Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3076045-20140917182118/@comment-4787430-20140917211419

I just wanted to hop into this discussion to suggested another possible idea. I can understand both sides in how we have a lot of pages for older games that hardly have any information on them to warrant a page, but I also can see how adding everything on one page can become cluttering and difficult to sift through.

How about creating a tabled list instead of having individualized pages or without having a bunch of irregular infoboxes on one page? For instance, instead of having separate pages that might lack any useful information to warrant a new page, we have something like Auriel's Bow in a tabled list, we have enough room to add in a thumbnail picture, the IDs, and basic information, without having to create separate pages. Most of what is written on pages that contain infoboxes, are repeating what was already stated in the infobox. And, with those current pages, might they be suitable to be redirected to the appropriate location on the tabled list? I think what we are using for some pages is the template which directs you to the specific item of interest.

Example: Page Named: Auriel's Bow

[Body of page is lore information]

[Table part of the page is game information]

TABLE (Release order): --- IMAGE| Arena      |ID|STATS|INFO --- IMAGE| Daggerfall |ID|STATS|INFO --- IMAGE| Morrowind  |ID|STATS|INFO --- IMAGE| Skyrim*    |ID|STATS|INFO ---
 * Appeared in the Dawnguard add-on

[Ending part contains bugs and trivia]

''Side note: How about we do away with trivia? Because that invites people to think "trivial" information; non-important. Could this be pulled off on one page, though? We could differentiate what information belongs to which game by using little templates, like we do with game-bug templates such as, or we can have separate headings.)''

Example: [HEADING] Notes: <--a Morrowind note <--a Skyrim note [HEADING] Bugs: <--an Arena PC bug <--a Skyrim PS3 bug

As for my own personal opinion on having all information on one page. It's mostly due to how long the page might get, and the infoboxes and it's sizes. Having one page with multiple non-even or empty infoboxes makes the entire page look disorganized, and just kind of un-professional. I know we are not professionals, but still, I'm sure we don't want to appear sloppy. That's one reason I kind of like the tabled list idea. The width of the table won't change (unless your screen is very small), and any information in the table should be like a summary and not contain examples or bits of trivia.

Anyways, that's a few ideas off the top of my head.