Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4908075-20190402155336/@comment-4908075-20190402213520

Aaronbill3 wrote:

I have three main reasons for this:
 * 1) Outside of Moonstone, most people seem to be able to follow the current rules pretty easily. From my point of view this is a 'don't fix what isn't broken' case.
 * 2) It feels like certain parts of this suggestion are tagged on when they should be other suggestions. What you be the point of changing to XYZ (Continuity) when we already changed FROM that for reasons I don't even recall?
 * 3) This means editing the ENTIRE 4434 page catalogue of the wiki to fit your new linking system.

I could get behind the disambig system suggested on your wall by Bike but without a central more inclusive dismbig system I fail to see what this massive overhaul actually achieves? As far as I can tell this just serves to tear apart the wiki into two halves- one for the Classic continuity and the other for the reboot. Which, I must add, was what I specifically wanted to avoid with the tabbing system. 1. Except for the fact that users are visibly annoyed when they are reading a classic continuity article and clicking a link shows them the reboot version. And still new edits have linking to separate pages. And still, in some places its inevitable to not link to sub-pages (eg. when both versions of something are mentioned together, like the two Ben 10k or the two Classic Omnitrixes) which is weird. Where do we draw the line?

2. XYZ/Continuity was introduced only for the sake of tabbed system. I know because I introduced it. It was supposed to be for back-linking. If I am on Ben Tennyson/Classic, I will see a small link back to the parent page/main page just below the title of the article. The wiki screwed with my plan by not naming alternate timelines and futures in this way. When I tried renaming Kai Green (Future) to Kai Green/Future, twice, both times it was reverted. Same for other articles.

3. Yes. Except the fact that when I had introduced the continuity badges and said every article except gallery pages and such should have exactly 1 continuity badge, you promptly agreed and suggested filling the void by creating a Real World template, which Bike did. We had 3,800-ish pages then too.

4. It brings order to chaos. Why is one page named Ben Tennyson (RAT Timeline) while another Ben Tennyson/Classic? Why when I click on Ben Tennyson on a RAT related page I land on his own exclusive page while if I do that on an ordinary Classic page I land on his Reboot version? Why the hell should two completely different Krakken be merged on the same page but two different Eye Guy (Main Timeline and Dimension 23) not merged? Do you have any answers?