Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-32767830-20190908182120/@comment-32767830-20191006094518

The 1st point is a half measure which will lead to subjective changes

I prefer the 2nd point. So if we accept it, we only have to add less than 50 pages with different versions (there are not that many (definitely not more than 100) books that are different between the games which don't have separate articles).
 * It would allow us to document every book change without using {hide} for changed/added/removed parts or requiring us to make several headers on a single article for multiple book versions.
 * This solution is very simple for both the editor and the reader and will help with finding different book versions.

As for the 3rd option (Which is "Put all versions of the book to one page"): Simply adopting the 3rd option will make us create long amalgams of different books from different games, which would not help the reader. To find something he needs (the location of the book or its contents), he has to look through ALL the locations and book versions from all the games. We will have to change several hundred pages, adding content to the hub pages and removing pages for different versions of the book (that does not exclude not-ESO books), and make the pages incomprehensible.
 * It requires us to add all the different texts to a single page. E.g. 3rd point makes no difference between ...ine Commands of Eight Divines, Nine Commands of the Eight ... and Nine Commands of the Eight Divines - therefore, we have to add all three to a single page and remove the currently existing pages.
 * Because all of them are different, images in the template are out of the question and have to be added to the gallery (which will make a very big gallery if the book has more than 2 pages).
 * Completely different texts make it impossible to use {hide} - we have to use separate "Contents" headers. Even if the change is minor and we try to use {hide}, the book can have more than two versions leading to a logical conclusion that we either use {hide} inside a {hide} or use separate headers. For consistency, it can be agreed that we abandon the use of {hide} for this purpose and use headers instead.
 * The summary header that we are using for not-ESO books is now have to be split into N separate subheaders or contain an unmarked list with different summaries.
 * Location list (which is already quite long due to Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim locations) has to be split for different book versions too.
 * Different book versions need to have different parameter values in the templates, because they can have different authors, different sequels and prequels, etc.
 * Sourcing has to lead to the headers in the articles, so it won't affect links that much.

I don't think that we can gain anything by accepting the 3rd option.