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Fri, 06/13/2014 - 09:53
Bopp's picture
Bopp

There is currently an article "List of References", for tracking stuff such as the fact that Callahan references the Dirty Harry movies. But individual pages of items/monsters/locations also frequently mention these references.

So we're storing the same information in two places. This is inefficient and error-prone. We should standardize on one place: either List of References, or each individual item page, but not both.

Putting reference information on each individual page seems better to me. It gives editors room to explain the reference and relate it to other references (e.g., Triglav vs. Jalovec vs. Grintovec).

To accommodate the readers who want to scan through all of the references in the game, I propose that we create a References category. Each page with reference information (Callahan, Triglav, etc.) would be tagged with this category. Then the listing page for Category: References could replace List of References.

What do you think?

Edit: Changed category name from "References" to "Allusions".

Sat, 06/14/2014 - 16:15
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Skepticraven
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I agree with the "Reference" category and removal of the "List of References" page, but perhaps make it clear that it is a reference towards external references. Perhaps "Out of Game Reference".

Sat, 06/14/2014 - 20:07
#2
Bopp's picture
Bopp
Allusions?

Thanks for the feedback. How about "Allusions"? "Out of Game References" works, but I'm hoping for something more concise.

Sun, 06/15/2014 - 07:15
#3
Skepticraven's picture
Skepticraven
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"Allusions" is definitely better, as long as other players know the definition. Whenever I edit (which isnt often), I always keep the reading level down to a 13 year old level. I think it is probably fine, but that would be my only worry. (And hey, they can probably google the definition anyway.)

Sat, 06/21/2014 - 12:01
#4
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Glacies

Bumpage but this is actually a way better idea than the List of References. I'm all up for this.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:16
#5
Bopp's picture
Bopp
okay thanks

Okay, thanks. I will start work on it when I get time to start work on it. Expect zillions of tiny edits.

Edit: Category: Allusions is now alive. It contains all of the sword allusions that I know of. Many of the sword pages also have historical notes now. I will proceed next to the bombs, then the missions, monsters, and locations. I'll leave the handguns for last, because the gunner update may require extensive changes to historical notes. Only after all out-of-game references are handled should we redirect List of References.

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 11:32
#6
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Bopp
task complete

List of References was shorter than I expected. All of its content has been moved into the Notes sections of the relevant pages, except for one special case that appears at Category:Allusions itself. A bunch of other allusions (e.g. Blackhawk) have been noted too. The category has 39 pages so far. Surely there are many more allusions to be found. Cheers.

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