Talk: Article layout guideline/Creature article

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Appearances[]

This section makes sense on cross-game overview pages, such as Deathclaw, but becomes very redundant (and often incorrect) on game specific pages, such as Deathclaw (Fallout 76).

By including the game the creature appears in within the article title, the need for an appearances section is lost.

I suggest limiting the Appearances section to be required only on overview articles, and to disallow it on game-specific articles.Scribe-Howard (waster_93) (talk) 03:39, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Comments[]

I absolutely agree

When it comes to pages that are single game only, the appearances section is rather redundant. If a page is a multi-page article while also not being an overview page then it does kind of make sense to have the appearances section there. I'm also a huge proponent of having game specific pages anyway for each topic and then an overview page that explains about it. -Eckserah ^{Head Dataminer} 03:55, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Split between Overviews and Game-specific[]

This is kind of self explainatory. There should be different sets of guidelines for what content is to appear on overview articles, such as Deathclaw, and on game-specific pages, such as Deathclaw (Fallout 76).Scribe-Howard (waster_93) (talk) 03:42, 11 March 2021 (UTC)