Pages That Really Ought To Be Split

I've seen a number of articles that lump several different works together, even though there's no reason for them to be a super-page of some sort. Let's see:

1. Diablo: The page has the first game and the second lumped together, while the third game has its own page.
2. Sonic the Hedgehog: A number of the entries listed in the super-page are actually two or three games lumped together in one page (e.g. The Sonic Advance games are put in one page).
3. The Suffering: The page lumps the first game and its sequel together.

I don't know about you, but wouldn't it be easier to split a page, one for each entry?

"Easier" for who?

Somewhat less flippantly, splitting a game series into its individual games is a lot of work, and given how most of them recycle tropes over multiple games it seems to me that it would result in either a lot of repetition, or some mess of separate pages for "Series tropes" and "game-specific tropes"

Yeah, it's kind of the opposite of "easier", which is why we tend not to do that until the page is large enough to justify it. It's a lot of work. Which is why we have thousands of pages like that. Not just for video games, but for all sorts of things.

What can be (and generally should be) done in the mean time is A) make redirects for the names of some of the more-commonly-referenced individual works, which can be used in examples (but not indexes!). This means fewer wicks to fix when the page actually gets split. And B) soft-splitting the examples on the page (although that can generally wait until the page is big enough to justify it.)

Let's just say that fixing them all on the whole wiki would be a massive effort that would make the whole namespacing-works effort look trivial by comparison.

Of course, there's nothing to prevent you from making separate pages for a particular case. Just make sure you know what you're doing, and you're prepared to do all the associated cleanup, including going through all the wicks and making them point to the proper page.

edited 30th Mar '13 3:01:12 PM by Xtifr

@Nohbody and Xtifr: You both make some good points.

Come to think of it, I have a big question to ask about Video Games:

I've noticed how a number of titles have the words "Limited Edition", "Gold Edition", and "Platinum Edition" attached to the title. What's the difference between the three?

It's marketing speak for "buy this!".

Although there are some differences. Compared to the "standard edition" (the version without an edition statement), "limited editions" generally have something changed and are only available for a certain amount of time or in a certain (small) number. "Gold edition" and "platinum edition" mean the same thing, which is that they've had some sort of "extras" added. As Septimus said, the purpose of all this is to attract sales.