Classic WoW Wiki talk:Namespaces

Thoughts 2.0? -- 19:59, 24 July 2007


 * I like the idea, i also agree with the whole "Quest:" thing, to me it just seems to confuse people and make stuff harder to locate, pywikipedia-bot has a script for the option #1 as well i think. 21:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Come up with a definite plan, and I can put it to the server guys :) 21:27, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I think I would definitely like to see server and guild namespaces, and probably quest, as well. As far as Formulas go, the longer ones could possibly be added as a subpage of the ability. So, any type of ability that has formulas attached, like Formulas:Shadow Bolt would instead go to Shadow Bolt/Formulas. It would keep the main articles neat, and still be a common place for formulas, but doesn't require a namespace. I'm always trying to find formulas I don't know exist, and often, I'm never sure if I've worded my search right. Might this work for mechanics as well? Take spell hit rate, for example. The main article could be an explaination of what it does, who would find use in it, and maybe some popular pieces of gear with it, and the Formulas could go to Spell hit rate/Formulas? -- DuTempete  talk  |  contr  17:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Maybe not a subpage; just Shadow Bolt (damage formula)? Subpages, imo, are icky in the global namespace. In the case of spell hit rate, I'd prolly defer that to Spell hit rate. :O -- 18:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * If it is too big a writeup to just put in the Shadowbolt article, then I'd just call the new article Shadowbolt damage formulas. I'd reserve parenthesis in articles for disambiguations, and the sub-page approach makes navigation and wiki-linking troublesome. --Piumosso-Uldum 23:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, it would pretty much be a disambiguation, wouldn't it? "Shadowbolt damage formulas" is a bit of a mouthful.  Why not just say "Shadowbolt formulas", if we don't use disambiguations? -- DuTempete   talk  |  contr  23:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Shadowbolt formulas is even better! I think of parenthesis disambig. to mean "two different things with the same name." Like Frostbite. Where as, if you're talking about Shadowbolt formulas in an article, you just wrap brackets around a natural name for it. If it's at Shadowbolt (formulas) I have to make a pipe link when I want to talk about Shadowbolt formulas. If I want to talk about the mage talent, I can use the pipe trick, and type out Frostbite (mage talent) and it will auto-expand to a pipe link with the correct Frostbite --Piumosso-Uldum 01:12, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Votes
I vote for making proper namespaces for Guild, Server and Quest. THat maint script seems the best route, what's the "server people" got to say about it? 21:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I vote for making proper namespaces for Guild and Server, but abstain from voting in regards to Quest. Quest either should be a proper namespace, or intergrated back into the main namespace. I'd vote for either of those options, but am more interested in getting the Guild and Server namespaces up and running. --Mikaka 02:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Unofficial votes

 * Would the relevant people please sign these? -- 07:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Fisker: Guild and Server, at least (implied above)

DuTempete: Guild and Server, maybe Quest (also above)