Thread:Bluesonic1/@comment-212.79.15.18-20160129090647/@comment-2107987-20160130131338

I do appreciate the recommendation even though it's second nature to me already, since you obviously made it in good faith. :)

Like I said, the only problem I had was...


 * 1) ...with the information seemingly disappearing despite your edit notice saying it was on the page (resolved, since it was just me being stupid),
 * 2) ...using the word 'unprofessional' in the edit summary for opaque reasons. (And they're not opaque any more, so this is also resolved.)

A desire for clarity and for information to be there is not territorial behaviour. I know that "someone hopped onto my talk page because I deleted a page they made" no doubt pattern-matches to that for you, but from my perspective it's "someone removed accurate information about the game from the game's wiki, I happened to notice because I watch that page and I don't understand why". ^_~

Re: Avatar pages, the internal coding is different because it uses templates.

It was a fairly hard decision at the time - I wanted synced up lists both on the 'Avatar Breeding' page and the individual Avatar articles, but I also knew I had to supply the edit link for it or people wouldn't know how to change them (which is extremely annoying and error-prone). If you have a better solution that doesn't introduce inconsistencies, please, please, please do it. :D I racked my brain about how to solve that and I would love a template-free solution.

The obvious one would be to just leave the link to the Avatars on the Avatar Breeding overview page (or whatever it'll end up subsumed into) that has the generic information on it, but remove the species lists, and mention that the lists are in the articles themselves. That doesn't introduce inconsistencies, but it has two downsides: One, less importantly, it's an extra click for someone looking for the info, two, it's not easy to ctrl+f to find out what Avatar the species you want would produce.

To combat that, maybe we can extend the dragon box (used in the various dragon articles) with an 'Breeds Avatar:' field, so people could reliably find it on the species page?

If you ever add an elemental affinity to the box, it could even end up getting populated automatically by the use of the ifeq template/parser function (template, parser function). Checking, wikia does have  installed (no doubt you've even already used it somewhere that I simply haven't come across yet in my largely lazy wiki trawling; but in the off-chance you haven't, now you know it exists).

And here I am, rambling. :) I hope I'm not just echoing back your thoughts at you and the brainstorming is at least slightly useful. Let me know if you want any of that done!