Endako has a page, the city Megapolis has a page, etc. This seems entirely unnecessary. Of the planet Endako, the player only ever visits Megapolis, meaning that all of the relevant content will be contained on the Megapolis planet, therefore it makes sense to merge the pages into one page, presumably for Endako (as that's what will show up on the players' ship navigation menu). Megapolis would supposedly redirect to Endako.

Where things become complicated is the fact that not every game is like Going Commando. Quest for Booty and All 4 One both feature levels that take place on one planet (in QfB's case, Merdegraw has Hoolefar Island, Morrow Caverns, Darkwater Cove...). There appears to be enough content for these sublocations to get pages of their own. In fact, even within Up Your Arsenal, during Ranger missions, Ratchet visits different locations within the same planet. While there is therefore a good case to make for making location pages with barebones planet pages as the base, does that not lead to, well, barebones planet pages, and thus redundancy?

Finally, we come to space stations. Blarg Tactical Research Station and Nebula G34 both have pages; Maktar Resort and Maktar Nebula both have pages. This seems completely redundant. For this, however, regardless of what we do with planets, I would make the page solely for the space station and not the nebula/wherever the station is located. It avoids us making pages like "deep space", and since there's nothing actually in space, it seems pointless.

Therefore, we have two options:
 * 1) Merge locations into planet pages, with locations on planets being a subsection. This avoids redundancy. In this option, location pages will be named after the planet name, or the space station name.
 * 2) Focus all content in specific location pages (Megapolis), keep barebones planet pages to link to relevant location pages (Endako). This comes with more consistency, and ensures we write content about the location the player visits. It can also potentially flow better; we can't exactly write about the geography of a planet the player only visits a small portion of.
 * 3) Merge locations into planet pages; create separate location pages only in certain circumstances; otherwise have locations redirect to the planet pages. It will require discussions each time determining how much content for said circumstances exists, but it may be the most reasonable outcome due to its flexibility. The only thing I dread is creating separate infoboxes for sublocations.

Discuss.-- 22:58, February 9, 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Option 3. As difficult as it is, I prefer the flexibility.-- 22:58, February 9, 2018 (UTC)