Forum:Organizing Page Information by Game

Hello!

I must admit that not only am I new to your wiki, but I am also new to the Fire Emblem series. My fiance and I were looking for a non-Pokemon tactical RPG to play on the 3DSs that we recently purchased (merry Christmas to us) and this game appeared to be everything we wanted. So far we are very happy with it, however we had some questions about things in the game (especially being new to the series) and found our way here.

All of this culminates into my reason for making this post. You see, I find it difficult to find information on some of the pages of the wiki. As a user of the wiki (not an editor), I am here to get information on a specific game. So I go to an article to try and find information about that one game, but instead I find long paragraphs which constantly switch between games (ie "in this game it was like this, but in this other game it was like that, and in another game it was completely different"). An example of what I'm talking about can be found in the third paragraph of the Mage article.

I am loathe to suggest more work to your team. You have a decent-sized wiki here, with plenty to do already, I'm sure. I admin my own wiki, so I know how big of a project something like this can be. However, I think that your pages would look cleaner and people would be able to find information a lot easier if it were organized by game on cross-game articles (like class pages).

Another suggestion would be to use disambiguation pages. See this example from The Elder Scrolls Wiki, on an item that is found in multiple games from the series: Skooma. The only problem with this is that if there isn't enough information for each page, then it ends up creating a bunch of stubs for your wiki.

I realize this ended up being a LOT longer than the typical comment-style posts on these forums. Sorry for being long-winded. Good luck with your wiki and hope you get a chance to enjoy Awakening! :)

Amythyst34 (talk) 10:29, February 11, 2013 (UTC)