Forum:Disambiguatin'

Basically I think this wiki is kind of messy the way things are organised. Particularly in terms of article titles. It also prioritises the original Mass Effect too heavily. Obviously the wiki's layout and organisation was all done before ME2 was even announced, but since then little has been done to reorganise, and with ME3 on the horizon, I think the issue needs to be addressed. Of course that depends on you considering it an issue, but I do.

I think a perfect example of the problem is our Armor pages.

The Armor article is basically an article for Mass Effect 1 Armor, with the opening paragraph and the first two subheadings all relating soley to the original game. Mass Effect 2's information has been relegated to a subheading, with all it's information being divided into further subheadings.

In the Mass Effect 2 section we even have to link off to a second Customization page, because it would make the Armor article too long.

However, if there were two seperate articles we could fold Customization into the ME2 Armor page.

Basically what I'm saying is that instead of having Armor, Armor Upgrades, Armor Customization, Armorwe have Armor, for lore and links to Armor (Mass Effect) and Armor (Mass Effect 2). Armor Upgrades would be folded into the ME1 Armor article (with some smarter formatting, it could be slimmed down considerably), to match the ME2 Armor section, which has upgrades. Obviously the ME1 armor articles for each species will need to stay, since there are so damn many of them.

This philosophy would then be applied to other articles. So instead of having Talents, Powers and Powers (Mass Effect 3), it would be Talents, Powers, for disambiguation, Powers (Mass Effect 2) and Powers (Mass Effect 3). Assault Rifles would become Assault Rifles, for disambiguation, Assault Rifles (Talent), Assault Rifles (Mass Effect) and Assault Rifles (Mass Effect 3).

You may notice that in some cases this will lead to more pages. However I think doing this will make navigation easier, and each of the individual articles much cleaner and easier to navigate.

This would mean we would rely more heavily on disambiguation pages, rather than having s all over the place.

I'm not really proposing anything yet, just trying to kick off a discussion on how to clean the place up a bit. JakePT 09:26, June 11, 2011 (UTC)