Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4908075-20190325105536

{{Suggestion|The Classic Continuity of the franchise is a bit of a mess, with What If? versions of characters, multiple future versions, even versions in the present, some of which do not differ much from the main timeline. Here's a list for reference:
 * Main Timeline (+ Ken 10, + OV Ben 10,000)
 * Gwen 10 (What If?) Timeline
 * Goodbye and Good Riddance Timeline
 * RAT Timeline
 * OS Ben 10,000 timeline (prior cake)
 * UA Ben 10,000 timeline
 * Dimension 23
 * No Watch Timeline
 * Gwen 10 (OV) Timeline
 * Eon's Timeline
 * Mad Ben's Dimension
 * Benzarro, Nega Ben, Argit gets Omnitrix, etc. Timelines
 * Dimension 12, Gwen Alters the Past, Paradox's Failure etc. Timeline

Naturally, the wiki has a lot of articles for characters of these individual timelines. Thus there are repetitions, for primary characters like Ben, Gwen, Max etc. Unfortunately, however, there is no disambiguation page, and this scattered mess of characters, which have the same relations, powers and abilities, personalities, appearances etc, isn't ideal. Then there is the problem of linking and subpages. Before that, some history (I'll keep it brief).

When I and Aaronbill3 introduced the system of "main and sub-pages", we came up with a plan to follow for the implementation:
 * 1) Characters with the same name are to be united in a single "main" page XYZ, and sub-pages for the individual versions will appear as tabs on this main page.
 * 2) Main page should be have a short introduction (one para) that explains the character in general, as well as how the versions differ (see Eon, Ultimatrix etc.)
 * 3) Linking anywhere on the Wiki should be to the main page, not the sub-pages.

However, these rules/guidelines were very quickly modified by the new admins, creating some 'chaos', if I may.
 * 1) Instead of all versions of the character, only Classic and Reboot versions should be on the main page.
 * 2) No introduction these Reboot+Classic main pages (despite the introductions on the actual sub-pages being nearly identical)

(IMO, this really muddles up the point the tabbed system was introduced in the first place.)

My proposal is, that we try to mitigate this mess by 'merging the Gwen 10 What If? Timeline, RAT Timeline, No Watch Timeline, Goodbye and Good Riddance Timeline, Gwen 10 OV Timeline ARTICLES with the CLASSIC CONTINUITY article page.'

Why?
The characters in these timelines have nearly identical appearance and personality. Characters like in RAT aren't even really different from the main timeline (it was originally canon). As for No Watch, the differences aren't huge either.

How will it be done?
See User:Shocker03/Sandbox2 for Ben Tennyson.

For reference, here are the current articles:
 * Ben Tennyson
 * Ben Tennyson (Gwen 10)
 * Ben Tennyson (RAT Timeline)
 * No Watch Ben

Pros

 * More consolidated info. Same reason why we have Reboot and Classic articles in tabs on a main page.
 * Easier, more logical linking. Currently, to link to Reboot or Classic Ben, we link to Ben Tennyson while for RAT version, we link to Ben Tennyson (RAT Timeline). Makes no sense that too versions that are more different and even from different continuities are kept together while one nearly same version of classic character has its own separate page.
 * Characters radically different, like Ben 23, Eon etc. are left separate.

Cons

 * None that I can think of.

Voting ends on 1st April. Before voting, do see User:Shocker03/Sandbox2. }} 