Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20140204124955/@comment-17087283-20140205172151

Timeoin wrote:

Flugsmith wrote: I think this idea has its ups and downs. Although it would remove disambig pages and allow for quicker access to articles. It may make some new users confused as how to find the article they are looking for, that is, if they don't know where the link to alternative articles thing is. I mean its pretty obvious, but if you're new it might not be that simple. Or am I taking all the new users on this site for idiots? Maybe. It is even more confusing to link to them now. And a lot of editors, brand new to wikis in general, are going to be unsure of how to link articles and things like this. This is perfectly acceptable - we all have to learn somewhere. But when you look for something, if you need help with the quest, when you type in the name of the thing you want to search (the bad example I used earlier, Ice Blade of the Monarch), then both will appear - and the Quest will be the one that you want. That one wont change, only the Item one.

Theres another reason why I suggested this change. One very good example of why we need it would be for one such as the Staff of Magnus page. That's been in most of the games in the series. In most of the games, there's an associated quest, often called The Staff of Magnus (or Staff of Magnus, to make things even more confusing). We have pages for them, yes, but they are difficult to find, because of the many different offshoots of these. With what I propose, there is the potential for one page for the item (and descriptions of what it does in each game on the ONE page), and branching pages for the relevant quests for each of the different games, which would have descriptions on them of what the quest is, how to complete it, rewards for completing the quest, etc.

In short - its basically a way of (a) getting rid of a tonne of unnecessary disambiguation pages. (The quest is the same, but its a quest to get the item itself). It needs its own page, yes, but we really only need 2 pages, not a third page to say that theres a difference between the item and the quest :) Ohhhh, I see. So merging various pages together? I misinterpreted what you said. Sorry.